Magnatone | Slash Signature SL-100
Fender Highways Series Event Featuring Julia Rizik
Join us at Chicago Music Exchange on Thursday, November 30, for a special Fender event introducing the new Highway Series guitars and featuring Fender artist Julia Rizik in CME’s Lincoln Avenue showroom!
In addition to a demonstration of the new series, guests will receive Fender-branded swag. Guests will also be invited to record themselves playing a Highway Series guitar to enter an exclusive raffle!
Slash Switched to Magnatone! Now, You Can Too, with His Signature SL-100 Amp!
For the first time in over 30 years, the iconic rock guitarist of Guns N’ Roses fame has collaborated with a new amplifier company—Magnatone—to create the Slash Signature SL-100 amplifier, co-designed with longtime Magnatone engineer and amp guru, Obeid Khan.
"I used a Magnatone 50-watt M-80 in the studio earlier this year and was blown away by how it sounded,” Slash said. “Since then, I've been working with Magnatone on a 100-watt version of the M-80, and I absolutely love what they have come up with. It’s killer!”
The guitarist will perform with Magnatone amplifiers next year as Slash featuring Miles Kennedy and the Conspirators will officially kick off their international The River Is Rising-Rest of the World Tour ’24 on January 23, 2024. The global trek will visit 25 countries, and 39 cities across the globe!
Magnatone SL-100 Slash Signature 100-watt
Voiced loosely on the Magnatone Super Fifty-Nine M-80 design that Slash began using during the Guns N Roses 2023 World Tour, the Magnatone SL-100 Slash Signature 100-watt amplifier was developed with Slash to meet the needs of his identifiable and unique style and tone, taking it to the next level with the monstrous tone, gain, and headroom Slash requires!
The inspiration for Slash to design the SL-100 was not necessarily to be an “Appetite” or SIR #39–type amplifier. Rather, the SL-100 is a whole new design that tube amp guru, Obeid Khan created through multiple modifications, based on the Super Fifty-Nine M-80.
Based on a 100-watt British-type circuit, the SL-100 features a quartet of EL-34 tubes, delivering headroom, clarity, and the grind that Slash is known for both live and in the studio. The SL-100 pre-amp comes equipped with four 12AX7/ECC83 tubes that offer two distinct gain modes enabling the player to select between LO and HI gain settings, which are accessed via the included footswitch as well as directly on the front control panel.
Magnatone Slash 4x12 Speaker Cabinet
Built specifically to pair with his signature SL-100 amp head, the Magnatone Slash 4x12 speaker cabinet is loaded with four Celestion Vintage 30 speakers—Slash’s speaker of choice. These speakers are made in England, designed to deliver a warm tone, smooth and creamy breakup, and biting upper mid’s that are hallmarks of the Celestion speaker sound.
Are you, like Slash, looking to make the switch to Magnatone amplifiers? Come to Chicago Music Exchange today to try the new Magnatone Slash Signature SL-100 and hear the difference, yourself! Then, call CME or chat us online (or in the CME Mobile App), to preorder yours today!
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