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The majority of great marshall metal tones that you've heard in your life are boosted with an od. It's fairly common with any high gain amp even if it doesn't fart like a dsl. The "common" boost setting is gain at zero or very low, volume maxed and tone to taste. Tubescreamers work great for that but with marshalls, my favorite is the boss sd-1. A boosted dsl on lead 1 with the amp gain around 6-8 is an awesome high gain tone! Keep on rocking!

I'm a bit more dry in my approach, but your brand of humor made me chuckle a few times. From one KZfaq entertainer to another, rock on... and well done. :)

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Green ultra gain channel on about 6 with an OD boost in the front works pretty good for me. I added an EQ pedal in the loop and a BBE mini sonic stomp pedal at the end of my pedal chain and the amp sounded great IMO. I don't use the red ultra gain channel at all. Like you said it's fizzy and unusable after about 5 on the gain knob. But I was like you, I bought the amp and figured it would sound awesome just plugging into the front with a guitar and no pedals.

I just got this amp used at a decent price. My story is exactly like yours and my thoughts on this amp is exactly like yours. Very much enjoyed this vid. New subscriber!

That transparent overdrive sounded pretty good 😉

With Mine I use the B0SS IR200 (I’m not gonna joke there’s a learning curve with this pedal) but one you learn. How to use IR patches it’s off the hook, otherwise my BOSS METALL II OD, and a chorus, flanger, phaser, if you want Eddie get you a El Dorado pedal and those last three pedals .

Great video,I went through the same thing with my dsl 2000,I was thinking about going back to my processor pedal boards.lol Im going to give your recommendations a shot.

Try a Wampler Tumnus for overdrive/boost, works well with my DSL.

Glad I saw this video. I just got this amp and thought it was broken. My orange th30 doesn’t do this at all even with the gain dimed. Nor does it have a delay when switching channels like the Marshall does

Very entertaining you made me laugh, and I’m trying your advice on my DSL 40CR it sounds exactly the same as the DSL 100 fluffy and fizzy on full gain

I'd love to hear another comparison on sounds if you tightened up the bottom end by dropping the bass a bit, or by cranking the tone a bit more on your boost pedal as it all sounded a bit muddy to me. You'd get a much tighter and driven sound. I've got a TC Spark that I use as a booster through a friend's DSL100 and it sounds blisteringly good.

I’m no help on this one. I don’t own a Marshall and since I can’t play worth shit, I’m guessing I never will. Rock on Alan!

Alan, there is no problem with the Marshall DSL100. If you know what you are doing, I have a full stack right next to my JCM. You would know to put the right guitar, the right pickups, and the right player, and it all works. Now, I do have 3 large pedalboards, from pedaltrain, loaded, and I can enhance, and perfect the tone to perfection. I love all of my Marshall's, Orange, Peavey, and Fender monsters I have at my disposal. In listening to you play through yours, you might want to look up on how to properly set up your 🪓 axe, and the amp. Pedals are wonderful, but you do not need a pedal to give you great sound. Thank you for the video and letting me expand forth.

I played bass in a band with two guitarists using UK JCM 2000 Marshall DSL's. Those amps had some issues and were in the shop for repairs a lot because the circuit boards became conductive with age and heat and the tubes would have a runaway bias issue that ruined power tubes and trandsformers or something. Anyhow one guys amp was louder than the others for whatever reason. He would set his volume at 4 or 5 and the other guy set his volume to 6 or 7. They sounded like fire breathing demons. When they were at bedroom level they sounded thin, scooped, and fizzy bees in a can.

I Have a DSL40CR and use a MXR108s EQ...in the efx loop...it solve all the amps shared eq problems...The DSL efx loop is programmable...to any one of the 4 channels...the Marshall 4 button foot switch is also a must have.

Good video! Did this one get copyright claimed cause you played 2 seconds of skid Rowe?

"man u sukk!" ok i was having the same prob my dslhr, till i read forums. the big tip is, u must run the channel volume all the way maxed. then add the gain sparingly, then dial up your master to desired level, adjust eq as required. thats the key to this whole amp!

Put a replace the resistor in the power amp circuit with a real filter choke. That will remove alot of the AC noise that cause the fizz. Cheap mod is totally worth it.

With large high gain tube amps,ya gotta dial in a decent tone and then turn it up loud and then back off gain if needed to compensate from tubes getting hot and adding their own gain,warmth and compression. Dial in from there. But,yeah...for lower volumes in your bedroom or for recording...you gotta fix it.

i have dsl s, there is a trick to them, first never set the od channel above 5, turn up the master a little more and use either clean, or low gain pedals ,klon, sd-1, tubescreamers, also don t turn the equalizers past 2 oclock, it will muddy up, also watch the gain on classic channel, it does effect the gain on the lead channel

Can you jump the channels on the DSL? I use the wampler belle which is their take on the Nobles ODR 1 to deal with farty Amps Great video Alan

AHAA, I found this video, you had me banging my head reliving my garage days. Here's the one I always heard, besides you suck, was PLAY SOME SKYNYRD!!!!... great video.

I use a mxr FOD into the clean. And an mxr 10 band eq in the effects loop.

My experiences with Marshall heads..... 2 o'clock on my jcm 800 was max volume without farting. As you turn the gain up you hit a little node it compresses. Set gain just before that spot. Now on that amp each section of gain stage (I believe its like 3 different levels) you have to set one to that spot with reference to where you have that bass shift set. I am rarely in ultra. I use a pedal to take me to that point (its probably like 10 more db gain without hunting a schematic. ) I don't have that head but I believe it to be similar to DSL 40. Remember 50 watts to 100 watts is about 6db. Not so big of a level jump as it is giving you more girth. I had a 9200 in my rack that shook the earth with a clean G chord.

Played this amp through a 4x12 with a mooer ge200 with my metal tone loaded onto it and it was amazing. The amp chugs and the lows will blow you away. this guy does not know how to dial an amp in or work with what youve got. This amp plus a revv g3 would be insane. Do not sleep on the dsl 100

I personally like OD1 pushed with a TS best.

I'm using mine with 4 Celestion Greenbacks, and it's pure rock n roll bliss. Using the same amp with g12t-75s and it's pure poopy.

The fizz doesn’t bother me, but the low end farting out with the gain high up does.

Had a dsl40 combo - hated it - sucked so bad I sold it within a month ish. Made a profit :) For me it has to be a jcm900 twin reverb - best sound I ever had from a stack by miles. I honestly don't get what anyone sees in those dsl's, but some people swear by them !

I have a JCM800, a JCM900 and a DSL100H. Yes it's a fizz monster, no idea why they'd design it to sound that way. Unless having it sound like a glorious 1980's modded JCM800 roar would cut into the profits of the $3000 JCM800 reissues. The JCM900 isn't an 800 but it's closer, and if you use a tube screamer into the front end and an eq (and a gate is good too) in the loop it gets a heck of a lot closer, especially working the power stage hard. DSL100 is hopeless un less you get ALL the distortion from a really good pedal (Angry Charlie, etc.) and just use it as a clean tube power amp (but even the JCM800 used as a clean pedal platform has more mojo).

I just got the dsl100hr and cab bundle And agree. Its not giving me what I expected.

Oh my question is how to go into my Yamaha mc312 mixer so I can beef up the sound by dropping the mids etc? ..

The pedals to solve the problem and tigthen it up, are the 'mudkiller' or 'friedman buxomboost'.

Less gain - more od - makes it snappier 😉👉✨ ( I couldn't turn my gain up past 4 before it started farting out - was pretty crunchy right before that)

The fart sound on the dsl is real. Im sure theres some internal part you could swap to cut that low end fart on the low string.

Oh another thing, this amp is not high gain. They tried to make it , but the gain is really useless at some point. It is only a a bit more gainy then a jcm800. Accept this will help a lot. Use the od1 only, keep gain maximum at 1 o clock and use boosts for more gain (with a bit of bass cut if possible, like a TS or od-1). Use resonance wisely. You will get a really good and defined tone, but it will not be ultra metal gain at all.

I have a DSL100HR head 2X12 Marshall Cabinet. I have to say, use a boost pedal and an EQ pedal. Also, kicking in a compressor pedal is a great trick. Really smooths out those leads. Run them through the effect loop. First the compressor, Boost pedal. Caline Boost pedal works great for this head, EQ pedal like the BOSS GE-7 I have. I have many other pedals as well in my effects like my Delay pedals and Reverb HOF II pedal. I also run a Moore 012 preamp pedal, and a looper. But the first 4 will do you well. Then I run a Chorus and Phase 90 Script pedal in the front. It rocks!

The only high gain fix for this amp is to lower the living shite out of the pickups. Or a boost that cuts the low end. Lower until the low e palm mute chunk fart disappears. The thing about this amps its like the only amp you have to do this with. Virtually no other amp ive had was this sensitive to humbuckers. They just over power the front end of this amp too much. Unless youre going for that borderline fuzz thing. You can hear the amps on some Zeppelin songs break up the same way.

There aren’t many pros that use any amp without a little boost to tighten up the low end and boost the mids. Also many amateur players expect to start with the volume down and the gain way up. Wrong. Too much gain on any amp leads to overly compressed mushy tone. Use your presence, back out the bass and increase the mids and highs. And back off the gain…… also the volume sweet spot on most high gain amps is at least 5. Or an attenuator. If you listen to your favorite guitar songs, you’ll find that they don’t actually have the gain that high, are mostly using the amps gain with an sd1 with the gain on the sd1 on about 2.

i once tried the new dsl and as a jcm2000 player i must say: NO! The featues are cool. especially the second masgtervolume but the sound didnt made me wet

Is this the HR version ?

How strange 🤔 this is. I just recently got my first new Marshall head same one and my trusting beast also charvel model 5a. I have a MG 4×12 special edition white slant cab by Marshall.

Marshall should go back to using 5881 tubes.

You're not allowed to run an overdrive across a Marshall without adding a Boss GE-7 EQ. That's federal law (or it should be).

Kia Soul??? You ain’t got no 10 year 100000 note warranty! Your a Saturn at best, by that I mean a different kinda person 🤣

The EQ on this amp actually works, that's a first for Marshalls, use it. If raising the gain sags the sound, your volume is too low. Every volume and gain setting must be EQ'd, what is working at bedroom levels won't work at practice levels and that won't work for performance volume, there's no magic all around setting, this is an analog circuit not digital. The only issue to fix is precisely the need for unbearable volumes, that's universal for overpowered amps. 20w is the way to go for 21th century and even so, it's too much. You can, in order of importance: Use a treble booster Parametric EQ Boost the signal with an overdrive Use a resistance unit / power soak / attenuator whatever you call them. They're not absurdly expensive as they used to, I advice against them nonetheless, they defeat entirely the purpose of a highly powered amp and put the full stress on them making it a total waste of very expensive parts like tubes and transformers just to play without waking granny up. And last, using a distortion pedal. Switching between distortion pedals to fix an issue is running circles.

My dsl40 without any pedal sounds way better than this. I am using v30 speakers, and this is the most important thing. Speakers really change tone more than anything else.

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This amp kinda sucks. I wanna sell mine and get an Engl soon. Marshall blows

That's because that's not a real Marshall. Those are China made junk. You Can get some decent sounds out of those, but it's not like a UK made Marshall. Buy a old jcm2000 DSL and you will be much happier, especially the 50 watt.

I am watching can you please get a little more serious ,instead of all the jokes I'm looking for instruction, and it's distracting .

single coils suck on Marshalls, because they use asymmetrical clipping schemes, fool!

Are you using the 1960A angled lead? Thanks for reply ahead of time. Great stuff on this KZfaq channel 👏 👍

Can someone pleaseeeee tell me what that white pedal with the blue knobs is called @geargasms