
skoora
Well-known member
For the longest time I haven't quite liked Soldano amps....(and I want to). Something about the midrange and treble response. Too dark then too sharp. No Kraaaang! I've always loved the Soldano modded marshalls I've heard and even have one myself.
I was in GC recently and decided to give an SLO another try and right away decided to run it through a Celestion loaded Egnator cab as opposed to the Soldano cab it was on. Holy righteous tone turnaround Batman! The Kraaaang was there big time. Sweet midrange response and treble easily dialed in to taste. I felt like an idiot as I've known for a long time what affect speakers have on the sound but I've only tried Soldano's through Soldano cabs which use Eminence. If I recollect correctly Mike chose Eminence a long time ago because of pricing and availability over Celestion but for a guy who obviously knows exactly how a tweaked marshall should sound it's amazing that the speaker choice seems at odds with the amp.
Does anyone out there feel the same...or different. A little while ago when I was picking up my marshall from Mike's shop I noticed how different it sounded through my marshall cab and one of his. This lead me to try his other amps with celestions instead. The last thing I needed was to fall in love with a $3300 amp.
I know the Avenger is a lot less but I really dug the clean/crunch settings and being able to footswitch to that super juicy high gain goodness was very sweet.
I was in GC recently and decided to give an SLO another try and right away decided to run it through a Celestion loaded Egnator cab as opposed to the Soldano cab it was on. Holy righteous tone turnaround Batman! The Kraaaang was there big time. Sweet midrange response and treble easily dialed in to taste. I felt like an idiot as I've known for a long time what affect speakers have on the sound but I've only tried Soldano's through Soldano cabs which use Eminence. If I recollect correctly Mike chose Eminence a long time ago because of pricing and availability over Celestion but for a guy who obviously knows exactly how a tweaked marshall should sound it's amazing that the speaker choice seems at odds with the amp.
Does anyone out there feel the same...or different. A little while ago when I was picking up my marshall from Mike's shop I noticed how different it sounded through my marshall cab and one of his. This lead me to try his other amps with celestions instead. The last thing I needed was to fall in love with a $3300 amp.


I know the Avenger is a lot less but I really dug the clean/crunch settings and being able to footswitch to that super juicy high gain goodness was very sweet.