NAD: Marshall Super Lead SLP

[Dave L]

Came across this fresh-looking ´93 SLP at my local store the other day, took it home for testing and a look-over and decided to buy it. It´s in pretty good shape, you can tell it has had some component value mods over the years but it is back to the stock late plexi specs at this point and doesn´t seem to have any issues. And since this is 1993, I guess Marshall was in their 5881 phase like on the JMC900s. Sounds great as is, but I might consider converting it to EL34 when these tubes die and see what that does.

So, yeah, it does sound very nice and different enough from my ´75 1959 to keep both around. Even though they both have the same output transformer that they all had from about 1971 and a late plexi is leaning pretty hard into metal panel territory, they do represent two distinctly different takes on the Super Lead when it comes to voltages, the negative feedback, V1B resistor, V2A bypass cap and so on.

This one leans more toward my Germino and Bray heads, so that´s gonna be pretty stiff competition.

 

[marvcus]

Man, you have a really nice stable there with the SLP, ‘75, OD100 SE+, and the 3+ (SE?) pre, in addition to the others you mentioned. That’s my kind of collection.

 

[shar-vell Dan]

That does look fresh congrats -

 

[Exo-metal]

That cae needs a well known mod...you can use a small jumper in the fx loop for more gain.

 

[jabps]

Came across this fresh-looking ´93 SLP at my local store the other day, took it home for testing and a look-over and decided to buy it. It´s in pretty good shape, you can tell it has had some component value mods over the years but it is back to the stock late plexi specs at this point and doesn´t seem to have any issues. And since this is 1993, I guess Marshall was in their 5881 phase like on the JMC900s. Sounds great as is, but I might consider converting it to EL34 when these tubes die and see what that does.

So, yeah, it does sound very nice and different enough from my ´75 1959 to keep both around. Even though they both have the same output transformer that they all had from about 1971 and a late plexi is leaning pretty hard into metal panel territory, they do represent two distinctly different takes on the Super Lead when it comes to voltages, the negative feedback, V1B resistor, V2A bypass cap and so on.

This one leans more toward my Germino and Bray heads, so that´s gonna be pretty stiff competition.

Always a classic.

 

[Dave L]

Man, you have a really nice stable there with the SLP, ‘75, OD100 SE+, and the 3+ (SE?) pre, in addition to the others you mentioned. That’s my kind of collection.

Thanks man, I´ve felt fairly done with the guitars, pedals and the rack/system infrastructure these last few years and decided to take a deep dive on the amps once and for all instead. Probably won´t be keeping everything in the long run, but it sure is a lot of fun finding out what´s keepers.

The head is a SE, the preamp is non-SE. Easily as different as these two 1959 heads on the lead channels, but perhaps a bit redundant still. The thing is, I would propably choose the non-SE preamp if I had to, but that SE power section is my favorite thing to run the preamp into

 

[marvcus]

Yeah, I am sure there are so many 3+ pre’s that have been modded that finding a non-se would be like finding an unmodded Mark IIC (no +). The EVH provenance on those are cool too

I have a 1959 too, but if I ever wanted to go really over the top, the SE+ head would be high on the list.

 

[Dave L]

Yeah, they only made the first version (albeit with two different faceplates) for maybe two years until the SE came out. This has the other Suhr updates, but the original lead channel is still there.

And I´m not ragging the SE+ at all, it is a thunderous amp anyone including me would be happy with if you´re after really saturated stuff. Plus the best clean channel in the biz.