Marshall micro stack

The Marshall micro stack was a smaller sized release of a Marshall amp. The original Marshall micro stack was produced from 1985-1991 and featured 12 watts of power. While popular for its looks, the amp was noted for its poor transistor based sound quality.

Revisiting the idea, Marshall took the look of the original micro stack (a small head that sits on two 8 inch speaker cabs, one slanted the other straight) and added the sound and features of their MG15CDR practice amp. This amp features authentic spring reverb and Marshall's exclusive Frequency Dependent Damping (which is intended to mimic the way an all tube amp interacts with a speaker). The clean channel also features a distortion to volume ratio which lightly increases a softer, slightly more tube like distortion as the clean volume is raised (to more accurately mimic an all tube amp). The amps are usually considered to be novelty items and provide no real sonic benefits over the equivalent combo version. The absence of remote channel switching and the low wattage suggest that the amplifier was never intended for live use.