We’ve conquered the high-gain Marshall amp-in-a-box some time ago, and now our Clean Little Secret takes the classic low-gain Marshall BB formula and gives it a much needed refinement. We’ve beefed up everything from the classic amp enhancer, from the tone stack to the output stage and more, giving you just the right amount of kick. A completely overhauled tone section gives you individual control over treble and bass bands as opposed to a global tone knob, and we’ve added some more bells and whistles to push the unity volume level up quite a bit. Our designer’s favorite op-amp keeps the action whistle-clean until you push the gain, giving you delicious edge-of-breakup tones at the end of the dial, but subdued always-on enhancement tones at any other position. Some secrets are better left unkept!

CONTROLS

• TREBLE: Counter-clockwise: less. Clockwise: more.
• MASTER: Down is down, up is up.
• BASS: Turning it down gives you less, turning up gives you more.
• PRE-AMP: You will get varying degrees of low-gain sparkle until you turn it past 1-2 o’clock or so, then the overdrive comes out and gets hairier from there. The gain tops out at what one might call low-to-medium, so don’t be afraid to really juice it up.