Marshall Amplifier Documentary - Really worth watching!

[napalmdeath]

It's nearly an hour long, but if you haven't seen it & have the time, it's pretty fascinating. Makes you really appreciate the person Jim Marshall was, the amplifiers they created, and how they really changed the world. It's kind of a shame that they haven't evolved the way a lot of current players would have liked. I find it ironic that they really hit that nitch that players wanted in the 60's, DISTORTION, and later, LOUD, yet, in today's market, it's still distortion the players want & in the Marshall flavor. The Friedmans and Splawns of today are picking up the ball Marshall's dropped, IMO.

 

[Badronald]

Can't wait to watch this!

 

[paulyc]

I totally agree OP, it's a fucking SHAME that Marshall can't/won't build an amp like Cameron, Fortin, Gower, etc...for players of today.

 

[TheWhiteShadow]

I totally agree OP, it's a fucking SHAME that Marshall can't/won't build an amp like Cameron, Fortin, Gower, etc...for players of today.

Maybe it doesn't matter since so many guys can build these amps anyway. It ain't rocket science. Tube amp makers all over the place.

 

[napalmdeath]

I totally agree OP, it's a fucking SHAME that Marshall can't/won't build an amp like Cameron, Fortin, Gower, etc...for players of today.

Maybe it doesn't matter since so many guys can build these amps anyway. It ain't rocket science. Tube amp makers all over the place.

True, but if Marshall got with the times, they'd be more successful. Personally, I've never heard an amp roar like a good Marshall. I'd take a modified Marshall that Marshall made, over a $3000 Friedman any day of the week.

 

[TheWhiteShadow]

I totally agree OP, it's a fucking SHAME that Marshall can't/won't build an amp like Cameron, Fortin, Gower, etc...for players of today.

Maybe it doesn't matter since so many guys can build these amps anyway. It ain't rocket science. Tube amp makers all over the place.

True, but if Marshall got with the times, they'd be more successful. Personally, I've never heard an amp roar like a good Marshall. I'd take a modified Marshall that Marshall made, over a $3000 Friedman any day of the week.

Yeah but I don't really care if they're successful or not. I get that modified Marshall's are great but what year were those Marshall's? I doubt they could recreate those amps, and if they could then anyone else could too. And why do we have to keep modding them anyways? I mean for decades they dropped the ball on that. Everyone had to do something to those amps, variacs, distortion pedals, more gain, slaving. They never addressed that, or not exactly.

 

[paulyc]

They DID address it, but NOT to people's satisfaction. The JCM 900 SL/X had an extra tube stage and dual footswitchable masters and a loop, but shitty construction, less filtering, no choke and crap transformers. I have NO DOUBT Marshall could build an amp like Friedman etc, and they could charge for it too. NOTHING sounds like a Marshall.