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End of a era

Bummer! Thanks for the decades of helping musicians be loud and proud. Jim Marshall will be missed.

One of the few greats that help direct the sounds of modern music.
Man such sweet sounds to my ears... a Marshall and LP! My all-time favorite combo.

Jahva wrote:One of the few greats that help direct the sounds of modern music.
Man such sweet sounds to my ears... a Marshall and LP! My all-time favorite combo.

How about a SG and some Marshalls ?????

Tennessee Jedi wrote:

Jahva wrote:One of the few greats that help direct the sounds of modern music.
Man such sweet sounds to my ears... a Marshall and LP! My all-time favorite combo.

How about a SG and some Marshalls ?????

LOL!
I actually edited it down from Gibsons to just LP's. But I used to have an early 70's Black SG... played it through an old Marshall 50watt combo.

Another giant ...gone! Truly a sad day...

I'm sure he died of a broken heart listening to their new line of amps.

We're within a decade of digital amplifiers
sounding better than tube amplifiers.
Personally I already think they do, you
can model so many tones.

Now hear this: There will never be a day when any modeled amp sounds as good as a cranked Marshall. I've been using Marshall amps for 35 years, they are the sound of rock & roll. That is all.

Well he will be remembered thats for sure, I can remember seeing KISS with all those amps on stage back in the 70s, funny thing these days they just put up a wall that looks like speakers, but Im told that they use amp modelers these days, LOL!

But Jims name will live on, just look at stages around the world!

The viscosity of the sound coming from a quality tube driven amp is so much greater than anything I have ever heard from a "model".
Like comparing water to honey.
Yes some of them sound good ... but as for now they are not in the same league as far as the full quality of the sound.

Such is my opinion anyway.

Lynard

I run a Fender Mustang 100 watt head through a marshal 4 x 12. The thing sounds damn good. It's a modeling amp with 100 presets. Distortion and various effects are very nice and it can keep wtih Marshal heads. It can play quietly or shake the walls.

Most importantly to me, I can get distortion that sounds as if it were super oud with the amp turned down enough that I can hear myself sing without the mic. I've never heard a Marshal that could do it that well at low volume. I guess those tubes need to punch it out a bit to really warm up the sound.

But at a large venue or a hall or somesuch, the volume hits a certain tipping point where MArshal does I think, dominate the contenders. I used another guy's 50 watt half stack recently in a jam with some people and it got kind of loud. The Marshal really shined. That rig is made for the big stuff and does it better than anybody.

Talbot

I'm just saying Mike T, that technology is changing
fast, I like modeling amps, as a guitarist alot of the
sound you get comes from your hands, each amp
should be played to your hands to give you the best
sound. People always resist change and long for the
good old days, why, do they have no life left ahead of
them. I think analog studios and tube amps are quickly
becoming novelty items, the old cling to the past, while
the young are exploring and experimenting with this new
technology. The old guy says nothing beats the sound
of my tube amp and the young guy takes the solid state
amp, and beats the sound, he's heralded as a hero by some
and no talent by others.

Speakers, gotta be a 1000 different speaker companies,
the Dead toured with a wall of sound, how large a venue
are you playing? I'm with I think it was Johnny7 espouse
the micing of a small amp, I guarantee you, your 4 12's are
not going to sound as loud as my 15w amp miced and blowing
thru my large pa, shouldn't everything be mixed anyhow?
Who cares about loud, I have 2 bands a week thru here
and that is both of them's biggest problem they're too
phukkin LOUD, but I ve quit saying anything. I've been
directed that thrash metal is played loud, (according to my
son-in-laws band.) and my boys band told me the other
night they want to start miking up and playing louder,
oh know will be hereing Cambria and Coheed LOUD.

Peace

Marshalls (or maybe I should say 'older' Marshalls) are gigging amps.
They are meant to have enough horsepower to cover it, should the need arise.
The power tubes usually open up around 2 or 3 on the volume - yeah it's loud, but not "too loud", in my opinion.

I've tried some modelling amps that sound good, but none of them moved the air molecules like my DSL does.

So far it's still Marshall, Mesa, and some Fenders - everything else just isn't quite there yet, to me.