All Vintage or not? '74 JMP

[zoso7227]

Hey guys, I'm extra new to these type of things. I apologize if this thread seems pretty newbish. I just picked up this '74 marshall jmp at guitar center from another state and they shipped it to me and said it was all original. I paid 1700 for it. It seems to have all the vintage parts from my point of view, but i'm not an expert like most of you. I tried to get a pic of the transformers the best that I could. It seems that when I plug it into the first channel, the volume 2 channel seems to work as well. I can turn the volume two to zero though, and it works fine. It just seems to be a bit bassey. Of course the second channel is darker anyways. Just wondering if this is normal for these amps. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[GIBSON67]

Looks good to me, but I am no expert...and Welcome to the forum, MFer!

 

[zoso7227]

Awesome thanks for your help buddy. I hope it is

 

[Jaymz E]

I have an early '74 too, except mine is a 100 watt. It came with 6550 tubes when it was new, I had it switched to el34s, which I think is the way a Marshall should be. I would rather have the 50 watt head over the 100 watt.

 

[Jaymz E]

Try a Y cable and use both channels together.

 

[Marshallhead]

Well that's not an original power transformer. Rest looks ok though.

 

[zoso7227]

Yeah I like the 50 watt. It's more than enough for me. I just thought it might be modded because when I plug into channel 1 by itself, I can increase Volume II and get a more bassey sound. I tried the both channels and it still sounds a bit different than them both at full volume but neither being jumped together.

 

[zoso7227]

Any idea where the transformer is from?