Marshall MB4210

A relatively new bass amp from Marshall. It's pretty good value for what it is, got mine from Sounds Live for ??279 (for the MB4210 combo) with a MBC115 extension cab (??149). It's quite an impressive looking stack thumping out a decent 450w. You can switch from solid state to valve or blend the two together (which I tend to do). The valve sound is noticably different to the solid state (sounding good), for those that have not strayed beyond solid state.

I use an American P Bass, generally playing alternative and punky stuff and the Marshall does what I need very well. It sound fine slapped too. It's pretty quiet, you can hear the fan when standing next to it and not playing and thats about it. There's quite a decent amout of tonal shaping available for both standard and valve channels and then there's the possibility of blending the two together. The built-in compressor works well on the standard channel. There's also a boost button to give a bit of overdrive too which is useful (although I tend to use a Boss overdrive pedal, for some tunes). Overall the sound is good with plenty tonal variations available. (I haven't given it a 10 because I haven't tried every other bass combo out there... but 9 is good =??))

Only had it for about 5 months and no problems so far (except for very minor issue of some plastic feet stands on the cab which cracked, but were replaced no problem).

No problem, the very tivial issue mentioned avbove was dealt with pretty sharp.

Overall it's a good versatile bass amp at a very reasonable price. I was certainly impressed.

Marshall MB4210. 300watts (450 with extention cab) 2 channels - 1 has solid state preamp with compressor, parametric EQ, and 2nd channel has valve preamp with EQ and Boost Switch. These channels can be used seperately or blended together.

Comes with footswitch to switch between channels and also blend them together.

Brilliant features...only thing missing is the ability to swtich the boost on from teh footswitch. This would be ideal as the boost brings on a lovely distortion if the gain is set quite high.

Cost ??279 from Sounds Live and the 15" extention cab is ??149

I am playing a MIJ Fender Jazz with hand-wound vintavge style pups and it sounds brilliant. The moder, preamp channel sounds like like you would expect it to..very clean and punchy and the compressor works well. However for me it is the classic, valve preamp channel that rocks. I sounds really warm and is very responsive to changes in pressure as you strike the strings.

Using the blend control to put a touch of compressed, clean signal into the mix gives me just about the tone I have been looking for. very warm, hint of growl but still punchy. Excellent!

No noise at all, even in my basement which has tons of electrical equipment, and when I turned it up to about half way it actually made the pipes in the celining vibrate! Haven't used it with my band yet, but have no doubt it will cut through fine and keep up withe the drummer and guitarists. Have ordered the extention cab..will update this review when it gets here.

Only had it a while, but its a Marshall. Should be fine.

Never used them

If you have been thinking about getting this buut been put off by the lack of reviews as it is so new, don't be. It sounds great and the blend control and valve premap are a winning combo. At the price, you can also get the extention cab and have what is essentially a Marshall stack with valve tone for less than ??450. Easily the best deal out there at the moment. If I lost it, would replace it with another one in a heartbeat.