Marshall JCM-2000 TSL 100

Ok...Three channels each with its eq, reverb and volume controls...Enough for me. I use it 4-5 times weekly and never ran out of volume, bottom, etc... Though the lead channel is a little bit shot of gain for my tastes (and I don't play metal!!) I'll give it a 9 just in case...

I use Gibson Les Paul guitars and some Telecasters to get that sweet clean sound and I can testify that it is a noisless amp (at least mine!) I use to play from clean pop music to nasty 70's rock and some 90's stuff...it gives me all the sounds I need (with a little bit of help from some fx toys!!)

As I said before, the distortion channels are fine...but...instead I would have put more gain to the lead channel just for the versatility. Although it can be changed in the manner it is eq'd.

Well....I hope I can depend on it. It is supposed to. I mean...A company with such reputation should support each of their products. I have played it for two months and the only problem I experienced was the footcontroller. Yes my friends!! How an amp of this price could come with such a weak footcontroller. The guys at Marshall should considered to hand-wire the switches inside the controller instaea of put a circuit board inside. I mean...a circuit board is too fragile to be depressed by a foot. Don't you think?! Anyway, I'm alwyas concerned about that because I use to play 4 to 5 days a week and I have to deal with audiences as close to the point that they can spill some beer in your pedals. Then the question is...can a circuit board stand that. I'm not saying that I will spill a bottle of beer on it, but if something similiar happens...I'm sure a stomp pedal would stand it. I'll give it a 1 because the day I bought the amp, I had to return the pedal because it went dead (got to make clear that no one didn't spill nothing on it!!). The new one hasn't given me any trouble at the time.

I've never have to deal with Marshall directly. The store that sold me the amp were very fast with the replacement of the new foot controller. I'll give 'em the benefit of doubt.

I've been playing guitar for about 15 years and for my tastes it works great. I've owned everything from boogies, fenders, matchless to vox, etc... I can't say that it is better than the mentioned but definetly it has its own peculiar sound and has the versatility of three independent channels which is great for our times. I think it is nice from stock...but I'll add some gain to the lead channel, just for the versatility....and definetely a sturdy footcontroller.

OK, this amp has a control for just about everything, three channels all with their own eq, reverb, presence, fx loops, volume & gain controls for each channel .... so as far as features ar concerned its
very well done (just read the other reviews for more)

Ok this is what made me decide for the TSL 100, the clean channel is fucking awsome, and with the 100w power behind it, i could finnaly get a good clean sound at a decent volume without distorting (but wait it gets better) the gain and volume controls on the clean really help in getting a good sound at different volumes, so i was completely wrapt with it. I use the crunch channel as my main distortion channel, when its cranked you can get a great overdrive, but what i like to do is to turn the gain lower and use my Sans amp GT2 to drive it ... tone city!
and i use the lead channel for more riff type stuff than chords ... sounds great, but i dont use it halfe as much as the other two channels. So for what i use this for (Funk/rock) it works very very well.I bought this amp only recently and got it shipped to me only 1 hour before i was about to leave to play my gig, i got a good sound straight out of the box (not completely amazed, and yeh crazy to use an amp that i only just got, but i thought fuck it! buy it you damn well use it) and it sounded great at stage volumes, and it has just been getting better as i have gotten myself more used to it and played with it more at louder volumes (remember that word "LOUD" ... you wont get a fantastic sound with any 100w valve amp down low, unless you use a power brake or something)

well i have owned this amp for little over one month, and no this thing hasnt been sittin' pretty for people to gawk at, it gets used an awful lot at home and around two to three gigs a week so im realy putting it through its paces, and so far ok (but then again for the money you spend on this animal, it better!) i'll submit for reliability when i have done more than a years worth of gigs, 'till then ..touch wood !

never dealt with Marshall myself, but the supplier here in Aussie land ,"Venue Music" seem very good with the Marshall gear. so far i have only bought the amp so my only opinion would be the service i got when i bought it, which was good

i'm still getting used to this amp, but i am very stoked with the way it has been going so far so i'll give it a nine. Like i said before this amp is incredibly loud, so much so even at stage volumes, check out how much power you actually need before buying one (alot of guitarists i talk to went from a 100w down to a 50w, simply because they could crank it harder and not permamently loose their hearing).At home i use this and a Peavey Classic 30 (one awsome amp if you ever try one) with only 30w valve power, you get a great cranked sound at bedroom levels. so i alternate between the two.

I play tons of music stlyes but my main is metal, this amp rocks for it and fits my style, metallica(old), slayer, random acts of violence, ozzy, etc amp has 3 channels, 2 effects loops, xlr jack, 100w rms (all fucking tube!) el34 no solid state shit, i just wish it had more power to spare but hey MORE POWERRR!!!!! who doesnt want more power and the great tone of this amp?

i play a gibson flying v with soon to be emg81 i got a 500t in the bridge and this thing fucking shreds! it can make funky noises sometimes, let the tubes cook 4 a while b4 turing on, i have tried this amp for tons of styles and it excells in metal, the clean channel is awesome, rythum channel distorsion is awesome, slayer!!! the lead channel has tons more sustain mids and gain perfect for hanneman solos!, the famous marshall crunch and thump of the 4x12 ahhh!! this amp is the angel of death! people say marshalls suck thats saying that ozzy, slayer, raov, pantera, metallica, judas priest, jimi hendrix, santana, motley crue, yngwie malmsteen, ratm, eric clapton, srv, van halen, etc all suck! so now you are left with korn and limp biskit hahah! gee which ones are the real musicians? Why would all these guys use marshalls if marhsalls you say suck huh? This amp is for real musicains its got a lot of note defintion and sounds awesome cranked practice practice, its one of the hardest amps to play with, u have to be good to use this one

People say the marshalls have bad ratings(cough cough mesa peavey owners) hey people what kind of lame fucking idiot drops there amp out of a truck! of course this thing isnt built as stong as a metal chassis mesa but its fuckin strong as hell! hey people that say marhsalls suck, u think marshall amps are made to break and built cheaply, thats bullshit lame ones!, they have a thing called a warantee !it costs marshall money to fix thier amps!, why would marshall want to spend money on amps that dont work? think about that one, i love my amp and i wouldnt let it fall off a buildin or some gay shit like what happens to these other people, ive owned this amp for 1/2 a year now and it kicks more ass than i can take, it gets better everytime i play

Never doubt with them, has a 90 day waarantee on the tubes, 3 years on labor, 3 years on speakers, and 5 years on parts so its built to fuckin last or they fix it dummies, it doesnt cost you money! I wish marshall had those soldano lifetime fully transferable warrantees that would rule!

This amp rocks in my sense, but before you take my work for it try every amp you can--mesas are awesome peaveys are awesome,, marshall fit my taste i dont have a problem w/other brands, no amp manufacterer sucks to me, im putting emgs in my guitar, groove tube's kt88s power tubves and 7051 preamp tubes in this amp so it is even rawer im saving up for another 4x12 so ill have the most insane tsl i can get, if u try an amp in a store it sucks, ive played this amp tons of times live and in my room, if u wanna hear the bestest sounds of this amp(metal) listen to angel of death by slayer its a jcm 900 with a jmp-1 plugged in a.k.a. tsl! This thing kicks more ass with a 57 mike in front of 4x12(s) the more the better

I've been playing guitar for 15 years, and this is THE best amp I've ever owned in my life. With three channels you can easily dial in any tone, metal, blues, or straight rock.... As far as the clean channel goes, it is the best clean marshall has ever had. Three channels, two effects loops, independent eq's, a five button foot controller (wich I've never had a problem with, and it's been stompped on, on countless gigs), mid boosts, tone shifts, virtual power reduction, an emulated line out!!!! Yes this amp is very versitile.....

I own a Prs McCarty and a Fender strat... With the strat through this amp, it sounds like a Les Paul. Need I say more? I have noticed some noise from the amp, but nothing out of the ordinary as far as a tube amp goes.

I've never had a problem live, or in the studio. I have had it retubed once, wich is normal, I play out a lot and always have the amp working hard.

The only thing i don't like about the amp is that I hate lugging a 4/12 cab around.

Well, rather than rehash what others have clearly stated, I'll say that it has a great range of features for the money.

Let me tell you of my recent tribulations with some TSL's. I bought one on impulse at a Sam Ash on Monday. Took it home, plugged it in and a whole lot of nasty noises came out. Took that back and got another one.
I played this a couple of hours and while listening to it while idling to the normal background hiss, I'm hearing these snap, crackle, pop noises. I try and see if its a loose pre tube and as soon as I touch one of the tubes, I get loud crackles and pops. Both of the "hot" pre tubes do this. I switch and try other tubes...same thing. I'm thinking now its the sockets.
I take this one back and this other sales guy is bustin' my hump a little about it, because yeah it plays, but this other stuff to me
is really telling me somethings wrong with the amp in the long term. The sales guy who was with me through all this and understood wasn't there, so I finally said screw this, refund my money. Now I'm convinced that theres a whole batch of defective amps in ALL the stores and that it doesn't matter which one I get, they're all gonna be like this.
But, ya know...I gotta have it! But first before I spend the dough a second time, I'll go to a Guitar Center and give the Boogies one last try to see if I'm missin' something. I tries a Recto, Nomads and TremOverb and I'm sorry guys, I didn't care for them one wit, to be kind about it. Now that I got that out of the way, GC will match the good price I got from S.Ash but I got to go pick it up at another store.
I just played for about a half hour so far, flicked the tubes, listen for any weird noises and so far, knock on wood, its seems OK.
Now for the sound ( and this brings me to the DSL, I also purchased recently).
I finally figured how to get my Tele and Strat to sound like themselves out of these amps and I will go so far as to say that this (these) amps clean sounds are as good as the classic Fender guitar/Fender amp combination. Yes, thats right. As good or better. Considering the other crunch and lead options, they go into a class by themselves.
You think a Boogie is supposed to have gain? The gain on these amps are hellacious, to use a well worn cliche'. The trick is that with Fender guitars,for instance, you need to engage the tone shift switch and what you get is that beautiful round tone that Fender amps have.
I've taken my stock Am Standard Tele, cranked up some gain and we are talkin' heavey metal heaven if your so inclined and with plenty more gain to spare.
I'm currently giving my ES 345 a run through the amp and the sound is phenomenal...
Yes, its been a real bitch getting the right ones but I'm astounded by these amps..
I have some other instruments I have yet to give them a test drive, which will include a Gibson ES1275 and a couple of Music Man
signature guitars (you know who...and its not eddie, either ;)
I must say I have found my holy grail of sound here...

As I stated above, I had to go through a few of them to get a stable
one, but oohhh it was worth it.

I give no opinion because these are new and time will tell, but hopefully I'll never need to find out.

Everybody has there own thing in terms of what they want to get out of a piece of equipment, but when it comes down to it, we might all agree on a great tone when we hear it. These amps, the TSL and DSL have it in spades.

This is a newer TSL amp - made in early 2000 I think. I got this amp because of it's infinate tweakability and tone. Fender meets Vox meets Marshall meets Satan.

I'm a PRS junkie, with a early solidbody McCarty w/ Duncans and a more recent McCarty Hollowbody II (a DAMN fine guitar!). Both have humbuckers, but the hollowbody has much less output than my Duncans. The amp is pretty quiet, even while cranked. I've got a THD HotPlate to keep the neighbors from calling the feds, so I can really experiment with the different volume settings in the privacy of my living room.

First and foremost, I think this is the best blues amp I've ever played. At low gainsettings, it's almost like there are 3 different clean channels on this amp, and they all have a diferent EQ range and voice. The crunch and lead channels can get get very very distorted and that's a generally a good thing, but the lower gain settings are truly inspiring for blues.

Clean Channel

The clean sound is everything you've ever heard in previous reviews and more. It's the reason I got the amp. Basically, it's got a fender type of clean sound but with EL34 power tubes and oh my god is it loud. Set the gain to 2pm and your pretty much in blues heaven. The mid-boost switch only really sounds good if you have single coil pickups, but then it's awesome. With humbuckers it's just a mud switch.

Crunch Channel

This is the mystery channel to me. I just can't find a bad sound here. It's a great clean channel for blues - think Peter Green in the early 70's. It's so inspirational. On medium gain settings it nails the AC/DC style JCM800 range of tone, but with a slightly tighter low end chunk. On higher gain settings this is pretty much the Gary Moore channel and we all know that's a good thing.

There's a Tone-Shift button that basically scoops the EQ for a Randy Rhoads sort of sound, but I never use it. I use my Boogies for that type of sound. There's a Deep switch that I use a lot, and it seems to bring out a little more definition and low-end chunk on louder settings.

Lead

At low volumes this is an amazing clean channel. Very focused midrange and punch, with extremely articulate dynamics. Great for blues. At about 4oclock it start to roar and get that Marshall sound. At 12 and aboe it just rips, and full out you're in Yngwie shredhead land. The EQ works wonders here, so experiment! I generally find myself upping the mids and dropping the treble as I like a richer lead tone. It's very expressive. The harmonics are just awesome.

The amp seems good but the footswitch sucks. My footswitch has been returned twice and I'm just astounded at the lack of QA. I'm returning it for a third time tomorrow and I'm going to raise some serious hell at GC about it. I'm pissed! In addition, there is no fan and the amp gets pretty toasty when it's cranked. That means lower tube lives and potential problems if it's not periodically maintained.

Poor. I've spoken with the regional manager for Korg - he was supposed to get me the schematics to MIDI control the channel switching and he flaked. There is noone else to contact in the US as Marshall is sold under Korg's corporate nazi flag. The warranty last 5 years, which is good considering my footswitch will still be having problems then I'm sure.

I've been playing far too long (20+ years). I currently have a full MIDI touring rig with Mesa Boogie, TC Electronic, Korg, and Aphex rack units controlled through a couple of expression pedals and a MIDI ground controller. I'm adding the Marshall head to this rig via some intricate MIDI looping to round out the available sounds, and also to have handy in case a random blues gig comes up where I can just grab the head and a 2x12 cab and go. I play mostly instrumental jazz/rock fusion in the vein of Phil Keaggy and Eric Johnson, but love to just crank it up and play Peter Green/Gary Moore inspired blues stuff.
This amp is one of the best sounding amps I've ever played. The only real comparison to me would be the Hughes & Kettner TriAmp head (the Mesa Boogie Nomad doesn't sound quite right to me so I'm not counting it here. Fender hasn't made a really good sounding amp since 1959 so they're out of the running too.).

Pros: The tone and versatility are really really good. The clean and blues sounds are worldclass. Cons: The price is pretty steep for this amp, the maintenance costs will surely be higher due to lower tube life, and the footswitch is really iffy. Customer support doesn't exist.

Very versatile amp. I wont go in to much detail just look at some other reviews. Mine came with the 5-way foot controller. Has plenty of power! You can get all types of distortions and tones out of this baby. I would like to get higher quality tubes for it though.

It is the perfect amp for my eclectic style. I love to play all types of music but especially alternative like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Mr Bungle, Korn & Deftones. You can get all of these types of tones pretty well, especially with a good distortion pedal to boost it a bit. Im a distortion nut and have tons of pedals from the Grunge pedal, big muff I even have a death metal distortion pedal and when using it the amp makes that sound good! The notes really sing from this and have great definition even with the most brutal of distortion pedals which is something ive been looking for! Without the pedals you can get a really good old Van Halen type sound which is way cool! Ive always bought solid state amps but now ill never go back the tube amps are worth it! Im giving it a 9 just because I wish all amps would have more distortion (ive played just about every amp imaginable and will never be satisfied with the distortion)

Havent had any problems with it but I havent had it for too long.

Never had to deal with them.

Ive played for over 15 years and this amp is the best! I love it if I lost it I would have to kill myself! I would like to get some better tubes for it but other than cant complain really. Oh yeah everyone should go buy Mr Bungles CD's, listen to the originators and true geniouses of music today! Any one out there have any cool tricks or settings for this amp from Garth Brooks twang to Slayer death metal email me! I love to find any tone out of my amps just for the heck of it!

This amps got all the bells and whistles,more than I will use but never the less they're there.I just wish someone could make a useable distortion channel.

This is my first marshall.I've been playing through a 5150 Peavey.I am a Paul Reed Smith fan 100%.I wouldn't trade this amp for anything.I have yet to find a amp that has good distortion so I allways play the clean channel with my peddles.I play pretty heavy.I have been trying to emulate that killer crunch you hear in all the big bands and have finally gotten my sound.The other 2 channels are worthless to me which is kind of a bummer.The raw power and awesome clean are all I need.

So far so good.I do own another JCM 2000 for back up but never ever worry about my TSL

Over all the best ever.There's a reason 90% of all big bands use the JCM line.I will allways own a marshall.I've been playing for 28 years and by far Paul Reed & Marshall were a match made in heaven.

lots of bells and whistles others have already listed. LOTS of features

it's not a bad amp, but it's not nearly as fat as I expected! this has been hyped to death. It gets decent distortion at lower volumes, but my WEM dominator (and the clone I built) sound much fatter due to the power tubes being driven. Also, with my les paul, it didn't sound as fat as my JMP.

can't say, but my other marshalls (pre jcm800 with the huge iron) have been very reliable. I've heard the trannies on these can't withstand high volume playing very well. I can't verify this, but my 50 watt jmp has bigger transformers than this tsl.

I didn't buy it. I took it home for a week, and then took it back to the store. I can't justify paying that much for an amp like this. It did make me appreciate my older marshalls more, though. BTW: I played it through a marshall 4x12 slant cab with v30's. I live in an area where I can crank the amp up to 8 or 10 with no complaints. At this volume, my other amps still sound much better. to each his own I guess

3 Channels (clean, crunch, lead), built in power soak (great!!), tone shift, deep switch, etc. Everything I could want in an amp.

I just had to make a comment to some of these people who are bashing the sound quality of this amp. You people are morons!!! God, you piss me off!! I'm reading reviews by people who are just testing it out in the guitar shop or they are admitting that they know nothing about amplifiers. I've owned this amp for 6 months and it just flat out kicks ass!! I play in two bands, one of them being a Metallica tribute band, and it really delivers. I get great, full sounds cranked or at low levels. I get compliments all the time at my gigs on how great this amp sounds. One of the reviews said that it sounded thin at high levels. There must be something wrong with your head because mine sounds great on 8. The clean is great too... much better than the Mesa Boogie Rectifier. This amp suits all of my playing sounds from Metal, Classic Rock, Blues, etc. There is plenty of distortion too. And for anybody who is going to bash this amp because they tested it in a guitar shop, you are not qualified to give an opinion. Just shut the hell up!!!

I had one problem where there was a pinched wire in the head and the distortion cut out on me during a gig. (dooh!). I had it fixed and it was covered by the warranty. No big deal. Other than that, no problems.

Great amp. I can get any sound I want out of it. I've been playing guitar for 10 years and it's the best amp I've owned. I can't even think of something I would improve on it. If you have an oportunity, try this amp out for an extended period of time. There are so many features on this amp that it is impossible not to get the sound you want.