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Early Marshall Line Sources
Ivan Beaver:
While looking at some old catalogs I have in my office (I have a wall of them, like the amp wall), I noticed this and wanted to share.
This is from Marshall (yes the guitar amp Marshall). Notice the smallest column and the power rating.
BTW, in the same catalog (1969), they also sell the Marshall Major, a 200 watt continuous guitar amp.
I figure the balance is about right--------------
Art Welter:
--- Quote from: Ivan Beaver on November 17, 2020, 02:38:57 PM ---This is from Marshall (yes the guitar amp Marshall). Notice the smallest column and the power rating.
BTW, in the same catalog (1969), they also sell the Marshall Major, a 200 watt continuous guitar amp.
I figure the balance is about right--------------
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Balanced +/- 20dB :^)
Though I can think of PA heads and columns from almost every other manufacturer of guitar amps in the 1960-70 era, this is the first time I recall seeing the Marshall PA gear.
I like the simplicity of the line up, - would you like 2, 3, 5, 6 or 8 3watt 8 inch speakers in your column?
With the Marshall PA amps only putting out 20, 50 or 100 watts, I don't think too many buyers of the 200 watt Marshall Major would have been using them.
Ivan Beaver:
--- Quote from: Art Welter on November 17, 2020, 04:14:16 PM ---Balanced +/- 20dB :^)
Though I can think of PA heads and columns from almost every other manufacturer of guitar amps in the 1960-70 era, this is the first time I recall seeing the Marshall PA gear.
I like the simplicity of the line up, - would you like 2, 3, 5, 6 or 8 3watt 8 inch speakers in your column?
With the Marshall PA amps only putting out 20, 50 or 100 watts, I don't think too many buyers of the 200 watt Marshall Major would have been using them.
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I have a number of Marshall catalogs with columns. Some use 12" drivers.
I have one that has the "Marshall Disco system". YEAH. It has 2 cabinets with a single 12" in them, a 100 watt head and dual turntable/mixer case.
The later Marshall PAs included dual 15" bins (look kinda like scoops, but have grills, so hard to say), radial horns etc, 250 watt amplifiers and 12 channel mixers. That must have been the stuff Deep Purple was using when the set the worlds record for loudest band. 110dB, with a 10,000 watt Marshall PA. NO, the Guiness book of world records didn't state the weighting or the distance with that spec. That was around '76 or so?????
Dave Pluke:
--- Quote from: Ivan Beaver on November 17, 2020, 02:38:57 PM ---BTW, in the same catalog (1969), they also sell the Marshall Major, a 200 watt continuous guitar amp.
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Ah, yes, the Marshall Major - aka Spontaneous Combustion Machine ;D . Too much heat from those KT88's in too small a cabinet.
Here's what HIWATT was offering for PA by the mid 70's:
I don't know of anyone who actually used them, though. Most early Brit PA stuff I recall seeing were WEM or VOX.
Dave
Ivan Beaver:
--- Quote from: Dave Pluke on November 18, 2020, 10:28:43 AM ---Ah, yes, the Marshall Major - aka Spontaneous Combustion Machine ;D . Too much heat from those KT88's in too small a cabinet.
Here's what HIWATT was offering for PA by the mid 70's:
I don't know of anyone who actually used them, though. Most early Brit PA stuff I recall seeing were WEM or VOX.
Dave
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I must say I have never heard of a Hiwatt PA.
But then again, I had never heard of Ovation (the guitar company) PAs either, until I got a catalog.
Of course Gibson made PAs as well. Even into the early 2000s. I remember at a NSCA show, Gibson set up a wrestling ring and you could watch the "Gibson man" defeat the competition-----------
Oh, and the PA gear looked like 1950s era cars------
Never heard of it before or after. I wonder how much they spent on that show and development of the gear. It must have been a small fortune.
Everybody was laughing at the "show".
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