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[straycat]

Found this on close out at GC.
2011 model that never sold so I figured $260 wasn't that bad a price for a cute little class 5 Marshall head.
Had one of the early combo versions when they first came out and I thought the speaker was the weak point so I sold it.
This head thru a 4X12 sounds really nice.
Plenty of nice cleans and gets real dirty when you push it.Pedals sound good thru it too.

[markD]

cool! I am considering grabbing one of those for my studio. how do you dig it so far?

[straycat]

Just got done shaking it down and its a great amp awesome Marshall tone.
Its loud as hell too I kept around 3 to get a more clean base to work with.Past that you start to drive the amp.
I ran a Keely DS-1 and controlled the volume with it sounded great.Next was a Zvex distortron and it loved that pedal in the sub 3 mode on low gain and it got a very nice JTM 45 type drive.
MXR 10 band EQ was a pleasure to tweak on this amp sounded freakin killer.
Amp and cab running 16 ohms so next I will try it on 8 ohms with the cab set on 8 so we'll see how that sounds.
It would be a great studio amp IMO.
The head version is much better than the combo hands down.
May try my Weber MASS on it but being a 50 watt attenuator I'm not sure if that will hurt the amp.

[straycat]

Sounds much fatter running 8 ohms and breaks up in a smoother way if that makes sense.
You can switch it to headphones plug your cab into the headphone jack half way and crank the amp to push it harder at a 1/4 of the volume.
So it makes a decent bedroom amp.

[leftykingv2]

My buddy has one of those and they do rock!! They're really easy to transport too and they have great tone as well. Nice score Stray!

[roodyrocker]

Not sure why you sold the combo version off as you can disconnect the internal speaker and plug into a 4x12 cab even with that. Same amp really

[markD]

Sounds much fatter running 8 ohms and breaks up in a smoother way if that makes sense.
You can switch it to headphones plug your cab into the headphone jack half way and crank the amp to push it harder at a 1/4 of the volume.
So it makes a decent bedroom amp.

killer. i could turn it up to 10 and not rumble the house apart - even though i run a lot of my smaller amps all the way up with no issues....

thanks for the info!!

[straycat]

Not sure why you sold the combo version off as you can disconnect the internal speaker and plug into a 4x12 cab even with that. Same amp really

The cab on the combo had a bad rattle in it I figured it was the chassis mount but once I fixed that the cab was just not very solid and still rattled.
I did run it thru a 4X12 a few times and it sounded good but the vibration of the 4X12 cab still made the combo cab rattle.