Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 100

One of these is available locally and wondering who has one and what you think? My surface level research is that they are underrated and a sleeper for your collection. What say you, my Brethren?

Great amps! I have owned 2 dsl 100’s and a tsl. Rock machines! Also the reverbs are surprisingly good.

swaffy101 said:

Great amps! I have owned 2 dsl 100’s and a tsl. Rock machines! Also the reverbs are surprisingly good.

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So at 100 watts, can you get a nice high headroom clean tone out of them? I understand there is a clean channel and drive channel with different levels of distortion available. Crazy I know to think about buying such an amp for cleanish tone, but I'm looking for headroom more than anything

A lot of people use it a clean amp. The band Sigur Rós does just that.

Great amps! I have a DSL 100. It was modified by Voodoo before I got it, however - so can’t speak to stock tones.

But all my research before I bought it several months ago was that they sound great and have a lot of flexible options. Two channels, crunch toggle on the clean side, added gain toggle on the dirty side, and a good effects loop.

The reverb won’t get you near Fender territory but nobody buys a Marshall for that anyway. I like it more than the reverb on my 900.

The one risk is that early models could have bias drift issues. I think that was resolved in 2005, so I’d say check the serial for production year and potentially proceed with caution from there. Mine is a 2009.

They’re sleepers price wise; often in the same ballpark or less than the 900 Dual Reverbs. I would pick my DSL over my DR any day of the week.

Lots of great info on The Marshall Forum. That’s where I did a lot of my research.

If you want marshall high headroom clean, i’d be looking for jcm800s as they excel at that (as do plexis/superleads). As a versatile amp the dsl does quite well. Ive been debating one to leave at the jamspace, but then my expensive amps would see less use and thats backwards.

Still debating one to run stereo in the one-guitar band though…

Man this makes me jones for one. I have a dsl40c and it is supposed to have the same board as the 100h? They are at pretty decent prices too. I’ve let a couple pass by lately. It’s more of a want it thing because I bet it will blast.

I understand there was a board revision that fixed some early problems - I need to find out what year this happened as this one I'm looking at is from 2005. Understand there are better (and far more expensive) Marshall models for headroom, but these are fairly cheap, so I'm curious whether I can get something really good for really cheap in this instance lol.

redking said:

I understand there was a board revision that fixed some early problems - I need to find out what year this happened as this one I'm looking at is from 2005. Understand there are better (and far more expensive) Marshall models for headroom, but these are fairly cheap, so I'm curious whether I can get something really good for really cheap in this instance lol.

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Find the cheapest jcm900 ?

There is a nice one in the Member Classifieds… it’s a 2009, so after all the issues were sorted out.

But get that local is probably preferred considering location and the shipping hassle.

Zr.King said:

There is a nice one in the Member Classifieds… it’s a 2009, so after all the issues were sorted out.

But get that local is probably preferred considering location and the shipping hassle.

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That is a nice example for sure, but until the politicians on both sides of the border drop their T-words, I would have to add shipping plus 25% lol. (And I still have a Fryette Power Station sitting on the loading dock at Fryette waiting for the T-words to come off!!)

Note: Internet people of the future will have no idea what a "T-word" is when they read this

searswashere said:

Find the cheapest jcm900 ?

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I feel like if I wait long enough a 100 watt plexi will pop up on Kijiji for a steal of a deal sooner or later.

redking said:

I feel like if I wait long enough a 100 watt plexi will pop up on Kijiji for a steal of a deal sooner or later.

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Find a modded one, return to stock