That half stack the Captain is playing through is nearly $8k US. $5k for a head is hard enough to fathom but $2700 for a single 4x12 cabinet is just cray cray.
The whole stack costs £7500 in the UK and it is basically a JCM 800 clone. I know some people argue that Marshall amps have gone downhill, so they seek boutique handwired clones to get "authentic" vintage tones, and I completely get that. But handwired or not, charging TRIPLE the price tag of a JCM 800 and the matching 4x12 is taking the piss in my opinion.
I think there are only 100 units being made so finding one to buy will probably be even more difficult than justifying buying one at the price they're asking for it. It does sound great though!
with these kind of prices you can get something custom built and something which you can tweak with the builder... (the same goes for esoteric signature guitars, get something built for you personally if you got so much money to spend, it'll be much cooler to have a one off)
@@grtxyz4358 That is probably the better option to take as long as you're sure it's something that you're definitely going to be happy with and keep for a long time. When and if you decide to sell it, be prepared to take a huge loss because people will usually only put up the cash for well-known, highly regarded name brands.
@@markn4526 I agree, but then again I've learned not to sell any gear or get regrets... unless I totally not have any feeling with it, but that should not be the case if you go for custom, because unless you totally want a different sound, you could always improve on what you've got... of course you can do the same thing with something off the shelf, but you're not going to butcher an expensive signature amp or guitar... unless it's your own.
@VickyDreamz of course. But you can guarantee some aging exec who only plays at home will buy it anyway. What Andertons et al never tell you during their sales pitch is that for most people, in most houses, even 5w is too loud. Sad but true. Which is why, for 99% of guitarists, a modeler is a better choice. They just sound better than real amps at low volume.
Absolutely ridiculously overpriced. Not only that but who exactly is this for unless you’re playing stadiums or arenas. This would be way too loud even for a pub cover band. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love slash and guns n roses etc but come on £7500. When you think what guitar, amp and pedals you could buy for the same price makes no sense whatsoever.
Guess I was lucky to fetch an Evil Robot 214X Combo and a 30W Evil Robot head from the US handwired Kasha line for comparably stupid small money. Early 2010's when Phil X was roaring with his Magnatone at Fretted Americana but Magnatone was not ready 🙂
I don't care how good (and no doubt way overpriced amp is) nothing will EVER beat Slash's tone on the Use your Illusion records and the live set up for that tour. One of the best tones I've ever heard, especially for Leads...,..it's the perfect Hard Rock tone, EVHs on Van Halen 1 a close second.....
Soy un gran fanático de Slash, le he visto en algunas ocasiones: 2011 slash n' friends 2016 reunión Guns n' Roses zona palcos 2016 reunión Guns n' Roses excelente zona de hasta enfrente del escenario del lado de Slash 2024 enfrente del escenario del lado de Slash y presentando sus nuevos magnatone. Y la verdad no se acercan nada esos magnatone a los Marshall, su tono característico de Slash se perdió. Definitivamente el mejor tono es el de Tokio '92, dicen que uso jubilee pero yo siento que es un Super lead plexi 1959 modificado ya que se escucha algo redondeado el tono final, los JCM800 son más agresivos y brillantes y los jubilee agresivos pero más obscuros.
Saw Slash live last week with Miles Kennedy and there were two Magnatone full stracks on stage. The sound reminded me of the Marshall Vintage modern I once owned. Very dark without brilliant highs.
Never been a fan of that type of super compressed fizzy high mid type distortion. Is that really the Slash sound? As I recall, his tone is clearer and and creamier.
It depends on which "Slash tone" you're referring to. I've always thought that his most recognizable tone was more based around the Silver Jubilee type tone which is really a JCM 800 with clipping diodes. I could wrong though!
Interestingly the Slash amp - at least in the video - sounds very "bassy" if you will, a sound that I don't associate with Slash at all. I had the Marshall SL-5 here and it was incredibly trebly. The small amp doesn't seem to have any clean headroom (even in the "Lo" setting), and probably is not intended to deliver crystal cleans.
Is there any reason why Namm doesn't have or use Isolation Booths , its Weird to have most of the World's biggest and Best Amplifier Builders in a place that has People walking around making sure that Musicians are not playing loud !!!! It just doesn't make any sense , also if they did start to use Isolation Booths it would give the Iso-Booth companies a perfect way to test out their Products in a real playing Loud setting .
Thanks for the NAMM coverage guys and girls! I have pre-ordered the SL-100 with the matching cabinet, I did not even knew it was a limited run, I can’t wait to get it and hear what it really sounds like! Do you have any information about when is it going to start shipping?
I pre ordered the Baby M-80 & initially they said feb 1st but Sweetwater called me today & said the end of march. Im hoping for sooner but more than willing to wait it out. .
I was in intense anticipation that the captain would play Welcome to the Jungle or Sweet Child O mine riff when I saw the Slash signature Les Paul in his arms!! 😂 The amp sounds awesome thought, the AFD tone is there. 💪🏻
Outrageous price point tho will be interested to hear a proper demo of this amp - Lee didn't really look at ease playing with all those folk milling around, no doubt trying to get themselves on camera.
wow. Magnatone. I still have a 1960s Magnatone M 35 with the original 15 inch JBL speakers . back in the 70s, I gave it to my mom to use as a PA system in her small tavern, when they would have karaoke nights. Around 1984 when my mom sold that tavern, I took it back, still works… i’d say about 40 inches tall, handles on the sides, built into the cabinet, to channel, it has reverb and tremolo in one channel, it has long aluminum champagne, glass shaped tone and volume control knobs. They’re all there, the dashboard is black. It’s actually pretty modern looking still. I’ve never seen one anywhere else… when I was in high school, I was in a typical rock band, and one of the Rich kids in the class. Wanted to buy a combo organ.. he got his dad to buy him a Baldwin, combo organ, and this Magnatone, M 35, which was the top of the line most expensive amp in the Joseph horns music center in downtown Pittsburgh at the time.. A few years after that kid got that Oregon and amplifier. He decided he wanted to get his dad to buy him a Hammond B3. So I traded him a Corvair car for the Organ and amplifier… i’m not an organ player, so I swapped it for a 1963 fender P bass with a bass player that I was in a band with back in the late 70s that I always kept the amp. I still have., and the last time I tried it, it still works, solid state
If I could just magically fabricate one boutique amp for myself I think it'd be a Magnatone. Every time I go looking around at amps I get stuck Ooo'ing and awe'ing at the Magnatone tones. So it's always exciting to see what's new from them.
Its nice to see the guys that owns one of the biggest music shops in the world gets intimidated testing out gear and can't figure out what to play in public Lol! Thanks, guys!
Magnatone made great-sounding amps back in the day, and it looks like they’re still doing it. I always liked the stereo combos with the pitch-shifting vibrato, except for the control panel being on the back. They had a great idea in the ‘60s, which was to build the amps into what looked like repurposed TV cabinets with a removable head that could be used either front-facing or rear-facing. They were one of the few good-sounding solid-state amps around at that time.
Insane and Criminal Price Tag. I'll take a Friedman or Metropoulos Modded Plexi Amp over that amp, any day. You could buy two of each brand, for that price. A Marshall Silver Jubilee will do the job, as well as a Modded Marshall Jcm 800 doing the job well too. All in the talent of the player's fingers.
All in all it sounds good but nothing really that special. I would even go as far as saying that the sound does not even really include the characteristincs of Slash's sound (hard to explain, but I mean that sharp yet creamy highs, with biting lows backed up with just the right mids) Comparing it to this years live shows I did not notice much of a difference in his tone. One might even assume he still uses the Jubilee or the AfD for live shows and has a Magnatone in the studio if he needs it. (I know there are amps on the stage, but those are never the ones he actually uses, those are in a rig behind) Price is higher as Ozzy used to be. I understand it is limited etc and probably not meant for the average players rather than collectors
Tone from the power section of a 100 watts amplifier??? Who the heck will ever be able to wind this thing up? You will never be able to enjoy this thing and tremendously overpay for it.
Unless you do stadium gig's 100 watts is too stupid loud in most gigging situations. And the price is insane for most working musicians. You can buy a decent older Marshall for a lot less. Big no from me .
i find this price outragious , eventhough once you bought it it will last a lifetime and my car writes off 3 times the amount this amp costs per year .
Not Slash tone..... Dark and less gain/sustain. I have 2 AFD100 (Im collector), I was willing to by this new, but after seeing these reviews, Im probably giving up =/
If I were u I would stick with the afd100, i’d wish I had that, besides the afd100 was created specifically to copy slash tone from his studio recordings unlike magnatone who probably just engineered the amps sound by ear
To be fair, it did say in the video that the amp really needs its power amp section pushed hard to deliver the tone Slash likes, which unfortunately wasn’t possible at the time of recording. I’m sure that once these get into the hands of retailers with decent recording facilities, and a player with the balls to be in a small room with a 100 watt half stack running at full tilt, they will sound much better
@@rogershore7189 One more reason to like the AFD100, it has a power attenuator knob. The Magnatone, in addition to having 100W, needs to work loudly to give a good sound..... It feels like it's going backwards instead of moving forward and evolving.?
I could careless about the slash tone cause at the day it's about your own sound but it sounded nothing impressive at least in this video for that kind of insane money.
Ballsy sound Lee. I can see why Slash likes it. BUT the tone you got playing clean with the volume down. Now THAT tone really caught my attention more than the later sounds as good as they are.
Sounds nothing like any Slash tones he’s used before. Flubby bottom end and none of the tight snarly tones he’s always used. These amp companies need to give their head a wobble. Along with Victory’s new £5000 offering it’s a complete piss take.
Marshall gets sold to Swedish Company Zound last year then Slash leaves Marshall and joins Magnatone last year , or did Slash leave Marshall? Its not unusual for a Guitarist to be involved with 2 Music companies.
It is not very encouraging for the rock music industry that one of the biggest novelties of this NAMM is the amplifier of a guitarist who had his peak more than 30 years ago. With all the admiration I have for him, it is a shame how rock was transformed into a museum and was not able to renew itself. Perhaps it is nothing more than the natural cycle of music and its evolution.
Clearly lots go into making these amps but seriously l don’t see the point because it looks just like a Marshall JCM 800 rip and similar looks and colour. I think amp builders are becoming desperate to keep rigs alive but technology has these digital Kempers with all the huge sounds and tones created instantly and can replicate many amps without the prices and without the weight lugging to gigs plus daft pub landlords never pay enough to warrant paying this extortionate prices for a valve amp head and cab is just crazy. 🤪
That amp better be cleaning my house and filing my taxes cause no amount of good tone, how accurate it is to Slash's tone should cost you 8k, that is ridiculous.
