Ok, time to make a decision.

I wont be of much help 'Cuz, I love my 50 watt -800 4104, once it warms up it kicks

 

a good friend of mine said he has a 400 watt marshall ( YOW) Ive seen it but he's never fired it up for me and I did not get a close up of it

 

I have a Marshall Mode Four MF350 head that rips wallpaper off the wall, but never heard of 400w Marshall. Now the Marshall MF400 cab yes.

 

800 series is the best option for me; I use it for lead stuff and that's about it.

 

i have plexi mod DSL100h, classic channel is darn close to my jmp and had choke added and changed so many caps, the idea was to have a clean channel and then hit switch and it was boosted then over to ULtra and its 800-900..and mission accomplished..all the Marshalls i have..the DSL has delivered the 3 sounds of Marshall i require and it took a lot of experimenting and going against the norm..but have it and at at any vol level it delivers.I did use a jcm800 -jmp and SLX to get it set to by my amp guy to my 3 fav type of sound i use..he got it !!

 

400W Marshall tube amp (for bass but....)

https://marshall.com/marshall-amps/products/the-archive/vba/vba400

The new Studio Series are definitely very interesting

I have a 100W superlead so the four input Studio Vintage looks good to me.

Never played with a 2204 but the Studio Classic has me thinking hard about a 50W clone build.

Good luck with your decision. I'm sure I was no help....

 

80s rock/metal is JCM800. Period. You want that amount of crunch, that's what you get.

Plexis will do quite a bit of crunch when dimed. But to get that extra hair beyond ACDC you will need a pedal. Lots of players in the 80s used pedals, even with with 800s.

If I were to buy a new studio series, it would be the JCM800 version. I have a DSL20, and it actually does JCM tones ok for the price, IMO. And it does it well at low volumes, even at 20watts. I don't know if the studio series can do that or not. In my case, not worth that amount of money unless I'm darn sure it can. Most of my playing is at home and recording nowadays.

 

yes..there is more jcm800 type tones in the DSL's than most are willing to admit..last years DSL really was on...very usable amp and the Origins are plexi like type and these amps set theground work for these studios. looking forward to an Origin soon when everyone sells them for latest craze..have some friends who really dialed them in and if you are pre jcm800 era fan..really got it good

 

You can always....

Closed back, single 12 Cab, 16 ohms.

Stick your existing cab in another room, run cables.

Build a "box" to put it in while you record.

Unplug three of your Four Speakers.

 

I think the plexi will still have to turned up pretty loud to give up the really crunchy goods without any other help from an attenuator or pedal. Lots of players like the plexi cleans, so that might not be an issue for them. I don't particularly need or want cleans, so the 800 would definitely be my choice. As much as I miss my old JMP, I have absolutely no need for something that loud or powerful nowadays. My little DSL20 does what I want well enough.

 

I built this with an 8 Ohm 100 watt Jensen and mic'd off with a beyerdynamic off axis and a sennheisre E609 on axis fed from my garage to the studio so I can run My high powered stuff late at night and not kill the neighbours

 

its fun not Pissing off the neightbours though, at 3:00 AM and still getting your sound