[NAD] What is This?

[Rackman]

It appears to be some sort of robotic system for adjusting guitar sounds on the fly. A more elegant weapon from an admittedly completely uncivilized age (the early 90s.).

 

[CarlF]

Congrats man, use it well. That is a hard to find piece.

 

[VonBonfire]

Boost it hard, boost it often. Congrats!

 

[griff10672]

da fuk is that thing ?? never seen one of those before ......

 

[ChurchHill]

Congrats! That is a rare bird indeed.

 

[311boogieman]

Looks like a Barney game my kids used to have when they were little

j/k

have fun wit eet

Boost it hard, boost it often. Congrats!

Don't forget your EQs pre and post

 

[Rackman]

da fuk is that thing ?? never seen one of those before ......

Soldano X99 preamp. It's an SLO pre with all the switches/channel switching MIDI controlled, and MIDI automated pots. So when you change presets, the knobs turn themselves like an automated console.

 

[griff10672]

Soldano X99 preamp. It's an SLO pre with all the switches/channel switching MIDI controlled, and MIDI automated pots. So when you change presets, the knobs turn themselves like an automated console.

Oh .... OK .... I've heard of these .... I think Dave Friedman was talking about it during a Tone Talk podcast ....

 

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HNAD!

Make us some clips!

 

[VonBonfire]

I'd be wary of what the diodes in that power supply section could do to your tone myself.

 

[Rackman]

I'd be wary of what the diodes in that power supply section could do to your tone myself.

I know, clipping off 1/2 the power supply waveform. Gonna sound like an HM-2 or some shit.

 

[Rackman]

Well got it fired up and it's mostly working, but I need the damn manual. I've got one patch that's doing something strange with MIDI CC messages, and I don't know how to program that part of it. Probably requires a stone tablet and a stylus or something.

Thing's dead quiet for being 34 years old or whatever though.

 

[Rackman]

I found a guy selling the manual on ebay and his pictures had enough to figure out what I was missing.

Now that the pots are not randomly moving when I don't want them to, the overdrive channel is GLORIOUS. It seems like some of the control ranges are a little different than an OG SLO, but the magic is there and programable. It's the 4 (or more) channel SLO they never made

 

[reignman454]

It appears to be some sort of robotic system for adjusting guitar sounds on the fly. A more elegant weapon from an admittedly completely uncivilized age (the early 90s.).

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I feel like you paid way more money for that than you should have…. Very cool

 

[rottingcorpse]

Nice score for sure! In the 90s when I was rocking two hot rod 50s, that preamp was a dream piece.