Marshall Valvestate 40V 8040 A classic Marshall you can get for peanuts?

Marshall Valvestate 40V 8040
A classic Marshall you can
get for peanuts?
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I have ben looking for one of these for a while and one recently turned up on Facebook Marketplace very cheap so I bought it. Why did I but it? Well I wanted a gigging amp that was easy to carry, so in essence I can carry all the gear I need for a local gig in 1 trip from the car.
In this video I fire it up, give it a quick service and make an upgrade with some sound tests as we go along.
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[@christianboddum8783]

I had to do a jazz concert long time ago and couldn't bring my own amp. There was a fender or Music man combo that had a broken reverb, so I had to use this. The clean tone was awful, I couldn't do the jazz I had been working so hard on. So I made the thing overdrive and people loved it, but that was not what I came to play for. I already had my rockchops down. That being said I love the 80 watt version, IT can do cleans well enough. I've sold a tone of them and the mk.1. heads too.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Again it's probably got more to do with the speaker than anything else. Since I've made this video I've been using the clean channel quite a bit and I think it sounds pretty decent with the creamback in.

[@jimbo1959]

I guess you can get one for peanuts!😎 I've got a Marshall DSL20CR ( a year old ), and I changed the speaker to a Texas Heat, and now it sounds wicked! Great video! Cheers!

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Yep that's kind of the point of the video decent speaker = better amp. :)

[@BaronQ]

Good call Matthew. All the valvestate stuff is massively underrated for a near spot on valve marshall tone. I used to use their vs power amps when i ran tne jmp 1 midi pre amp in the 90s. Billy gibbons and even the late dusty hill both used the vs powr amps too 😊

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Yea there is a good ZZ rig rundown video

[@psychonaut689]

I still have my Valvestate 80V. I think it's great: true spring reverb, effects loop, master volume so I can crank it and not PO the neighbours; great sounding boost channel. However... yes cleans are a bit thin, get a bit better when warmed up, and the tone controls don't do much on the clean channel. I have a cheap booster with bass and treble to thicken the clean sound. Also I've never got the reverb to work by foot switch. I never thought about changing the speaker, but I might do now. Thanks for the vid. I always like to get some insight on my equipment and know how it works.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

"When warmed up"? The whole of the clean section of all the Valvestates is solid state, the valve is only in circuit on the overdrive section, when its driven by an op amp post the distortion circuit.

[@psychonaut689]

@@MatthewNorthMusic Well the amp doesn't stay the same temperature after I turn it on. It's not only the valve that gets warm.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

I don't think though that a solid state amp like this the sound wouldn't change very much due to temperature. The power efficiency maybe but certainly not any form of tone discrepancy.

[@willsei]

This is the exact amp I got as my first "real" amp in '96, and it just sucks. It's thin and you can't break through the mix for shit. It just sits in my basement collecting dust.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Change the speaker

[@sydmichel]

I am surprised there is no reverb tank.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

The reverb inside the amp I did point that out

[@sydmichel]

@@MatthewNorthMusic Ah, yes. I must have missed that bit. What I meant was that traditionally, spring reverb tanks are suspended at the base of the amp below the speaker. I was just surprised that marshal had not put one there.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Guessing it was a cheaper way of doing it ?

[@thecreativeguitarlounge]

Hmm had one briefly years ago it was awful

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Did you swap out the speaker?

[@thecreativeguitarlounge]

@@MatthewNorthMusic No I didn’t - my partner used it for rhythm guitar in our band. It was adequate for that but just plain nasty sounding compared to my own Marshall Valve amps. Maybe a better speaker would have helped

[@johnlangemusic]

Had a 100 watt, totally agree! Thin, weak, couldn't compete with other guitarists Laney tube amp. Just fizzled out at higher volume!