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£89, £109 Amp giant Marshall celebrates its 40th birthday by dishing out the presents - in this case three amps for the tone-hungry but budget-conscious guitarist by Nick Guppy M arshall's new MG series was launched earlier this year as part of the company's 40th anniversary celebrations, and is aimed at players on a budget who don’t want to sacrifice tone. We’ve already looked at two of the larger models, the MG50 and MG 100 combos, now we cast our eyes and ears over the 15W practice models that complete the MG range. Like the rest of the MGs, these little amps are built in India, but quality controlled in the UK. The design is from the same team that gave us the AVT series, so we weren’t surprised when the bigger MG amps delivered a lot more tone than anyone would expect at the price. Small amps like MARSHALL MG15CD EST RESULTS Build Quality ★ ★★ Features Sound Value for money ★ ★★★★ WE LIKED: Built down to a price maybe, but the quality's there where it counts - the sounds are superb WE DISLIKED: The clean/crunch sounds could have done with a little more overlap these are just as relevant as megadollar, hand-wired exotica. We all have to start somewhere, and there are many players who don’t want anything bigger. Even for those who have their backline stage gear already, there’s always the need for something small, unobtrusive and portable to use either at home or for backstage warm-up. All three MG 15s share the same cabinet size and eight-inch speaker, and with all the controls and sockets on the front panel, they’re simple and straight forward to use. The cabinets are MDF, and while not in the same league as a TSL, they’re tough enough to stand up to more than their fair share of abuse. The styling is just as smart as the larger MGs, or any other Marshall for that matter. These might be the cheapest amps Marshall make, but they certainly don’t look it. Inside there’s a simple open-ended tray chassis which holds all electronics except the mains transformer on one large PCB. All the components are auto-inserted, using a clever machine that holds a map of where each part sits on the board, and then pushes them into the right holes before the board goes off to be soldered - another automatic operation, and one that’s tricky to get right. However, on these samples all the soldering is perfect. We were lucky to visit Marshall’s factory a little while back, and the company have made some serious investment in automation, both for pressing steel parts like the chassis, and for component assembly. We often extol the virtues of hand-built and hand-wired amps in these pages, but let’s not forget that it’s Marshall's commitment to state-of-the-art manufacturing that makes their amps so affordable at both ends of the scale. The MG 15s all feature two channel operation - selected from a switch on the front panel. There’s a volume control for the clean channel, a gain/master volume arrangement for the overdrive channel, and a shared EQ comprising bass, contour and treble. The contour contr...
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