AFD100 my personal design

[bmi]

After having a look to the front face project of the amp i've to say that i'm a little bit disapointed. It looks like a toy for children.
So here is my personal design of the AFD100, not sure that Santiago take care about this but who knows...

_ black brushed metal front panel with purple reflects (snake effect on one side)
_ black Marshall knobs with golden caps
_ old switches style
_ black western tolex

standard serie -> plastic corners, white Marshall logo

special serie -> no plastic corners (like old amps) or carbon like corners, gold Marshall logo

100 watts -> big box
50 watts -> small box

[Lavox]

Have you actually seen it?

I saw it for the first time two days ago (email from Marshall to our shop) and it looks fucking outstanding!

[bmi]

I have seen the project :


And it looks like a toy.
The front panel of the Vintage Modern looks serious, not this one.

[Lavox]

Of course it looks like a toy - that's a drawing!

Wait until you actually see the real thing. It's a beast.

[bmi]

I doubt but i will see.
By the way it seems to be a good sounding amp.(so it makes me more disapointed for this bad looking)

[Lavox]

I just don't understand how you can make a decision without seeing it and only going on a control panel drawing! Do you know what the head, as a whole, looks like? You also have to remember who the amp's for. Would it surprise you if I said it was covered with snakeskin instead of tolex? ***IT ISN'T BY THE WAY - JUST SAYIN'*** Now THAT would look like a toy.

When it comes to how it sounds, since we've only ever head Slash playing it himself, I'm going to reserve judgement until ours come in and I can spend a good couple of hours with one. So far, all I've heard is Slash sounding like Slash. Obviously this is exactly what Marshall intended to do, but I don't think that proves to us that it's the be-all and end-all of Slash fans' tone search. To me it just means they didn't get it WRONG! It'll be more interesting to see if they got it RIGHT when someone who isn't Slash plugs in and gets the passable Slash impression they were hoping for.

[bmi]

That's why i was saying "it seems".

By the way guys whose were listening to slash in his AFD production have lost hairs since this time, they are not anymore young guys looking for skull and crossbones or snake skin...

[Lavox]

Slash isn't a young guy now either is he? And yet he still uses the smoking skull as his logo and plenty of snakeskin. The points I'm making are;

1) it doesn't look like a toy, it looks how you'd expect a Slash signature to look.

2) the one you described as your own design sounds more over-the-top (and therefore more toy-like) than the actual AFD100

3) reserve your opinion until you actually see it as a whole head unit.

I'm actually very surprised one of the main Marshall dealers in the UK hasn't leaked the picture by now. It's very much against the rules, but we got the email 3 or 4 days ago and we all know there can be some utter wankers running music shops.

Anyway, it doesn't matter what it looks like, I'm just dying to get them in and hear the fucker now.

[Mats A]

What does the #34 stand for?

[Supernaught]

Looks pretty nice to me. Not as expensive as I thought either.

http://www.guitarvillage.co.uk/product- ... sp?id=9760

[okgb]

I'd say that color looks a little lightweight
but of course hardly matters once you start playing

obviously wanted it different [ to stand out ? ] from
the trad Marshall gold , maybe with some Jub silver
association ? It's not like Marshall has to to do much
marketing .
More curious is any thoughts on how they're doing the power attenuation ?

[molodoi]

It seems (according to the Official Marshall Facebook page) that the AFD100 is now available @ pre-orders.