This is the perfect balanced Marshall amp for home or small gigs. That is definitely at the top of my list to be acquired. Well done for bringing and demonstrating this and, Marshall… Just Thank You for existing (and innovating)! \m/
A huge thank you to Marshall for letting me a part of this release and sending this out all the way from the UK! This amp is a lot of fun, and I love the 5-watt/20-watt option! Plug in, turn it up, and enjoy! What an amp.🤘Check it out below. 🛒 Sweetwater Amp Head - sweetwater.sjv.io/EKy60n 🛒 Sweetwater Cabinet - sweetwater.sjv.io/q4yKgO 🛒 Thomann - bit.ly/4500L0X 🛒 Guitar Center - guitar-center.pxf.io/nLyKNR 🛒 Sky Music - alnk.to/7M7KbpL (affiliate links)
That's what I keep thinking, despite the Tonemaster, Fractal Audio, Kemper, modellers, various brands keep making valve/tube amps ..and people keep buying them
These Studio models are awesome! Taking an extremely loud amp and making it usable for home use is brilliant! You make it sound so amazing mate!!!😎😎😎🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
This amp captures perfectly the classic tones that created the British blues invasion. I love how it cleans up from the guitar…it sounds incredible! Great work mate!
Ok first of all…WOW! I love that you used two different guitars carrying out different duties! That tonal separation hit nicely! Your Strat clean was so seriously amazing! That has to be one of the absolute best cleans I have ever heard!
So, being a Strat guy, that clasic Marshall tone with a Stratocaster is a match made in heaven. 😇 I, too, have a Blues Deluxe as my primary amp. But the Marshall 20w amp head lineup has my attention! Thanks for the awesome demo.👍
I feel every tone on every guitar demoed was really great, but I was totally enamored with the first part of the Strat demo (clean/edge of break up, neck pickup I think) and ALL of the Tele demo-that killed!! Shane - you are a top-of-the-line demo guy and a monster player. And congratulations on personally being chosen by Marshall to be part of this new gear demo. Cheers, man!! (New Hampshire USA)
Great Review. I bought this amp recently and am blown away by the sheer versatility of amazing tones. Once again Marshall's studio series simply rocks.
Beat demo yet I’ve seen today and really shows the variety of tones but also shows the classic sounds - capturing some Allman bros, Clapton and Greeny.
Was not what I was expecting you to play through the JTM Shane! Very late Dire Straits feel there (On Every Street). Although it seemed to really shine with the single coil strat. I got to admit, the JTM and matching cabinet look cool AF and sounds just as good 🤘 My eyes are watering from the retail price on them though 😂🤣 I'm a bit surprised with the speaker choice of creambacks. I would have thought they'd go more vintage with greenbacks? Not that they sound bad by any means. With the creambacks rated at 65Wea, even a single greenback is 25W and two would give it 50W handling - more than enough for the 20W head.
Shane. I have watched so many reviews on this head and matching Cab and I have to say up to watching this I was flipping back and forth every 5 minutes in my choice between this and the other studio head they have (the Plexi style one) But this review has made my mind up now. Thank you for such a cool review Way too many others don’t do enough review with good solid rhythm parts to get a real feel for the tone. Keep up your amazing clips and fantastic playing Mal- in Ireland.
This thing is simply killer and you did a great demo as usual Shane. I'm really glad that Marshall sent you this amp. I love the look and the sound of this amp.
Channel jumping is the way to go on this amp. What an 'eye-catchy' piece of old school amp with some new 'smarts' technology. The sounds are great, particularly with single-coils strat. Good review. And how lucky are you getting to test all this good gear! 😀👌
Amazing: Marshall going back to the beginning LOOK !!!! I remember seeing this Marshall LOOK in a music shop in Naples, Italy back in 68. It was so strange to see the name Marshall on something of the past that did not fit. Now Marshall has returned.
As great as these new JTM's sound you have to also give credit to the M65 creambacks. Every demo I've seen so far has the matching 2x12 cabinet with them. I was pleasantly surprised that they went with them. I figured they'd go with greenbacks since this is just a 20 watt head. The M65 has become my favorite Celestion speaker. I use it for everything including metal. It cleans up nice and chugs like a V30 without the annoying upper mid spike.
I have a 2009 JTM45 reissue, I run it through a captor X into a 1960ax cab, and It's probably my favourite of all the amps I own. I must say, even though pretty much all my pedals sound great into the front of it, I am a little envious of the effect loop on the studio version. It looks killer too, I'm glad they went with the early aesthetics rather than taking the lazy route and making it look the same as the SV20.
I’ve had the privilege of playing this amp mate! 100% agree with you…for blues/rock, the tone & dynamic response of this amp is the best I’ve played ever! I highly recommend that you try it out!
Wow what a (as always) great demo i am so tempted by this amphead/combo set up for live work, still not sure which to choose like the idea of the combo as easy to carry but love a 2x12 hmmmm . I'll see which i can get cheapest i guess. Thanks again for the great demo and thank Dr Ric for his demo too
Thank you, Scott. I have the Kiesel video in editing right now. I have to agree it's a beast of a guitar! Thanks so much mate. This amp was a lot of fun. It covers so much ground musically.
Sounds amazing. I wish Marshall would make their English made products more competitive for the American consumer. $1,800 is too steep for a 20watt amplifier.
Very Cool, Thankyou. Awesome Looking and Sounding Amp. So many features. I have a Marshall MG15MSii Mini Stack Amp which is amazing and I love it, but always want a Marshall Tube Amp, this could be it. Thankyou for the comprehensive honest review. Cheers
The fact you can quit smile that wonderful smile testifies Marshall does it RIGHT! The price tag of $1,749.99 (just for the head) means I will never smile like that.
Shane, you really did play tones that my ears love. Thank you so much for your efforts here. The JTM45 is my favorite sounding amp. I have had 3 new JTM 45's and sadly all 3 developed problems within a week. I am hesitant in purchasing a 4th. JTM 45 as I fear the worst. I can't face a life without the JTM 45 tone! So now, at present I am living my life every day searching for that tone. I'm not just saying that, as everyday I try getting the JTM tone from one or another of my guitar amplifiers. I even run myn Fender '59 Bassman Ltd. through my Marshall Full Stack of (2) 412 speaker cabs. You have come really really close to making my ears happy. Perhaps a new Marshall Studio JTM MKll 20H is in my future. It's already in my "cart" on a couple of popular sites. In a few day's from tonight, if I don't purchase a new Marshall Studio JTM MKll 20 Watt Head, then that can only mean that I have decided on the Original, the JTM 45 2245 for another go. To be really honest I still think only the JTM 45 / 2245 will give me the tone I crave. But then again, in all practicality I should at least try the Studio JTM MKll head. If I find that it is what I crave then I saved myself $1,200. If it's not then I can return it and know that at least I did try. Then of course I have only one route to go and that is another new purchase of the Marshall JTM 45/2245 amp. I am determined to enjoy the remaining years I have left to live upon our earth. One final consideration is I don't know how to bias a JTM 45/2245, so in the next few days I shall seek information on how to bias the Studio JTM MKll head. If it's a process that I am familiar with (I have the Origin 50 H) and a couple of DSL40C combo amps and I understand how to bias these amps. The Fender '59 Bassman Ltd. is so easy to bias, for what' that's worth. -Peter age 73
Love what I’ve seen of this amp, of course these guys could make first act gear sound great. I’ll be enjoying what I have, but these are very tempting. Nice demo!
OH yeah I have a JCM2000 made in UK, and an Origin made in Vietnam, but I've been eyeing these since they were announced every time I see a demo, makes me wish I wasn't buying a house right now! LOL. Oh well after all that's done this looks like something I'll be picking up!
🎆✨🎉🎊 Happy New Year Dude - Keep the Videos coming - My annual Birthday guitar in August might be this Marshall Studio JTM MKII Amplifier ⚡and matching 2x12 cabinet in stead of another Les Paul. I'll do that another time. . . Adding a Bugera PS1 Power Attenuator will be needed as well. Thanks Again. . .
Thanks, Jim. All the best for 2024 mate and I hope you get your hands on this amp, it's pretty wild! The 5-watt mode is still pretty loud on this one so the attentuator will be a big help. Rock on mate.
Mate, sounds so THROATY! Esp with a hb equipped guitar! My Ashton BT does a similar type of sound on its crunch channel! I think THIS S20 model tops the Vintage Plexi model & the S Modern/JCM800 model hands down! GOOD to see it has an fx loop also! GOOD for adding some rev to the amp! IS this a loaner or a keeper? DOES the Marshall distro want it back or it's yours? Great demo Shane!
@@intheblues Cool! I thinks you're gonna make sweet sweet musical love to THAT amp mate! AND you can try it with different speaker combos & see what you get OUT of that head! Honestly, that is the BEST sounding of these Studio 20 models Marshall have released thus far! They're ALL good esp the Plexi model, but this predecessor model the JTM, sounds NEXT level! IF I were in the market for another amp, THIS is the Marshall Studio I'd go for! Rockin'! \m/
These studio amps have hands down one of the best power scaling I've ever used, and I'm an amp tech so I've played a lot of them. I have a Silver Jubilee model and there's hardly any difference between the 20 & 5W beyond the volume. Usually amps loosen up and have more sag at the lower settings, and you lose some top and bottom end. I don't really notice any of these things beyond the differences with how it interacts with the speaker cabinet. I'm curious to try this one. I played the Plexi version and was surprised how close it got to actually sounding like a Super lead through a 4x12. Beyond the amp itself, the 4X12 creates some phase cancellation that plays a noticeable part of that sound, and it's the one thing that smaller clones can't do. I don't know what's going on with Studio, but it has some of that character even though you're running into a 10" on the combo, or typically 1X12 with the heads.
@@mr.d.572 it's pretty much what it sounds like, a sort of a looser spongy compression. Regarding a Plexi combo, it depends what you need: high watt or low, do you want more gain or are you looking to get closer to an actual Plexi, do you need an FX loop, price range,etc? There's always one of these Studio models, I'm pretty sure they make a combo. Ceriatone make really great clones and modified clones. They're not cheap, but their not expensive either and their all hand wired point-to-point amps, and they're dirt cheap if you compare other similarly constructed amps. I think they have a bit of a wait for them but you might find some on the used market. If you know how to solder you can buy a kit and build it yourself.
@@timwhite5562 I'd say higher gain if possible and FX loop would be important but I could live without it if I had to. Lower wattage options would be great too. I don't really know how to do amp repair and so I would t be able to build anything. I'll start though by looking into what you already mentioned 👍
@@mr.d.572 take a look at the Yeti and chupacabra, they're modified Plexi circuits. They both have master volumes (a Plexi doesn't), so right off the bat you're able to get a lot more Preamp gain. They have modifications that give them higher gain and more tone options, but beyond that they have cascading preamps. People jump the two channels on Plexis, which allows you to play through both channels at the same time. However you're playing them in parallel (both channels are running separately onto the power stage). When you cascade them you're also running through both channels, but they're running in series (one channel runs into the next channel, then they move to the power stage), it's akin to stacking the preamps in the same way you stack overdrive pedals. So both give you a lot of options for tweaking your sound. The Yeti leans more to the vintage Plexi, where the Chupacabra is closer more to a metal plate modified 70s JMPs and have a more aggressive sound. They both come in 50 or 100W, but they also make a "Son of Yeti," which is a 20W. I haven't looked at Ceriatones in a while, but I know they've come out with more models over the last few years. Honestly when someone tells me they're looking for a Marshall, I always suggest for them to look at the Ceriatone. Like I said, they are all point-to-point, hand wired amps and their build quality is exceptional. I've owned several of their Dumble clones over the years, and have built more than a dozen kits for other people who didn't want to wait for Ceriatone to do it. I think the 50W was under $1100 new, but that was several years ago, I don't know what they run now. Good luck. PS: they have FX loops
It 's been one year and I am watching it again. My impression ( as of summer 2024) is that this iteration of Marshall JTM sounds at times better, than my hand wired custom made copy of Marshall Plexi ( based on schematic by late Tim Krueger/Rambla FX-) . It seems that there is one more amp I need to buy. And i thought that this "amp race" is over... Apparently not yet :-)
G’day Simon, Dr Ric here. I had the privilege of playing through this incredible amp after this video was shot. There’s a fair amount of clean-ish headroom on the full power (20 watt) setting…probably somewhere between a Fender Princeton and a Deluxe Reverb. I don’t think we’ll see any funk guitarists using it…but for blues/classic rock, it’s completely brilliant!
Great review !! As usual. I bought the combo has creamback 12 I have a 2x12 with creamback and a low end speaker. Want to move JTM cream from combo to this 2x12. For variety what’s another 12” that I could put in the JTM combo that you think would be different but a good match??? TIA
Hi Shane I hope you’re doing well. How much does knocking it down to 5W affect volume? Would that be appropriate for small venues or would you still use the 20W and just keep the volume knob low?
