Should You Buy Solar Guitar? HONEST Review of Solar S2.6W! GIVEAWAY!
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
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I still have the A1.8 and it's sick for all the techy wee-woo-wee-woo and occasional dżyn-dżyn but as I get older I use it less and less. The Evertune for an 8-string behemoth is a real blessing. Definitely a fantastic spec for a guitar like this (and probably outside of Kiesel custom shop the only really high-end one). Still a great guitar but I can't justify owning it and rarely using it.
Just in case - don't need the Rhino 😬 I've fallen in love with Neural Amp Modeler and I probably won't need another ampsim any time soon lol
you traitor ! :D kidding - thanks for the comment mate !
Sick riffs! Brutal! Subscribed
Thank you so much for joining me! Much appreciated ! New video (with this Solar as well) is going to premiere in about few days. Part of a bigger video project I've been working on for last couple days :) See you there !
Awesome tone and playing. Really tight without sounding thin. I have been subscribed but saw this video on Facebook and was amazed at the sound quality. Usually on Facebook, the compression ruins the sound quality but your video sounded good... do you mind sharing some tips on the video output settings?
Hey! Thanks for your kind words ! The rhytm guitar sound is created using a 3 tracks of Rhino with the preset from the link i gave on the description - one full left, one full right and one on the center backed up a lot just to bump the frequencies which were lost by hard panning another two. Guitar bus track is EQ'ed to make a space for the really distorted bass track in the mix - the bass track is Ermin Hamidovic school of blending 3 track with hard compression and EQ - extremally distroted sound of high-passed Parallax/ low passed Pure DI which is making all the sub frequencies boomy/ and hig passed overdriven sound of Aurora Mammoth. This bass bus tracks got a notch around 70HZ to make space in the mix for the sub kick of the GGD invasion - my kick drum is playign in those frequencies so here was the trick to make it all blend in. So the trick to get a good sound of guitar was having a good sound of anything else :) And it's still not perfect ! It's an endless process haha
Solar's 8 string V is my dream guitar.
Nice tune on this demo.
thank you for sharing man! I've bought a S by Solar, and the Matte finish is definitely a thing that we will have to deal with it
Yup that's the sacrifice with ALL the matte guitar finishes :)
First, thank you for honest review of this guitar, I planning to get one myself, and you helped a lot bro.
Second thing is your playing and melody that is right on spot for my ears, great music man and thank you for Aurora preset 😁🤘 I thought I am the only one who love Aurora plugins, but I do and Aurora Rhino and Mr.Hector are badass plugins.
Great video, great work man....thank you....👍🤘💪🍻
Thanks man ! I'm glad to hear it ! There is a new Aurora DSP plugin which is about to be dropped pretty soon and I think you gonna love it :)
@@Cultifact Ohoohoo bro...rly....what amp recreate that new one....give me a glimpse 😁 Thank you for reply man, and again I love your music, got it on bandcamp and in spotify. Stay well my friend 🤘💪🍻
Solar seems to make solid stuff. I wish they had better distribution in the US
Thanks for the comment man! I think that distribution is the weakest point of this brand - it's a young company (still) and I think that sooner or later they'll have to invest in distribution net and artist relation because right now everything rely on Ola fame
I have a Solar S2.6FWA from a few years back, it absolutely rips. I set it up in C Standard for those low chugzz. It's a Neck Thru and my lord is it comfy to play. Used it love once too and she did me pretty perfectly. I've been recommending Solars to aton of people since I got it
Happy to hear it mate! My thoughts are exactly the same. This guitar is doing the job - and to be completly fair at this price point - most of brands doesnt do that job haha
Congrats ! 🏆 Contact me via email mate!
Very nice, I must show this video to guitarist from our band ;) I am rooting for you and I am waiting for more videos from you Łukasz
Much love
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Thanks EVERYONE for sticking out with me ! New video is just around the corner.
I may be blind but I can't find your email for contact
information section of my channel.
I love your guitar playing! Very nice guitar imo :)
White guitar black binding everywhere! The exact opposite from my Ibanez! Great looks!!! Great intro song!!!
The simpler the better man! Thanks for the comment George !
What a riffs man...holy sh...😮 💪👏👏👏
i like the s2,6w it sounds great and looks great
You already know I got a V2.6LH and it rules, had it for just about two years now and never had a problem with staying in tune thankfully
Yours is hell of beast myke ! This is one of the reason I wanted to get mine as well !
Just got my a2.6 baritone fing awesome!
Whish I have baritone man ! This was the guitar I really wanted to get for the demo! Happy to hear you got one - baritones are the OG !
I've been eyeing up Solars for a while. May just have to take the plunge, if I can ever afford a new piece of equipment 😂
I own two and I can safely say their workhorses and well made.
Now that you’ve had it a while how’s the right arm action?
Hello there.. Unfortunately I never had any Solar guitar, but if I had a chance to pick one, it would surely be S1.6 HLB. There's nothing bad in this guitar. From specs to performance I think it's one of the best models Solar made so far.
Thanks for the comment Vladimir - fingers crossed 🤞 that you gonna get that guitar sooner or later. I know that there is nothing better than getting your dream instrument 🎉
I would really like to get the Kirk Windstein Signature Explorer Solar.
yupppppppp! That one is epic!
All of the Solar guitars I have tried are really nice quality...but the new Solar X 1.6FRVinter is perfect! Fishman Pickups, a Floyd and absolutely striking looks for gigging out?!...total bullseye!
ahh yes, I would love to play on that X series ! Thanks for the comment mate !
Love this guitar!!!! and neural dsp of course! ;)
Actually Neural Parallax is responsible for one of the bass track here!
I just got a Solar guitar yesterday. Very impressed for the price. The names they have for them don’t make any sense to me. …mine is the regular shape and it’s black with a Floyd :)
I just got an A1.6ROP+ to replace my old BC Rich Warlock Platinum and I really like it. I took me a second to figure out the Evertune and tuning, but now I have it down, it's pretty easy. I am still on the fence about the pick ups. I think they are fine, but I might swap them with EMGs in the future... but I am going to sit with them for while more, maybe play with some different tunings to see how they react. The fret access is amazing on the A series. The X styles look sick though, they dropped a white one with Fluence Moderns in them the day after my purchase and I was like "well, shit..." For the specs you get, I think they are solid guitars that look metal as fuck!
Thanks for the comment Nicky - I gonna be fully honest that I NEVER EVER had an oppuortunity to play on evertunes... this is like the best solution for the recording/studio work and still I did not tried it :( I really need to borrow one somewhere and try for myself but I'm scared that I will fall in love haha. Pickup swapping game is a dangerous path - I'm not sure if there was any case where I said " wow this pickups are bad" - as far as I remember each of pickups I tried are........ different....... and equally cool :D
Congrats ! 🏆 Contact me via email mate!
@@Cultifact How do I find your e-mail?
Information section of my channel. Can't put it here cause of the spamming ill instantly get.
Give me some of them riffs!
Yeah, Washburn can do it )
I don't have positive things to say about solar. The paint job is one of the most catchy thing in the brand but the hardware could be better for the price tags. The finish are a bit bad. For the same proce you can get shecter
After quite some time I got mixed feelings myself and to be honest I already sold that one. The biggest pro was the price I paid for it :)
"Getting your guitar destroyed by some drunk *beeep*ck" 🤣🤣🤣
"I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe..." :D
@@Cultifact LOOOL! I've been a "sound guy" for a country/rock band touring the western coast of Norway in the late 90's. Surprise me!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I had TWO Solars and they BOTH were riddled with problems. Cracking fretboards, Peeling logos, HORRIBLE fret job, fret sprout. You name it, these turds had those issues, no help from Solar customer service either. I'd rather give up guitar completely than ever spend another penny on a Solar. Some people have good experiences but there are just as many people with issues as well. It's like playing the lotto.....will I get a good or bad guitar? No one knows.
Thanks for your comment! This is a really useful and valuable feedback. My thoughts about that company is that it might be a typical overhyped products with a lot effort put into managing bad publicity via internet. After I post this video and contacted them about it via email I was kinda let down that on the official Solar group my video had to be moderated (1week of waiting) before being posted (which got me thinking) and on the parallel way - company itself replayed via email "wishining me many views" - which was kinda ambiguous. It took me a lot of effort to put that video together and I honestly felt that because of fact that it's not "wow you need to buy this immidietally bes guitars ever" kind of review - no one at Solar was even remotly interested in helping me spread the video - in opposite to Ibanez.
@@Cultifact Ola is just a salesman now. Nothing more.
If it's so great guitar, then why are you selling it?
Becuase it's mine and I can do whatever I want with it.
@@Cultifact We already know it. No other reason?
I'm currently selling half of my guitars to fund sport trackbike build. Strict financial reason connected to my other hobby. After recording that video I contacted Solar Guitars but they were not interested in further spreading the video anywhere and at this point I'm not cooperating with companies which don't care. Im not earning ANYTHING from YT so I got the comfort of choosing which companies I would like to work with - even though im extremally small ytber. Same applies to HKettner, Sterling, Music Man and Jackson. I don't see the point in reviewing products of companies which don't care about their users.
@@Cultifact First two sentences would be enough for me ;) I though that maybe you had noticed some serious flaw or something.
Just wanted to point out my criteria for choosing which one I'm selling :)
its just Washburn guitar with new name.
Yes - probably made in the same manufactury in Indonesia as all other brands :D Within the price of the used one it's a good choice / brand new - worth considering.
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so, pointy guitars, huh? 🦦
anyway, i really want that rhino plugin 👉🏻👈🏻