THE PINNACLE OF VALVE TECHNOLOGY
To remain at the top for thirty years in the volatile world of rock 'n' roll amplification, requires deep dedication, a true understanding of musician's needs and a genuine love of guitar musicality. Over three decades we have refined and tuned the unique tonal personality of "the Marshall sound" to fit the changing demands of the musical environment. Now we have reached our 3Oth anniversary we want to give guitarists the best valve amplifier ever made, the pinnacle of Marshall valve technology. No compromise has been accepted in any area when producing this amplifier, our testament to thirty years of Marshall's unsurpassed soulful tonality.

30th ANNIVERSARY DESIGN
The Anniversary Series is a celebration of the power and glory of Marshall, containing classic sounds from 30 years of rock, plus a new sound generation for 1992 and beyond.

When you remove all constraints from designers as experienced as ours, their instinct takes over, the outcome is as exciting as it is innovative. On the 100 Watt head (model 6100) and 1 x12 combo (model 6101), every conceivable detail has been taken care of, from three separate channels, to four different output levels, from pure valve power to midi switching.

LIMITED EDITION
A limited number of amplifier heads will be individually hand built. They will have all metal pans beautifully plated and feature a solid brass logo plus limited edition plaque and certification. They are, quite simply, a piece of engineering excellence and likely to become the most desired amplifiers ever made.

PURE VALVE MAGIC
Vintage Marshalls are so good to play because the sound is warm, pure and uncluttered by a surfeit of controls. The Anniversary Series go right back to basics, routing each channel directly through to the valve powered heart, allowing it to breathe fully and exude its warm valve magic. We can now treat each of the three channels as a separate amplifier and consequently drain every drop of tone from its circuitry. Attention to detail is such a feature of this amplifier, that even the input has a compensation switch to match the type of pick ups on your guitar.

LEAD
Our understanding of today's widely different lead playing forms, led us to include a selection switch on channel 3 for two gain alternatives. The first, a smouldering saturation, preset to the channel. The other a searing gain boost, that shoots screaming solos beyond the limits of any previous sonic experience. Not satisfied with awesome gain, we put in a mid-shift selector to transform the middle control into an expansive "contour". Where other high gain amps lose definition and turn muddy, our tonal contour shaping helps you to retain the definition that articulates every searing note.

MIDI SWITCHING
A bank of front panel switches access the three channel selections manually. Alternatively, you could use the remote three way Marshall footswitch on stage. Using processors and foot controllers with midi capability, linked to the amp's midi input, channel selections may be assigned to patches and re-accessed, with the selected effects, via midi.

REAR PANEL
Our designers, having excelled themselves on the front panel, decided to go a stage further on the rear. Standard Marshall features such as impedance selection, valve fail indication, pentode to triode switching, line output and effects loop are all present with some ingenious additions. These include a compensated balanced line output with level control; series or parallel effects loop with level selection plus individual trim for the clean and overdrive channels; midi-in socket.

POWER CONTROL
This is the first Marshall where you can tailor the mighty 100 Watt power stage to suit the playing situation. A high/low power switch cuts two valves in or out for 50 or 100 Watts output. Pentode or triode operation on either mode, effectively gives you power selections of 50 Watts, with the different pentode or triode characters, or 25 Watts, in addition to the full 100. A further excellent development comes with the damping control. This unique switch provides high or low damping from the power amp to the speaker. High damping creates a brighter character, ideal for jangling tight clean tone. Low damping slightly loosens the bottom end, for heavy growling overdrive. With the switch set to auto, the ideal damping for each channel is automatically selected. The icing on the Anniversary cake!

Playing a Marshall 3Oth Anniversary amplifier is an experience you will not forget, a sound that you will want to share with others and above all, an experience that you will never want to stop.