Soldano SLO owners,please give me details

[Jeff]

KT66s...

Jumping in a bit late here...

The KT66s are my favorite tubes in the Soldano circuits I have tried, both in my home-built SLO and in the Hot Rod 50+ I currently have. I prefer them over 5881's, 6L6's and EL34s. They just have a smoothness that I like!

BTW, the Hot Rod amps sound very good and you can pick them up for about $700 for the single channel and $900 for the two channel versions. May be a cheaper way to get in the SLO ballpark.

For what its worth, I have to honestly admit the Soldano Hot Rod 50+ sounds better than my homebuilt SLO did.

 

[slohead]

Re: KT66s...

Jumping in a bit late here...

The KT66s are my favorite tubes in the Soldano circuits I have tried, both in my home-built SLO and in the Hot Rod 50+ I currently have. I prefer them over 5881's, 6L6's and EL34s. They just have a smoothness that I like!


I just sold my KT-66 loaded SLO and the guy who bought it was over the moon, and used the same description.....he was blown away at how smooth the amp was.

 

[Chuckracer]

I just put KT66s in my SLO, replacing the Svetlana 6L6s, and WOW!!!
Warm and bright, with no more sizzle and a nice lower mid girth! Sweetness!

 

[Jamme61]

slo 100

I had two SLO 100's, one with all the mods, made 2001(KT-66 tubes). The other, no mods no efex loop 5881 power tubes made 1990. The 1990 sounded a lot better IMHO. It had a lot more crunch and in yer face sound no buzzy harsh sound. I put Kt-66 power tubes in the 1990 which gave it more bass but also made it sound a little cleaner(more headroom). I also had a hot rod 100 which was to me every bit as good as the SLO 100. I called up Soldano many times (great guys) I spoke to Mike himself and he said the original SLO 100 was designed with out an efex loop and to him less is a whole lot more when it comes to the best tone. i also think that preamp tubes a crucial to the best tone in the these amps. Stick with the Hot rod 100 and save the cash.

 

[Jim Sloves]

I've had my SLO since 1990-1991. First of all, killer amp with no problems since I bought it new from Soldano.

I don't get the buzzy/harsh deal. I think it's important to start with the mid and treble setting relatively low and slowly bring them up. This amp can sing and be as smooth/mellow OD as you like or quite bright and in you face with lots of in between tones.
Truly wonderful lead channel and the crunch channel is pure heaven.

 

[Cokemachine]

What's the "SRV" mod? Does anybody know what's involved with the mod?

 

[MikeyG]

What's the "SRV" mod? Does anybody know what's involved with the mod?

It's supposed to scoop mids for a BF Fender kinda tone. There was some debate about this on H-C amps, because most didn't think SRV's tone is mid-scooped. His lead tone is definitely not scooped, the TS808 is a midrangey tone.

 

[DrRobert]

Has anyone run a Yamaha T100 with the KT66s? I understand it's basically the SLO with a really cheesy reverb circuit (which I don't use anyway).

I think the reason people think scooped mids for the SRV tone is that he had the huge bass coming from that 15" speaker, and the really bright high end from a cranked BF fender-ergo it sounds sorta scooped. I don't think you can really reproduce his sound by scooping a regular amp, though.