Marshall CODE 50W 1x12 Guitar Combo Amp Black

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I'm writing this for those who are considering the Code series, particularly the 50. If you're planning on not leaving the home you can suffice with the Code 25, no problem. On the other hand, if you think you'll be playing out or at least jamming with friends and need some volume, then this is the one to buy, especially with the small difference in price.

I've owned many modeling amps over the years and this amp does the best job by far at mimicking the wonderful tube amps made by Marshall since the sixties. But there's a cost to such nirvana, and that's the amount of time to dial in the tones if you're seeking realism. It's not as much a plug-n-play as you might think they would've created, and many of the presets are plain terrible, but if you're patient and seek advice from those who know better (there are many forums out there to help) in how specific amps sound, you'll be rewarded with tones the competitors could only wish for in their amps. The other side, of course, is you create your own sounds and enjoy with minimal effort.

My Code 50 is built solidly, performs flawlessly, and offers amenities that pretty much today's current modelers gives you: amp tones from other companies, built-in tuner, headphone out, aux in, USB for firmware updates and the ability to record on your computer, and a footswitch-option to plug in their new series pedal. Did I mention it looks killer as well? Perfect match for my Les Paul too. The Code is definitely worth trying out if and when enough product shows up in the stores!

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Been playing for 40+ years, played just about every SS and tube amp out there from every major vendor, including some boutique hand wired, beginning with the first SS amps back in the 70's, the original Acoustic Lead 100.

Now that I'm getting along in years, the old back ain't what it used to be, and SS has come a long way, 've been checking out some of the newer entries, the usual line up from the major vendors, most OK but still got that mid-high relic floating around in the background. My latest was Quilter Micro Pro Mach 2 8", great little combo but the attack was just really weird sounding, I guess maybe due to the 8" FF speaker. Plus there really isn't much difference between the voicing options, no built in effects other than tremolo. Went on to try the mini head 50, better with external speakers but really looking for a true Grab and Go for OMs and jamming. This amp covers it all, maybe not perfectly, and I'm sure I can use my boutique pedals and mini head to get closer to a particular sound but this really covers so much ground and gives up the Marshall sounds particularly well as you might expect.

Some of the presets are weird, some take quite a bit of tweaking, I don't know why they have presence and resonance cranked on so many, makes the preset quite trebly/ear splitting or very thumpy especially on the low E. On the other hand there are 100 of them so you can't expect them all to be perfect for every users taste. Good news is they are really easy to tweak and the icing on the cake is you can tweak ALL of the settings from your phone using the Gateway app and Bluetooth connectivity. I guarantee all the other vendors are kicking themselves for not coming up with it them selves. Especially since this is Marshall's first attempt and they really got it right the first time. Now I have my perfect G&G, Marshall will own the entry level market very soon.

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Unbelievable value for this type of amp. All sounds are extremely accurate representations of the amps moddled. Haven't found a bad sound on it. Effects are really good and editing is a breeze.
I've been playing for 40+ years and own every type of amps and guitars associated with rock. For the price point (and it sounds better than amps two or three times more expensive) it's a winner.

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Very nice amp! This has soo many variations and on board effects, it's gona take me months to discover them all. The sound is big! Not a Metal amp at all, really nice for Jazz tones, Clasic Rock, beautiful Blues tones as well. Really nice amp. NOT bedroom amp,

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I bought his amp as a versatile workhorse for home use and jamming with friends. It fits those requirements. The key to dialing in a tone for this amp is to find a preset in the ball park of what you like, turn off the fx, turn it up a little and then make small tone adjustments. At very low volumes the amp sounds thin but turn it up just a bit and it begins to sound great.

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I purchased this for my birthday by pre-order 3/15/2016 and didn't receive it until 6/6/2016. But it was well worth the wait!

Love the amp, the appearance and the effects features! How many pedals would one have to purchase to get all the effects that are built in to this beauty?

I had lumbar spinal fusion about a year ago and I love that the controls are on top, so I don't have to bend over to see what I'm doing! I love the Marshall Gateway app as well, for the same reason. I can my iPhone on my music stand and control everything from there with a swipe or tap!

It has 100 preset sounds that you can personalize to your liking and if you decide you don't like what you've done, you can do a factory reset and return everything to it's original state.

It's a bit of a bummer that the Gateway app Bluetooth only works on Apple iPhone 4S and above and iPad 3rd Generation and above. If it worked on my iPad 2, I'd have given them the 5th star rating in the App Store.

AFAIC, I got the most bang for my buck and... It's a Marshall! Every time I thought about canceling the order and settling for something else, I reread the overview and features and I just could not do it.

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I've had this amp for about 2 months and really love it. Is it the perfect amp? No. A great amp? Yes. I own several other Marshall's as well as Vox, Fender, Roland and Line 6 amps. For playing shows where you need a wide variety of sounds and a small footprint, this is the best thing out there. The bass can be a bit weird on some patches, but I just tweaked it and saved. I have the 50 watt combo and it is plenty loud for most clubs. I've had to move some of the patches to be close together so I can get to them easily, a midi controller would be the bomb if it were available. Still waiting on the foot-switch which I hope makes channel changes easier. It's a lot easier to carry this thing around than a half stack and a Roland JC 120 to switch back and forth for clean and dirty. Also, no giant pedal board needed. I still use an array of tube amps in the studio, but this amp gets me 90% there with convenience and at a very reasonable price. If you need a wide range of great sounds that's portable, get this amp. Do a few tweaks on the tone and you'll be good to go.

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Absolutely amazing! Be patient and learn how to tweak the settings and you get amazing tones. I'm a 80s hair metal throwback and play my Kramer 84 Baretta through it and it sounds like the tones I remember from Motley Crue and Ratt among others.

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So apparently my first one star review must have been too critical of this item for Guitar Center to publish, so I'm trying again.

There's so much that isn't listed in the specs on this amp before one buys it, example the EQ knobs are all digital on this amp so there is no way to get an EQ'd sound out of this amp that doesn't have some type of digital effect on it.

Also, the Marshall Gateway app that is one of the main features/selling points on this amp is a complete joke and does not work as advertised, if it works at all. If it doesn't good luck getting Marshall to actually fix said app. They'll just blame your equipment and deny anything is wrong on their end.

Honestly, this is the least worst review I can give this item. I hope Guitar Center doesn't sensor me again. Fingers crossed.

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Given the price, my Code 50 is just what I was looking for, powerful and versatile. I play rock, blues, funk and jazz. It's brand new with a full warranty and I'm very pleased.

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Tone is very subjective, so I won't talk much about it. However, the tone is what made me finally decide to return the amp. I found there's a very "closed in" feel to the tone that I could not adjust out. But, we all plug in different guitars, play different music, and want different tones... you'll have to try for yourself. I think it's more valuable if I highlight what I found to be the good points and the bad points.

Good Points:
* Price
* The amp is VERY responsive to adjusting your guitar's volume and tone controls. Most modeling amps completely lack this aspect of tone and dynamics.
* The headphone output does not differ much from the amp's speaker output. There's no need to re-tweak your presets when using headphones.
* The amp is loud! Definitely loud enough to practice with a full band or play club gigs.
* There are MANY different preamps, effects, power amps, and speaker sims... this means you can dial in SOMETHING useful for whatever music you play.

Bad Points:
* The built in tuner is the least accurate I have ever seen. The best you can do is use the tuner to get ONE string somewhere in the ballpark, and then tune your other strings to that string.
* The amp comes with a single bank of 100 factory presets. There is not another bank for user presets. There are no empty presets. So, the first thing you have to decide is which presets do you want to over-write. I know nobody will need to use all 100 factory presets (there's a good chance you won't want to use any at all); however, in my 27 years of playing guitar, I have ALWAYS found myself returning to factory presets to find something "odd" that sparks inspiration. That reverse-delay, oscillating flange, fuzz harmonizer seems useless today... but, one day..... who knows what it may spark 2 years from now? Chances are you won't find yourself programming it on your own later.
* So many features and not a single great one.
* Almost too loud for bedroom practice. It doesn't like being quiet.
* Unimpressive

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I bought this amp after looking over a few. For the money it is a great buy. It can get very loud and cutting through other band mates is not a problem. It has a lot of pre loaded sounds and a lot of different ways to configure them. Just opening the box and turning it on can be a little overwhelming, but when you find the sound you like it is great. Only real draw back I can find is when you roll off the volume the sustain rolls back a lot as well. Over all great buy.

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Product release dates totally screws up by Marshall, but more than worth the wait. The endless amount of tones available is INCREDIBLE! With or without the Bluetooth app so many iconic tones are available with a simple turn of the dial.

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Thought it was a cool option to be able to mess with settings on your phone or tablet through the gateway app.Turns out my tablet isn't compatible so won't even allow me to install app,and phone doesn't even acknowledge the amps Bluetooth when trying to sync.So brand new amp and have to install firmware through USB using your computer to the amp.Just seems like they rushed these out the door and didn't tell people they would have to finish building them.Its unfortunate,because with these solid state modeling amps,it really is the little extras that make it a good buy,otherwise you may as well buy a cheap tube head and have a superior sound.

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Thought it was a decent amp with the 100 pre-sets, kinda of a lot digital decay after each note though. Does decent a modeling the amps it tries. Still obviously not tube. Anyways. After less then 3 'months I plugged in a brand new Jc95 wah pedal and played it for about a minute before the control panel cut out and the light began flashing and no sound. Trying to return. Will update so far no luck with returns. Sad.

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I really wanted to love this amp, I was so excited when it arrived. the build quality is excellent! Just what you would expect from a Marshall..... But.... The gateway app is terrible to use, it loses connection all the time with the amp and it randomly wipes your tone settings that take you hours to program in. There are over 11000 settings so I ended up spending more time fiddling with settings than actually playing! All the settings seem to carry a really heavy bass line, even if you turn the bass down to nil.

Overall I found it quite frustrating to use, there are just too many settings to fiddle with. As they say, sometimes less is more, I just want to to turn on and play, not fiddle around for hours before I start.

I can see this being great in a few years time once they have made it more user friendly, but for now I have returned mine and I'm sticking with my current amp. Shame really.

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I just bought this thing today. Hard for me to find a useable sound out of it. I admit the models do sound similar to the marshall amps they are emulating but there was an endless amount of artificial sounding bass I could not seem to get rid of. All the models sound so similar, thin, and artificial. I guess its good for what it is but I have found this to be true with all modeling amps. Even pedals sound terrible thru the clean settings. Dull and uneventful. If you want real tone go buy a tube amp even if its 1watt and play it clean or run a pedal thru it.

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I love this amp. It has AMAZING presets (over 100), and you can edit all of them. You can even mash two presets together. It is amazing quality, and is very fun to play.

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I would recommend this Amplifier to all levels of musicians. Marshall really gave they're all on this Amp. Excellent presets. Got to play one, you'll love how easy it is to use. Sounds fantastic.

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Love this little amp. It sounds great. When they first came out there was some issues with the code app connecting to the amp but that's all been fixed. Just watch a few videos on how to use everything and your good. I play heavy metal and so I tweaked a JVM 800 setting ( adding more gain) and I love the sound. It's clean but dirty. I get compliments on my tone alot. I bought the foot switch. You have to have it to change presets with your feet. Only thing I don't like is there is no effects loop so I can't keep the amps sound while using a guitar processor and they don't make the bigger ones yet. I'd like the full stack. Love this amp.