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Marshall MS2 Mini Guitar Amplifier

In a tiny case measuring just 14 x 11 x 6 cm. The smallest Marshall amp with 1 watt of power, 9 volt battery or optional AC adapter, headphone output, and belt clip.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
           9 out of 10
Features:
           8 out of 10
Quality:
           9 out of 10
Value:
           9 out of 10
I Want It:
           9 out of 10
Sound:
           8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
           9 out of 10
Support:
           9 out of 10
 
 

"It does just great with headphones and looks cool A fine practice amp for everyone to have."

Overall:
          8 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          8 out of 10
User: a customer from hotmail.com
Submitted: 1/12/2005
Style of Music: Classic Rocker
Musical Experience: Experience Guitar, singer songwriter, Band Leader, Have 5 song CD album
Location: Lusby, MD, USA

 

 
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Feature:
The belt clip is cool and shot cord and headphones and you be jammin!

Quality:
Have had mine for over 4 years and it's still working fine. Great for going on travel.

Value:
For a small mini practice amp this one is my favorite and sounds better than the Zinky but not a powerful

Desirability:
Looks Cool sitting anywhere you put it

Sound:
Put on a great pair of Studio headphones and be amazed? You may find yourself turning down the volume some!!

Support:
Never Called them.

Overall:
Would probably buy another one if and when this one dies I also have a Zinky and they do not play in stereo but they put out more power than the Marshall and are more durable and smaller

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"All the Marshall sound, a fraction of the price"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 9/26/2004
Style of Music: Metal, Rock, anything that souns good
Musical Experience: Hobbyist
Location: Middletown, NJ

 

 
Feature:
Good features for a $30 amp

Quality:
Well made......deserves Marshall name

Value:
Great value

Desirability:
A Marshall amp for a fraction of the price......what more could you ask for?

Sound:
True marshall sound

Overall:
Overall, a spectacular amp. Greatly exceeded my expectations

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"Best Thing Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          7 out of 10
Submitted: 7/20/2004

 

 
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Feature:
It doesnt have amazing features but the belt clip and overdrive are very convenient!!!!

Quality:
The quality is so incredible. It looks identical to a larger marshall. I know i can depend od this forever!

Value:
This is worth your money all the way! I looked at a lot of other mini amps but they didnt quite cut it like this one!

Sound:
The sound is so clear and clean you can hear every little thing out of this baby!

Support:
it wasnt the easiest trying to reach them.....

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"Good for what it is"

Overall:
          7 out of 10
Features:
          7 out of 10
Quality:
          6 out of 10
Value:
          8 out of 10
I Want It:
          7 out of 10
Sound:
          7 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from aol.com
Submitted: 10/9/2008
Style of Music: varies
Musical Experience: hobbyist
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA

 

 
Feature:
Not a lot of the usual amp features, but what do you want for $45? Its best feature (and the reason I bought it) is that it is easy to transport from place to place. It is great for a travel amp. It might even fit in the compartment of some guitar cases or one of the pockets of a gig bag.

Quality:
It is hard to judge its long term durability yet, but the plastic is about the same as the kind of plastic used on toys. For $45 I don't expect the highest quality speaker. However, it works, and at $45, if it ever stops working it won't be the end of the world.

Value:
Inexpensive, and works for its intended purpose just fine. That is a good value in my book.

Desirability:
I liked it enough to buy it. A decent sound out of a convenient travel amp, that was pretty desirable to me. Even the 15W solid state amps or 5W tubes are decidedly less travel friendly.

Sound:
The sound is decent, better than one might expect from something that looks like a toy (it isn't a toy). Gain is actually pretty good, clean is a bit weak. Both gain and clean are decidedly better through headphones, the puny speaker just can't do it justice.

Ease of Use:
Volume, off/clean/gain switch, tone. Not very difficult to use. Battery compartment is easy to get into, no screws or strange configurations as I've seen on some electronics before. Light and small so easy to move around.

Support:
I haven't needed it.

Overall:
It is a good amp for its purpose. As a primary amp, I doubt I'd be very happy. As something to occasionally bring to work (for down times) and for travel, with a low enough price I won't be unhappy if it is broken in frequent travel, it is fine. If it dies or is stolen I might replace it (there is nothing wrong with it) or for a bit of a change I might get one of the mini Fenders. More likely, I'd spend a little more and get one of the $100-150 5W travel sized amps that come with a power cord and also run on batteries- something like the Vox DA5 or Roland Micro Cube- and get more features and something that is less of a novelty and more of a full scale amp.

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"NOYHING ELSE LIKE IT!!!!!!!!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from HOTMAIL.COM
Submitted: 4/21/2002
Style of Music: METAL, ROCK, TECHNO, RAP
Location: ILLONIOIS

 

 
THE MARSHALL MS-2 MICRO AMP IS PERFECT FOR SMALL BACKSTAGE WARMUPS; AS WELL AS STARTERS IN THEIR BEDROOM. ANOTHER GREAT FEATURE ABOUT THE MS-2 IS THAT IT IS BATTERY OR MAINS POWERED, SO YOU WOULD NOT HAVE TO WASTE SO MUCH OF THE BATTERIES. I ALSO LIKED THE WAY IT LOOKED.
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"Great, Fitted my needs, an Excellent Purchase."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          8 out of 10
Support:
          9 out of 10
User: a customer from jdlinn.com
Submitted: 2/7/2006
Style of Music: country
Musical Experience: active musician
Location: Okatie, SC

 

 
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Feature:
I like it that it is so small, it looks great (got everyone's eye at the guitar group) ... and a couple of other guys are going to order one.

Quality:
I dropped it a couple of times, and it still works! So I guess I'd have to say it is built pretty well.

Value:
I reseearched this pretty carefully ... I got what I ordered. The price was right.

Desirability:
2 other guys in my guitar group are going to be ordering one of these because they thought is was "really neat" and worked so well.

Sound:
The sound is "darned good." Of course it is not a big Peavey or something ... heck, it runs on a 9 volt battery! But it does exactly what I expected it to do. I play with a group of about 25 guitars and banjos ... I "finger pick" and couldn't hear my own guitar. So I plug the earphones into this little amp, and now I can hear what I'm doing. So my need was specific, and this amp fits my need perfectly. I can also "jam" with it when there are about 4 guitars playing and it "shows up" very well. I got my money's worth.

Support:
The best support is when you don't need it! So I haven't tried to contact the company that made it.

Overall:
Of these "mini amps" this one has to be the best.

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"Better than you might think."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from earthlink.net
Submitted: 10/10/2002
Style of Music: Anything from Beethoven to Black Sabbath
Location: Colorado

 

 
When you look at it, you think it will be some dinky, scratchy amp, reminiscant of a pair of headphones turned up too loud. You couldn't be more wrong. Although it cannot compare with the power of larger amps, it has characteristic Marshall sound, and performs admirably for such a tiny amp. It's certainly the most portable amp I've ever seen. More than just a novelty, it holds it's own.
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"Buy this item now!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          1 out of 10
User: a customer from hotmail.com
Submitted: 11/17/2004
Style of Music: Rock 'n' Roll
Musical Experience: Writer, Active Musician, Member of Successful Band
Location: Jackson MI, USA

 

 
Feature:
totally awsome gain for a 14 cm long amp. even for a 5 foot amp thi gain would be satisactory. it sounds good clean as well. the overdrive blew my mind. i couldn't beleve that sound was coming from that amp

Quality:
druability can't be that expected from an amp. if you drop any amp from the same proportional height as you would this, you break it at least 10 times worse.

Value:
if there was an 11, i would choose it. i would call this sound great even if it was coming from a 300 dollar amp so since you can get it for $30, that value is off the charts

Desirability:
when i saw it, the aesthetics at first made me laugh because it was like a little shrunk down amp, down to the little amp handle on top and the little marshall insignia. then, once i got it i realized it was had so much more appeal in its quality. awsome

Sound:
I Read some reviews saying that the buzzof the amp was annoying but i don't have any buzz from this amp. the people who wrote those reviews were probably very inexperienced and i wouldn't be surprised if htye got buzz from all amps because the buzz problem can be easily resolved by correcting the volume on the instrument rather than on the amp. if you have you guitar on 2 and the amp on 10, obviously your amps is goming to buzz. i've played for around 25 years so i can be trusted. i'm experimenting with the amp right now and doing exactley what that guy was complaining about, turning down the guitar and turning up the amp and yeah there is a buzz but that guy must be really inexperienced to have said that.

Support:
haven't had to call them. just treat your amp with care and it will treat you just as well.

Overall:
it's the best chose i've ever made as far as purchases from music

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"Awesome "toy""

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          8 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from adelphia.net
Submitted: 1/24/2005
Style of Music: jazz, rock, whatever I feel like playing
Musical Experience: Active musician/hobbyist
Location: Colorado Springs, CO

 

 
Feature:
2 channels (clean/OD), tone knob (sweeps low to high), volume... I wish it had a separate gain knob, but the tone knob seems to do that job a bit. Battery operation is neat, cuz i can walk around and play.

Quality:
Looks good, built well, and everything is in place. The knobs wobble a bit when i turn them, but it doesn't hurt anything.

Value:
For a novelty or even a travel practice amp this thing is great.

Desirability:
Gold knobs, and it looks like a half-stack, except for way smaller of course.

Sound:
Less bass than usual, but it is a mini amp. This thing does have that Marshall tone, though, complete with distortion on the upper volumes of the clean channel.

Support:
havent dealt with them

Overall:
This thing will have a prominent place on my shelf for a looooooong time. I love it.

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Marshall MS2 Mini Amp Customer Review

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          8 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 3/22/2002
Style of Music: all kinds
Location: PA

 

 
Great practice amp, now I want to retire my Fender full size for a full size Marshall! Only complain is it battery cover rattles when it's cranked up to hire volumes.
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