Marshall VS2000 AVT50 112 Combo

Made in 2000 hence the name 'Valvestate 2000'.Nice amp and loud for the price.

Using a Fender Highway 1 Strat through a crybaby into this.It sounds amazing.I thought it sounded good at bedroom,I got quite a shock when I cranked it.I play mainly Chili's style funk rock and some classic rock. perfect for the Frusciante,Clapton,Gilmour sound but can get really distorted for metal.

Would gig without a backup i can definately depend on it.

this amp is the $%^& fullstop

You should know them by now, im very happy with it all

This is where i was quite disappointed - i have owned the MG marshall 50 watt for many years and decided to upgrade to the valvestate just for a different sound

clean - i do not understand why clean with the gain around half way and volume 3/4 of the way up sounds about as loud as the overdrive channel not even half way. I was planning on using a metal zone for distortion (i just like the sound!) and there is no way it will be loud enough in a band situation

Overdrive - Goes very loud compared to clean channel and could cope in a rehearsal/live situation easily. I'm not a huge fan of the sound but luckily i have an overdrive stompbox which i use as a clean boost when practicing and it makes it sound HEAPS better alot more drive obviously. This is how zakk wylde uses his overdrive pedal.

Overall though i really do like this amp after a quite a few adjustments, it just lacks a bit of balls...

I havnt owned it for long enough to know but it seems very well built and marshalls last forever

no idea!

I play an epiphone flying V with a seymour duncan JB in the bridge and have been playing for 8 years. I was expecting a bit more from this amp but with that said it is still a very nice sound with the right adjustments. The only thing bad about it is the lack of volume on the clean channel as my MG 50 watt went quite alot louder when clean which suprised me

I think this has all been covered before.

Overdrive- Fantastic for all the classic rock tones. I mainly use a Gibbo Les Paul with HB's & the sound is brilliant.
Clean- This channel is designed to break up above half volume & when it does it is one of the sweetest blues sounds you will ever hear.
This is the main point I want to make here. Some people obviously don't understand what Marshall amps sound like. They sound like Marshall amps!!which is good old"Classic Rock" tones. If you want Crystal clear cleans or fizzy overdriven death metal tones buy something else (Fender or Crate etc )it's not as if there isn't much choice. You don't go out & buy a Fridge & expect it to wash the dishes....You buy a bloody Dishwasher!!! Get my drift. This amp is more than capable of producing killer Marshall tones for reasonable money. Know the sound you want & buy it...Don't slag off one you don't understand !!!

Personally have never had any problems with any Marshall product.But i realise some do.

I have dealt with them a few times. Real advice not answering machines.

I have been playing 36 years & 15 as a pro.
If you love the Marshall sound & want something portable & not too expensive the AVT range is for you & to my ears the 50 sounds better than the 100.I have owned both.The pre amp valve really brings the sound alive. No it's not a JCM 800 but for the money it's spot on.

Amp was bought used in 2003 while on a major US tour opening for a world renowned band. My main modeling amp crapped out somewhere in Milwaukee and I had 2 hours before showtime. I was whisked to a used guitar store where I was going to have to buy any amp I could find and hope for the best. Found this one in a corner for about 300 bucks, and they threw in a Crybaby wah-wah pedal. Best amp purchase I ever made. It gets every sound I ever wanted with my Pauls and Strats, from pure bluesy clean to metal crunch, and never any need for any distortion pedals at all. Perfect Marshall sound in a small box. I played many a large venue with this thing on that tour (all the House Of Blues venues, Irving Plaza, Key Club, etc, all sold out shows) and this amp rocked every one of them. I got *&^%$#@ lucky when I found it.

Using mainly a LP Custom with EMG's - basic Zakk Wylde setup. Play both Industrial metal and garage type punky rock, perfect for both. Also great with country and blues based music - you can't go wrong with this amp.

Totally dependable. Bought it used from a rinky dink store I never heard of and never had an issue.

Never dealt with them.

I've owned them all over the 25 years I have been playing (1980's JCM 800 which I still own and love, JCM 900, ADA MP1, ADA MP2, GK boxes back in the 80's, Hughes & Kettner) I am a better player now than 20 years ago, and I can truly appreciate this amp's versatility and sound.

My AVT-50 was made in 2002. The amp's features have been well documented already. 41-pound, 1 X 12 combo with clean and overdrive channels. 50 watts into 4 ohms. Has the Celestion AVT speaker with that rather small magnet. Spring reverb via an Accutronics tank mounted on the side of the cabinet, inside the speaker compartment. Just one but well-utilized 12AX7 tube in the preamp.

I play blues and old rock, using a Les Paul, Yamaha SGV 800, and a Hwy. One Tele. Overall tones of the amp are excellent. Does the classic sweet 'n' snarly, and roaring, Marshall sounds we all love. That one 12AX7 tube really colors the sound. Careful use of the dirt channel's gain knob will carry you from blues to rock to Black Sabbath to nu metal. Clean channel's tones are not as detailed as, say, a blackface Fender's, but they're nice, and very useable. The amp loves my Lester's humbuckers and the P-90 type pickups of my Yamaha. My Tele, however, sounds only OK. Maybe hotter Fender single-coil pickups would sound better. After buying the amp, I replaced the dinky original factory 12AX7 with a higher-quality Electro-Harmonix one, and changed out the speaker for a Jensen Neo 100, and the tones got even better, plus the amp got a little louder.

Had it a month, no problems. I've played out with it in a bunch of club jams too. Again, no problems(knock on wood). It's well-built overall, but I wouldn't do something like let it bump around in the back of a van.

I've never contacted them. I like that they have a ton of manuals available for download at their website.

Been playing 20 years, with roughly 4 years' worth of stage time via jams and sit-ins. Overall, it's a really cool alternative to an all-tube amp. Holds its own tonally with a lot of the old Fender amps I encounter at the jams I go to, especially when you dial it in with an astute ear(I use a house guitarist's sweet late-'50s Bassman at one jam as a sort of tone template). I wish the clean channel had a midrange control, but that's no big deal.

2 ch/ tube preamp/ ss power hybird/fx loop/50 watt/ 1-12/foot switch for changing ch./reverb etc. wanted a simple small portable amp that could sound marshallly but also bluesy and tube like without bringing ANY efx. was thinking of a spyder line 6 but this was cheaper and did the job well.50 watts ss. is not the loudest amp but it blew away the compairable amps I tried and my criteria for loudness is, does it have enough volume to cope with a good drummer ( not a friggin basher ). and in this respect it did,with room to spare Good job Marshall. I play Blues and Just about anything except Bebop Jazz, although Ive learned Lenny by SRV and this amp does a fair job at clean. Its not an every thing amp but does the rock thing exceptionally well. And I do like the reverb but I can't really tell why it just sounds right.

I mostly play this out at practices and I use a mex fat strat and a studio les paul and a takimine G530 elec/acous Yes it sounds great with the acoustic, The single coils are some what noisey and if you want sparkly clean look to a fender (or my favorite a crate club 50) That doesn't mean that it is very noisey just not what I'd care to gig with or take to a recording studio, The meat of this amp lies in the creamy distortion and the feel it gives when soloing, They hit the JCM sound and compression of a totally topped out tube amp right on the head . In fact the first time I played this amp I instintly fell in love with the solo sound. Absolutly stunning for this price you can get the real deal sound of a cranked marshall. Mind you that is with the paul in the bridge position with the treble on the amp at 7,mid at 4,bass at 7, it gives bite when attacked and smooths up when played lightly just what a good tube amp does. For most songs I just leave it alone and control the tone from the Gtr. nice. I pefer my reverb at 5 to 6 max and it sounds good, not stunning but good. The strange thing is when we do eagles songs with the acoustic I only need to crank the amp to @ 6 on the clean channel and that is way loud enough,The takimine must have a powerfull preamp thats all I can say. In a world of mediocratie and passable but not great sound its rare that I'm happy with an amp of lower price and this is why I give this a 10,and I'm verrrrry fussy about sound.

Well some like marshall and some don't I have nothing to falt them with ever. My friends have them and played them for years.
If it walks like a duck........ so here you have, it I've owned this for 8 months and nothing but good ol', so I hope it keeps up< I'm not very rough with my equiptment in fact if I am reincarnated as an amp I hope I would own me, Hey money is hard to come by and if you treat your stuff hard don't come beggin to me, I like to keep my stuff newish at all times even if its old and yes even the crappy sounding stuff you never know when the road show will auction off a teisco or wem guild copy cat.
Yes I'd use this on a gig. I just happen to love my other amps better for live, but they are much more expensive and powerful and that is not what I bought it for.

I hope they are as nice as the Peavey or fender co. couse they have been great but as of now I have not had to speak to them.

Been playing my whole life ,Drums then tuba then Arco bass(thats with a bow kiddies) then elec. bass then Guitar and that was June of 76 when I bought a Pat Metheny guild D40FCE which is still my favorite acoustic (Droooollll Wrorthy for shore)
I own way too much gear and now own a studio of my own but some nuggets are 24 electrics,8 streel strings 2 nylon strings, a glen cambell 12 string , deering banjo, guitar synths and 4 pedal boards (cause I love them thats why ,now your begining to sound like my wife),Crate vintage 50 head, Peavey costom 50 -2-12 .GK 250ML, GK 210,Yamaha JX50, Roland super chorus,Lexiconsignature and 2-10 cab,fender Deville and SFX amps and a cosiderable Pa for the synths,28 pedals and a loop station,WHEW!! I try to cover all the usual suspects as far as equiptment. Don't have any boutique amps ,I've played them and sorry I don't under stand all the fuss, I've got lots of gtr friends and none of them have them eather looks like its marketing hype to me!!!!
nuff about me, This amp Has heart and guts and power and versitility,IT excels at Rock with a minor in blues it will gig and is fairly reliable (Ibought it used and its 2 years old already and I play it loud 3X a week for 4 hours straight) Its not the perfect amp but none are, they are just like ax's, some are great at somethings and so so at otheres. I find it thrilling that I don't have to fuss with it and it serves the common good with aplom. You want that marshall sound and have a dual humbuckin ax GO FOR IT its cheap enough, Thank you.

2 channel,fifty watt tube hybrid with gain and volume,bass,mid,(on distortion channel),treble and reverb through a 12-inch speaker all manufactured in '04 using '03 parts. seems this and the guts settling down in the parts bin before installion adds up to REAL SOUND. built solid enough for average use, even though some have been booted clean acrost stages or crashed down stairs onto concrete floors...

i believe the range of a speaker for musical instruments is different than the range on a good high-fidelity home audio system. When I listen to the sounds of some of the original electric guitar players from the 1950's thru the early 1960's, this AVT50 has the same tonal qualities I hear coming off of those recordings. This paticular '04 model has that great, original sound that is the starting point with Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy or some riffing behind a doo-wop band (check out 'Each Night'from 1958 by Rochelle and the Candles),to what Jimi Hendrix was doing in 1970 and where these kinds of sounds can go beyond. A good solid sound foundation.

Had a Marshall 8020 for 11 years - worked great and sounded better the older it got. Pots got scratchy - though that's a maintanence item there.

Never spoke with them, but the British seem very down to earth, if that's who you speak with for support/repair/maintenance.

been making a few sounds on guitar and listening since I was seven or so.Have been using the amplifier with an '04 black Stratocaster for only two months now, just like the old rig.This amp produces that big,professional sound when used with a nice, resonant electric guitar If lifted, I hope i could find the poor bugger so i could use my Mr. Eko whoopin' stick on 'em. Been wantin' to try that thing out... peace - and keep on playin'.

Avt 50 is a 50 watt amp with 1 valve in preamp.The knobs are:
clean(gain,volume,bass,treble),overdrive(gain, volume, bass, middle, treble),reverb depth.
It has a cd input which i will never use, a serial effect loop, headphone out(ehich is important for me).
I usually play rock,grunge and i play metal solos.This amp is enough for me, i don't need more features.It would be better if it had a middle knob for clean channel bu it's not so important.It doesn't have dfx which i already don't need.I give this 8, because it's enough for me but more features would be ok :)

I have an American Fender Ultra which has ssh lace sensor pickups. I usually use the humbucker in the bridge single mode (it has a switch which lets me choose which single (or both) to use).Actually i didn't expect this but clean tones are really satisfying. Overdrive is already very good.I'm so happy to play with it.It makes me feel good, it makes me play.
The clean channel is distorted at high volumes, if you want a pure clean channel, don't buy this amp...
Distortion is not a metal distortion, it's a soft, nice, good one which has a great sustain.

I bought this amp three days ago, i've got a fender ultra and some analog pedals which i don't use since i bought this amp.The sound of amp is very nice, i don't wanna change it using pedals.
if it were stolen or lost i would like to buy the same amp.
I love its tones, i love the reverb, i hate the sound that it makes when you change the channel (from distortion to clean) without muting your guitar(i'm not sure if it's the right word but it pops).
But this popping is not a great problem, because i already mute my guitar while changing channel, i don't need a sustaining note to be distorted at first and then clean...
I compared it to mg 100, avt 100 and it's better than both of them.I know that these have more features but i don't need dfx.Mg 100's sound is worse than avt 50, and avt 100 is not much better than avt 50.As i don't need the features of avt 100 (and as i liked the distortion tones of avt 50 more that avt100's) i bought avt50.I'm very happy. :)

2001/2002 Marshall, made in Great Britan, yadda yadda yadda. Typical features for a Marshall.

I play whatever strikes me at the moment. Jazz, blues, rock, even a bit of funck and country now and then. I am extremely disapointed in the overall sound of this amp.

This amp hates single coils. I've tried it with an Aria Pro with EMG SA's, and an 89 in the bridge, a Ibanez EX1500, an Ibanez Rooadstar Pro540R, and a Penco Les Paul copy.

Clean, the amp sounds ok. The tone is present, the bass and treble control functions as they should, and the reverb works. But as you bring the volume up, it starts to distort. OK, distortion is nice, but I want a CLEAN channel!

Channel 2 gives you the distortion, with the 3 band eq to talior it to your liking. Not mine however. Brittle, with some tone, it lacks the warmth I demand from an amp. To be honest, the Penco, with it's original neck peckup, and an 80's Duncan in the bridge, really loved this amp. Typical Slash/ Page kind of sounds, which, if I was a teen again, I would love. I'm not a teen anymore.

A annoying thing about this amp is that when using the effects loop, the gain controls affect the input of the effect. As you increase the gain, the effect starts to clip and distort. Not a good thing. A seperate control for the effect loop would have been a nice feature.

I found this amp in the trash. Literally! The ground plane was broken, and required 15 minutes with a soldering iron to bring it back to life. I should have left it to die.
I wouldn't use this amp in a gigging situation. PERIOD! Not because of reliability, I just hate the sound of it.

Support was great! I spoke to a human, and he was helpful. Great job!!

I'm going to dump this amp as soon as my local shop opens tomorrow. It's not that it's a bad amp in general, but I just don't like it what-so-ever.
I have a Marlboro 20 watt transi amp, a 66 Estey 9 watt tubber, and an Oliver 35 watt tuber, aanmd they all have more tone and soul than this thing.

Please people, don't buy an amp because of the name. Lose the sheep mentallity that fills the world. Buy an amp that sound like YOU, not like (insert guitar player flavor of the month here.)

The extra features are useful like the CD imput and the headphone output, i really wished it had a presense control to crisp up the tone, the Clean also lack a mid control which is needed to give the tone the blusey jazzy bump. However the simplicity makes it really easy to use, just adjust a few knobs and then u have decent tone, as opposed to other more sophiticated amplifers.

I used to use single coils on a strat into the avt and the overdrive was just too weak for single coils, so I put a JB jr.on the bridge and it sounded much better the hi-gain truely felt like a hi-gain all tube amp at lower volumes with humbuckers, though not the best hi-gain it was still much better than any other solid state amp. I could get the saturated plam mutes with the gain at 7 and a little fizzier tone with the gain at 10, its can get pretty heavy with bass all the way up and mids cut off but nowhere close to a mesa boogie rec or mode4, however i play demand hardcore and black metal tone and its not fizzy enough for me, but for heavy metal clasic metal, punk, and stuff it does the job quite well. It gives an alright bright crunch with gain 8-10 and bas up to 8, mids 0, and treble 10. The overdrive is good at low volumes however when it gets cranked past 4 it tends to overcompress and be less pleasing to the ear as well as less crunchy becuase the compresion slows down the breakup, a typical trait of any other solid state amp. However the leads tones at hi-gain were imppresive for any solid state, in fact I thought it was better than a lot of tube amps, the preamp ECC83 preamp really makes a difference here, the tone was very fluid and rich becuase of the increased compression, as well as giving off awesome harmonics.
Plugin the single coils into the clean provided decent headroom however with the hot humbuckers if you turned the gain past 3 it would start to crunch up, typical of most Marshall tube amps. The clean sounds really good with lots of reverb a very classic sound. Using neck pickups and turning the bass up and treble down gave a fat clean jazz tone, cranking up the gain gave it a rich bluesy creamy tone. With the gain up to 4-6 its crunches up and gives a very rich vintagy classic rock tone just like a classic marshall. The clean sounds good, but if it had a middle control as well as a presence it would be much better.
Over all, quite decent, offering a very wide variety of tones through a simple easy to use panel. impressive for any solidstate amp, however it's nothing tonally compared a jcm2000 DSL head, or 5150, in terms of hi-gain bright, super crunchy, fizzy hi-gain tone tone.

I haven't experinced any problems, I've treated it under normal conditions and its proven to be very road worthly amp. You can definitly take it all over the place and it won't flake on you, it always works perfectly fine. It requires no maintenace.

It been perfectly reliable so i've never had to use customer support. It has the 5 year marshall limited warranty.

Ive been playing for 2.5 years(pretty good for that little amount of time, i can jam up with much more expereinced guitarists), i wouldn't buy another one if it was stolen but id be pissed becuase its a good ampifier stolen, and its taken me a long ways, gave me lots of hours of great play time. I really wished it had a presence control knob and a mid knob on the clean. It has some really useful extras like a cd imput and headphone output that can useful for looking at tabs and listening late in the night. Im plannning on getting an all tube half stack to replace it however, just as i repaced my old little practice amps, like a 5150, blue voodoo head or DSL50 or something that can be heard better at gigs as well as provide me with a more fizzy crunchier hi-gain for my hardcore black metal tone demands. Its a great jam amp and for garages and bedrooms, not really a great gig amp becuase of the overcompressed tone of solidstates at those volumes and well as having barely enough power to go that loud. It definitly the best ever solid state combo, most amps of this class take forever to adjust and u still never find a good tone. while this one u just find a good tone and leave it there and ur jammin, i like it very much.