Glad you put out a demo vid first, so I didn’t have to force/torture myself to watch a Fluff demo vid with his shyte guitar skills. Jack is a TH-cam gem. Keep pumping out the killer demos. 🤘🏾
The really awesome thing about the Soldano sound which you touch on at about 5:00 is that you don't need to mash the gain to get great sustain. A gain setting of 3-4 on the overdrive channel is plenty to get it to sing out, and that's really a testament to how nicely articulate and defined the sound can be, despite sounding like there's more gain than there really is, so to speak. To me, Soldanos sound like the very best 'pushed 800' sound you can imagine.
Absolutely yes. From what I understand...Warren DeMartini uses this same amp. Although he is not in Ratt anymore. Always loved Warren's style and guitar tones myself!!
Got the SLO 30 a couple days ago. Yes the price is steep but you only go through life once. Don’t be that 80 year old guitar player that say he regretted not getting one. It is a great amp.
@@SuperHotrod4 as I’m getting way up in age and not playing anywhere but home 30 was more than enough for me. Havnt regretted it at all. Can’t believe I’ve had it 2 years now. Lol
@@novagoth did you match the SLO head with the matching 2x12? Also how is your clean headroom? Can you go loud with slight break up? I understand the clean setting drops in volume vs the crunch setting. Do you use a boost to help with the volume drop on the clean setting, or do you enjoy just running the crunch channel by itself as a slight break up setting? Just curious to know your experience with the amp after owning it for two years. I will greatly appreciate your thoughts.
@@therooster6071 I bought the head alone. I’ve ran it through a evh 4x12 stealth lll cab, a Marshall 2x12 silver jubilee cab. Clean was better on the jubilee imo. Never went full on volume in the house. Headroom was fine for me. Haven’t boosted
brown sound right outta the box, very tight/responsive, harsh & ear fatiguing in a bedroom but gigging situation will cut thru anything, nice improvements made to the fx finally! if Mike isn't answering the phone anymore, price not justified.
ct88 Yeah, you can definitely hear the family lineage from the SLO to the Peavey 5150 and then the EVH 5150III. Money no object I’d love to have a SLO, but I’m happy to make do with my EVH!
Great demo !! Mike used to see ads in GP and GW, usually with a nice car. Rodder as well as a black belt in Karate. Great to see these again!! Warren Haynes was another user of this amp. Gov't Mule, S/T, Mother Earth. This amp, a Les Paul in a great trio setting, Live in the studio. One take!! Me, I want one but not only can't afford it, I gots nowhere to use it !!! Still killer though. Thanks for the vid.,
I've been looking for a demo that shows the range of this amp and not just cranking the gain with a boost in front. I can now see how capable this amp is throughout its range. Thanks. Now I have to sell a kidney on eBay.
I’ve never really been a big Dire Straits fan but your comment made me check just to hear the tone and this album is reallllly good lol. Oh and the guitar tone is really good too.
You know you did amazing job with mic placement and choice when you dont have to do almost anything to eq on the amp to make it sound that good. Ofc amazing amp and cab surely help... lol Great sounds, playing and video, cheers!
Dickey Betts showcases that! Hey is that you, Lee? Met you on a country guitar course at Ronnie of Guitar Weekends you were giving up near the lake district about 10 or so years ago. Hope you are well. I was the guy from France with a Mesa Boogie MkIII that you fixed on the spot for me. Thanks again if it's you!!
I owned the skill 30 and it was very generic sounding reminded me of a Hughes and ketter tubemiester that could be had for 1/4 the price. Gain was very smooth and boring no character. Tried an slo 30 in store and it was the real deal thick as all hell and heaps of character so now that I'm looking for 100 watt to buy im leaning towards the slo by quite a bit based on my experience with the 2 smaller versions
everyone who demos this amp goes straight to 80's rock sound ,, or super clean to heavy,, does it not do a good blues sound ? ,,, slight break up ?...i would like to hear that ,,, i would like to see what the knobs do as well ,,, dialing back the overdrive . you know the versatility of the amp. you did a good video ,,, its just i want to know more before i drop $4000 ..... you have some really great amps there,,,how does it stack up to the friedmans ?
Warren Haynes of gov't mule loves this amp. Listen to all the first albums for great blues SLO tones. Same for Clapton. 24 nights is a good example. Soldano Clapton is best Clapton
another alien sounding one pretty good man...unknownnn 220k metal film on v1 and 1.5k carbon...idk some junk bypass...Sus'con suncon thing lol. idk it's alrighttt sounding ok and quiettt with the Bugleboy.
ive seen lynch use one of these mick im not sure of scorps deffinately not sure who else i can tell this is not a 1 trick pony but im not into shared eqs though i like seperate flavors 1 clean 1 middle 1 high gain ive heard little bits about this legendary amp great playing whatever floats youre boat if i like it i use it same for you cherio mates rock on
Never understood the hype. From clean to drive it sounds shrill in the top end, always. Always love Jack's tones. This reminded me why Ive never liked the SLO100. I do thank Mike's cascading gain circuit copied by Mesa, peavey, and every Modern hi-gain amp, but on other amps than the SLO100. Cheers!
Sounds incredible! Are these screen shots accurate settings for each clip section? The clean section shows the clean/crunch switch on crunch and preamp on 6? And I don’t think I get that much gain on the overdrive channel with the preamp on 3 on my HR25 which is supposed to be the same preamp design as the SLO.
Gary Moore used the SLO-100. At least for a little while. I always liked his tone better on Soldano. Impossible to know if he was using a customized one. Although Gary would have sounded like Gary on absolutely every amplifier. Gary had a minimal pedal board, I always wondered why Marshall never built a Signature Gary Moore amp.
@@nevusofota Although he used Marshall 4 by 12" EV speakers with them. He seemed to have used an HR+ too. I think his pairing was Soldano was more an endorsement opportunity than a driven choice from him.
@@billyboy65leath84 If I had to give up on my Lonestar, I would probably consider a Soldano SLO-100, sound wise. But 100 watts head + cabinet seem to no longer be relevant. Most of the gigs I am playing have a decent sound system, I am thinking to downsize.
I like the new SLO 100 but theres a difference compared to the original, the original has this laser precision/articulation in the mid range and high end, hard to explain but you know when you hear a soldano.
There are some differences in the circuit as well. The loop was moved, which means a tube (2 stages, one normal one cathode follower) now does some compression after the master volume and not sequentially as before. The original SLO (without loop) was in fact more like this one, but without the loop. If I remember soldano has the loop bypassed in the 2020 version. So play that configuration. The classic SLO that most people rave about is 5 12ax7 and different than this one. And they changed the classic 39K resistor of the third stage to 33K. Why? Probably because they wanted some more harmonics in that stage. They maybe lost some with the tube of the loop going after the master. 33K is slightly gainier and hairier than the 39K. So now they cloned the hughes and kettner triamp preamp, which was a rectifier preamp clone with some mods which was an SLO clone with some mods etc. And they use a different layout and different transformers. TH-cam will get it's A/B with the old one, but to be fair you can't easily compare them for accuracy, I mean even excluding the differences you should get the same tubes in tehm with the same order to get the same eq...
@Spiral Architect last time you slagged me off you didnt give me your address chicken shit. Why dont you give me a clue about who you are so i can find you?
sounding like a little tighter one again...or splawn or something...probably more splawn like. need to go tighter new speakers is some flubber ones for sure.
Thanks for the demo dude, sounds awesome. Just curious how loud it was when you recorded the video. Looks like the preamp is three and the master is 3 1/2. Was that completely ripping your head off, or would you say that’s a good volume for a band?
Jack is an incredible musician and TH-camr. Thank you for releasing QUALITY content here on TH-cam.
One of the best demo guys on TH-cam. Amazing how well you can play to each piece of gear. Really enjoy your playing. Such a large vocabulary.
Glad you put out a demo vid first, so I didn’t have to force/torture myself to watch a Fluff demo vid with his shyte guitar skills. Jack is a TH-cam gem. Keep pumping out the killer demos. 🤘🏾
Lol. Thank you
Great comprehensive demo guys. The new SLO sounds killer.
Killer amp, demo and playing. Well done!
Sooo awesome you started with the Ratt riff. Perfect! Love your videos and Jack is a monster player!
Jack is the man!! always a pleasure to hear.
God, I can’t wait to try one of these and the SLO30... sounds totally fabulous..!
Amazing demo, fantastic tones 👍
Wow sounds awesome! Whatever your paying this guy it's not enough!Best gear demo guy ever! Everything I need to hear just awesome 👍 Sold!
Quality amp with a unique voice, all expertly demonstrated as usual.
The really awesome thing about the Soldano sound which you touch on at about 5:00 is that you don't need to mash the gain to get great sustain. A gain setting of 3-4 on the overdrive channel is plenty to get it to sing out, and that's really a testament to how nicely articulate and defined the sound can be, despite sounding like there's more gain than there really is, so to speak. To me, Soldanos sound like the very best 'pushed 800' sound you can imagine.
This was a MUCH better demo than the SLO 30 demo. Very nice. You got this one dialed in much closer to the legendary SLO tone.
Damn, starting the vid with some Ratt. You know what we like
Absolutely yes. From what I understand...Warren DeMartini uses this same amp. Although he is not in Ratt anymore. Always loved Warren's style and guitar tones myself!!
Got the SLO 30 a couple days ago. Yes the price is steep but you only go through life once. Don’t be that 80 year old guitar player that say he regretted not getting one. It is a great amp.
Hey man, just curious why you got the 30 over the 100? Was it based on the price…?
@@SuperHotrod4 as I’m getting way up in age and not playing anywhere but home 30 was more than enough for me. Havnt regretted it at all. Can’t believe I’ve had it 2 years now. Lol
@@novagoth did you match the SLO head with the matching 2x12? Also how is your clean headroom? Can you go loud with slight break up? I understand the clean setting drops in volume vs the crunch setting. Do you use a boost to help with the volume drop on the clean setting, or do you enjoy just running the crunch channel by itself as a slight break up setting? Just curious to know your experience with the amp after owning it for two years. I will greatly appreciate your thoughts.
@@therooster6071 I bought the head alone. I’ve ran it through a evh 4x12 stealth lll cab, a Marshall 2x12 silver jubilee cab. Clean was better on the jubilee imo. Never went full on volume in the house. Headroom was fine for me. Haven’t boosted
Great playing man! 🤟🤟
Awesome playing as always! Mine arrives next Tuesday. Can't wait!
and?
@@maximumguitarage and?
‘’You’re in Love” nice intro!
Sounds great,great guitars,great amp plus nice player.....
Awesome Amp with Awesome playing 👍🔥🎸🦅
brown sound right outta the box, very tight/responsive, harsh & ear fatiguing in a bedroom but gigging situation will cut thru anything, nice improvements made to the fx finally! if Mike isn't answering the phone anymore, price not justified.
It’s like a Gentleman’s EVH 5150III. A luxurious, refined high gain beast. Looking forward to the demo of the new 30w version.
EVH is actually a pissed off SLO, that's where the EVH tone came from
ct88 Yeah, you can definitely hear the family lineage from the SLO to the Peavey 5150 and then the EVH 5150III. Money no object I’d love to have a SLO, but I’m happy to make do with my EVH!
yeah, tons of money for this beast :S
But there is something that the EVH has on mids that i like more than SLO
Great demo!
Your playing is stellar!
More playing would be great :-))
Great demo !! Mike used to see ads in GP and GW, usually with a nice car. Rodder as well as a black belt in Karate. Great to see these again!!
Warren Haynes was another user of this amp. Gov't Mule, S/T, Mother Earth. This amp, a Les Paul in a great trio setting, Live in the studio. One take!!
Me, I want one but not only can't afford it, I gots nowhere to use it !!!
Still killer though. Thanks for the vid.,
You’re both amazing
Would love for you to do a comparison of an original SLO vs this MK2 🤘
Awesome love the JEL
Bomber amp! Great video.
I've been looking for a demo that shows the range of this amp and not just cranking the gain with a boost in front. I can now see how capable this amp is throughout its range. Thanks.
Now I have to sell a kidney on eBay.
8:32 is such a great sound.
Ian Davis and the playing. Oh boy.
9:23 humbucker crunch and overdrive, you're welcome.
V'good demo, good lad Jack 👍
He likes to put pins in things, and I like it when he does it
i loved this bloke in Sam Raimi's Spider Man!
That's it! That's the tone right there! What mic did you use on the cab?
This kid is the best.
Listen to Dire Straits on the night for awesome SLO tones
That one lick on you and yoir friend in the solo 😍😍😍
I’ve never really been a big Dire Straits fan but your comment made me check just to hear the tone and this album is reallllly good lol. Oh and the guitar tone is really good too.
Excellent
Nice sounds
You know you did amazing job with mic placement and choice when you dont have to do almost anything to eq on the amp to make it sound that good. Ofc amazing amp and cab surely help... lol Great sounds, playing and video, cheers!
Agreed, the mic job on this is spot on. I'd pay for an IR of this :D
@@AndiKravljaca Haha yeah!
Maybe he just plays really well?
@@Starch1b2c3d4a He does, im talking about the sound.
Next purchase.
Great amp
I must admit you are a good guitarists.
I have the synergy module of the slo100, just wondered have you tried them side by side as you sell both soldano and synergy? Cheers
At 08:50 your playing is beautiful all the way till 09:18 what's songs is that man?
And Gary Moore used one for a stretch...just amazing sounding in his hands.
The Gibson Les Paul with the SLO 100 is an awesome combination!
Dickey Betts showcases that! Hey is that you, Lee? Met you on a country guitar course at Ronnie of Guitar Weekends you were giving up near the lake district about 10 or so years ago. Hope you are well. I was the guy from France with a Mesa Boogie MkIII that you fixed on the spot for me. Thanks again if it's you!!
@@redduketeleman hi, it’s me! Nice to hear from you. Stay safe and keep picking!
@@LeeJHodgson You too mate...thanks...I'm still working my way through your Hot Country and Brad's Nervous Breakdown!
Where was the high gain when you played the BE100 DLX ???
Well done Jack!
Do you prefer SLO 30 or the Mezzabarba Skill?
I owned the skill 30 and it was very generic sounding reminded me of a Hughes and ketter tubemiester that could be had for 1/4 the price. Gain was very smooth and boring no character. Tried an slo 30 in store and it was the real deal thick as all hell and heaps of character so now that I'm looking for 100 watt to buy im leaning towards the slo by quite a bit based on my experience with the 2 smaller versions
Excellent.
What pickups are in that Gibson? The link doesn't say. Custombuckers???
COOL SHIRT!!!
How can i get one?
everyone who demos this amp goes straight to 80's rock sound ,, or super clean to heavy,, does it not do a good blues sound ? ,,, slight break up ?...i would like to hear that ,,, i would like to see what the knobs do as well ,,, dialing back the overdrive . you know the versatility of the amp. you did a good video ,,, its just i want to know more before i drop $4000 ..... you have some really great amps there,,,how does it stack up to the friedmans ?
Warren Haynes of gov't mule loves this amp. Listen to all the first albums for great blues SLO tones. Same for Clapton. 24 nights is a good example. Soldano Clapton is best Clapton
Who buys soldano 4000€ for blues man come on….
Im glad Upchurch is working in this economy.
What’s that tv yellow dc junior all the way to the left?
another alien sounding one pretty good man...unknownnn 220k metal film on v1 and 1.5k carbon...idk some junk bypass...Sus'con suncon thing lol. idk it's alrighttt sounding ok and quiettt with the Bugleboy.
That strat sounded un real my god 😮
ive seen lynch use one of these mick im not sure of scorps deffinately not sure who else i can tell this is not a 1 trick pony but im not into shared eqs though i like seperate flavors 1 clean 1 middle 1 high gain ive heard little bits about this legendary amp great playing whatever floats youre boat if i like it i use it same for you cherio mates rock on
more tele's and strats please ! 😎
Can u get any feedback out of this Amp?
Never understood the hype. From clean to drive it sounds shrill in the top end, always. Always love Jack's tones. This reminded me why Ive never liked the SLO100. I do thank Mike's cascading gain circuit copied by Mesa, peavey, and every Modern hi-gain amp, but on other amps than the SLO100.
Cheers!
Sounds incredible! Are these screen shots accurate settings for each clip section? The clean section shows the clean/crunch switch on crunch and preamp on 6? And I don’t think I get that much gain on the overdrive channel with the preamp on 3 on my HR25 which is supposed to be the same preamp design as the SLO.
Matt Litkey Struggling to get a good tone out of it? 😂
Jake E. Lee - that's my kind of metal tone!
Killer amp
Someone's a Nuno Bettencourt fan
Gary Moore used the SLO-100. At least for a little while. I always liked his tone better on Soldano. Impossible to know if he was using a customized one.
Although Gary would have sounded like Gary on absolutely every amplifier.
Gary had a minimal pedal board, I always wondered why Marshall never built a Signature Gary Moore amp.
Pisk Six fairly sure Moore’s Soldano was not “modded” for tone.
Yes he used them in about 89 on tour, awesome
@@nevusofota Although he used Marshall 4 by 12" EV speakers with them. He seemed to have used an HR+ too.
I think his pairing was Soldano was more an endorsement opportunity than a driven choice from him.
@@billyboy65leath84 If I had to give up on my Lonestar, I would probably consider a Soldano SLO-100, sound wise. But 100 watts head + cabinet seem to no longer be relevant. Most of the gigs I am playing have a decent sound system, I am thinking to downsize.
@@p6x2 there were no Endorsements. Anyone who owned a Soldano paid the same price as everyone else.
Sounds like Scorpions in the 80’s.
Sounds like a pretty good thing to me!
I thought I'm gonna see a BOSS KATANA shill here..thank God...😄...man they're fucking everywhere
5150ii is my amp for life :)
I like the new SLO 100 but theres a difference compared to the original, the original has this laser precision/articulation in the mid range and high end, hard to explain but you know when you hear a soldano.
There are some differences in the circuit as well. The loop was moved, which means a tube (2 stages, one normal one cathode follower) now does some compression after the master volume and not sequentially as before.
The original SLO (without loop) was in fact more like this one, but without the loop. If I remember soldano has the loop bypassed in the 2020 version. So play that configuration.
The classic SLO that most people rave about is 5 12ax7 and different than this one.
And they changed the classic 39K resistor of the third stage to 33K. Why? Probably because they wanted some more harmonics in that stage. They maybe lost some with the tube of the loop going after the master. 33K is slightly gainier and hairier than the 39K.
So now they cloned the hughes and kettner triamp preamp, which was a rectifier preamp clone with some mods which was an SLO clone with some mods etc.
And they use a different layout and different transformers.
TH-cam will get it's A/B with the old one, but to be fair you can't easily compare them for accuracy, I mean even excluding the differences you should get the same tubes in tehm with the same order to get the same eq...
One day...
🎼🎼👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Matt pikes favorite..
Bark at da moon.
Excellent video and demo! but I feel like you dragged the video waay to long than needed..
No offense but I don't think it sounds that good, maybe it's the cab.
5 grand? I don’t care how good it sounds 🙅♂️
You can get these tones from a Marshall jvm.
@Spiral Architect tell me were you live fuck stain we'll see whos the loser.
@Spiral Architect last time you slagged me off you didnt give me your address chicken shit. Why dont you give me a clue about who you are so i can find you?
Darren, shut up and get back to your Line 6 Spyder
@@rickyricardo9917 never owned one thanks.
@@rickyricardo9917 is that your actual name Or is it a joke name?
it's quiet I guess massive gainnn coming outta this one...but nooo that's alittle too hairyyyy tho me lol.
sounding like a little tighter one again...or splawn or something...probably more splawn like. need to go tighter new speakers is some flubber ones for sure.
or it's that tighttt nerddddyyy like one...so much chip distortion and coloration and chain lol.
telling ya get that shit on the floor so bad and staged it is an alien etc lol.
WOW 4 GRAND wtf,,hard pass
PCB OR PTP?
The amps have Always been PCB. From L.A. to Seattle and back again.
This doesn’t matter. Pots not direct mounted to board.
I only play in bars and beer gets spilled on my gear so PCB amps ax fx kemper and solid state gear is recycling after a beer episode
It's not SMT. More in common with a hardwired PCB JMP.
pcb but the newer boards are revised and much nicer then the old ones were also they went with white solder mask now
Too much talking...
Too much talking pal…
Thanks for the demo dude, sounds awesome. Just curious how loud it was when you recorded the video. Looks like the preamp is three and the master is 3 1/2. Was that completely ripping your head off, or would you say that’s a good volume for a band?