NAD: Marshall JCM 800 2203/1960B

[BenjaminW]

Well there goes my hearing. I finally cured some extreme GAS of mine now that I got this bad boy in my possession.

I was supposed to get the amp today, but Sweetwater was nice enough to deliver it a day early which is awesome because that's one less day of GAS for me!

Along with the amp, I got a Rivera Rock Crusher attenuator to help control the volume, but the funny thing is that I can get a good sound out of it with the master volume at 5. I didn't get the attenuator to quite work last night, but I will spend some time on figuring out how to get it to work.

I will say that JCM 800s sound better in person than they do in comparison to YouTube videos.

 

[budda]

2203s are a good time. Enjoy!

 

[AndiKravljaca]

Awesome. Please, for the love of all that's holy. Do a little video of some chunky '80s rhythms on that.

 

[budda]

Awesome. Please, for the love of all that's holy. Do a little video of some chunky '80s rhythms on that.

He will want to get an SD-1 first.

 

[Mprinsje]

HNAD!

800's are my favourite amps, have fun!

 

[sharedEQ]

So. Few. Knobs.

 

[StevenC]

Along with the amp, I got a Rivera Rock Crusher attenuator to help control the volume, but the funny thing is that I can get a good sound out of it with the master volume at 5.

HNGD, but for real use ear protection. Damaging your ears is not worth it.

 

[Cynicanal]

HNGD, but for real use ear protection. Damaging your ears is not worth it.

The "playing a Marshall amp is like having sex" analogies just write themselves, don't they?

"Always use protection. You think it's more fun to not, but you'll regret it."

 

[Iron1]

Sweet. Congrats... and enjoy the hearing loss.

 

[BenjaminW]

Sweet. Congrats... and enjoy the hearing loss.

Can’t wait to be deaf!

 

[Iron1]

Can’t wait to be deaf!

I used to have a JCM900 4100 - if you strummed an open E chord and then tried to turn it up to ten, your eyeballs would start shaking so bad you couldn't see the printing on the face of the amp.

 

[BenjaminW]

I used to have a JCM900 4100 - if you strummed an open E chord and then tried to turn it up to ten, your eyeballs would start shaking so bad you couldn't see the printing on the face of the amp.

Sometimes I still can never understand how Eddie Van Halen was able to dime his amps and still be able to hear.

 

[Cynicanal]

Because he variaced them so hard that the power sections were totally starved of voltage. This is also why he reportedly only got a few hours of use out of a set of tubes.

 

[newamerikangospel]

I thought he ran his amps super hot? The variac at low voltages would cause them to be lower voltage, and lower wattages causing them to run colder unless I am mistaken

 

[Cynicanal]

Bias and B+ voltage are two different things. Variacing affects the second, not the first.

 

[newamerikangospel]

Interesting. I thought they were dependent on each other equally.