All user reviews of 4/5 for the Marshall AVT100

I acquired this amp at Mars Music during their closing sale for $479, 20% off street price of $599. My wife told me to find my Christmas present, so I told her I'd save her money if I bought it now. I always wanted a Marshall for the build and tone possibilities.

The AVT-100 has 3 adjustable channels, clean, OD1, and OD2, all footswitchable. The 16 effects are switchable in/out from the LED indicator footswitch as well, so it's easy to tell what's on or off before hitting a string. The variety of tones are great from serious OD fuzz to clean, then everything in between. I run my Strat, Tele, or Steinberger through it, but have yet to try my Alvarez acoustic. They all sound fantastic! I cranked it to 5 and was shaking stuff in my basement. This summer I'll take it outside and give it a real test!

Some of the 16 digital effect are useful, but you can't combine them. There is 1 effect that combines delay and chorus, but that's it. The flanger effect doesn't seem to have much range. If they could remove some of the many reverb settings and allow users to create their own combinations and save them as 'user settings', that would be useful! In the meantime, I'll use my pedals.

It is solid and it shows by it's 60 pounds of mass! I don't intend on gigging with it as I'd be too afraid of dropping it and banging it up, but it feels like it could take the abuse. I haven't found a flaw in the appearance. The build-in fan keeps it cool. The footswitch is all metal.

My '64 Princeton Blackface was my only prcatice amp before being joined by the Marshall. And if I thought I REALLY needed it, I would have bought a Marshall Halfstack, but the AVT-100 Combo fits my needs... and then some. Besides, I don't need to get THAT loud playing at church! I will buy another Marshall, someday. Maybe when they make the effects 'user' settable. I'd give it a 5 for the build quality, sound, and even the name, but the effects are better left to a pedal board, so I dropped it to a 4. But, buy this amp!

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UTILIZATION

Config pleasing to the eye and use easily accessible. sounds obtained are typical marshall, ie very good in saturation, lower in the clean sounds.

SOUNDS

As mentioned below the button is nice scoop to boost a little deeper sound medium and throughout the distos are really the height, we get a heavy sound that metal fawn spot, but we just settle aisment the knobs for a less violent rock, even a little blues / rock very successful (which is not the strong point of marshall). saturation of the three channels are super convenient and it's hard to do without once you taste it.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using qq weeks and the fact is that I took it for its three channels and only a saturation. I took a lot of fun with this amp (I have not kept), to say the least. Unfortunately, I prefer my 1000 much more versatile performer, the sound is all over the compartments and is radically different from what is heard elsewhere.
the avt 100 has a very very good value / perf / price and is also well placed on the market facing the concurrency. a good investment after all.

Marshall 100watt with a lamp in the preamp is in the rest transistor.
It 100watt do as I stated above.
Settings: there are settings for the clean and overdrive (there's only one for both a shame.) And setting of each effect:
for clean and overdrive are: gain, volume, bass, midle, treble.
for effects there is a knob to select the effect, the other to adjust.
effects reverb, flange, delay, chorus etc ... (About 16 I think)

UTILIZATION

Even if you're used to a much smaller amp before with fewer adjustments etc. ... sen is very easy out.
yes good sound is very simple to optenir, it also depends on the style play.
the manual I do not read is not even open (it's not that I do in it he explains the precote taken with a light amplifier)

SOUNDS

Is it your style of music? I play different style enormously to progress I play as well as funk ska punk etc. ... it is very Polivalente.
My guitar is a bass line is going to say but I get a sound that I find okay with this amp, I do not deffet those of his amp emplement sufisent.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about a me now.
Or the price I had is it More than a case (I do not siterais)

12AX7 preamp in, onboard multi-effects ... It's solid manufacturing Marshallian it's tough. Heavy is still a bit!

UTILIZATION

Simple and effective is a marshall: you turn it sounds.

SOUNDS

The downside is the small.

I have a Marshall VS100 in mind. The guys in my group have one or AVT100 of my post and also I think a VS 50w he says. I also tried a 80w vs. Assé regularly so I connai the amp.

Overall I noticed immediately that the sounds I like the AVT significantly less than VS. The old version has a warmth, a thickness that the AVT does not.

THE CRUNCH.
I find it just always bad. We feel that the sound is the same as the distortion and c is simply the gain down. ca overflows there is not "square" I look for in a crunch.

THE DISTO.
I think that like it or not. but frankly it is less warm and round as the VS. ca crachouillent more it overflows a little. It sounds so to speak as the 2000s and current groups. Assé is powerful and trashy like a marshall but the accuracy is relative to the distortion.

In addition we regret bitterly the abscence of the magic button "contour" which was present in the AVT and dramatically alter the sound.
we went from a big rock sound. The presence knob that replaces ets too innefficace I find the sound to change practice. Fortunately that there are the "scoop" (if I m not abuse) that cuts the medium but these still are not as insufficsant adjustable ...

THE multi effects.

The effects do their job. ca troubleshoots serious! the sound is good without being harsh environment but are very pratik accessiblent because at any moment.
Only the flanger is bad, but the reverb! Mamamia big fan of the reverb as I broke a profondeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur s!

OVERALL OPINION

My overall opinion is that it is the marshall, it sounds, there is something to laugh for hours!

But around the time the sound of fondementales Lampl: the distortion is lost as heat in thickness and that's a shame becaufe remi nine: one equipped with a multi-effect VS: It will do serious!

So if you are already equipped with a multi purpose: take a VS. if you have the means to take a 2 VS.

Amp Hybrid: Prampli lamp and transistor hp
100 watts RMS
3 channels: clean - OverDrive OverDrive 2 1
Tri-band EQ for the clean and OD for 2 and volume and gain
Presence knob, 2 scoop to dig the medium to OD and bright to make the sound brighter in the clear. 16 Indeed, many of reverb Different. External effects loop.

UTILIZATION

The configuration is very simple and intuitive. Adjustments are not normally prs except master volume, which tends not to be a truly progressive (between 0 and 1's quiet enough to play in his room then came 2 the sound is much louder, but increases more low up to 5)
The effects are not too hard to take in hand but sometimes a little hard getting the right.
The manual is short, simple and clear. It's useful for some controls and take prcautions amps lamp.

SOUNDS

The sounds are trs balance for the guitar I have (a small vantage 113t for beginners). I pass a small 15 watt transistor and I must say that I feel the diffrence The definition for sound. The clean channel dlivre plutt a clear round. The OD1 channel gives a crunch plutt INTERESTED. The RSID blem in the OD2 channel: do not expect the heavy distortion is a saturation in the colors just a little marshalienne particulire diffrent and other loadings. We like it or not. Personally I like but I was even a distortion pedals to get other sounds.

OVERALL OPINION

Overall this amp is fulfilling its task, that of giving the warm lights (even if one is away from any lamps) with the price and the colors of a transistor amplifier.
I use it for a little less than a year. I have not tried other models before acqurir because it's my first of what you bought ... as a. (But now I have to pay it back: p)
It is a powerful amplu with sound correct. I had little opportunity trs served and I must say that qualitprix level is good.
I do not know if I would do this choice because even though I would still have a small all-tube ^ ^

Amp hybrid with a lamp and Marshall ECC83 is heard well in the saturation (which I changed because the marshall of some concern) that have nothing to do with the MG series. This is 100 watt marshall, but its volume is not very high (like what the transistor). The connection is very simple, on the facade for the guitar input and a headphone jack on the back, out with an HP emulation and effects loop adjustable -10 / +4 dBV is used as a multi-effect pedals or pedals .
It has 3 channels. Clean with a gain-volume-3-band eq, a crunch and distortion with separate gain and volume but even equalizer. After you have the master volume and presence and the volume for the effects loop and the effects built into the amp (16) adjustable by 2 buttons: volume and intensity / frequency (depending on whether a reverb or delay) .
Too bad the eq is the same for the crunch and distortion ...

UTILIZATION

Simple configuration with three channels and effects loop is sometimes bad the crunch ale the same as the distortion EQ, when you love to have separate sounds good but ...
As soon as you plug your guitar sound direct you typed Marshall, a rather warm crunch but still a bit sharp (transistor must not be forgotten either), a clean but fairly neutral going well, although a dense ideal disto rock / hard rock. It is closed and it brings what to the low 2 * 12 but is welcome nonetheless.
The manual is simple but have everything, including settings to find the amp.

SOUNDS

Scoop has a button on the crunch and distortion will dig up the mids and low to obtain a sound neo (neo neo punk metal all that ...) On the distortion we understand why, on a little crunch less. There is a touch bright on the clean channel, this key for acute boosts a more crystalline, useful when using dual microphones. Is obtained quickly sounds very acceptable with all the modes, it is a very versatile amp, although it remains very focused on the rock.
I will put some minor drawbacks though. It is a hybrid Amli so do not expect a sound with all lights but the saturation is much prettier than that of MG, for example. The crunch lacks some serious compared to the other two channels, but rather by anecdotal against the Scoop switch on the distortion makes the highs a little too garish in my opinion, but it is still useful because otherwise the distortion would be typed and oldschool very medium for me. I opted to put me an EQ in the loop and from the nickel stamp is by making compromises with all the different EQ.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for over 4 years and it disappoints me a little now, but that's because I want to light and because I make music in a really intense, unlike when I l I bought it or just to play in my high school rock band. I love the fact that there have three channels, now I could not play without for sure. I try MG100 before and frankly even if there is only one lamp in the AVT is simply saving it as a distos mg (transistor) are very dirty and cracked all over, then c ' mastered is much, much prettier. It is midway between lamp and transistor and I had to wait 3 years of practice to begin to get tired of his side transistor, so it goes. Especially when you see me do the mouth in front of big heads all lamps that are worth three times the price of this combo ... I have become particularly demanding ...
Otherwise the fact that the distortion "scoopée" is weaker than the crunch is a bit boring because you end up quickly with the distortion to the crunch 10 to 6 and 5 to clean so we spent a little time to the balance between the channels and the master, but when we used to, I put any more time than anyone else with a multichannel amp. I got it for just under € 700 five years ago (and it was almost nine out that's why I paid a little expensive), in the same situation, at the same time, I probably do it again the same choice, but now my budget and my requirements have changed.

Amp preamp hybrid lamp (one 12AX7)
100watt
for the rest see the other com

UTILIZATION

The configuration is very simple not need a tray plus 5
FAU pass it unpeu time on May rglage you get a correct something after 10 min
we'd love two cepandant equalizer pr separated the two distortion

SOUNDS

This amp has comvient quite my style of music (pop punk)
I play it a lag roxanne ac rs 200 (sublime!!)
clear sound is the sound or my taste means the more the lamp, which is a shame the distortion pr

OVERALL OPINION

I depui the User 1 year
what I like most is his esthtisme it even when the mouth!
it is powerful enough pr cover the sound of a battery may become bold when pushed unpeu tro is a shame. the pedal provided it's useful ca
I like the least C mank Heat distortion (where's the lamp?!) and are weight: 23kg being given that the BPS does not make me ca me up!
I bought this amp in a 450 euro OCCAZ I find enough justification c even if I find a pr grateux the same price just a jcm600 jarive lamp to do the same weight but when the sound pa grd thing to see
nine in the ratio quality price is the price pa trible May or I buy the vo carrment it!
pr the problem of the lamp I wonder if replacing the lamp in a lamp other style or mesa boogie jariverai ur having a sound adequate if you have the answer!
if I find this amp OCCAZ I remake this choice (if I find any lamp pa)

Well everything has been said already, no need to add!
Just one thing: 'We have to stop with the stuff of pov' lamp or wanders chaispas! it is a commercial technique, do not expect to have a sound "a lamp" with this amp, it is very far!

Note the footswitch damn good, the long cable, the 3 channels ... we regret that the channel equalization OD and OD 2 is common ... the connection is good, it's cool to have an effects loop (there are amps that are not more expensive booouuuuh!), although having the headphone jack on the characteristics and brief in this price range, I find Overall not bad ... j'met July 1

UTILIZATION

simple config is not a gas plant! turning, and it sounds (good or bad we'll see later)
I had no manual, but frankly not need is the very basic! except maybe the built-in effects, it was sometimes difficult to distinguish the nuances and differences between all ... Me I use the trick with room and delay (I have not had the amp side to see) and it sure is good! Good is not the effect the kind of quality pro Eventide and tt, but enough to learn ^ ^
To make general ca used well, it's not too heavy, it is quickly resolved, not bad thought, you can touch all ...
8 / 10

SOUNDS

I do a bit of every style, without going into jazz in the styles or really hardcore metal ... played with start, rg, petrucci, ltd and tested with les paul

clearly is not bad, not great but it is clean fun with no problems! I love the home and petrucci on this channel, it sounds nikel, the les paul sound good too, in a more bold course

od 1 I use the crunch, pushing the gain is great twangy I do not like at all! So slight crunch, it goes good but hey it's not extraordinary is the channel that I like least ...

I use the OD2 for rhythm and lead;;; to be careful with the midrange, treble and presence, it becomes quickly nest of bees, even when the gain is pushed too (not beyond the 3 / 4 for me) ... according to my tastes, the single coils of the strata are highly undesirable, it sounds not ... otherwise it may not sound too bad with a good scratch, no worries but it remains in sound proportiionnelles price of course ...

brief is not bad, it is not a great vintage but the price is not bad, especially with the built-in effects (for the lead, the AC is really good)

AC not support the ill effects pedals too, no worries!

ultimately it is between right and good, love the grain is already marshall, and then not wanting to sound an all-tube! I also specify that the button is aps super scoop, AC sizzles too too bad, I would have preferred a contour as the old: / I

OVERALL OPINION

for nearly 5 years, my first amp I have not tried many others, I wanted a marshall first!

jaime:
Sound-lead (OD2 + effects)
- Clean the lot
effects in themselves, an ideal start to show interest (even if the settings are limited)
It footswitch not foam and useful

I do not like:
-The OD1, not really super channel
-The joint equalizer to "distos"
-The appearance of a little cheap amp
-The appellant hybrid, the lamp is not spooky ...
I do not know if I will ever elect now ... I had a JVM 410H after I finally sold for a special mesa lonestar ... and yes nobody is perfect! jue but do not spit on avt, it makes me good service, I am not afraid to carry around anywhere and it is not ridiculous! Today is a good value for money, and it is better to buy these dung ca MG, unworthy of a range marshall who care about our face with this series shabby ...

7 / 10 notSurpise is not 6.5, it is a good amp to start and who can have fun!