1. By Lukas Sigl

2. Partition 1.What is Marshall Amplification? 2.History 3.Company‘s Founder 4.Types of Amplifiers 5.Amp-Technology 6.Locations 7.Famous Musicians using Marshall 8.Latest Models

3. What is Marshall Amplification? British Company Guitar- and Bass-Amplifiers Guitar Sound Effects Guitar- and Bass specific products

4. History Jim Marshall‘s first store in 1960 in London Sold only drums, later also amplifiers Employee Ken Bran built first Marshall Valve- Amplifiers More and more popular Since 40 years the same design

5. Company‘s Founder James Charles „Jim“ Marshall Born on 29 th of July in 1923 in Kensington, London Plays drums 1949: Starts to give lessons ‘60ies: Begins to built guitar amplifiers 1984: “Queens Award for Export” by the Queen of the United Kingdom Daughter: Victoria (Management Director of Marshall Amp.) Son: Terry (Saxophonist)

6. Types of Amplifiers Combo – Amplifier and speaker in one box – Used for practice but not that often for live Gigs

7. Types of Amplifiers Stack – Half Stack Amplifier and speaker in seperate boxes Amplifier on the top of one speaker Small Gigs – Full Stack Amplifier on the top of two stacked speakers Big Gigs

8. Amp Technology Valve Amp – Vacuum Tubes to amplify the signals – Not often in use in electronics – Good for guitar amps (warm and powerful sound) – 50 to 100 W for live-gig-using

9. Amp Technology Transistor Amp – MOSFETS for amplification – Good alternative to expensive valve amps – Not that good sound as valve amps

10. Amp Technology Hybrid Amp – Composition between Transistor and Valve amps Marshall Valvestate

11. Locations Development Center – Bletchley, Milton Keynes in England – Developed by a team of engineers and musicians Production Location – High end products in Bletchley – Entry-level products in China and South Korea

12. Famous Musicians using Marshall One of the first ones: Pete Townshend (The Who), Jimi Hendrix But also: Eddie van Halen, Eric Clapton, Angus Young (AC/DC) and John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers  Blues, Rock, British Rock, Funk, Metal etc.

13. Latest Models JVM – JVM means Jim and Victoria Marshall – 100W full valve amp – 4 Channels with no semiconductors in signal path for a better sound – Digital Reverb – Programmable Master Volumes Haze – 15W Stack with full valve engine – Lower sector of costs – Smaller gigs – Half stack with big speaker – Full stack with haze speakers

15. Thank you for your attention Questions?