Mike Soldano/ George Lynch shooting a video! UPDATED

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Kapo_Polenton said:
Wow! What a let down. Another crappy little bees in a box solid state head that sounds fizzy. They should have done a tube pedal. Something inspiring. What I also hate is that as soon as June 2 hits you see all the usual suspects with their SLO MINI! videos hitting youtube. Like a planned amp campaign. Everyone is gonna tell you it is great, nobody will say this thing is a POS.
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You can tell that mike didn’t design this by the way he’s taking about. He said they use the same topology but with ICs instead of tubes. You can’t with ICs. They don’t work the same. You can, and many do with JFETs and that’s likely the design, he’s just selling someone else’s product at this time.
 
japetus said:
I like my 1w Randall Diavlo. It sounds huge through a 4x12 at a low volume. It's still loud enough to feel it cranked. I change tubes in it all the time and it's receptive to tube changes. This amp with a dedicated, footswitchable clean and a better fx loop would sell a lot, I feel. Lynch/Soldano should do something like this instead of toys. This could be done at the $300-349 price point and would appeal more to many.View attachment 121717
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I see your 1 watt amp and am posting back with my 1 watt amp. Granted the Blackheart Killer Ant may not be as good as your Diavlo but it gets some decent raunchy Marshall tones. Note the Warning on the chassis :lol:
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And it sounds bigger via a 4x12 unboosted and boosted (at the end)
 
Would this just sound shitter but louder witha fryette powerstation? Maybe the Blackheart or Marshall 1 or 5 watt would serve up better tones?
 
I think it sounds promising but I'll stick with my lil Yamaha for home use....far more versatile as a recording/practice amp IMO
 
They’re competing with 1W and 5W all tubed markets. It sounds just as thin as any other solidstate design.

If I’m going all solidstate for practice, I’m going FM9 or GX-100 and getting the gamut of effects with the amp models along with it. They also have true gig friendly features like FOH sends and useful pedalboard setups.

That amp should have been debuted before the release of 1W and 5W micro amps. I say they’re about 10 years behind the curve. The only thing that amp does well is serve as a novelty piece.
 
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glpg80 said:
They’re competing with 1W and 5W all tubed markets. It sounds just as thin as any other solidstate design.

If I’m going all solidstate for practice, I’m going FM9 or GX-100 and getting the gamut of effects along with the amp models along with it. They also have true gig friendly features like FOH sends and useful pedalboard setups.

That amp should have been debuted before the release of 1W and 5W micro amps. I say they’re about 10 years behind the curb. The only thing that amp does well is serve as a novelty piece.
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Amen. My old school RP1000 would rip that thing to shreds, and have above average effects, an external loop and multiple switching options. I paid $200 for it. I used to run it years back in stereo through a Carvin TS-100 and 2 1x12's, and it made some jaws drop. This little novelty amps are pointless, and stupid, IMO.
 
Not a fan of anything under 50 watts but YMMV......I have a modded 5 watt single ended cathode biased EL34 Jose/2203 Marshall circuit 1x12 practice amp that is great at lower volumes but all of it's shortcoming reveal themselves when you really turn it up.

All this mini stuff is cool, but it will never reproduce amp tones and feel of large transformers and tubes, they may get close to the tone but the punch and the overall feel will be lacking. I'll be the first in line when a mini truly sounds and feels like a 100 watt amp.

That being said the Blug Iridium/Mercury 100 watt nanotube amos seem to do this by all accounts from the owners but I have yet to actually play one in person.

IMHO there is a difference between the SLO100 and SLO30 for the aforementioned reasons.

I think the EVH iconic 5150 got things right with JFETS for the gain stages and then a full tube power amp section but he amp has full size iron.....but that's just my observation...
 
How many of these mini amps are there now? Bogner, Diezel, Friedman, Soldano?
 
They should do a mini Synergy head that accepts one module; I think that'd be the coolest one by far
 
Just get the Blu amp iridium...
A real amp for under a grand...
With 4 channels and portability...
 
harddriver said:
Not a fan of anything under 50 watts but YMMV......I have a modded 5 watt single ended cathode biased EL34 Jose/2203 Marshall circuit 1x12 practice amp that is great at lower volumes but all of it's shortcoming reveal themselves when you really turn it up.

All this mini stuff is cool, but it will never reproduce amp tones and feel of large transformers and tubes, they may get close to the tone but the punch and the overall feel will be lacking. I'll be the first in line when a mini truly sounds and feels like a 100 watt amp.

That being said the Blug Iridium/Mercury 100 watt nanotube amos seem to do this by all accounts from the owners but I have yet to actually play one in person.

IMHO there is a difference between the SLO100 and SLO30 for the aforementioned reasons.

I think the EVH iconic 5150 got things right with JFETS for the gain stages and then a full tube power amp section but he amp has full size iron.....but that's just my observation...
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The EVH Iconic incorporates analog circuit concepts from James Brown’s prior company he sold off. The dudes an analog design wizard which is why it sounds as big as it does while being hybrid. That said, it still has tubes.

I’d rather have a 5150 Iconic or my 20W 6505MH over a mini all solid state SLO.
 
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