Slash Marshall AFD100

Guitar legend Slash and Marshall Amplification announce the new AFD100 project at a special press conference at the 2010 NAMM Show.

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NAMM 2010 Day 1 Highlights

Here are my favourites links from day one. I wish I was there but I think my head would exploded.

• Boss TU-3 - These guys must now feel pretty inadequate thanks to the next item! Monophonic tuners are sooo yesterday!
• TC Electronics PolyTune Pedal -Wow. I just want this very much.
• Gene Simmons Bass - Who the hell is this reporter and where can I find a bullet! Anyway, more Kiss merchandise for the zombies to swallow.
• Marshall JMD:1 Amplifier Series - and here is the video of said amps. Me likey muchy!
• Mesa Engineering TransAtlantic TA-15 - awww it's soooo cute!. Till it rips your face off!
• 65amps Lil Elvis - I love retro looking amps. I'd love to hear this classic beauty.
• Orange Tiny Terror 10" Combo - Orange! YAY! Tiny! WAY! Terror! Ooooohhhhh! 10"! Oh is that it? 12"! That's better!

Marshal Plexi 1987x

50 watts of Marshall Plexi tube tone is more than my poor heart can handle! That beautiful thick tone that still lets you hear every note. I love the fact that this video uses a Tele and a Les Paul to demo the amp. When I record I use a Les Paul hard left, a Tele hard right, and this is just pure heaven for me.

Though the 50 Watt Marshall Plexi 1987X shares the same front and rear panel features as its big brother, the 1959 SLP, it does have its own distinct personality. Sweet warm singing sounds are packed into every nook and cranny of this great tone machine.

The main characteristic the 50 watt plexi shares is their simplicity of operation and superb natural valve tone. Achieving the beautifully organic and vibrant overdrive which is their trademark, can only be done in one way - crank 'em up! The result is pure, majestic tone uncluttered by unnecessary circuitry. With solos this produces a big, round, warm, sustain, full of classic character. With chord work you get a bark and percussive attack with a natural sounding break up, which allows each note to ring out in a glorious musical crunch.

With the Marshall Plexi 1987XL, you can mix the two channels together by connecting a short, screened patch lead between the second input of Channel 1 and the first input of Channel 2. If you then plug your guitar into the first input of Channel 1, you can mix the different tonal characters of each channel for greater flexibility!

As is the case with the 1959SLP, the Plexi 1987X has fittings and hardware as true to the originals as humanly possible, thus ensuring that authentic Marshall 'Vintage' look.

Which is your favourite?

I remember the day I got her. I has already realised that my BC Rich Warlock was the biggest waste of money I had ever spent. So I walked guitar case in hand to Muso's Corner looking for a trade in. I lost half my money on that guitar but it was worth it.

There she was, hanging from the shelf. Amazing figure, beautiful sunburst finish. Well within my price range. I piked her up. The neck didn't really feel like a standard Les Paul type neck. More like an SG. Thinner, more svelte. I plugged her into the stores Marshall (and I thought I'd never own a Marshall, but I do now) and fell in love with her voice. That day I walked out the happiest kid on the planet.

I've now owned that guitar for 16 years. She is Sunny - my Epiphone Les Paul Std.

Sure, she's "only" an Epiphone, but that guitar has been through hell and back with me. Even with all my flirtations with other guitars, PRS, Fenders, and even a Epiphone Goth LP with the hottest pickups I have ever heard in a "budget" guitar, she is the guitar I keep coming back to.

Is it because she is the best guitar I own? No, that would be the PRS SE. Is it because she is in the best condition? Definitely not. It's her voice. This guitar is just one of those freak things that sounds better thanthe sum of it's parts. A friend of mine recently bought two other Epiphones - an Ace Frehley and some other generic model with a beautiful wine red finish. The Ace Frehley felt the most like sunny, but sounded too hot. The other was too dark, too woollen. Sunny is just one of these rare one off's that I was lucky enough to obtain.

I'm sure several people reading this site have more than one guitar. I know I do. But do you have a favourite? Do you have a "go to" guitar that you just can't do without? And if so, what is it? Why?

I love the smell of Marshall in the morning.

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Ahh... Marshall. Although my love of amps is constantly evolving and going through phases, i always come back to Marshall. To my ears, they have just the right amount of clarity, the right amount of dirt, the right amount frequency spread.... I just love them. I may have flirted with Orange, followed ZZ Top with Crate, dabbled with Vox, but my heart lies with Marshall.

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