Marshall Lead 12

Picked this up from a friend who was throwing it away...A 12 Watt, Solid State Marshall...1 8" Celestion...Basic controls here...Master Vol and Gain (no f/s)...Direct Out and Headphones...For this type of amp, the features do appear to be adequate.

I just picked this thing up from a friend yesterday...He was tossing it out, and I figured I'd check it out...Though I totally expected it to suck, it really is NOT BAD!!!

I play an Ibanez RG and a Les Paul...Both w/humbuckers...I will say this...For a practice amp, this does have a really good sound...You can kinda get that nice Marshall distortion out of it...Not face-melt distortion, but I wasn't expecting it...Very traditional Marshall mid-range sound...With the direct out, you could run it to a board, maybe for adding a track to a recording or something...Clean sound isn't terrible, and would certainly be fine for practicing...

Just got it yesterday...Looks to be in good shape...My friend had it for a while, so I am going to say it's OK...

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Have been playing (Jeez) 16 years now, gigging out the last 7 years...Have a big-ass Crate full stack and 40 watt Marshall tube combo...Also have had a bunch of little practice amps...

For it's intended purpose, I would say it's a great amp...Seems like it would be great for practicing, and probably not a bad spare to have in the back of the car (running the amp into a board)...I wouldn't make this my first choice if playing a live show, but it certainly seems like something I could have some fun with...

Very basic features, but for the most part, they got the job done. Direct out is a plus, however.

I can't give this category a solid rating.. The amp (using the gain) is crap, in my opinion. You can get good clean sounds if you turn the gain almost all the way down (to "0.5" on the knob) and the volume all the way up. The REAL way to make this amp soar is to hook it up to an overdrive pedal. I use a BC Rich KKV through a Boss SD-1 and the SD-1 TOTALLY brings the amp alive. Gain cranked all the way on the amp, drive/level cranked on the pedal, volume on the amp around 2, hell yes. I love this amp now, it's a monster for such a small sized amp.

Never had any problems with this amp, it's most likely quite old, I've only owned it for a bit over a year.

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This amp gets a 10 if combined with some form of an overdrive pedal, 5 by itself. I would definitely try and get another one of these, it's the ultimate practice amp, and would even be good for gigging under the proper condition!

Master volume, Gain, Middle, High, Bass. One channel, no effects loop. Does have headphone jack. I wish it had an effects loop. This is a 12-watt amp with a 10" Celestion speaker. Classic Marshall cabinet look. 12 watts is good enough for practicing at home, which is all I do anymore anyway. Not sure if it would be loud enough to keep up with a drummer though.

This amp has nearly identical tone to my old JCM-800 head that I had back in the 1980s. It's amazing that it's a solid state amp. I'm using an Ibanez guitar with a Seymour Duncan Distortion pickup, and the combination of that pickup and this amp makes for an excellent Marshall rhythm crunch with a good bite on leads. This is the best solid state amp tone I've heard.

I've only had this amp a few days, but it's very old--looks to be from the early 1980s. It works great, so that tells me it's pretty reliable.

Haven't ever dealt with Marshall customer support.

Wonderful amp--if I were gigging, I'd probably run this through a power amp or mic it through the PA. Definitely can't get any better tone than this thing!

Very Basic Gain, Volume, Treble, Middle 'n Bass Job. but who needs all that extra stuff anyway! Thats what Pedals are for right?
But it DOES have a headphone jack in the back.

Although basic on the features this amp sounds amazingly good! If you crank it all the way up it still performs like rabbit on steriods which is always a good thing.
I play Death Metal and plain rock and the amp does the job for both styles. Having it clean is a no no though but lifes too short to spend playing lovely country songs!

My amp was originaly owned by my bro inlaw and he took it everywhere to all his gigs. and in the 15 years gone by he stored it in the attic for god knows how long and when i came to buying it off him it still worked like the day it was bought.
Thats one tough amp dude!

With this amp you wont need customer support anyway

Brilliant!

Has minimal features. Is minimal all around. Who needs stereo chorus, reverb, and a cuppocino machine in an amp anyhow...all that stuff is on my rack in numbers too great to be counted.

Sound best withe every knob on 10---no kidding. How brutal is the distortion? That is pretty subjective. It's a smooth non-square distortion I guess. I like the sound of my big muff into the amp, which is set clean. I have way too many outboard effect options now to give a toss. If you want cleanliness, avoid this one. It has too little power to get nice clean sounds at any volume.

It's a toy, but a marshall toy. It is built like a '32 dodge.

Customer Support? If it breaks, I fix it myself. Do I call Mattel when my barbie doll's head falls off? I think not.

It's good. I'm gonna give it to my neice when she turns 6. She likes music. She will be cool, being the only little girl in town with her own marshall stack LOL LOL. I haven't yet thrown mine at any old ladies, but might one day. I like it but need more serious wattage. I'm trying to talk the guy I traded with to swap back. It's a very nice little amp, though. I didn't realize it was 15-20 years old. I thought it was a lot newer. Mine looks pretty new. It's signed by all the techs that worked on it inside. I saw a photo of one in the UK with cherry red vinyl with black grille clothe...now that looked DOPE!

MODEL: Lead12 5005, SOLID-STATE, Combo/Practice-Amplifier
EQ= Trebal, Mid, Bass
INPUT=(x2) High(Full-drive)/Low(half-drive)
GAIN(x2)=Gain(Pre)/Volume(Post)
OUTPUT=Headphone/Line(Quarter-Inch,Stereo,TRS)
SPEAKER=10-INCH "CELESTIAN G10-20"(paper-cone/15-Ohm)
CABINET=Wood/OPEN-BACK(Black-Canvass Grill-Cloth)
POWER-OUTPUT=12-Watt-RMS/8-Ohm?
POWER-CONSUMPTION=120V 40/60Hz~35VA
FROM=England/United-Kingdom(UK)/Britton/Europe (CELESTIAN too!)
YEAR=1985-1988
COMPONENTS=Power-Transistors:"Motorola MJ3001/MJ2501"
..........Preamp-Transistors:PNP/NPN(x3) Mu184, BC212
..........PC-BOARD:Green with COPPER
..........Diode:Zener
..........Rectifier?:W005M
..........Heat-Sinks:x2(Vented/Fringed)
..........Preamp-IC-Chip/Op-Amp:"TEXAS-INSTRUMENTS MC1458P"(w/socket)
..........Resistors:27 (23x=Quater-Watt)(4x=Power-Resistors)
..........Capacitors:19 (6x=Electrolytic/Polorized)
..........Potentiometers:6 (1x=trimmer-BIAS?)
..........Jacks:3 (Quarter-Inch/Phone-Plug-Jacks) (1x=Stereo/TRS)
..........Fuse:500mA/120V
..........Transformer: DE 14942C
..........Switch: ON/OFF, RED-NEON-LAMP
..........Chasis: Golden-BRASS 10-20AWG
Did I bore you with it's simplicity of design?

CLEAN= Breaks up with about half-headroom NOT FOR USE WITH PEDALS!
DISTORTION= Sort-of-cool, sort-of-CALIFORNIA!, a little transparent,
& somewhat crunchy!...It also sounds a tad bit hissy
like the PREAMP'S OP-AMP/IC-CHIP is DYING!

VOLUME= Not-that-loud or stable, I have something wrong with mine!
SPEAKER="CELESTIAN model:G10-20" Paper-Cone sounds TEBALLY & BASSY
very Early-1980's-PUNK like "BLACK-FLAG"/"BAD RELIGION"/
and 1970's-MisFiTs!(CRUNCHY and SHARP 6KHz-PEAK!)

BUILT-LIKE-A-TANK!
I just use this for the COOL: OPEN-BACK-CABINET&"CELESTIAN" as my
RECORDING-CABINET!(I took out the AMP-Chasis!)

This is a true english made marshall lead 12 combo from the 80's with a tweed color grill cloth and celestion 8" speaker. Marshall EQ's are my favorite, so no complaints there. Great line in/headphone feature. Gain sounds like a marshall. No reverb, which is a bummer. I made up for it by finding a dirt cheap analog delay pedal, when mixed properly adds that depth.

I play a Telecaster with a seymour duncan little 59 humbucker bridge pickup. I have wasted so much money on big amps over the years - but never even once considered selling this thing. Mine's pretty beat, and usually sounds like it is about to explode - which is awesome! It is the dirtiest sounding amp i've ever heard. I gave up on useless big stack amps a while ago. I choose little amps like this because you get to crank the shit out them, and put a mic in front of it for gigs (or rehearsal). What a waste buying a 100+ watt amp that the minute you play a show with, the soundman turns to 1 and mics it. I want the sound of an amp cranked. I love this thing - mine sounds like Angus Young on steroids.

Mine is beat to hell and must have an electrical short in it somewhere because often times I have to kick it or move it to get power to it - but I wouldn't fix it for anything cause I think that is all part of it delivering such a dirty sound. It's solid state so you can blast it and not worry.

Never dealt with them. But other reviewers say they immediately respond - which is all you can ask for.

The absolute best sounding small amp i've ever heard. Sure - alot of those old small fender tube amps are cool........but if you crank them, they will explode often. Trust me. If you find one of these from the 80's with some character and miles on it - and you play hard rock - buy it. You won't regret it.

This little amp is made in 88, it has a high and a low input (a/b) and you can play it with 2 guitars.
its a 12 watt 8 Ohm Solidstate amp with serial number WO6356 and it has got a 10 inch Celestion G10D-25 speaker inside
the only thing i mis is a reverb unit but it sounds great anyway.

I use it with my fender stratocaster and with my gibson les paul studio and i LOVE the sound of this little monster.
It goes from clean to high gain real nice. the i bought it from told me that the cleans sound just like those old AC30s but i touhgt it was a sales talk, but it wasnt, this is thge best small SS amp i ever heard !!

i bought it for when i go to jam with my band at one of the guys houses so i didnt have to drag my marshall fullstack around all the time.
And to tell you the truth, i actually liek the cleans on this little amp better than on my JCM600+1960AX

well its from 88 and looks rather used but i opened it up and it looks perfect to me, works great, even then i putt all the knobs on 10 it works great.

i mailed marshall with the serial numeber and the next day i got a mail with al the specs and the original handbook, hows that for service. REALLY REALLY nice people over there

GREAT little amp, i really really like it !!!

Real English solid state practise amp (not Indian or Korea, like now modern MG and AVT), 198x made. Seletion 25 on it, 15W power amp. Hi/Lo input, Gane, Level, Teble-Mid-Bass, Line out and Phones in one smart jack. Single channel. No reverb, no channel switch - very simple, it`s good for 80`th, but not enough for now. Amp has smart phones jack: when jack plugged depp into socket, you have line out, and if you a little bit pull jack back, you have headphones out with unplugged speaker - funny system.

I use Washburn cs780 (Korea) with it, and sound pretty good, clear and "classic marshall". This amp Ok for blues and rock, but for trash or metall you need a external distortion pedal. Clean sound is realy clean, and overdriven sound is normally overdriven. Very good sound for 10" practise combo!

It was made approx 15 years ago, and it still work!!! No damage, no noised capasitors, no noised knobs - incredible reliability. I naw, that is combo often used in gigs, not "home use amp"

Never, because no need.

I`ve beeen playing for 8 years, and this amp good for me at my home for practise. I chose this amp over from all other amps with 8" speaker, like Marshall MG15, Crate 15, Laney HCM15 and etc., because 8" sound is so cheaper, little, not serious. Why my opinion is 9? I think, balance between "gane" and "level" knobs could be more delicate: when gane in the range 1-9 you have clean and low sound, but in the range 9-10 you directly have _loud_ crunch. It`s not so good for home use and I need constantly balansed between this two knobs.

great little amp, i owned one during my "spending" phase, late @80's and really liked it but like everything then, i traded it for something "newer". Not at all fancy, no reverb, ect., but for 12 watts, LOUD!

simple sounds, great for fx through it, just have gain on 1, vol on full

i miked my last one up at a gig at The Rising Sun, '87, great sound but prefer a big amp for gigs

Marshall have on the couple of occasions i have dealt with them been fab

Really glad to have found another one, I wont sell this one so quickly!