Red Rocker

IN A WORLD OF none-more-black amp stacks, there’s something irresistibly lustworthy about a rig swathed in bright, bold, stage-stealing red levant. Sure, the circuit, tubes, transformers, speakers and everything else under the hood are just the same, but a stack like this just has to sound better than the standard issue, right?

Regardless of any imaginary sonic superiority, custom color Marshalls from the golden years are extremely rare, and highly collectible. And regardless of that, we can still expect this month’s featured amp and cab to generate a raging aural assault defined by gut-thumping lows, fat mids, and sizzling, crackling high-end crunch, and that’s what it’s really