This has been my dream amp for years. I tought i would never be able to use one because i live in an appartement, but now they make it recording friendly and with IR options. Awesome. Still can't afford it but it's my dream amp even more now !
@blackorbit416 - I wouldn't say better. But they are similar, and the Revv would be just a little bit more affordable. It's nice to have options, I will say the purple channel on the G20 is very different, it doesn't sound like anything else, it has its own unique character. The soldano does have 3 channels compared to the G20's 2 channels.
Thanks Fluff! Really great review and a clear and informed explanation of the amp and how it works. Also, really liked the screen with you, the actual amp and the software at the same time. Peace
Awesome amp! I hope more affordable amp manufacturers start putting direct outs with optional, interchangable IR's into their builds. I don't want Two Notes to go out of business, but I would be lying if I said I wouldn't ditch my Captor in the blink of an eye if I didn't need it.
@@adeltoral710by your logic, when something is 1999 dollars, you don't just say 2000? Do you also tell people its 9:59 instead of just saying ten o'clock? You must be a riot at parties, bro.
Hey Ryan: Good luck on your surgery and recovery. That said it’s interesting to me that most of the music industry has ignored heavy (including metal) music for quite some time now but most of the electric guitars amps pedals and so on are still being geared towards those styles. Interesting…🤔😎🐝
Gear style of strings ? Geared for style ? Okay hot slick Willy. The oldest cliche is that the user is in control doesn't mean anything to you puppy snoop frog ? And take the tom cruise glasses off he is dead.
Hello and congrats for your presentations...so, you can't use the software for creating different eq tones and presets...neither when you move the various tone gain knobs the software knobs correspond... we can use it only for irs and channel selection...right?
Great tone overall...doesn't have the drive that the new SLO series have by a long shot. But for modern hard rock bordering into metal it's a great sound. I'd stick with a SLO but maybe one day they'll throw some of this sweet technology into them.
How does this Soldano Astro-20 watts compare with the EVH 5150iii 50 watts? Next question: in a live gig at a medium-size pub with a loud drummer and NO mic on my speakers, could this Soldano Astro-20 watts keep up with a loud drummer in terms of volume?
How close can you get this to some SLO-30 tones? For almost $1,000 less with some additional features it might be worth turning my focus from shopping for an SLO towards the Astro.
The speaker outs will be a powered output like we expect from any normal guitar amp. In HP42's video, he showed the XLR signal volume is connected to the channel volumes, and you also have a 1/4" out for headphones. It looks like the speaker outs and the XLR can both be used at the same time. You don't need a guitar cabinet connected to use the XLR (from the manual: CAB-LESS OPERATION - To use the amp without a cabinet, completely remove ANY connections from all of the speaker jacks and set the MASTER volume to zero.)
@@Andy_Yates hey, thanks for your reply. But it’s still not clear for me if I can use this amp with passive FRFR cabinet or not. I assume speakers out will bypass IR section.
Soldano amps are generally designed to have the power section as transparent as possible, so if that carries on here, it's unlikely to make a lot of difference. However, since it seems silent recording is an option here, it's got to be routing the output to some kind of load, at least when there's no cab attached.
Ok so gain 1 and gain 2 are NOT gain stages...they are slots to hold the galaxy type in them. So basically I can have two EXACT galaxy and sounds in both Gain 1 and Gain 2 slots if I wanted. I get it now.
For $1999.99 at Sweetwater + sales tax there's no way I could justify this amp versus a PRS Archon, EVH 5150, Peavey 6505, Orange OR30, Mesa Mark V, etc. I just don't know how Soldano survives at their price point. The amp sounds great but there are so, so many viable alternatives at $2000 and under.
If you want to record any of those direct you're out at least another $500 for a Captor X (which arguably might get better results but is more gear to manage). Or a Mark V really that much cheaper?
I have a 20w mark V, 6505MH, tonex, captor x and a good range of neural and amplitude plugins... This new Soldano really ticks a lot of boxes for me. If you buy second hand you can build up a nice collection over time mate. Amps like this are very hard to get in Australia as well, I'm inbetween this, the super kraken mk2 or a Friedman BE as a nice high end amp to pass down to my kids one day. Tube amps are the next vinyl and whilst you wait for them to gain in value you get to chug away on them 🤘
This amp continues to confuse me..and thank you, but god bless ya…you just made it worse. Explain it to me like I’m 5 🤣. Is a galaxy a channel, a preset, or a scene?
Think of Galaxies as options for each channel. Channel 1 is set as the clean channel. Channel 2 can be made into any three of the gain levels (or galaxies). Channel 3 can be made to be any 3 of the gain levels. The gain levels, or galaxies, are blue, purple or red. You can assign channel 2 to be the blue gain level/galaxy and channel 3 can be assigned the red channel. You can assign channels 2 and 3 to have the same gain level if you choose. So both of these channels could be red if you wanted.
This has been my dream amp for years. I tought i would never be able to use one because i live in an appartement, but now they make it recording friendly and with IR options.
Awesome. Still can't afford it but it's my dream amp even more now !
Revv G20 !
@blackorbit416 - I wouldn't say better. But they are similar, and the Revv would be just a little bit more affordable. It's nice to have options, I will say the purple channel on the G20 is very different, it doesn't sound like anything else, it has its own unique character. The soldano does have 3 channels compared to the G20's 2 channels.
This video deserves a part 2 with the amp in play mode, we've only seen the IR's so far, but I'd like to see the amp as an amp in action.
Yup
On our end it would be the same. He would have to mic a cab but the ir does all that and instantly is able to switch to different cabinets
Thanks Fluff! Really great review and a clear and informed explanation of the amp and how it works. Also, really liked the screen with you, the actual amp and the software at the same time. Peace
Great demo!!
20 watt monster! Only thing missing is the snakeskin tolex.
Awesome amp! I hope more affordable amp manufacturers start putting direct outs with optional, interchangable IR's into their builds. I don't want Two Notes to go out of business, but I would be lying if I said I wouldn't ditch my Captor in the blink of an eye if I didn't need it.
Sounds like it'd blend nicely with that Bad Cat Lynx
Always love your reviews bud keep up the great work 👌✊
I like that you mixed it up with LP standard. I think it sounded really good. I love the 20 watt amps that can still kill it!
Awesome presentation as usual! Placed on the gear wish list!
I think calling it less than $2000 at $1999 is a bit misleading haha after tax, you are definitely way over. Seems like a cool amp, though.
Some places have no sales tax, and therefore still under 2k
@@adeltoral710 okay, so for like the tiniest percentage of people, it MIGHT be a single dollar less than 2k.
@@adeltoral710by your logic, when something is 1999 dollars, you don't just say 2000? Do you also tell people its 9:59 instead of just saying ten o'clock? You must be a riot at parties, bro.
Nobody buys for full price. Should be able to get around 17 to 18 hundred from Sweetwater
@@o.phillips2522*_Just because you’re a gluten for deceptive marketing techniques doesn’t mean the rest of us are._*
Like to see a comparison against the Revv G20. Great video as always Ryan!
Hey Ryan: Good luck on your surgery and recovery. That said it’s interesting to me that most of the music industry has ignored heavy (including metal) music for quite some time now but most of the electric guitars amps pedals and so on are still being geared towards those styles. Interesting…🤔😎🐝
Gear style of strings ? Geared for style ? Okay hot slick Willy. The oldest cliche is that the user is in control doesn't mean anything to you puppy snoop frog ? And take the tom cruise glasses off he is dead.
So it’s a Revv G20 without an internal reactive load? I think it sounds better than the Revv, but it costs a whole lot more
It DOES have an internal reactive load according to the Anderton's video.
@@NewPraetorianBluesvery very nice.
@@NewPraetorianBluesah thanks! The first few videos of I saw of it didn’t mention that
@@ItsNotSafe2Swim Yeah no problem! Love the username btw, Veil of Maya fucks.
Seems to be the future of guitar " amps " borrowing from the modeling world to include IR loading and power amp modeling. Well done demo .
Great video, as always!
Hello and congrats for your presentations...so, you can't use the software for creating different eq tones and presets...neither when you move the various tone gain knobs the software knobs correspond... we can use it only for irs and channel selection...right?
Impulse of cabs if it was stereo maybe capable of assigning different impulses from the left of the stereo and the right of it... Idk ?
nice amp and nice riffing bro
Really cool amp
Great tone overall...doesn't have the drive that the new SLO series have by a long shot. But for modern hard rock bordering into metal it's a great sound. I'd stick with a SLO but maybe one day they'll throw some of this sweet technology into them.
Cool!
How does this Soldano Astro-20 watts compare with the EVH 5150iii 50 watts?
Next question: in a live gig at a medium-size pub with a loud drummer and NO mic on my speakers, could this Soldano Astro-20 watts keep up with a loud drummer in terms of volume?
it's nice !!
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Mine gets here tomorrow. Im gonna gig it this weekend.
How close can you get this to some SLO-30 tones? For almost $1,000 less with some additional features it might be worth turning my focus from shopping for an SLO towards the Astro.
3 videos of the Soldano Atro20 by 3 different chanels in my timeline. Why don't brands see that this seems pretty fishy.
I wonder how this would stack up against the soldano avenger 🤔
This vs the Engl Ironball SE ?
I’m using FRFR cabinet with Celestion F12M-150 Triple Cone. Is it possible to send IR signal to cabs or only to XLR output?
The speaker outs will be a powered output like we expect from any normal guitar amp. In HP42's video, he showed the XLR signal volume is connected to the channel volumes, and you also have a 1/4" out for headphones. It looks like the speaker outs and the XLR can both be used at the same time. You don't need a guitar cabinet connected to use the XLR (from the manual: CAB-LESS OPERATION - To use the amp without a cabinet, completely remove ANY connections from all of the speaker jacks and set the MASTER volume to zero.)
@@Andy_Yates hey, thanks for your reply. But it’s still not clear for me if I can use this amp with passive FRFR cabinet or not. I assume speakers out will bypass IR section.
@@pavelmerkulov7417 IR are only active in the DI output, everything else is pure tube analog
@@politoleothanks 🙌 then this amp is no go for me unfortunately 😩
hello may i ask what tunning your using for this demo?
Would love to know If the IR loader is just after the Preamp, or if it has an actual internal load box to get the power amp saturation too.
Soldano amps are generally designed to have the power section as transparent as possible, so if that carries on here, it's unlikely to make a lot of difference. However, since it seems silent recording is an option here, it's got to be routing the output to some kind of load, at least when there's no cab attached.
Anyone know if you can use the XLR DI input without connecting a cab, like you can with Hughes & Kettner heads?
Are impulse responses universal? Can they be used on any device that supports ir?
Yes!
Forgive me if my question is stupid, but as it's an amp with IR, will it burn out if you don't connect it to a speaker box that can handle 20 watts?
Nope there is an internal dummy load, you do not need to connect a speaker cab at all.
@@RiffsAndBeards Thanks 🙏🏻
Does it sound as big as the slo30?
I'm not hearing that from all the videos I've watched.
@@foggyblues13 can’t say i was either, and i have a slo30 but sometimes it’s hard to tell unless you have played the amp in person
@@michaelreilly5067 It wouldn't be smart of them to let it go in SLO territory as that's their legacy amp.
I have this amp and yes it is very very loud and thick
@@foggyblues13oddly enough there's multiple youtube reviews stating the astro is better than the slo 30 in sound as well as features obviously
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Ok so gain 1 and gain 2 are NOT gain stages...they are slots to hold the galaxy type in them. So basically I can have two EXACT galaxy and sounds in both Gain 1 and Gain 2 slots if I wanted. I get it now.
I’m not crazy about the distortion/overdrive tones from Soldano but the clean tones are amazing.
*_Interesting take. The SLO 100 is usually agreed upon to have one of the greatest distortion tones of all time._*
Stock IR's sound pretty bitchin'
2 g's for a 20 watt amp ....must come with a crack rock and a box of brillo pads ...
This vs Engl Fireball 25..
Im beginning to think we wont actually be getting any videos about beards or beard product demos
well it still sounds like a 20 watt head for $2,000 so that's a shame. For $2,000 you can get a lot more bang for your buck.
6V6 gives me doubt
A once great brand…
For $1999.99 at Sweetwater + sales tax there's no way I could justify this amp versus a PRS Archon, EVH 5150, Peavey 6505, Orange OR30, Mesa Mark V, etc. I just don't know how Soldano survives at their price point. The amp sounds great but there are so, so many viable alternatives at $2000 and under.
If you want to record any of those direct you're out at least another $500 for a Captor X (which arguably might get better results but is more gear to manage).
Or a Mark V really that much cheaper?
They survive by doctors, lawyers, and any other career that pays a boat load of money.
I have a 20w mark V, 6505MH, tonex, captor x and a good range of neural and amplitude plugins... This new Soldano really ticks a lot of boxes for me. If you buy second hand you can build up a nice collection over time mate.
Amps like this are very hard to get in Australia as well, I'm inbetween this, the super kraken mk2 or a Friedman BE as a nice high end amp to pass down to my kids one day. Tube amps are the next vinyl and whilst you wait for them to gain in value you get to chug away on them 🤘
holy hell, no reason for this to be so expensive
If you can make it cheaper you should start an amp company
FLUFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soldano ASTRO 20 or KSR Orion 45 ????????????????????????????????????????????????
This amp continues to confuse me..and thank you, but god bless ya…you just made it worse.
Explain it to me like I’m 5 🤣.
Is a galaxy a channel, a preset, or a scene?
Think of Galaxies as options for each channel. Channel 1 is set as the clean channel. Channel 2 can be made into any three of the gain levels (or galaxies). Channel 3 can be made to be any 3 of the gain levels. The gain levels, or galaxies, are blue, purple or red. You can assign channel 2 to be the blue gain level/galaxy and channel 3 can be assigned the red channel. You can assign channels 2 and 3 to have the same gain level if you choose. So both of these channels could be red if you wanted.
It doesn’t sound very tight.
Boomer amp
SolDAMNos are good amps for blues and jazz, Marshall still makes the biggest baddest amps for rockin out. Just sayin
*_What Uncle Marvin says while falling through the door after getting back from the bar at 3:00 AM._*
big hair studio?
For 2 thousand dollars it fucking better sound good.NOT MY MONEY MAN.