Marshall Valvestate series of amps...

I believe you'll find extensive discussions of these crossbred critters in the archives.

Steve,

FWIW, I picked up a VS65R off Craig's List a few years ago for around $150.

Its a Single 12 and came with a foot switch.

I really like mine. I'm surprised at how good the "Clean" channel sounds. Its nice and rich.
The Drive Channel sounds pretty good as well and when I put an OD or Dist Pedal in front along with it, it sounds really nice.
The Reverb is good also, comes with an on board Spring Reverb.

However It does have a top end to it, that is pretty loud, that once passed doesn't sound too good.

I've read on HC that some of them have issues with the main circuit boards and some that are 10 years old now are needing Cap/Resist replacements. So far so good with mine though I need to clean the volume pot.

Overall its a good practice/small Room Amp and you could do a Small gig with it.

I had a 100 watt valvestate a few years ago, I liked it very much, both for clean & distortion. Sadly, I needed some cash & had to sell it. I would purchase another if the opportunity presented itself...

bought a computer in 97 (that's why I can't get used to old dudes on the net, it just used to be teens cussing each other out)

Dude, some of us "old guys" (and I don't think I'm that old - just in my early 40's) have been on the net longer than you've been alive. :roll:

I'm sure the disclaimer here is "which" net ya'll are talking about and perhaps a little misunderstanding of time frames.

Some of us old guys got old online. I've been on BBSs since '87, started on America Online in 1991, and switched over to the Net as we now know it in 1995 after getting sick of the mess AOL had turned into by then. But I was a latecomer to online activity, there was plenty going on before I got involved.

Some of us old guys got old online. I've been on BBSs since '87, started on America Online in 1991, and switched over to the Net as we now know it in 1995 after getting sick of the mess AOL had turned into by then. But I was a latecomer to online activity, there was plenty going on before I got involved.

yepper, it's these wet behind the ears whippersnappers i can't get used to... :wink:

I'm sure the disclaimer here is "which" net ya'll are talking about and perhaps a little misunderstanding of time frames.

The net - you know the Internet. Sure there were the little side nets that existed (e.g. bitnet) but most of those were gatewayed into the internet. Most of the bulletin board systems were not connected to the internet until later (they were little islands that usually only had 1 or 2 users on at a time) and even then the relay system was really slow. Even many systems "on the internet" would dial each other at some regular interval using UUCP and pass on news, mail, etc. Only big sites (called backbone sites) were generally always connected. In those days we had to push our bits uphill both ways.

I first started using the internet in '80 or maybe it was '81 and there already was a community in existence that had been there before I arrived. This isn't the first time I've seen folks on web boards say that "oh I was on the net in the early days" and they're talking about sometime in the 90's. If you don't remember gopher and usenet news, never set up a UUCP connection, and don't remember the transition to TCP/IP then you were never on the net in the early days. Heck, I'm sure that some of those who were there in the '70's don't even consider me to have been on the net in the early days.

right, hyperborea! That was the difference in time frames I was speaking of, that a lot don't know about. I know about it, but was not involved until 94. So, I am way new to the "net" due to a major financial change in my life in 86 (could have been "surfing" then). But, it's all good.

If you don't remember gopher and usenet news, never set up a UUCP connection

!foo!bar!somewhere!uucp!guitarnoise%hyperborea

Or something like that :-)

Looking back, I am pretty sure I spent way too much of my grad school time reading raging flame wars about C vs C++ on comp.lang.c and such :-)

(BTW, I am also in SillyCon Valley ..will drop you a PM)

What I meant to say was the World Wide Web, it wasn't around until 93.

The Web is not the net. The Web rides on top of the net. It's just one of many services that use the net (e.g. RSS, mail, ftp).
You know, when Gore invented it.

He didn't invent it and never claimed to though populist drug abusing radio talk show hosts like to lambast him for this straw man. However, as a Congressman, he was instrumental in securing funding for the early internet.

Wow, this thread has definitely taken quite a turn!

I will say that I was alive and well on various local BBS's in the late 80's. I did QuantumServe and CompuServe back in "the day". Yeah, my C-64 had a tape-drive for all my games. Good times!

Best game of the 80's? Zork, of course!

The first amp I ever owned was a 100W Marshall Valvstate - it was a little under 10 years ago that I picked it up (they were pretty new at the time). It was an amazing amp at the time, though I did have trouble getting it over the top of bandmates with amps using larger caps as it only had a single 12" and would really start to break up around 5-6. It also had 2 OD channels which I miss in a lot of amps I've had since. You could get clean -> dirt -> metal all with just the amp, and there were reverb controls for both clean and OD.

Spectacular first amp, I just wish I'd bought an extension speaker cabinet for it at the time.

i have a 1991/92 marshall valvestate 8100 and the matching 4x12 140w cab. IMO it is awesome. the tube in the preamp of the boost channel give really great sounding overdrive and distortion, and the gain on it kicks the crap out of most BOSS od pedals.

Valvestate 8100 FTW.