![]() I've always preferred Fender, whose Bassman amp Marshall intended to copy anyway, although the English components sounded different.but lots of great stuff was played on the Marshalls.the Who, Hendrix, Zep, etc.įirst off, is this guy in the video for real or is it a spoof? Hard to tell if he's goofing on the whole macho wall of amps thing.or not.ġ6 seconds in he swigs whiskey while doing repeating one-hand pull-off cliches.a boutique is a place that sells women's underwear, not where a man goes to buy a guitar amp.a "harmonic problem" caused by a well-done mod? As a guy that has been playing since 1972 in pro bands, I've never owned nor gigged with a Marshall.ANY Marshall. Marshall - Big Bob's Marshall Warehouse - YouTube The middle-aged guy in this video is the PERFECT example. In fact, the ONLY reason they still exist is so that people can live out their adolescent-boy fantasies. So the Marshall stack, while still a cool piece of Rock & Roll history, is completely obsolete nowadays. I saw Jeff Beck last year and he was playing through a 5 watt Fender Champ cranked all the way up and mic'ed through the PA system and he sounded HUGE! Tubes need to COOK to sound their best and the best way to do that is to use a low wattage amp and crank it. On top of that, a 5 watt amp turned up all the way has MUCH better tone than a 100 watt amp turned up to 2. ANY place that is big enough to require that kind of volume will have a good PA system to mic your amp through. The fact of the matter is that there is no longer an actually need for giant amps. It didn't take long before Clapton, Hendrix, Page and every other big guitarist of the day caught on and started using Marshall stacks.īut as time progressed and technology got better, so did PA systems which means that today, a tiny little practice amp mic'ed through the sound system will sound just as loud as a 6 foot tall stack. Manufacturer specs include a maximum sound-pressure level (SPL) of 102 dB 1 meter and a frequency range that extends down to 40 Hz.įor more information, visit Marshall "stack" was invented when Pete Townshend and John Entwistle of The Who went to Jim Marshall and asked him to make them custom 100 watt amps with 8 12" speakers because in those days, guitar amps were not mic'ed and they were starting to play bigger venues that required bigger amps to be heard. Thanks to the Tufton’s “multi-host functionality,” two people can connect to the speaker at the same time to keep the mix interesting. The top of speaker has Bluetooth pairing button, battery-life indicator, and dials for power/volume, bass, and treble (sorry no presence knob) around back there’s a 3.5mm minijack input for wired hookups. ![]() Battery life is rated at 20-plus hours when fully charged, which takes about two-and-a-half hours, but there’s a quick-charge mode that provides 4 hours of play time after only 20 minutes of charging. While you wouldn’t want to drop it in the pool, the Tufton is IPX2-rated, meaning it’s resistant to splashes when you’re lounging around the pool. Total power output is 80 watts, 40 of which goes to the woofer The Tufton ($399) is designed for Bluetooth streaming and packs five speakers - a woofer, two full-range drivers (one rear facing for multidirectional sound), and two tweeters - plus four Class D amplifiers in an “extremely rugged” enclosure with corner caps that’s 14 inches tall, 9 inches wide and 6.5 inches deep. The company recently expanded its line of portables with a water-resistant, battery-powered model that looks like a mini version of the vintage Marshall cabinet used by countless guitar gods (past and present). Marshall, U.K.-based maker of the iconic guitar amplifier that has defined the “rock sound” for more than a generation, has been making well-crafted Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-enabled multiroom home speakers for several years now.
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