Marshall 1973 Lead & Bass 20 Head

This amazing amp was made in 1973 and still rockin'! As the name indicates, it got two channels, Lead and Bass, each has two inputs. Controls: one volume and one tone for each channel.(you can't mess that up) 20 watts is more than enough and it breaks up at low volume. Perfect for blues and if you join the two channels, it also works classic rock. I'll give it a 9 for the lack of an effect loop and reverb.

Right now, I use Epiphone Les Paul Custom (w/gibson burstbucker III) and '56 Goldtop. This amp is loud! It came with an original 4x10" cab and it can knock your teeth out in one punch! I love to play loud and at that level, it has that nice old Marshall crunch. If I need more distortion, I use a Marshall Jackhammer in boost mode.

She has never let me down to this day, aftes 6 months of use and abuse. I've just refitted her tubes, and now she's singin' loud and clear as ever. At this time, I'm not giging because of my job situation, but I don't think I will be needing any backup for this baby. But she's old, you'll never know when she's breaking down.

Never used them....

Been playing guitar for 8 years. Gear used: JMP Lead&Bass, JTM 60 combo, Epiphone guitars, various boss, marshall, dunlop effects.
Check it out, Marshall is now remaking this in their new handwired series. But this time with 2x12" cab not a 4x10" as original. Still, it's good to have to real thing...

Early 70's valve amp, two channels each with high and low input - one channel for guitar and one for bass (Lead & Bass 20 is a bit of a give away ain't it? Guess the wattage?!). Compared to modern all singing all dancing amps that do everything but apologise to the neighbors about the volume, this amp admittedly does lack in terms of features. Its trump card, however, is that this is a guitar and bass amp combined, bet your fancy pants AC30 can't do that now! 20 watts is plenty for me, allows overdrive at a much lower volume. However, do not be fooled by the wattage, this is one loud amp. Atleast with the lack of EQ etc you know you can't mess up your sound at the amp end at least.

Before I purchased this amp I was using a 30 watt valvestate, I swore to myself that now I had a fair amount of cash to plough into a new amp, I wouldn't buy a Marshall. For me it was just the fact that the world and his wife uses one (crappy pop-punk acts like Busted for instance). Against my better judgement I purchased this, and I now know how Marshall became so popular. This is a beautiful sounding amp, it delivers endless amounts of tone laden overdrive and has a clean sound that you'd sell your own mother for. Make no mistake, this is the mutts nutts if you like your classic rock sounds.

This is a Marshall from back in the days when they were hand wired and soldered point-to-point, I cannot emphasise enough the quality of the workmanship on this amp, it's stunning. Under reliability in the oxford dictionary it reads: See hand-wired Marshall valve amplifier.

Doubt i'll ever need to call them

These are getting very rare indeed. At the moment atleast it is fashionable to buy low wattage valve amps as they overdrive easily at lower volumes and are ideal for studio and miking on stage. This is certainly true for this amp. By my own admission i'm not a tone expert, I havn't A/B'd this against every critically acclaimed tube amp known to man, I never want to. I know when something sounds good, and believe me, this does. Classic rock sounds are in abundance, it also does a good blues impression. Probably not ideal if you're into your sparkly clean Jazz sounds, that's why we have Fender's. What this amp does, it does amazingly.