Marshall 75 Reverb

I owned two of those amps, one of 84 with the vintage (grey) look, the other of 86. I still own the 84 amp.
The solid state amps has two channels, the clean one with bass mid and treble, the boost channel with only one tone adjustment. The volume of the boost channel has a swith to switch over to the tone adjustments of the clean channel. This is not a boost, or crunch switch, like other people refer to. I paid 75 euro for each amp, because the sound was fading once in a while. You can buy a good one for double this price.
A nice feature is to combine the clean and boost channel together. This is done by not pluggin' in the footswitch. With footswitch you can switch channels and switch on/off the reverb.
Other features are mentioned earlier.

I am playing a MIM strat, gibson les paul, Ibanez SZ320 and all are sounding great with this amp. I play mainly rock and some jazz. The clean is very clean, and because of a master volume, you have enough power to keep the sound clean.
The boost channel is getting from bluesy till heavy distortion. Heavy and trash metal is only possible with a pedal.
The amps is not so noisy, you can hear a small (50 Hz) hum, while not playing. While switching off, you can hear a loud plop. This is easily repaired by adding a small capacitor over the switch.

It's build like a rock. Because of the plywood it rather heavey, but it never broke down on me. Some in- or output plugs will get rusty over time, getting the sound falling down, while playing harder. You can simply repair this with contact spray at the contacts.

The potmeters are of a big size (better than the valvestates). They normally last for a long time (never replaced one, while I replaced a lot of them in de vs8080 or vs8280).

It only lacks some shielding, resulting in some noises at the moment you mobile phone is too close to the amp (3-6 feet).

I would gig without a backup (but better not).

Never dealt with Marshall. All the schematics and manuals are online.

I play guitar and bass for 25 years. I own a H&K attax 80 and 100 (mainly for Jazz) Line 6 Spider 75 for the fun and a Laney LC15R (tube) for at home. Use Gibson, Fender and Ibanez guitars.

If it was stolen I would certainly buy another one. I onwed two of them, but sold one (I didn't need a backup).

What an amaziang amp!! One of my old friends bring it to me directly to my room and I loved it at first sight!! It is mid 80' a really vintage gear!!
It has 2 channels clean and distortion that is very Marshall's ad very loud but there is also a switch to pull to have less volume but hight edged sounding

It as enought power to be used in all home, amateur and little live situations. If you use a serious stage amplification and 2 huge speakers at your side only for you guitar I think it would be great!!

Never use send return for boost it brings the hell in your head!!

In distortion mode this amp sounds great with humb pickups (with single coils it seems to be a piace of steel hitted by an hammer..not really good!!) and gets its best with a stomp box right before the imput...with sd-1 Boss at 1/2 of gain and 1/4 of tone I get the typical heavy metal sound such as Judas Priest!!! I use it with a Boss me-5 with the maximum noise suppression (because with the stomp the amp bacame a great fly), a lot of compression and mid range boost for solos...The clean at hight volumes is like a gun shot!! It suddenly comes up and deafs the entire hall!!
In my opinion with my setting it sounds great at volume 4 or 5 while it is a little warm, but without the stomp 7 or 8 is the best because it crank up the distortion!

Great sounding amp better than valvestate!!

When I take it it didn't sound at all!! It was only a malfunctioning jack!!

Pure transistor Thoughness!!!

Mid 80s.
I have been playing for 40 years and this amp is the sonnd I have been looking for. It has two channels and a switch. It has a lot of power and sounds great. I just found one in Ill. and I am buying it.

The clean side is good at high volume and it breaks up like a tube amp and keeps a good tone. I am using a am.stock strat.I also use a marshall govan dist. peddle.

The amp is almost 25 yr. old and still sounds great. I would trust it to last a long time. When I get the other one I will put them togather and play one claen all the time and use the other one for fx.

Made in the mid- 80's i do believe, as mentioned 2 channel jobbie, DI-out with rotary level control on the back, footyswitch fr channel select and 'verb, headphone out. Good quality Hammond spring reverb tank. What more do you need? Err, yes, a Celestion Sidewinder 12"speaker perhaps? Beautifully proportioned amp, mine has the sun-bleached basketweave effect, very classy looking. More than enough power, sounds the business! Just bought mine, its as good as mint, can't believe my luck.

Use it with a Gibson 'The Paul' with dirty fingers pickups (original)and a modded Squier Tele with a blade humbucker. Not a noisy amp at all. Its very ' tight' sounding, very compact cabinet, needs to be turned up to get a good spread of sound. The clean channel sounds very decent indeed,( No idea where this whole 'Marshall clean channels are shit'comes from, I've always found them very useable...) and the drive channel is just good old Marshall, it sounds the biz! Amp has more than enough headroom for most situations, 75 watts transistor is just about right.
With the gain turned up, neck humbucker on the Gibson and a compressor, you're straight into Santana territory, its that easy...

Good warm expressive sound, it really does 'sing' this one. Love it.

This thing is just very solidly built, and weighs more than you'd think. I fact its just heavy, but you can just tell from the way it's put together that it's quality. The previous owner had the master volume serviced (contact spray??) It functions flawlessly after about 20 years anyway. Of course I would depend on it, its a pre-valstate crap Marshall! No worries there. Should anything go wrong, repairs are relatively inexpensive. These things are easy to work on for any tech worth their money, parts are basically generic and cheap.

Tried getting in touch with Marshall in the past, found them to be not very responsive at all. Shame really... Warrantee is long out anyway, so who cares?

Got a 5210 Marshall combo as well for good measure. Different sounding amp, larger cab , different speaker, but the difference is interesting. About the master reverb 75: it's a great little amp, does all you need. Got mine for a very reasonable price in virtually mint condition. I found it attractive because of the portabitlity issue, its very compact but packs a solid punch and has very useable featues all the way. If you find one,and you like Marshall amps, get it. You will certainly find a very good use for it. for the money, a bargain!

i think that this amp was made in 1984 ,in fact i t is written on the
side of the metallic box witch contains electronics
this amp is great for LOUDS and HEAVY sounds and have 2 chanels (a clean and a crunch one witch is controled by a push/pull pot that can activate a more distorded sound (there is also a footswitch)
i use this amp in my speed/thrash band and it sounds like hell!!!
this amp have only transistors so it sounds like more synthetic than tubes (personally i think it is better than tubes for the music i play)

i use this amp with high output guitars or emg equiped guitars and
since it have been modified it sounds even better than when it was originally made and suits perfectly the music i make

the distortion is really "thrashy" and perfect for extreme sounds(really brutal!!!)
the clean channel is great too but i don t use it often

i use this amp since 3 years now and use it as my one and only amp on scene
i have to say that mine have been heavily modified after a friend of mine have mistreated it
there is no speaker in it, but the wood case have been "cutted" to make a head (so now i use it with a 4x12" cabinet i made), the electronic have been modified too to make it sound even louder (2 big condensators to make the basses more powerfull)and the transistors are now refreshed with 2 ventilators that are activated via a thermoelectric diod
i have also modified the preamp to make the treeble/middle/bass more punchy
also i put a little resistance to make it completely "unnoisy"

i have contacted the marshall company to make em send me the electronic shematics but i never have any responses
(i have found it on the web, if someone wants the shematics contact me i ll send it)
of course the repairs weren t done under warranty since this amp was made in 1984

i am playing since 8 years now and this is the best amp i ever had
i ll be buying another one if anything happens to this one (and i ll make the same modifications to it too...)
i bought this amp when i had not much money and i was really surprised cause its sound really good (and loud) for a little combo
i saw on this forum that this was a jcm 800 and i am not surprised about it (it kick ass!!!)

I don,t know when this amp was made I picked it up in a pawn shop some 10 tears ago. This amp says it is a 75 watt amp, its not , its actually the same amp as the Marshall 100 watt head with the different impedence of only one 12' SPEAKER IT PUTS OUT 75 WATTS. Use it to run a 4 by 12' and its a 100 watts.I,ve used this amp for blues-rock and it gets a great sound. Without the footswitch all the gains cascade. (that's four gain stages) and it gets a rich full sound, not at all solid state sounding.The speaker is a 150 watt celestion cast frame sidewinder ( like a celestion EV) this is a very efficent and loud speaker. Even with this the amp is relativly light and portable.
Playing wise my main problem with this amp is that it gets so loud so easily.One of the main reasons I used this amp instead of a tube amp is that I can raise and lower the master volume and keep the same tone. Most tube amps( especially old one) tone change with volume.I am a part time musican . I,ve used this on gigs with my own band , I play an assortment from Country, country rock, classic rock and blues. I,ve used this amp for years to go to jam sessions and I like it because its light enough and easy enough to set up for this. For years I had a super reverb that languished because it was too heavy , i'd end up grabbing the marshall.This amp is a lot like the peavey bandit but better in almost all respects. Particularly the plywood cabinet and celestion sidewinder.

For a number of years I used this amp without the footswitch.In this mode all the gain stages cascade and it gets a real full mid rangy tone much like an over driven tube amp. It is excellent as a classic rock or blues amp. Not for jazz at all. For the last few years I,ve used this with a digitech multieffects. I use the fottswitch to access the clean channel and get various tones and effects from the multi-effects. My main tone is the clean channel with just reverb and it is excellent full and crisp, the individual notes of chords ring out ( I use a lot of jazz voicings and chord work and tone is important)I like the tone of this amp but people I,ve played with say my mesa boogie Rocket reverb has a better tone, but the boogie is only twenty watts and not loud enough for all situations.

I,ve had a few problems with it over the last ten years. It broke down twice, one was a power transistor another a resistor.I used it on gigs without back up for years. Its getting old and needs maintenance.

No , bought used

i,VE PLAYED ON AND OFF FOR THIRTY YEARS.I have 8 guitars , I ussually bring 3 or 4 to a gig. I don,t really cllect guitars mine are good working quility instruments , a fender nashville tele, yamaha tele, what I call my Kramer caster, which is a an american kramer with a double bound tele body and seymour duncan pick -ups, an Ibanez road star with a flame top,a peavey strat, two fernandez strats and a yamaha semi-hollow with p-90's.I have an Accoustic 100 watt tube amp which is some 25 years old beutiful hard wood cabinet lots of features
like a boogie, a mesa boogie rocket reverb abd a marshall 75. I use a digitech multi effects with a tube pre amp. I would deffinitly consider buying another if something happened to this. Its been old reliable and definitly paid for itself many times over.

I'm not sure about the year - I know this amp is from around the mid to late-80's. I bought mine from a pawn shop in Austin, Texas summer of '88, and have put a few thousand hours on it playing live in a 3-piece Texas Blues/Rock band. I gigged Texas, Oklahoma, Lousiana, Mississippi and around Florida with only this amp, and it never let me down. I've never bothered with the Overdrive channel, but used the Main channel and would set it so that when I had the volume on my Les Paul Custom on 6, it would be a 'Bluesy-clean' distort. Then, when I wanted more sustain for a lead, I just cranked up to 9 or 10 on the Paul and the Gibson Humbuckers would do the rest. As noted by one of the other reviewers on this page - THIS AMP IS EXCEPTIONALLY LOUD FOR ITS SIZE. In my experience with many amps through the years, Marshall watts are different than the 'other guy's' watts - Marshall is known for making loud amps, and they always come through. I agree with a comment from another reviewer about this as well - the Marshall 5275 DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A SOLID-STATE AMP. In my opinion, Marshall solid-states sound more like tube amps than the 'other guy's' actual tube amps. Marshall just knows how to do it when it comes to a Rock amp. The Direct In on back is worthless. I've tried using it to record direct into an 8-track, but it's very noisy and sounds like garbage - completely toneless.

I used Les Paul's with Humbuckers for many years with it, but in the last few years have been using Standard Telecasters, and am still getting a good over-driven, tubey, bluesy tone with it. As with all Fenders, it's more noisy and buzzy at higher volumes (single-coil pick-ups are just that way - or in other words - they don't "Buck" the "Hum" like double-coil Les Paul type pick-ups). Nevertheless, it sounds great with the Tele's. As described earlier I still use the same method for Rhythm and Lead with the Tele - I set the amp on the Main channel so that my guitar is edgy/clean, and usually crank the volume up for lead, while getting a little help from an Ibanez Tube Screamer. For the most part, this amp has a high noise-floor - lots of hiss if the room is quiet, but my amp is between 14-16 years old - so wha'cha gonna do?

I used this amp exclusively with no back-up for many, many a gig - more than I'll ever remember actually. When I first moved to Austin I was playing one-nighters 5-7 nights a week around the area, with a 3-piece band, and many a time club managers have come over and ask us to "turn it down", which I always marvelled at how loud this lil' old solid-state amp would get. I played in a Rock band for awhile in Orlando, Florida, and me and the other guitarist had these same amps. We each hooked up a 4-12 slant cab to our 5275's since the clubs we were playing were about mid-size - 150-300 people - and once again, they were screaming loud. And I seldom turned the amp Master Volume past 5, with the Channel Volume around 8. It finally did break down on me, but oddly enough, long after I had stopped doing such intense road-work. I was playing week-enders when it fried on me around 1998. I took it to an authorized Marshall repair in Austin, and they replaced the Power Transformer for $65.00. I remember when I got the call from them to tell me what was wrong, I thought, "Here we go - a couple of hundred dollars worth of repair," and I was pleasantly surprised at how cheap it cost to get it up and running again. I'm writing this in Decmember of 2001, and must report that it just died on me again during my church ministry service this last weekend. I suspect it's the same thing as last time, since all the symptoms seem to be the same. Overview - I bought the amp second or maybe third-hand, it gave me a few thousand hours service for a long time under tough, stressful conditions (band road-work - cram the gear in as fast as you can - go to the gig - play 4-5 hours, usually with only one 30 minute break - break gear down and cram it in the truck again to repeat the same thing night after night), I've been using it for weekend worship services with our Christian Rock band for almost two years now, and it's only died a couple of times in the last 13 plus years I've owned it. I have no complaints - I got my money's worth out of it many times over, and I made a lot of money with it. A couple of the pots are about gone, but that's to be expected in an amp so old.

As stated before, I got my repairs done at an authorized Marshall service center in Austin - the repairs for this type of amp are very reasonably priced in contrast to getting tube-amps repaired.

As I mentioned, the amp just broke down on me again. I'm going to get a new Marshall 1-12 combo, since the 5275 is getting pretty old now, and I want to have something reliable. The problem with the break-down's I've had with the amp is that there are no warning signs. The last time it went out - it just went out. Our band had already played the first church service - stopped - went up after the main worship to play the second service - and the amp was gone. So it's not like it was making noise, or I could limp along with it to make it through the rest of the gig. It just died. That's kinda unlike tube amps - they usually start crapping out so you know to expect it - wheezing, coughing, blurping or whatever, but you can usually make it through the rest of a gig while it's dying. Not so with electronics. So I'm going to get a new Marshall. I've looked at all the combos in a certain price range, and I always come back to Marshall. They're known for long-life, toughness, reliability, and long after you've spent $400-500 bucks on one, you'll still be getting service out of it. Besides, who else really makes a Rock sounding amp in this price range? You have to move up to $700 plus for tube-amps to get this kind of power and sound from anyone else.

Made in late 80's or early 90's, dunno exactly'since I got this used as a gift ;). Check the features below...I just mention that 75 watts for this Marshall amp is more than enough (unless you're heading to some stadium). Usually marshall's watts suck deep.
If only the normal gain sounded good this'd earn the full 10 but you really have to pull the gain knob to get "the sounds". Clean channel could be a bit more nicer, too...

Check features. I'm using USA standard strat w/ normal pickups. As I already mentioned, you'll get great tones from the gain channel, if the EQ is on. Clean is a bit thin. I was especially amazed how this amp was able to create all the tones I wanted ;)!

Like solid states usually, this is quite reliable. Because it's old and gone through a lot (it was stored in a cold, cold place, maybe even in minus degrees for years)it has some flaws, the knobs create this annoying fuzz when you crank 'em but if I clean or replace them, the problem prolly will be solved. I probably won't use a backup.

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I've been playing since elementary school, it makes something like eight years and this babe sounds better than any of the "good" tube machines I've tested. If it suddenly breaks down, it takes me with it.

I brought this amp from a secondhand shop for $375 Aust.Made on 17/10/1986 by the circuit board QC sticker. This amp is a 2 channel combo with reverb. There is no way to use the reverb or switch between clean and lead channels without a footswitch, this could of have been better thought of in my opinion! Lucky for me I picked up an old Marshall Channel/Reverb footswitch for $30 in another shop. The gain switch is a push/pull type, with plenty of Rock grunt up the top end.There is a Volume Boost and Tone switch on the Lead channel as well the normal Treb/Mid/Bass these all work well together. Master volume and the spring reverb controls do ther job with ease. The back panel has, Ext loud speaker socket,Headphones,Direct Input with level control,Effects send/return. I had a Marshall 100Watt stack in the past and even though this amp fits into the wardrobe and is solid state, it's a loud 75 Watts of Kick Arse!

The Jackson guitar I use has Jackson J70 Bridge pickup which is a twin coil which sounds great through this amp. This model amp was the only one in the Marshall range to use the 12inch Celestion SideWinder speaker. Rated to 150 Watts and was originally designed for Heavy metal guitarists of the middle '80s and was in production for about 6-8 years as I read on the net.The sound is perfect for me as I like Hard Rock eg AC/DC , Guns and Roses............

As this amp is 15 years old I changed all the Pots, except the gain switch as it was working fine for $41 myself. The stereo plug on the footswitch was shorting out, so I replaced that as well. So all in all this old girl been brought up to speed for under $50 Aust. The previous owners of the past have looked after it and I think the 75 Reverb model 5275 is a Classic in it's own right...................

I have been playing for about 14 years on and off and if this amp was stolen or lost I would be searching high and low for this model for sure.............

this amp is pretty old and is good for metal or rock (like metallica or pantera), it has 2 channels which are footswitchable, and a footswitcable reverb (but it isnt strong at all, you can barely hear it), it has an effects loop and a headphone jack, i wish it had a 9-band graphic eq like my randall warhead, but i run it through a boss ge-7 7 band eq pedal which i can get the sound that i want on but not as well as i could with a 9-band eq, i wish it also had some digital fx's, i use this amp for practice and i have used it for a few gigs when i was getting my mesa repaired,(but of course i used my randall to) it's solid state and has a heavy old speaker in it that you might want to replace, but the speaker also has suprisingly good tone for a solid state amp, i wouldnt recomend the disortion on this amp either, if you can get a pedal like a boss ds-1, or boss metal zone, or rocktron rampage, however this amp is still very loud which is what i bought it for, it's 75 watts and is a combo as well

this amp works well with most humbuckers and some single coils, but with other single coils it tends to feedback alot, it is great for me because the amp is great for the type of music that i play, METAL!!!!I dont know if it's noisy because ive never used it without a noise supressor, good distortes, exceptional clean, clean channel can get very lightly distorted at high volumes, but nothing to worry about especially since it only does it with some pickups

can take a beating, dependable, this is one of my backup amps, along with a randall warhead and i would play a gig with just it and the randall, it's never broken down on me

never had to deal with it

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