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I hear you on that. I sold my Marshall Class 5 because, even with the speaker plugged into the headphone jack, it was just way too loud when cranked far enough to get decent tone. As I said earlier, something like a Yamaha THR10 is probably a good bet, but I'd consider trying a whole load of cheap overdrive pedals first and just flipping them on eBay if nothing works for you. I think there's also an attenuator pedal that you can put in your effects loop if you have one.
Alternatively the Blackstar HT1 looks ace. I think @Sparky has one that he rates.
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Colm89
On the topic of Marshall origins, I’ve had an origin 5c for about two weeks now and to be honest I find it a bit too loud for what I expected to be able to do.
In my naivety I expected to be able to crank it in low power mode and get the typical cranked Marshall sound at reasonable volumes. How wrong was I, it’s still far too loud for home use unless I’m home alone. I decided to buy a boss sd1 in the hope of replicating the tone at lower volumes, but it’s way off. The amp only really starts to sound properly good from about 50% up on volume.
Perhaps in hindsight I should have started with a small solid state amp til I figured out what I needed after some thought, but here we are.
Currently considering picking up an orange terror stamp and good headphones for practicing when baby arrives any day now.