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Don't laugh, but after about 12 years hard use, I finally traded in my little old Peavey Envoy at a pawn shop a few months ago....on a secondhand Marshall!

It's one of their cheap Indian built transistor models called an MG50DFX- 50 watt, 1x 12 combo with built-in effects - delay, reverb, chorus, flange, tandoori, tikka marsala, korma etc etc (sorry about that)

Seriously though, using my cheapo Squier Tele and old Korean Strat copy, the delay/echo and reverb, the wide range of tones available on the 'clean' channel gives some excellent Shads tones.

And I thought that as people like Jet, Bert and Joe Brown use Marshalls, they can't be too bad!

After the trade-in, teh change-over to the Marshall cost me $295- about 150 pounds Sterling- and after a couple of gigs, it has paid for itself....

I certainly wasn't looking specifically to buy a Marshall, but there aren't many secondhand Vox, Roland amps etc around in pawnshops- you have to take what you can get...

'Roach Shahib!

Obviously we can expect to hear your 'authentic' rendition of 'Bombay Duck' sometime in the near future?

My Marsall all valve JTM60 sounds as authentic as any I've heard.... other than the 1963 AC15 of my mate Tony's.

'Bombay Duck', Bill?- gotcha!

Mind you, after using this little Marshall on gigs lately, there is a bit less clean headroom than I would have liked...reading the manual it seems that they have designed the amp so that even the 'clean' channel starts to get warm and fuzzy above a certain level...to make it sound and behave more like a valve amp- like yours, ecca??...!!

'Roach,

I've just bought a Marshall 9001 rack mount amp (3 valve) and I am hoping to get a 'near VOX clean' sound out of that through the PA, here's hoping!

My Marshall JTM60 is a 60 watt valve with 2 EL34s so at normal Shad room volumes it remains as clean as I want it.
Not often these days, I prefer a dirty sound lately, something to do with the shorts, I think.

When I was out every weekend with the band I would mike it up whereby I could be as clean as I wanted, whatever.
I've had 3 Voxes in my time, AC15, AC10 Twin and AC30. I didn't like the AC30 one bit, it never growled . The AC10 was OK but the AC15 , I now know having heard it again lately, was the one I wished I still had.

The acquisition of the Marshall JTM60 followed on the heels of 4 or 5 modern amps none of which I was impressed with, they either broke your back or your heart. I've had this amp now for 12 years and I'm entirely happy with it.
Still, having said all that I still prefer the little Korg ampworks plugged into the PA for many reasons, the pricipal one being that I don't have to carry bugger all .
Cheers
Ecca

I know what you mean ecca...

Some time ago, a mate helped me top carry my gear in at a band jam...he said "I wondered why when you walked in last time carrying that amp, you looked like Quasimodo...now I know"...

I suppose it's OK to just DI an effects unit into the PA- I've plugged my solidbody guitars directly into the PA with a DI box on many occasions...but it's really necessary and polite to help unload, set up, pull down and carry and load the PA if it belongs to some body else- otherwise they might get a bit peeved if you just show up, plug into their system, then at the end of the gig, just unplug, pick up your guitar and small box , say "cheers, thanks mate" then POQ!

I have a truck with pneumatic tyres (£14 B&Q) and 4 castors on the bottom of my AC30 Heritage.. only have to lift in and out of the car boot... simples !

The worst amp was a Fender amp...... The Twin.
It was a 100watt valve amp. 4 off EL34s, switchable to 50 watts if you wish.
Ferociously loud, it was like the AC30, no growl at whatever setting, more of a clang.
Even worse you had to wear a surgical appliance just in case, and an athletes belt to stop the intestines bursting out when picking it up.
What a lump !
And only one handle!
I soon chopped that in for the one I now have.

In reading Roger's reply to this thread I have to reflect things......
In the late seventies I had an AC 30 and it worried me at the time...... my concern being the state of the valves in the amp as I wheeled it in and out of the pubs and clubs.
I put castors on it, rubber wheeled, good enough, so I thought.
Then , in fact , as I wheeled this thing across various, concrete, tarmac, etc car parks, the degree of of vibration bugged me so I fitted a spring suspension to the 4 castors on the amp.
Vast improvement, the bloody thing floated in and out of gigs.
It was ridiculous..... but worked a treat.