Soldano again, all I can say is "wow"

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BackCrack

BackCrack

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I recently shared with you guys finding a Hollywood-made Soldano SLO halfstack locally. Now it's gotten weird. Yesterday I picked up another Hollywood SLO locally from a completely different original owner, and it's serial number is one digit lower than my other one. Both amps have travelled different roads all over the county for decades. Now they're under the same roof again since being assembled next to each other in '91. And yes, they sound exactly alike. Still pinching myself.

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The SLO loop gets brought up a lot, and in a negative light. The best thing I've found (besides using line level pedals and racks) is a custom Egnater box. It knocks the hot effects send signal down to pedal level, patches in a pedal loop, and then boosts it back up to line level for the SLO's effects return. Bruce made around 100 of these little guys as an internet-only-quickie thing about a decade ago. It's dead quiet with tons of headroom, and I can put whatever I want in the loop.

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The older SLO loop is definitely a little different. However, it's issues are massively overstated online. It works decently if you're running line level effects in the loop and manage them along with channel changing. ...and of course, it works even better if you just pull of the DI out, through the effects, and re-amp through a SS power amp.

The update to the loop makes a lot of sense to do, and it will work better for a lot of people. Still, the complaints on the original tend to be pretty hyperbolic online.
 
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