Marshall Studio Classic 20W Tube Guitar Amp Head Black

This is an excellent Amp for home use where you don't need or want 100 Watts blasting in a small area. The sound is clean and with external effects, you can do anything with a clean sound source. I'm using it to back into playing my guitars and the clean precise sound lets me hear exactly what I'm doing wrong or right.

It's light, and sounds great. Not quite the beast that the 100W version is, but it's good enough for me. The main issue I have is that the effects loop is quite poorly engineered. They really should just have left it off, so people don't buy the amp expecting it to have a usable loop. When you engage the loop, the amp starts humming a little. Put a cable in the loop and it will start behaving like an antenna: the hum will increase or decrease depending on the orientation of the cable (needless to say, this doesn't happen with other amps). I've emailed Marshall and they confirmed that engaging the loop results in hum (on the bright side, with the loop disengaged, the amp is really quiet at idle, which is nice). I have a few high quality effects boxes, all of which sound bad in the loop. A lot of other people online have noted the poor effects loop, so buyer beware.

This amp has "the" Marshall sounds, and then some. Truly the amp I would pick if I could only have one.

I own a JCM 800 hundred watt head. I was given the impression that his amp would be the same but maybe not as much low end , but that is false it sounds nothing like a JCM 800. This is poor promotion and people should be aware of this. I played this app for about an hour and said to myself what junk. Then it cost me shipping to send back this poor design and falsely represented amp head. Very unhappy

Recording and live music

I always wanted a Marshall and owned many other brands before finally adding this to my arsenal. There was a time big was always better and it's hard to replicate that sound. However, although much smaller, more portable and less power than its big brother it still sounds like a classic Marshall with plenty of power to get the job done. I couldn't be happier!