Marshall MG-10

Great features for a small practice amp. Its got 2 channels. A CD input and earphone output. What more can you want from a $70.00 practice amp

I am using a Les Paul and a Fender Strat with a tube screamer. FOR THOSE IDIOTS WHO GAVE IT A BAD SOUND RATING. HERE IS SOME ADVICE. GET A GUITAR WITH GOOD PICKUPS BEFORE YOU JUDGE. A SQUIER STRAT AND EPIPHONE LES PAUL WILL SOUND CRAPPY ON ANY AMP.




Sounds great. Its as thin sounding as a 6 inch speaker should be, but it is fun to play and great to practice with. You can still get good crunch and reasonable warmth, which is amazing, given the fact that it is a 10 watt transistor practice amp.

Have not had it long enough to judge relaibility. But it is a Marshall and it is transistor, so I will guess its pretty good.

Have npot dealt with the comapny yet.

I have played guitar for over 25 years. I moved into a house where I built a studio room just for me to play and record. I needed something small and lower volume for practicing because I am expecting a baby. THis amp was perfect. It was the best practice amp I could find.

Got this amp brand new, for Christmas 2002. The MG10CD has 1 guitar input, clean channel volume, button to switch channels, Overdrive channel gain knob, overdrive channel volume knob, contour knob, cd input, and headphone out(big jack like a regular cord, not regular headphones ones). This is is great for me, I got a Fender Pro Reverb(vintage 1980!) from my Grampa, that thing is amazing, but i found it kind of annoying to have to plug it in and wait a minute for it to warm up everytime I wanted to play, and there was no distortion on it(lettin my little bro use it for his guitar now). So, most of the time I was just playing my guitar without the amp. So, for Christmas, I asked for a little practice amp so I could play with some distortion. I got this, and was amazed. This thing is friggin crazy!!!!!! It's VERY loud on the overdrive, and super clear even with my crappy Ibanez pickups.

Currently, I own and Ibanez GSA20, hey what can I say, It is my first guitar. The pickups kind of suck, but they get the job done.
For music, I play all sorts of stuff. I really like playin Pink Floyd and Van Halen(Eddie Rocks!!!!!). But I also enjoy some Millencolin, AC/DC, Boston, and of course PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON!!!!!!! This little amp does ok covering up this pile, the distortion goes way higher than you ever would put it, but its not the easiest to coax some of these sounds out of it. The countour knob is quite interesting, when I start gettin a little bored with a sound I just move this knob a little and it changes the sound all up, its great!

I've only had it for exactly 14 days now, no problems. I've only played guitar since the end of June, so about 6 months, so I wouldn't take it on a gig since there are no gigs! I'm not giving this little beast a rating here since I really haven't put it through anything.

I haven't done anything with Marshall, though I don't care for their website too much :). I'm not sure how long the warranty is. Again, no rating.

I also got a Digitech Genesis 1 for Xmas, you don't need it a whole lot when playing with this but it is a lot of fun too, for 100 bucks. This amp honestly seems almost as loud as the Pro Reverb, doesn't have the "tubey" clarity but it definitely has all the Marshall crunch that I'll need! I would definitely buy another if some idiot stole it, or maybe spend some more for that cool little Marshall Lead 15 mini Stack(I dunno, that just looks suweet). When I was deciding which one I wanted for X-Mas, I looked at this and the Fender Frontman 10 and 15. I went with this because distortion is just so cool!!! If you're in the market for this thing, go for it, you won't look back!!!!!!!!

Made in England.
I like playing
classic rock and some punk.

I use an Epi LP special II. Sounds cleanspecially when
cranked up to full level. It doesn't sound like the speaker
would blow up even on the max level. Distortion is brutal and
clean is super sweet.

I wouldn't use it for a big gig but I would definitely use it for a party.

n/a

Hands down a ten for a beggining
or even an intermediate playing
level amp.

I bought the MG-10cd it was 70 bucks at guitar center....
input..vol....gain...vol....contour...cd in....headphone out...
are the featires included....
I live in an apt and this little amp is more than loud enough to disturb neighbors

While is doesnt have the presence of a marshall half stack with 100 watt head..It does get quite nice sound at high levels ..With contour and gain u can go from crisp cleans of country to the hardest metal riffs...This thing distorts more than is even needed!

its a marshall...they just dont really break if there solid state...and if there tube then thats all that goes out in them....

wouldnt know never had a marshall break down on me....

i have been playing of and on now for about 7 years..mostly garage band stuff but i do enjoy my solo projects as well...We lay sound tracks to surf movies we take of ourselves(the group that is)

Yr 2002 perhaps this is MK3 -- it seems much better than the old reviews I have read! I just tried one of these in a store after trying some big tube amps - and it sounded great. I just whack the volume upto full as the store was noisey, thinking I would not hear it -- man was I wrong. A guy over the way jumped out of his seat (and he was hooked into a big Marshall tube amp). Very simple controls -- I think, volume, gain and and overdrive button (don't recall if there was a tone control). Simple is fine for this category. [It may have had a headphone jack and/or CD input I can't recall - darn it].

2002 model sounded great to me -- love the overdrive. Plenty of distortion for classic/hard rock. (Everybody does good clean these days - and never a problem for solid state amps). Could do decent blues too. Surprisingly loud when turned up full -- I made a grown man jump in a loud guitar store jump when I plugged in -- wow! I thought the speaker might be a problem -- but sounded perfectly fine. I seems silly giving a cheap amp like this a 10 -- but it sounded really great to me -- I could imagine recording with this (hey don't laugh - Jimmy Page sometimes used small tube practice amps for recording)!

Probably excellent -- it is solid state. I have a G15RCD for 2 years no problem.

You won't need. Return it to the store if you do.

On sale in guitar center now for $60 (down from $99 SRP)!! Stick one on your book-shelf (it is very compact). Perfect first amp (if you don't want to pay $120 for the execellent G15RCD), perfect bedroom amp. Just wonderful. [I think it had a headphone socket (I don't recall) -- you should check, that can sometimes be an important feature in a home/appartment environment.]

I use it to practice. One gain volume, one presence, one volume, one button for boost, That's it. How need more with this kind of amp?

When a strat is plug directly in the, you can get clean sound and dirty sound as well, limited but the sound is there. Not bad for a little baby amp, but it became fascinating when you crank the with an pream (like a Dynachord Echochord super; 6 X ECC83) You get all the harmonics and tones (almost, a 6 inch speaker is limited) that you need to play what you want. I still amazed by the sound of this little amp.

Still in one piece after many hours of practice with big boost

Did'nt need it yet.

Just one thing is missing on this amp...a CD connector. That would make a great little practice amp.

Very few features. Gain, contour and a nice 'boost' button.

Currrently using with a Squier Strat (hahaha), single coil. Suits my style fine, but then I'm mainly a punk rock player. Distortion is brutal. Very little variety.

Build-wise, it's indestructible. For the first few months I never had any problems with it, but the the volume control pot started making a really nasty hissing noise when I turned it, something that can be temporarily cured by rapidly turning the knob.

Never had to deal with them, and it's so simple you can repair it yourself if anything goes wrong.

If it got stolen or lost, I'd probably write a thank you note to the guy...no, it's my first amp and it's just fine for those purposes, but I got so annoyed with the sound of it I wired in a pair of 8-watt speakers just to get into the really high frequencies. I doubt there is anything better available at the price though, and at least you're buying from a reliable name.

Made in 2000 in Korea. 10 watts into a 6" speaker (8 Ohms). Boost switch, Gain control, Contour control which sweeps the mid band, Master volume, Headphone input.
Desperately needs a bass and treble control (like the MG-15). It's not very "flexible" without them. The "contour" knob is useless.
The 10 watts is plenty for a practice amp. I kept it at 1/4 volume and that was pretty loud. It was hard to tell how distorted it got at high volumes, because the amp is pretty dirty-sounding all the time.
The amp is pretty small and light, so it doesn't take up much space and it'd be easy to haul around.

(for anyone else looking at this amp, check out the "PARK" section of amps here at Harmony-Central for reviews of this amp under the Park
MG-10 name)
I've only been playing for about a month, so keep that in mind.
My guitar is an Epiphone SG Special with 2 humbuckers. On a good clean amp, my Epi SG sounds suprisingly Rickenbacker-like (I'm serious!). I go for a bluesy-rock British sound, like Noel Gallagher (OASIS) or John Squire (STONE ROSES/SEAHORSES) or a sleaze-rock sound like GNR, LIT, or Everclear, with light to medium-Marshall distortion.
The amp sure has a hell of a lot of distortion and that's muddy distortion. Even on the "clean" settings, it sounded muddy. That might be the fault of the Epi's cheap pickups (fairly microphonic). Hitting individual strings sounded fairly clear, but play a few chords, and you'll get a dirty, mushy sound from the amp. It's pretty usesless for my chord-work, because I could barely distinguish between them with the muddy sound. It just settles in the mid-range, no real bass and absolutely no high-treble.
That's not to say it sounds "bad", it's pretty gritty, more suited to heavy-metal, hard-rock. The tone is "OK", but it just becomes a big mess of noise and everything blends together. If you've got a good Strat, you can get a great Hendrix-tone out of this. With my Epi, and the gain cranked to the max, it was pretty fun. Single-coil P'UPs or something similar would likely no yield a nice sound. I'd love to hear a Danelectro hooked-up to this amp, it'd be a weird combo, but the amp's distortion would sound cool with some clean, high-pitched pickups. But other than that, at least with my guitar, it's mud-city.
If the amp had more tone controls (it NEEDS A TREBLE) and better speaker, it might sound better clean. As is, this thing is too heavy for my tastes. Not Versatile.

No problems while I had it. I returned it; now I'm looking at a Vox Pathfinder for something cleaner. The MG-10 amp is solidly put together with good firm controls. The logo and mesh were nice and thick, and it's got thick-corner protectors. After an hour of hard-playing, it was still cool. It'd probably last a long-time.

PLEASE TRY THIS AMP OUT BEFORE YOU BUY IT!!!
I was going to get the amp from ZZounds or Musicians Friend (both are great), but it was out of stock, so I got it at ON CUE (national music chain).
For my kind of pratice, the MG-10 just won't cut it, it's just got too much distortion for me. But if you like Grunge,Hard-Rock, or Metal and have a quality quitar you'll probably enjoy it. Take your guitar to the store and try this one out first. I'm not going to leave an overall rating, since I got rid of the amp, but I hope this helps anyone looking at this little Marshall.