how people keep saying this is too expensive? It's a 3 channel tube amp with load box built in and IR loader as well, coming from a boutique amp company. How much should it cost I don't understand the argument here. It's made in USA and it's not a budget brand
It’s nothing special tech that is assembled in USA, which does not mean anything, look up "Monday morning, Friday afternoon cars", pre internet/cnc machine something we invented that was a real thing. The name on the box does not make the electronics magical.
Because people on the internet love to complain. These people have too much time on their hands and need to spend their energy on something better. After long days work the last thing on my mind is complaining about shit on the internet.
There's just something special about that SLO overdrive sound, always wanted one, couldn't justify one so got a Jet City JCA50 and it's got that tone... since I got it the number of fx I'd use has dropped to zero, Great to see Soldano making something that fights the tube amp corner into the modern age, maybe too busy for a traditional old school SLO user BUT they already have one in the cave. I love seeing tube amps suddenly being developed and hope some of that tech will trickle down
Honestly i played an astroverb thru a soldano lucky 13 412 cab about 20 years ago and it was the most glorious saturation i have ever experienced. Im still chasing that sound With my budget gear and falling so short. Such a beautiful circuit.
Hi - it's great that you tested it, I love the Soldano Vibe - I think it's currently the best of both worlds, tube amplifier and digital processing, so the price is right, despite the small design
This is great. You can record without having to buy a load box, cabinet, mics and have professional iRs included. If you subtract the cost of the things you don’t have to purchase to immediately record high quality results, this amp is a bargain.
How does this Soldano Astro-20 watts compare with the EVH 5150iii 50 watts? Next question: in a live gig at a medium-size pub with a loud drummer and NO mic on my speakers, could this Soldano Astro-20 watts keep up with a loud drummer in terms of volume?
2:55 What's happening!!? 🤨 How come _“The Heritage”_ became _“Heritage”_ ?!? 🤔 _(🤑 Would my old one have increased in value? 🤑)_ Interesting, it doesn't sound like my _Super Lead 60_ head nor _SLO-30 head_ .
The more I see non American and probably ESL singers singing English with an American accent it just makes the Howard Cosell bit in "Better Off Dead" even funnier.
Don't think It would be a problem, unless you need tons of clean headroom. I used a SLO30 in a metal band and hadn't to dime it at all. At our last gig our second guitar player had a 15W Joyo mini head and I played my 100W Friedman and the Joyo was loud enough to cut thru.
How close can you get this to some SLO-30 tones? For almost $1,000 less with some additional features it might be worth turning my focus from shopping for an SLO towards the Astro.
I guess we'll end up finding out. But I hear some people saying that they actually prefer the tone of this one, regardless of price. It's still new so I'm still trying to see for myself
This is a really nice amp. Thanks for the video! You made great points about the price, although in this range I'm not sure if price is really the main consideration (okay, for the 100 it is). Soldano should do this in the IR-X format and I would buy it. Another full amp head, as cool as it is, doesn't do it for me. I would even pose the question (although we could discuss this for hours) if we even still need the amp head and cab format that is about 70 years old. Something like this in IR-X format, usable as a preamp or with power amp sim and IRs would be great and I would probably buy it.
@@EytschPi42I understand and agree. I‘m just not sure if that difference really is worth about 1500 Euros for me. The tradeoff of one or two percent amp feeling for convenience - right now convenience wins. Could change when a killer deal for a Soldano head would come up.
Thanks for great review again. Seeing the masters at around noon, how loud in the room is it and how’s the « in the room » sound and feel? Having a slo-30, i can definitely say soldano has something when you play them and you feel the air moving that is hard to capture on video.
Only a Tone control for clean channel? Nooooo! Mike S : why??? Useless to me. Huge sigh. So many other wonderful and ground breaking controls! No onboard reverb at all? Back to choosing a REVV head….
Yeahhh, the sounds are great, of course the guitars make the sound too, but.... as someone who has no idea about those amps and only playing emulation for years, i do not really understand why spend 2k for an amp when you can get everything in a software like GuitarRig or Bias FX. You may do a vid to explain those differences. Stars like The Edge and many others give up amps to play through emulation, for example all the U2 concerts at the Sphere were played troug a small pedal that gives The Edge all he needs to reproduce the sounds he used through his carreer, so when those people give up amps, why should we buy one. There are maybe some reasons, i dont know but you may explain it with a new video, By the way your song is really great.Keep rocking❤❤
Your logic is silly. "If The Edge doesn't use amps, why should I?" There are far better guitarist than The Edge, who are still using and buying amps. Indeed the majority of professional guitarist use amplifiers.
@@aaronm.1998 i agree that The Edge is not the best example,and i'm not a fan anyway, but there are many others like The Architects and many many others using emulation as also many others using amps, you are right and i also agree that quality gear like Soldano has its price, but why should people spend 2k when they can get emulation for free by just buying a cheap guitar like Harley Benton for a few 100€. I do not say that amps are trash, i just want to know what is the difference playing an amp and then emulation with the same valuable guitar. In fact i cannot recognize a difference between a song recorded on amps and the other on emulation, do you?
Its also about longevity. Real amps literally last a lifetime if looked after, where as software and digital hardware generally don't and often rely on another pieces of equipment to work. For example, if you laptop/pc/mac dies, so does your whole rig and you will spend hundreds (potentially thousands) on that. There is also the endless patches/updates for buggy software (not to mention the temptations for the latest model that isn't all that different to the previous model). Menu diving is also a turn off for some folks. I personally don't seem to get on with digital stuff (I don't even like IRs hahaha!) but some get great tones out of them.
@@didierzaurrini3861, maybe you should try going to local music store and playing a real amp? And there will be the answer: if you dont feel the difference - you dont need a real amp. Its that simple.
Nice tone but daft idea. The IR thing really isn't useful and most people will prefer either a pedal board or FX unit - me thinks. I would buy one but I'd be concerned that the IR might change when I don't want it to. It's just too fiddly.
why would the IR change when you don't want it to? That's the same thing as saying ANY preset on ANY product can change randomly. Built in digital cab sims are becoming the norm now and there is nothing wrong with that.
Because I watched you turning the knobs and I think it would be so easy to knock the tiny IR switches. This may be the new norm but for me (my opinion) it's silly.@@EytschPi42
People need to stop bitching about price. This amp has all you could want from an amp,at least for me. So much goes into why they are priced the way they are. And its all warranted and i think its a bargain actually. Especially coming from soldano. Everything is overpriced these days, including all the parts that soldano has to buy to build these. That being said i think the price is suprisingly low for an amp built by a small boutique company in this economy. Its about $1k less than there previous cheapest amp which didnt have any of these modern appointments. The slo30. Great amp and i personally think this amp is better. For me anyway it is. I will gladly pay the price theyre asking. Its a bargain actually
@EytschPi42 I'm not here to say bad things, and I know they have different purposes, but soldano has always been so expensive. That new MT 100 is really affordable and we always hope manufacturers can keep the prices as low as possible.
I'm just a home hobbyist. I've wanted to purchase a SLO-30, but have seen some reviewers say it is good for bedroom volumes, while others say it is not. Would this new Soldano be good at bedroom volumes?
I'm home hobbyist too. I got this amp yesterday. If you lower the master volume, it is good enough to use in the bedroom. I didn‘t feel like I would need an attenuator. Still has that vibe at lower master volume.
Don't like it - Soldano F'ed up imo. Just one tone EQ on the clean channel is not acceptable and the back end digital amp sim is pointless. I see no point in owning a tube amp if you're going to use it as a full digital modeler. That amp sim modeling section is certain to be a 2nd rate clone of the tube front end. People can get that from any one of the many modelers around. Meanwhile, this amp has Midi that I have no use for but ......no power scaling, reverb or independent EQs for each channel.
There is no modeling or amp sim… no clue what you are talking about. Tone control works great and the shared EQ is no problem unless you want extreme settings.
@@EytschPi42if you watch Pete Thorns video he mentions at around 2 mins there is some power amp modelling. This seems a bit confusing as it's full blown tube amp - can see anything in the manual
@@EytschPi42 Others are reporting it has a modeled power amp sim on back end. Plus, Henning, just 1 tone dial on the clean channel is rubbish. So is no independent EQs for the other 2 channels. It also has no power scaling and no reverb. Instead we get Midi and IRs most have no use for. Plus it'll cost $2-3000. It's a massive dud imo
@@EytschPi42 Same. AFAIK there is no internal load like you say in the video. When no speaker is connected the power amp is disabled and they use some sort of power amp simulation with the IR output. Sort of like Two Notes I guess. I wouldn't be shocked if it was Two Notes tech much like the MESA CabClone. Which definitely begs the question if you are buying this to be a cab-less studio/bedroom amp all you're really getting is the pre-amp. You could just get a SYN1 + a bunch of different preamps + Two Notes Opus for the same price and have more power amp sim options in the opus.
"if you're color blind, you're screwed"...I actually laughed out loud. Too funny.
but true
how people keep saying this is too expensive? It's a 3 channel tube amp with load box built in and IR loader as well, coming from a boutique amp company. How much should it cost I don't understand the argument here. It's made in USA and it's not a budget brand
exactly
The price is justified, definitely.
It’s nothing special tech that is assembled in USA, which does not mean anything, look up "Monday morning, Friday afternoon cars", pre internet/cnc machine something we invented that was a real thing. The name on the box does not make the electronics magical.
@@jarrodhroberson made in USA = higher labour cost
Because people on the internet love to complain.
These people have too much time on their hands and need to spend their energy on something better.
After long days work the last thing on my mind is complaining about shit on the internet.
There's just something special about that SLO overdrive sound, always wanted one, couldn't justify one so got a Jet City JCA50 and it's got that tone... since I got it the number of fx I'd use has dropped to zero, Great to see Soldano making something that fights the tube amp corner into the modern age, maybe too busy for a traditional old school SLO user BUT they already have one in the cave. I love seeing tube amps suddenly being developed and hope some of that tech will trickle down
Honestly i played an astroverb thru a soldano lucky 13 412 cab about 20 years ago and it was the most glorious saturation i have ever experienced. Im still chasing that sound With my budget gear and falling so short. Such a beautiful circuit.
Finally! "Run" full production and some backing vocals cameo 🤪🤘😎🔥 cool amp! And Carsten with another great collab!
Great vocals on the intro track!
Really a great amp and almost greaterer tracks. Wonderful Demo! Thank you Henning!
💥💥 P90's & Soldano Astro 20 matches amazing 💥💥
Hi - it's great that you tested it, I love the Soldano Vibe - I think it's currently the best of both worlds, tube amplifier and digital processing, so the price is right, despite the small design
You had me at Richard Marx 😝
This is great. You can record without having to buy a load box, cabinet, mics and have professional iRs included. If you subtract the cost of the things you don’t have to purchase to immediately record high quality results, this amp is a bargain.
How does this Soldano Astro-20 watts compare with the EVH 5150iii 50 watts?
Next question: in a live gig at a medium-size pub with a loud drummer and NO mic on my speakers, could this Soldano Astro-20 watts keep up with a loud drummer in terms of volume?
2:55 What's happening!!? 🤨 How come _“The Heritage”_ became _“Heritage”_ ?!? 🤔 _(🤑 Would my old one have increased in value? 🤑)_
Interesting, it doesn't sound like my _Super Lead 60_ head nor _SLO-30 head_ .
Love the cat sweater/tshirt.....it would be cool if they offered a lower wattage switch. Seems like a pretty cool amp....
Toller Verstärker und ein echt schöner Beitrag. 🍀😊🍀
Fantastic Intro Song „Run“ ! !
I like the Richard marks tribute.
The intro-lick sounds Andy James-inspired... like it.
I think, I'll stick with my Neural DSP SLO100....... ;-)
this is a good song
The more I see non American and probably ESL singers singing English with an American accent it just makes the Howard Cosell bit in "Better Off Dead" even funnier.
This is my next amp !!! About time to sell my Elmwood M60
I WANT THIS AMP. I'd be fine live. The only scenario i worry about is rehearsals with drums in room. Theres no way thats gonna cut the mustard.😞
Don't think It would be a problem, unless you need tons of clean headroom. I used a SLO30 in a metal band and hadn't to dime it at all. At our last gig our second guitar player had a 15W Joyo mini head and I played my 100W Friedman and the Joyo was loud enough to cut thru.
How close can you get this to some SLO-30 tones? For almost $1,000 less with some additional features it might be worth turning my focus from shopping for an SLO towards the Astro.
I guess we'll end up finding out. But I hear some people saying that they actually prefer the tone of this one, regardless of price. It's still new so I'm still trying to see for myself
Great video!
Why don't amps have a built-in Noise Gate like engl does I don't get it ...charge the customer extra and add it in there
I asked the same thing
@@EytschPi42 hey Henning great to hear from you never got to chat love your videos they are very thorough
This is a really nice amp. Thanks for the video! You made great points about the price, although in this range I'm not sure if price is really the main consideration (okay, for the 100 it is). Soldano should do this in the IR-X format and I would buy it. Another full amp head, as cool as it is, doesn't do it for me. I would even pose the question (although we could discuss this for hours) if we even still need the amp head and cab format that is about 70 years old. Something like this in IR-X format, usable as a preamp or with power amp sim and IRs would be great and I would probably buy it.
Yes and no… IR-X is great, but a full head still feels and sounds different.. minor differences, but they matter to me
@@EytschPi42I understand and agree. I‘m just not sure if that difference really is worth about 1500 Euros for me. The tradeoff of one or two percent amp feeling for convenience - right now convenience wins. Could change when a killer deal for a Soldano head would come up.
@@TheOligoclonalBandgrow up
@@a-nus lol
4:08 Geiler Rutscher nach unten. Ueberhaupt die ganzen Leads stechen echt heraus!
Thanks for great review again. Seeing the masters at around noon, how loud in the room is it and how’s the « in the room » sound and feel? Having a slo-30, i can definitely say soldano has something when you play them and you feel the air moving that is hard to capture on video.
The 7 string bit sounded pretty bad imo…? Is it me? Bueller Bueller?
Only a Tone control for clean channel? Nooooo! Mike S : why??? Useless to me. Huge sigh. So many other wonderful and ground breaking controls! No onboard reverb at all? Back to choosing a REVV head….
The tone knob does the job, it really isn’t a deal breaker
REVV Rules 🤘🏽
But I wanna be there for 7 years
great original!
Is this thing loud enough to play with a hard hitting metal drummer?
Hmm…. Not sure, but it might be
I have a 35 Watt Engl and it definitely can keep up. I obviously can’t compare but I would guess the Astro can deliver.
I don't know if I can forgive you for the metal version of Richard Marx' "Right Here Waiting" at the beginning.
why? It's great, isn't it?
It's the "No Hair Metal" version.
Yeahhh, the sounds are great, of course the guitars make the sound too, but.... as someone who has no idea about those amps and only playing emulation for years, i do not really understand why spend 2k for an amp when you can get everything in a software like GuitarRig or Bias FX. You may do a vid to explain those differences. Stars like The Edge and many others give up amps to play through emulation, for example all the U2 concerts at the Sphere were played troug a small pedal that gives The Edge all he needs to reproduce the sounds he used through his carreer, so when those people give up amps, why should we buy one. There are maybe some reasons, i dont know but you may explain it with a new video, By the way your song is really great.Keep rocking❤❤
Your logic is silly. "If The Edge doesn't use amps, why should I?" There are far better guitarist than The Edge, who are still using and buying amps. Indeed the majority of professional guitarist use amplifiers.
@@aaronm.1998 i agree that The Edge is not the best example,and i'm not a fan anyway, but there are many others like The Architects and many many others using emulation as also many others using amps, you are right and i also agree that quality gear like Soldano has its price, but why should people spend 2k when they can get emulation for free by just buying a cheap guitar like Harley Benton for a few 100€. I do not say that amps are trash, i just want to know what is the difference playing an amp and then emulation with the same valuable guitar. In fact i cannot recognize a difference between a song recorded on amps and the other on emulation, do you?
Its also about longevity. Real amps literally last a lifetime if looked after, where as software and digital hardware generally don't and often rely on another pieces of equipment to work. For example, if you laptop/pc/mac dies, so does your whole rig and you will spend hundreds (potentially thousands) on that. There is also the endless patches/updates for buggy software (not to mention the temptations for the latest model that isn't all that different to the previous model). Menu diving is also a turn off for some folks. I personally don't seem to get on with digital stuff (I don't even like IRs hahaha!) but some get great tones out of them.
@@didierzaurrini3861, maybe you should try going to local music store and playing a real amp? And there will be the answer: if you dont feel the difference - you dont need a real amp. Its that simple.
Nice tone but daft idea. The IR thing really isn't useful and most people will prefer either a pedal board or FX unit - me thinks. I would buy one but I'd be concerned that the IR might change when I don't want it to. It's just too fiddly.
why would the IR change when you don't want it to? That's the same thing as saying ANY preset on ANY product can change randomly.
Built in digital cab sims are becoming the norm now and there is nothing wrong with that.
Because I watched you turning the knobs and I think it would be so easy to knock the tiny IR switches. This may be the new norm but for me (my opinion) it's silly.@@EytschPi42
Cool sanger
Where can I get the song "run"? Great song, awesome lyrics.
At the moment nowhere!
People need to stop bitching about price. This amp has all you could want from an amp,at least for me. So much goes into why they are priced the way they are. And its all warranted and i think its a bargain actually. Especially coming from soldano. Everything is overpriced these days, including all the parts that soldano has to buy to build these. That being said i think the price is suprisingly low for an amp built by a small boutique company in this economy. Its about $1k less than there previous cheapest amp which didnt have any of these modern appointments. The slo30. Great amp and i personally think this amp is better. For me anyway it is. I will gladly pay the price theyre asking. Its a bargain actually
Would you see yourself picking the Astro more than the SLO for a Soldano sound regardless of the novelty factor?
I would... it is more flexible and much easier to use because you don't need a cab and can record right away. And it is only half the money.
@@EytschPi42 If only it had a third of the size. 🙂
@@TheOligoclonalBand that's what she said? 🤔
For 2k usd you can already get the 100 watt prs MT
and... what is your point? Does that have a load box? IR Out? Midi? It's a different product!
@EytschPi42 I'm not here to say bad things, and I know they have different purposes, but soldano has always been so expensive. That new MT 100 is really affordable and we always hope manufacturers can keep the prices as low as possible.
@@mjtan6787what even is your argument here
100 watts means more betterer lmao?
Sorry, not another Soldano Astro-20 Head demonstration
Nice Amp, crappy UI with these mini-toggle-switches ...
I'm just a home hobbyist. I've wanted to purchase a SLO-30, but have seen some reviewers say it is good for bedroom volumes, while others say it is not. Would this new Soldano be good at bedroom volumes?
I‘d say yes… but any tube amp is going to be loud anyway and I recommend some sort of attenuator.
I'm home hobbyist too. I got this amp yesterday. If you lower the master volume, it is good enough to use in the bedroom. I didn‘t feel like I would need an attenuator. Still has that vibe at lower master volume.
@@osun_ko thanks for sharing this with us here, I'm also thinking about this amp for home playing.
UNGA BUNGA
It is still to expensive.
Don't like it - Soldano F'ed up imo. Just one tone EQ on the clean channel is not acceptable and the back end digital amp sim is pointless. I see no point in owning a tube amp if you're going to use it as a full digital modeler. That amp sim modeling section is certain to be a 2nd rate clone of the tube front end. People can get that from any one of the many modelers around. Meanwhile, this amp has Midi that I have no use for but ......no power scaling, reverb or independent EQs for each channel.
There is no modeling or amp sim… no clue what you are talking about.
Tone control works great and the shared EQ is no problem unless you want extreme settings.
@@EytschPi42if you watch Pete Thorns video he mentions at around 2 mins there is some power amp modelling. This seems a bit confusing as it's full blown tube amp - can see anything in the manual
@@EytschPi42 Others are reporting it has a modeled power amp sim on back end. Plus, Henning, just 1 tone dial on the clean channel is rubbish. So is no independent EQs for the other 2 channels. It also has no power scaling and no reverb. Instead we get Midi and IRs most have no use for. Plus it'll cost $2-3000. It's a massive dud imo
@@EytschPi42 Same. AFAIK there is no internal load like you say in the video. When no speaker is connected the power amp is disabled and they use some sort of power amp simulation with the IR output. Sort of like Two Notes I guess. I wouldn't be shocked if it was Two Notes tech much like the MESA CabClone. Which definitely begs the question if you are buying this to be a cab-less studio/bedroom amp all you're really getting is the pre-amp. You could just get a SYN1 + a bunch of different preamps + Two Notes Opus for the same price and have more power amp sim options in the opus.
I hate you, ma Lord.