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marshall 2001 - 400watt marshall valve head.

#21
MAMMOTHvolume said:
according to marshall its an 81 and under a hundred of them were made, so definatly quite rare.

people do some rather stupid things with valve amps, makes you wonder where the myth of them being fragile came from. I've seen people bypass fuses by wrapping them in tin foil which has led to some nice consiquences!
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Sounds like a DR405. :cool:

Wrapping fuses in tin foil.... what a stoopit idea.... :hiding:
 
#22
JimmyM said:
so it won't blow fuses on a gig. of course, it'll just blow the whole amp up if it gets a power spike, but at least it won't blow a fuse. that's called "dumb guy engineering."
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Seriously... if the amp's blowing fuses all the time, something serious might be wrong with it. The whole point of a fuse is to have it blow instead of something more difficult/costly to replace. Not to mention the safety issue.
 
#23
I've been after one of these for years!

Even thinking about making one myself...

Got the schematics if anyones interested...

I believe they were originally designed for John Entwistle (they did similar guitar version for Townshend at the same time....)

If anyone is selling one, let me know!
 
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#25
I'd like those schematics! [email protected] if you would.
albertofrog said:
I've been after one of these for years!

Even thinking about making one myself...

Got the schematics if anyones interested...

I believe they were originally designed for John Entwistle (they did similar guitar version for Townshend at the same time....)

If anyone is selling one, let me know!
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#26
Hi,

I don't get on here much, but I stumbled across this thread when looking for info on the 2001.

This looks like it could be my old one. The original canon lead was lost when it was sent to Marshall to be revalved in 1996, so my dad and I had to replace it with the standard kettle-style socket, which has also been done on this example. It was still in excellent condition when I traded it in, though... with the JCM 800 8x10".

Do you know anything about the history of it? I traded it in at the Bass Centre in Birmingham in September 2001... for a Hartke. Foolish, I know :-(

Cheers,

Kees
 
#27
Wasn't the 2001 the forerunner to the VBA 400.

As I remember, they were recalled (by Jim Marshall himself) as they kept overheating and catching fire.... Hence the low number that were made.
Jim said he didn't want to be associated with a product that wasn't worthy of the Marshall name.
 
#29
Kees_SoS said:
Hi,

I don't get on here much, but I stumbled across this thread when looking for info on the 2001.

This looks like it could be my old one. The original canon lead was lost when it was sent to Marshall to be revalved in 1996, so my dad and I had to replace it with the standard kettle-style socket, which has also been done on this example. It was still in excellent condition when I traded it in, though... with the JCM 800 8x10".

Do you know anything about the history of it? I traded it in at the Bass Centre in Birmingham in September 2001... for a Hartke. Foolish, I know :-(

Cheers,

Kees
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Hope it wasn't you who replaced the power socket in this, wasn't a great job done on it!

@geddeeee not sure how it'd catch fire, it sure runs alot cooler than the vba400. The power supply is alot more beefy and less borderline spec'd
 
#30
Hi friends. I will reopen this post. I was looking for a ampeg svt. I am a happy owner of a 400 +, but I have several music projects and I don't like to be moving my 400 + from one place to another. Neither wanted to buy another 400 + because I do not see much point in having two identical amps. So I've been looking for a svt. But I found only manufactured in Vietnam. Really I do not trust that. This week I've been offered a 2001. (Tomorrow I will pick it up). He still retains its original tubes. The owner told me that is like a svt improved. With more grunt. If the sound I like, tomorrow afternoon I have in my possession. I tell you this. A greeting.
 
#33
They came out about 1981. I had the first one in Australia being a custom order. It had problems with the compression unit that drew power so badly that it was unuseable.

Jim Marshall was in Australia and offered me a full refund of the $1400 I paid for it and wanted to recall all of them. At that point AC/DC had one as well. Jim had them resent to England and scrapped.
 
#36
Hi.

jesuskno said:
I'll Re-tube my Marshall, but not know the Plate voltage of this amplifier so I can do the biasing.
Anyone know what this amp plate votage?
Thank you.
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The plate voltage can vary quite a bit, so best to always measure it rather than to go with the "average".

A rough value can be measured with the tubes off, but in order to do it properly, You'll need a way to measure it while the tubes are on.

Regards
Sam
 

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