Soldano amps...what do you guys think?

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... I'd like to hear from some of you guys with all kinds of gear experience. They don't seem to get a lot of discussion around here. :confused: Please discuss. Thanks.
 
Love the SLO, it's the only Soldano I've spent any time with, but it rips :thumbsup:

Needs to be up a bit to sound their best, and the loop could be better, but I dig 'em.
 
I think the SLO is their best amp. I owned a Decatone hoping it was going to be a 3 channel SLO, but I was very, very wrong. Those are the only two I've played.
 
SLO 100 great amp!!..

had the decatone for a while..channel 2 (crunch) was superb but the lead channel was a real let down..

if i were to buy another soldano it would be slo-100 all the way for me.. :thumbsup:

darren
 
The SLO is a wierd amp for me. I hate it whenever i played one of them, but i like how it sounds when other people play them. It's no bedroom amp, the thing needs to be goosed LOUD. The SLO is a sure way to piss off any soundman. :D

I checked out Danhops Hotrod head, pretty cool amp but it didn't make me do backflips. I never played an Avenger but i have heard some damm good clips of it.
 
Meh,

SLO, crunchy, brittle, nasty, not fun to play, :thumbsdown:

Decatone, sounded weird, did not like. :thumbsdown:

SP-77 preamp, okay, but not very versatile, required bizarre EQ settings to sound good. :thumbsdown:


I just don't like SOldano amps very much :thumbsdown:
 
Whenever I went to GC, I always test out the guitars on the Soldano's. Spent some time with the Avenger when I went looking for a Tele. The amp surprisingly sounds pretty good. Master wasn't as great as some amps I've owned but very usable still, I was able to get a decent low volume tone as well but it sounded good turned up a bit.. It cleans up pretty well with the guitar volume. It has tons of gain on tap as well. The SLO was my favorite, always had to crank that sucker in the room :lol: :LOL:
 
I had two SP-77's running throught a Marshall 9200 power amp with 5881's. They sounded alright couldn't get real saturated though. When I got a VHT UL-100 it destroyed the SP-77/Marshall setup, so I sold them without regret. I recorded a band that used SLO's, didn't think it they sounded as good as the UL-100.
 
jonny toetags":36621qlp said:
Avenger is great :thumbsup:
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I got to hear an avenger once at jerry p's. I thought it was pretty bad-ass. I never see them though anywhere.
 
I owned a Soldano SLO100 for awhile. When I first got it I liked it alot. It has a very smooth gain and I found it very easy to play. After owning it for awhile though, I was less impressed. I didn't like how it recorded and for me it was almost too smooth sounding and mid-heavy. No matter how I dialed it, it had no "teeth" if you know what I mean. I want an amp that has a mean, high end crunch and the Soldano just didn't have it.

Steve
 
i've never heard an SLO clip that I thought justified the price of the amp
 
I have played a Hot Rod 50 years ago that was just killer. I have only played the SLO a couple of times and it just wasn't my favorite amp.
 
The Soldano slo is a good amp. But the only one I ever even had the notion to want to take home was one that a lady sold to a local music store because her husband had died. So the price on this thing when the store put the tag on it was really good. But even then I just let it go. I agree with a previous post. I can listen to others play guitar through it and I am like OH, YEAH! But when I am the one playing through it, it's not enough of something there. Maybe, it's a combination of an uneven presence and overly smooth distortion without the matching bottom end?? If this makes sense?? Still a good amp though. :yes:
 
Hated SLO first time I've tried it. But then I got a MK50 and got familiar with the concept of 1 channel volume/overdrive settings (both increase gain). Sounds dumb but I just didn't know :aww:

Then I went back to GC to try the SLO again. It's probably THE amp I'd have if MK50 didn't exist.
 
I've heard only the SLO, Hot Rod, X99 and SP77 products (still own a HR50). Compared to each other, SLO sounds fuller with more usable gain but the HR breaks up earlier. X99 is a nice preamp, pretty smooth. I didn't like SP77 at all.
 
I got a SLO and a X99 preamp. Either you love the Soldano voicing or you don't. Some people hate it. Some people love it. I'm in the second category.

The SLO is awesome IMHO. Perfect amp for me. Great lead channel of course but the crunch channel is marvellous as well. Really works well with boost pedals, cleans up very well with volume knob, great chimy gritty clean when gain set low. I keep hearing it's a one trick pony to play high gain lead only but I totally disagree with that opinion. It's super versatile. You can play any style of music with it, from funk to country, to classic rock to death-metal. It always cuts thru the mix with authority and sounds great no matter what.

It's not perfect in stock form though. The loop kinda sucks. Have it modified by a good tech to move it after the tone stack (my local guy did it for $100) and you're good to go.

The X99 is the greatest preamp ever made IMHO. Super reliable, awesome sound and a myriad of different tones in there. I have mine plugged in the loop return of the SLO. It works great. It's been several years I have no GAS for any amp. I wouldn't spit on a real 60s Vox AC30TB or an original 68 plexi of course but nothing else really gets me going...
 
I LOVE my Avenger! I gets me all the sweet Marshall crunch through super modded JCM 800 tones I could ask for. It's actually much tighter than I thought it would be and that's after owning a VHT 50CL + EQ that the Avenger replaced. As the pic shows, I play it through an Avatar 2x12 with V30s. With my Hot Plate set to -12 dB, I can get really good tone at conversation level.

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