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Marshall Amplification designs and manufactures music amplifiers and speaker cabinets. Founded in London by Jim Marshall, shop owner and drummer, the company is based in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England. Marshall Amplification is one of several divisions of Stockholm-based Marshall Group since March 2023.
- Marshall Bluesbreaker
The Marshall Bluesbreaker is the popular name given to the...
- Jim Marshall
James Charles Marshall OBE (29 July 1923 – 5 April 2012)...
- Marshall JTM45
The Marshall JTM45 amplifier is the first guitar amplifier...
- Marshall Bluesbreaker
Marshall Amps – The Complete History. The famous Marshall sound was founded upon an amplifier built in a garden shed by a few amateur radio fanatics, and the period until 1968 became the era of the first Marshalls – the classic JTM series. Rob Stockley tells the story of Marshall Amps… By Guitar.com.
The JTM45 is born. Named Number One, the first Marshall amp received 23 orders on its first day of sale, in the autumn of 1962. It would later be renamed the JTM45. From the beginning, Marshall rated its amps by RMS (which is where the 45 comes in) where other manufacturers rated their designs in terms of peak power.
- 1: A do-it-all valve preamp for the 90s. The JMP-1 valve preamp, launched in 1992, was a child of the rackmount era. It featured four channels, two clean and two dirty, and was (natch) MIDI programmable.
- 3: The number of Marshall stacks Hendrix first bought. Jimi Hendrix was only just finding his feet as the rising star of the London scene in 1966. Author Rich Maloof notes in his excellent reference book Jim Marshall: The Father Of Loud that Hendrix was chagrined to discover he couldn’t bring the Fender amp he ordinarily used because the space was already taken up by multiple Marshall head-and-cab rigs used by other guitarists on the bill.
- 4: Marshall’s 350-watt hybrid. Marshall’s Mode Four guitar amp, which was launched in 2003, was designed to meet the needs of contemporary metal players.
- 8: The number of speakers Pete Townshend wanted. As a customer since Marshall’s earliest days, The Who guitarist’s needs shaped mid-60s prototype amp designs.
Apr 5, 2012 · 1 of 16. i. View slideshow. Jim Marshall helped make rock 'n' roll loud. The British electrical engineer, musician and owner of Marshall Amplification produced one of the most iconic pieces...
