Amps & Effects
Marshall Amps
Marshall amplifiers were born in 1962 from a practical problem: British musicians couldn't easily get Fender Bassmans, which were the amp of choice for the sound they were chasing. Jim Marshall, Ken Bran, and Dudley Craven reverse-engineered one — and then modified it. The result was the JTM45, which sounded different enough from the Bassman that it became its own thing. What followed over the next six decades is well-documented history.
The Marshall amps collected here aren't a comprehensive survey of the catalog — they're specific instruments acquired for specific reasons. The Plexi era, the Blackface contemporaries, the JCM800 and its descendants are all part of the broader context, but the examples documented on this page are the ones that landed in this collection firsthand.
Amps & Effects