Park PG25R

Made in Korea 1993, 25W solid state practice amp with 10" speaker. It has two footswitchable channels, spring reverb and headphones output. Tone and reverb controls are common for both channels.

I play Tokai Love Rock (Les Paul copy) with stock pickups, classic rock and blues. The clean channel sounds very good, bright and sparkle but some more bass wouldn't be bad thing, I guess the 10" speaker is too small for that. Clean channels is also very nice with acoustic guitar. The distortion channel is quite fuzzy and thin souding, but rolling off guitar volume it gives such a nice blues sound. Reverb is ok but it makes a loud "clank" when switching to clean channel.

I've had problems with pots, they were a little noisy already when I bouhgt it. They got much worse very soon and I replaced them. Except for the pots it seems to be reliable. I've never gigged with it.

No idea, I repaired it myself.

I bought this amp about a year ago after a long playing break just for a apartment-volume-level practice amp. I was (and still am) amazed of the sound of clean channel. But the distortion channel does not sound anything but a cheap solid-state. After some months I wanted the real tube sound and now I'm happy with a Marshall DSL201. I sold the Park to a friend who plays acoustic with it.

Its a 2 channel 25 plain vanilla amp. The channel switch makes a bunch of lousy noise when you switch from Dist to clean with reverb on, that blows. Otherwisem, it has pretty decent clean tone. Its a good practice amp.

I have an Aria pro II the cat with a humbucker and 2 single coils. the SCs make a ton of noise. Others have played it, using strats, full hbs, and even acoustic electrics. The clean tone is pretty good. The distortion was OK. I blew the speaker trying to hear it over another guitar, drums, vocals, and bass. Do not try to play in a band. Contrary to other reviews, this amp is nowhere near loud!

The speaker blew due to pushing it pretty hard. I didn't do anything about it. Oh well, the clean is still so so but the distortion is ratted out.

This is a decent practice amp. It sounds pretty good clean. Also(this is good) it doesn't have an overly marshall sound, even though marshall is the parent company. The distortion is pretty OK. The one big problem is the channel switch noise!

I purchased it in 93, I think. It's a solid state practice amp with reverb and a 10" speaker. Marshall is the parent company, I guess, but it's made in Korea. Both clean and distortion channels share the same tone controls. The Reverb is a small 2-spring box (one knob controls both channels). It had a headphone jack, but no ext. speaker jack or effects loop.

I was really impressed with the clean sound. It had lots of sparkle and good Chet Atkins tone. The distortion channel wasn't bad, but sounded a bit fuzzy and raspy (I since sold the amp to a neighbor). I bought a Marshall 8040 valvestate to replace it, which has a better, creamier distortion, but I still think the clean channel sounded better on the Park. The Park did have an annoying clank when switched from distortion to clean (with the reverb on), and the reverb sounded considerably weaker on the distortion channel than on the clean channel at the same knob position. The headphone sound wasn't that great on either channel, but I guess it was better than nothing.

Every one of the pots got real noisy about 6 months or so after I bought it. Some of them got so bad they would cut out completely. I pulled the guts out and hosed them down with TV tuner cleaner spray, which worked for a couple of weeks, but then they would start getting noisy again. In the end I replaced a few of the worst ones. Other than that it was fairly reliable.

I sent a letter to Marshall (the only address I found in the manual) concerning the cheesy pots, and didn't hear a thing from them.

Although the sound wasn't bad ,especially on clean, I don't think I would buy another or recommend one due to the cheap components (pots), and due to the lack of response from their support.

I use only the clean channel, and I use it for amplifying my ACOUSTIC guitar. This instrument is hand made and equipped with Fishman Matrix Natural under saddle pickup ( on-board preamp ). I run it direcltly to the Park and then I place the dynamic microphone ( Shure SM 57 ) in front of the loudspeaker, pointed at the edge of it .

I get a very warm sound by micking this amp and that way I avoid piezo " plastic pang- pang middrangy attack " when played directly through the PA mixer. If micked, the sound of this little amp can be trimmed increadibly good, I keep getting compliments how my guitar sounds warm but with a lot of "body" at the same time. Yeah, I add a lot of basses on the mixer, cut down the trebles a little and also the middles. Input gain on that channel is like when using a vocal microphone. NOW, one of the main reasons I'm using this small amp is that I avoid a lot of feedbacking by using only a 25 W amp. I can have it up to 80 % of it's volume and still have a clean sound, not getting into other microphones, not being to loud for my fellow musicians and I also use it as a small monitor. Shure SM 57 is a very good and reliable mic, not so sensitive to feedback, so my sound is really great through this amp. In adition to the Fishman Matrix piezo pickup, I'm also using a mini condenser microphone AKG 406 C mounted on the lower bout of the side of the guitar and pointed to the "sweet spot" where the soundhole meets the frets of the neck. I cut all the basses, trebles are on -3, middles cut at 250 Hz. This way I get nice sparkling trebles from the mini mic and fine and warm basses from the piezo.

I've been through heaven & hell with it, it fell out the car, it rained on it... NO PROBLEM - glue it, dry it and plug it in.

I compared it with some other amps but in this price range I haven't found anything better. Of course, Fishmans big 230W amp is a great thing but it costs a fortune.

A nice amp. It's got good reverb, but the equalization falls a little short(its pretty warm, nothing you can do about that). It's dirty channel isn't the greatest, but sounds fine with pedals. The headphone out makes it even better as a nice solid-state practice amp.

Its got a warm mellow sound on clean, the dirty channel rumbles nicely when cranked up but doesn't distort all that much. I use a Les Paul Std., so it compliments the sound really well.

Strong as a rock.

A really nice beginner's solid state amp. I'm moving on and looking to sell it, but it served me well.

Well, for a practice amp this has a fairly nice array of features. There are two channels (clean and dirty), which are footswitchable. The dirty channel doesn't have a whole lot of gain though. I play noisy grind/hardcore, and this does not cut it. It's 25 watts, and it's actually quite loud. I only use it at home, so 25 watts is more than enough. I have the distortion volume set at 9 or 10 o'clock (knob position, not time, mind you) when my parents are home. At full volume, the sound fills my room. I used to use it at band practice, but the drums totally drown it out. It has a headphone jack, but it sounds horrible. The reverb is okay, but if I have it on more than half on the clean channel, it feeds back. Since this is only a practice amp, I guess an effects loop would asking too much.

Well, first off, I play a Gibson SG with the stock humbuckers. That obviously gives me an edge over most kids who go out and buy a Strat and expect to sound like Metallica. Like I said, the gain on this is way too little for anything more than, say, classic rock or blues. But I don't think Park had using this for extreme metal or punk on their minds when they designed this. I have a DOD Grunge pedal, which adds a monstrous amount of distortion. But the tone on the dirty channel kind isn't the greatest either. It's fairly warm-sounding (for a solid-state) though, which is nice. But keep in mind, this is a practice amp, so you're not going to get album-quality sounds here. The clean channel becomes distorted when the volume is set to anything higher than 9 o'clock. But I don't use clean very much, so that doesn't really matter to me. It's sort of noisy, but that doesn't bother me much. But when I used to bring it to practice, it made this horrible buzzing noise the entire time, on both channels, at any volume. As a side note, this is actually quite good for using in lo-fi noise experiments. I crank everything up and run two or three fuzzboxes into it, and then send the headphone jack signal into my stereo. Pure noise holocaust! Masonna-esque vocal distortion is really fun on this.

This amp has a few problems. It often changes volume by itself without warning. A swift blow to the top usually solves that problem. (Maybe that's why it doesn't work too well now!) The treble pot crackles for about ten seconds whenever you adjust it. But I've never had it break down on me. It just keeps plugging along, I'll give it that.

Never bothered trying to get it fixed.

I was fifteen when I bought this, and I didn't know a whole lot about amps. I just bought it because it was made by Marshall, so I thought it would kick ass. You know their slogan, "Son Of Marshall"? More like "Bastard Son Of Marshall". I basically despise this amp. Of course, my tastes in gain and sound have changed dramatically over the last three years. I was very happy with it when I bought it. For a practice amp, it's actually pretty damn good. But don't expect to be able to use it to play shows. It's about time I buy a head anyways.

can't get a lot of distortion,if you turn treble and bass all the way up,then turn the middle all the way off it sounds cool dos channels,channel selector or add a footswitch.headphone jack one guitar input. hardly use the reverb on it. play at home and in band,plenty loud

if you wan't a shitload of distortion tou won't get it.can't play metal

very reliable, couldn't fuck it up if i tried

i would buy it again,it's cool!!! like the way it sounds distorted then with an equalizer added needs more distortion!

25 Watts - 10" speaker - 2 Channels, Clean, and supposedly distortion although I've never noticed =) - Headphone jack - 3 band EQ
In other words, it's mediocre.

It just makes noise, no unwanted noise. But it doesn't bring open the pearly gates or anything either. Distortion ain't to rave for. Clean is pretty nice and twangy, but can be made slightly happy.

You couldn't break it if you tried....

This rating goes towards the store I bought it at. Ricks Music in Knoxville, TN. They helped me with figuring a few things out at start. I have had NO trouble with it though. Dropped from about 5 feet onto its face and didn't even shudder..

While it is nothing to rave and rant about, it still is a pretty good deal for a begginner as it has been for me for close to a year. It doesn't produce really warm tube sounds, or amazing distortion..... but there is a reson for that, it's just a beginner's solid-state amp. In closing, for beginners, 1.7 thumbs up.