My AFD100 Arrived Today!

[kissfanps]

I have a feeling some KT-66's might sound pretty good in this.

[Slashwannabe1]

Thanks for that

I used the basic settings that you listed. I plugged into Input One, bridge pickup on full.

The tone is spot on. But it is still lacking gain and saturation. The closest sound that I can compare it to is Rocket Queen, original AFD version. That last chunky rhythm part is closest for gain and tone to my ears.

What speakers are you using? If you're using the 1960a with G12-75s you certainly won't have the gain structure you're looking for, in fact go to the Vintage Modern Discussion forum here and go to the thread JVM vs VM and you'll see all of us who are complaining about G12-75s .

Switch to Vintage 30 speakers and your gain problem will be solved. G12-75s make even the VM sound too tame. It sounds like it cuts almost 25% of your gain when you use the G12-75 speakers. Use Vintage 30s or try to find a H&K Vortex cab for cheap lol. Hell or some Greenbacks!

Also set your pick up height as Seymour Duncan recommends, which is basically as close to the strings as possible without touching them...now there is a formula go to their website they have the exact measurement, Slash uses Seymours reccommended height for his pick ups as do I.

[kissfanps]

So let me ask a question. Can you get a vintage 1959 tone outa this thing by turning down the gain or is it always a little heavier?

[Hellhound]

I am using the 1960 AV, so no problem there. My pick up heights were low. I raised them up to the 1/8 inch recommended and then tried again.............. You'll be pleased to hear that it now has that tone and more gain and saturation. It was still lacking a little but I turned up the power control to noon for a few seconds, (this amp is really, really loud!) and that was much more like it :rocker In fact, I like the amp even more now, so thanks for the tip

I've never played a 1959, so don't know if it does or not. It does clean up beautifully though. If you have a couple of well known songs that use the 1959 and no effects, I'll give it a try.

[kissfanps]

Just about any rock and roll to come out of the 60s and 70s. All Right Now?

[Hellhound]

The review says it has trowers tone as well but I haven't heard his stuff yet myself. The AFD has lived up to all my expectations and there's still so much more to discover.

This is a snippet of the review:

'As well as duplicating practically any Slash tone, the AFD100 can also capture almost any classic Marshall sound from the last 30 odd years with ease - Blackmore, Trower, Page, you name them - we ran through a list of classic riffs and ticked every box without hesitation'.
:party

[Richard_H]

Thanks for that

I used the basic settings that you listed. I plugged into Input One, bridge pickup on full.

The tone is spot on. But it is still lacking gain and saturation. The closest sound that I can compare it to is Rocket Queen, original AFD version. That last chunky rhythm part is closest for gain and tone to my ears.

What speakers are you using? If you're using the 1960a with G12-75s you certainly won't have the gain structure you're looking for, in fact go to the Vintage Modern Discussion forum here and go to the thread JVM vs VM and you'll see all of us who are complaining about G12-75s .

Switch to Vintage 30 speakers and your gain problem will be solved. G12-75s make even the VM sound too tame. It sounds like it cuts almost 25% of your gain when you use the G12-75 speakers. Use Vintage 30s or try to find a H&K Vortex cab for cheap lol. Hell or some Greenbacks!

Also set your pick up height as Seymour Duncan recommends, which is basically as close to the strings as possible without touching them...now there is a formula go to their website they have the exact measurement, Slash uses Seymours reccommended height for his pick ups as do I.

As close to the strings without touching them? That can't be right at all.
Slash's pickups are rarely higher than the mounting ring itself, if you need to raise the pickup higher than the pickup-ring, you're doing something wrong.

My Sheptones (tributes) are mounted fairly low, but i don't really have any problem with volume/gain and harmonics etc.. It's all about how you "attack" the strings with your pick and right hand technique.




The pickups aren't that high in these pictures.

-- Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:13 am --

Nowadays Slash uses Red Monkey Straps, but does anyone know what brand he used back in the late AFD-UYI period?

http://www.wildwestguitars.com/redmonkey.htm
Only 65 bucks for the "Slasher" one, instead of 125 at the official RM-store

[Herbvis]

http://fullbreach77.com/index.php?route ... uct_id=255

Heres a link to his leather jacket. Ive had the same one for 6 or 7 years, very nice!

[Richard_H]

http://fullbreach77.com/index.php?route ... uct_id=255

Heres a link to his leather jacket. Ive had the same one for 6 or 7 years, very nice!

Thanks for that friend, I'm definitely gettin one!

[Slashwannabe1]

As close to the strings without touching them? That can't be right at all.
Slash's pickups are rarely higher than the mounting ring itself....
The pickups aren't that high in these pictures.

That may be the case now days where he's going for a cleaner tone in the early tour last year, but back during the Use Your Illusions Era to Early VR his pick ups were set to Seymours settings, so my info was not totally updated. Oh and theres nothing wrong with setting pick ups at any height, tone is subjective, but if you want the power closer is better.

That first picture, you can tell his Rhythm Pick up looks to be set pretty low, but on the rest its anyones guess. Not all guitars are created equally with pick up rings especially Les Pauls & their copy variants, whos to say he's not close to the Seymore measurements? unless someone is physically there with a measuring device its redundant to try to say how high they are from a picture point of view.

And yes he's a bit cleaner these days...He used to set his Jubilees at 7 for gain then at the start of this tour before the AFD100 he had them at 5. Now with the AFD100 he's going back to that more agressive sound.

[Richard_H]

As close to the strings without touching them? That can't be right at all.
Slash's pickups are rarely higher than the mounting ring itself....
The pickups aren't that high in these pictures.

That may be the case now days where he's going for a cleaner tone in the early tour last year, but back during the Use Your Illusions Era to Early VR his pick ups were set to Seymours settings, so my info was not totally updated. Oh and theres nothing wrong with setting pick ups at any height, tone is subjective, but if you want the power closer is better.

That first picture, you can tell his Rhythm Pick up looks to be set pretty low, but on the rest its anyones guess. Not all guitars are created equally with pick up rings especially Les Pauls & their copy variants, whos to say he's not close to the Seymore measurements? unless someone is physically there with a measuring device its redundant to try to say how high they are from a picture point of view.

And yes he's a bit cleaner these days...He used to set his Jubilees at 7 for gain then at the start of this tour before the AFD100 he had them at 5. Now with the AFD100 he's going back to that more agressive sound.

This is the only picture i've seen where the bridge pup is visibly higher than the pickup-ring.
But as a professional touring musician, I'm sure he & his gtr tech fiddled around with different pickup-height, string height and so forth during the course of the UYI tours ;-)

You wouldn't by any chance know where he got his guitarstraps from back then?

[Slashwannabe1]

You wouldn't by any chance know where he got his guitarstraps from back then?

Actually I don't know exactly, I always heard they were custom made.