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Marshall Class5 Five-Watt All Tube Class A Guitar Amp with 10 inch Speaker |
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The Class5 is the lowest wattage combo amp made by Marshall. Jim calls it the “Baby Plexi”. It features a 10 inch Celestion speaker, two 12AX7 preamp tubes, EL-84 power tube, 3-Band EQ, Headphone Output, and an External Speaker Output. It can be used for practice, rehearsal with a small band, or recording. You might think that 5-watts isn’t much in the way of power but its enough to rehearse with a band in your garage. If playing with a band you may want to put it on a chair or raise it up off the ground. The sound of the amp leans towards the Bluesbreaker amp but the Class5 has a tone of its own (Bluesbreaker with EL-84s instead of the 6L6’s). It’s designed using two 12AX7 (ECC83) preamp tubes and one EL-84 power amp tube. The amp topology is Class ‘A’ which outputs more even numbered harmonics especially when pushed to saturation. This is one of the important elements to the amp’s sound. The amp sounds the best with the Volume knob all the way up. With single-coil pickups its sounds like Hendrix or Jeff Beck (stratocaster) while a using humbuckers give a great Angus Young tone. The controls are top mounted and have the “Plexi” look. There are 4 controls: Volume, Treble, Middle, and Bass. The amount of distortion depends upon how far the Volume control along with the EQ settings. You can control the amount using your guitar’s volume control. This way you can keep it low and get your clean tone and turn it up for lead sounds. For metal players the Class5 sounds great with your stompbox or other distortion pedals. The speaker is a 10 inch Celestion G10F-15 that has been developed for the Class5. It delivers enough low end while still maintaining its tonal clarity and definition. On the back panel of the amp you’ll also find an External speaker jack so you can plug the amp in to any 16 ohm cabinet, like a 4x12 Marshall cabinet. The cabinet is made from high quality birch and has a small port in the back of the amp. The port allows enough air to stop the cabinet from sounding hollow while keeping the bottom end tight and full. For practicing you can plug in your headphones in to the back panel. It uses a special output filter and 16-ohm dummy load that connects directly to the output transformer. This way you hear what the both the power tube and transformer are outputting. The 16 ohm dummy load is used to maintain the correct impedance. When using the headphones you have to set the Headphones/ Speaker switch to “headphones”. When the switch is set to speaker you’ll hear either the internal or external speaker. You won’t hear both the speaker and headphones at the same time. Features
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