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Old 11-14-2006, 11:14 AM   #1
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Guitar Fans: My Marshall JCM900 Died and is now fixed! :D

My awesome JCM900 head died. It's the 4500 with 5881 Valves and it sounded supreme.

It just died. My local guitar shop wanted £40 an hour to look at and fix it.

But, Marshall said if I drove up to the factory at Milton Keynes, they'll fix it while I wait, for £25 +vat per hour....

Ok! So... I drove three hours to get to the Marshall building in Milton Keynes...

Here's me standing the opposite side of the road after going to IKEA for 95p full English breakfast!


We get up close.... where ... you can see a Mercedez Jeep type car ... The licence plate was JCM 800 Pure genius.


I couldn't get any pics inside... I tried... but they didn't come out!!! GRR! Still... the reception area of the building is insane ... it's lovely. All Marshall memorabilia etc... great stuff. Didn't get a tour ... when I dropped the amp into Customer Repairs... the girl gave me a frosty reception which I was dissapointed about ... She was obviously annoyed that I was late by an hour ... traffic was insane... I didnt' expect it. They basically said "come back at 1:15 and we'll maybe have a quote for you" .... I went away and sat and got real angry. So I walked back in and said I'd driven a long way because they said it would be much better for me to do that ... and that I wasn't happy that all I'd be recieving was a quote... She then told me they'd look at my amp in 15 mins! So ... within the hour I had a phone call (I'd gone out to spend some time with Perrie in the surrounding area), saying it would be £59 including parts and labour ... some broken joint in the amp, a fucked preamp tube... some replacement parts... all new pots etc. ... So, that was fine... they'd have it all done by 2pm.

2pm rolled around and I strolled in ... the engineer (a great help and really nice guy) came out... plugged me a Gibson Les Paul in ... explained what they'd done ... told me that I could crank the fuck out of my amp if I wanted ... so I did :D LOL... in an office! LOL! Sounded great. I then asked some technical questions and he stood talking to me for 15 mins about it....

He went away for me to have a jam around on my amp and he came back and talked some more

The engineering room is TINY. It's a small office area with two desks ... one for a guy and one for a girl who work there as the 'sales' side of the repairs... and then a waiting room where they basically sit all the amps that are in for repair... there were old JTM30's ... JCM800s... JCM900s.... one REALLY old Marshall... I mean... REALLY old ... signed by Jim Marshall that a customer had sent in for repair.

Then the engineering room itself was a box room. 4 or so guys messing with electronics in the room... closed door.

ANYWAYS ....

The end result is that I now have my Marshall... fully serviced, running at it's best... sounding awesome ... and they even gave it a clean off for me! :D



YAY!
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Old 11-14-2006, 11:25 AM   #2
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Good thing you still have it fixed and working.
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Old 11-14-2006, 11:27 AM   #3
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glad to hear its fixed
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Old 11-14-2006, 11:32 AM   #4
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cool - i had 2 marshall bass amps - always my favorite amp company
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Old 11-14-2006, 11:53 AM   #5
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The 800 and 900 are the best amps EVER!!!!
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Old 11-14-2006, 12:00 PM   #6
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Very nice! Keep on rocking!
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Old 11-14-2006, 12:07 PM   #7
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The 800 and 900 are the best amps EVER!!!!
Amen to that brotha! :D
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Old 11-14-2006, 12:13 PM   #8
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Very nice! Keep on rocking!
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Old 11-14-2006, 01:07 PM   #9
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Fix it....LOVE GUITAR
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Old 11-14-2006, 01:26 PM   #10
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Well, I've had a rough few months with the Les Paul breaking and then the Marshall going.

But it's all fixed now! :D YAY! Got a jam with my brother and a drummer tommorow to form a band. I've not been in a band for 18 months and I need to !!!
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Old 11-14-2006, 01:35 PM   #11
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i would KILL to tour the marshall factory. i have been searching around recently for a JCM900 twin reverb in 50 watt model with a 1960A 4x12 enclosure.

i am upset they stopped producing the JCM900. the dsl and tsl models just don't sound nearly as good in my opinion. they just don't seem as warm and fuzzy to me.

god, greatest amps ever made.
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Old 11-14-2006, 01:37 PM   #12
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The JCM2000 TSL is a great amp ... very versatile ... but yes, the warmth isn't there ... not like a 900. But that's the trade off.

Marshall amps from the 70s/80's and early 90's ... they do rock.

But I used to have a TSL... still a great amp!
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Old 11-14-2006, 06:18 PM   #13
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I had a TSL aswell for a bit, wasn't too bad. Now since I don't play out live at the moment, I just use my PodXT
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Old 11-14-2006, 06:22 PM   #14
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Cool. Marshall's great shit!
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Old 11-14-2006, 06:24 PM   #15
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I had a TSL aswell for a bit, wasn't too bad. Now since I don't play out live at the moment, I just use my PodXT
Nice.

For fucking around in the house, I use Native Instruments Guitar Rig.

It's great. But nothing beats my cranked Marshall. I'll be using it tommorow night and giving it a good cranking, at band rehearsal!
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