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What IS the quintessential Marshall sound?

So we can all agree on a few quintessential fender amp sounds (tweed deluxe/champ, tweed bassman/twin, ANY blackface combo w/reverb, the blonde and blackface bassman heads etc) and we all know the quintessential vox sound is a mid 60s ac30 top boost.... but what's the quintessential Marshall sound to you?

Despite being mostly a pexi/JMP guy for a decade (I did own a single channel and a split channel 800 and a laney gh50L) more and more to me the single channel JCM800 2203 and 2204 ehads are the quintessential Marshall tone. I grew up with those amps as the de rigeur hard rock backline (at elast if MTV was an indicator). pretty much every music video had JC120s or if the band had balls there was a wall of 2203 stacks. I really identify with those sounds. In the plexi style I am just more a cranked ac30 or Hiwatt guy. Not the same exactly, but more in the ballpark than the hot input on an 800.

But there have been many generations of Marshalls since then. Slash popularized the silver Jubilee heads. The 900 series was (apart from the fender twin) the amp of choice in the 90s when I was coming up through the local punk scene. I see tons of JCM2000s on stages (sure a lot of times smoke is coming out of them, but they are there) and the discontinued Vintage Modern heads had quite the loyal following (and a pretty impressive sound as I recall)....

what's THE marshall tone to you? feel free to post youtube clips of ultimate marshall tones (using stock Marshalls thank you)....

people assume that all of Marshall's amps are all similar, but though they are on the same hot-rodded tweed bassman platform with el34 output tubes instead of 6L6es they are NOT THE SAME at all.... even various eras of plexis or JMPs have big differences in the preamps and feedback loop that drastically change the sound and feel of the amp (trust me I have had my fair share of these amps)

lets get discussing

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

It always reminds me of NWOBMH tone really, bitta Hendrix I guess, and Corgan.

Rough, Crunchy, distortion with a lot of high end, almost fuzzy in comparison to other distortion style amps like Mesas. Its hard to define, because theres so many different sounds you can get from various models, and settings of Marshall amps.