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Yeah man! Sounds great. The SLO is no stranger to blues. Gary Moore used one for Still Got The Blues, and there's Warren Haynes entire career, which has a lot of blues in it.
Even SRV had one on ordee but he passed away before he got it. Could've been interesting.

But it's absolutely a legit amp for it. The thing about high gain amps is that gain knob is a dial you can turn down. And if the amp has av great core tone like the SLO, yeah it will work just fine.

GuitarBilly wrote:Yeah man! Sounds great. The SLO is no stranger to blues. Gary Moore used one for Still Got The Blues, and there's Warren Haynes entire career, which has a lot of blues in it.
Even SRV had one on ordee but he passed away before he got it. Could've been interesting.

But it's absolutely a legit amp for it. The thing about high gain amps is that gain knob is a dial you can turn down. And if the amp has av great core tone like the SLO, yeah it will work just fine.

Exactly! I'm really impressed with the clean. Granted I am intimately familiar with Marshall cleans, but I feel like the 5881/6L6 and whatever else is going on in the power amp go a long way. Actually I think the slightly lower mid voicing is what really helps fill out the clean sound. Source Audio Cole-ider in the FX loop doesn't hurt either.

The crunch channel on this amp is underrated af. At my show the other night I used the crunch channel for rhythm(gain maxed out so its like an 800) and OD channel for lead with the ch vol slightly higher. It was awesome, but I kinda miss the saturation from the OD channel. Honestly I probably should have used crunch channel for these clips but I wanted to hear the OD channel with the gain rolled back to 3 or so just for grins. It would be cool if you could footswitch between clean and crunch but since they're not actually separate channels the normal volume has to come up quite a bit when switched to clean.

Sounds fantastic as always, sir! You always bring the toans!

Very sexy

Sounds awesome!

The crunch channel on the SLO30 I had was my main tone. Gain maxed and hit it with an SD1. Great hot rodded Marshall tones.

GuitarBilly wrote:Yeah man! Sounds great. The SLO is no stranger to blues. Gary Moore used one for Still Got The Blues, and there's Warren Haynes entire career, which has a lot of blues in it.
Even SRV had one on ordee but he passed away before he got it. Could've been interesting.

But it's absolutely a legit amp for it. The thing about high gain amps is that gain knob is a dial you can turn down. And if the amp has av great core tone like the SLO, yeah it will work just fine.

I love it when people complain that an amp has too much gain. Do these people just automatically dime the gain on whatever amp they're using and expect that to be good?

ZEEGLER wrote:

GuitarBilly wrote:Yeah man! Sounds great. The SLO is no stranger to blues. Gary Moore used one for Still Got The Blues, and there's Warren Haynes entire career, which has a lot of blues in it.
Even SRV had one on ordee but he passed away before he got it. Could've been interesting.

But it's absolutely a legit amp for it. The thing about high gain amps is that gain knob is a dial you can turn down. And if the amp has av great core tone like the SLO, yeah it will work just fine.

I love it when people complain that an amp has too much gain. Do these people just automatically dime the gain on whatever amp they're using and expect that to be good?

Mostly yes. I knew a guy who used to (he died last year) set every amp the same, no matter what they were and assume that's how he was going to get the best sound out of it.

If I remember right, Gain and bass full up, treble say 75%, mids around 50%, presence around 25%

Also had a hard time comprehending speaker differences, and would always comment on how he liked the sounds of amps in some situations, and then hate them with his own cabs.

I was with him the day that he picked up an SLO that went back and forth between us for a little bit. At Long & Mcquade Brampton, where he had a bunch of other friends working, he set the amp about as I wrote above, and people continued about their business as usual. He let me take a crack at it, I tweaked the controls, and suddenly people were coming over and commenting on the amp. Not because of my "mad skillz", but because some people really don't now how to dial amps in and some people do. To my memory he also had a Tube Screamer going on, with the gain on full, which I also dialed back to 0

Yeah it's the same thing with EQ. The amp is "too bright". If you set the treble at 0, that's not too bright on most amps. Go from there and you will find a spot. Your EQ doesn't have to be set around 12 o'clock.

Sounds fantastic. I've never really paid attention to the clean channel on the SLO and now I realize that was a mistake.

Sounds delicious and chewey

That neck pickup tone especially

Sounds killer to me!