This guys SLO100 MKII clips sound excellent....

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ZEN Amps said:
You do get a somewhat cool flanger effect when the guy moves the phone around the room though!
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This made me laugh.

I agree with your take on the phone recordings. Another head scratcher for me is people who post their opinions about someone's tone after listening on their iPhones or their iPads.
 
The SLO sounds like it has the gain right down around 2-3 so the bright cap is doing lots of work. Possibly boosted or high output pickups and greenbacks
 
ZEN Amps said:
I think the issue is that guys inexperienced with recording hear a mic'd clip and complain 'it doesn't sound like that in the room'. Of course it doesn't, but neither do room mics or phone recordings, contrary to 'logic'. For starters our ears are vastly dissimilar to microphones of any sort, and room recordings are capturing the ugliness of your room acoustics, massive EQ curve and phone compression as much as the amp. You do get a somewhat cool flanger effect when the guy moves the phone around the room though!

Whilst there are exceptions, 99% of great recorded guitar tones are via a close mic, so anything else just sounds wrong to me. Maybe if you spend a lot of time on YouTube you adjust to the magnificent tone of phone recordings, I don't know. As I said, really perplexing.
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It is really perplexing. I only do phone clips for like, my instagram, like I said above, and for some reason people seem to be much more impressed by those ultra compressed phone clips than my meticulously close miced full mixes, and it makes absolutely no sense to me.

I think you're right, everyone is just used to phone clips on youtube, and so thats what they think "in the room" sounds like. Even though especially for my main high gain amp, in my opinion, phone clips sound absolutely dull compared to the amp in the room.
 
psychodave said:
Here to be the naysayer, but the SLO isn’t an amp for me. The first clip didn’t do it for me. It didn’t suck, but not a tone I would look for.
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Yeah i got other ways to spend $4500. Ive got the Grail already.
 
psychodave said:
Here to be the naysayer, but the SLO isn’t an amp for me. The first clip didn’t do it for me. It didn’t suck, but not a tone I would look for.
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Dude, you’ve made it abundantly clear that you don’t like SLOs. Lol. Like clockwork in nearly every SLO thread. It’s ok though. Your Marshalls are some of the best I’ve ever heard. You get a pass.
 
Clips sound pretty good, but I am done with owning one of these amps ever again…
I owned a 1992 SLO 100 and tried everything to get it sound the way I wanted it to, different Pre/Power tubes, different speaker cabinets etc.
I sold it in two months.
The loop was utter crap and virtually unuseable, but I understand they have fixed that problem which it’s a definite plus for the new ones.
A few years ago Mike Fortin was doing some work on one of my amplifiers and while he had my Marshall Superlead, he gave me his older SLO 100 to try out, I gave it a second chance and played for about 15 minutes, this is when I discovered the SLO ‘channel bleed’ problem, and shut it off and never touched it again until I took it back to Mike…
A friend of mine has the newer one and says it’s a vast improvement over the originals, but still, there will be those who sniff the corks of ‘older is better’😑
 
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Love the SLO. That said, I still have to have a Marshall cause that's what I grew up on. The SLO is one of the few high-gain amps I bond with, for whatever reason. I don't compare it to anything else.
Quick clip of when I got my Clapton Strat-

 
Mr. Willy said:
Dude, you’ve made it abundantly clear that you don’t like SLOs. Lol. Like clockwork in nearly every SLO thread. It’s ok though. Your Marshalls are some of the best I’ve ever heard. You get a pass.
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If I have it’s not on purpose. I love lots of recordings people have done with the SLO. It’s an iconic amp.
 
psychodave said:
If I have it’s not on purpose. I love lots of recordings people have done with the SLO. It’s an iconic amp.
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It’s not that I don’t like the SLO as much as I don’t see the glaring improvements over a cranked 5150/5150 II. If you’ve ever had both at volume I just prefer the 5150 series myself and save a wad of cash.

The SLO had its place but hasn’t aged well compared to Marshall’s IMHO. I think if I had one with a 33k slope resistor and voiced for EL34s I’d get along with it better.
 
psychodave said:
If I have it’s not on purpose. I love lots of recordings people have done with the SLO. It’s an iconic amp.
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I hear you. It has a different feel and tone than a lot of amps. I get why people might not dig it. It’s the pickiest amp I’ve ever played, and it does have to be used in a particular configuration to get the goods, imho. This is a big pita sometimes. I’ve found, for me, it works best in a wet/dry scenario (yes, the old loops are not good), with a combination of G12-65 speakers and Redbacks. I don’t like how the channel bleed effects both channels. I liked the crunch channel, but the OD sounds much better when the Normal channel is set to clean. These things are big pita. But I freaking love that OD tone when it’s at volume. Both the SLO AND the G12-65’s turn to magic somewhere around 4 on the MV.
 
SQUAREHEAD said:
Did Mick Mars use an SLO on the 1994 album with John Corabi?
He got some great tones on that album👍
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Yes, but he also used several for layers. While the SLO is all over that album, there’s a lot a layering happening, so it probably isn’t the best reference for straight up SLO tone. That album with Corabi is criminally underrated.
 
Mr. Willy said:
Yes, but he also used several for layers. While the SLO is all over that album, there’s a lot a layering happening, so it probably isn’t the best reference for straight up SLO tone. That album with Corabi is criminally underrated.
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Absolutely bro… I agree 100%, that album is just killer👍
 
It was my first SLO back in 14 when I decided I would at least try to boost everything, from then on......up to that point I only used an EQ pedal to boost my Jubilee, which was my main gig amp. Any other higher gain amp I tried, nah they didn't need a boost so why try? Well, that SLO sounded good but not great. I was perplexed; all these great recordings and I couldn't get anywhere near that tone. I was so-so on it....until I said wth and kicked on the EQ pedal...blown the F away. It sounded like the best modded Marshall I'd ever played. Just fantastic. After that EVERY amp got boosted lol.
Over time I learned I liked other amps a little better but I could totally see grabbing one again. I do think the newer ones are darker by a little since the tone I heard from one, with the same EQ settings I got from the Soldano forum was far darker than what I got out of it.
But, if you love the bloom of a GREAT power section the SLO is up there with the best...Wizards, Vintage Marshalls..etc
 
As the owner of a brand new SLO I'd say that for the OP's vids, you're hearing a lot more of the pedals than you are of the amp. It's a phenomenal rock amp for sure, with an amazing power section and a legit loop. If anyone wants to try one I'm going to let mine go, it's only a few weeks old.
 
not feeling the tone or his playing
sorry i tried and i have no inherent hate or experience with any slo action
 
CarlF said:
Love the SLO. That said, I still have to have a Marshall cause that's what I grew up on. The SLO is one of the few high-gain amps I bond with, for whatever reason. I don't compare it to anything else.
Quick clip of when I got my Clapton Strat-

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That was epic
 
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