Marshall 1960A

4 speakers, the end.

yes it does have less mids, but theres always a solution to that.........TURN UP YOUR MIDS! JESUS! i use a Peavey JSX, and the sound i get is BEYOND CRUNCH! outstanding tone! you dont NEED to dial out your mids to get a metal tone. its got enough bottom end. i actually have to take some lows out, its a really heavy cab. the straight cab has more mids if you really want it...if you own a mesa head, why are you buying a marshall cab? mesa heads are specifically made for mesa cabs. marshalls are GREAT with marshalls or peaveys. the next guy to complain about the lack of low end NEEDS to get a life and learn tone. otherwise, this is a GREAT angled cab.

it weighs a ton, so chances are some roadie is going to drop it, for the lack of muscle.

i hear theyre terrible...but IF i need anything, ill do it myself. im not a nerd, but i know my components left from right.

i plan on buying a straight cab for the full stack look...but i really dont NEED it...this thing is plenty loud enough. tom morello used his half stack for over a decade, and its still louder than any band with walls of stacks...you do know that they only mic one small amp in the back and run it through the pa? did you think PAs were just for vocals?

in summary

mesas are for posers...unless you own a lone star

marshalls are for the strong and half deaf

bogners are for the rich and far from famous

framus are for the emo kids

and krank are for most new metal heads...not that its a bad thing.


these cabs make up for musicians who have already lost some hearing. and if you havent yet, YOU WILL!

I got this cab in 2003 to replace the first cab i ever bought which was a used jackson 4x12 peice of junk. This was a great upgrade. as far as features, its a cab. come on. you know this!

versatility gets a ten i guess. i mean you can choose your ohm rating and switch between mono and stereo. when a cab comes along that spits out money or does homework, then ill be impressed.

my rig is like this:
gibson SG/Les paul studio > rack (Korg tuner, Alesis Compressor, Ibanez tube screamer modded into a rack unit) > Mesa Dual Rectifier (3-channel model circa 2002) > out of both 8ohm outputs into both 8 ohm inputs of the cabinet with the switch set to stereo (takes an extra speaker cable and 3 extra seconds of your time but just sounds that much better.)

IMPORTANT!!! - I replaced 2 of the stock celetion g12t75's in my cab with vintage 30's. trust me the 30's sound way better but i like the combination of these two types of speaker over loading my cab with v30s. this is just a personal taste issue for me, but im more pleased now with the v30's in.

i hope i dont sound like these douchebags who go "i play ultra brutal nu metal with a really original sound" sure you do, genius. youre a walking talking oxymoron. and if you happen to be one of these guys, and youre offended, im not sorry. it just so happens that nu metal sucks.

with that said, I play loud. punk, metal, thrash, hardcore, whatever you want to call it. music thats fun. this guitar tone (after years of tinkering with different stuff like tubes, and processing etc.) is my all time favorite tone. it just sound sperfect and exactly how i want it. and before i put the v30's in, it didnt sound right at all.

when marshall starts making cabs with this speaker combination, THEN ill give it a ten.

the only thing that has ever gone wrong was the cab got dropped on it's face and one of the speakers came loose. other wise, it hasput up with relentless wear from touring. the tolex has seen it's better days, but ive never seen a cab thats seen as much use as mine that looked any better.

ive never really had to call marshall. so i cant say. read someone else's review for this.

ive been playing guitar for ten years and im still learning about all the great gear thats out there. but as of right now i couldnt be happier with what i have. my guitars and amp are like my best friends. this cabinet is better than all of the others i have tried. if it were ever stolen i would certianly buy another one.

i highly reccomend picking one up and putting in some v30's

rage hard, bros.

Features:
New.
Where Do I use The amp?:
i. At a private Music School for teaching and Demoing for students interested in the amp.

ii. Local Gigs.

iii. Performance class.
Power is rated at 300 Watts R.M.S.Has a 3 band E.Q.-Bass - Mid - treble - Presence - Pre.

iv. 4 or 8 ohm switching stereo or 16 ohm MONO awitching.

SOUNDS;
i. Ok, FIrst off, I play various styles from funk- alternative psychedelic, heavy groove - Drop D tuning - Blues classic - shredding guitar instrumental - shuffle - etc... classic to chunk to pick attack!!! ATTACK ATTACK !!! LOL .

ii. Suits my music style(s) fine
iii. Not noisy if you know what your plugging into it!!
THis is where EVERYONE GOES HEYWIRED!!
ALWAYS - Start simple with your AMPLIFIER HEAD first ->
I use a MARSHALL JCM 800 2203x RE-ISSUE: I get a PERFECT sound and YES, I can achieve SEVERAL different variations of distortion. Amount of gain - chunk - or fluffy high end, mids, and some bottomend while retaining my full-on picking attack and excellent funk attack/chordal onslaught :>)
OK -

RELIABILITY:------------->
i. This cabinet and my amp for that matter are both built like MACK Trucks.
ii. Replace your tubes every six to eight months depending on how often you play through the tube head. Example: If your crankin six hours a night five days a week at your local watering hole or STADIUM :), Change your tubes every six months. Occassional bedroom shredder? Every Twelve or more months.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT:
Never called them? I dont know.

OVERALL RATING:
FANTASTIC VALUE - Yes
I love the sound. And lets be honest people. Isnt that what its about. Having fun shredding and writing songs!!
Settings on my Marshall head:
i. Presence: 6.0
ii. Treble: 4.0 to 4.25
iii. Middle: 5.9 to 6.1
iv. Bass: 8.0 to 9.0 ( THis should suffice you tonal monsters with more chunk with that xtra 1.0 of BASS LOL! :>)

2. Ok, NOW for my!!! SECRET WEAPON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IBANEZ TUBE SCREAMER TS-9 MODIFIED BY ANALOGMAN to 808 spec BROWN MOD.
analogman.com - I ordered mine direct from him. He makes your pedal sound like Zeus! VERY responsive to Chord work - Pick attack lead guitar - all styles of rhythm guitar - funk - punk - chunk!!!evrythin in between!!!!!
THATS IT!! oh, A 1970s Les Paul Custom with Dimarzio PAF PRO and Super Dist. pickups respectively doesnt hurt the tone! :)
Good luck people and remember ----->If you start with a great sound you can make it greater. If you start with a MUDDY sound you can make it ONLY MUDDIER!
lat----

It was made in 2004. Its versatile enough. I play straight up hard rock n' roll, power trio format. The features have been described before. Its kickass, period.

Les Pauls and Strats, EMG'S all the way. It's noisy ass hell...IT HAS TO BE! The only way this cab will sound right is in a live situation, what i mean is with the volume on your amp maxxed out. It has a midrangey bass sound, sounds like heaven (or hell) when i'm playing.

Its built like a tank (all hail Jim Marshall). Hasn't broke down yet its NEW. I don't think it will. It looks too tough.

None yet.

20 Years playing. 2 Yamaha T100 Yamaha Tube Heads designed by Michael Soldano, Les Pauls, Strats, Morley ABY Pedal, Dunlop 595Q Cry Baby, Dunlop Rotovibe, Digitech Whammy Reissue, MIJ Boss Super Overdrive.

I would buy it again. I'd buy two!.

I love how it sounds, i love how it looks i love how it makes me feel. I love how i feel on stage when i'm playing and my tones explode everywhere!

I wish i had the 1960B so i could have the whole stack! Better yet too whole stacks o' marshalls!

I wish the casters woul pop off instead of screw off its much easier if the popped off.

1960A Marshall 4-12 with 75 watt celestions. early 80's model with ni impedence switch, bought in mint condition from a recording studio. Has casters and in great condition. Too heavy to move around!

The drivers are not really efficient, i think they are rated at 95 spl. So the cabinet is not really very efficient in terms of delivering the true output of a given amplifier. Remember to increase acoustic output 3db, you can either double the amp output ( replace a 50 watt head with a 100 watt head) or get a 3db more efficient speaker. Celestion makes many. I use a g12 H100 live ( 100 spl) and one single 12 to lug around. However volume is only one element of tone as we all know.
The cabinet is used to give a bottom end to 40 watt and 15 watt tube amps in the studio. I play country folk and some rock and use a tele mostly. It does not shimmer, but add a bit of kick. Heck it look cool too.Middy, yup, sounds good with 6l6 and el84 based amps.

Strong. However pretty sloppy looking workmanship inside, wood glue all over the place. Doesn't affect sound, but for the $$ someone could be a little more concientious.

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Use primarily for recording as it is " the standard" 4 - 12. Don't use it live, perhaps i suck too bad to have roadies. Live i use an american telecaster ( 1982) and a 15 watt or 40 watt combo( Traynor tube amps).
I use a single efficient celestion, turn up the small amp to about 7 or 8 and use guitar volume for the rest. Dead simple and you can get some good sounds. After the gig, no need to put the sweetheart in the van with the stack. Put the amp in the trunk and get on with other things. Too simple for most guitar players, who usually think that they are the only ones who understand tone, so change pickups, cables cabs, amps etc instead of practicing and listening to those that they are playing with. Has great live application if someone want to carry it around. Not me though. I would never sell it as i'd regret it.

2004 Model
4 12" Speakers with total power capacity of 300W - LOADS of headroom!
Good sturdy handles and nice castors on the bottim for when you're feeling lazy.
Mono or stereo outputs with switchable impedances - damn nice touch - see later
Soft rubber pads to take the head and protect it from vibrations
It's got everything you need in a cab

I play classic rock - that's what this cab was built to play, so it's a marriage made in heaven. I don't use many effects (just a Boss digital chorus and a Cry Baby) and only use valve amps (tubes for our American cousins). Everything I try to do sounds great with this cab - even at low volume.
I only bought this cab as my 50 Watt Engl screamer combo was struggling with my band, so I bought this with a TSL100 as I couldn't afford an Engl half stack although I love the tone an Engl produces - the combo just couldn't cope with a live band. I almost just bought a cab to try to expand the sound of the combo, but went nuts and got the Marshall half stack. Have now invented a new tone! Used the Boss pedal to get a stereo signal from the guitar, put one lead into the TSL and one into the Engl and then use the stereo inputs on the cab - you get the best of both worlds - a real fat sound that almost shimmers. TONE HEAVEN.

Surprisingly light, but feels like you could drive a tank into it without any damage. Plenty of headroom in the speakers as the head is only 125 Watts and the cab can handle 300 Watts. Only concern is that metal corner protectors might have been better than plastic ones. This is a really MINOR concern.

3 Year warranty - 'nuff said

Can't really fault this cab - it does EXACTLY what I wanted it to do. I play classic rock and this was designed to play classic rock. If you want to play all that nu-metal 7 string crap, then go and buy something else. Us grown ups know what we like and this is it!
I have been playing for 15 years and use a LP Custom, LP Classic Double Cut with P90s, a Ric 330, SG standard, USA Strat and a much lamented impulse buy - an Ibanez EDR470 (soon to be seen on an ebay screen near you!). Mainly classic guitars which all sound superb through this cab with either of my amps (Engl screamer 50 Watt and MArshall TSL100)

1994.
8-16 ohms, nicely switchable.
Fer Christsakes, it's a marshall cab - a box with speakers, what kinda features do you need?

Ok. Here's where everyone gets messed up.
Boogies are cool if you want that huge low-end CHUG out of your head. They're oversized to accentuate this and are matched to a 6L6-type head that needs it. It's good if you want to play in unison with the bass to get that overwhelming tone from your band. I watched Ty Tabor use this live to it's pinnacle. That being said...
I currently run a Dual Recto head (1994 - the last good year) with EL34's for a tighter bottom with a PRS Custom 24 and a 1960 cab. This is not going to sound like Nu-Metal. It's not supposed to. Boogie cabs are beef, this is the bite. For Dave Navarro-y octave work, leads or anything that needs to bark at you, this is the cab to use. Want a little more bottom for your bottom? Use the 1960B instead. Want overwhelming bottom? Get a boogie. You must use the right tool for the right job or you'll be left holding the bag.

You could throw it off a loading dock, coat it in Kibbles and Bits and set wild dogs on it. Then set it on fire, put the fire out by peeing on it and cover it in honey. It'll still blow windows out.

Never had to. I guess that's a tribute to the reliability.

If it's classic guitar bite-your-face-off body and power you seek, this is your tool. Period.

JCM 800 series 1960A angled 4x12 cab. Purchased I believe 1989? None of the modern stereo/mono options. One plug. Claims to be 8ohm, but may be 16 (long story). No castors, so the side handles for carying are much appreciated. A 7, as you can add castors, but there is only the one jack.

Running with JCM800 2203 head. Loud as heck. My amp needs a re-tube and a tune-up, but that's hardly the cab's fault. Does a respectable clean sound. Very little midrange, with distortion is very aggressive sounding. Great for sounding like Slayer and other thrash bands, but too aggressive for most rock music. If you're into that ultra-thrash stuff exclusively, then it's a 10. Otherwise . . . I feel my head can sound like so much more, and will once I buy the 1960 vintage cab. Oh, something to note though. Guitar solos do sound very awesome. Perhaps that's why they call it the 1960 lead?

Has stains. Lots of tears in the tolex. Half of the covering on the bottom is gone. Any amp with tolex is like that though. It looks cool, but not half as tough as that carpet-type stuff. Handles starting to feel a wee bit loose, but after 15 years of hard work it's still kickin'.

Only dealt with Canadian dudes through Erikson Music. You wouldn't think it, but they were quite responsive and helpful, even through email.

A good cab, but I need something more versatile tonally. I feel my head could sound better than it does through this cab. Still, note the name on it. 1960 lead. IF you pretty much solo through this thing, it's great. I just like a more midrange-y rhythm sound. Also, sometime I wish it had a metal grille on the front to protect the speakers, but I might just be paranoid. My advice: Try this and the 1960 vintage and see which suits you better. If you have a 50wt head, or are running a full stack, the 1960 classics with Greenbacks are extremely killer too.

It is a 2001 model but they all look and sound the same to me. This is where all the classic tones came from. Two classic name brands are fender and marshall. If you had those, you had the tone! It has 4 12' celestion 75 watt speakers, and must say that this thing looks like it was built cheap but it can take some hits!! So its a cab, a box with speakers nothing else.

Well this is where the classic sound came from but times have changed. Of course, this is the ideal cab that is played at the venues around here. If you see a guy with a half stack, 90% of the time the cab is a marshall. Because you see them on tv and they have soo much watt leverage that you can push these until you get evicted. Even when pushed so hard, you get people saying that the speakers sound great cause it gives an old blues tone. Whatever. I have had this cab because i wanted to jump on the band wagon myself.

Enough B.S.! This cab is just straight out, not for mesa's, bogner's, soldano's, Peavey XXX's. It combines that marshall sound with those heads and it just throws a wall of mids at you. The highs are so harsh that i just think of dirt when i turn this baby up. The lows are ok but its not that type of a cab. Its a marshall, they (in my opinion) failed with that P.O.S. mode four. stick to the classic tones! i just gave up and bought a mesa recto cab. (not a dual rectifier, just the cab) But i have heard it through old marshall heads and that is where this cab shines! A well appreciated cab for a first half stack but try the cab out first before purchase.

Built like a honda but runs like one too! So a plus and minus.

no idea.

i wouldn't buy it again. its more of out of date. Not my style and its all about style. I am sure that so many other people rate this cab a 10 but in my opinion, its not for me.

features? it's a cabinet. the stereo/mono stwitching and the impedence capabilities are quite nice though, most cabinets don't offer that.

a lot of people have said that this thing doesn't put out a good solid low end. and a lot of people have commented on the harsh high end. i've had my cabinet for about 4 months now, and that is nothing that can't be fixed by a little tweaking. and i've also noticed that this thing doesn't sound spectacular in my band's practice room, but when we're out playing at a large venue, it sounds amazing. if you think your amp sounds bad, try playing it outside or something. the acoustics will make quite a difference.

and this cabinet can go from soft rock to metal and anywhere in between. for people who think this thing can't do metal, i don't know what you're hearing. i play a lot of stuff like betwen the buried and me/as the sun sets/stuff along those lines. trust me, this cabinet will keep up with music that heavy.

if you're taking this cabinet on the road, then yeah, the tolex will tear, and the grill cloth might rip. shit will get torn up, but thats no reason to render it unreliable...the speakers in this bad boy handle any power and volume you will ever put into them. and not only that...they handle it well. most amps can handle anything, but not all of them do a good job.

the construction seems solid, but i've never heard of a cabinet being poorly built. and as far as the complaints on the casters go...mine are holding up extremely well. i can roll over cables and bumps in the pavement, where as with my old cabinet (an ampeg) i would have to lift it over everything

never had to deal with them, but the manual was really stupid. if i hadn't already known how to correctly operate an amp, i would have been angry. because the manual told you absolutely nothing.

i play through an '03 ibanez artist with a SD JB in the bridge position, and a series 2 mesa single rectifier head. i chose this cabinet over the mesa, because the recto cabinets sounded too grainy to me. i don't want to get into the whole mesa vs. marshall bullshit, but most of the people that gave this a bad rating were playing through a marshall head. don't get me wrong, i've heard plenty of people get awesome tone using marshall heads, and plenty using mesa cabinets. but to me this cabinet sounded excellent, so i bought it over other brands.