Soldano

[hunter]

I  <3 SOLDANO

Wow that's a lot of Seattle Iron there. Great rig, I'm sure it does give you a lot of pleasure.

Maybe I should sell my other amps and get an SLO after all ...

[FELINEGUITARS]

The Soldano /Caswell preamp with the motorised knobs is very nice!
I ignored buying one from a friend

[IntenseJim]

I was sponsored on Peavey gear, played a 5150 for 12 years! Got to try out a lot of rigs, soldano, bogner, diezel, engl, mesa.... I preferred my 5150 over everything I tried until I played a Krank Revolution! I was completely blown away and had to buy one.  Been very happy with it for the past three years.

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I also have a 5150 combo.  The Peavey and the Soldano SLO sound quite different to my ears.
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[Dmoney]

I was sponsored on Peavey gear, played a 5150 for 12 years! Got to try out a lot of rigs, soldano, bogner, diezel, engl, mesa.... I preferred my 5150 over everything I tried until I played a Krank Revolution! I was completely blown away and had to buy one.  Been very happy with it for the past three years.

I havea 5150 combo. It and the Soldano sound quite different to my ears.

i was gonna say something about this too.
i used a 6505 for a long time, but it hissed like a b*tch and i always ran with a noise suppressor and found certain things annoying. the eq a little unresponsive, the terrible clean channel, the fizzy distortion which is pretty much unusable when it gets cranked...

the Avenger i have sounds clear throught the range of gain, and i dont have a problem with noise at all, and i gave up using the noise suppressor. the Soldano is in a league of its above the 5150 for sure. from what ive heard id go Soldano, Bogner or Diezel over Krank.

[IntenseJim]

I borrowed a friend's Bogner 20th Anniv XTC for a week.  Great amp but I prefer my Soldano SLO. Just a matter of tastes.

[Copperhead]

Just a matter of tastes.

Agree.
I liked the Shiva cleans w/reverb  but the dirt channel was not doing it for me at all. Hated rectumfriers all the way around.

[Ribboz]

I  <3 SOLDANO

Cheers man, that is nice!

Im sorry I couldn't take reading all the posts of this thread. But, people who think Soldano amps are noisy, you have bad setups/rigs. I have had 2/3 of their amps, and played the rest. Even when they were cranked, they were still silent. Seriouslly, they are dead silent.

[Catalyst77]

I was sponsored on Peavey gear, played a 5150 for 12 years! Got to try out a lot of rigs, soldano, bogner, diezel, engl, mesa.... I preferred my 5150 over everything I tried until I played a Krank Revolution! I was completely blown away and had to buy one.  Been very happy with it for the past three years.

I havea 5150 combo. It and the Soldano sound quite different to my ears.

I heard that the 5150 combos and heads were actually completely different amps!

[Dmoney]

I was sponsored on Peavey gear, played a 5150 for 12 years! Got to try out a lot of rigs, soldano, bogner, diezel, engl, mesa.... I preferred my 5150 over everything I tried until I played a Krank Revolution! I was completely blown away and had to buy one.  Been very happy with it for the past three years.

I havea 5150 combo. It and the Soldano sound quite different to my ears.

I heard that the 5150 combos and heads were actually completely different amps!

I dunno, i think there are differences but they are pretty much the same. I think I stumbled onto to stuff about both the head and combo when looking into adding the adjustable bias mod to my 6505. then again i might be wrong. was a while ago

[Bird]

I tried out a Soldano and it was quiet as can be. A friend of mine described it as a Marshall without the noise. All the components are very high end so if it's that noisy there's a problem.

[Ribboz]

A few capacitors and resisters, and you got a completely different tone in any amp. Its the design that makes people say they are similar. Honestly I have always thought of the 5150 as a knock off.

[Dmoney]

A few capacitors and resisters, and you got a completely different tone in any amp. Its the design that makes people say they are similar. Honestly I have always thought of the 5150 as a knock off.

i read the other comment as 5150 heads being different to 5150 combos.

I guess a lot of amps are knock off's of other amps. you start seeing similarities once you start looking closely at schematics.

My Avenger sounds superbly marshall. especially as it has the EL34's rather than 6L6's. my first Avenger was a 6L6 amps, and I much prefer the EL34 version. wonder if KT88's would fit? mwahahah!

[Ribboz]

A few capacitors and resisters, and you got a completely different tone in any amp. Its the design that makes people say they are similar. Honestly I have always thought of the 5150 as a knock off.

i read the other comment as 5150 heads being different to 5150 combos.

I guess a lot of amps are knock off's of other amps. you start seeing similarities once you start looking closely at schematics.

My Avenger sounds superbly marshall. especially as it has the EL34's rather than 6L6's. my first Avenger was a 6L6 amps, and I much prefer the EL34 version. wonder if KT88's would fit? mwahahah!

Well honestly, soldano first got big with gutting marshalls, and his original SLO designs were all built from old Bassman amps. The real funny part is a good majority of amps trace back to fender XD
Mesa boobie (forget the originators name) use to work for fender.
Marshall was originally a rip off fender. XD hilarious
But no one can deny that Soldanos are great amp.

[Dmoney]

A few capacitors and resisters, and you got a completely different tone in any amp. Its the design that makes people say they are similar. Honestly I have always thought of the 5150 as a knock off.

i read the other comment as 5150 heads being different to 5150 combos.

I guess a lot of amps are knock off's of other amps. you start seeing similarities once you start looking closely at schematics.


y'all true. my originally bist up JCM800 is becoming something of a soldano clone.
My Avenger sounds superbly marshall. especially as it has the EL34's rather than 6L6's. my first Avenger was a 6L6 amps, and I much prefer the EL34 version. wonder if KT88's would fit? mwahahah!

Well honestly, soldano first got big with gutting marshalls, and his original SLO designs were all built from old Bassman amps. The real funny part is a good majority of amps trace back to fender XD
Mesa boobie (forget the originators name) use to work for fender.
Marshall was originally a rip off fender. XD hilarious
But no one can deny that Soldanos are great amp.

[IntenseJim]

Mesa boobie (forget the originators name) use to work for fender.

Randall Smith