Well it's a marshall, sounds like a marshal although it has a very small speaker. Bought this to warm up back stage preparing to gig. It's a valve amp, sounds and feels like one, but not loud enough to keep up with any kind of live performance, (not even backing tracks on a live venue). The "emulated" out sounds awful!!! It was one of the factors that made me buy this little amp, and It's totally unusable, sounds fizzy and after a short while using it, i always have an headache even using with top notch in ear monitors... the manual says it's a "high quality emulated output using Softube-designed studio cabinet"... but it sounds like rubbish... couldn't find a way to use it. Still a nice tube amp.