Mostly I believe it is from the bias drift issue where components burn out on majn board causing the bias to drift into red plate zone.A question for you guys, when I was researching the TSL before I bought mine, I read a bunch of threads, some positive, and a lot of them were very negative. In fact, I would go as far as to say unfairly maligned.
Does the negative reception come from people expecting a three-channel DSL? What was the reception of these like when they launched? I've only read one article from the time from Vintage Guitar but the response seemed pretty positive.
I own both JCM 2000's and the TSL is just better for my needs, but I just wondered what you guys thought
Mostly I believe it is from the bias drift issue where components burn out on majn board causing the bias to drift into red plate zone.
That said, my TSL122 has given me no indication of this. It is personal taste. I find my TSL very easy to set partly because there are no mode buttons to further comlicate things. Pick a channel and set it like any other amp. The addition of EQ and gain on every channel jncluding clean on the 100 watters make it so versatile. I find it gets a bit compressed when gain is high on channel 2, I sometimes reduce gain and goose it with an OD.
Very good sounding hard rock and old metal amps IMO. I am keeping mjne and using it as much as I can!
Dunno. Not as far as I know.Good points all round, I'm sure the reliability thing was a factor, I've had no problems with my 2005 one,
does the mainboard swap change anything about the tone at all?
Get some spares. Try em. Check the input jack too.Soooo....
All this Marshall talk made me go in and fire it up again.
(Plus the fact I went to the pawn shop to pick up an Marshall MG30DFX as a practice amp until this one is straightened out, but when I tried it, it had no gain channel.) Back to the TSL.
Same thing.
Scratchiness when I clicked standby switch,
Played for 5 minutes and I can hear volume wavering. All three channels work and switch fine with an aftermarket KoolKat footswitch.
I keep playing, now come the sudden volume disappearances. First time I wiggle the input jack and it comes back. Off again, wiggling does nothing. Suddenly back on....then off, then on...back to volume wavering.
I'll feel stupid if I just have a slowly dying tube. No spares to check with right now.
I just remember my TSL122 100W couldn't hang with my buddy's Soldano....Crushed me. That was 20 years ago.
Crushed you on volume or tone?I just remember my TSL122 100W couldn't hang with my buddy's Soldano....Crushed me. That was 20 years ago.
After 15 years, I'm getting back into playing again...anyway I remember loving my amp in the early 2000s as well as my jtm 30...both get much hate I never had a problem back then. I did change the tubes since the amps sat so long and had them cleaned up...tldr I'm looking forward to hearing what you did with your tslI just got a track that I recorded with my TSL 100 back from an engineer, I'll post it here when it's released, but I know the TSL100 has a reputation for being "buzzy" and "Fizzy" but I really don't understand that. It really slays. Especially with a boost in front of it.
If memory serves me right we used a Bad Monkey to boost it in the studio. Which sounded great, I'd usually use my SD-1 or my 808 but I didn't have them with me.
Hey Dude !I just got a track that I recorded with my TSL 100 back from an engineer, I'll post it here when it's released, but I know the TSL100 has a reputation for being "buzzy" and "Fizzy" but I really don't understand that. It really slays. Especially with a boost in front of it.
If memory serves me right we used a Bad Monkey to boost it in the studio. Which sounded great, I'd usually use my SD-1 or my 808 but I didn't have them with me.
If you Roll off on the presence knob on the Tsl you would be surprise!I'm a newerish owner of a TSL100 , and so far i quite enjoy the tones coming from this head .
At lower volumes the distortion is a bit " Buzzy " as many have complained about , but once you get the
power section working , that fades away imo , and the Marshall tone begins to sing !!!!
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