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“The success that we have achieved with the Marshall brand over recent years is soon going to be seen as having been the warm-up to a new British-Swedish headline act that is going to shake the tech and music industries to their foundations.” “I am proud that this deal has finally been completed,” added Konrad Bergström, founder and board member of Zound Industries until 2018. With the Marshall Group, we are set to accelerate our profitable growth in a $100 billion market.” “Zound has proven itself as a global, fast growing, and progressive company. “Combining our strengths and unique positioning… will fuel our ambition to create premium, innovative, products and experiences for musicians and music lovers around the world,” Zound CEO Jeremy de Maillard said in a statement.

MARSHALL AMPLIFIERS PLUS

One of Marshall’s better-regarded post-90s lines, the JCM2000 series evolved into a Triple Super Lead variant the year after launch, boasting three channels like the 35th Anniversary amps before it, plus some sophisticated effects loop options, XLR emulated outputs, a Virtual Power Reduction attenuator and more.Gibson Wins Jury Verdict Against Dean Over Guitar Shapes There was also a useful Deep button that boosted bottom-end but kept it tightly defined. These each had two selectable sub-modes: Clean and Crunch for the Classic Gain channel, while the Ultra Gain channel offered Lead 1 and 2 modes, offering hot and hotter degrees of modded-Marshall scream. The first model to launch was the DSL100 head, which featured two channels – Classic Gain and Ultra Gain. As the Dual Super Lead moniker suggests, its design brief was to bring the chunkiness and warmth of the old Plexi Super Lead’s power stage together with the high-gain performance of the JCM900. 1966: The year the Plexi was bornĭespite its seemingly millennial title, the JCM2000 was in fact launched three years earlier, in 1997. Thus the ‘Park’ line of amplifiers was born, the moniker deriving from John Jones’s wife’s maiden name. However, Jim decided he could continue selling amps to Jones via CMI, provided he didn’t badge them as Marshalls. The Rose Morris deal prevented Marshall amps being sold via distributors Jim had previously worked with, including John Jones. Keen to claw back this loss of profit elsewhere, Jim started a wholesale business called Cleartone Musical Instruments (CMI). In order to keep Marshall amps competitively priced in stores, Jim was forced to reduce the margin Marshall itself received and later said that signing the Rose Morris deal was one of his few regrets.

Although it opened up new markets, the contract meant Rose Morris got 55 per cent of the proceeds of Marshall amps sold in the US, as well as a healthy slice of the profits of amps sold in the UK. In 1965, Jim Marshall signed a 15-year contract with the Rose Morris Agency, an international instrument distributor.

Park life: two vintage Park heads form the foundation of this tower of tone in the studio of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Richard Fortus. 11: Nigel Tufnel’s maximum volume setting The latter was designed to slope back towards the head to make the overall look less blocky – though Jim claimed it also projected sound towards the back of auditoriums better. Jim Marshall warned him it would be punishingly heavy for The Who’s roadies to lift, to which Townshend allegedly replied, “Sod ’em, they get paid!”īut since a 1960A 4x12 cab weighs around 38kg (84lb), the massive 8x12 probably weighed over 70kg (154lb), Marshall designed the now-iconic two-piece stack with a straight-fronted 4x12 cab on the bottom and an angled 4x12 on top. Marshall duly made three prototypes, after which Townshend requested a behemoth 8x12 cab. However, a request for a 100-watt head was not long in coming. By 1966, Townshend had already taken delivery of a more powerful 50-watt version of the JTM45 head (realistically producing nearer 30 watts) called the Model 1987.

As a customer since Marshall’s earliest days, The Who guitarist’s needs shaped mid-60s prototype amp designs.

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