Dean Markley RM-150-DR Head

2 channels with a ground switch, reverb. Simple 2 space 19" rack design. Green channel is cleaner while the Red channel has more drive. AC input comes in handy too. Perfect for me but someone who uses effects might want effects send.

I play in a 2 guitar straight punk band (not that kiddie punklite) and use hollowbodies (gretch&335). Main amp is a Sovtek-50
Bought on ebay this thinking it was an all tube amp. Once I recieved it and found out it was just a tube preamp, I shelved it although our bassist used it while his amp was being serviced. My Sovek Mig-50 went on the fritz, so I pulled it out. I expected it to sound like those crappy Marshall Valve States. The time wasted not using this thing shows what a tube snob I am. It smoked.
Our other guitarist is a LesPaul user with JCM 50's at "10", and this amp kicks it in volume. Great mute crunch and sounds FULL. I use the cleaner green channel with the preamp and volume at 10, sound works perfectly.
I'm rating this for what I need, an extremely loud straight non-metal rock sound that is smooth with bar muting and open chording and this just simply sounds perfect for me. The clean does sound sweet and the EQ is sensitive so sounds are easy to come by.

No problems yet and it hit the pavement already.

Used, no need to get serviced yet.

Even though it is solid state power (it still bothers me), I'm looking for another one

one input, two seperate channels each with it's own preamp gain/master/Bass/mid/treble/presence/ and reverb controls. Footswitchable channel select and reverb. On the back there are two speaker outs, effects loop, preamp out and amp in 1/4" jacks. It all lives in a rackmountable metal chasis. There is a vacuum tube in the preamp feeding a solid state amp. 150 watts. The red channel is extra crunchy while the green channel can pass through the tube or, with the push of a button get routed to an FET super clean path.

There is an enormously wide range of sounds that come out of this thing. It is a big, loud, bad mama jama. My first instrument, (of 26 years) is a fender jazz bass that I play through a Traynor Bassmaster and an EVM 15L single custom cabinet. I recently acquired a Mexican Tele and a Fender/Carvin/Fernandes Strat that I play through the Markley, and a custom cabinet I put together with a some wacky Thai 15" and an Eminence 6". I use this rig at home and at work during lunch hour in a remote bathroom, it's theraputic. I like to make Ramones style power chords and vibrate my sternum. I love the overdrive on both channels and they are distinctly different. The Red channel, preamp at 10, has a mushy smear, while the green channel through the tube, has a precise, hard crunch. An efficianado could tell what they compare to, but that is not me. I can be in the Foo fighters, or I can turn on the FET path, put the Tele in the middle position and pretend I'm at the Grand Ole Opry. Did I mention it is FREAKIN loud!@#*#*!

I have owned this puppy for about a year. The used shop I bought it from, gave a little squirt to the scratchy pot, and I haven't done a thing to it since. She has been flawless.

Huh? If it ever breaks I will want to keep it. There has to be somebody in L.A. who could fix this thing. It ain't quantum physics.

When I went into the used shop, I was just looking for something reasonably priced to play my newly acquired guitars through my newly finished speaker project. I had nothing in mind and very little guitar experience, I'm a bass player damnit. I am not in a band. When the owner placed the RM 150 DR in front of me, neither of us knew what we had. (Or he wouldn't have told me it was all solid state, and put a $150 price on it!) I played it for three minutes in the store, it worked, it was cheap, I bought it. Thus began a journey of discovery and enlightenment. It took about two weeks before it dawned on me that this is an awesome amplifier. It elicits physiological responses from me when I play, ( my heart quickens, my sphincters quiver, and my lower gums itch.) When I was testing the upper limits of volume, I couldn't remain in the bathroom with it. I had to move to the hall way, I use my ears in my profession. The only thing I don't like about it are the Von Dutch stickers that the previous owner put on the top of the amp. Sometimes I put my vintage Fuzz Face in front of it, but mostly I just use the inherent tone, distortion and reverb of the amp. If I could go back in time to college, when I was gigging, I would force my guitarist to lose his Marshall in favor of the Markley. Gee, his Tele through my Traynor and EV 15L sounded way better than his Marshall back then, but that was my bass rig. Considering I paid only $150, I am one lucky wannabe guitarist in mid-life crises. Considering you almost never see these used, I hope it never leaves me.