SOLDANO SLO 100 - Does It Live Up To The Hype?

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In today's video, Paul Drew from The Studio Rats is checking out the Soldano SLO 100. this guitar amp was my dream amp back in the early 90's and since SOLDANO re-released in 2019 I've been excited to try it.
This amp was used by all my guitar heroes from Gary Moore to Mark Knopfler to Eric Clapton as well as a bunch of 80s shredders, and became one of the most versatile amps of its time due to it having fantastic cleans and awesome high gain tones.
To check out our TONEX Captures of the SOLDANO SLO 100
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To check out our QUAD CORTEX Captures of the SOLDANO SLO 100
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Link below to buy an SOLDANO SLO 100
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Link below to buy an SOLDANO SLO 30
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Link below to buy an SOLDANO SLO Overdrive pedal
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Here is what SOLDANO say about the SLO 100
Soldano’s Super Lead Overdrive 100 (SLO-100) set the standard for modern high-gain amplification. It all started in 1987, when Seattle-native Mike Soldano built one of the first high-gain amp heads with searing harmonics and the perfect balance of gain, sustain and tight touch response. Soon after Mike moved to Los Angeles and displayed his revolutionary amp at the 1987 NAMM show. It didn’t take long for the industry to take notice. The now legendary SLO-100 had arrived!
The SLO completely changed what players came to expect from amps. They shelved their old amps and replaced them with this foot-switchable 100-watt monster, loaded with player-friendly features. While the amp’s drive channel found it backing up renowned rock guitarists like Mick Mars (Motley Crue), Warren de Martini (Ratt), and Howard Leese (Heart), its clear and tactile clean channel and bluesy crunch also made the SLO the first choice for non-metal stalwarts, such as Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Warren Haynes, Gary Moore and Lou Reed to name a few. Today, the amp’s tone and steadfast reliability remains a go-to for thousands of guitarists around the world.
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
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@cyanidejunkie 6 дней назад

1:30 hilarious. You Sir, have a fantastic sense of humor. Had to comment before I even finished watching. Lol.

@jimmccall8030 6 дней назад

I finally bought one a year ago and it’s my favorite amp overall - best lead tones I’ve ever gotten

@LucasMastropasqua 3 дня назад

The SLO will always be one of my top 5 favs! They added DC Heaters to these new generation amps which for the non-amp tech savvy means a potentially less noisy amp.

@tyroneenglish8396 6 дней назад

It’s amazing. But at that price, it should play the riffs for me.

@danpena7922 2 дня назад

It better clean the house and cut my yard too!

@mendelrocks 6 дней назад

Clean tones not expected when clicking on this video, but then again, you are Paul and found us some sparkle before the wicked!

@anmolatwal 5 дней назад

Exactly, all other videos have been so focused on the gain channel, rightfully so, that they ignored the clean channel, and made it sound plinky and generic... This sounds brilliant!!

@limpeacock573 5 дней назад

Great demo! Thanks Paul.

@speedyeg-guitars-playlists4800 2 дня назад

When I watch live performances at festivals or in halls, I usually see Marshall. In studios, depending on the style of music, I sometimes see Fender or FOX. The German brand ENGL is rarely seen and when it is, it is usually with European or German bands. ENGL has been around since 1983. They are not as expensive as Soldano, but they are not cheap either.

@KajHeGeHaggman 6 дней назад

Lovely cleans!

@deddiev1718 6 дней назад

What makes many of the amps he tries sound similar is either the same speaker or IR

@garywaddell6309 6 дней назад

Gotta be my fav amp, sounds awesome with all of your guitars Paul! Crunch tone is amazing and with your Les Paul, oh my ❤

@jayboy6895 6 дней назад

Hi Paul. You’re certainly the big brother of the family now mate. Congratulations. Well deserved. Sounds bad ass. All you need is a Tyler studio elite. You really need to check out the series parallel switching. You’re welcome to use mine. Enjoy

@irishplucker 5 дней назад

Sounds great...i am running my 2001 SLO through 2 Marshall 4x12 Cabs...its a sobering experience...the harmonic richness of the gain really flatters your playing and pushes you to play better....iconic amp.

@Ronscoolthings 6 дней назад

These tones from this amp sound heavenly.

@timnatrajan 6 дней назад

Would love an SLO 100. This is the best tone I’ve heard from you on this channel. I once played one in a store about 20 years ago and it was the best thing I’d ever heard!

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

Cool, thanks!

@petergedd9330 6 дней назад

The dynamics sound lovely, snappy, silky top end and zero flubber on the bottom, lots of sustain on the overdrive without mud, deffo a game changer. I can definitely hear Room 335 in there, it's got that silvery sound on the tops and a beautiful tension in the string that you can control, lovely!!

@mattsefton 6 дней назад

Sounds amazing as it always did. Would love to hear it side by side with my 1987 Jubilee

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

Ooh nice!

@robertlevasseur8896 5 дней назад

I would too!

@tymanngruter1808 3 дня назад

And that with a custom shop strat...... iff you will know how heaven SOUNDS? Goosebumps all over! ♨️♨️♨️

@hanovergreen4091 6 дней назад

Using same settings, my Neural SLO100 sounds the same. Good fidelity/reality check. Thank You for the walkthrough on an amp I will touch but love the sound of Best Regards and Best Wishes!

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

Glad it was helpful!

@BenjaminGoude 6 дней назад

Reminds me of an American Thunderverb. The high gain sounds have always been lackluster to me, but I also love my 5150 and a tighter tone. The low gain sounds of this amp are surprisingly really nice and smooth though!

@rwest8905 6 дней назад

Waiting to hear that Strat in the high gain mode. Thanks.

@cwness4587 6 дней назад

Don't regret getting my SLO 30 and it's not cheap. If I want more room I just add my Fryette Power Station. Cooking little setup.

@Chucksguitargeekery 6 дней назад

All I know is that with every modeler I’ve used through the years, whenever one had a SLO100 model it was always my favorite.

@deddiev1718 6 дней назад

There are less expensive hidden gems out there. It’s a lifelong journey

@chrisw5742 6 дней назад

WANGS?

@speedyeg-guitars-playlists4800 2 дня назад

The only time I saw a Band using Soldano was Blondie (Rapture) in 2018 and the first time the drummer playing in a plexiglass booth. To me a sign of perfection on the highest level. I was not surprised. That's Debbie and Blondie. They do it that way or they don't give a live performance at all. The Video is in my channel.

@ThomasOnGuitar 3 дня назад

The QC Captures sound great man! 👍To anyone thinking about buying these. They sound stellar.😎

@TheStudioRats 3 дня назад

Glad you like them! Cheers

@TheRodge2112 6 дней назад

Can't speak to the amp, but the pedal is very nice! A lot of upper harmonics and character and cleans up like a champ. Good stuff, Paul!

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

Yeah the pedal is fantastic

@robertaustin1945 6 дней назад

The amp that slays them all

@MadMagicPaul 6 дней назад

Are the Tonex captures with or without a cab? What cab / IR did you use in this video please? Sounded amazing!

@bodefosho 6 дней назад

The SLO-30 is absolutely brilliant, the same amp in a more usable package IMHO.

@vonbleak101 6 дней назад

100% Agree - These days you really dont need a 100w beast of an amp... The 30w version is more than enough for most people these days...

@markspin4596 5 дней назад

And made in China...

@TheStudioRats 5 дней назад

@markspin4596 no it made in USA

@markspin4596 5 дней назад

@@TheStudioRats News to me.

@user-bf5zd2wt1v 5 дней назад

@@markspin4596Why would you think it was made in China, they have always been made in the USA

@deddiev1718 6 дней назад

You can go Round and Round with this Amp

@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 6 дней назад

It sounds big.

@deltafit 6 дней назад

Sounds great. Are you using an IR for this recording? If so do you mind saying which one?

@yairraz9894 6 дней назад

What speaker cab did you use for this demo?

@AzaelVI 3 дня назад

Run a eq in the effects loop (I recommend the Mesa Boogie 5 band pedal) and an 808 TS in the front on the amp and listen to it go from a great sound to OMG.

@midnight4u 3 дня назад

Part of the original hype or sound (whichever one prefers) of the SLO back in the day was due to the custom wound DeYoung transformers. Which at the time when the company was still owned by Mike Soldano and the amps where hand-wired were only available on the SLO model. I couldn't tell from the video, do these new models still have the DeYoung?

@hometycoon1 4 дня назад

Any suggestions for the best cab or IR with this amp please?

@31415926535ism 5 дней назад

You won’t be playing that cranked in the same room as the speakers! My original nearly deafened me! What an amp, you must experience it in a stack.

@HEZ63 5 дней назад

I preferred the SL-60, while I completely dislike the SL-30 or the Astro. But, in direct comparison a regular JVM 410H would be my first choice much more, not only, but also because of the price.

@DigitalViperGaming 6 дней назад

I want to play that Strat just one time. :)

@GmanMusicProductions 6 дней назад

The closest I'll ever get to a SLO 100 is the Synergy SLO module. Which gets those OD tones in spades at an affordable price. The clean/crunch channel would be a great pedal platform for sure.

@mad24r45 6 дней назад

Good thing is that will get you very close indeed. I use the module in a Synergy top for years now. The SLO mostly lives from the preamp concept anyways, I can highly recommend the module. *trevia: Synergy and the current Soldanos are made in the same factory. The tech lead behind Synergy and Soldano there was Peter Arends who moved on to Bad Cat in the meantime, not Mike Soldano. The SLO Module and the SLO 100 are coming from the same hands and ears.

@GmanMusicProductions 6 дней назад

@@mad24r45 Agreed, I have the SLO module along with other modules from Synergy and Egnater. Covers all my tone quest.

@darrylweller6143 6 дней назад

How does this compare to the Bloomfield drive? Which would you prefer?

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

Very different beasts. The Bloomfield has way less gain. Both great, just different.

@DeadReckoner День назад

How do you think it compares to a Mark V 90?

@TheConspiracytheory1 6 дней назад

Still the greatest Amp made in my opinion and one i'll never get to have :( i have many marshalls and blackstars and multiple pedals and i still can't get this awesome tone ..... oh well back to the dream i guess

@vonbleak101 6 дней назад

Not sure if you need the 100w version these days - But yeah Soldano are the best, period haha...

@deddiev1718 6 дней назад

Paul you should get a Tyler

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

You’re not the first person to say that.

@Casinofire1 5 дней назад

If only guitar players would grow a pair and play loud tube amps again!

@daviddixon7326 6 дней назад

How would you rate that vs the MezzaBarba Skill 30 you demo’d not too long ago?

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

The Mezzabarba had more gain and if I’m honest, just a good as the Soldano.

@SluggerStark 6 дней назад

I had an early 90's SLO 100 and also owned a Mezzabarba Trinity 100 a couple years ago. You can definitely hear the Soldano influence in the Mezzabarba, but it is a bit more modern in voicing, more gain and tighter. The SLO is a bit more open, punchier and had more "give" in the feel department.

@azharkhan8796 6 дней назад

Still no Satriani riffs, Paul? 😅

@zachtheguitarmaniac 5 дней назад

Every amp you demo just sounds the same pretty much with varying degrees of gain. You seem to dial them in pretty similar when going for what you want to hear in your head. Makes sense, and my only observation is that your tones usually sound very "close mic'd"... so give your sounds a dose of a good room plugin and add some depth and sense of space. If you are using the same IR's for most of your demos... also try varying them. In my experience... If you have amps of the same "type" ...be it 6L6, EL34, 6V6, etc. and compare them all through the same recorded cabinet.... you can get them to sound almost the same really. The commonality of the cabinet and tube type between them can really make them redundant sound wise. Same with IR's as physical cabinets.

@italoop7850 5 дней назад

Oh yes! AxeFX and Kemper MY ASS!!!!

@satch4u3 6 дней назад

I thought that I read somewhere that the SLO-100 was loosely based on and inspired by a Dual Rectifier

@oioi909 6 дней назад

The Rectifier is a copy of the SLO with a different power section. SLO 1987 - Rectifier 1992

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

I’ve tried rectifiers and they don’t sound like this. But yes I’ve that as well.

@satch4u3 6 дней назад

@@oioi909Ahh I stand corrected. Had it backwards!

@zachtheguitarmaniac 5 дней назад

No. It's the other way around... the Mesa Dual Rectifier preamp is almost identical to the SLO... it's in the power amp where Mesa cheapened out/deviated... and in the end, also what gives the recto it's different tone.

@markusm.8302 6 дней назад

I guess many are asking themselves the question, whether the SLO-30 is enough for them

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

Absolutely, many people say its just as good.

@Varone26 6 дней назад

If it’s a one all be all solution, it’s worth the price considering it covers everything. You won’t need any other amp. But really, majority of people only need a SLO30. 100 watts for home use or recording is pointless.

@ivicapavlovic3879 6 дней назад

Nice dynamics but I do not understand why it is so expensive. I was ready to buy one in the ninties but somebody told me then tha they usually sound very different and when try one and love, buy that unit, otherwise, yeah you know what I mean,….

@Johnny-oy9fh 4 дня назад

Turn it up to 7 on the master and wail....that's what it's for....

@mrnorbotron3308 6 дней назад

8:13 "Mesaba" ?

@claudiopetucco 6 дней назад

mezzabarba

@jjdubois6101 6 дней назад

What pickups are in that strat?

@TheStudioRats 6 дней назад

They are ancho Pablano

@danpena7922 2 дня назад

Get the Nueral sim.. It's just as good and only. 100 bucks and 50 on sale! Fact! Unless you want to spend 4 grand plus tax. Of course if you have the coin and that's your thing. Go for it! It's great looking at it in you bedroom whilst you are jamming with a nice wig on. :) Hey! Doctors and Lawyers need amps too!

@user-by6eb6zo7g 4 дня назад

It is a great amp, but I don't know if lives up to 'god like' hype guitar influencers and corksniffers claim. I've owned and SLO and lucky 13, fantastic amps, but the "Best AMP EVER" talk annoys me to no end when it comes down to a use base and preference of tone. You sound great with it though!

@curtspoerer4424 6 дней назад

This amp has to be played thru a cab not a load box and ir’s . There is a whole other experience thru a cab. And yes I owned one and an SLO30 so I know all too well…

@toliskoskinas 6 дней назад

Back in '86 (I think), Mike thought "what if I use the best available components and build this amp that doesn't really copy an effin Marshall / Fender ?" And he made it. I had one and it was a religious experience. I am really happy for you Paul, please stay hydrated and nourished while you're on this gorgeous honeymoon phase 😄🤩🎸🎸🎸

@Ca_milo_G 6 дней назад

mmm NO!! for that price go to original

@Johnny-oy9fh 4 дня назад

Yep....used to be my dream amp 30 years ago...totally unusable now sadly

@TheCSteve 6 дней назад

this amp is cool , but 4000 dollar is too much .. even my car i lower priced 🤣

@martinopinto6323 5 дней назад

Listen this is a great amp, but Idk, I never liked his tone, it has that aggressive midrange bite that makes it sound like a cheap multi fx.. I'm sorry, it's just my hot take😂