Very nice. I've got a '76 Vibro Champ in a Mojotone 12" cabinet; this might be the ticket. Tube Screamer and TS variants all sound harsh and jagged through the Fender; this pedal sounds very musical.
I just picked one of these up after listening to demos for a long time. I cant justify a real SLO 100W , so i decided to give it a go. Your EC tone is killer! I love that era Clapton tone
Thank you and congrats on the pedal! Let me know what you think! The closest I think I got to the sound was when I made the slight modification before I played Badge. With some tweaking lowering the gain and bass, you can definitely be in the ballpark. The majority of this video I had all the controls at 12 o'clock
this is amazing dude! sounds so close to the tone, almost indistinguishable just through the phone speakers. I have been trying to replicate this for a little while.
Thanks Trevor! I think any Fender guitar, an SLO pedal, and a clean amp will get you in the ballpark! Keep in mind most of this video I didn't adjust the controls on the pedal, so you can actually get much closer to the sound adjusting the EQ and gain, etc. Towards the end when I play Badge 17:43, that's more dialed into what I think it should sound like! Let me know if you get the pedal / what you think
@@MichaelAlsoYour tone is literally exactly the same as the record. I can tell you love 24 Nights because you learned all the solos exactly (I have learned many of them too). Wish this pedal was a little cheaper though!
@@trevorclark7985 look on Reverb or Facebook marketplace, hopefully it goes down. If not, get a digital multi-fx modeling pedalboard that comes with a Soldano amp model. I also have a Line 6 HX Stomp XL which has the SLO 100 amp in it and it sounds very good too. In the description for this video is an article where I interviewed the guy who mixed 24 Nights / Alex Haas. Check it out, you may enjoy!
@@MichaelAlsoI bought the Neural DSP SLO-100 Amp sim, which does a pretty good job. I’m curious to hear what your tone would sound like if you dialed back the gain on the pedal and used the mid boost for the super distorted parts. I believe this is what Eric did on that tour. Lastly, your Clapton impression/playing style is spot on.. much better than mine.
@@trevorclark7985 I may have turned up the midboost on Sunshine as he would. I surprisingly don't love his midboosted sound unless he's using the Soldano amp or the mid 90s Fender Tweeds. Since then it's been pretty muddy. But in the 90s his tone cut the best! Thanks again! A lot of time learning/listening to/playing these songs
Excelent test Michael, the Pedal is a true 24 Nights. I suggest you to check Eric Clapton in Chile 1990, using the Soldanos at his best, after that concert I put Fender Gold Lace Sensors with a TBX in a Squier 96, korean, CN series, 50 anniversary, Golden logo, AMAZING guitar that today still is my Number One among my Fenders, I change the Bridge, I put a fender Vintage style with a more bigger and solid block , fender Vintage tuners, eliminated one string tree and no Mid Boost control just TBX and the reason for this is, in my Pedalboard a Digitech RP 500 has the Soldano amp wich was designed as a Overdriven amp so no boost necessary and has a very good TRIChorus reproduction. Sometimes I use a Boss Distortion DS-1 and all this trough my Blues Deluxe amp with an Eminence The Wizard Speaker for british tone and my Custom 68 Twin Reverb R.I. in Chanel 1 that is 59 Bassman Modified. Sounds Incredible 24 Nights, especialñy with the TRI Chorus. SAVE a lot of money so UPGRADE, UPGRADE is the answer. Geetings from Concepcion, Biobio Region, Chile.
Thank you very much for this! I love the concert from Chile 1990, I know it well. A lot of Clapton aficionados love that show as well. I use this SLO Pedal with a Deluxe Reverb and I'm happier with the sound than thru the Hot Rod Deluxe in the video. I also need to adjust the controls on the pedal to dial it in better. Most of what I played in this video above is with all the settings at 12 o'clock to show people what this pedal sounds like at the default setting. I just got a Line 6 HX Stomp XL which has a Soldano amp model. Most of these modelers have Soldano amps in them which is great. I'm very happy with both the sound of the SLO pedal and the Line 6 modeler. Cheers!
Thanks for watching! Here are some Timestamps for optimized viewing. Please Subscribe & Like for more like this: 0:45 Introduction 1:24 Unboxing 2:16 Price 2:29 Chorus is an important part of 24 Nights Sound 3:16 What Guitar am I using 3:50 What Amp am I using / Settings 4:13 Clean Amp test / Soldano Pedal Bypassed 4:44 Soldano Pedal Engaged 5:29 The Deep Switch 5:54 Deep Switch OFF 6:04 Deep Switch ON 6:27 Old Love 8:09 Bass lowered on SLO Pedal to 2 out of 11 8:11 Sunshine of Your Love 9:40 Soldano’s New Slogan 9:49 First Impressions 10:04 Key to the Highway 10:51 Layla 11:39 Running on Faith 13:15 Edge of Darkness 13:47 Bell Bottom Blues 14:21 Tearing Us Apart 15:02 Have You Ever Loved a Woman 16:00 How to get this sound 16:44 Volume comparison Pedal Off / On 17:44 Badge 18:49 Closing thoughts
The "Tri-Chorus" function in the Line 6 M5/M9/M15 series of stompboxes provideis a ireally really good approximation of that Clapton chorus from the Journeyman->24 Nights era. It feels characteristically "1980s-like" to me, but I like it a lot. I haven't found anything yet that gives me equal or more control between the raw drive power that Clapton manages to get by combining that 25 dB mid-boost in his guitar with an incredible amp like the Soldano. I can get to good tones with boost pedals or good amplification, but you can't actually PLAY the voice of the guitar and the depth of its expressions at the same time as you're playing the notes. Stomping form rhythm to lead tones feels like a really inorganic, jarring way of doing what Clapton does naturally with the controls right on his guitar. But I've also never realy liked the idea of this mid-boost right onboard. What I think will work for me, and I'm eager as heck to try, is to use something like the Strymon Sunset, or one of a VERY small similar pedals, that lets you run two boost/overdrive channels in a variety of series/parallel configurations--and THEN lets you plug in an expression pedal to control, specifically, the level of a mid-EQ'd boost and/or Klon-like Germanium overdrive just as easily as you'd adjust a volume/wah pedal. If anything, I think that will work BETTER for me as it'll let me keep both hands on the guitar rather than fiddling constantly with the mid-boost knob as EC does during the tonal shifts in his lead lines. Whatever you do--and it sounds like you're nailing it here--go after the tone that sounds best to you and accept that it's a blessing to get very, very close to Clapton's sound from an iconic record 33 years ago... but a curse to duplicate that sound with perfection. Get 99.999% of the way there, and you'll be a very good knockoff of something better. Get 90-95% of the way there, and fill the gap with a sound that you love, and you'll still sound just like Clapton to most listeners, and a true original to those who listen carefully enough.
Well said! I think the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe is a little of a darker amp (at least on the clean channel). I plugged the SLO pedal into a '64 Deluxe Reverb after this and got even closer to that sound. Can have great cleans and appropriate lead tones with the Soldano pedal engaged. I'm unsure if Eric stepped on any other pedals to change the channel on the amp because he could go from a more thinner sound to a very creamy lead. This guitar has the midboost in it and that does help, but I think the Soldano/Marshall setup plus whatever he had going in that huge rack + microphones and mixing played a part in that sound that we know and love. I got to interview the guy who mixed 24 Nights in 2020. It's on my website if you're interested!
my friend, congratulations, you have achieved perfection in the performance of Clpaton's songs. How did you study to be able to play like him? My dream is to play his songs well, on my channel I have several of his songs. But I don't think it stays the same.... Tell me how you got it.
Thank you for your comments! I watch a lot of his DVD's and play along for many many years. I very much enjoy his playing and spent a lot of time trying to learn his songs/solos note for note and think/play in his style
I’m very happy with the pedal. Running it through my hot rod deluxe and Clapton strat with lace sensors, chorus and delay and getting very close to the sound. The only improvement would be to get it to clean up. Even on 0 gain there is gain.
Yes, Brian! The only other time I tweaked the settings were at the end for Badge. I would definitely tweak the pedal to get closer to the sound, but I just wanted to show the default setting / sound mainly...very usable sounds and especially if you like the 24 Nights era
@@MichaelAlso Thanks again! Yep, love 24 Nights; it was a big influence on me when it came out; I was in a band at that time, and half our set was from 24 Nights and Journeyman :)
@@brianmccarthy7808 The deep switch was actually engaged for most of this, it was a mistake on my end. However, at one point in this video I compare Deep Switch on and Deep Switch off. I put the audio into Logic Pro X to see what frequencies were boosted and I cut them out so you would hear this demo with the Deep switch bypassed. The moment I engage the Deep switch in the video is the only time you'll hear the extra bass frequencies. I left that moment unequalized
Thank you! I have had okay luck with the Crybaby 535Q wah on the 2nd setting...as well as a Fulltone Clyde McCoy Wah from must be 20 years ago...the Fulltone is my go to if I'm trying to recreate the 24 Nights wah
Yes use the guitar volume and the pedal to shape the sound. For this video I mainly kept the controls on the SLO pedal at 12 o' clock unless otherwise noted. Having used the pedal recently with a Gibson 339 my settings were: Volume: 4 Presence: 6 Gain: 2 Treble: 6 Middle: 2.5 Bass: 4
Nice, in this video most of my controls were set at 12 o'clock to show what this pedal generally sounded like. With tweaking we can get even closer. Do you have a link of your playing/tone samples?
@MichaelAlso - If you check the song "Pretending" forward towards the end portion, where the main solo starts. I think it's pretty close to the Knebworth 90 tone he had.
Very nice. I've got a '76 Vibro Champ in a Mojotone 12" cabinet; this might be the ticket. Tube Screamer and TS variants all sound harsh and jagged through the Fender; this pedal sounds very musical.
Great amp! The Soldano pedal sounds even better thru a Fender Deluxe Reverb
I run mine with a toneking imperial mk2 and a clapton signature blackie and this pedal does the 24 nights/journeyman thing very well
You do that 90's EC stuff justice! Killer riffage and great demo!
thanks so much!!
Michael Also does SLO-hand! 👍
Hah, they should use that!
I just picked one of these up after listening to demos for a long time. I cant justify a real SLO 100W , so i decided to give it a go.
Your EC tone is killer! I love that era Clapton tone
Thank you and congrats on the pedal! Let me know what you think! The closest I think I got to the sound was when I made the slight modification before I played Badge. With some tweaking lowering the gain and bass, you can definitely be in the ballpark. The majority of this video I had all the controls at 12 o'clock
The tone is in the shoulder length hair
bro this is amazing , sounds incredible.
Thank you Andrew, you gotta get one!
Dude! Buying right now because of your review! Cheers👍‼️
Enjoy it!!
Thank you so much Michael, this is the pedal that I´m looked for. 😍🎸
this is amazing dude! sounds so close to the tone, almost indistinguishable just through the phone speakers. I have been trying to replicate this for a little while.
Thanks Trevor! I think any Fender guitar, an SLO pedal, and a clean amp will get you in the ballpark! Keep in mind most of this video I didn't adjust the controls on the pedal, so you can actually get much closer to the sound adjusting the EQ and gain, etc. Towards the end when I play Badge 17:43, that's more dialed into what I think it should sound like! Let me know if you get the pedal / what you think
@@MichaelAlsoYour tone is literally exactly the same as the record. I can tell you love 24 Nights because you learned all the solos exactly (I have learned many of them too). Wish this pedal was a little cheaper though!
@@trevorclark7985 look on Reverb or Facebook marketplace, hopefully it goes down. If not, get a digital multi-fx modeling pedalboard that comes with a Soldano amp model. I also have a Line 6 HX Stomp XL which has the SLO 100 amp in it and it sounds very good too. In the description for this video is an article where I interviewed the guy who mixed 24 Nights / Alex Haas. Check it out, you may enjoy!
@@MichaelAlsoI bought the Neural DSP SLO-100 Amp sim, which does a pretty good job. I’m curious to hear what your tone would sound like if you dialed back the gain on the pedal and used the mid boost for the super distorted parts. I believe this is what Eric did on that tour. Lastly, your Clapton impression/playing style is spot on.. much better than mine.
@@trevorclark7985 I may have turned up the midboost on Sunshine as he would. I surprisingly don't love his midboosted sound unless he's using the Soldano amp or the mid 90s Fender Tweeds. Since then it's been pretty muddy. But in the 90s his tone cut the best! Thanks again! A lot of time learning/listening to/playing these songs
Killer tone and playing. This has me convinced. Should have me sounding close to 24 nights with my Clapton Strat and katana or Fender Pro Junior
Thank you very much Matthew, great pedal into a clean amp. Should get you in the ballpark for sure. Let me know what you think when you get one!
Great job editing this!! And thank you again for this demonstration!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching, Brooks!
5150 percent
@@5150showyoull have to have him on in a few weeks after the box set comes out🙌🏻
Incredible
Excelent test Michael, the Pedal is a true 24 Nights. I suggest you to check Eric Clapton in Chile 1990, using the Soldanos at his best, after that concert I put Fender Gold Lace Sensors with a TBX in a Squier 96, korean, CN series, 50 anniversary, Golden logo, AMAZING guitar that today still is my Number One among my Fenders, I change the Bridge, I put a fender Vintage style with a more bigger and solid block , fender Vintage tuners, eliminated one string tree and no Mid Boost control just TBX and the reason for this is, in my Pedalboard a Digitech RP 500 has the Soldano amp wich was designed as a Overdriven amp so no boost necessary and has a very good TRIChorus reproduction. Sometimes I use a Boss Distortion DS-1 and all this trough my Blues Deluxe amp with an Eminence The Wizard Speaker for british tone and my Custom 68 Twin Reverb R.I. in Chanel 1 that is 59 Bassman Modified. Sounds Incredible 24 Nights, especialñy with the TRI Chorus. SAVE a lot of money so UPGRADE, UPGRADE is the answer. Geetings from Concepcion, Biobio Region, Chile.
Thank you very much for this! I love the concert from Chile 1990, I know it well. A lot of Clapton aficionados love that show as well. I use this SLO Pedal with a Deluxe Reverb and I'm happier with the sound than thru the Hot Rod Deluxe in the video. I also need to adjust the controls on the pedal to dial it in better. Most of what I played in this video above is with all the settings at 12 o'clock to show people what this pedal sounds like at the default setting. I just got a Line 6 HX Stomp XL which has a Soldano amp model. Most of these modelers have Soldano amps in them which is great. I'm very happy with both the sound of the SLO pedal and the Line 6 modeler. Cheers!
Thanks for watching! Here are some Timestamps for optimized viewing. Please Subscribe & Like for more like this:
0:45 Introduction
1:24 Unboxing
2:16 Price
2:29 Chorus is an important part of 24 Nights Sound
3:16 What Guitar am I using
3:50 What Amp am I using / Settings
4:13 Clean Amp test / Soldano Pedal Bypassed
4:44 Soldano Pedal Engaged
5:29 The Deep Switch
5:54 Deep Switch OFF
6:04 Deep Switch ON
6:27 Old Love
8:09 Bass lowered on SLO Pedal to 2 out of 11
8:11 Sunshine of Your Love
9:40 Soldano’s New Slogan
9:49 First Impressions
10:04 Key to the Highway
10:51 Layla
11:39 Running on Faith
13:15 Edge of Darkness
13:47 Bell Bottom Blues
14:21 Tearing Us Apart
15:02 Have You Ever Loved a Woman
16:00 How to get this sound
16:44 Volume comparison Pedal Off / On
17:44 Badge
18:49 Closing thoughts
Please pin the time-stamps, Michael :)
@@derekclacton done!
Very nice! I love Clapton and I think you nailed that tone
Now you need to do Pretending!!
Great tone and playing!!
Sounds amazing bro
Great demonstration and playing Michael.
I’m Soldano 😂
Thanks Brad!!
The "Tri-Chorus" function in the Line 6 M5/M9/M15 series of stompboxes provideis a ireally really good approximation of that Clapton chorus from the Journeyman->24 Nights era. It feels characteristically "1980s-like" to me, but I like it a lot.
I haven't found anything yet that gives me equal or more control between the raw drive power that Clapton manages to get by combining that 25 dB mid-boost in his guitar with an incredible amp like the Soldano. I can get to good tones with boost pedals or good amplification, but you can't actually PLAY the voice of the guitar and the depth of its expressions at the same time as you're playing the notes. Stomping form rhythm to lead tones feels like a really inorganic, jarring way of doing what Clapton does naturally with the controls right on his guitar. But I've also never realy liked the idea of this mid-boost right onboard.
What I think will work for me, and I'm eager as heck to try, is to use something like the Strymon Sunset, or one of a VERY small similar pedals, that lets you run two boost/overdrive channels in a variety of series/parallel configurations--and THEN lets you plug in an expression pedal to control, specifically, the level of a mid-EQ'd boost and/or Klon-like Germanium overdrive just as easily as you'd adjust a volume/wah pedal. If anything, I think that will work BETTER for me as it'll let me keep both hands on the guitar rather than fiddling constantly with the mid-boost knob as EC does during the tonal shifts in his lead lines.
Whatever you do--and it sounds like you're nailing it here--go after the tone that sounds best to you and accept that it's a blessing to get very, very close to Clapton's sound from an iconic record 33 years ago... but a curse to duplicate that sound with perfection. Get 99.999% of the way there, and you'll be a very good knockoff of something better. Get 90-95% of the way there, and fill the gap with a sound that you love, and you'll still sound just like Clapton to most listeners, and a true original to those who listen carefully enough.
Well said! I think the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe is a little of a darker amp (at least on the clean channel). I plugged the SLO pedal into a '64 Deluxe Reverb after this and got even closer to that sound. Can have great cleans and appropriate lead tones with the Soldano pedal engaged. I'm unsure if Eric stepped on any other pedals to change the channel on the amp because he could go from a more thinner sound to a very creamy lead. This guitar has the midboost in it and that does help, but I think the Soldano/Marshall setup plus whatever he had going in that huge rack + microphones and mixing played a part in that sound that we know and love. I got to interview the guy who mixed 24 Nights in 2020. It's on my website if you're interested!
my friend, congratulations, you have achieved perfection in the performance of Clpaton's songs. How did you study to be able to play like him? My dream is to play his songs well, on my channel I have several of his songs. But I don't think it stays the same.... Tell me how you got it.
Thank you for your comments! I watch a lot of his DVD's and play along for many many years. I very much enjoy his playing and spent a lot of time trying to learn his songs/solos note for note and think/play in his style
I like this pedal...cough eric johnson...
Brilhant covers perfect, please, why not a How to play every sounds of Clapton? Oh please
Thank you very much - I may do a couple more videos soon!
Excellent demo - just ordered one!
Thank you, Philip! Let me know what you think!
I’m very happy with the pedal. Running it through my hot rod deluxe and Clapton strat with lace sensors, chorus and delay and getting very close to the sound. The only improvement would be to get it to clean up. Even on 0 gain there is gain.
@@philipbray208 and you're running it on the clean channel of the HRD?
Yes on the clean channel but even with the gain on 0 it does not completely clean up.
Sounds great!! The Sunshine settings were everything at noon, except bass at 2? Thanks!
Yes, Brian! The only other time I tweaked the settings were at the end for Badge. I would definitely tweak the pedal to get closer to the sound, but I just wanted to show the default setting / sound mainly...very usable sounds and especially if you like the 24 Nights era
@@MichaelAlso Thanks again! Yep, love 24 Nights; it was a big influence on me when it came out; I was in a band at that time, and half our set was from 24 Nights and Journeyman :)
@@MichaelAlso oh, and was the deep switch in, or not? I'm thinking not :)
@@brianmccarthy7808 The deep switch was actually engaged for most of this, it was a mistake on my end. However, at one point in this video I compare Deep Switch on and Deep Switch off. I put the audio into Logic Pro X to see what frequencies were boosted and I cut them out so you would hear this demo with the Deep switch bypassed. The moment I engage the Deep switch in the video is the only time you'll hear the extra bass frequencies. I left that moment unequalized
Nailed it man! What Wah pedal would you recommend to get along with this? That tone on Breaking Point is wicked.
Thank you! I have had okay luck with the Crybaby 535Q wah on the 2nd setting...as well as a Fulltone Clyde McCoy Wah from must be 20 years ago...the Fulltone is my go to if I'm trying to recreate the 24 Nights wah
@@MichaelAlso Amazing, thanks for the recommendation, what about the Cream stuff and 70s era, can the Fulltone cover those as well?
@@isam95 my pleasure, I think Eric was using either a Vox wah or a CryBaby with Cream...probably somewhere online
Michael what do you mean with reverb ? Did you add only a bit of chorus or somethin else in addition ?
What you hear in this video is chorus, reverb, and the Soldano SLO Pedal into a Hot Rod Deluxe amp on the clean channel
Do you use the guitar vol pot to clean up the sound? What are your current settings?
Yes use the guitar volume and the pedal to shape the sound. For this video I mainly kept the controls on the SLO pedal at 12 o' clock unless otherwise noted. Having used the pedal recently with a Gibson 339 my settings were:
Volume: 4
Presence: 6
Gain: 2
Treble: 6
Middle: 2.5
Bass: 4
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Nice...I am not a pedal guy but may make an exception lol
it's pretty awesome!
I got much closer to 24 nights with Neural DSP Soldano for £99.
Nice, in this video most of my controls were set at 12 o'clock to show what this pedal generally sounded like. With tweaking we can get even closer. Do you have a link of your playing/tone samples?
@@MichaelAlso - ruclips.net/user/clipUgkxZWTmMTXvuch_XLgaVXNItv4LdAuG4AUd?si=GEEIDrgHH3WP10uu
@MichaelAlso - Not sure why but any links or comments I post are being deleted here.
@@chromebuoy Unsure, youtube may think it's s p a m. I'll check your channel
@MichaelAlso - If you check the song "Pretending" forward towards the end portion, where the main solo starts. I think it's pretty close to the Knebworth 90 tone he had.