New Amp Day - Marshall AS50R Acoustic Soloist

[Pepe]

Oh cool, Banzai Music already sent me a message that my ordered items are on the way. Also the reverb tank that was supposed to have a delivery time of about three weeks according to their website. Good, then I can finish the maintenance soon.

[laurie]

Good news!

[Pepe]

I have disassembled the amp and cleaned most of the parts yesterday. These are the old and the new reverb tanks. So far the new Korean-made tank looks like a perfect replacement. And it is working properly when I tested it with a small mixer and headphones.

[laurie]

Very nice. Look forward to seeing the repaired amp.

[Pepe]

The amp cleaning and maintenance (not really a repair) was finished an hour ago. I'll do some photos tomorrow.

I didn't remember that the reverb effect of this amp is rather short and subtle. But it sounds very nice overall and it looks very clean now. I'm still very glad that it was merely 80 EUR in total with the replacement reverb tank. The follow-up model costs 369 EUR in the big stores - the street price of the old version with the analog chorus and spring reverb was at around 399 EUR if I'm not totally wrong.

[Pepe]

Pictures!

[laurie]

Sweet. Good looking and sounding amp for cheap.