Marshall DSL40CR

Comprei este amplificador pois sempre gostei do som Marshall e nunca tive nenhum. Além disso foi o meu primeiro amplificador a válvulas.

Estou muito contente com a compra, estava com receio com a questão do volume alto dos amplificadores a válvulas, pois ele seria para usar em casa a maior parte do tempo. Contudo, isso não é problema, o amplificador soa bem mesmo com o volume baixo. Isso deve-se ao tom ser criado na secção do preamp e não no power amp como nos modelos vintage, isto foi o aspeto decisivo para mim. Obviamente que alto soa ainda melhor.

Tem um bom clean mas o volume baixa relativamente aos outros canais mas dá para compensar com os 2 master volumes. O crunch e lead1 são os canais que mais gosto, com um Boss SD1 a fazer boost fica espetacular. O lead 2 acho que tem ganho a mais, muito comprimido, e o tone shift nem vale a pena usar, também não é preciso.

Pelo preço, foi uma excelente compra e recomendo a 100 %.

After trying to decide whether to go for a valve amp or something like a Katana.

I'm so glad that I picked the Marshall DSL40CR. I just love the way valve amps clean up when you roll back the volume. This is a very versatile amp, the clean channel is great and the crunch and drive the amp produces are good too. The amp has a 40 or 20-watt mode and I also use it with the Harley Benton PA-100 Power Attenuator so I can use it for practising at home.

In conclusion, I feel I have made an excellent choice. I can highly recommend this, it's plenty loud enough for gigging. If you have only used a modelling amp before you should really give a proper tube amp a try.

I have used this Marshall amplifier on probably 2-3 month and also taking it out and played live maybe 5 times. There’s not been one gig where I’ve ever been concerned about its reliability. The stock valves have worked extremely well and it is great to see Marshall putting in quality tubes/vales to start with. This saves having to upgrade them because they put in junk right from the get-go.

I can foresee myself having this amplifier for quite some time. I’ve purchased and sold so many guitar amplifiers over the years and not have given me such a great sound without any pedals as this particular amplifier has. This has become my main loud gig amp and something I will take to play festivals with when setup time is important. The fewer effects you have on the floor the easier it is to set up. In loud rooms, this is my go-to amplifier. I haven’t been as satisfied with any other amp purchase this much with the exception of my Fender Blues Deluxe. The great thing is, I now have both and they are apples and oranges in terms of what they give me. If you haven’t tried a Marshall DSL40CR give it a shot but remember – TURN IT UP! I hope this review of the Marshall DSL40CR guitar amplifier has been helpful. Feel free to share it if it has been, thank you.

Sadly this was defective from the factory. Suspect manufacturing quality issues related to the signal input or preamp. Research online regarding known issues and have a suspicion that the tubes are not being biased at factory, the quality of circuit build may be poor and the noise likely indicates a poor earth somewhere on the pre-amp or input to the pre-amp. Low output and noisy signal, including the effects loop, Marshall not very interested, but Thomann customer support have been pretty good, although feedback due to return under warranty could be quicker as no idea if it can be repaired or what the quality of the repair might be or when I might see it again.
For an amp that's had a guitar plugged into it twice, I'd prefer a replacement and I'm now suspicious of what else might be lurking inside the cabinet. Advice - check it as soon as you receive it, if it doesn't sound right send back ASAP for replacement otherwise it will be a warranty repair. I'm hoping the repair tech will spot any other manufacturing horrors and properly bias the tubes, which may result in a usable amp.
Return process was simple customer support made it easy to return.
Can't really comment on the features as not been able to use it.
Handling. It's really heavy, but Thomann made sending it back simple.
Quality-utter garbage from what I've seen. It's not difficult to build simple circuits. Should never have got out of the factory.
Sound. Again utter garbage. Totally unusable.
For the price, this should be an absolute monster, but not a complete nightmare.