Marshall 7200 head and 7410 dynamic bass system 4x10 cab
Picked this up over the weekend from the wonderful
@GSPBASSES
Crikey - it’s heavy and really old school. I need to reattach the Marshall logo on the cab, and the head needs a service which will get done in Jan, but...
Its loud. Really loud. Stupid loud. Obscene loud. It’s 200w - but goodness knows how they rated it.
Valve preamp stage.. with some gain it has the most gloriously creamy smooth tone - but it’s very immediate. Really responsive and articulate. I think I’ve found my favourite old school big heavy bass thumper ever....!
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I thought it was going to be a Fender Bassman 50 or something...
Properly. Continuous, for ever, clean power at the point of clipping - Class AB output and a linear power supply with enough reservoir capacity to handle peaks well above that... instead of some 'weighted' 'average' 'programme' fudge which it can't sustain for more than half a second and a power supply that clamps it rigidly to that.
I love modern lightweight Class D/SMPS amps too, and they are amazingly loud in relation to their size and weight, but when you compare them to old-school solid-state - let alone valve - they're just not the same.
The massive cabinet helps too - there's no substitute for sheer inertia when it comes to projecting bass, not even Barefaced's rigid cabinet design which does come close.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
This Marshall advert for the 7400 says 400W program power and 4000W peak power!!! Does that mean yours is 2000W peak?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
Monsterous sound,
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
That would have sorted out the drone business!!
Via a circuitous route, my 7410 ended up with HarrySeven until he purged a warehouseful of amplifiers.
I still have a 7210 cabinet. (Plug, plug!)
Also gave it an airing just to upset the family
Yup. It’s loud. But it’s also a really decent tone as well. Like a properly nice creamy usable tone.
Looks similar to the M9 Carbine, an amp I’ve lusted after for too long.
No Internet, no Thomann, just a small tiny instrument shop in the middle of nowhere in Spain....I´m getting old.
The 7410 and 7115 fairly roll along on castors. On level ground, they can be pushed with one finger. Lifting them into a car or van by yourself is norralorra fun.