Marshall DSL noisey spring reverb

[ChadVanHalen]

So the other guitarist in my band plays a DSL and whenever we have our gear in the car his amp makes an obnoxious springy noise over every slight bump or moving it and after a 3 hour ride to a gig it gets on your nerve. I figured it was just a springy tube retainer but I was too lazy to open his amp and fix it, I finally did and alas no springy tube retainer! After a confused hunting around the amp I found it was coming from this giant tank in it which, surprise, is the amp's spring reverb. My Splawn doesn't have any reverb in it so I have no experience with these... Are they this obnoxiously rattly? Is there anything I can do to save us from that sound when traveling with it?

 

[Drew]

Ha! I gigged with a DSL50 for a year and I know that springy rattle sound well.

 

[1big1]

yup.. i have a jcm 2000 dsl 100. they make that noise all the time. about all you can do is wrap the head in a packing blanket or a box of some sort and hope to knock the sound level down.. but it's still going to keep doing that.

 

[ChadVanHalen]

yup.. i have a jcm 2000 dsl 100. they make that noise all the time. about all you can do is wrap the head in a packing blanket or a box of some sort and hope to knock the sound level down.. but it's still going to keep doing that.

At least it isn't broken I guess... What a good hardshell head case help muffle it with the foam and all that? Guess we just need to turn the music up a bit more heading out to gigs or convince the guys to find room in the trailer for his head haha

 

[Bloodrock]

Take the reverb tank out and chuck it. It sucks anyway. Get him a good reverb pedal.

 

[1big1]

yup.. i have a jcm 2000 dsl 100. they make that noise all the time. about all you can do is wrap the head in a packing blanket or a box of some sort and hope to knock the sound level down.. but it's still going to keep doing that.

At least it isn't broken I guess... What a good hardshell head case help muffle it with the foam and all that? Guess we just need to turn the music up a bit more heading out to gigs or convince the guys to find room in the trailer for his head haha

 

[1big1]

yup.. i have a jcm 2000 dsl 100. they make that noise all the time. about all you can do is wrap the head in a packing blanket or a box of some sort and hope to knock the sound level down.. but it's still going to keep doing that.

At least it isn't broken I guess... What a good hardshell head case help muffle it with the foam and all that? Guess we just need to turn the music up a bit more heading out to gigs or convince the guys to find room in the trailer for his head haha

a hardshell case wouldn't hurt. it just depends whether he wants to spend the money on it. if he did get one it should be fine in a trailer.