JimFog
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- Aug 9, 2001
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I recently picked up one of the new Marshall Origin amps......the 50c, a 1x12 50watt combo. I'm REALLY pleased with it.
Surprised there hasn't been more talk about it here. I think some people who tried it wanted a more gain-y JCM800 type thing. This is pure old-school plexi-ish tone. You don't get gobs of overdrive by cranking the gain and choking down the master volume. Definitely need to open up both gain AND master for it to start singing. Luckily, you can tame the volume a wee bit with the High/Mid/Low power switch.But even not super-crunchy, it's got excellent plexi-ish crunchy cleans, if you want. I've gigged it about 10 times so far, and haven't been anything less than thrilled, yet.
Here's a video I did today, to test what it sounds like in low power mode, but everything dimed (except the bass, which is at 0). The boost is not on.
While it's much juicer in full-power mode, I think it holds up pretty well.
Surprised there hasn't been more talk about it here. I think some people who tried it wanted a more gain-y JCM800 type thing. This is pure old-school plexi-ish tone. You don't get gobs of overdrive by cranking the gain and choking down the master volume. Definitely need to open up both gain AND master for it to start singing. Luckily, you can tame the volume a wee bit with the High/Mid/Low power switch.But even not super-crunchy, it's got excellent plexi-ish crunchy cleans, if you want. I've gigged it about 10 times so far, and haven't been anything less than thrilled, yet.
Here's a video I did today, to test what it sounds like in low power mode, but everything dimed (except the bass, which is at 0). The boost is not on.
While it's much juicer in full-power mode, I think it holds up pretty well.