Soldano SLO 100

[Lightning]

Guitar amps are tools and they have there place, but you have quality and not so quality you have sound and you have experience in gear also you have your opinion from experience

 

[FourT6and2]

Your mod is one of the only whales out there I haven't put under a microphone, I need to play one someday!

Send me an amp to mod and it shall be done lol. I've got a perfect donor ready to go, but it's not cheap. Turnaround time is 2 weeks.

 

[DanTravis62]

Send me an amp to mod and it shall be done lol. I've got a perfect donor ready to go, but it's not cheap. Turnaround time is 2 weeks.

If i can ever afford one ill be glad to! There's a mojotone 2204 local to me for like 700 bucks but i'm absolutely underwater atm

 

[BackCrack]

Bonamassa paid £19,200 [auction link] + VAT + shipping. He's probably into it low-mid $30k's to his door.

He can get both of my grey 91's for under 1/3 of that...hint, hint.

 

[Rick Lee]

If i can ever afford one ill be glad to! There's a mojotone 2204 local to me for like 700 bucks but i'm absolutely underwater atm

I built a combo version and it slays. This video is making me want to grab a JMP head shell for my combo chassis.

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[Rick Lee]

Finally figured out my SLO sounds better when volumes not dimed. Way better on 7 or so. Man, I was about to give up and just admit the SLO wasn't for me. But dialing down the volume from 11 to 7 didn't make it quieter, just less compressed and made the gain knob a little more effective.

 

[Rick Lee]

@DanTravis62

If it's in a good headshell, you cannot go wrong for $700. I think that's what I paid for my kit before buying the cab. If the builder did a decent job, you will be able to mod to your heart's content. When my kit arrived, I felt like the package didn't weigh enough for the transformers to be any good. But they are fine. If I wanted to dump more money into it, I could upgrade the iron. But it really sounds absolutely identical to my Marshall 4010, which cost more than twice as much.

 

[LPMojoGL]

As long as we're geeking out on SLOs, let's share some settings. I'm not a real high gain player and I'm having some trouble dialing mine in. I rolled a bunch of tubes yesterday and ended up with 12AT7s in V1-V3. Anyone know what settings SRV was using?

All kinds of ways to dial it in.
The knobs change a bit, depending on volume and cab/speakers. It really likes Greenbacks, and needs some volume to open up. Not a bedroom amp.

At decent house-friendly volumes: For a general crunchy tone that cleans up with guitar volume and gets heavier with a boost, and a singing lower gain lead tone that gets into harder rock/80s hair metal with a boost:
Crunch channel gain 6-8, od channel gain 3-4.5. Bass 5.5, mid 3.5, treble 6.5, presence 7.5, depth 1. Depth above 1 adds a lot of low mids, if that's your thing.
That's at like 1+ on the volumes, or 1.5+ with the effects loop engaged and return volume at noon. Lower volumes need more presence to open up. Presence cranked, mids at 5, treble at 3 gets a more Marshally sound. Effects loop engaged sucks some mids and boosts some treble.


FWIW, I recently went back to China square getter and JJ 12ax7s in mine. Was running NOS RFT and Tungsram. Neutral, high gain tubes with lots of clarity lets the amp do its thing. It's all in the knobs and hands from there. Super dynamic amp that lays back or kicks in with pick attack.

 

[LPMojoGL]

Finally figured out my SLO sounds better when volumes not dimed. Way better on 7 or so. Man, I was about to give up and just admit the SLO wasn't for me. But dialing down the volume from 11 to 7 didn't make it quieter, just less compressed and made the gain knob a little more effective.

Who dimes an SLO, without a speaker load and reamping? Just past noon, thru a 4x12, will rattle walls, knock stuff off shelves. The tone is in the preamp.
More than enough volume for a loud rock band above 2.5 on the volumes, much like a 50-100 watt JCM800, Mesa Dual Recto or other such amp.

 

[Dave L]

Yeah, gunning a SLO is news to me, even EVH ran his about halfway up. I think Mark Knopfler may have had the masters at 7 or 8, but he had the preamp gains low instead and was probably thinking about it as a new-fangled JTM45. When the SLO was designed you were squarely in that period when people were looking for big overdrive without the associated Super Lead arena-shaking volume... cascaded preamps, master volumes, slaved rigs, the Variac...

 

[Techdeth]

Again, i said you can play metal with it.
I can fix 90% of plumbing with two channel locks and two screw drivers...but why the fuck would I when there are so much more specialized tools for each job?

I like the avenger for metal a lot

 

[Lightning]

SLO on 10 your peeling the paint off the wall

 

[Rick Lee]

I use an attenuator. I always ran my SLO-30 with the volumes dimed through a Hot Plate, sounded great.

I had an SLO about 12 yrs ago and gigged with it for a while. I was never in love with it. One day we had planned to have band practice at the drummer's house, we were asked to play the same day at a large outdoor venue. It was huge and I was able to crank the SLO up to 7. Holy smokes. What a different amp that was. So I like to run them hard now and tame the volume with an attenuator. Even then I run it pretty loud at home and wear cheap foam earplugs, which really are the perfect EQ to my ears.