Bought the TSL in 05.I have every Marshall and the TSL is still the best sounding amp I own.

Sounds awesome, Great playing. Thanks for these kind of videos!

I bought a TSL about 2005. I got trashed by so many people for buying the TSL instead of the DSL. But it's what I liked. I wish I still owned it. It sounded great. Good job, man.

Thanks for reviewing this great amp. The TSL is a keeper. So far so good for a 2-decade amp for me. I owned it for 15 years with no repairs.

After not playing in about 10 years, I decided to start again a little over a year ago and this was the first amp I purchased when I started again. It’s an absolute powerhouse and of all the other amps I’ve purchased (4 others), this is the one I’ve kept gravitating back to. I’ve since sold all but one other so I can have a dual amp setup. You basically favor the same settings I do including deep and tone shift switches in. I also add an eq pedal in the effects loop for additional tone sculpting. Other than the bias drift issue the earlier releases of this amp had before marshall corrected it, I don’t get the hate some people have for this amp. I’ll keep this amp forever. Great demo! 🤘

Awesome review and great playing man. One of the best videos I've seen on this amplifier.

Great notification! Jarrod with a JCM2000! What! Nice... My first Big boy was a 97 Marshall DSL

I scored one of these very cheap from a friend. It had been in storage for years. After jamming on it for about 15 minutes, it suddenly shut of. Then I noticed it was insanely hot! It turns out that it had the notorious PCB board issue that these sometimes have. The cool thing is that Marshall makes a handful of new boards every year, because of this reason. So I brought to our local amp tech, who’s Marshall certified, and he put a new board and some new power tubes in it, and it sounds amazing. I prefer the more open sound with the tone shift off, but to each their own. You made it sound great. Keep up the good work man. Cheers!

When you are not familiar with the amp dont rush for video. Tone shift not tone boost, and the presence you are trying to use for ch2 is the upper knob- these amps are made to sound better without tone shift, if you are looking for mid scooped sound - get something else!!

Sounds Fantastic 😎

tried theses settings on my DSL and it works really well! It really opens up my amp

I have this amp in a 212 combo 100 watt brought it over had the tubes biased brought it back home about 12 years ago and just never played it for some reason but after seeing this video I'm going to have to bust it out it's in mint condition 2 with a nice cover and the footswitch I'm glad I saw this!

When you engage the deep switch on the clean channel, it has one of the warmest and glassiest clean sounds I’ve ever heard on an amp.

Thank you great review and geeat tone! My main amp last 25 years. I've had many folks go out of their way to compliment my tone. There are footswitch connection issues and I finally got them permanently fixed. These issues happen with frequent plugging/unplugging and if they remain unrepaired, the amp will eventually have no sound output. I know someone who bought one for a $200 Changed one channel switch resistor and got it working. I've always said it sounds "close to an 800" \m/

I have a Tommy Folkesson (Europe Hammerfall) modded DSL. All my clients loves it more than any other amp i have every time. I have Mesa multi watt, EVH, Engl, Peavy etc.

Such great amp. I own 2 TSL 100's and 1 TSL 60. Crunch channel with a good overdrive is incredible for live performance.

Almost at 10,000 subs!!

I owned the combo for a bit. Great amp. Would buy again.

has a really nice crunch to it, not super heavy but great for 80s type of riffs and records nicely in a mix

Yeah that triple super lead sounded fantastic has that wonderful Marshall sound and I guess she could kind of play around with some pedals to and tweaker out probably a good EQ pedal to two Zone in those frequencies

This video made me want to play my own jcm 2000 dsl 100. And I did. Love it. :D Also thinking of modding it (adding a choke)

A friend of mine let me jam on this for a while, and I felt like it had really good classic thrash metal tones. I didn’t really need to put a boost in front of it to get there either.

sounds good

Killer sound, price range seems reasonable as well!

We like the tone boost

I have a tsl 100 that I run through a 2x12 rectifier cab w/ vintage 30s and it sounds amazing. I prefer the mid boost and deep switch engaged on the crunch and lead channels with the bass eq at about 9 O'clock and mids at around 10 O'clock and treble at about 1 O'clock for a good in the mix tone. For unmixed chugging room sound, turn the mids down and the bass up. This is a great amp that does not require a boost at all for just about any sound. I used to run 2 4x12 marshall cabs, 1 with G1275s and 1 with 2 greenbacks and 2 vintage 30s for an absolutely glorious metal tone for live performances.

You sir, "do not suck" I like your channel, you are entertaining on camera

5:19 you're using the presence + deep control of the clean channel while being in the crunch channel, so that won't work (Crunch + lead channel have shared poweramp controls). Also, the crunch channel is basically an exact copy of the jcm800 2203/04 preamp except for the tone shift button. If you want 800 tones, you shouldn't engage the tone shift, just dial the mids back (like most do on an 800) to get a more compressed sound, then boost it with a SD1 for the metalz.

When Marshall amps went public (inclusion of a board of directors) in 1998; Jim Marshall had to concede to letting the board take over on amp designs. Basically, Jim Marshall wanted to make a 5 channel amp that would TRULY cover all aspects of guitar. At the time, Mesa was selling the Mark 4 and even though Mesa was violently molesting their customers with way overpriced abysmal sounding amps.....JIm .Marshall felt Mesa had a good idea albeit it with teriible execution. So Marshall wanted to make a 5 channel amp with dedicated tone stacks and options for each channel. Each channel would have its own eq, m.v. and deep and bright circuits with high/low gain switching . Jim was outvoted at the board meeting and had to settle for making the TSL 100. The amp was originally going to be called the "Marshall Non Rectified X5" , but the board thought that would've been hard to market. Also springing up around this time is the highly underrated MODE 4 amp. That amp was used by the US Military for troop morale during concerts as it was the only amp that could take the heat of the Afghanistan dessert. Kid Rock took his band over seas to Kabul and the band had to put the Mesas into storage and BUY Marshalls in country because the sissy built Mesas could not handle the heat. Luckily there was a fantastic musical instrument store in Dohkanistan were the band could buy Marshall's. The US troops were said to be amazed by the guitar tones from the Marshall's and were extremely glad Kid Rock played for them. Over the years, Kid Rock did several shows to show support for the US Troops. The bottom line is this: Mesa is a horrible company and should be arrested and jailed for making terrible procucts. Marshall is superior in all ways and constantly pushing the boundaries for the betterment of rock music. Marshall gave us the Stones, Dire Straits, Lynard Skynard, Boston, Van Halen and the LA Metal scene. Mesa gave us Limp Bizkit and 'Nu-metal" Enough said. Also, The real winner here is the EVH Iconic. The EVH Iconic blows everything away!! Best tube amp ever made. And it won't burn your house to the ground.

Yeah, the TSL 100 is great for those 80's metal riffs! It also has a really nice clean channel. Good job on the "Bark Moon" song! ( I need to practice that one more. ) 😒

The overdrive pedals in front this amp to control the flubby mud, is the mudkiller or friedman buxom boost. These allows you dial in the right and perfect chug sound. I do prefer the jcm 2000 DSL 50 though. This one has a second lead channel, extra more gain which growls dark, lean and mean...

Démo réaliste. Cet ampli est incroyable! Le secret pour avoir le son c'est (obligatoirement) une overdrive devant... 😉

I own 2 of these, and the best thing for them to make these a beast, is JJ ecc83s in the preamp, and svetlana el34s in the power section, wholey mackral!!

Good ol Marshally goodness

Great tones but ill still take my jvm 205 h over it . Great demo Jarrod.

Hello. This amplifier, when the clean volume is set to Zero, is there any type of signal that continues to come out? With the Clean selected in the Foot of course.

Great amp I got lucky and bought one for 350

I probably missed it, but did you like the TSL better than the JVM and do yo still have either of them?

I've got that 212 Mesa cabinet with the Vintage 30s I could set that jcm 2000 triple lead 212 combo on top and run all four speakers the 212 in the combo and the Mesa 212 cabinet I believe unless it will cut out the two 12's in the combo but I think it's has a extension speaker out just don't know if it will run out 4 speakers I kind of have that combo buried so if anybody knows that would be helpful thanks

The tsl100 is great but I'm not sure how you can like this amp and not dig the JVM410h much. It's even better with more gain and options to dial in any tone you want. 🤟

Hello' from Rock N Roll Ray Guitarist, your the best and we share the same Marshall jcm 2000 tsl 100, I'll always support you, also listen to my Rock song Paradise, over & out.

It sounded outstanding with the pedal.

I wonder how you do it that you can't hear any humming. When I switch my beloved TSL on there is a loud humm from the transformer I think (sounds like 50Hz), after switching the standby to on, a hissing sound adds up to the hum. Any idea what that could be?

Bloody best Marshall amp I own & have a collection,was such a underrated amp when they 1st came out & now that multi channel amps a more of a normal thing & guitarist’s being knobs could not get used to all the knobs back then lol,now if you can get one & put some nice tubes then wow they are so awesome Even if you crank the gain on the clean channel it is an amazing amp Also I have found using the VPR switch that knocks it into 25 watt mode & fully dime the amp it is fricken awesome

That lack of clarity and definition was my biggest problem with my TSLs. I replaced the EL34s with KT77 and it was glorious.

I gigged the Marshall TSL’s for a decade. They are ultimately a flawed design. Both Amps have the flawed footswitch. I used to get through two a year & they were never fit for professional use. The 100 is good apart from the FX loop, which for someone playing 90’s style alternative rock. Added a loss of top end to the overall tone. The 60 watt version has a brilliant Fx loop. However it’s not really a three channel amp but a two channel amp with an extra gain stage. I could only get a decent tone by running the master volume at 4 O clock (any higher and you got a pop changing channels), then controlling the volume with the channel volumes and gain. Ultimately the JVM is the better design. I ended going to a single channel Blackstar Artisan 30 & using pedals for my gain stages. Also the early versions had an issue with arcing electrically. You can still buy the version 2 TSL100 motherboard in some stores. I think they updated the design in 2002.

I have TSL60 and it is good amp got it really cheap and it is mint condition and sounds awesome i dont know why thse amps are so cheap and hated but i dont mind that because its good amp haha 😄

For some reason the frame rate of your videos seems really low for me. it's not smooth! Just an FYI

Don’t buy this amplifier, Jarrod, unless you can get a tech to confirm it has the latest circuit board upgrade. Otherwise you could be plagued by constant runaway tube bias issues that will your tubes go off like bottle rockets!

Not a bad amp, but a bit fizzy and scooped sounding

People can trash on these all they want but put a TSL and a Peavey 5150 in one room and the TSL just sounds like they took a blanket off the Peavey.

Great playing but if you would play iin time with the record especially the VH songs..Panama is played way to fast

I hate to be this guy but…no more Enter Sandman. Like your videos though.

Dude bark at the moon is way to fast. Slow down please

On the clean channel, engaging the mid boost disables the mid pot....the mid pot is only available when you have the mid boost off (on clean channel only) The Clean channel ins only treble and bass with mid boost on (TO MAKE IT CLEAR) (NOT EVERY CHANNEL SHOULD BE EITHER CLEAN OR RAGING HIGH GAIN>>>TRY DIALING IN A MASSIVE CRUNCH TONE!!!!!!!)

ok i subbed ... i live by Motor City Guitar...down the street.

maybe you should first have a look at the userguide. Trying to engage the deep button of the clean for the crunch channel