Real Marshall tube tone in an affordable, portable combo.
The format and versatility of the 1x12 40W Marshall Haze combo makes it the perfect partner for guitarists looking for a gig-worthy compact workhorse with enough features, power, and tone capabilities to handle a wide variety of situations. The cabinet is finished in high-grade vinyl with protective corners. Its vintage-style baffle is covered in a hand-stretched, acoustically transparent fret cloth, and the cabinet is finished with white piping and hard-wearing cabinet furniture to ensure your Marshall MHZ40C looks great.
With its EL34 power stage and ECC83 powered preamp, this portable 40W combo is designed to deliver to the guitarist's expectations through the power and feel of its tubes. Laid out in a top-loaded format, the Marshall Haze sports 2 distinctive footswitchable channels. In normal mode the tone circuitry of the Haze 40W provides low-gain sounds that are crisp and honest, providing a really nice clean tone. Dialed from a single volume control, the normal channel provides ample headroom to play at volume without losing the definition of your guitar.
The amp's boost switch in normal mode pushes the lower shapes of your tone by adding more gain and extra punch in the lower midsection for a fuller sound, perfect for fattening up thinner-sounding single coil pickups. The bright switch delivers added sparkle enhancing upper range of your guitar's sound and adding a crisper edge and more defined, brighter feel. Combined, the boost and bright switches will allow you to push the normal channel so that it stands out above the unmodified normal sound.
The overdrive channel of the Marshall Haze 40W delivers a classic tone option with a separate gain control. It's possible to dial in preamp drive that distorts the sound and makes it easy to access that more aggressive rock and blues attitude without losing the definition of your guitar. The addition of the boost switch to the overdrive sound really pushes you into lead territory with sustain to spare, ensuring that you can access that extra punch when required.
Both the normal and overdrive channels on the Marshall Haze amp use a shared 3-band EQ, allowing you to individually adjust the treble, midrange, and bass to suit your taste.
The effects section of the Haze MHZ40C combo contains custom-voiced effects and reverb that have been specially designed by Marshall to complement the feel and tone of the amplifier. Each effect selected on the channel (normal, overdrive and overdrive boost) will be remembered when you return to the channel, meaning you can set up your clean, overdrive, and lead sounds and return to them over and over again without having to readjust your settings. The warm emulated spring reverb has its own independent control, allowing you to add in as much or as little reverb as required. For those who want to completely remove the reverb circuitry from the equation, the reverb control is fitted with a positive off switch, meaning that by rotating the control counter-clockwise you can feel the control click indicating that the reverb circuitry is switched off.
Effects are selected using the top panel button and indicated by the color of the LED. Green indicates that Echo effect is selected, orange shows that Vibe is selected, red indicates Chorus. Effect depth and adjust controls allow considerable flexibility in a simple format for ease of use.
Reviewer's Play Style: what ever the fingers fill like...
I was in need of a more modern sound out of this amp,so I changed out the speaker.I slapped a celestion hot-100-8ohm in her and WOW! what a awesome change.I also got the 4 button foot switch,the 2 button does not do this amp justice.These are the reason people complain about this amp,the stock speaker and 2 button switch...sux!So get this amp and change a few parts because Marshall cut a few corners to produce this amp and to sell it cheap.Forever a part of the Marshall army....jrod
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Excellent Low Watt Tube Amp
Posted by LesMarshall from Toronto, Ontario on Jan 1, 2010
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative
The Marshall Haze is an all around excellent amp at a relatively low cost.
The Clean Channel has a surprisingly good, somewhat mellow tone playing through my Les Paul, and when the Bright switch s engaged you can get excellent fender like cleans. Crank up the clean channel and you get that classic marshall boken up tone.
Channel 2, for a gain channel, is fairly low gain and creates good blues and classic rock tones. Add a little more gain and it goes slightly muddy, but using the bright switch and a boost pedal solves this quickly.
The reverb is useable, as is the delay and chorus. The vibe is okay but for effects I would use specialty pedals.
All in all it is all you can ask for in a combo of this size. Also, buy the 40 watt combo as opposed to the 15 as imo it sounds much better and has better tubes.
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Sufficient, If It Has No Defects.
Posted by Mensaman from San Francisco on Dec 30, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Classic/Alternative Rock
Rather than make a nuisance of myself by comparing this amp to others in the Marshall catalog, I will say that the sound is solid if seeking classic rock or blues, but beyond this the overdrive channel will leave you wanting. The value of an amp decreases the more one has to spend on pedals to fine-tune. The natural overdrive (clean) is the preferred tone, but consider your purpose; this is not a bedroom amp,but for small gig applications. The bottom-end can be somewhat muddled, to an extent that note differentiation diminishes in some riffs/chords, but overall the amp is competitive within its price point. The effects are average, but usable. Single-coils cut through the MHZ40c better than do humbuckers.
THIS BEING SAID, BUYER BEWARE! I bought this the day it was released, had it for under two months, then the transistor blew and the replacement's been back-ordered for months. THIS AMP WAS PLAYABLE 1.5 OUT OF 6 MONTHS, AND STILL NO ETA ON REPLACEMENT PARTS!!! No replies from Marshall either.
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Great combo
Posted by lpguy from New Mexico on Dec 14, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock
I bought this to compliment my Vox AC50, which is large and hard to move around. This Haze is a great size, but still has plenty of power. AMAZING clean channel! Seriously, just a great clean channel! Don't buy the lie that it doesn't have a good gain channel. Is it a JCM900? No, but it has as good of a gain channel as most Marshalls that I've played.
Effects are a nice add-on, and the reverb sounds great. It is also built as well as my Hot Rod Deluxe was...
Just a nice amp with great tube tones.
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I bought this amp because I was tired...
Posted by kaseylee_98 from Korea on Oct 24, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Gigging Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock
I bought this amp because I was tired of the harsh solid state tones I was getting from my Marhall AVT 150H half stack. I wanted a portable all tube combo with inspiring tone that I could more easily haul to my gigs.
Despite not having the high gain associated with the Marshall name, I love the tone of this amp. I play small venues of about 100-150 people and typically don't get this thing past 50% capacity so I cannot drive it hard enough to get high gain (if its even on the menu)
My set up is as follows Gibson SG into a powered Furman pedalboard with the following: MXR Dyna Comp into Ibanez Tube Screamer into Big Muff Pi into Dunlop Wah into Boss Tuner pedal. I think the already high quality tone coming from this amp is massaged even further by my choice of pedals and guitar. I've used this amp on 3 gigs now and I've had nothing but compliments so far. Its plenty loud and the clean sounds are studio-worthy, especially good with the dyna comp kicked in.
I marked it down on features because of the gain issue I mentioned earlier. Also, when you guys try to set this thing up on a tilt back amp stand you will notice that the jacks for the power supply and footswitch are inconveniently located precisely where the bars for the amp stand need to go. To remedy this I had to slide the amp off center and hope I wasn't going to bump it during the gig. Also, the plastic nut used for the input is already coming loose after only 3 practices and 3 gigs. Luckily the tone I get out this amp is good enough for me to let the other issues slide.
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