AFD100 Launch Video

[@zeal6742]

I just love listening to this guy! After all, I'm pretty sure a lot of other guitarists watching this will agree that Slash's often underrated for his playing. I mean listen to his phrasing, that feel is something you have to be born with!

[@ohinek007]

+Ppiliph Nhaj Lot of people think he is overrated. just becouse he is no albe to play like Vai or Gilbert. They probably think that jimmy page was.

[@therealthing9417]

I think he probably can play like vai or gilbert, but he just doesn't like to, probably because he has a more bluesy influence base

[@thelolguy007]

Ppiliph Nhaj under rated? He's one of the greatest of all time 🤘

[@alexkidd4979]

yeah same here when i started to listen to guns n roses well just to say he made me inspired to play guitar

[@shreyjaiswal1683]

ohinek I’m 100% positive he can play like Vai or Gilbert if he wanted

[@RavishingSailor]

The glory days of music. I have to admit that I’ve been a proud owner of one of these amps for the past decade. Still rock my black AFD 100 t-shirt. All over the place!

[@theamazingjonathan]

For those saying it doesn't sound like the AFD recordings, remember, what we're hearing in the video isn't exactly a studio environment. Marshall set up the video set pretty much the same way Slash is set up live, even down to mic positions. Very few people have probably ever heard what the SIR modified Marshall sounded like outside the studio. In the studio they were probably much more meticulous in their setup, trying various mic positions, EQ and maybe even different room sizes.

[@orbitaljellyfish808]

Not to mention pre and power amp tubes, and/or the phase inverter tube, which can completely change the character of the sound. Tubes to an amp are like tires to a race car.

[@partyxplays]

Let's not also forget that KZbin compresses audio in videos.

[@lovelymanolis]

Nothing better than hearing Slash play You Could be Mine after SO LONG hahaha

[@LondonStancy]

Slash's smile when recalling the St. Louis riot XD 4:54 priceless!

[@spakuloid]

That amp sounds awesome and the auto biasing feature is genius.

[@ohinek007]

I think that sound on use your illusions is better that on AFD. Just sounds to me more signature for slash. His guitar sounds here like chainsaw, it is just awesome :D

[@sherylsgang]

UYI is my favourite slash tone. So aggressive for solos. Awesome

[@ohinek007]

Fortheloveofguitar of course

[@cmasc966]

I agree that high-mid almost cocked wah sound is my favorite slash tone, that supposedly is in this amp as well on the "34" setting.

[@aleksik4028]

That sound is mixed and mastered, also reverb/delay change the feel. Raw sound in studio/live is bit different. Also amps tend to sound more raw without any other instruments blending with. But yes in general UYI sound is more sophisticated.

[@stonerh]

Nightrain sounds so different without Izzy's part.. shows you what an integral part of every riff and song he was

[@ryanmatlosz2610]

"I get the greatest sound out of my guitar through a Marshall amp" -Slash

[@ajkcoleman]

How has his voice not changed at all since he was like 20-something?

[@jakeolson4273]

Gods do not age

[@evilkiwi]

Maybe his voice had already changed because of all the booze he drank before 20.

[@Jimmy-me3fe]

his voice is way deeper than it was in 80s-90s

[@jjbast]

He is not a singer.

[@gpang788]

Marshall signature voice

[@spacenerd2782]

You can tell in his voice hes excited

[@slojo88]

"Hi, so um I'm Slash (for the only idiot in the world who didn't know that)"

[@anthonylv64]

It amazes me how people expect this to sound exactly like AFD, the CD. You have to realize that both, the CD and the promo have been recorded in totally different environments, with the first being a RECORDING STUDIO. Besides, with just a basic knowledge or recording and mixing, people will soon realize that what goes to the CD master is layers and layers in countless tracks, with countless effects, and equalization, and compression, and reverbs, and comps, and editing. This amp sounds great.

[@davidwillis7660]

I have this amp. And yes, IMHO it certainly does re-create the AFD sound. It's also a damn great amp ( I run it through a full stack) - its also a lot more versatile than most people seem to give it credit for - just dont expect class A cleans !

[@charvelguy]

Sounds like a classic JMP - one of the good ones. (they all tend to vary as does the internal components, but can be tweaked as this one has been for the 'sweet spots') The self bias feature on a JMP is very very cool, great way to top this amp off in addition to the effects loop. For a cool 1500-2000 grand, it can be yours.

[@arieldiiorio1829]

"Hi I´m Slash" hahahaha...no one noted it. I love this guy...it´s a trully and amazing guitar hero!

[@freaknbigpanda]

Got mine in I think it was june 2011, sounds fucking amazing.. wouldn't trade it for anything!!!

[@THESTRATATTACK]

Got one of these on wednesday...it sounds AMAZING! and it helps that ive got slash's seymour duncans in my Gibson les paul.

[@Sasquatch230]

@SultaoFeliz The amp runs on a single channel but has two sensitivity input options, one being high and the other low. If you plug into the low one there's a 6dB difference, so I'm sure you could turn down the gain and get a great clean valve sound

[@luisjr1611]

Sounds awesome!

[@lowpowermodelife]

Man, Hearing Slash play those riffs if awesome, Just think, He (co)-wrote those riffs as a teenager.

[@brickford27]

@WayMoreGuitar well it sound like you will be coming from a good start (JMP-1) so you can only go upwards in terms of tone with the amps mentioned, good luck and enjoy those amps

[@clarkdale2394]

There is nothing better than an actual Silver Jubilee 1987. The same as he is using on Not in this life time tour

[@borjar.6373]

5:42 whats the name of the song?

[@squidwardtentacles1017]

You could be mine

[@dtdionne]

I'm really diggin this new direction and vibe Marshall appears to be taking, I hope they stick with it. If only Eddie could take Slash's lead...could you imagine! An EVH7781Y, Eddie Van Halen 1977-1981 years. Hell Marshall already included the one of the hardest part in this AFD100, the built-in attenuator. Just slap in the power section of a 50W, reamped in one head. That's if of course the AFD100 has a true attenuator and not power-scaling. Anyway, love it...great job!!!,

[@JackTaylor39]

I saw this and was like, Booyah man! This is right up my ally! Go into Amazon and put it in and it comes up for 5000 dollars. Dream crushed. :(

[@thestorageauctionking]

getting one before christmas!!!!!

[@darklight1837]

STOP YOUR CRAP ABOUT THIS AMP , IT IS AMAZING ! i got it since release first hand never repaired , never failed , great fucking tone , nailed it ! ps: using a 1969 lead cab on it

[@batmanbatman6110]

"hi I'm slash" lol I had no idea!

[@donnjuansohn]

@NoStairwayPlease the thing is that the youtube mp3 sound won't let you hear all the nuances that are actually there. you really have to stand in front of it to hear the difference.

[@twinfan73]

@brickford27 - Slash uses the regular PCB version, standard production model...

[@Jacksonade]

@HybridRxn it is a standard cus its not slash own signature (look at the head stock). it can be a faded sunburst or amber (NOT HONEY BURST AS I SAID FIRST).

[@HarryAndAGuitar]

What song is slash playing at 5:42

[@MarcusGreenway]

@GreenwichMusic yeah, it actually makes a bigger difference than most people think

[@mehdibenameur96]

Without people like Slash, Marshall wouldn't be what it is now :P

[@biggy484]

WOOOOOOOW!!! Sound AMAZING!! what a killer job marshall did. haha but i just love the way they both squat and stand and exactly the same time. lol! ; )

[@a7xparamorefan]

@slashlespaul516 it's not just the amplifier, the guitar, the pickups, effects whatever, that created that famous tone, it was everything from the position on the guitar where slash picked the strings to the temperature of the room, even Slash said that in his book; the tone represented in that album will never EVER be recreated, it may come close but they won't ever get that sound the way it was

[@littlewing62]

@SultaoFeliz i thinik you can by at the same time going for the 100 watt electronic pre amp setting. even tho the amp is made to saturate we never know if it makes good clean sounds. but if i had the chance to have one, i'll use it for what it's designed for.

[@AdamSteinzOfficial]

I prefer my JCM2000 DSL100,,,,but Marshall definitely accomplished what they set out to do with this amp. The attenuator is a VERY nice touch, as well.

[@charvelguy]

@MrAviiC I think he's referring to the amp tech.

[@AllHailHelms]

It's a tube amp, if you turn the gain down it cleans itself up, like the bridge of Welcome To The Jungle, there's a foot switch, I'm sure it does something.

[@ohinek007]

I dont understand why they didnt bring in Frank Levi or Tim Caswell. They should know the most about #36 and #39 tones. Now Frank Levi already passed away so we need to wait until the original amp will be found again.

[@AuntAlnico4]

Sounds like it has a lot of back round hiss ! Kinda like some old Marshall 4 hole Plexi amps !?

[@benmiddleton9984]

Great sounding amp!

[@brickford27]

i wonder if slash's amp is the hand wired one or the printed board version?

[@FreddyEstrada]

miss so much the song "you could be mine" with slash :(

[@bloodySunday77]

@Sasquatch230 Well, I don't know about the US but in Europe they had an amazing price (cheaper than VOS) and that was one of the reasons they were sold out almost immediately.

[@ryanchowz]

This is no longer a want, THIS IS A NEED. I NEEEEEEEEED.

[@AndreHansen96]

What mic do you use to record the amp when Slash is playing? I'm looking for a good mic and this sounds awesome!!!

[@HybridRxn]

@Guitar8870 standard? traditional ? what model?

[@bloodySunday77]

@littlewing62 That's a very, very good argument about the Shiva... it's one of the very few amps I know that can give an amazing Marshall crunch/dist with beautiful Fender-ish cleans. But still, even though this one probably has poor cleans, it has a certain "wow" factor.

[@lookingjust987654321]

It took the Night Train segment to make me go 'ah hah.. yeah thats not usual' - going for $3300 out there now. Unreal.

[@bloodySunday77]

Is this a limited edition? Why?

[@DavidVeeGuitars]

Awesome amp! Looking forward to seeing the auto-biasing and power-scaling trickle down to lower price-point future Marshalls. For example, I would love to see a non-star endorsed (i.e. non-inflated price) 1x12 combo or head with these modern features, and killer tone, too, as Marshall seems to have lost its way a bit over the years... which is why many pine for the "classic" yesteryear amp tones. Modeling is no substitute for the real deal... and clearly, Marshall can still deliver the goods.

[@TutorialesMezclaMastering]

Saludos Santiago!!!

[@TheUltrabeatdown]

Nightrain sound rocks ! But the Sweet child hurt me, i donne why ... =(

[@59year]

@demonwx10 Delay in the Sweet child intro?

[@saulclaws]

this amp sounds great, but in this video, it doesn't really sounds like the afd recordings, but i'm sure it is just a matter of messing around with the E/Q to match the same sound.

[@johnmarshall3903]

What a great amp

[@MasterKarlKani]

@GNRSDF774 its the replika AFD

[@bloodySunday77]

@littlewing62 But the weird thing is that it is not expensive at all... it could have double the price that is being offered right now...

[@jaylinton3003]

Marshall didn't "pull the AFD sound off". The guy's on the Metro Amp forum did all of the R&D for this amp. Lets give credit where credit is due, shall we?! And lets not forget the guy who actually initially created the AFD and the #34 tone (mods)...Frank Levi. Kudos to the guy's on the Metro forum AND Frank Levi!!!! Shame on Marshall for taking the credit for this amplifier.

[@IGarrettI]

what are you talking about? if it was true, Slash would just go to him and get the amp

[@jaylinton3003]

IGarrettI The AFD amp? The #36 amp? So you know where it is????!!!!! (-: I mean, if slash could just go ask for it....? Frank doesn't have the amp. Now what?

[@IGarrettI]

Jay Linton Then he could ask him how he made it. Would be much easier than recreating it by ear

[@jaylinton3003]

IGarrettI ...it's a long story but, there were people on a guitar amp forum, that were working out the details to these mods, and while this R&D was happening on the forum, it's believed that Marshall was eavesdropping. Basically letting the members of this forum do the work. Neither of these amp mods are a secret any longer. THE CATS OUTTA THE BAG!!! In answer to your earlier question, I'm sure Marshall would have felt obligated to pay Frank Levi for the mod specifications had they approached him for them: since it was going to be used for monetary gain.

[@fore_skin_mask8548]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it was Santiago that basically handed over the #34 specs to you while you were still guesstimating component values. Also, Marshall took a different approach IIRC, by attempting to emulate the #36 mod, rather than putting the two circuits in one amp (which kind of makes sense, since they only had one of the two amps), whereas you guys were trying to come up with the original #36 specs. MetroAmp probably does get credit for the idea, but R&D appears to be mostly Marshall. As for Frank Levi, while Marshall's greed cannot be underestimated, I can't believe that he wouldn't ask for some pretty big money to spill the details (he obviously doesn't do it now, even though he says he won't make any other mods like those, which makes it weird since there's no monetary gain any more, but whatever). And finally, I would dare say that the cat is not quite out of the bag for #36. A big part of the cat is, but not all of it D: I have yet to hear a clip that nails AFD. A lot have come close, some _very_ close, but the magic recipe to recreate that tone may very well be lost forever. If it's not, then it's either in that same old amp, or Levi's head (from which it probably won't ever come out).

[@shabang71]

@ebalvsehvrot Thank you for your reply and to Lespaulman too. And yes, it sounds great!!

[@MaetzlerMichael]

Rock wouldn't be what it is now without marshall

[@dtdionne]

I just watched the entire AFD journal and slash seems cool as shit. Kind, humble, respectful, well spoken, etc. Santiago and team did a great job on this...I

[@dynamitesteel]

great!

[@izLoganGFX]

Could you say the same with Gibson and/or Epiphone?

[@Emddie]

you could be mine.

[@ArmedSuperstar]

20 watt reissue to join the studio series... please?

[@ebalvsehvrot]

@shabang71 actually he recorded afd with the custom made copy of `59 les paul, so literally gibson lp slash model is a copy of a copy)) anyway it sounds great

[@TaffytheGreyhound]

Don't forget Clapton and Jimi! It really was Jimi first (obvs) and then Slash in the 80s :)

[@MrHardrocker98]

agree !

[@littlewing62]

@bloodySunday77 really it's reasonable for a signature marshall amp designed to saturate. put a couple of hundred more euros and you get a more versatile bogner shiva that sounds good clean and distorted with a controllable volume boost and also FX loop. now the afd has it's own cool features like the auto bias and electronic power atenuator 2 voicings, but the price is still arguable in my oppinion, to my ears it doesn't sound far from a jcm800. now i don't know how many they'll make.

[@AK-rx6hv]

What does it mean to "bias" the amp? What are they talking about?

[@thealmightyaxe1]

what cabs are he using?

[@pedroaugustoroque7935]

10 years l, i think its about time to launch a slash signature preamp pedal. AFD overdrive maybe

[@kikorurelas]

WOOOOW AFD100! Nice nice!

[@shabang71]

@lespaulman1 I suppose that it is the ORIGINAL '59 gibson les paul !!! He used that guitar to record Appetite for destruction. It is a piece of music history!!

[@theamazingjonathan]

@fmsgpp The #34 was based on Slash's post AFD amps, hence the other switch position being AFD, which is based on the SIR #39 mod. Sadly, according to SIR, they no longer rent that amp and from checking around on the web, they apparently won't confirm or deny whether they're even in possession of it. You can have Tim Caswell (the guy who modded #39) mod an amp for you to try and get the AFD tone, but from checking several forums, it still doesn't nail it 100%.

[@Carne2000]

@HarryAndGuitar, he is playing "you could be mine"

[@sakki347]

Slash is the man

[@spanishacker]

si joder! La cabeza pensante de Marshall es un español..que bien Santiago!!

[@slashrocks19801]

crap I need to buy one! I been using rocktron great for metal but hard to get that oldschool rock sound out of it

[@jazminecartwright5664]

love slash and luv guitars :)

[@Taanful]

whats the guitar he's playing? i need the price please

[@MsRussianbaker]

Thanks :D

[@EGGJAZZ]

Spelt Santiago wrong on the description

[@AmnellAndreas]

@rockstarr469 Roll of the gain or the volume on the guitar

[@THESTRATATTACK]

Whats a bias switch?

[@GNRSDF774]

Does anyone know what type of guitar he is using? It seems to look like a 'burst unlike his AFD Les Paul.

[@SparcoC4]

OH SHIT! If i ever will become a guitar player I will run for the Appetite For Destruction sound. U guys, I KNOW HOW IT SOUNDS. Maybe this amp is the best now, but it isnt the same Sweet child O Mine here! Maybe some1 have listenned more times to GnR, but idk, I JUST KNOW HOW IT SOUNDS. Damn. Its like sex. So, I hope this post will be here for 20 years. See you! IF I will get on top, I will probably play this like Rock. ROCK ON. =]]

[@Wildchildinc]

It's similar to the JCM800 it's a signle channel amp the only way to get clean is to roll off the gain

[@MsRussianbaker]

does the riff at 5:41 belong to a song? if yes which? It sounds BADASS!!!! xD

[@bls8959]

You could be mine

[@sirsteven88]

@GreenwichMusic Hell just play it a half step down, there aren't any open strings in the riff so he could've just played it a half step down no problem!

[@DropdaLTDtoB]

Is this amp good for a classic slash type tone?

[@officialslimshady94]

slash was going to the gym in the 90s...and he plays the guitar 5h a day :D

[@thebyder540]

I just realized that guitar is the original guitar that slash used in AFD

[@NoStairwayPlease]

Weird, sounds exactly like a Les Paul through a regular Marshall JCM2000 head .. they need "circuitry" to recreate that sound now ??

[@mehdibenameur96]

By "people like Slash" I meant all great guitarists who have used Marshall amplifiers :)

[@VH5150MetallicaFan]

Settings please, then I can dial then in my afd100!