Marshall PKG 30 RCD

Author's product rating:   

Sound Quality	Poor
Durability	Average
Transportability	Easy
Value for Money	Satisfactory

Advantages:	cheap, amplifies the guitar
Disadvantages:	cheap quality, bad tone

Recommend to potential buyers:

no

Full review

Well this was my first guitar amplifier about three and a half years ago, at first I thought wow I have a Marshall amplifier.

Shortly after I got a reasonably cheap Laney LC-15, the sound was a lot better than the tame tones of the Marshall, but the reliability is poor.

The Marshall is transistors and they aren't the most desirable for amplifying a guitar. However the quality of the product is poor, the cabinet I think is made of ply wood. The knobs and inputs are all plastic. The tolex is incredibly thin. It has a "custom designed" Marshall 10 inch speaker which is 4-ohms and is basically a junky cheap speaker.

The features are good and functional, there is a clean channel with bass and treble eq, then the distortion channel there is gain, bass, contour (middle) and treble. The amp also has spring reverb the reverb isn't too bad. You can plug a footswitch to switch channels however one is not supplied. It has line out, headphones and a CD input for jamming along to music.

I may be being a little harsh on this amp considering all is what Marshall makes these days is mass produced rubbish.

Yes I have even played the new valve ones and they don't sound that good and they seem pretty cheap too.

I now have a Cornford Harlequin, the quality is astounding as is the sound.

I only recommend this to beginners who don't quite know the sound they are looking for.