Marshall 1987 Plexi with Gibson 339

I play terribly through a glorious Marshall '87 plexi. This is actually a reissue model made in 1988 [the first year of the reissues]. This Plexi does not even have a reissue serial number, apparently only a few hundred were made of this particular model. The thing sounds fantastic and it is incredibly dynamic.

I played the plexi with a Gibson ES 339 from the custom shop, thanks Caleb for letting me borrow the guitar! No effects were used, only the volume knob, my fingers and a crappy coily cable.

The camera compressed the tone a lot...obviously.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• rock
• loud
• celestion
• vintage
• vintage 30
• 30
• 50 watt
• 50
• 2x12
• celestion vintage 30
• made in england
• recession

[jfhudak]

Um, "play terribly"? Are you nuts? That sounded great man! Nice and melodic, with no blues wanking at all. GREAT!

[tevamcgilliss]

beautiful playing and beautiful tone I'm going to buy one of those tomorrow hope it sound like that!

[malthus101]

Hey guys, I am a Marshall noob and frankly, a noob to amps in general, been an acoustic player all these years - do you think the new 1987x heads would sound like this? And may I add that I too thought the playing was beautiful - that opening stuff sounded so sweet, really want this amp now! Thanks.

[azombiestool]

@ZakkHendrix666 Polarity switch my friend! Some Plexis have em, some dont. Im thinking its the US versions? Im really not sure.. but Its a polarity switch.

[ZakkHendrix666]

Hey man, great video! I just have one question. What's the third switch on that amp besides the power and standby? Thanks in advance!

[sitarzanmann]

@espritarie Thank you!

[espritarie]

sweet.. beautiful playing and beautiful tone.. got to share this one.. ;-))))

[jbmannon]

i have the exact same amp and theother channel problem you are having is that the input jack needs to be cleaned or barnished with a pipe cleaner. I did make a few changes to my amp i replaced the 100knfb with a 47k nfb and moved the purple nfb wire to the green 8 ohm tap. it was on the 4 ohm yellow tap. i also replaced the .0047 brite cap with a smaller 100pf brite cap.This calmed the amp down but did not loose any tone.

[yobhsiFehT]

Note to self: get a 339 someday =| That sounds great!

Nice vid, @bschultzjames - thanks for posting!