Marshall 30th Anniversary Head (The Blue One)
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A friend of mine owns the 30th anniversary amp that deicide used on once upon the cross.. these amps are absolutely killer.
Great demo! Loved the openness and clarity across all of the gain stages. Cheers, Leon!
Fine variety of tones! One of my passions is to discover the many colors of gear without special effects! Thanks to the owner for sharing! Well done Leon!
Hey Leon, thanks for your great little demo of this wonderful amp!
(Just in case you get bored by tweaking sounds on the front panel of the 6100 - you could fiddle with the damping switch of the power amp, set it to 50 Watts or even only 25 Watts by running 2 Power tubes as Triodes instead of Pentodes.)As the models came in several versions, you might be interested to know that Marshall made 5 versions of this amp. In this video you see the 2nd version of the following:
-6100LE limited run blue tolex, high gloss chassis, EL34
-6100LE blue tolex, EL34
-6100 black tolex, EL34
-6100 black tolex, 5881
-6100LM black tolex, 5881, red channel gain mod
I dig both my first and the 5th versions of the amps, plus my nice little 6101LE combo with 200W Celestion Gold and Anniversary 6912 and 6960ALE cabinets.
As cool as the mirror finish of the original LE versions looks on first sight, the labeling is painstakingly difficult to read on stage low light conditions. However I’d still not trade my little heavy weights.
:)
Other details I very much dig are MIDI switching and individual signal levels for the channels. So I can loop-in 6100 preamps into the effects chain of my good ole BOSS GT-5 which add all kinds of distortion, EQ, reverb chorus etc.
Glad you made a video about this amp. It is one that not a lot of people talk about. It gives you the classic marshall cleans and dirt. It also lets you get to modern territory. I hope to make this my next Marshall.
The best part of this video is the look if sheer joy on your face as you rock out with this amp. Thank you for sharing! :)
My pleasure, it goes hard!
I have the amp in the black version. Had it since 1994, retired from live use now and only used for studio work today.
This amp is such a beast. It will give you anything including Mode Four tones if dialled in correctly and even brew your coffee for you if asked politely.
So versatile and perfect for anything Marshall especially for studio work.
Love it forever,- will never part with it.
I just woke up so i'm going to ask it real nice for a strong long black ;)
Theres like 3 decades of rock and metal in that one amp..
@@LeonToddMmmmm, could so go for one rn😅
I love the way that head sounds. Lots of great tones in there! I really like it!
Me too, I was very impressed.
I bought one of these new back in 92...I had the Brass plated one....Great amp..Wish I still had it..Channel 3 was always my favorite...May have to track down another one,Damn that sounds good!!I think this was the last great Marshall that was made...Great video..Thank you for the trip down memory lane...
I bought both my blue vinyl Marshall 6101 1x12 combo amp and blue vinyl 1912 1x12 closed back cab back in 1993. Great amp demo! It's definitely one of the forgotten and underrated amps in the Marshall product line. It's a very feature laden amp made for the modern guitarist. The clean/crunch/lead channels with 3 band EQ, master presence & volume, parallel/series effects loop. The full/half power switch & pentode/triode switch allows the amp to switch up or down from 100/50 watts or 50/25 watts which makes it perfect for rehearsals/clubs/large stages. The XLR direct out is one of my favorite features and being able to mute the amp for recording is a very useful feature. The MIDI switching works very well. The parallel/series effects loop is very cool as I tend to run mine in parallel with the effects 100% wet. I haven't used the line in/line out feature on the amp yet. The EV12L speaker has a 200 watt capacity and weighs about 16lbs in the combo cab which makes it heavy. The Celestion G12-150B speaker in the 1912 1x12 closed back cab makes the combo amp more punchy like a half stack and can handle the full 100 watts onstage.
I've had the MIDI board malfunction due to excessive heat from the amp since it has no ventilation vents like the 6100 amp heads have. I was able to get it repaired by my local amp tech and it was up & running. You'll also need to replace the power tubes & rebias the amp like any other amp. The V2 & V3 preamp tubes are related to ch.2 & 3 and will go micorphonic when the 12AX7 preamp tubes become worn. You will need to carry a spare 12AX7 preamp to swap out, if this happens. I would also recommend carrying an extra EL-34 power tube & fuses as a back up as well. If you have original factory 3 button footswitch, save it from wear & tear, and use a MIDI controller instead to switch your amp channels & effects.
Awesome Demo
I knew you would extract some killer rhythm and lead tones from this thing,but I had no idea that it had such nice cleans
Woah thanks so much for this demo, was so hard to find any decent ones on yt!
I love mine. I've owned it for maybe 15 years now
Compared to the tsl 100, it is way higher gain. I like to layer them both. I use the 6100 with both switches pushed in on the crunch channel and I use the tsl on the 3rd high gain channel.
I love the Blue/Purple tolex. More important the sound!! Just kicks MAJOR ASS!! My next Marshall head! Good post Leon!
Hey Leon! First off, thanks for giving this amp a chance. I feel it's one of the most underrated and misunderstood amps in the Marshall catalog. I think you really did it justice.
Similarly to your clips, I find this amps just LOVES greenbacks which is such a shame it shipped with the 75-watt celestials of the day. There is just so much more to this thing!
While I’ve owned and loved a few 6100’s over the years, I’ve had a 6101 combo the longest. It's my favorite “grab and go” amp of all time. With the open back cap (loaded with a Celestion Greenback of course!) it can cover fender blackface cleans, Plexi tones, stock and modded JCM 800 tones and then take things into SLO territory with channel 3…..all with a 1x12 combo.
The low power section really helps you unlock the magic and I tend to leave mine in 25-watt mode (because greenbacks) and that really lets you push the power section more to really fatten things up at lower volumes. The dampening switch lets you control the feel and make it more saggy or more tight depending on how you like it. The auto settings is tight on clean and saggy on overdrive. Personally, I like it the other way around. Also, the “low volume compensation” mode is meant for the bedroom player…..it hypes the treble and bass that comes back when you have the master up to a healthy amount!
Another awesome feature is the fact that you can switch between a series or a parallel effects loop. It's really cool to be able to run your delays 100% wet and then just the effects knob on the amp to blend in the right mix without pushing the entire signal through the effects. A super sleeper feature in my opinion!
I did a review of this amp back in 2011. I’ve learned way more about it since then but thought it might be cool to check out nonetheless!
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Thanks again for all that you do. Your playing, tone and attitude are killer. Your videos always make me want to play more!
Peter Lacis I actually have a matching cab and it came with Marshall Vintage 12s. This was supposedly a marshall version of vintage 30s but is supposed to cover modern 92 rock and classic rock. Killer sounding cab.
I love every sound coming out of this amp... but that clean sound is amazing!!!
Very impressed with that clean
@@LeonTodd well.. i went and bought one just because of your review on this amp. With a jcm900 half stack. Im more than impressed!
Awesome video. Your channel is gonna get huge just keep at it.
Nice crunch tones. I drooled over these when they were released but didn’t have that sort of money so got a Valvestate.
How did I miss this video til now!!! I had one of these bad boys too! I think this is the one I had before I graduated to the 900SLX
The 900slx is a rung lower than the 6100lm, the lm is a flagship amp
Man I had 2 of the 5881 models and neither sounded as good as this! Awesome video man, per usual. Love your videos. Thanks for hunting that down and making the video!
Was yours the 6100LM or standard. Mine is the 6100LM and it killed the EL34 one I tried before it, I haven't played the standard one with 5881's. I played it though I few different speakers and it sounded very good, but then I got some Neo creambacks and now it sounds amazing.
It was my first “real” amp❤️
A video I have been waiting for!!
Me too, smoking amp!
Love the Goku painting in the background also love your JVM vid!
Thank you so much 😀
Sounds amazing
bought the 6101 LM the other day , came with the extension cab and flight case for the combo , perfect condition , wanted one when they came out in the 90s , a monster in a tiny size , I need to hear it all full volume ish lol
This was Joe Satriani's amp before he went for Peavey. Luckily he's back to Marshall now :)
The JVMHJS is awesome amp too.
True Live he ran his venerable Boss DS-1 into the clean channel...
Super cool mate!
I saw one of these heads at Kosmic Music way back when they were released and thought that blue covering was rad looking. They sounded great too.
Pretty impressed too
Ive had one of the combos for over fifteen years. I put 2 el84s in using yellow jackets for half power mode and 2 6L6s in the outer half of the power stage for when full power. The clean is great. The two higher gain options in the second channel are best with this one. The third channel is usable if you put in a 12at7 or 12au7 in the extra dedicated spot. -its an 11 tube amp, for most the extra tube in ch3 preamp circuit is in the way. I run the line output into a 73 ampegv4 and musicman 115rh 75 cab, in addition to the stock g12k-100, and a separate 112 closed cab with an eminence manowar.
I have heard that they are fragile (internally) for years...great amp...but very difficult to repair. Everything is so tight inside. Were you able to find people to work on yours? I shy away from buying one (because it's so versatile) but if it breaks...its (maybe?) unrepairable? What do you think?
@@georgebarry3153 Have had one since it came out. Just had it repaired. Its easy for someone who knows what they are doing. The repair bill with a revalve was very cheap as is easy to work on. Yeah they can be fragile but there again your not going to throw it out of a fourth floor hotel bedroom window...................... or are you.
Awsome playing as always ;-)
I’ve toured with two of these heads for the last 15 years plus. They have served me well but are delicate and spent time getting repaired due to all the jumpers between the PC boards. The effects loop is the best due to a parallel option and levels for each channel. Usually sound guys never have to use any eq. Kind of like a JCM 900 on steroids. Thanks for putting up this demo on my most favorite head, best demo out there.
I have heard that for years...great amp...but very difficult to repair. Everything is so tight inside. Were you able to find people to work on yours? I w shy away from buying one (beause its so versatile) but if it breaks...its (maybe?) unrepairable? What do you think?
@@georgebarry3153 I have a guy locally that has worked on mine a million times without too many issues. Most of the problems are in the jumper cables going between the boards. After you fix the connection usually by a direct solder, that problem never happens again. They have actually been really reliable I just have them gone through every year before the summer. I worn out the master volumes a couple times and had a switch on the back go bad once. I haven't replaced pre-amp tubes in forever (3 or 4 years) and just do the power section once a year. There is a guy I found on the internet that you can send the head to him and it will come back like new. I just wasn't comfortable shipping the heads.
@@hammer5475 Thank you for the insight. I saw a guy play one, back in the day..and it sounded SO GOOD. At that time I had the little cousin to this marshall..a 1x12 all tube 2 channel combo..and it was nice...but (I am picky)..lacked the tone stack and options to make me happy in the long run. I sold the 2 of em I had. And I longed for one of these 30th anniver. But the stories of repairs scared me off. Then 2 days ago I see one used..B.O...I may bite. Ive good good gear but...this is the great white whale,imho. Marshall never did anything better,imho.
@@georgebarry3153 Very cool man! Just make sure you get the EL34 model or have the 6L6 done on a LM model. Good luck!
@@hammer5475 Thank you for the tip!!
I had a black version of this head years ago. Very versatile. I usually jammed the middle channel..(gained up)....then would hit the red channel for loud leads. No boost pedal needed.
I really love this amp
just saw this video yesterday. i am now in the process of buying one of these heads. thanks for doing this video this may be my favorite marshall ever now!
Low volume compensation is designed to give you a bigger and fuller sound at low volumes only.
You can run this amp with master volume at zero connected to a cab or load and take the xlr out on the back. Perfect for keeping your stage volume low. There's also a pentode /triode switch which get even more vintage type sound in triode mode.
This comment just helped me figure out why my lead channel lacked clarity and balls. Apparently my head has been set to Triode this whole time. Lead channel sounds SO much better now.
Great tones! Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching
thank you for micing the CAB !
This is exciting I have two of these, Leon your channel is the best!
Please tell me you run them in stereo :D
SightInjection
I have two also!
The best Marshall ever made.
You cannot get a bad sound out of these.
Leon Todd I don’t as one is down for maintenance my main rig has always been a Mesa dual rec tremoverb, and a Marshall jubilee together or in a pinch my dsl100
John Watson yeah they are fun amps and way ahead of their time I read somewhere that part of that amp is still in the jvm nowadays and they were originally going to be a 3 channel 900 but were two expensive to produce on a large scale. I have the blue one like in this video and a black lm as well.
SightInjection
Yeah, one of mine is down, the midi board goes down on these if you modify from 6L6 to EL-34 tubes.
The other one is stock EL-34, which in my opinion sounds better for a Marshall. Has a better high end.
I owned one early nineties, with the cabinet😎 I was so impressed. I had to sell it because it was just to much for home use.
I think I remember reading that the Satriani model in the Axefx was based on this amp at least partially. I have always wanted that 30 Anniversary amp, even back when it was released and I was mainly a bass player at the time. hah!
Playing clean on the upper frets sounded really awesome! Glad to see you go back to showing us Marshall amps instead of digital modeling. (I understand the value. I’m just never going to be a axe fx person)
Marshall's are part of my DNA, and they're me reference for what I think rock guitar should sound like :)
i've had 2. a regular one and the LM. The LM had the biggest amount of distortion/gain while still maintaining the marshall tone, of any amp i've ever heard. Love em but yes they are super super delicate. I ended up selling them cuz i used the crap out of them. I'd love another one but am hesitant to buy one again cuz they fall apart after so many yrs of abuse. Would love if Marshall would reissue this same amp. I had a 100w Marshall DSL too but I didnt like it cuz it didnt have enough gain or sustain. It must have been made on a Monday lol. Great demo, Sir. Rock on!!! :)
I had a black 6101 combo for many years, wish I had it back now:(
The low compensation is essentially the original "Deep" switch like on a DSL. It adds bottom or resonance for low volume playing. I had one of the "LE" versions back in the late 90's. The "LE" had blue tolex as well but had polished brass on everything that you could see that was metal, including the logo, transformers and tube covers/retainers, very shiny. There were only about 800 of them made. That was one of my favorite Marshalls. It has the best clean on any Marshall. The key to a really good tone for that head is to put a BBE in the serial loop and leave on all the time. Satriani used one of these for quite a while as well. I ended up selling mine because these amps suffered from very expensive repair bills if they had to go to the shop. Next, you need to find an original Jubilee head. Two of the best Marshall tones ever, the 6100LE on Ch 2 B and the Jubilee with the master cranked and the gain around noon.
I'm getting fired up to try a Jube. Trying to track one down!
Yea I've had this amp for about 8 years now, and with that low comp switch, it just sounds soooooo good for low volume playing.
I concur. I have had since new a 6101LE combo with a matching 1x12 blue cabinet. Had a few teething problems at the start but once sorted has been super reliable and monster tones. Sounds great with combo speakers but nice and warm with vintage 25s and a bit crispier and punchy with 1960a cab. Midi control and effects loop was great to pair up with outboard rack effects. This is my forever after amp, along with a few others... lol.
Jim Haubert here, I have this amp, bought it when it first came out, have the 87th one made, got the book with all the engineers signatures including Jim Marshalls, currently needs retubed but what an amp!!!
Number 87! That's awesome :D
I've been using one like this for years now, got it pretty cheap cos people seem to have forgotten about these amps nowadays....
Best Marshall ever, versatile, very clevelyr designed. All the marshall sounds you want are in there. Now channel 2 mode C ain't exactly JCM900, it's actually more like a JCM800 with an extra preamp tube. The JCM800 Marshall never built... there's your extra!
I owned one of these . Was briefly into it's buzzy 3 channel sound. ... but then it blew up while playing with a loud drummer. Kind of like the challenger disaster. Replaced the OT after a six month wait for the part. Glad I sold mine.
I played through one of those the year it came out. I'm old 😔
"experienced" is the word i would use
I guess I found my line to stand in. Played and bought mine in '92.
I was 18 at the time. Am I qualified to join your queue?
Thanks for the video! I bought a 6100LM back sometime in 97/98? had it for a few years. Cool thing happened, In 1999 Jim Marshall came to Brisbane and I took my head to meet him - he signed it (it was my birthday - serious!). I sold that amp somewhere around 2002? not sure exactly. Fast forward to 2016 I had another amp I was selling on on Gumtree. A guy came to collect it and showed me some photo's of some of his stuff when I saw my old LM. Kept his number.... bought it back 3 weeks ago.....
Very cool! It was meant to be :)
Sounds Killer!
I haven't played guitar for over 20 years after many years of serious playing. My 30th Anniversary still sits next to me in my computer room waiting for the day that I decide to make a come back. lol A very versatile amp.
Get on it, you aren't going to live forever!
I need to do the same thing
my favorite marshall of all time!
I can see why a lot of people love this amp.
@@LeonTodd i mean i had many amps at my place for repair work , also a jtm45 but the 6100 is so versatile it is simply amazing
The input compensation is good for switching between Strat and Les Paul without redialing everthing.
I used one for a while in the mid/late 90’s. It was an LM. Always wished the low end compensation was a depth pot instead of a fixed value switch. Definitely sounded better the louder you got it. It actually replaced a VHt Ultralead for how it sat in the band mix.
I've had my 6101LE, the combo version which I purchased new about 23 years ago. It's the limited edition version with the brass chassis. It's an amazing amp and seriously loud. Only problem I've had is the noise level when you turn up the gain on ch2 or ch3 is over the top. I've had it checked and told it's just a noisy amp. I've found ways to work around this issue though. Thanks for the demo, nice to see there is still interest in these babies.
Don't ever sell that thing
@@LeonTodd thanks Leon, no it's staying with me. Cheers David
I bought a 30th anniversary shortly after they came out from musicians friend. After I got it it started blowing fuses so sent it back and they sent another and again it was blowing fuses. I sent it back but now I'm wondering if the electricity in my apartment may have had something to do with it as it was an older house. I never had a problem with my fender twin. I would try to crank it up but seemingly for a 100 watt amp it didn't seem to crank out the volume you would have expected. It was my 1rst marshal and unfortunately my last. Watching this video though, you were able to get some nice tones. Would have liked to listen to this amp cranked up volume wise just to hear the power. Unfortunately I was not impressed with the one I got but with the fuses blowing, obviously something was not jiveing right after the 2nd amp did the same thing. I had bought a half stack marshal cabinet to connect to. I do love the marshal sound but have settled for Marshall profiles on a kemper profiling amp profiled by Micheal Britt and I have to say those profiles are bad ass though it's not the real thing with the amp, but in a recording it's next to impossible to distinguish between real and Kemper. I did have a 50th and. Anniversary Vox H2L 30 watt. Handwired amp which sounded very sweet but extremely loud. I bought vox profiles from Micheal Britt and instantly felt as if I was playing out of the Vox. Im not a Kemper advocate as I still really like the real thing, it just I could never afford the many amps I've downloaded from very skilled profiles.. technology has come a very long ways. I never had youtube as a tool to learn songs as that just didn't exist. Today's young players, many take that for granted and don't realize how good they have it....
The last note is very inspiring
Great demo
aww Now I miss my almost purple JVM. Should've never sold that when I moved. Can't go back
I picked up a 1997 6100LM recently. Got it tuned up (new caps and with some switches replaced) Criminally underrated tone monster.
Completely destroys any JVM I have played through. Much less compression and more classic sounding
On the clean channel that has and exact copy of a fender twin circuit, I spoke with my Amp repair guy he has 2 of them.
We have an unsold full stack in blue in the shop I work in, signed by big Jim himself! never to be sold I believe!
What a amp! Tk u!
Two weeks ago a fellow YT'r covered mastering/audio analysis w/ software plugins. Blew my F'n mind when I sat down behind some analyzers. Here I thought I knew sound but nope, I'm deaf. I am still learning. I thought Mesa was scooped, but the analysis shows Marshall with some hard scoops and the Mesa with a sweet full frequency range. WTF? I next honed in on different speakers, because each different one has its own mic/pre/channel in, I have tweaked them with different EQs, I wanted to know what makes me like... ie; why do I appreciate the sound of the V30/Mesa or what's so special about these Alnico speakers I use.
I went back to old recordings, some of which I hated, with renewed enthusiasm. I also reinterpret these different modes on my amps. There's a reason the engineers built the amps with these, and I seem to not fully understand.
That is my goal. Learn. Learn to exploit the gear for optimal results. We often see A/B testing with identical settings, because it seems scientific to do it that way, but a proper comparison is optimal settings, this is the best I can get out of both, again trying to interpret the engineers concepts, exploiting them to their fullest.
You rock Leon!
Hey man who was this youtube purveyor of sonic genius you speak?
@@Atttuner the venerable Chords of Orion.
@@Eventual420 Thanks a bunch I've always been stumped at the way you can prefer a thick Orange or dark mesa tone for rhythm or riff lines but still prefer the "high presence" of a marshall as a upper layer or for lead phrasing and solos. Or why Marshalls still stand out better in a live mix than a Recto all being equal? I understand its simply the timbre of a given amp however timbre qualities (i.e. freq, spectral envelope, transients, etc) do not identify the harmonic overtones and clipping dynamics of gain specifically. I think benchmarking gain structures will help us all create and mix better music in the new age of DSP.
Had once since new with both oeiginal 4 x 12 cabs. Just added a Butler tube driver............... What else could you need. Oh yeah plus a Wem valve tape for some reverb and delay echo as and when.
You had me at FLUBBY
Heh - I just found this ... I have one of these!! It has been in storage in my roof for a few years. One of the best sounds I ever had was Gibson Les Paul, into a Vox Wah, then into the 30th Anniversary, through a Greenback loaded 1960AX quaddie
RIG!!!!
@@LeonTodd In fact, that is my Facebook profile photo - from about 1994 ... I suppose I better get around to changing that one day 🤔
Saved the deal Brohab! For $800 bucks ima might jus go buy that puppy... Well done, EXCELLENT demo!
&800 is a great price for that amp
Thanks. It all boils down to is it worthy of sharing company in a 4 head switching w/d/w system with Friedman BE100, Boogie Mk3 blue, and Kemper summed mono into dry cab via (Egnater SS4). I was thinking At $800, the full palette provided from your demo says it wont lose money if I chose to dump it.
I am going to acquire as many 3 channel Tube heads as I can. Just, discovered this amp.
The power of a greenback compells you, M'lord!
Listening back I love the GB so much.
Great video! You have access to the coolest gear. Great chops to put it through its paces too! Is that an Yngwie strat?
Malmsteen neck and pickguard on a Warmoth body
Very honest amp that requires a good player to sound good. The Crunch channel is pretty dry in the top end, leaving plenty of room to play with the treble knob. The Lead channel reminds me of a current day DSL. Much more saturated and fizzier, for lack of a better word, but I don't mean fizzy in a bad way like some amps can be. It also sounds great at any volume.
It’s funny how I asked you about this the other week and now you have one
You planted the seed! Thankyou
Good afternoon! Cool sound! What can you say about the Marshall 6100 compared to the jcm 800?I am interested in your opinion. Thanks
Still regret the day I sold my 6100 combo, following the fashion of rack FX (which now lay idle...replaced by a traditional pedalboard and Vox AC15)
I've had my LM 6100 from new. Love it. Its the best amp ever! Although my axefx3 has taken over!
I have owned many Marshall heads over the years , but the 6100 is the one i kept over them all . IMO it blows away most other Marshall amps .
These heads are full of features that many Marshall heads do not have etc . Just an all around killer amp !
Some confusion clarified : Channel 2 Mode A = Super lead / JTM45 Channel 2 Mode B = JCM800 Channel 2 Mode C = JCM900
Channel 3 was to be even more gain than most Marshall amps of the time etc.
These amps are super sensitive to what kind and condition of tubes , more so than any other Marshall head i've owned !
If you're a Marshall Amp fan you owe it to your self to google these heads and do a read of what they can do , this demo was too short to cover all the key features , don't get me wrong Leon does great demo's , but its hard to cover all this amp does in that short of time .
This was me going in totally cold, reading nothing about the amp and approaching it with fresh ears. I can't wait to dive deeper, so thankyou for the suggestions!
On floor audio. What do think of 6100LM?
@@@mcdriveit1098 The 6100 is a killer amp from Marshall , underrated i think because it came out around the JCM900 eara . I have a 1996 6100LM and love it ! The only real negatives of this amp are this . You can't foot switch the modes on channel 2 , this should have been made available imo . The other is channel 3 , it's an acquired taste , its not my fav high gain distortion , a reworked modification of this channel would be great . If these issues were to be done to this head , it would have the makings of a incredible / legendary tube amp !!
If you look at the available features of the 6100 platform released in 1992 , it was well ahead of everyone in those days . No one made an all tube amp with a list of features like the 6100 came with .
Also , for those interested , I've run the gamut with tubes in this head , its very sensitive on what glass you run in it etc . To my ears the TAD 6L6GC STR is the best sounding output tube I've run in this head . Yes ... I've tried many different brands !
I'm playing guitar and watching this!
If you ever see a Metaltronix M1000 try it out. All the Lee Jackson Marshall mods in one amp. I had one. I used it with my 2120 in the effects return. Great clean channel. Very Fender like. I sold it to a friend because it had a brutal distortion as well and thought that it needed to be heard that way. I think I am gonna try one of the Matrix power amps with my 2120! Someday I will get a Marshall 2100 power amp and a Mesa 2:90 to switch between. I can go from Carcass to Queensryche! Don't need any more than that. ZZ Top as well!
I wonder if metaltronix stuff ever made it to Australia
@@LeonTodd Alexi Laiho used the rack mount pre amp. There is a pedal as well. Children of Bodom sounds great!
@@LeonTodd Lee Jacksons favorite amp was a Plexi. I think the circuit is based on a Fender Bassman. Maybe someone knows more about this?
I have a 6100LM w/ 6L6GCs through a 1960A loaded with G12T-75s. I use the MIDI capability with my pedalboard and its loop switcher. Interesting thing about this amp: the standby switch, when off, cuts bias to both the power tubes and the board taking care of the compensated/uncompensated line outs as well as the FX loop. So for silent recording without plugging into a load box instead of your cab, you have to take it off standby and use the "mute power amp" switch.
I'm rather chuffed to see that you also crank the bass on the lead channel. I thought I was a bit alone in that, most of the fanatics on the Marshall forums like to turn it back a bit as I recall. Personal favorites are channel 3 with the gain boost in (doesn't actually seem to do much to me, but I feel like it does slightly tighten some things up a bit) channel 2-B, and then the clean channel with bright/mid shift out. I usually leave the high compensation switch in. Your mileage may vary because I play a 7-string electric violin rather than a guitar. :P
Ok that last sentence; tell me more!
@@LeonTodd well, I think I'm overdue for a gear pic with my current setup so I'll just be a few minutes...
@@LeonTodd here's an album of old pictures of the instrument with a couple shots of my current setup at the end. photos.app.goo.gl/v5CFJ2cxb85M9Xuk2
Long story short, I'm a classically trained violinist who's always wanted to play rock/metal but can't play guitar to save their life. So a year and a half ago I learned what distortion was and everything's changed since :P
I had a 6101 for my first tube amp when I was 15 how lucky I was. Sold it when I was 28 cause I wasn’t playing much. Now I’ve been back with a vengeance and play 6505 and 5150iii 50w 6l6..yet I still regret selling it! I assume the 6101 100w combo is the same as this head?
Been looking for a good demo of this bad boy ever since I heard of it about a month ago. Thanks for sharing! I agree about the contour switch, it sucks. Sounds like a bad excuse for a thrash metal sound.
I think this app has a lot of innovative features that have never been featured on any other Marshal before or since and winning creating new music it is very helpful to have three channels that you can switch to very quickly I have several other amps but this one has always been one of my favorites for plugging straight in and just going for different sounds on the Fly the damping switch on the back works extremely well with the fuzz box in the green Channel it gives more movement to the speaker somehow which give the fuzz even more gain Tully Channel I think when it's set right sounds better than any of the modern Marshals that I've heard coming out since like 2000 all of these newer models have a lot of modes but the sounds kind of stink nothing on this app ever sounds bad the note to note articulation and singing nature of the amp really is like a tonal orgasm I absolutely love this app I don't think it gets nowhere near as much love as it should on UA-cam it's one of the best Marshalls ever made in my opinion the only bad thing about it is when it comes time to retube it cost a lot of money because it has 11 total tubes so normally tubing up almost any other Marshall is considerably cheaper but good Lord when you've got the thing going it is all inspiring
Was that "Tease Me Please Me" from the Scorpions at 9:14? That is one of my favorite videos of all time and saw them on that Tour in 1991 with Great White and Trixter haha.
Yeah, what a great riff!
Trixter...now that is a blast from my high school years.
I miss my 6100 so bad... Still got 2 Sets of MIDI Chips for it laying in the drawer...
The big problem of this amps...
But will buy a 6100 in 2 oder 3 Month, this time the EL34 Version.
Now, After some time of searching a found a sweet 1992 EL34 non LM Head and i love it! This Baby will never leave me
I thought i had seen and tried every Marxhall but this is a first
Nice demo Leon. Yeah there's some strange features on the DSL/TSL's from that period (deep, contour switches etc). I think they were more for getting the amp to fit in a mix better. The speaker emulation isn't too bad either.
Comment "I'm out of tune, stop watching". Adjusts the guitar cable - that helps ;)
I think this is the amp used on Bush's Sixteen Stone album
Is there are differences other than tolex color to the black one?
Wow, at 5:29 when you play the Crunch channel Mode B, and then later adjust the controls and play Mode A and then B again - those are some of the very best guitar tones I've ever heard on youtube. There are a couple of 30th Anniversary amps for sale around me and I'm tempted to check them out, but I'm afraid the Crunch channel would be amazing while the other channels are just OK. My TSL100 Crunch channel sounds really good to me but the Clean is very weak and spanky sounding, and the Lead sounds fine for playing solos but not so good with chords. I use the Lead channel basically as a solo boost.
Much appreciated!
@@LeonTodd I absolutely love your playing! I think you're more of a blues/hard rock player than a metal player although you can certainly play metal, and I've stolen lots of great licks from you! Say, would you have some settings suggestions to make my Vintage Modern sound like a late 70s 2203?
I tried that one out at a Guitar Center back when they first came out and didn't like it. It sounded too "glassy". This is the sound I remember. The same day I drove to Hollywood to the Carvin shop and tried the X100B and liked that amp way better. A lot of people crap on the X100B tone, but I think the honest truth is people associate $$$ and name with value, biasing people's perception of what sounds better. Heck, I think the 5150 sounds better than this one.
Great, great demo, dude! Thumbs up, for sure! Thanks for sharing it! By the way: you've got two of my favorites amp heads ever (really, reeeeally love them both!) right behind you: SLO 100 and JCM 2000. Do you know if they are into Axe Fx unit? Do they sound good in Axe Fx modeling? Thank you so much!
The Axe-Fx has an SLO 100 model (all three channels) as well as models of the Soldano X88 & X99 pre's which all sound fantastic. It doesn't have a JCM2000 but it has just about every other Marshall; the Friedman BE C45 model sounds very similar to a DSL though.
Leon Todd Thank you for the kind and quick reply!
How do I connect the head to my speakers
Hello Leon , there is the six tubes is for preamp only?The JVM and JCM 2000 DSL are four tubes for the preamp.What is the difference my friend?
No BS opinion...... JCM 2000 100W or this one? I value your content and point of view. Merry Christmas from Massachusetts!!!!
I thought the amber channel was mode : A=jtm45 B=1959 C=900
Reaper
I own one!
I wonder if the Strat is a Fender Malmsteen stock model - the color looks like Olympic White and is pretty unusual. Please let us know how you got this guitar and how old it is.
he made a video about it. Not 2/3 weeks ago. its a neck + body build.
@@adriansmith76 Thanks, how could I missed it - ua-cam.com/video/pvqKVEoO2ys/v-deo.html
Awesome demo,Leon! Are the power tubes el34 or 5881?
Late joining in on the fun. I've had my 6100LE since 93, bought new from a store in Vancouver, Canada. A very versatile amp; Leon obviously didn't have the instruction manual to explain the features but did a great job reviewing the amp nonetheless. If you've never seen the LE version, I hope these links work. Marshall only made 800 of the brass plated 6100LE. I recently serviced the tuners so I included a picture of the naked chassis. It would be referred to as a boutique amp today. Note the multiple boards and connections discussed by others in this thread.
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Great playing as always! Not trying to beat a dead horse but see if anyone has JVM410HJS they can loan you and do a comparison video of the Mesa dual rectifier or whichever you prefer of the Mesa's. I would really dig that as I have for years wondered if I bought the wrong amp. The sound of the Mesa is sweet so a comparison would be killer. Take care my friend!