My Marshall MA100C 100 Watt All Valve 2 X 12 Combo Amp

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Originally Posted by wazkelly

Wow, I can only imagine how much better it would sound once opened up a bit more.

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I might have a go at recording it turned up a bit louder tomorrow if I get the chance, it can get pretty loud, I have only tried turning it up to about the 11 o clock position on both channel master volumes, been feeling a bit scared to turn it up past the 12 o clock position, it's a 100 Watt Valve amp after all, and some 100 Watt Valve amps can get ear-piercingly loud, my mate's Peavey Triumph is only a 60 Watt Valve amp but it easily keeps up with my Marshall.

I reckon my Marshall really needs to be plugged into a 4 X 12 Speaker cab to sound it's best, trouble is, my mate reckons I should only get a 2 X 12 Speaker cab for it, since it'll be less awkward to carry up and down one flight of stairs.

I had a quad box 35 years ago and yes they do sound better but man what a pain to move around. Going up and downs stairs at gigs really needed 2 people to carry it but being young and stupid did it on my own most of the time. Thank god I never dropped it as I came close on many occasions.

Lucky you have a Master Volume model as you can crank the pre-amp section and drop back the power amp output to bring on the traditional overdriven Marshall signature sound. Funny thing is, if everything is wound right up I reckon with master at about 3 or 4, going any higher may not sound much louder just a hotter sound. Problem is on a 100w anything past 2 is extremely loud or at least that is what I experienced on my old Marshall amp.

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Originally Posted by wazkelly

I had a quad box 35 years ago and yes they do sound better but man what a pain to move around. Going up and downs stairs at gigs really needed 2 people to carry it but being young and stupid did it on my own most of the time. Thank god I never dropped it as I came close on many occasions.

Lucky you have a Master Volume model as you can crank the pre-amp section and drop back the power amp output to bring on the traditional overdriven Marshall signature sound. Funny thing is, if everything is wound right up I reckon with master at about 3 or 4, going any higher may not sound much louder just a hotter sound. Problem is on a 100w anything past 2 is extremely loud or at least that is what I experienced on my old Marshall amp.

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Yep, those non-master volume Superlead Plexis tended to get very loud early on when you turned them up past about 2 on the master volumes, this made it hard to get that classic crunch-tone at lower volumes, I might do some experimenting with the overdrive and master volume settings on my Marshall tomorrow, I usually keep the master volume around the 9 o clock position and then play with the overdrive setting, i tend to keep the Crunch Balance control set full-on, all tone controls were set to the 12 o clock position in that new demo I posted, that's a good test for an amp, if you get a good tone with all the tone controls set to 12 o clock, you'll know it's a good amp.

I've had a great time re-familiarizing myself with my Marshall amp so far, been feeling really eager to get back into gigging mode again, my mate reckons there's going to be a gig coming up in September in Darwin at a place called The Railway Club, he wants to play the gig with me and some friends of his, so we have some rehearsing to do, he and I have been getting together a list of songs to play at the gig, in the meantime I have been doing some work on his amp rig and once the mods to his Triumph amp have been done he'll be ready for gigging too.

A decent quad box sounds brilliant but is back breaking work, Google Lenard GB150 for my old rig two quad boxes that were bigger than the Marshall box

What a beast. Would have need many roadies to cart that stuff around.

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Originally Posted by wazkelly

What a beast. Would have need many roadies to cart that stuff around.

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I was young and stupid, there must have been 100 steps into the Festival studios at Ultimo where we had free run most Sunday's

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Originally Posted by dave.king1

A decent quad box sounds brilliant but is back breaking work, Google Lenard GB150 for my old rig two quad boxes that were bigger than the Marshall box

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I just found a forum where a guy posted a pic of his Lenard GB 60 amp, looks like a cool bit of gear.


http://www.guitargear.net.au/discuss...p?topic=6282.0


I remember seeing one young lady at the Happy Yess Club, playing something that looked like an ES335 (it could have been a bass version of the ES335, my memory's a bit hazy) through an old 60's Silvertone amp which was sitting on a Silvertone speaker cab, I wouldn't mind owning a nice 60's Silvertone amp one day.


I just found this webpage that has some pics of the Lenard Guitar amps, and thought I'd post a link to it here for anyone interested in checking it out:

http://www.ozvalveamps.org/lenard.htm

had a listen to the demo Doc, as Waz said love the crunch sound, sounds great

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Originally Posted by wokkaboy

had a listen to the demo Doc, as Waz said love the crunch sound, sounds great

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Cheers mate, it certainly sounds like it's running a lot more healthier to my ears, I might do another demo recording, but with the amp turned up louder, still need to record a demo of the new Doctor Overdrive pedal going through the amp too.

A mate of mine borrowed my Marshall amp and my LP Studio so he could play on stage with a guitarist called Robbie Mills, at a Reggae Festival earlier and my Marshall didn't play up at all, it lasted the whole of the band's set-list intact without missing a beat and was still working perfectly before I powered it down and took it off stage, so I guess I'll call it a successful roadtest....awesome.