Distortion Decoder

MARSHALL CODE50 AND CODE25

- Chris Gill

MANY COMPANIES BRAG about being the first to introduce a new type of product, but Marshall is the kind of company that prefers to do things better. For example, Marshall may not have been the first British amp company (Vox, Watkins, Selmer and several others came before them), nor were they the first company to introduce a piggyback amp head/speaker cabinet configuration (Standel and Fender beat them there), yet Marshall is the first company that most guitarists think of when it comes to British amps and high-power stack amps.

While digital modeling amps have been on the market for about two decades now, Marshall took their sweet time developing their first digital modeling amps, called the Code Series. This was a wise move, as not only has the technology improved dramatically over recent years, but Marshall also developed a product with a set of features and ease of use that are sure to please both tech heads and traditionalists alike. We took a look at Marshall’s first two Code Series products, the Code50 and Code25 combos.