Marshall® Plexi Super Lead 1959
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The legendary sound of rock, captured in all of its power and glory.
The undisputed alpha dog of rock and roll guitar amps, the Marshall 1959 Super Lead amplifier is as legendary as the music it helped create. From Jimi Hendrix to Jimmy Page to Eric Clapton, the “Plexi’s” punishing melange of snarl, sustain, smoothness, and raunch defined the sound of rock.
Developed by Softube — and available exclusively for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo audio interfaces — the Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959 plug-in is not only an expert emulation of this 100-watt British classic, right down to its EL34 power tubes and hand-wired circuit, it offers uniquely powerful multi-mic sounds as well.Now You Can:
Use your Apollo with Unison™ technology to track through the only authentic Plexi Super Lead emulation — with no latency
Re-amp previously recorded tracks with any UAD-2 hardware
Dial-in perfect studio amp tones with three different microphone combinations — FET, Valve, and Dynamic
Fine-tune your guitar tones with 50 presets by legendary AC/DC engineer Tony Platt
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Featuring the Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959 plug-in
The Only Authentic Emulation of the Perfect Plexi
In an effort to capture the ultimate Plexi sound, Marshall offered the talented developers at Softube a bone-stock, pristine 1967 Super Lead from its own museum. Pairing it with an era-correct, broken-in Marshall 1960BHW 4x12 cabinet, Softube emulated all of the Super Lead’s idiosyncratic “ghost note” overtones, as well as the ability to “jump” the amp’s inputs to dial-in a wealth of high-powered tube tones.
Voiced by a Legend
Producer/engineer Tony Platt has recorded some of the most quintessential Marshall tones ever committed to tape — most notably AC/DC’s landmark albums, Highway to Hell and Back in Black. Softube enlisted Platt to capture exquisite cabinet and microphone simulations using his Platinum-approved, tried-and-true mic recipes. You can choose from 50 Platt-designed presets, or craft your own tones.
Mix Between Seven Expertly Placed Microphones
Open up the plug-in’s Channel Strip section, and easily dial-in your sounds with Panning, global High/Low EQ, and Level control over each microphone, allowing precision fine-tuning — during tracking or mixdown. No matter the genre, or type of guitar, you’re afforded tons of tweakable options, from pin-point single miked tones to roars of glorious room ambience.
Unison™ Technology for Authentic Plexi Tones
The interaction of your guitar’s pickups to an amp’s front end is crucial to capturing the tone and feel of the amplifier. With UA’s Unison technology, Apollo user's guitar pickups will see the exact impedance load as if they’re plugged into a vintage Marshall Plexi — a feature found only on Apollo audio interfaces.
“We chose the combination of amplifier and cabinet very carefully and spent a lot of time finding the optimum microphone combinations and positions. The result is superb - this is really what a vintage Plexi actually sounds like.”
– Tony Platt (AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Bob Marley)
Customer Reviews
D. Healey
July 24, 2021
Amazing dynamics - full stop!
This amp is so flexible and the dynamics available from the Softube amps is incredible. Like no other amp sims for me, especially in the unison slot. You can play soft and...
Read Morej. campos
April 3, 2021
You Should Have This
For $99 its crazy not to have this plug in if you're a guitarist. The modeling sounds great, the presets are awesome and the versatility is off the hook. You can disagree, but I'm too busy...
Read MoreP. Lange
March 31, 2021
Marshall® Plexi Super Lead 1959
It's a Marshall, what else can I say? :)
Read MoreT. Duane
February 26, 2021
Own the real deal as well
I wanted to say this isn’t bad at all. Sounds great. The treble control can get a little grindy when it’s set too high- so it’s difficult to run everything at 10. So a good setting is...
Read MoreB. Webber
February 20, 2021
Voodoo Chile vibe
I love the character of the sound of this amp sim. It has that Voodoo Chile vibe. I have never owned a real plexi so I can’t vouch for its authenticity, but I can say that I really enjoy...
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Key Features
Faithful emulation of Marshall's own reference Plexi Super Lead amp, built in 1967, with an era-correct 1960BHW speaker cabinet
Microphone selections and placements by Tony Platt, captured in Kore Studios, London
Over 50 finely-tuned presets designed by AC/DC engineer Tony Platt
Three different microphone combinations available — FET, Valve, and Dynamic
Three separate mics per setting, two close and one room
Channel strip includes pans and volume faders for each mic, plus two band EQ
Amplifier Control Panel
On/Off switch: On or off
Presence knob: 0 to 10
Bass knob: 0 to 10
Middle knob: 0 to 10
Treble knob: 0 to 10
Volume I knob: 0 to 10
Volume II knob: 0 to 10
Inputs: Clicking on a Channel Input jack rotates between three options for each Channel Input
Ch 1 Low, + Ch 1 High patched to Ch 2 Low, + Ch 1 High patched to Ch 2 High
Ch 1 High, + Ch 1 Low patched to Ch 2 High, + Ch 1 Low patched to Ch 2 Low
Ch 2 Low, + Ch 2 High patched to Ch 1 Low, + Ch 2 High patched to Ch 1 High
Ch 2 High, + Ch 2 Low patched to Ch 1 High, + Ch 2 Low patched to Ch 1 Low
Channel Strip Panel
Equalizer Main Out Low: 200Hz to 0Hz Low Cut, 0 to +12 dB Low Shelf (bypass at 12 o’clock)
Equalizer Main Out High: -12 to +12 dB (bypass at 12 o’clock)
Main Out Volume: -∞ to +12 dB
Cabinet Microphone Select: Off, Valve, FET, Dynamic
Mic 1 Solo switch: On or Off
Mic 1 Pan knob: 100% L to 100% R
Mic 1 volume fader: -∞ to +12 dB
Mic 2 Solo switch: On or Off
Mic 2 Pan knob: 100% L to 100% R
Mic 2 volume fader: -∞ to +12 dB
Room Mic Solo switch: On or Off
Room Mic Pan knob: 100% L to 100% R
Room Mic volume fader: -∞ to +12 dB
Room Mic Pan knob: 100% L to 100% R
Room Mic volume fader: -∞ to +12 dB
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Customer Reviews
Marshall® Plexi Super Lead 1959
D. Healey
Amazing dynamics - full stop!
This amp is so flexible and the dynamics available from the Softube amps is incredible. Like no other amp sims for me, especially in the unison slot. You can play soft and delicately and it’s clean and then pick hard to get more drive, literally so responsive. Superb!!
j. campos
You Should Have This
For $99 its crazy not to have this plug in if you're a guitarist. The modeling sounds great, the presets are awesome and the versatility is off the hook. You can disagree, but I'm too busy playing my guitar through this emulation to argue. Cheers
P. Lange
Marshall® Plexi Super Lead 1959
It's a Marshall, what else can I say? :)
L. Tastet
great
great
T. Duane
Own the real deal as well
I wanted to say this isn’t bad at all. Sounds great. The treble control can get a little grindy when it’s set too high- so it’s difficult to run everything at 10. So a good setting is bass lower than 5, treble at 5 or 6 and all else at 10. All these Marshall’s sound a bit diff and this is definitely useful. Per typical the real deal is better, but this is very convenient.
B. Webber
Voodoo Chile vibe
I love the character of the sound of this amp sim. It has that Voodoo Chile vibe. I have never owned a real plexi so I can’t vouch for its authenticity, but I can say that I really enjoy this plugin.
L. Pacheco
Own a Marshall Dsl40 and I don’t need it anymore
I was recording with a DSL40 and a Torpedo Captor with some really cool Celestion IR’s ( Creambacks) and this plug in does it better hahaha, I put a tube screamer before my Apollo twin and oh my god, This plug in takes it like a real amp, so don’t hesitate buy it’s amazing !!!!!
F. Wijers
a Great Plugin
it's sound very good .
D. Faggiolino
Plexi
A must have with Unison!
S. Davis
Great addition
I used this plugin as an amp for a fractal guitar session and it was fantastic. It gave the guitar a fully heavy tone.
I. Corradini
great buy!
absolutely a must have for anyone who plays guitar with unison plugins.
I was able to grab it with a discount coupon...for me a great buy.
I have thus enriched my possibilitiesA. Nielsen
Exactly What I Needed
I plugged in my Les Paul and It took me no time at all to dial in one of my favorite recorded guitar sounds I had gotten out of my gear. ES-125? Same thing. To anyone that called this "unmusical," I can say that that is not my experience at all.
J. Slavin
Another really nice amp
I have a helix, and the UAD didn’t let me down
Sounds great, when up against quality competitionb. zucchetti
Excellent as the original hardware and everything of UAudio !
Legendary.... Must to have !
A great big portable studio in my Mac !
By the time and waiting the right promotion i will buy everything of UAudio!W. Schurat
It is really that typical sound
This is the big M sound that we love so much.
M. DE LA TORRE ROJO
Great Emulation
This is the greatest Marshall emulation I ever heard.
S. Shaw
Clearly there's room for improvement
A cool emulation, but not usable for mission critical places. The sustain is nailed in but the attack is disturbing where it lacks realism, dynamics and punch. Good for padding things up or mixed with other UAD effects, but unmusical and not playable on its own. Can I say it a geeky amp sim?
A. Nabavi
Classic Vibe + 3d Micing
I'm in love with Classic Rock and the Golden age of 70s 80s Music. I haven't heard any emulation as precise as this amp for those amazing tones. and the perfect 3 Mic feature that allows me to capture the tone of this amp in multi dimension.
N. Bryce
Perfect in your mix!’
I compared one of my songs using this amp vs Bias and this amp was 100% better, I rather have one good amp then lots of toys, Marshall Plexi is awesome in your mix!!
N. Bryce
Super fun plugin!
I have never played through the real amp but playing and recording with this plug-in is amazing! I love all the sounds and you’ll definitely record some songs with it!’
