Marshall Vs Fender Amps

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mattstratocaster

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This is a pretty big topic and i was just curious to how people felt on liking fender or marshall amps better.

For me i am a fender guy. Although i love the classic marshall sound i think fender is best. I seem to get bored with marshall tones pretty quick. I feel like they dont have the variety of tones that you can get for a good old school tube fender.
 
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I like Fenders, too. And if a person wants to get the plexi sound there's a lot of effects out there that'll get you about as close as you could possibly need.
 
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It comes down to style of music really. I don't really get these verses threads. Tone is a big cluster**** of a jigsaw puzzle that involves musical style, cabs, speakers, guitar and pickups. If I had to create a black and white world I'd say that Fender would dominate clean tone world and Marshall rules the world of Rock.
 
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Both brands have some of the very coolest tones ever produced- but no doubt because of the style of music I play primarily, a Fender amp won't cut it, even with pedals. But I really love the sound of an old Tweed Fender, and some of the blackfaces as well - if I had my druthers, I'd have both Fenders & Marshalls to play with.
 
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Both have there own merits- but, Marshall's have always worked best for me. I guess I like that EL34 sound.
 
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i use both, i love both... i don't use my JCM 800 for stuff my 65 Deluxe does and i don't use the 65 Deluxe for things my 800 does....

2 different worlds...
 
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For sweet cleans, you gotta play a Fender. But for that nasty crunch, you just need a Marshall.

Best of both worlds? Bogner XTC.
 
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Marshall - I'm much more of a fan of the British sound than the American sound.

midnite_man said:
I like Fenders, too. And if a person wants to get the plexi sound there's a lot of effects out there that'll get you about as close as you could possibly need.
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I don't know, I've never once heard a pedal that could fool me for an onboard amp channel.
 
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There are a few amps out there that can do both clean and dirt excellently. I played a Bogner Shiva recently (the EL34 80-watt version) and was blown away. Expensive as hell, though. It's the only amp that I've played that actually can go from sparkling and complex cleans to heavy grind with good definition. A lot of those Bogners are great to play, though other companies are making similar quality stuff that does clean and filth convincingly (Rivera, VHT, Matchless, and probably quite a few amp-makers you and I haven't heard of)

However, it's always been my opinion that you should play whatever you can get your hands on and enjoy. I read an article in a guitar mag recently about this African player who would find discarded metal wire when he couldn't find strings. That puts things in perspective.

Look at it this way: Jimi Hendrix changed the way the electric guitar was used, both clean and distorted. He used both Fender and Marshall. Something very yin and yang about that, no?

Shut up and play.
 
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Why is this post in the guitar section instead of the amp section?

Play both!
 
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For a long time I used a Super Revrb A/B'd with a Marshall 900. I still have bot amps but really am using different amps now. I like the Fenders and the Marshall equally. I think it has to do with the type of stuff you play or the particular piece of music. They both do the job well.
 
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A 1959 Plexi is your solution. Loads of clean headroom, louder than hell & put a pedal on it for the most fantastic overdriven sounds. There's nothing like a Marshall pushed with pedals!
 
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I really like both for different reasons, and I fount my Traynor has been able to combine bits of both tones to make something right down the middle (well, with a bit more to the Fender/Mesa side as it's 6L6) but appeases both tastes for now.

I love the cleans of a Fender and the crunch of a Marshall, so if I had enough to buy a Fender Bassman and Marshall JCM 800 and 2 2x12s, I'd A/B those and have that as my stage rig.
 
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