Fluff's Soldano SLO 100 Video review

[Dale B]

When I first played an SLO, I was running it through Naylor speakers, and they're darker compared to Celestions. I thought the amp was a glorified 5150. I was bummed.

I took it home, hooked it up to a V30 cab and completely understood why it was labeled one of the alpha males of guitar amps. It sounded way better than a 5150 at that point.

The lows are slightly loose, tons of mids and the highs are crystal clear. It feels wonderful under your fingers. I also liked the way it handled my 7 string at the time.

 

[Samhain]

This is my favorite SLO clip. Its not the new one.
Too bad they all don't sound like this.
He's playing a Japan Greco or Burny Sykes LP.

 

[JerEvil]

Rebea's face looks like mine the next day after eating Ghost pepper wings and drinking a shitload of beers.

Rebea looks like he could use a good ham sandwich about now.

I am not a fan of his demos. Yet he is endorsed by a lot of big companies, and I am not. Still, his playing is sterile and generic to me. But he is laughing as he gets a lot of cool free gear. He even has his own signature model guitar! YouTube has generated a new pack of guitar heroes. Many are big based on their personalities, rather than playing, but I guess the main thing is whatever brings the most views.

I have never heard any tone from him that I dug. Not a fan. Was not a fan before I had a channel (not a sour grapes thing, for sure). We do not like the same types of tone/playing styles for sure.

 

[Dale B]

you can find my instructional videos on youporn. rock out with your cock out....and all that.

 

[Mr. Willy]

I thought my little iPhone in the room clip here sounded pretty killer. I was experimenting with a wet/dry set up when I borrowed my buddy’s amp, which is why the delay is a bit much. It’s more than I would run in that setup. I just hooked it up, set my phone on the shelf, and went for it. I thought it sounded pretty good.

 

[Samhain]

I thought my little iPhone in the room clip here sounded pretty killer. I was experimenting with a wet/dry set up when I borrowed my buddy’s amp, which is why the delay is a bit much. It’s more than I would run in that setup. I just hooked it up, set my phone on the shelf, and went for it. I thought it sounded pretty good.

Finally someone gets the chords right. Sounds good man.

 

[Mr. Willy]

I thought my little iPhone in the room clip here sounded pretty killer. I was experimenting with a wet/dry set up when I borrowed my buddy’s amp, which is why the delay is a bit much. It’s more than I would run in that setup. I just hooked it up, set my phone on the shelf, and went for it. I thought it sounded pretty good.

Finally someone gets the chords right. Sounds good man.

Thanks, man. Yeah, if you don’t use the same voicings that Sykes did, it won’t sound quite right. I messed up several times too. I think I’m not getting one or two of them quite right, either. I’m not playing the right voicing on the last chord right before the bridge.

One of the main “issues’ with the SLO, imho, is that there aren’t a lot of recordings that actually capture how huge and 3D the sound is like it is in person. Even when I hear records with the SLO on it, I guess it’s very hard to capture that hugeness and depth on recordings.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Like everyone else has said, Fluff makes everything sound like well..."Fluff's tone" or chugging. Anything... 30$ TS clone into clean amp? Chugs. 4k amp? Chugs. Modeler? Chugs. Superlead? Guess what it does? ...spoiler alert, it chugs.

 

[Detroit1973]

He also did a vid comparing a 6505 to an SLO. They sounded the same. In person they are from different planets. Lol

Not to rip on him; but that clip I mentioned is why clips cannot be trusted.

Is it wrong that i prefer room sound videos or Cell phone filmed videos rather than something that was mixed?

 

[DrewJD82]

Rebea's face looks like mine the next day after eating Ghost pepper wings and drinking a shitload of beers.

Rebea looks like he could use a good ham sandwich about now.

I am not a fan of his demos. Yet he is endorsed by a lot of big companies, and I am not. Still, his playing is sterile and generic to me. But he is laughing as he gets a lot of cool free gear. He even has his own signature model guitar! YouTube has generated a new pack of guitar heroes. Many are big based on their personalities, rather than playing, but I guess the main thing is whatever brings the most views.

You’re very correct. This also gets into the conversation of the new age of guitar players. I keep seeing people saying “Guitars are dead” or “rock is dead”, yet there has never been more guitars/amps/effects available than there is today. Not only are these YouTube guitarists being watched for their personalities, but they’re also turning kids onto guitar. We may cringe at that idea, but IMO, as long as kids are picking up the guitar to begin with, I’m cool with it. They’ll venture out as they grow.

Hell, Ola started Solar Guitars just based off his YouTube fame. Sure, he’s played in a couple bands that have some notoriety, but he’s certainly more popular from his content than Six Feet Under or The Haunted. Solar’s been rather successful as well. He’s really the only YouTuber I watched, outside of Rick Beato, unless someone has something really interesting for a topic/video. Some of them (Stevie T) I can not fucking stand.

Fluff seems like a nice enough guy, just hasn’t done anything that’s really drawn me to his channel. At least he’s not making a bunch of dumb faces and going for straight click-bait.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Rebea's face looks like mine the next day after eating Ghost pepper wings and drinking a shitload of beers.

Rebea looks like he could use a good ham sandwich about now.

I am not a fan of his demos. Yet he is endorsed by a lot of big companies, and I am not. Still, his playing is sterile and generic to me. But he is laughing as he gets a lot of cool free gear. He even has his own signature model guitar! YouTube has generated a new pack of guitar heroes. Many are big based on their personalities, rather than playing, but I guess the main thing is whatever brings the most views.

You’re very correct. This also gets into the conversation of the new age of guitar players. I keep seeing people saying “Guitars are dead” or “rock is dead”, yet there has never been more guitars/amps/effects available than there is today. Not only are these YouTube guitarists being watched for their personalities, but they’re also turning kids onto guitar. We may cringe at that idea, but IMO, as long as kids are picking up the guitar to begin with, I’m cool with it. They’ll venture out as they grow.

Hell, Ola started Solar Guitars just based off his YouTube fame. Sure, he’s played in a couple bands that have some notoriety, but he’s certainly more popular from his content than Six Feet Under or The Haunted. Solar’s been rather successful as well. He’s really the only YouTuber I watched, outside of Rick Beato, unless someone has something really interesting for a topic/video. Some of them (Stevie T) I can not fucking stand.

Fluff seems like a nice enough guy, just hasn’t done anything that’s really drawn me to his channel. At least he’s not making a bunch of dumb faces and going for straight click-bait.

Good point on the marketing of product to young aspiring players. That's probably right on. I have a diff view of Stevie T though. He's annoying but I can actually see the "art" in what he does. Some really funny stuff and some killer playing. Ola annoys me. The whole thing, he used to be much better and now I find the jokes and repetitiveness to be too much to sit through. Good on him for getting his guitar line going. I don't know how long these guys can milk it though... are we still going to be watching them in 5-10 years?? Imagine doing that for 15-20 years. Job? I youtube bro..

 

[Luca79]

YouTube has generated a new pack of guitar heroes. Many are big based on their personalities, rather than playing, but I guess the main thing is whatever brings the most views.

Agree, and many not even use a real cab for recording.

 

[DrewJD82]

Rebea's face looks like mine the next day after eating Ghost pepper wings and drinking a shitload of beers.

Rebea looks like he could use a good ham sandwich about now.

I am not a fan of his demos. Yet he is endorsed by a lot of big companies, and I am not. Still, his playing is sterile and generic to me. But he is laughing as he gets a lot of cool free gear. He even has his own signature model guitar! YouTube has generated a new pack of guitar heroes. Many are big based on their personalities, rather than playing, but I guess the main thing is whatever brings the most views.

You’re very correct. This also gets into the conversation of the new age of guitar players. I keep seeing people saying “Guitars are dead” or “rock is dead”, yet there has never been more guitars/amps/effects available than there is today. Not only are these YouTube guitarists being watched for their personalities, but they’re also turning kids onto guitar. We may cringe at that idea, but IMO, as long as kids are picking up the guitar to begin with, I’m cool with it. They’ll venture out as they grow.

Hell, Ola started Solar Guitars just based off his YouTube fame. Sure, he’s played in a couple bands that have some notoriety, but he’s certainly more popular from his content than Six Feet Under or The Haunted. Solar’s been rather successful as well. He’s really the only YouTuber I watched, outside of Rick Beato, unless someone has something really interesting for a topic/video. Some of them (Stevie T) I can not fucking stand.

Fluff seems like a nice enough guy, just hasn’t done anything that’s really drawn me to his channel. At least he’s not making a bunch of dumb faces and going for straight click-bait.

Good point on the marketing of product to young aspiring players. That's probably right on. I have a diff view of Stevie T though. He's annoying but I can actually see the "art" in what he does. Some really funny stuff and some killer playing. Ola annoys me. The whole thing, he used to be much better and now I find the jokes and repetitiveness to be too much to sit through. Good on him for getting his guitar line going. I don't know how long these guys can milk it though... are we still going to be watching them in 5-10 years?? Imagine doing that for 15-20 years. Job? I youtube bro..

I don’t disagree in regards to Stevie T, it’s just more comedic to me than anything else and I’m not a fan of that style of comedy, I suppose. It’s certainly more than sitting in front of a camera and talking. Ultimately, if it gets kids to start playing, I can’t talk shit.

I think with Ola, him and I are really close in age and got into Dream Theater and Pantera around the same time, so I find myself connecting with him in that sense, not so much the playing itself, though I do dig the tones he comes up with. If it’s playing I’m going for, in the YouTube context, it’s Pete Thorn, Phil X and Andy Wood.

 

[RockyStar]

Fluff...I have a hard time watching him.