Marshall VS2000 AVT50 112 Combo

2 tube drive preamp chanels clean and distortion
classic marshall black and gold
FX loop foot switch

If it had 3 channels I would love that so much more

I play metal, blues, rock, slide guitar etc etc etc...
This has to be the MOST versitile amp EVER. I can get Scooped out metal tones, classic rock tones, crunchy overdrive, pristine cleans(which is suprising for a marshall I even liked the cleans better than that of a fender that I tried) I use EMG-HZs and Fender SCM and DH-1s and I can get every tone ever. oh yeah and it sound good with my acoustic pickup in it

The only complaint I have is with the footswitch... when I switch from distortion to clean sometimes it goes back to distortion for like 1 second or so.... 1 second doesn't sound like a lot but it is when you are gigging live and your clean part is suddenly distorted to the max.

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if it were lost/stolen I wouldn't be able to afford a new one at the moment so I'd be sol..... I love how it is the best amp I have ever heard but I hate the fact that it only has 2 channels if it had three I would never ever need another amp because this amp can take on every style. I compared it to a fender amp in the similar price range a peavey and a crate in the $500 range

2 Channels, Effects Loop, Headphone Jack, Reverb (which actually sounds quite nice) and most importantly, an ECC83 tube in the pre-amp stage, which 'really' makes all the difference. All up, it's simple of the features, but that is the way I prefer as I don't like onboard effects which are known to sucks much of the amps original sound, besides and I have my own pedals if I need them.

I'm using the amp with a 2003 Fender Blue Flower Strat Reissue, with HS-3 pickups in the neck and bridge positions. The Clean channel is really amazing, considering that marshall aren't known for their clean sound, this is just beautiful. When you raise the volume and gain in the clean channel, it'll start to breakup nicely.

On the overdriven channel I was blown away, this amp might be mid-range category but the sound is anything but, amazing growl that you would expect from the JCM series, marshall really knew what they were doing with this one. I know this review might seem to good to be true, I'm just being as honost as I can, and the scary part is that my pickups and low output and really need an overdrive/tube screamer pedal in order to make it really sing (which I don't currently have), so I'll update you all on that one. Incase you're wondering, no, I don't work for marshall.

One last thing I noticed of late, (I've had the amp for about 6 months now) is that the longer I leave it on, it seems to sound better and better, as in more and more like a full tube amp, not that is doesn't sound great already, must be the ECC83 tube reaching it's optimum performance temperature or something.

This is where the amp suffers alittle. The small fan inside that keeps the tube cool, can be very loud at times. Sometimes I turn the amp on, quiet and everything is fine, sometimes I turn it on and I get a loud buzzing sound, like the amp is caught with something in its fins, its very annoying and is a shame really, because if it weren't for this, the amp is pretty much top notch in everything else (except that it's damn heavy for moving around). I believe I've read other reviews with the same problem, I'll either take it back to the shop for a replacement or, get it serviced by marshall (if that is possible).

I haven't dealt with them, not yet anyway, although that may change.

If this were stolen or lost, I would probably get another one simply because there is nothing like it in its price range (normally AU$1200). It sounds alot like a high-end marshall, also being made in england, this is quality gear. I'm so sad about the noisy fan issue, hopefully that can be easily fixed/replaced, so this amp can do its job, which is delivering great authentic sounds.

U know the features by now

Everyone in the old posts totally complain about this amp but hoenstly they must like the nasty sound of CRATE or sumtin. This amp is very exce;;ent sounding for the price. you can honestly hit any sound u could need. the distortion sounds very nice and teh clean channel can get sum nice blues sounds and also pretty decent bright clean sounds. my personal taste, i changed the preamp tube inside to a GT Mullard reproduction tube. It gave the distortion a tad less bite and rounded the grit out a bit which in my opinion sounded nicer.

my AVT50 is about a year old now and not a single problem at all. I definately take care of it. i keep mine covered with a towel so no dust gest inside the vent on top. A word of advice is be sure when you have the amp on you leave all the ventilation areas clear and free for air to move so the amp does not overheat.

never delt with marshall support and hope i never have to

i rate this a 9 b/c no amp is ever a perfect amp, but for the price this thign sounds amazing for recording and any gig at all....it really sounds good. i have owned and wasted so much money on many many amps....CRATE, Kustom, Rocktron, Ibanez, Fender, and all of them either sound kinda crappy or have massive reliability problems. I used to swear i would never get a marshall because thats what everyone used and i didnt want to get sucked into the marshall hype, but that day i returned my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (b/c of terrible reliability problems. i had 3 of them and they all crapped out after either a couple minutes or a day or two) so i tried out the AVT50 and i fell in love.. Get this amp i promise it is a safe choice, especially with a 5 yr warranty

i belevie this amp is a 02 or 03 model. i picked it up in 03, but i live in Australia, so it may have been made in 02 then shipped here.

only two channels which is not enough i beleive. i play metal and jazz, and just the clean and over drive is not enough. i need a solo boost or a 2nd over drive, one for rhythm, one for soloing, and this amp doesnt have it.

i rarely use the cd or headphone inputs. and i dont use the effects loop, because you cant turn the loop on or off. so when i run a multi effects processor through there it sounds prety bad. ive done some small gigs with this. like battle of the bands where it is mic'ed up and it goes alright. but in my opinion its not big enough or versatile enough.

i use a Gibson SG standard, and a Epiphone Les Paul, and with the distortion these guitar rip. the distortion is so awesome sounding. i can get quite good metal sounds out of it with these guitars and a great crunch sound with the SG.

when you have it louder it feeds back quite a bit with teh Epiphone, but i think that was the guitar because it doesnt really do it anymore.

the clean is not so good. you can get a nice clean sound, but if u push the gain up, it goes a bit bluesy style distortion. nothing substantial.

ocassionally you can get a bit of noise through the amp, but i think its temperamental.

Amp has been going strong. there was this one time where i plugged it into a peavy bass cab and the fan started making peculiar sounds. but as soon as i unplugged it, it was ok.

i havnt replaced the tube yet in the 2 years ive had it.

although something within the amp or the fottswitch is on the blink. because after playing at loud volumes for some time, the amp if in clean will like switch to distortion for a second. its weird. i was attributing that to the foot switch cord coiled up, and if u understand physics that makes all sorts of magnetic fields and i thought that that may be the cause. it hasnt done it in a while.

other than that little problem, it has been fine.

never ahd to deal with the company

i been playing 10 years (4 on classical then moved to electric) and it does the job.

if it were stolen id buy something better with more channels. as they retail here for 1200 dollars but i paid 400 less than that so insurance ahs a little bonus.

for what it is, its not a bad amp.

i with it had a 2nd overdrve channel or a solo boost.

overall its not a bad amp. overpiced? yes.

Made in England. As the name suggests I think this series started production in 2000. I brought mine new in December 2004. I play punk/rock/pop style music. This amp sounds great in my bedroom and at the studio during rehearsals. 2 Channels: clean and OD (footswitchable), FX send and return (never used), Headphone jack, CD-input (both used, but infrequently).

This amp has everything you need, and nothing you don?t. It?s simple and straight forward to use, at the same time it sounds good.

For full details visit: http://www.marshallamps.com/images/avt2000/avt50.html

My main guitar is an Epiphone Les Paul Standard, fitted with a Seymour Duncan SH-6 Distortion in the bridge position. I also own a Squier Tom DeLonge Strat, and another Squier Strat with a mini humbucker in the bridge.

This amp is great for my style. I love the tone that the ECC83 (12AX7) valve/tube gives out in both channels. Although it?s said you can?t completely recreate the sound and feel of an all-valve amp, I?d say this is as close as it gets.

Plenty loud enough for the bedroom! So much so that when you turn it up everything in my room resonates. In the studio again volume is no problem with this amp. I've never giged with this amp, I don't see why it would be a problem if it was mic'ed up.

Solid-state amps ?break-up? when you turn them up too, past around 4-5. With the Valvestate you don?t get the break-up, but the sound is rather ?thin? over half volume. Anything between 1-5 is a sweet spot for me on the OD volume, with the gain set at around 7-8. Remember not all guitars are intended to sound the same, volume-wise.

The amp has Gain, Volume, Bass, Treble, on each channel. Two independent volume controls means you can balance the levels to suit. The OD section offers a Middle control, and the amp includes a master Reverb control. You can go bright clean, warm clean, to a bluesy crunch, all the way to screaming and/or scooped high gain.

With the gain control on the clean channel you can make sure that the sound is always tight and focused. I use high-out put pickups and generally with my playing style I don?t use the clean section. With some tidier sounding pickups, or the volume on the guitar rolled down the clean channel can give off a very sweet tone. I?ve read some people prefer the clean sound of a solid-state amp rather than all-valve, with the Valvestate you get the best of both worlds.

The ECC83 (12AX7) valve/tube does offer a lot of gain, the Valvestate range are all high gain amps. I use the bridge pickup to give a tight, cutting sound. I cut the mids, (to about 4) to give a slightly ?rounder? sound.

I?ve only had a problem with the footswitch that decided to give up on me for a short while. It works fine now and why that happened is a mystery. I used a friend?s footswitch at the time it was breaking just to check, and it was the footswitch at fault and not the amp. They?re not expensive so a backup could be useful.

Not exactly a reliability issue, but a couple of flaws. Every time I turn it on, the fan makes a loud ?WHIR? noise. It happens with almost every AVT and MG Marshall amp I know of, it?s just a little off putting. Also sometimes when I change the channel from OD to clean, I sometimes get a ?WHOOSH? noise. Not exactly big problems but they?re pretty off putting.

I?ve never had any problems with this amp. I haven?t gigged often enough to have a back-up amp. It?s never broken down and I?ve never had to get anything serviced. The life of the single valve/tube is (apparently) up to 4 years, and they can be brought at a little cost.

The warranty I THINK lasts 3 years, it?s in the handbook. When I purchased my amp there was a Marshall warranty tag with the amp. There is an authorised Marshall centre in my town so this is where I would turn if I had any problems.

I have been playing for 4 years almost. My predeceasing amps were a Squier SP10, and a Marshall MG15CDR.

If it were lost or stolen, I would buy something a more upgraded. This is only because I?m a little more well-off than what I was when I got this amp.

I wanted something that sounded good and at the same time was affordable, practical (easy to bring along!) and simple

A friend of mine had an MG100DFX which is of a similar price. I decided to go for the Valvestate because as I said before it's everything you need and nothing you don't. I do like the number of channels and FX the AVT150 offers, I sometimes wish I'd of gone for that but I was thinking about my pocket.

For what the AVT is some people consider it a little over-priced, but I do recommend it.

Overall it's a good amp.
8/10

2004 model, new in box off Ebay for $325! Great basic plug and play Marshall tones. I had one of these a few years ago and sold it but have always missed it for quick good tones. Great clean and overdrive if you can play you do a lot with this amp.

My first one was a 2002 model and came with a 4 ohm Rocket 50 speaker. This 2004 model has a 4 ohm Super 65 stock! This is a much better speaker with great classic tones. I sawed 1/3 of the back panel off to open up cleans and give me a place for the power cord when going to jams. I have had many tube amps in the past few years and have a new Crate V50 with El34's that is my main gig amp but this is the one I always grab for quick good tone at any volume. The all tube amps need to be cranked for tone and sound buzzy and crappy at bedroom levels and small gig/jam situations. I will keep this one as it has a lot I like and I can turn it off and on 5 times a day with out burning power tubes.

I have owned two and I have an Avt 20 also with no problems any kind.

I have heard this part is bad but just hope I never need them.

This is really one of the best deals out there if you can get a good price like I did. I would not pay over $400 for this amp as there are lots of great amps in that price range but good Marshall tone is hard to find! If you need great cleans and rippin' overdrive at a modest price and don't want all the tube worries get one of these but get a newer one like I did with the quiet fan and better speaker.

2 channels are enough really, it has no effects other then reverb but i dont like amp effects any ways.
head phone socket as always a good idea fx sen and return good could of done with mid knob on clean channel.
so features ok but i found one big problem no extra speaker outs which sucks big time

perfect both channels where good somtimes bass on clean a bit too much and some times treble on distortion too much but a good sound for the money

i think this may have been a one off but after about 3 and half years "i know a long time" the inputs busted then the volume pots went.

dont know

good for the first 3 years a perfect amp but thne when i wanted to add speakers i counldnt then when i wanted to sell i had to pay to get it fixed. but i do believe my problems where a rare thing as my other marshall amp is perfect "AVT 275"

Bought mine last year in 2004 - and I cannot believe by reading some ofthe reviews that we are all talking about the same product. Mine is VERY loud, and certainly good for pub gigs...the reverb is ok I guess, and the 2 modes of clean and distorted are ok as you can modulate the gain accordingly - I play jazzy stuff with the clean channel on low vol high gain, so that there's just that edge of distortion when played/plucked hard (like some early Les Paul stuff)and the overdrive channel can really make you sound like Spinal Tap...
Having a tube in the preamp stage means that the clean + upped gain you do get a nice sound - not "synthetic" a la transistored overdrive.

I use a 1960 Gibson Les Paul, a 1971 Sg Custom & a late '80's American Strat - I play pretty crappily so this amp suits me as I am not as fussy and anal as some who appear to have written reviews. I an get a really nice bell-like jazzy sound to a bright clean sound, depending on the guitar or setting that I am using... The distortion at high vol on the clean channel is fine to my ears, but then again I don't feel the needto turn it up loud too often!

No problems re reliability - it's built with very thick MDF on the sides and top, it doesn't rattle and weighs plenty!

Marshall are great - when I got the amp it didn't have a footswitch so they sent me one and a hat and tee shirt!!

I been playing more off than on for 30 years or so, as listed earlier, I use a 1960 Gibson Les Paul, a 1971 Sg Custom & a late '80's American Strat - no effects - sold them a long time ago as I never used them (I think I have a cry baby wahwah somewhere). If the amp was stolen I would most probably replace like with like. I must admit I would like to try either a Dumble or a MesaBoogie but too loud for the house!
I think it is a brilliant amp - can highly recommend it!

The AVT50 has 2 channels, clean and overdrive. It has an effects loop which I always use, a headphone jack and cd input. It came with a footswitch as well. I dont use the emulated DI out because I prefer it to to mic'd and it also has an extension speaker output.

For me, the features are all usable. Its a hyrbrid combo that utilizes a 12AX7 tube for the preamp and a solid state power amp. I use this amp when I practice, for band rehearsals and live gigs.

My guitars are an Ibanez JS900BP, Yamaha Pacifica with Dimarzio Pickups and a home made Strat style. For effects, I always a Dunlop 535Q. Sometimes I'll add a Boss DS-1 or an Ibanez TS9. In the effects loop, I always use a Boss FV-300L and sometimes a CH-1. I use the FV-300L for solos. I rarely use the clean channel of the amp since I got my JS900BP, I just manipulate my volume knob for clean, blues and full distrorted tones.

I was surprised at how the amp sounded, the clean channel is nice and warm enough with no tinniness. It distorts just a bit at very high volumes. For me, its still useable. The Overdrive channel can give distorted type tones ranging from 60's 'til present. When I use my Ibanez, it cleans up amazingly. With just a flick of the volume knob I can go from clean, to just a pinch of dirt, to full distortion. The spring reverb is good too, but don't expect surf type tones. This a well rounded amp. Its tones are really good that I think buying these type of amp could be a choice over real tube amps because of the price/performance ratio. I think its a practical amp. No tubes to maintain too.

I gig with this amp without backup. It seems reliable and I've had it since 2001. One concern I have though is that it sometimes shift channel on its own. I used the footswitch and that fixed the problem. But at present, I just use the overdrive channel and use my volume knob. If you don't, learn how to use it!

I haven't dealt with them yet

I'll buy the same thing of course. But i make sure none of my stuff gets stolen. It never happened. I've been playing semi pro for 6 years. It has given me and my band 5 championships and I got 3 best guitarist awards. If you buy this amp, will you get a best guitarist award? of course not, woodshedding does and i've had my fair share of lockup and practice.

features are pretty basic really...50 watts of valvestate power.. 2 channels.. clean and overdrive, passable reverb, head phone jack, footswitch and cd output... cmon.. u should know better.. u are buying the amp.. marshallamps.com for more details.... dun wanna waste my time dwelling in this category...

ok lets be honest here.. how can an amp sound so bad to a few, yet others think its awesome... i seriously do not know wad the previous negatives review were all about... back to the point.. i am usin a gibson les paul copy wif emg select hums and a jackson dinky... i have been playin for 5 years and i know wads good and wads bad... i play mostly progressive rock to punk and sometimes dwell abit into metal... for around US$280, this is an awesome amp.. no joke here... it can be used as a bedroom amp, or rockin a hall for 500+ pax wif ease.... this thing is really loud for a 50 watter... clean channel can be warm and crisp... while when dirty, it kills... vintage marshall overdrive... for dat amount of money, wad more can u ask for?

like wad others say.. it really is built like a tank... i have faith in the seller dat sold me this baby!

the seller said it comes with a year warranty but he has owned it for 2 years+ now so... anyway marshall actually is too big to care about people like u or me...

ok.. actually in my opinion.. marshalls are way overpriced... it would not be worth it to spend anywhere near $600 to get this amp... roland, peavey and crate have good sounds but are way cheaper than marshalls... i have to say i am lucky to get it at a low low price.. if it was stolen i would try to get the same amp for a similar price.. or get another better amp recommended by a good fren of mine.. if u have a tight budget, do not get marshalls.. they seriously are overpriced in my point of view compared to other similar amps..