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https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/200129354965008--soldano-slo-30-classic-30w-head
I hope GG get mine in soon, it sounds great to me!
Mine should arrive on Monday and I got it for the pre-order price of £2199 - I'm very glad I paid my deposit as soon as it was advertised on their site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n1kZvaxTs4
Apparently Bea's got one too, but I don't know whether that's the 100 or the 30.
Unlike my mini-Jube which I think trounces the mini-SLO.
I guess I'm just a Marshall guy...
None of the demos have seemed clubby and not seen anything with the bass knob at weird positions.
I had the bass and depth on 0 otherwise I found the amp too boomy. This was with a 2x12 with V30s or a 4x12 with Greenbacks. I play pretty heavily though and use a very chunky sounding PRS 408. I think it would be better with a superstrat which is probably what the amp was designed around?
I just feel there's way too much going on in the pre-amp gain-wise for the power section, like there's way too much signal flubbing out the voltage starved power valves. It might be OK if the amp was wound right up, but then what's the point of a 30watter if you can't turn it down a bit?
I really don't know what they were trying to achieve. The whole point of the SLO is it's all pre-amp gain with a non-squishy and non-breakup power-amp section. Having truck loads of gain into a flabby power output just makes it boomy and 'orrible!
1 - Put the bass at noon (or slightly below), mid and treble at 3 o'clock, depth at 9 o'clock and presence at 2 o'clock.
2 - Try cutting the low end before the amp, if you've got any pedals that'll do it.
3 - Both of these things.
And, of course, don't forget that with these amps...the gain always increases the bass out of proportion to the rest of the signal, so any increase in gain needs a corresponding (but smaller) decrease in bass and depth.
I had bass/depth at 0, presence and treble around the points you suggest with mids matching treble. I also used a KoT and Klone before the amp to boost it a bit to see if that tightened it up. It maybe did a hair, but I don't have a Tubescreamer with its clear bass cut to try.
For comparison, I run my mini-Jube with the bass on 10. With the SLO on 0 it had more bass than the Marshall at 10. That's how much of a difference there is.
It may be a modern amp thing - I found the same with the 65 Amps Empire and Stone Pony, the Marshall Origin and to a lesser extent the Victory Sheriff 44.
Those settings above are exactly what I used when I had a JCA22H with depth mod and the bright cap removed (so, essentially the same preamp circuit and settings, and a power section with even less headroom).
When I use those settings with my JCA100HDM and a boost in front (again, essentially the same circuit as the SLO), I have to significantly cut the bass on the guitars with chunkier pickups in before it even hits the amp, otherwise it gets flubby (cutting it in the tone stack is too late in the signal path, and the flubbiness actually happens in the initial gain stages).
Unless you were running at full-on gig volume, I can't see how anything you were doing would push the power section past the point of being clean. I'd put a lot of money on the flub being somewhere in the preamp section.
The issue in my opinion is that the SLO pre-amp is heavily dependent on the original super-stiff 100w power section to keep things tight and in control. WIthout it, it's just too gainy and flubby as you seem to have found on the Jet City amps too.