Ist great, the lifetime warranty will continnue with BAD.
You are right, they are using industrial standard high quality components. But the old SLO 100 used military grade components, and that is another level of quality.
There are lot of players with opinion, the MK2 SLO 100 plays easier oposite to original SLO.
I agree with this statement, because the transformators are redesigned for actual needs, and the effect loop placement is diferent, and there are another changes in the circuit. The original SLO was...
Friedman and Soldano prefer now the new transformers and circuit changes, because they have money from the new amps made by BAD.
I remember, Mike Soldano want any changes at the original Seattle days SLO production. It was big pressure to him because of effect loop placement. But Mike answer was...
I dont think, He is making all things arround the amp business alone. It is impossible. There are too much wizard amps and cabinets.
Imagine: communication with customers, with suppliers, building amps, sending the amps to customers , development of new products…. It is no one man show at that...
I love the racks, and from Slodano my choice would be purple rackmount SLO 100 if you are enough lucky to find one. ( I know, this is full amp, not only preamp)
Soldanos are hard rock/ metal amps, and they are great for soloing or melodic stuff.
You can play brutal metal with any medium/ high...
I have both, and they feels different for me.
My luthier build strat with roasted flame maple neck/ rosewood freatboard is paired with one pc swamp ash body. Its perfect combination, crazy resonant.
My second luthier build Non roasted maple neck/rosewood fingeroard is paired with 2 pc...
I am a big Jackson/Charvel fun. Their custom shop is small separat shop in the Fender Corona plant. They are using the finest woods from Fender custom shop wood stock ( write this info in the spec sheet)
I have two masterbuild guitars from them, and it was big adventure the full ordering...
I am using TS808 with my vintage Gallien Krueger 250ML, and I love this combination.
My strategy is to using amp which dont need boost pedal. My only problem with boost pedals is the noise.
I know, noise gate in the loop kill the unwanted noise, but paralel kill some tone and dynamic too.