Marshall Studio 15

With one channel, no FX way, a volume, gain, tremble, middle, bass control the features of this amp are rather basic.

For an amp of this size it sounds phenomenal. For my taste it goes better together with a Gibson than with a Strat. Warm Tone. Nice Crunch when played louder. Mostly I play it at home, more recently together with a Seymour Duncan Twin Tube. It allows me to have three channels. I leave the Marshall clean. Works very well for me. I also sometimes put on a Danelectro Spring King.

Have it for 15 years. Never any problems.

It is among the last items I would ever sell.

same as all the rest - made late 80's, Features: see other reviews

Well, this was my first amp bought second hand for next to nothing (compared to what its worth now). I knew nothing of tone back then so it did the job of amplifying my squeely compressed digital effects pedal and knackered rip off guitar - sounded ok

Then when I started a band all I did was play it with everything on full still using digital effects and it sounded rubbish so I bought a TSL100 Half stack and off I went infecting everyone including myself with irrepprebal tinitus.

NOW!
I have developed an ear for tone and what sound I want out of an amp so I spent ??100 on new valves and a green back speaker and a few mods that I read off the web and this amp sounds fantastic! Perfect for home/ studio recording - the Tech said he's not heard a Marshall sound like that before especially any of the new combos made these days - much warmer and full of life, no effects needed, just a decent quality guitar.

Well I'm not going to gig with this amp now I know that its going to hold its value but I wouldn't gig with such a small amp anyway. Its withstood 6 years of my abuse + whoever owned it before me.

I am just very glad I didn''t sell it before getting it revalved and modded because now I'm never going to need a home practise amp again

Bought used. It's made in 1986, vintage 30 speaker, 2 x 6V6 power tubes 2 x 12AX7 preamp tubes, builtin attenuator. Front plate: input, gain, treble, middle, bass, output level, standby and power switch. Back plate: fuse, balanced Direct Out (floating ground), speaker out 8 ohm, headphone out,line out (unbalanced).
Many features for small combo.

I use this amp with Stratocaster and Telecaster. This amp sound fantastic with all my gear. Clean sound is very harmonically rich and drive get you to JCM800 territory with no nois. Tone controls are very sensitive at any volume.
This amp can be pretty loud when cranked. Loud enough for small gigs.
Great portable tone monster for every occasion. I love it.

No problem so far.

Great small combo amp. It is portable and tone monster.
Very hard to find one nowadays.

All valve, single channel, lo/mid/hi eq controls, gain, master volume, line out and headphone/attenuated output. Enough features to be utterly tweakable without too much crap in the signal path destroying the sound. More than versatile enough to cover anything I wanna play through it. Will it do crystal-clear cleans at club levels? No. It's a fifteen watt amp, that's not what they do. I bought this to use in my home studio and it has served me well. Great as a practice amp, too. Being able to connect the speaker to the attenuated headphone out is truly a beautiful thing.

I'm using it with all the usual suspects, solidbody Fenders and Gibsons, with a few old Schecters thrown in for good measure. All sound good but particularly the humbucker-equipped guitars, no surprises there, it is a marshall. Sound wise, with everthing set flat (12 o'clock), it basically the polar opposite of my Fender Pro Junior. Whereas that is primarily clean and incredibly bass-heavy, this thing is compressed, gritty, screaming with treble and just begging to be turned up further. While it is hard to resist maxing out the gain every time you plug this thing in, there are more than enough useable sounds before that point on the dial. It does a very nice just-breaking up sound with the gain set low and the master cranked up and, after all, isn't that why we buy low-wattage amps? Yes it is. I've toyed with the idea of putting a 12AU7 in the preamp for slightly more clean headroom but I figure I've got bigger amps to do that. They have their job and this has its job. And given the fact they're still selling relatively cheaply on eBay, I think it deserves a raise.

I don't gig with it but I've used it heavily for the past three years in my home studio. You can be sure in that time it's been in all kinds of ridiculous and precarious positions and has had its share of falls, knocks and kicks. No problems so far, I haven't even changed the tubes.

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I can't fault it, really. I suppose - for practice purposes - it'd be nice to have reverb but from a recording perspective, it's best to add it later, anyway. Again, the ability to plug the speaker into the headphone output without having to worry about dummy loads, etc. is just brilliant.

My amp was build in the 80'. I play Blues and Hardrock. He's a allrounder. On the backside you can find a Outputjack, a headphonejack, line out and a direct out. On the front is just Gain, Trebble, Mids, Bass, Master and input. That's all you need for fall in love whith the real Marshallsound. The Celestion Vintage speaker is the perfect partner. That's all...

I play a Gibson ES-335 Dot whith the Classic-Humbuckers. I got a Hughes & Kettner Tube Factor, a Boss RV-5 Reverb and for gigs i play a 4x12" Riverabox, that's all i need. Hmmm... this sound... fantastic. I had a lot of amps for the last years, but now i got my one and only for my lifetime. The Studio 15 is one of the rarest Marshallamps ever and the only Marshall whith 6V6. The cleansound is so fine..., wonderfull , and the crunch is just "Marshall", hahaha... In my livingroom i don't need a 4X12"-the Vintage-Celestion inside is a crack. But when i play gigs i use the Rivera 4x12 and that's the complead Marshall kick i need, yes. 15 Watts are very powerfull and i don't need more. He's so fine. All my friends are wondering and ask me, if i want to sell him. But no chance, that's my little fatty. Ok, a 50 Watt Marshall is louder, but i don't know where i should play this monsters. My Hughes & Kettner Tube Factor pump's enough for my gigs. For me, this little Combo is the best Marshall ever.I love him!!!

Has some terrific features I only learned about after reading the reviews. The attenuator or "breaK" is a great feature for us apartment dwelling late night home studio recordists. I can turn all the knobs up to 10 to tget that killer "crunch tone" and just run the XLR out straight into my board for great sound without the volume. Only thing it's missing is reverb and I never think of marshalls as having that anyway. The headphone out and line out is a cool feature too though the tone via the headphone an line outs is not the same as via the XLR (unbalanced)-- that's da bomb!

I use this for 70's style heavy guitar - I record original material in a Cure/Bayhaus vein and I was never happy with the sound of my 1983 USA Telecaster via my old Roland JC-120 or straight into the board but my guitar has a very nice "fat" tone via this amp - even on the lead pick-up. The "Midrange" tone sound really good when you boost it all the way - I don't know what these sounded like new but the tone of this amp is great now (2005); a previous owner replaced one othe tubes with a "groove tube" so I don't know if that had an effect or not. Whatever it is... I like it.

Only owned it for a few months but it is heavy as hell - built like a little tank.

WNo idea - never dealt with marshall myself.

I give this a 9 out of 10 only because nothing is perect but I won't even tell you guys what kind of a deal I got on this amp. I found a guy selling it at a yard sale (yep, just like we always fantsize will happen) and I literally walked off with it for a dream price. Of course I had no idea if it even worked - he didn't know anything about it - said he was "selling it for a friend" and said "take it as is - no returns." Well I saw the 12 inch Celestion iside and figure - Hell, how bad could it be, so I grabbed it. Probably the best deal I ever got. (Almost makes up for the stupidity of selling my 1967 Vintage Fender Mustang back in 1993 for $250!! What was I thinking??)

15 Watt Amp with a Celestion 12" Speaker and a Power Break !!!
(the price of a Marshall Power Break is today 400,-- Euro!)

It reduce it to 1 Watt and when you can play it with all knobs to 11.
Full stack sound for your home !

AND:
the only Marshall Tube Amp in the world with a headphone out !

For my opinion is this the best Marshall that had Jim build ! It's so versatily = Sounds from a JCM 45 to a JCM 800
There are many sounds possible.

This is a studio/home/live (for clubs) amp.
It have a special XLR output for your mix with a speaker simulation.

ok

The amp is very very rare, because only 300 were build from 1985-86 and 200 from 1987-1992. All people wanted at this time the silver jubilee series. The tube amp programm started this a 20W amp and all people wanted the cool looking and cheaper silver amps. The 4001 Studio 15 was very expensive. Example : a JCM 800 100W TOP = 750,-- Euro and the Studio 15 = 650,-- Euro
Too much for a non rich guitar player, so that Jim Marshall only sold in seven years 500 items of this "Little Fatty"

The amp have all what i need.
Gain, treble, middle, bass and volume knobs and the best clean sound for my opinion and music.

I only need a good clean sound, because i use a distortion pedal.

I had thought that i can't get a great sound with a Marshall amp, but this little thing make the impossible possible!!!
I play death and thrash metal and loves this real "lets break all walls" sound with clearity in all distortions!
No woupp,woupp,woupp when you play a deep tone.
I mean this f*ck second tone after playing a deaden E !!!
- Orignal tone and woupp, orignal tone and woupp, original tone and etc. -


This amp don't make this bad noise!

I need the amp for my studio. It's perfect ! I think for live with a p.a. its also good.

It's a old amp and i need no support.

I play 15 years and i have searched and searched and searched and searched for the perfect metal sound.
Now the search ended here and i'm a lucky man.
I payed a lot of money for this very rare amp. (only 500 items were produced from 1985-1992 = price for a new one: 599 $ for a 15 W amp was at this time very,very much!)
But for the perfect sound is money a accidental !

About as basic as they get but I use it in a multi amp set up so... who cares

I use les pauls and PRS's. I get some great clean tones and when you push it a very open defined crunch like Jethro Tull's "Aqualung". If you want high gain put a stonp box in front. I use the Boss Turbo Overdrive and it sounds huge, open and very defined without sounding thin.

No problens

I 've been playing for 30 years and play live regularly. My current gig is 80's rock and pop. I plan to get another Studio 15 for stereo. This puppy will drive a 4 x 12 cab no problem. I've used both Marshall 1960A and 5150's. Once my CD is done I plan to use this setup live (ie 2 Studio 15's in stereo with a bit of Verb and chorus, a Marshall Jubilee 2554 w/4 x 12 cab). I think it will be better then using a Fenders for the clean sounds.

So few features that I will probably just get a Princeton and save the cash. The princeton at least is all PTP instead of the Studio's wimpy PC board, with PC mounted pots. Yuck.

It's a single channel tube amp at 15 watts
1 12" vintage
master volume layout
two outs with one 1/4" and one XLR jack
has a cool headphone out

Be careful, don't drop it or let it fall over. I've had my board replaced 3 times now.

Sounds very good, but reminds me of a Fender Princeton with a marshall Guv'nor pedal in front. I like it but if I had not gotten a real good deal I would have passed. I won't get another one but I know how to be carefull with it and it sounds really good.

Replaced board 3 times. They swap out the whole thing pots and all!!
The OT went out on it the second time the board cracked. I guess running it at ten is not what marshall Transformers are made for anymore. The thin PCB with the added heat from the tubes makes it as reliable as a fender blues junior. It sounds good but keep it in your studio!

Very good, the best but why not just use PTP or a thicker PCB? Wouldn't that be cheaper than paying for support and replacement boards? I guess that's why they stopped production...

It's agood amp, not great. Few features but sounds good for what it does. Rare sound for marshall but a 70's Princeton does the same thing for less and is a better investment tone and $$ wise. I won't but another because I don't really nead it.