Marshalls: educate me

BintyTwanger77

Seeing as I've gone Mesa (thanks to a couple of comments here), the Marshall search has been postponed. Thanks for all of your advice.

Dave_Mc

TTBZ said:

Dave_Mc said:

Yeah. An extra footswitchable gain stage on the 800 channel would be nice too for hot rodded tones, I guess (and people who don't like it could just not use it). And some form of power scaling, as @TTBZ said.

If they had made the voicing the same, the Laney GH/VH are pretty much this minus the power scaling, just a slightly different feel (harder/less forgiving imo). Just missing that certain marshall mojo that comes with an 800 I guess haha.

Yeah. I've got a GH50L. Strangely I've never actually got round to trying an 800, the shop always seemed to have something else I wanted to try more.

The new GH does seem to have some form of power scaling but I haven't tried it.

ThePrettyDamned

Dave_Mc said:

TTBZ said:

Dave_Mc said:

Yeah. An extra footswitchable gain stage on the 800 channel would be nice too for hot rodded tones, I guess (and people who don't like it could just not use it). And some form of power scaling, as @TTBZ said.

If they had made the voicing the same, the Laney GH/VH are pretty much this minus the power scaling, just a slightly different feel (harder/less forgiving imo). Just missing that certain marshall mojo that comes with an 800 I guess haha.

Yeah. I've got a GH50L. Strangely I've never actually got round to trying an 800, the shop always seemed to have something else I wanted to try more.

The new GH does seem to have some form of power scaling but I haven't tried it.

Oh man, the gh series. I remember when they were £400 each for a gh50 from GAK. Should have hit that up. 

TTBZ

Haha I think I got mine when they were a similar price, just over 10 years ago now I think !

professorben

ThePrettyDamned said:

Dave_Mc said:

TTBZ said:

Dave_Mc said:

Yeah. An extra footswitchable gain stage on the 800 channel would be nice too for hot rodded tones, I guess (and people who don't like it could just not use it). And some form of power scaling, as @TTBZ said.

If they had made the voicing the same, the Laney GH/VH are pretty much this minus the power scaling, just a slightly different feel (harder/less forgiving imo). Just missing that certain marshall mojo that comes with an 800 I guess haha.

Yeah. I've got a GH50L. Strangely I've never actually got round to trying an 800, the shop always seemed to have something else I wanted to try more.

The new GH does seem to have some form of power scaling but I haven't tried it.

Oh man, the gh series. I remember when they were £400 each for a gh50 from GAK. Should have hit that up. 

I remember an advert with Paul Gilbert from the 90's..... I always lusted after one from that. 

Dave_Mc

ThePrettyDamned said:

Dave_Mc said:

TTBZ said:

Dave_Mc said:

Yeah. An extra footswitchable gain stage on the 800 channel would be nice too for hot rodded tones, I guess (and people who don't like it could just not use it). And some form of power scaling, as @TTBZ said.

If they had made the voicing the same, the Laney GH/VH are pretty much this minus the power scaling, just a slightly different feel (harder/less forgiving imo). Just missing that certain marshall mojo that comes with an 800 I guess haha.

Yeah. I've got a GH50L. Strangely I've never actually got round to trying an 800, the shop always seemed to have something else I wanted to try more.

The new GH does seem to have some form of power scaling but I haven't tried it.

Oh man, the gh series. I remember when they were £400 each for a gh50 from GAK. Should have hit that up. 

Yeah, and the VH100R was £600. I missed it too, and thought I'd missed the boat... but then I got my GH50L from Guitar Village in one of their boss gone mad sales for a similar price.

TTBZ

I couldn't sell mine for £270 when i was trying to shift it! Given up for now as I'll not get much time to play for a while anyway. 

Dave_Mc

Yeah from what I've heard the used prices are even lower. Good if you're buying, not so good if you're selling...