Soldano Lucky 13, any opinions or experience???

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Edin van Halen

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Hi guys,
I have seen a nice looking Soldano lucky 13 for sale, but to be honest, I do not know this amp, I never heard it.

Does anybody here have experience with these amps and could tell me little bit more regarding sound and maybe any disadvantages?

The concept seems to be pretty pure. Just two channels that seems to be completly different.

Is it possible to get only a nice low-gain crunch out of the 2nd channel? Or is this channel pretty heavy?
 
Channel 1: mid way between the slo's clean/crunch
channel 2: 20 percent less gain then the slo can be modded easily to have about 95percent
reverb sucks a little signal strength

drop some o'netics in there.
 
I thought (read) that ch 1 is very BF Fender-type clean?
 
You might be right. It's been a while since I've had that amp. I remember not liking the clean channel that much though. Although I like having a preamp gain control so that might explain it.

The cleans were good. I think I liked the Rivera K-tre's cleans better though.

The cleans on the lucky I think are similar to if I put my slo in clean mode with the volume down and the master up. But I remember it breaking up faster then a twin reverb would.
 
Hit the Soldano forum. Lots of info. Blues City Music carries Soldano and the owner posts on there. JLB knows Mike Soldano and has tubes/swap ideas, will take time to talk you thru questions. Good guy to know if you are a Soldano user.

I have a Knuck Tre and and SLO. As someone else posted, it seems to be sharing a design with the Rivera Knuck Tre. A non-master volume clean channel, and a high gain channel. I spent a few months kicking the tires on all the Soldano models I could find before buying an SLO. The Lucky is a decent amp. Cleans and distortion are both good but not at the top of their pack. The Lucky is a bit more gainy than the SLO but does not have the higher end components and touch sensitivity. Just different, depends on what you like. It is not like the Knuck Tre high gain channel IMO. It has a happier voice?? Not a pissed off sounding Mesa Roadster dark amp like the KT.

No slagging on Soldano, the Lucky is not my fav of theirs, and for the money I would look elsewhere. At Blues City they have a special Soldano 44 model that only they get to carry. It would be my Soldano light combo to get if I was looking for a good variety of Soldano tones and something easy to carry and still loud as hell.
 
I'm on the Soldano Forum.

Just wondering since I never tried the Lucky 13 and reverb can be 'fun'.
I have an SLO...two actually. And some other Soldano gear.

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