£89, £109 Amp giant Marshall celebrates its 40th birthday by dishing out the presents - in this case three amps for the tone-hungry but budget-conscious guitarist by Nick Guppy M arshall's new MG series was launched earlier this year as part of the company's 40th anniversary celebrations, and is aimed at players on a budget who don’t want to sacrifice tone. We’ve already looked at two of the larger models, the MG50 and MG 100 combos, now we cast our eyes and ears over the 15W practice models

It’s the same circuit found on the larger MG amps and highly effective, letting you go from an all-out American scooped -i MARSHALL MG15CD COMBO PRICE: £69 ORIGIN: UK TYPE: Solid-state, twin channel OUTPUT: 15 watts RMS DIMENSIONS: 380(h) x 375 (w)x 205(d) WEIGHT: (kg/lb) 7.2/15 CABINET: 15mm particle board LOUDSPEAKER: Single eight-inch Marshall MG CHANNELS: Two CONTROLS: Clean channel volume, gain, overdrive volume, bass, contour and treble. Lead channel select switch, FDD on/off COVER

Forty years ago amps like these only existed in our wildest dreams clean to full-out thrash, and the general quality of tone that emanates from these little boxes is excellent, with none of the boxiness you’d expect from a small loudspeaker. Above the halfway mark, the clean volume control starts to add a nice bluesy distortion, one that sounded particularly good with a Strat. The overdrive channel goes much further: from classic rock at lower gain settings to massive sustain, which is perfect

This will cause no harm and may provide the sound you are looking for. 4.Blend With the B150 it is possible to blend your signal between a valve and/or solid-state input pre-amp section. Each type of pre-amp produces a different character of sound, valve pre-amps for example tend to give a very warm tone while solid-state pre-amps give a harder, snappier response, ideal for more percussive styles of bass playing. As these circuits are blendable, it is possible to have degrees of both types of pr

As my company has grown, over the years I have come into contact with literally thousands of different types of musicians from all over the world. Though Marshall Amplification is known primarily as a manufacturer of guitar amplification, we successfully answered the pleas of the professional bass players with whom I had come into contact, by releasing our critically acclaimed Dynamic Bass Systems. As part of our long term commitment to bass amplification the same team that designed the acclaime

Though the above inputs were designed around the signal from an active bass and a passive bass guitar respectively, you should experiment to see which input best suits your style. Don’t worry, connecting your bass to the ‘wrong’ input will not harm your Bass-State™. 3. Gain Sets operating level of pre-amp. If you require a clean bass sound turn this control up until your bass just starts to distort and then back it off slightly. If on the other hand you would like a distorted sound, simply turn

The Marshall R&D team has worked relentlessly to produce a bass range that truly captures the essence of the Marshall sound. Scoping the entire bass playing spectrum from beginner to professional, the MB Series delivers everything from gain, worthy of the greatest rock player, to the purest crystal clean tones. The clean thump of the Modern channel and the dirty roar of the Classic channel, every MB amp features two channels. Taking the sound of the Classic channel even further, the MB60 and abo

bass, mid and treble, master volume and presence ADDITIONAL FEATURES: Series effects loop with level and bypass switch OPTIONS: None RANGE OPTIONS: 1959 SLP head (£999), 1987X head (£804), 1962 'Bluesbreaker' combo (£1.038), JTM45 head (£784), 2203ZW Zakk Wylde signature model (£1,023) Marshall Amplification Marshall 2203 JCM800 reissue head For those about to rock, we salute the return of Marshall’s master volume monster amp It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good, as the saying goes.

roll institution Lemmy Kilmister. As my way of saying thankyou for years of un-wavering support it.s my pleasure to put his namenext to mine on his very own Signature Series amplifier. This 100W all-valve amplifier has been based on Lemmy.s mostfavoured head out of his extensive 1992 Super Bass collection, an amphe affectionately named Murder One. Made in 1976 it was this amplifierthat had been at the core of Lemmy.s sound both in the studio and outon the road for over 30 years, until that is we

Turning this up past half way will result in your guitar crunching up, ideal for vintage blues or classic rock. 3. Gain 2 This takes off where Gain 1 finishes. Having both Gains off will result in no sound. Turning Gain 2 will result in a distorted tone straight away. Turning up this control even further will result in high gain sounds, ideal for contemporary styles. Cranking up both Gain 1 and Gain 2 will result in monster distortion. 4. Treble The Treble control will add or take away the highe