Oh, I bet that JCM900 fills and ads the mid cut to the DSL and really pushes the solo tones! That is the one thing I have found is that I can get IMHO a size riffing tone the DSL but that tone does not work for solos. Then if I set it up for solos the riffing tone suffers, so I compromise them. Sounds like you cracked the case on this issue, thanks for sharing!!!!

@@X9Eric i wonder if something like sd1 or tube screamer would work for solos?

Thank you so much Barry Gomez, you are to kind!

Thank you so much for the kinds words. Love this amp!

Thank you so much for the kind words Steve O!

ha ha JVM is a dream amp $$$$$$. Loving that Marshall tone! thank you brother!

Thank you so much Arjan, very much appreciated brother!

Thank you so much AaronCPatriot, I wish I would have found this amp sooner as I LOVE it! What cab are you using? I am having a great time learning about Marshalls and what speakers/cabs they favor.

@@X9Eric I have different cabs, different speakers, the one I like with the Marshall is my Carvin Legacy 4X12, I got the cab empty so I threw my 2 Peavey Sheffield 1230’s and 2 old Pyle Driver speakers in it!

@@aaronsg71 bet that sounds awesome!

@@X9Eric it’s alright

@@X9Eric would you do another demo twisting knobs?

Heck yes, welcome to the channel thank you for checking it out and sharing! The DSL and 6505+ cover SO many amazing tones! What guitar are you playing?

My first DSL was the DSL100HR, which is available today, and I absolutely loved it. This is the DSL100H which was made before the newest one and I love it as well! Totally agree with you @johnny150480 these are very versatile and hard to beat

Highly underrated IMHO. Glad you love yours!

Hey Eddie Lykins great to hear from you! Never to late and always a pleasure!! You said it as I am really loving the tone from this thing. Don't understand how some dislike this amp but I am having a great time learning all about the Marshall world. Hope all is rockin in your world brother!

Hey Eddie Lykins great to hear from you! Never to late and always a pleasure!! You said it as I am really loving the tone from this thing. Don't understand how some dislike this amp but I am having a great time learning all about the Marshall world. Hope all is rockin in your world brother!

You nailed it!!

Wow Ian.... 7.... Dang that's awesome! Which are your top 3 Marshalls? Marshalls rule! ha ha but you know that already, ha ha

Thank you so much for the kind words No Name! IMHO the DSL has a different distortion than the EVH 5153 and to my ears EL34s provide this mid/bass kinda flubby thing where the 6L6s offer a tighter lower bass thing. I like how you think, that would be a great comparison.

Thank you SO much @GuitarAddict101 happy to have you!!!

​@@X9Eric Happy to discover your channel too man! Cool contents.

Hey Josh_RexIt that's a TOTAL bummer. Sorry to hear that. The price we pay for TUBE amps I suppose. My 6505 + is noisy and the DSL is quite kooky eh, LOL. What did you decide to go with?

@@X9Eric sorry I just saw your reply here. I landed on the EVH 5150iii stealth 50 watt then grabbed a 6505+. After that I sold the 50 and grabbed the Stealth 100, it’s been a journey lol

@@joshrexben no kidding, I am on the same ride right now! Looking very hard at a Stealth 100W 6L6 right now. How much of a difference is the 100W Stealth compared to the 50W Stealth and even the 6505? VERY interested to learn from you!!!

@@X9Eric so the Stealth 100 is just a beast man. In my opinion and to my ears, the 50 is a tight and focused amp but the 100 is just absolutely huge and hairy sounding. The blue channel has a slightly different texture to it but with that added low end thump. When I was first going through and comparing them the 50 sounded very tight and articulate, the 6505+ was a less articulate but huge wall of sound version, then the Stealth 100 was articulate but wild on the low end and still makes the 6505+ sound smaller when compared side by side. It is a tad dryer sounding that the Peavey just like the 50. The cool thing about the Stealth 100 too is the red channel with no boost sounds like the 6505+ with a boost. The gain level of the blue channel affects the aggression of the red channel too. And if you crank the green channel gain it sounds like a Plexi. All in all, it is an awesome amp but I feel that most people will do just fine with the 50 given that most of that low end punch will get cut out when you’re mixing. For the price difference too, I’m not entirely sure that the extra $1,000 was worth those extra features especially if you already have the 50 but I do love that amp through and through. One other thing to mention is that I feel like EVH might be going through a quality control problem phase right now as I never had any problem with the 50 but I first got the 100 and had a bad foot switch / channel switching mechanism. I sent it back to Sweetwater and got a replacement for it which seemed fine until a few months in I noticed that it would change channels on its own while I was playing /recording. I would have it set on the red channel then I’d notice it sounded very weird and I’d check it out and see the green channel engaged along with the red channel at some point. I’d also be playing on the blue then it’d just randomly switch itself to green, so I had to send the stealth back to EVH HQ for them to take a look at it. Hopefully this helps, if you want to hear some sound samples I think the last 3-4 videos on my channel have been with the stealth 100.

@@joshrexben Thank you SO much for making the time to share your experience. Great descriptions of the 3 amps as it really does provide a glimpse into the way they perform. Sounds like the Stealth 100 really is as awesome as it's reputation, thank you for confirming that! I have heard of a few unfortunate issues with brand new EVH 100 watt amps and hope that EVH have resolved their QC issues for future purchasers of these products, and I am sure they will. What did EVH HQ find with your Stealth? Thanks for the invite I am off to your channel to check-em out!

Thank you for watching the video! Thank you so much for the kind words!

@@X9Ericyeah man. keep ‘em coming! (i bought this amp today)

I can't imagine the wall shaking this thing would do with two 4x12 cabs!!!

Great question, I have tried to make a 1 year ownership video of this guitar but keep getting unhappy with it because it beats the guitar up pretty bad and I do not wish to do that. Truth is I love it BUT it did require love, sweat and money to get it to where it is today. I had to have the ebony fretboard leveled (developed a weird warp) and then re-fretted. I also had jumbo frets installed what came on it. NOW it is awesome. Hope that helps!

Oh no 4142Wilb sorry to hear that. Would love to learn what specific DSL100 models they were? Love learning more about these amps. The JCM2000 DSL's are known to have issues but the H and HR models? Glad to hear the DSL20 has soldiered on ha ha! Thank you for sharing some feedback on the DSL's!!!

Would love to check one out! Believe it would be another awesome Marshall!

Totally different in gain structure. But you can achieve amazing tones with either and IMHO you can hear these two amps all over current metal productions. You just have to pick your flavor. For me, I love me those EL34s ha ha!

Yes the JCM2000 DSL100's were made in Englund. This one was made in 2017 in Vietnam. Hope that helps!

Vietnam is a More reliable amp in my research.......I Know certain Years of the "British made" JCM's had LOTS of problems with Circuit boards completely frying out!!....impossible to fix, have to get a new motherboard basically. I remember someone saying the Vietnam version was the "updated" Reliable model, and easier to service or something......the only problems with Vietnam was Popping and Clicking noises sometimes....but I've had my DSL100hr for over 5 years, never had any issues......popped maybe 1 or 2 times, never had an issue other than that, could just be tubes, loose guitar jack, could be anything......It's been a reliable tank for me.....I even leave it out in the garage year round, Lol.....the value has started to climb on the new DSL's....I think people are realizing how good they are.

The amp has two channels. Classic Gain (Channel 1) offers clean and crunch and Ultra Gain (Channel 2) offers Lead 1 and Lead 2 for modern distorted tones. In this video I used Lead 1 as IMHO it delivers! Hope that helps,

Ha ha thank you so much Ruhrpott Flo. I wish you could hear that section here in person as IMHO this amp delivers holy smokes.

A couple years ago I had the DSL100HR and it getting that one I did a bunch of research comparing the JCM200 DSL100, DSL100HR and DSL100H. As it turned out I was very conflicted and ended up coming across a killer deal on an DSL100HR. It was my first "REAL" Marshall. Wish I still had it to compare the two. What was your findings of the differences between the two?

@@X9Eric i have the jcm 2000 DSL 50 is my favorite of all. DSL100H i found had to much bass gain on the lead 1/2. Clean and crunch was good. The DSL100HR seemed to fix those issues. The lead 1/2 was way more usable and just sounded better all the way around.

@@shredding51 Thank you so much for sharing this info!!