Compact design, all-tube tone, and onboard effects.
The Marshall Haze MHZ15 tube guitar amp head is brimming with 15W of power, iconic looks, and most of all, exemplary Marshall tone. This compact all-tube head features effects, reverb, and classic looks that won't take up your living room's entire floor.
The Haze is covered in a vintage-style vinyl and fitted with protective corners. The hand-stretched baffle fretcloth, with its white piping finish, matches the complementing Haze cabinets, meaning you can combine it with 1 or 2 of them to create one cool-looking mid-sized stack.
Just because the Marshall Haze head is smaller than a standard tube head doesn't mean that it's quiet or lacking in power or tone that you expect from a Marshall amp—its 15W of all tube power guarantees you the full Marshall experience.
The tube amp head is driven by an ECC83 preamp stage and 6V6 power amp, combining to create fantastic tube tone that belies its stature.
The Haze 15 has both normal and overdrive channels with a shared EQ and onboard effects, providing a versatile sound set and delivering an all tube tone in a compact package that performs just like an all tube amplifier should.
Designed in the same style as our traditional Marshall Head amplifiers, the 2 distinctive footswitchable channels of the 15W Haze amplifier offers a variety of tonal possibilities. The normal mode has bags of headroom and provides a rich and organic clean sound.
In the overdrive channel the Haze amp head delivers a warm overdriven tone, and its separate Gain control makes it possible to dial in preamp drive, distorting your tone before it reaches the power stage and delivering a more gritty rock tone.
There is a bright switch which is shared between both the normal and overdrive channels. When engaged the bright switch really lifts the overall sound achieved adding extra bite and sparkle and defining the edge of your tone when you need it.
Both the normal and overdrive channels use a shared 3-band EQ, allowing you to individually adjust the treble, middle, and bass response or the amplifier to suit your taste.
The effects section of the Haze 15 contains custom-voiced effects and reverb that have been specially designed by Marshall to compliment the feel and tone of the amplifier. Each effect selected on the channel will be remembered when you return to the channel, meaning you can set up your clean and overdrive sounds and return to them over and over again without having to readjust your settings. The warm emulated spring reverb has its own independent control, allowing you to add as much or as little reverb as required. For those who want to completely remove the reverb circuitry from the equation, the reverb control is fitted with a positive off switch, so by rotating the control counter-clockwise you can feel the control click indicating that the reverb circuitry is disengaged.
The 3 selectable effects in the Haze 15 reflect the overall feel of the tone available and have been designed to work with the tone of the amplifier to ensure that every one feels rich and satisfying.
Effects are selected using the front panel effects button and indicated by the color of the LED. Green indicates that Echo effect is selected, orange shows that Vibe is selected, and Red indicates Chorus. By using the effect level control you can determine just how much of the effect you want in your sound.
This amp head is simple to use, and its familiar layout means that you won't have to spend forever figuring out how to use it. Every Marshall Haze 15 is supplied with its own 2-way footswitch, so you don't have to use the front panel to change channels or switch the effects on or off, simply stomp your preferences like a true pro.
