I’m loving all the Astro praise. You sold me on the Tonex with your honesty and I will be getting the Astro for the same reason! I also appreciate your honesty regarding soloing and theory! It makes me more confident in my own playing because, though I’d love to know all the scales and theory and whatnot, I really love just playing what’s in my head!
Thanks for commenting! You'll love the Astro. I'm so glad you found the information regarding playing solo's helpful. That's literally what I do, write what I hear in my head and fish around for some good riffs and make up my own patterns and it seems to be working just fine. Go for it, and have fun!
Totally love your honesty about shredding n theory related scales, I think you rock brother I’m in the same boat also willing to learn as much as possible 🎸👍but we don’t have all day in our basement in mommy’s house so we do what we can do …
Lol. My pleasure! I really think trial and error, along with some creative riffing is the best way to do it. By doing it this way, I've come up with stuff I never thought I would come up with. I love getting creative with my solos
Hello, thanks for the video friend, i´m considering about buy the Soldano Astro 20 (i need lighter equipment for pain in back after charging in concerts), but i´m not sure, i would like ask you please some doubts, 1. Are you using a real cabinet in your videos with Astro 20? because your sound is good but other youtubers sound me digital with same head, 2. i don´t understand at all the use of Ir´s with Astro 20 using a real cabinet, the people use IR´s when they use a FRFR, so it only could be useful if you go to the concert without the cabinet for listen you by PA or in ears , isn´t it? , 3. do you think that the sound is like a valve amp? (listening a video our perception can not be as good like you that you can listen in person)
Thanks for commenting. Most of the time when I'm playing through the Astro on my channel, I'm using a real cab and real microphones. I think that the impulse responses that it comes with are good but there's always this digital kind of thing to them and there's really not much you can do about that. Again, I think they sound really good but nothing beats a real cab
@@TONEWARSgearshow thanks again, sorry about i ask you for help , but i´m lost, I continued listening videos, and it looks like when they connect Astro 20 by line (with IR´s simulation) it sound better to me than when they play direct to a real cabinet, it´s my personal perception, anyway your sound is very good friend, but i´m thinking too much what to do, if buy it or if I could buy other light amp better because i´m going to use a real cabinet, if you could advise me please, (i can not try it in shop in my city), my current amp is a triple rectifier head but it´s too much weighty for me(i need a head with enough chanels, high gain, 25 libs or less, and versatile for pop rock, rock, hard rock, heavy metal, with real cabinet)
Gotta tell ya Jarrod. You really made my day today when yo went into your story of how you don't know music or scales or anything at all. I am the exact same way. When I was very young, I took guitar lessons for maybe 2 weeks. It was terrible and the instructor was a tyrant about how I sat, how I held my pic and yadda yadda yadda. I used to read Circus and Hit Parade and Kerrang magazine and one day, I saw one of those 1 pager ads with Billy Gibbons holding his trusty Les Paul. In the ad, he was saying that he never took lessons, he just taught himself to play what he hears in his head. I never took another lesson and it really inspires me to know you are the same and your playing is off the charts AMAZING. Thanks for saying what you said. Made my day 🙂
My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed that part of the episode. Some of us just aren't meant to sit in a classroom. A lot of us just like to teach ourselves and learn by doing. Keep shredding! Never let anyone tell you that you need to go through certain routes to achieve success. Thanks for the kind words as well, much appreciated.
Speaking of cabs to pair with the stealth, I’d been playing out of v30 loaded mesa like you for the longest. But Jarrod I’m telling you get your hands on a Hesu cab with the demon speakers and pair the two when I referenced getting the most modern high gain tones out of that amp i never knew I could tap into, I paired my 50w stealth with a Hesu 2x12 vertical slant cab with they’re demon speakers and it changed the game. Merely throwing those speakers into a cab of choice doesn’t do them justice. The Hesu cabs are some of the most well built cabs I’ve ever owned (better quality than ENGL, Orange, and Mesa imo) but the cabs are built specifically to bring out the most of those speakers and the pairing blew my ENGL 4x12 and Mesa Recto 2x12 out of the water. Brought a whole new spectrum of articulation, punch and chug to the amp I thought I had been getting the most out of from the other cabs. HIGHLY suggest you getting one. They’re not insanely priced either. I had mine shipped from Europe brand new in total I payed less than $800 which is what an orange 2x12 costs by itself here in the states by comparison.
And I know it’s a bit pricey $229 new, but the Fortin modded ts-9 also really compliments the amp extremely well. My other favorite is the KHDK Ghoul Screamer jr. Same output everything as the regular ghoul Screamer just cut down to the two main essential toggles voicing for bass +\- and style for compression and amount of gain on tap while also adding some additional harmonics and cut thru
Great video. I am glad your channel is growing. Your content is informative and well thought out. I would love for you to try out the Hotone Ampero II Stage. It comes in at $700 and appears to punch way above it's weight. The Astro kicks ass by the way. 20 watts and totally holds it's own against the 100 watt Stealth. The Ceriatone FAS is near completion according to posts from Nik. Can't wait for the first demo of that amp.
Thanks for commenting. I appreciate the kind words. so glad you're enjoying the channel. I would love to try the FAS as well. Nik makes great amplifiers. I've always heard good things about the Ampero. I'll see if I can get my hands-on one
Any chance you can pick up / borrow the new BOSS IR-2 amp + cabinet pedal to review / shootout? Seems to be a bit of favorable buzz around this especially with the low price tag for those of us on a budget...maybe MCG has one lying around to loan out for a little while? Thanks much in advance!
Hey Jerrod honestly I haven’t pulled the trigger on buying one of your kemper profiles because I’m illiterate how to do it …. A great video would be how to take it from purchasing it all the way to loading it on my kemper I bet I’m not alone….
Thanks for commenting Shawn. Basically you can load them onto a thumb drive, plug the thumb drive into the Kemper and import them. If I remember correctly, there are some videos out there about it. check Kemper's TH-cam page
Remember the "fight night" video series. We were going to break the internet with content that EVERYONE WANTED AND NEEDED. Turns out the only thing we broke was our own hearts when it just didn't take off. I blame the East Coast Rap scene for that.
I had an Evh stealth, and returned it for an Astro 20… I really like the Soldano but miss the Evh stealth’s more brutal sound on the red channel. Now I’m undecided about which one to keep, Soldano Astro 20 or 50watt stealth?
@@TONEWARSgearshow no over pedal drive but have had a tube screamer. Not sure which would be a good choice for the Soldano Astro 20, any recommendations?
Interesting that your channel is the only channel where I watch every video when it comes out nearly right away. I agree with you 100% on the clickbait sympathy "i'm gonna quit youtube" videos also.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the kind words. Yeah I feel that some of these guys should just stick to creating good content and getting clicks and views that way instead of getting sympathy views. Hopefully the trend will change
Hey Jarrod, I wrote a small booklet for diatonic chord theory with scales that they go with. I have it on a pdf and can send it to you if you want. I wrote it because I was going to start teaching a friend. Its very easy to understand.
Thanks for commenting and thank you so much for offering to do this! Yes, I would be very interested in checking that out. I'm always willing to learn new things. you can send it to me via my email here - jarrod_reign@yahoo.com Much appreciated
@Tonewars Hey Jarrod You already did kind of mention wanting to do Fight Nights again, those were great times! Got me deciding on when I was looking at all things modelling and FRFR decisions. So, think you'd maybe try and get those back? Could make it interesting with modelers vs profiles vs tubes and solid state even! Love these Riffs and Responses!
Thanks so much for commenting. I'm glad you're enjoying these videos. I definitely want to start fight night again. I'm gonna start putting my thoughts together on the next one soon
I think TH-camrs need to stop being so hard on themselves. You're all doing a great job, and I can almost guarantee that >99% of us don't have any real expectations of you. If you need time to decompress to avoid burnout, I can assure you we will still be here when you get back. No one is going to unsubscribe because you aren't meeting your own goals for # of videos per week/month. I understand this is a source of income for you, but your mental health and wellbeing is more important. To the people criticizing your playing, either don't watch the videos, or come out and do it better.
oh i got a great idea, i was watching the live video yesterday and someone commented on having a harley benton cab. It was like they were ashamed for having it. I know gear is expensive but it would be interesting to make a comparison between the harley benton and the mesa. the benton is literally less than half of the boogie!
I commented in the live stream and heard that your were to receive the engl inferno marty friedman sig. soon. Would there be a chance for you to make tonex di captures for it? Loved the stream yesterday!
Thanks so much for asking. I've actually thought about creating another section of my studio for shooting in as well. I'm gonna have to get pretty creative with it but I'll see what I can do. It's not something that will happen really soon but maybe in the near future
Thanks for commenting. yeah it's becoming quite the trend lately. I hate seeing successful channels, especially ones that had a lot of things handed to them, complain about how rough their life is. what a bunch of cry babies right?
That was a lot crammed into 32 minutes. Anyone can try to be a content creator on TH-cam but fewer and fewer are actually worth watching. Other guitar programs seem to take my holy grail amps and make them sound like dog shit...while you take amps I was sure I wouldn't like, and you make them scream. I also like your approach in dealing with commenters...not that I ever see anything negative in the peanut gallery. BTW I know who you're referring to with the whiny creators talk!!! HAHA!!!!
Amps that are more BRUTAL .1 MESA BOOGIE MK3 SIMUL CLASS COLISEUM .2 CARVIN MTS3200 .3 TRACE ELLIOT SPEED TWIN AND THE MOST BRUTAL EVER .4 RANDALL V2 ...PROVE ME RIGHT!
The Randall V2 Archetype is absolutely incredible for extreme metal. The solid state channel needs a hard boost and I mean a really hard boost. But when it gets that boost it's like nothing else on earth. With the matching Archetype 4 ohm 400 w cabinet and an ISP vector SL 600W sub this thing kills on a level that you can't imagine. The hugeness and tightness of the bottom end and the definition of the mid-range is something you just have to hear. The clarity is unbelievable. But if you measure brutality by the amount of gain it's not an extreme amount of gain it's just enough gain with a super hard boost.The stealth has way more gain with no boost for sure. The tube channel on the Archetype is absolutely incredible as well and it gets closer to the stealth in the amount of gain , but it's really really noisy. The Archetype really shines for shredders who have advanced picking skills, guys that flawlessly execute Paul Gilbert/ Rusty Cooley/ Nuno Bettencourt licks will love the V2 Archetype. So will guys that play super extreme technical rhythm guitar. The amp is really dry and incredibly clear it will showcase every flaw in your playing. I found that you really do need to have the matching Archetype 4 ohm cabinet with the Celestion 100 watt G12H speakers to get the most out of that amp though. The amp is designed to operate at 4 ohms because of the way the power ramp reacts with the speaker and cabinet at the 4 ohm load. You will not get the tightness and clarity of sound that the amp was designed to produce running at 8 ohm cabinet. It will sound more like the normal Randall V2... Which is still really great but just not as good as the Archetype. And let's be clear the V2 puts out 400 Watts at 4 ohms it will blow speakers like no other if you hook it up to a cabinet that's not rated for that power.
I have both astro and 50S and I prefer the 50S by a wide margin. It has more gain if needed and all clean channel has a separate EQs that I can dial in. The Astro 20's doesn't use the treble, middle, bass knobs on the clean channel. Instead it has a 'tone' knob and a bright switch. I don't like it because I cant fine tune the mids.
Please, I need a light amp and i considering the Astro 20, i would like ask you how it sound with a real band and a real passive cabinet?, it sound me digital in some videos, do you think that it sound enough real, do you advise me buy this Astro 20 head, or i must consider Mesa Mark 25 and H&K tubemeister 40, thanks in advance
@@jjr.m.1002 It is a good sounding amp and will work fine. My only issue is the clean channel only has one knob that manages both the treble and middle eq.
@@davidglobex189 thank you very much for your answer friend, i use the clean only in a few songs, my current head is a triple rectifier, so...i`m having too much problem finding some versatile light for replace it, mesa boogies 25w only 2 chanels , and i´m worried about this Soldano sound a little digital using it with real cabinet(because the IR´s), ...and none of them have a button in the footswith for on/off the loop (only the cheap marshall DSL20), it is some strange, you must have all the sound passing around 2 long cables inside the loop (Send/return) for use in the floor your delay, (the youtubers have it above the amp with short cables, but it´s not the reality, or they record the audio in studio by line with IR, not this nice video of course 🙂)
im suprised jeff keisel hasnt sent a guitar to machine gun kelly! he sends guitars to every flavor of the month guitar player! or so called guitar player!
Don't feel bad my man, I've been noodling around for about 20 years but never have had the time or the want to sit down and learn any sort of theory at all. Not everyone has the time it takes to learn all that, for me I'm sure it's held me back alot in advancing,that's why I'm just a lowly rhythm player lol. But I still love to play whether I know how to correctly or not
Thanks for commenting. Honestly, I think that theory and the "rules" associated with it would hold me back a bit. I love being creative and trying things without worrying about the rules
You're looking good and well rested sir 🤘
I’m loving all the Astro praise. You sold me on the Tonex with your honesty and I will be getting the Astro for the same reason! I also appreciate your honesty regarding soloing and theory! It makes me more confident in my own playing because, though I’d love to know all the scales and theory and whatnot, I really love just playing what’s in my head!
do it! i did and i LOVE the astro.
Thanks for commenting! You'll love the Astro. I'm so glad you found the information regarding playing solo's helpful.
That's literally what I do, write what I hear in my head and fish around for some good riffs and make up my own patterns and it seems to be working just fine. Go for it, and have fun!
Totally love your honesty about shredding n theory related scales, I think you rock brother I’m in the same boat also willing to learn as much as possible 🎸👍but we don’t have all day in our basement in mommy’s house so we do what we can do …
Lol. My pleasure! I really think trial and error, along with some creative riffing is the best way to do it.
By doing it this way, I've come up with stuff I never thought I would come up with. I love getting creative with my solos
Hello, thanks for the video friend, i´m considering about buy the Soldano Astro 20 (i need lighter equipment for pain in back after charging in concerts), but i´m not sure, i would like ask you please some doubts, 1. Are you using a real cabinet in your videos with Astro 20? because your sound is good but other youtubers sound me digital with same head, 2. i don´t understand at all the use of Ir´s with Astro 20 using a real cabinet, the people use IR´s when they use a FRFR, so it only could be useful if you go to the concert without the cabinet for listen you by PA or in ears , isn´t it? , 3. do you think that the sound is like a valve amp? (listening a video our perception can not be as good like you that you can listen in person)
Thanks for commenting. Most of the time when I'm playing through the Astro on my channel, I'm using a real cab and real microphones. I think that the impulse responses that it comes with are good but there's always this digital kind of thing to them and there's really not much you can do about that. Again, I think they sound really good but nothing beats a real cab
Thanks very much 🙂perhaps it could be my next and last amp 🙂
@@TONEWARSgearshow thanks again, sorry about i ask you for help , but i´m lost, I continued listening videos, and it looks like when they connect Astro 20 by line (with IR´s simulation) it sound better to me than when they play direct to a real cabinet, it´s my personal perception, anyway your sound is very good friend, but i´m thinking too much what to do, if buy it or if I could buy other light amp better because i´m going to use a real cabinet, if you could advise me please, (i can not try it in shop in my city), my current amp is a triple rectifier head but it´s too much weighty for me(i need a head with enough chanels, high gain, 25 libs or less, and versatile for pop rock, rock, hard rock, heavy metal, with real cabinet)
Gotta tell ya Jarrod. You really made my day today when yo went into your story of how you don't know music or scales or anything at all. I am the exact same way. When I was very young, I took guitar lessons for maybe 2 weeks. It was terrible and the instructor was a tyrant about how I sat, how I held my pic and yadda yadda yadda. I used to read Circus and Hit Parade and Kerrang magazine and one day, I saw one of those 1 pager ads with Billy Gibbons holding his trusty Les Paul. In the ad, he was saying that he never took lessons, he just taught himself to play what he hears in his head. I never took another lesson and it really inspires me to know you are the same and your playing is off the charts AMAZING. Thanks for saying what you said. Made my day 🙂
My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed that part of the episode.
Some of us just aren't meant to sit in a classroom. A lot of us just like to teach ourselves and learn by doing.
Keep shredding! Never let anyone tell you that you need to go through certain routes to achieve success.
Thanks for the kind words as well, much appreciated.
Speaking of cabs to pair with the stealth, I’d been playing out of v30 loaded mesa like you for the longest. But Jarrod I’m telling you get your hands on a Hesu cab with the demon speakers and pair the two when I referenced getting the most modern high gain tones out of that amp i never knew I could tap into, I paired my 50w stealth with a Hesu 2x12 vertical slant cab with they’re demon speakers and it changed the game. Merely throwing those speakers into a cab of choice doesn’t do them justice. The Hesu cabs are some of the most well built cabs I’ve ever owned (better quality than ENGL, Orange, and Mesa imo) but the cabs are built specifically to bring out the most of those speakers and the pairing blew my ENGL 4x12 and Mesa Recto 2x12 out of the water. Brought a whole new spectrum of articulation, punch and chug to the amp I thought I had been getting the most out of from the other cabs. HIGHLY suggest you getting one. They’re not insanely priced either. I had mine shipped from Europe brand new in total I payed less than $800 which is what an orange 2x12 costs by itself here in the states by comparison.
And I know it’s a bit pricey $229 new, but the Fortin modded ts-9 also really compliments the amp extremely well. My other favorite is the KHDK Ghoul Screamer jr. Same output everything as the regular ghoul Screamer just cut down to the two main essential toggles voicing for bass +\- and style for compression and amount of gain on tap while also adding some additional harmonics and cut thru
Great video. I am glad your channel is growing. Your content is informative and well thought out. I would love for you to try out the Hotone Ampero II Stage. It comes in at $700 and appears to punch way above it's weight. The Astro kicks ass by the way. 20 watts and totally holds it's own against the 100 watt Stealth. The Ceriatone FAS is near completion according to posts from Nik. Can't wait for the first demo of that amp.
Thanks for commenting. I appreciate the kind words. so glad you're enjoying the channel.
I would love to try the FAS as well. Nik makes great amplifiers.
I've always heard good things about the Ampero. I'll see if I can get my hands-on one
50 Years By ear... Trial and error.. Accidents ..... Some Happy some Not so much... Love your channel . its Honest No Crap.. Keep em going..
Thanks so much for commenting. I really appreciate it.
Any chance you can pick up / borrow the new BOSS IR-2 amp + cabinet pedal to review / shootout? Seems to be a bit of favorable buzz around this especially with the low price tag for those of us on a budget...maybe MCG has one lying around to loan out for a little while? Thanks much in advance!
Thanks for commenting. I will check with motor city guitar and see what they have.
Hey Jerrod honestly I haven’t pulled the trigger on buying one of your kemper profiles because I’m illiterate how to do it …. A great video would be how to take it from purchasing it all the way to loading it on my kemper I bet I’m not alone….
Thanks for commenting Shawn. Basically you can load them onto a thumb drive, plug the thumb drive into the Kemper and import them.
If I remember correctly, there are some videos out there about it. check Kemper's TH-cam page
I will try this thanks jerrod 🤘🎸
Definitely get the axe fx 3 on the channel. I’m keen to hear. Great episode brother
Thank you very much. I'm definitely going to work on that
Please do. Would love to hear what you think of fractal
Another great episode, big boi. Fantastic insights on TH-cam life, too, btw.
Thank.you!!
Remember the "fight night" video series. We were going to break the internet with content that EVERYONE WANTED AND NEEDED. Turns out the only thing we broke was our own hearts when it just didn't take off. I blame the East Coast Rap scene for that.
I'm working on another one. hopefully we could do it soon
I had an Evh stealth, and returned it for an Astro 20… I really like the Soldano but miss the Evh stealth’s more brutal sound on the red channel. Now I’m undecided about which one to keep, Soldano Astro 20 or 50watt stealth?
@@mgarza1983 thanks for commenting, I totally understand where you're coming from. Which overdrive pedal are you using
@@TONEWARSgearshow no over pedal drive but have had a tube screamer. Not sure which would be a good choice for the Soldano Astro 20, any recommendations?
Interesting that your channel is the only channel where I watch every video when it comes out nearly right away. I agree with you 100% on the clickbait sympathy "i'm gonna quit youtube" videos also.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the kind words.
Yeah I feel that some of these guys should just stick to creating good content and getting clicks and views that way instead of getting sympathy views. Hopefully the trend will change
Hey Jarrod, I wrote a small booklet for diatonic chord theory with scales that they go with. I have it on a pdf and can send it to you if you want. I wrote it because I was going to start teaching a friend. Its very easy to understand.
Thanks for commenting and thank you so much for offering to do this! Yes, I would be very interested in checking that out. I'm always willing to learn new things. you can send it to me via my email here - jarrod_reign@yahoo.com
Much appreciated
@Tonewars Hey Jarrod You already did kind of mention wanting to do Fight Nights again, those were great times! Got me deciding on when I was looking at all things modelling and FRFR decisions. So, think you'd maybe try and get those back? Could make it interesting with modelers vs profiles vs tubes and solid state even! Love these Riffs and Responses!
Thanks so much for commenting. I'm glad you're enjoying these videos. I definitely want to start fight night again.
I'm gonna start putting my thoughts together on the next one soon
I think TH-camrs need to stop being so hard on themselves. You're all doing a great job, and I can almost guarantee that >99% of us don't have any real expectations of you. If you need time to decompress to avoid burnout, I can assure you we will still be here when you get back. No one is going to unsubscribe because you aren't meeting your own goals for # of videos per week/month. I understand this is a source of income for you, but your mental health and wellbeing is more important. To the people criticizing your playing, either don't watch the videos, or come out and do it better.
oh i got a great idea, i was watching the live video yesterday and someone commented on having a harley benton cab. It was like they were ashamed for having it. I know gear is expensive but it would be interesting to make a comparison between the harley benton and the mesa. the benton is literally less than half of the boogie!
Thanks for commenting. I actually did that a couple of years ago on the channel. the Harley Benton is an excellent cab for the money
I really like to see what is going on behind all those amp racks
A lot of cables.
Always great wisdom revealed to us.
I 100% agree with your opinion on the MGK signature guitar. People who can barely play shouldn't have a signature guitar full stop.
Axe III is chefs kiss.
I commented in the live stream and heard that your were to receive the engl inferno marty friedman sig. soon. Would there be a chance for you to make tonex di captures for it? Loved the stream yesterday!
Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed the livestream last night. yes, I will definitely do some captures of that amp for you guys.
@@TONEWARSgearshow Great!!
Play what you like, and people will like what you play.
Man the MGK rant was fckin hilarious, i laughed so hard ! A Lil Arnold voice thrown in would have been epic lol
Haha glad you liked it!!
I am curious. I think all your videos are shot in the same location. Is it hard to do one in a different location?
Thanks so much for asking. I've actually thought about creating another section of my studio for shooting in as well. I'm gonna have to get pretty creative with it but I'll see what I can do. It's not something that will happen really soon but maybe in the near future
@@TONEWARSgearshow Awesome!!! I thought it would give your channel more dimension.
Knowledge is power
We meet again after a minute posting!
I've been playing for 25 years and I barely understand any music theory. Glad I'm not the only one lol
@brandonboe2286 My music theory in a nutshell - If it sounds good, it is good. 😄
Its really funny to watch this trend of YTbs talking about other quitting. NON of the ones I follow have quit.
Totally agree on TH-camrs who release 2-3 “oh poor me” vids each year. 🙄
Thanks for commenting. yeah it's becoming quite the trend lately.
I hate seeing successful channels, especially ones that had a lot of things handed to them, complain about how rough their life is. what a bunch of cry babies right?
The Johnny Depp signature guitar coming next?
Haha I hope not 😅. It'll be a bottle of wine
That was a lot crammed into 32 minutes. Anyone can try to be a content creator on TH-cam but fewer and fewer are actually worth watching. Other guitar programs seem to take my holy grail amps and make them sound like dog shit...while you take amps I was sure I wouldn't like, and you make them scream. I also like your approach in dealing with commenters...not that I ever see anything negative in the peanut gallery. BTW I know who you're referring to with the whiny creators talk!!! HAHA!!!!
Amps that are more BRUTAL .1 MESA BOOGIE MK3 SIMUL CLASS COLISEUM .2 CARVIN MTS3200 .3 TRACE ELLIOT SPEED TWIN AND THE MOST BRUTAL EVER .4 RANDALL V2 ...PROVE ME RIGHT!
The Randall V2 Archetype is absolutely incredible for extreme metal. The solid state channel needs a hard boost and I mean a really hard boost. But when it gets that boost it's like nothing else on earth. With the matching Archetype 4 ohm 400 w cabinet and an ISP vector SL 600W sub this thing kills on a level that you can't imagine. The hugeness and tightness of the bottom end and the definition of the mid-range is something you just have to hear. The clarity is unbelievable. But if you measure brutality by the amount of gain it's not an extreme amount of gain it's just enough gain with a super hard boost.The stealth has way more gain with no boost for sure. The tube channel on the Archetype is absolutely incredible as well and it gets closer to the stealth in the amount of gain , but it's really really noisy. The Archetype really shines for shredders who have advanced picking skills, guys that flawlessly execute Paul Gilbert/ Rusty Cooley/ Nuno Bettencourt licks will love the V2 Archetype. So will guys that play super extreme technical rhythm guitar. The amp is really dry and incredibly clear it will showcase every flaw in your playing. I found that you really do need to have the matching Archetype 4 ohm cabinet with the Celestion 100 watt G12H speakers to get the most out of that amp though. The amp is designed to operate at 4 ohms because of the way the power ramp reacts with the speaker and cabinet at the 4 ohm load. You will not get the tightness and clarity of sound that the amp was designed to produce running at 8 ohm cabinet. It will sound more like the normal Randall V2... Which is still really great but just not as good as the Archetype. And let's be clear the V2 puts out 400 Watts at 4 ohms it will blow speakers like no other if you hook it up to a cabinet that's not rated for that power.
That ENGL. Sheesh.
You can barrow my FM9 turbo… if you help me decide on an Engl lol
Give me the Razor blade guitar that schecter sends when they see this.
The other day a youtuber said if he didnt get more subs he might quit.
Wow, that's really not the way to go about getting new subs LOL
Most real words..if you don’t like it…uhhh just quit
I have both astro and 50S and I prefer the 50S by a wide margin. It has more gain if needed and all clean channel has a separate EQs that I can dial in. The Astro 20's doesn't use the treble, middle, bass knobs on the clean channel. Instead it has a 'tone' knob and a bright switch. I don't like it because I cant fine tune the mids.
Please, I need a light amp and i considering the Astro 20, i would like ask you how it sound with a real band and a real passive cabinet?, it sound me digital in some videos, do you think that it sound enough real, do you advise me buy this Astro 20 head, or i must consider Mesa Mark 25 and H&K tubemeister 40, thanks in advance
@@jjr.m.1002 It is a good sounding amp and will work fine. My only issue is the clean channel only has one knob that manages both the treble and middle eq.
@@davidglobex189 thank you very much for your answer friend, i use the clean only in a few songs, my current head is a triple rectifier, so...i`m having too much problem finding some versatile light for replace it, mesa boogies 25w only 2 chanels , and i´m worried about this Soldano sound a little digital using it with real cabinet(because the IR´s), ...and none of them have a button in the footswith for on/off the loop (only the cheap marshall DSL20), it is some strange, you must have all the sound passing around 2 long cables inside the loop (Send/return) for use in the floor your delay, (the youtubers have it above the amp with short cables, but it´s not the reality, or they record the audio in studio by line with IR, not this nice video of course 🙂)
im suprised jeff keisel hasnt sent a guitar to machine gun kelly! he sends guitars to every flavor of the month guitar player! or so called guitar player!
Haha now THAT would be hilarious 😆
Don't feel bad my man, I've been noodling around for about 20 years but never have had the time or the want to sit down and learn any sort of theory at all. Not everyone has the time it takes to learn all that, for me I'm sure it's held me back alot in advancing,that's why I'm just a lowly rhythm player lol. But I still love to play whether I know how to correctly or not
Thanks for commenting. Honestly, I think that theory and the "rules" associated with it would hold me back a bit. I love being creative and trying things without worrying about the rules
Stealth absolutely rules over the Astro in my opinion...