Packing all kinds of Marshall tone, the DSL401 has two channels and three voices (clean, OD1OD2 on the overdrive channel) which are footswitchable, with a 20dB boost in OD2 mode.

Both clean and overdrive channels have independent 3-band EQ, and the DS401 is rounded out by a silent recording output, rear-panel FX loop, and onboard studio-quality reverb to fill out your sound.

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Start Now home blog about contact contact subscribe mORE SHAi May 11, 2020 6 min read Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 401 Combo G12M 65 Creamback Upgrade Updated: Dec 27, 2020 After about thirteen years with my Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 401 (it easily has thirteen more in it) and after a recent project I recorded with it, I finally decided that I have to try another speaker.

Ive heard many people complain about the stock speaker fizziness over the years and while I agree that it is not the smoothest speaker and does have some harshness at high mids and some booming frequencies at the bottom, I dont think it is such a bad speaker.

Maybe its just me, but I am always under the impression that many of the people in gear forums and YouTube talkbacks spend way too much energy convincing themselves that what they have is crap, completely missing the fact that it has nothing to do with what they have or dont have.

So as I said, the trigger was a recent project I recorded, or tried to record with partial success.

I got, you can find it in the video thats in my surgical EQ post ) I was after a big muscular guitar sound and I struggled with it way too much and was never happy with any of the results I was able to get, no matter what I did.

I recorded these rhythm guitars about ten to fifteen times (and its a quad), tried different single mic techniques with a 57 and a 57 paired with a condenser, but nothing sounded like what I wanted.

If you watch that video, you will see how many annoying frequencies I had to filter out to make the sound usable.

This happens to me with the DSL stock speaker every time I try to stack multiple tracks of high gain guitars.

However, because I dont do that very often, I was able to live with the stock speaker up until now.

It served me well.

But I have enough evidence against it and its time to try something else.

Marshall Custom Celestion Goldback 100W Speaker Ok, so I decided to get another speaker.

But how do you choose a speaker without hearing it pushed by your amp in your amp cabinet Well, Im sorry, Im afraid I dont have a good answer to that question.

My strategy was to listen to as many high quality speaker recordings as possible, concentrating on the ones I had some kind of opinion about already and match my power handling requirement (primarily V30, G12M 65, G12H 75) and then try to think which one better matched my amp, based on my experience with it.

So, yes you figured it out - I randomly chose a new speaker for my amp.

I did my best.

Why Not V30 The V30 is the speaker most people recommend for almost any style and I also read many posts of people saying it works great in the DSL 401.

But, when I listen to comparisons between the cream and the V30, I hear a lot of high mids from the V30 and I am under the impression that the DSL has enough of those already, so I decided to go for something smoother.

Why Not G12H 75 Same reason I decided not to go with the V30.

A lot of top end that I just dont think I need more of from that amp.

Why G12M 65 The Celestion Creamback G12M as I imagined it, was just what I needed, because it best complemented what I believed the amp to be.

I imagined it would tame the harsh top end of the DSL and provide more of that woodsy sound of Greenbacks in the low mids.

In reality, the first thing I noticed when I started playing through the Creamback was a significant increase in volume compared to the stock speaker.

I was very surprised and upset at the same time, because the last thing I need from that amp is more volume.

One of the biggest problems with tube amps is that they need to be played loud to sound the way many of their fans want them to sound, but that is just way too loud for most of us, therefore most of us simply cant unlock their true character.

Anyway, I have spent about 30 minutes playing through the speaker using all of my guitars (a Tele, a Strat, a Les Paul and a semi hollow Duesenberg ), and overdrive pedals, and while I could identify several differences, I wasnt very impressed not to say disappointed.

But then I started playing with the amp tone knobs and thats when I started to feel that something is severely different in the way the amp reacts to me.

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