Marshall Class 5 Combo discontinued

nick · 2013-02-06T13:58:53+00:00

According to a post on the les paul forum the Marshall Class 5 has been discontinued. The head is apparently still in production but it was apparently far le...

Marshall Class 5 Combo discontinued

AlanRatcliffe

Kalcium wrote: I think the ideal would be a situation where you have a clean amp and a dirty amp that you then switch between...

I've done that (Twin and Vox AC15 HW), but it's a major schlepp to cart around two amps.

Gearhead

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Kalcium wrote: I think the ideal would be a situation where you have a clean amp and a dirty amp that you then switch between...
I've done that (Twin and Vox AC15 HW), but it's a major schlepp to cart around two amps.

... so someone should put them into one? :?

Tokai-SA

If you want a small Marshall head then this is the one.

Jayhell

As a proud Class5 Owner here is the deal. I if you want a small full valve amp that you can lug around to practice and small gigs, that you can pretty much crank to the max at practice (and yes she'll compete with a drummer.), like it dirty as hell and like not to fiddle to much with the sound of your amp, this amp is perfect. This is a one trick pony, but it is one hell of a trick. If something happened to mine, I'll go right out and buy another one. Yes I had issues with my first one but then got a working one. Once the warranty expires I'll get a couple of mods though.

nick

The class 5 can definately hang with a drummer, used mine quite a bit at practice. I also modded it a fair bit and think it sounds even better 8)

Norman86

Gearhead wrote:
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Kalcium wrote: I think the ideal would be a situation where you have a clean amp and a dirty amp that you then switch between...
I've done that (Twin and Vox AC15 HW), but it's a major schlepp to cart around two amps.
... so someone should put them into one? :?

Done... and it costs less than those 2 amps combined!
its the Kemper ?

Jayhell

nick wrote: The class 5 can definately hang with a drummer, used mine quite a bit at practice. I also modded it a fair bit and think it sounds even better 8)

What mods do you have?

nick

Jayhell wrote:
nick wrote: The class 5 can definately hang with a drummer, used mine quite a bit at practice. I also modded it a fair bit and think it sounds even better 8)
What mods do you have?

Swopped out quite a few of the caps/resistors for ones of different values to voice is slightly differently. There is a really long post on the one les paul forum explaining it, will see if I can find it again.

Sean

Norman86 wrote:
Gearhead wrote:
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Kalcium wrote: I think the ideal would be a situation where you have a clean amp and a dirty amp that you then switch between...
I've done that (Twin and Vox AC15 HW), but it's a major schlepp to cart around two amps.
... so someone should put them into one? :?
Done... and it costs less than those 2 amps combined!
its the Kemper ?

I was also doing it at one stage, a solid state 100watt Yamaha for my cleans, and the 4 watt Vox for overdrive. Like Alan says, a real pain to cart around.
That was what was behind my amp build and having a 15 watt clean channel and a 2 watt drive channel. I'll still post a clip to show the amp being switched between the two channels. I also have the option of using the drive channel in 15watt mode as well.

Jayhell

I'd like to get the mod where you route the headphones to the speaker out and it's a quarter watter. Also a standby switch would be nice. I think it's such a simple machine anything is possible.

nick

Jayhell wrote: I'd like to get the mod where you route the headphones to the speaker out and it's a quarter watter. Also a standby switch would be nice. I think it's such a simple machine anything is possible.

The headphone wattage cut is a whole single wire and two areas to solder. Not really worth it to be honest, cuts the volume too much and it gets too grainy

nick

Anyone got a Class5 head?

Stoner-Riff

BUMMER . . . and i thought they was on a winning number with this one.

This could have been Marshall's 'Blues Jr.' Looks like it was not !

Luckily i have my combo safely in my house.

That Slash AFD combo is going to be over priced in the US, and even more so over here !