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Marshall Amplification, Baseball Style Cap, Full Backed

Offically Licensed Marshall Amplication Merchandise

Marshall Amplification is a British company which designs and manufactures music amplifiers.

Marshall amplifiers are well known and highly popular among guitarists.

The sight and sound of a Marshall stack amp with a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster is an iconic image in pop culture. Marshall amps were originally built as direct copies of Fender amplifiers, but soon incorporated certain traits which made them more favorable to guitarists seeking a heavier sound.

Like most professional-level amplifiers, big amplifiers still use valve preamp and poweramp stages instead of solid state devices (transistors), although Marshall also manufactures cheaper solid-state or hybrid devices.

Valve amplifiers (known as "tube amplifiers" in North America) are generally considered to exhibit a "warmer" tone than those of transistor amps, particularly when overdriven; instead of abruptly clipping off the signal at cut-off and saturation levels, the signal is smoothly rounded off.

Vacuum tubes also exhibit different harmonic effects than transistors.

Though technology continues to change, the most sought after and most expensive amps use technology that is considered quite obsolete.

The sound of a Marshall 1959SLP or JCM800 amp is among the most recognized in popular music, and there is a constant demand for both cutting edge and vintage amplifiers.