Park MG10 MKII

i bought a 1970 model of this amplifier head in second hand mint condition for only #250 and i love it. The amp hardly distorts and sounds beautiful with gain. Most people would not get a second hand valve amp as they may fear the maitinence problems but i have had no problems. a freind of mine who knows a bit on amplifiers and he said that it would not go wrong if i made sure i did not disrespect it like a new amp.

There are a few problems though. I wouln't of minded it if it had reverb on it. the controls are restricted to two volume switches,bass,trebble,and pressance. but being a amplifier used for performance it relies on pedals. it is very loud and needs to be used on stage but it is versatile enough to use for any type of music, but the best has to be loud rock.

The amplifier is a deleted amp and is no longer available new apart from if you want to pay a fortune for marshall to make it for you. there is a reissuebut i saw it for about #500 and the person sellingit said it was an exellent amp but the original which i have is much better and is very hard to find! This pleased me no end but if you can find one for a resonable price then i would advise you to take a look.

I give it this score for the price i got it for if i got it for over #500 then i would give it one less.

nice sound

it has never broken and is very reliable

marshall said that if anything went wrong they would find out what t was for free.

i have been playing for 2 years and properly for about 1. I own two electic guitars, gibson sg 61 reissue and fender squire strat. i also own a yamaha acoustic. if anything ofmy equipment was stolen appart from my strat i would get again. i do wish i had another 4*12 for more volume. but i don't need it.

I suppose it was made in late 98. I think I got it right after it came out in the beginning of 99. Its some new series that has "Park" electronics with out the icky Park logo on the front. 10 wee little watts through a 6" Park speaker. Its got Gain, Master Volume, Boost Switch and a headphone jack. Would maybe liked some Bass, Mid, Treble like a Fender 15 Frontman but on small amps sometimes that stuff is more trouble then its worth. It's my first amp for use in my living room. It pretty loud except clean. No gain, no boost= no volume. Kind of a drag when you got a Strat, like me (a Clapton Signature). Ill rate it middle of the road for its lack of Bass,Mid,Treb.

I play through it with an Eric Clapton Strat w/ Lace sensors. I compared the sound to the sound of Fender Frontman 15. For what I play I preferred the Marshall. The Marshall has a very nice blues tone. It's by far what it does best. More tube like then some other small solid states, i.e. the Fender. The clean is very clean but has absolutely NO volume. I mean none. I can have it cranked with my strat's volume and 25db boost on 10 and it still is whispering. A little gain or hitting the boost switch will like triples the volume. But loses some clarity. It distorts pretty well for 10 whole watts of raw power. No super death crunch though. If you are looking for that, keep on walking. As far as quietness goes it stays silent until the volume is really up. Then you can get some feed back. But its quality feed back though, whatever that may be. Ill give it a 7 for a nice try at a little blues

Nicely built for 60 bucks. isn't put together like "My First Amp". Looks just like dad's too. I don't see anything busting on it, unless maybe you clicked the boost switch a billion times in a row.

Gee, I dunno. I think Ive heard Marshall is a bitch to contact cause their on the other side of the big pond. But I haven't so I don't know. And I doubt I ever will on my itty bitty amp.

I haven't been playing all that long. This is my first amp. I was looking for a small practice amp to start with. I compared this and a Fender Frontman 15. The Fender had more features and had more watts. But it wasn't the sound I was looking for. Alot of Fender solids sound sterile to me. Like plugging into a PA system. This Marshall was much warmer in sound. What it lacked in volume it made up in tone. If it was stolen of something, I'd move up to something larger. Like the MG30 RCD in this line or maybe dare to dream and get a VS65R. Wish Marshall made a lower watt tube amp. 65 watts is just too much for me. Anyway I like this amp for what it is. And that is a nice little practice amp with a good blues tone. I wish it had the volume of the Fender. But the Fender is too hard rocker over drive. Real good at it though. And Jimi had Marshalls so I have to. Silly huh?