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Taylor Danley

Taylor Danley

This Legendary Amp Absolutely Rips!!

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This Legendary Amp Absolutely Rips!!

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Taylor Danley

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Marshall Valvestate Shootout - 8100 vs VS100 | Chug Battle!

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Taylor Danley

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Marshall Valvestate 8100 Metal Clip

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Lasse Lammert

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Chuck Schuldiner Marshall 8100 - Death Guitar Tone

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LambChopper678

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Marshall Valvestate 8100 Repair, Demo and Review

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Gear Curiosities: Marshall Valvestate 8100 - 1 Tube + Op-Amps + LEDs = Death Metal Glory!

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Plague Scythe Studios

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MARSHALL 8100 VALVESTATE (THE BEST AMP THEYVE MADE)?

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Ninecore Neil

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MARSHALL VALVESTATE 8100 AND MARSHALL 1960A CAB

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Ninecore Neil

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Marshall Valvestate 8100 by ReampZone (Kemper profiles demo)

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Have Guitar

Reviews

PROS

  • Fantastic sound quality overall

  • High gain and volume capabilities

  • Versatile tone options with effective Contour/Middle knobs

  • Excellent for specific genres like death metal and thrash

  • Affordable price point

  • Capable of producing old school and modern tones

  • Pairs well with complementary speakers and pedals for enhanced sound

CONS

  • Minor problems reported upon arrival

  • Clean channel may "fart out" at higher gains

  • Poor quality reverb feature

4.5 out of 5

Based on 4 Reviews and 23 Ratings

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M

Amazing amp head

Right out of the box this things a beast, it sounds amazing for that old school death metal tone and I can even get some sludgey tones.

Roles:
Singer Guitarist
Genres:
Metal old school thrash progressive death metal
M

Great amp for my needs.

Great amp for death metal and such, but the only problem might be with the clean channel. Since the gain knob works as a volume knob on the clean channel, at higher gain it can fart out the sound.

viggovalf

Best Metal Amp

It's one of the best amps for a good thrash and death metal tone. It's also really cheap at around 200 USD

quezypsko

Mostly for those, who only want to play death metal or classic thrash shit. 7/10

Classic death metal sound. Very poor reverb.

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Guitarist Music Producer Audio Engineer
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Electronic Rock Hip Hop

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See how Billy Gibbons uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Billy Gibbons

Guitarist

Kings of Chaos

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Verified via Marshall

Marshall claims that this iconic amp was used by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top

See how Joe Duplantier uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Joe Duplantier

Guitarist, Singer

Gojira

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Verified via GearGods

Joe says in a Gear Gods interview, "The very first amp I used was a Valvestate Marshall. You know, I liked those amps. They’re very precise and sharp. The low end is very transistor." Then later mentions, "Yeah, those are what Meshuggah used to use way back in the ‘90s. I saw Meshuggah back in 1998 and they were using those Valvestates."

See how Chuck Schuldiner uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Chuck Schuldiner

Guitarist, Singer

Death (Metal Band)

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Verified via Photo

The Empty Words Project is founded by Chuck's family. Here they republish an interview with Pit Magazine, originally published in June/1999, Chuck Said: "My amp is a Marshall Valvestate head and cabinet, that's about it. I don't use effects except for a little chorus on my leads, I really like a basic setup." This article from Guitar Geek confirms this as an 8100 specifically.

See how Ola Englund uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Ola Englund

Guitarist, Podcasters & Streamers

Six Feet Under

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Verified via YouTube

In this video, Ola Englund uses a Marshall Valvestate amp head with his Hesu 2x12 cab.

See how Deryck Whibley uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Deryck Whibley

Singer, Guitarist

Sum 41

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Verified via Photo

In this post, on Sum 41's Facebook, the caption reads, "just bought these new amps. these 2 amps together make such a huge sound. this is what we used a lot on the chuck album. they were the main guitar sounds on "no reason" "bitter end" "angels with dirty faces" and "we're all to blame". i can't wait to lay some guitars down for the new record with these. you'll hear a lot of them on this new stuff. "

See how Rob Barrett uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Rob Barrett

Guitarist, Singer

Cannibal Corpse

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Verified via Photo

A marshall vs8100 head is visible in the studio during the recording of The Bleeding in part 1 of the centuries of torment documentary/video (https://youtu.be/aGPot3rP53o) at around 1:28:57.

See how Wayne Static uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Wayne Static

Keyboardist, Music Producer

Static?X

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Verified via YouTube

Producer Ulrich Wild states that Wayne's guitar parts for Wisconsin Death Trip were recorded on a Marshall Valvestate 8100 in this video

See how Dino Cazares uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Dino Cazares

Guitarist

Fear Factory

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Verified via Seymour Duncan

"I used a Marshall® Valvestate 100 watt head going through a model 1960A cabinet with Celestion® Vintage 30s in it, and that was killer. For effects, I used a Digitech® Whammy, an old Ibanez® chorus, and I also used a Line 6® Pod Pro for a lot of my effects as well because it has a wide variety of effects that I really like."

See how Ihsahn uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Ihsahn

Singer, Guitarist

Emperor

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Verified via YouTube

In a 1997 live performance video from the "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk" tour in Milan, Ihsahn of Emperor is seen using the Marshall Valvestate 8100 guitar amplifier head, identifiable by its prominent logo and gold panel.

See how Mikko Lindström uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Mikko Lindström

Guitarist

HIM

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Verified via YouTube

Linde used an amp that appears to be a Valvestate in the mid-to-late 90's.

See how Wacław Kiełtyka uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Wacław Kiełtyka

Guitarist, Composer

Machine Head

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Verified via Photo

Vogg used it to record the Nihility album

See how Tommy Victor uses Marshall Valvestate 8100

Tommy Victor

Guitarist

Danzig

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Verified via Harmony Central Forums

He used valvestate amp on live gig.

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metal

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alternative metal

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death metal

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hard rock

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nu metal

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thrash metal

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groove metal

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industrial metal

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alternative rock

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progressive metal

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florida death metal

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