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After the initial inspection was complete and the chassis safely back in it's robust housing the conversation turned to possible amp models and features. This is also where Santiago asked to get hold of the original AFD master tracks. As we know, Slash came through and these are now providing invaluable info on the Appetite tone.
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Posted 2 years ago by riden21 keep working guys we wanna buy this amp,the guitar and the new slash album all in one!!!!
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Posted 2 years ago by RicMoura Yep! Agree! We want to buy all in one!
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Posted 2 years ago by masahs I am loving this!! As a raging gearhead, it amazing to be able have access to and see how an amp comes to life. Can't wait to be able to purchase the final products.
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Posted 2 years ago by Marshall39 look here :
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/slash-0202/
album is already done so what is this AFD100 about ??? I doubt it will be in Sloash rig for next tour as its so near... please Marshall answer this
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Posted 2 years ago by mikesmovielife i hope we get to see a video of them listening to and testing the appetite tracks. also, I wish they would put out a updated copy of AFD. Remaster with some new updated liner notes maybe some rare demos or something....just my wishful thinking.
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Posted 2 years ago by StuartC I'm sure they will take this into account, but amps made for america between 1974 and Jan 1986 were shipped with 6550 tubes and not EL34's due to supply problems. That'll make a difference to the tone. Slash's Jcm 800 in the vid's has 6550's in. I guarantee that no-one will remember what the amp(s) used for AFD had in them!!!!!
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Posted 2 years ago by mikesmovielife they might have kept records in the service department of tube types used?
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Posted 2 years ago by MisterMiniMite Although this wasn't in my old article, I've learned that the original AFD Marshall had 6550s. This means that the amp was made in '74 at the earliest. If I am also correct about the small Marshall logo, the amp was made in mid-'76 at the latest. So, somewhere in that 2 1/2 year window: '74 to mid-'76. In any event, it would have been a PCB (printed circuit board) model.
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Posted 2 years ago by FritzCarraldo @MiniMite: From where do you got your info? Tim Caswell said on the Metroamp forum that #39 had EL34's. Regarding the fact that Levi should copy #39 it would be just logical that #36 also had EL34's.
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Posted 2 years ago by MisterMiniMite FritzCarraldo - Glenn Buckley told me this. He said he remembered for sure that #36 had 6550s. This was around the time the second article was pretty much set for publishing, so the detail never made it into article #2.
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Posted 2 years ago by rocker77 I have read that the original stock #39 amp was a four input marshall super tremolo and that the bottom right hand input jack was replaced with a toggle switch to turn the mod on/off.Tim Caswell is making the stock #39 amps . I own a JCM and have tried several mods none come close. I know that #39 has special built mercury magnetics transformers but that,s the only secret i know of.
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Posted 2 years ago by Marshall39 please no modern PCB, just something like 2203x and 1959SLP... people want to mod, you know that
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