Marshall Origin 50H Head

An awesome tube amp

I bought this amp mainly for it's abillity to take pedals well. And i have to say i am really pleased with the range of sounds it produces. It is very responsive. The thing i noticed right when i started playing was it was very snappy and the high frequencies come out really strong which can be a good or bad thing depending on the kind of music you play and the guitars you use. Overall i would definately reccomend this amp if you are looking for a vintage style tube amp that takes pedals really well.

simply amazing

this was my first tube amp and I was simply blown away! It sounds amazing, and also works perfect as a pedal platform.

My first tube amp

I love this amp.

The built quality is good and it's easy to use.

Too bad there is no reverb effect thus it's expected to have a reverb pedal in your signal chain.

He offers much more than a warm sound. The atmosphere created if played in the dark is warming as well. Maybe it's the small yellow lamp that ignites when the amp is on. It reminds me of Howl's Moving Castle - Calcifer.

Cool amp.

Good amp for that price

Its a plexi sounding cheap amp, don't expect too much but. Send return is not working well on mine, delay signals keep sounding dirty. But all in all it's a nice sounding plexi like amp.

Versatile Vintage-like Marshall

I play in a band, we do our own music, already own a '69 JMP 50w lead. Wanted to get that sound without attenuators/without deafening myself as well as the band. This amp is like a modernised more balanced version of the JMP i own. Used it for a year, and will continue to do so.

Perfect!

I play for more than 20 years. Mostly blues, funk, jazzy, rock. This amp is really great. Easy to find the tone you like. I don't like many buttons, I'm getting lost there. This is such a straight way to get the sound. The amp sounds perfect with my Fender Stratocaster MIM, it also works great with my BOSS ME 80 through the send/return. I've had Fender Blues Deluxe 40w reissue combo, but this head with Harley Benton box sounds grrrrrr. I'm using it for nearly 20 months and you should get one ;)

Amazing amp!

This amplifier is incredibly powerful! I play it at home through a reactive load Torpedo captor 8 at -20 decibels, at the very minimum power cutoff of this amplifier (low). Very loud! I also played it with drummer and bassist in my punk rock band, also on the amp's low cutoff (low) and this amp did it! the sound is classic, but I also loaded this amp with an overdrive pedal and played metal and hard core. The disadvantages of the amplifier can probably be attributed to its weight (about 17 kg), but this disadvantage is rather conditional. It has a very pleasant to the touch leather cover. The potentiometer knobs work tightly, without backlash. You can play blues and hard rock and metal and much more. The ergonomics are super. Thank you Marshall for this amplifier!

Hello guys. I bought this unit in order to use it as a back up amp but I changed my mind. this amp goes to straight to the front lines . I really like this hard rock sound . perfect for me and my band

Marshall Quality, Shame About The Sound

I bought this in an attempt to split the weight of my guitar rig, currently a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe IV. Using an A/B switch, it was easy to compare the two. Sadly, the Marshall lacked the lovely full sound of the Fender. I even tried connecting the speaker of the Fender to the Marshall and vice versa. It improved the Marshall marginally, but the Fender still sounded better, even through the separate cabinet that I was using for the Marshall.

With tone settings Bass:10 Middle:10 Treble:0 Presence:0 the Marshall sound still lacked body and depth. Increasing Treble or Presence just made it shrill. Using the Tilt control, the sound just went from woolly to ear-piercingly shrill with nothing in between that I liked. Engaging the gain boost helped a bit if you have it on all the time, you have no extra boost left for soloing.

Disappointed!

let there be Marshall

the gain goes from completely clean to AC/DC. it really shines when it's completely gunned and run through an attenuator. also really loves a tubescreamer or some high output pickups. looks beautiful, sounds beautiful and is lighter and smaller than most heads. it really competes with more expensive heads and I really like it.

the footswitch is kind of dumb, the cable is REALLY, unnecessarily, long and you can't switch it to something reasonable. it's also required to run the FX loop