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I was discussing this elsewhere. Marshall has two manufacturing sites, Milton Keynes and Dong Nai, Viet Nam, near Ho Chi Minh city (old Saigon). Have you got any Marshall amps built in China? I figure they might subcontract some things, but it doesn't appear that they have a full manufacturing site. Marshall was sold to the Swedish Zounds group, and the Altor bought a large share of that. I think the Swedes changed things more, when they started selling headphones, bluetooth speakers and drums. In any case, it's just another equity firm buying and selling a company, not much different from when Ford bought Jaguar, then sold it to Tata of India. They still make the Jaguars in England. HongShan also owns large shares of Byd (EVs) ByteDance (TikTok) Genesis MedTech, Monzo (digital banking) and over a hundred other companies. It seems to be a big difference from what Ming has done building up an empire of music related companies.

This was talked about a bit in the JEL-50 thread, but Friedman had been working on a Jose Arrendondo "tribute" amplifier, and had actually brought the family in, and had Jose's daughter Marisol with him at NAMM, talking about all the stuff that her dad did in terms of mods. She had helped out at the shop so she knew quite a bit about the different pieces of equipment he worked on, which were not just Marshall amps. Anyway, Dave Friedman had known Jose, and actually purchased a Modded amp directly from him when he was 18 or something, and also has worked on a lot of Jose modded amps. He pretty much found out all the mods that Jose did, and put them all into ONE AMP based on a Marshall 4 input Super Lead, using a more modern implementation than Jose did. It's got two different presence knobs, so you can have the original presence, as well as the Jose style one which is almost more like a negative feedback control. It's also got two different master volumes, the various different gain mods that Jose did, and so forth. While it doesn't have the word "Marshall" on it, it does have Jose's Face and signature. There are no "official" demos yet, just some videos from NAMM, but if someone was after the "ultimate modded 80s Marshall", this might be it.

#1 - Wooden pickguards RULE! #2 - Bound headstock look better than unbound! #3 - That neck with the stripe really fits the guitar. Outstanding guitar... too bad you have to give it back.

Cool! Nice color. Congrats!

I think they weere engineered by Scholz because I've seen him use these exact units...