Marshall MS2 Micro Amp - Black

This amp will never be your main amp - it's not designed to be. It's meant as a portable way of taking your electric guitar to places where you wouldn't be able to lug your gigging set-up. I teach guitar for a living & this is perfect for when I need to go into schools & such like. I also do a regular slot playing guitar live on a local radio show, for which this amp is perfect. Its volume is on the same kind of scale as a big dreadnought acoustic guitar bashing out the decibels - no problem being heard. I play a strat with a HSS pickup layout, so I tend to leave the amp on it's OD setting all the time. If I use the neck (single coil) p/u with the guitar volume at around 5-6, I get a very usable clean sound - good for strumming & general accompaniment. Wind up the guitar volume pot to 10 & you've got a usable SRV style crunch. Flick to the bridge humbucker for Kinks-style raspy distortion (think "You Really Got Me"). There is a nice "touch sensitivity" when playing through this amp - you get the sense that someone at Marshall was involved in the way it sounds, rather than just slapping their badge onto a generic product. It does have a quite "Marshally" sound, albeit within the context of what a 3" speaker is able to deliver. For twenty quid, you can't really do any better at taking your guitar out & about - even a cheap acoustic is going to cost at least double that AND you have to put up with playing a cheap guitar. This little beauty allows you to take your favourite electric plank anywhere you like - you can even use headphones with it too. It would have been nice to have an input for an mp3 player so you could jam along with backing tracks, but as I said, for 20 quid, it's still a bargain!

I've been playing guitar on-and-off for the last 15 years at somewhere between a beginner and an intermediate level (It's just a casual hobby for me and something to-do alongside my other interests). I've had other larger and more expensive amplifiers over the years, and I'm very surprised how well the Marshal MS2 holds up despite its size, and its affordability. Build quality-wise, the amp feels adequately built for the price. It is very light, and the housing feels a bit plasticky, but the dials and various ports (the bit that matter) feel well-made. The sound quality, however, is incredible; it's difficult to really articulate how good it is with words, so I'd recommend looking at some demonstration videos online. The clarity on the clean mode is superb. I'm not the biggest fan of the overdrive mode as I'd much rather use a dedicated effects pedal (more versatility), but it is nice that it is included. Despite some of the drawbacks I have listed, I cannot overstate how good this sounds and performs for its price point. It is very affordable, very portable, and I will be using this as my go-to amp for the time being. Update (October 2024): I eventually parted ways with this mini amp, after receiving another larger amp, and then eventually moving exclusively to a classical acoustic guitar. I still would strongly recommend this amp, especially if you are on a budget. It is miles better than some of the budget amps I was using way back when.

I personally am an amateur guitarist. I wanted to learn playing the electric guitar, so with a bit of research I can make a firm statement that this wasn't a waste of money. The sound coming out of the built in diaphgram is good enough if you want to play in your room. It will also suffice for playing in a small group. There is a headphone jack that can be used to output the sound to headphones or even a mixer. I think that this is a very useful feature if you want to record some tunes that you play on a computer. I have not had any other amplifiers in the past but based on the sound that I hear coming out of the speaker, I can say that you will be able to play almost any tune that you can think of and it will sound really good. I am using this amp for a Yamaha pacifica 012. The guitar has four different pick ups and the amp does really well in producing different sounding tones when switching the input from pick up to pick up. Only reason I give it four stars is because I feel like they should have added a built in lithium-ion rechargeable battery which would have made the product perfect.

First off it buzzes if you power it by a dc adapter from the wall, but not from a 9v battery. Secondly it distorts on clean even at a pretty low volume. My way round the distortion on clean was to use a distortion pedal but not turned on. I do not know the reason as to why a pedal inactivated between stops the distortion on clean, but it does. The pedals also needs to be powered by battery as it makes the amp buzz too even if they are powered by an adapter. So for me this is a cracking little amp but need to use batteries for the amp and the pedals I plug into it. I thought I wasted my money until I put a distortion pedal into it and the clean channel just went really nice. Just need to use batteries, lots. So 9v rechargeable batteries and a charger would be a good idea.

i bought this because everyone raves about them. i was actually really underwhelmed. the drive sound is actually awful, but the clean sounds good. but to be fair really affordable, can leave it anywhere because its so small, and runs on batteries which is cool. having said that, i want to try a multi effects pedal through it. see i think this will work because the clean sound is nice and clear. if it was more expensive i would have probably returned it but cant complain for the price. nice to plug in to get warmed up and ready before i plug into my pc.

Ich brauchte einen kleinen Amp zum üben zu Hause, wollte jedoch nicht viel zu viel ausgeben, da ich letzendlich noch ein Anfänger bin. Dann habe ich den MS-2 von Marshall gefunden. Für weniger als 30€ bekommt man eine Box, die etwa so groß ist wie 2 aktuelle Smartphones nebeneinander. Marshall hat versucht, den Look und Feel von den größeren Brüdern, die man meistens auf der Bühne während Konzerten sieht, zu behalten. Ich würde sagen, dass das ihnen prima gelungen ist: der eigentliche Lautsprecher ist mit schwarzem Textil-Material bedeckt auf dem der Marshall-Logo geklebt ist. Die Knöpfe sind aus einem wertigen Material und sind leicht zu drehen, ohne billig zu wirken. Also von der Verarbeitungsqualität her ist der kleine Marshall top. Die 1 Watt Ausgangsleistung schien mir Anfangs wenig zu sein, aber nach einigen Stunden habe ich festgestellt, dass sie fürs üben Zimmer völlig ausreicht. Der Amp ist also laut genug. Wenn man jedoch nicht seine Mitbewohner stören möchte, gibt es einen Klinkenausgang für Kopfhörer - leider nicht als 3.5mm (Standard-) Jack, sondern als 6.35mm (Instrument-) Jack. Da bräuchte man also ein Adapter für, die sind jedoch ziemlich billig. Das einzige was mich hier stört (zumindest bei meinem Produkt) ist, dass er unangenehm bei hoher Lautstärke auf fast jeder Oberfläche vibriert - das kann man nur so lösen, wenn man ihn auf einem Teppich legt oder etwas ähnliches. Ich benutze ihn nie auf voller Lautstärke (weil er für mich dann zu laut wird) - deshalb kein Sternabzug. Es gibt 2 Modi zwischen denen man mithilfe des Power-Buttons schalten kann: Clean (ON) und Overdrive (OD). Es gibt nichts besonderes zum Clean Modus. Ich bin jedoch vom OD Modus begeistert - besonders bei meinem Fender Stratocaster HSS - Das rockt einfach ganz wild. Der MS-2 kommt mit einer 9V Batterie (keine wiederaufladbare), kann aber mit einem 9V power adapter (nicht mitgeliefert) ans Strom angeschlossen werden, jedoch finde ich, dass das ziemlich unnötig ist, da der MS-2 wegen der "Größe" eingentlich als tragbarer Amp benutzt werden sollte. Also für die 30€ gibt's wenig zu meckern zum MS-2. Die Verarbeitung ist einfach top, Lautstärke und Klang trotz der Größe gut. Besonders zum Üben sehr gut geeignet, wegen der Tragbarkeit wahrscheinlich auch für kleine Straßenauftritte angemessen (jedoch von mir nicht so getestet).

Suena muy bien con guitarra electroacústica

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Som melhor que o esperado... Excelente pra estudar...

perfect foe small apartment and travel friendly too