Marshall JCM 900

RockNRoling

RockNRoling

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Hey guys, I have been leaning twards finding a Marshall JCM900 head. Does anyone own one here or know where I can find some sound clips? I just don't care for the overdrive tones of the DSL's and really want to go to a half stack. Or if anyone might want to trade one for a 6 month old fender twin reverb let me know!
 
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Search for erikh, he has a link in his profile to sound clips he has, If you want some clips of my slx "high gain version", I record some clips for you if you want with sm-57 I just got.
 
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Not to confuse, the SL-X is different from the MkIII. The SL-X actually came with EL-34's in its first year and then the switch to 5881's happened. The MkIII came only with EL34's since it was replaced with the SL-X in 1993.
 
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very nice clips. I noticed how resonalbly priced the 900's were getting. I guess the trick is finding one that is still in nice shape. Those just sound so much nicer than the DSL stuff they are putting out now. I think I am gonna have to pick up one of those before they re issue them for $2500 or what ever the JCM800's are going for! lol
 
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RockNRoling said:
very nice clips. I noticed how resonalbly priced the 900's were getting. I guess the trick is finding one that is still in nice shape. Those just sound so much nicer than the DSL stuff they are putting out now. I think I am gonna have to pick up one of those before they re issue them for $2500 or what ever the JCM800's are going for! lol
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They actually do have a re-issue for them already, but it's 4100, its a dual reverb version w/ 5881 power tubes. As mentioned by Erikh the master volumes are thing to get, try to avoid the dual reverb, and only get the amp with el-34s.
 
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Thanks, RockNRoling. I love that amp. It's my baby. It's been worked hard and needs a new power tranny though. Everything else is in good shape. I saw a 2500 MkIII at one of the GC's last week for $599. It was pretty beat up though, tolex rips everywhere. I still would've bought it if I could, but lower and with cash. ;)
 
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I don't know about the SLX or the MKIII but i've played a Dual Reverb and the distortion channel was really bad so try to avoid these...
 
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LooseCannon said:
I don't know about the SLX or the MKIII but i've played a Dual Reverb and the distortion channel was really bad so try to avoid these...
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Yup, the DR's don't sound as good, specifically the ones with 5881 power tubes. The first 3 years of their production life they had EL34's and those are the ones that sound good.

If I came across a DR cheap and it had 5881's, I'd have it swapped over to EL34's in a heartbeat.
 
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Erik, on the first couple recording on your marshall 900 site, is that just guitar into amp? If so that's f'ing great!
 
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Lespaul1981 said:
Erik, on the first couple recording on your marshall 900 site, is that just guitar into amp? If so that's f'ing great!
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Yup. Guitar into amp on the first 3. Thanks for the compliment. The cab I run it through is an old Music Man from the 70's. Stock alnico speakers too. They are very clean speakers so all the breakup is coming from the amp.
 
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Lespaul1981 said:
That's great man, would an el34 loaded slx sound as good? Ebay is littered with slx but no 2100's.....
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Sure. The SL-X is very very similar, more gain on tap. Fiddling with the Gain Sensitivity on it will get it there. Just roll it down more.

As for model numbers, there's the 2100 MkIII and a 2500 MkIII heads as well as the 2100 SL-X and 2500 SL-X heads.
 
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erik what guitar were you using on those clips?
the amp had great bite imho. i just checked ebay and there is a 2500 for pretty cheap, but i think i'd rather have the 2100 since i like the 100/50 wattage ideas more.
so on those clips you had the first gain on 10, the 2nd gain on 5 and the master volume on what?
 
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Lespaul1981 said:
erik what guitar were you using on those clips?
the amp had great bite imho. i just checked ebay and there is a 2500 for pretty cheap, but i think i'd rather have the 2100 since i like the 100/50 wattage ideas more.
so on those clips you had the first gain on 10, the 2nd gain on 5 and the master volume on what?
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Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plus with a CC in the bridge.

There's not much volume difference at all between the 50/100 watt settings. I always ran it in 100 watt mode.

The Preamp Volume goes 0-10. The Gain Sensitivity goes 11-20.
On my clips, the Preamp Volume is on 10 and I go through 3 different Gain Sensitivity settings, all the way down (10), half way up (15), and up full (20).
The Master Volume I can't remember what it was set to, probably 4 which is what I usually had it set to in the band environment.
 
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I've always wanted to give the 2100slx a shot and if those clips are the general vibe, man im gonna have to get one. I never got what people hated about them, they are a marshall factory hot rodded jcm 800 more or less.
 
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Lespaul1981 said:
I've always wanted to give the 2100slx a shot and if those clips are the general vibe, man im gonna have to get one. I never got what people hated about them, they are a marshall factory hot rodded jcm 800 more or less.
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Read the whole page and you'll see that they are pretty much exactly that. ;)
 
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