Ep. 19 - Mike Soldano of Soldano Custom Amps joins Dave Friedman and Marc Huzansky
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Ep. 19 - Mike Soldano of Soldano Custom Amps joins Dave Friedman and Marc Huzansky
Mike doesn't own a cellphone: I'm an instant fan! Inspirational.
1:09:50 - The third amp was given to Andy Johns (who produced the VH albums of that era). The amp was moved to a purple headshell, and given to Andy. It later was sold to Brent Woods of the band Wildside, which Andy produced in 1991, at 5150 studio. Someone out there owns a purple Soldano SLO head, with serial number “5150”.
At 2:17:30 The fact Dave doesn't bite his tounge and speaks his mind straight up like a man! Always earned SOO much respect for him from me. And to say l that in front of Mike when he was clearly heartbroken about it but he seems to have moved on and not held a grudge against Randall at Mesa, That conversation at the time stamp and on, seems to offer a little closure to Mike, Love you for that Dave, respect to you Mike cot not holding a grudge and being able to move on from it. Lots of other people might not have. Big respect for everyone on this show.
Fuck yeah.
I could listen to Mike Soldano talk about his equipment all day. Great stuff.
Instablaster...
That’s what she said.
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THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID
Every single show gets better and better. Mike is super outgoing. I can’t believe he doesn’t have more of a KZhead presence! Same thing for Mr. Suhr! Marc/Dave: you guys are going down in the history books. You are literally chronicling the masters of our industry over the last 30 or 40 years. This stuff just doesn’t exist anywhere else. What a treasure. Cheers.
GREAT show!! Soldano seems to be a great guy! Smart, honest, respectful. This ranks up there with Suhr and Grover shows! Please keep it going!
I fairly recently discovered tone talk and am now having a field day of going through the back catalogue. The list of legendary guests you've had on is truly impressive!
Strange how everyone seems to know everyone in these stories.
Mike is a really cool down to earth guy it seems, he really stayed grounded and humble. I would love to own a SLO for many reasons!
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing all of those rock n roll history encounters from the 80s back when I started playing! Much fun listening to these legends!
My favorite episode so far. Well done, and thank you!
Mike Soldano. Respect.
Watched this last night and I was blown away by all of the pure knowledge and the wonderful stories. Thanks guys!!
Question concerning EVH around 58:00 Questions concerning if a Rectifier or 5150 copied the SLO around 2:16:45
@@RodneyWallaceDynamoC "I don't think that means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya The Rectifiers were introduced in 1992. The SLO, ca. 1987. Consult the google machine.
@@councilofgiants1031 Hi cory, Mesa boogie plagiarized Soldano, but the link I posted contains a text that is at least ironic/controversial. Read the text, I think you'll understand LOL.
evh 1:03:20
If you love SOLDANO amps, you'll love this interview.
Thank you!!!
Love Mike S, Dave F, Marc H - great show - awesome people
That's what the stealth was turned into to a T same values everything...literally laying bare board everything stripped from it lol...need go back to that kinda build quality and beltons but just more monster like the voodoo and shit. gotta admit that wasn't usual amp quality shitttt lol
You absolutely need some kinda LED clipping circuit/box in front of that thing telling ya, if you want just more harmonics than you know what to do with telling ya good way to go about it.
Amazing how 3 or 4 hours fly by with quality content. Great show again guys. Did NOT know both Soldano & Suhr were wrench heads too.
I watched it live for the most part but fell asleep.... Long week, but finished watching it this morning.. the content is great... I love the 4 hour shows and how interesting all these stories can be. Thank you Marc and Dave
mike rocks. another awesome show marc and dave . thank you so much
Hi, thank you again for another great show. Been watching these for about 6 months, not live though because live airing times are difficult in Finland. Great to get insights from all these masters of their craft.
Tone-Talk is the best place to be while on confinement !.....Second time watching this episode and still find it awesome !......Thanks Guys !.................Lou.... Quebec
Quebec needs amp gurus too.... it's not all maple syrup and poutine up here we like to rock too mon ami
Outstanding discussion - inspiring, intelligent and fun, great to see the passion still alive and well......
Great show one of the best I've heard.
I own a Soldano from 1993 and I greatly appreciate this video! Thank you so much!!
Love these long form meandering chats with industry innovators who really know their stuff.
Just another awesome show as usual! Fantastic stuff. Keep up the great work guys!
This was a great show. Thanks to Mike for sticking to his convictions. Great American success story!
Yes, this was a great episode. I watched it all in one sitting. Best show on youtube. Thanks Mark, Dave and Mike.
Love these stories, I remember reading guitar magazines in the late 80's and all through the 90's and spying on all the backline salivating. You guys are bringing back great memories..Cheers
Thanks so much for watching!
really great episode Mike's a true legend!
I missed the live show just got time to watch it thanks for a great show.
Mike seems like a really great and well spoken guy. Thanks for the show Marc and Dave!
Agreed! Thanks for watching
wow Mike , all your stories are super cool , much fun to hear !*_*!
Awesome show! Kept me entertained during my 8 hour road trip home this past Monday. This show is better than a "tell all book"! Not only do you get great insight into products and industry, but you get all these behind the scene stories that are just awesome!!! Thanks again Marc and Dave!!!!
I just wanted to say thanks to Dave. I never knew that about the Rectifier, but I'm glad I do now.
One of the Best Shows Ever !!!
Never been very interested in Soldanos but after hearing Mike talk I am now! Seems like a great guy. Love Dave's no BS too!
Thank you Marc, Dave & Mike for a fun & interesting show!
Bruce Anderson thank you!!
Around the 2:30 mark Dave and Mike are talking about modeling vs real tube amps. I feel like what he is trying to say is a real tube amp you have to wrestle or fight, has life and breath, it has character and a unique voice, when you play or hear a tube amps in the flesh, it's electric!! For the record I've owned all the modeling gear since the original pod and just sold my axe fx III, helix, Kemper, and currently own a BE100 deluxe, Mark V 90 watt, Badlander 100, EVH 5150 III 100 Watt with the UA OX Box and I've never been happier. We live in an amazing time!! I have so much respect for these pioneers in the music business. I really did not know about Mike Soldano and his amps, I must have one...
Great show and congratulations on 3k+ subscribers. That Mesa story is gut wrenching and makes me look at them much differently.
Thanks for the note and for watching!
So a Recto is a modified SLO. Big frekin deal... Friedman and Soldano are basically modified Marshalls. Cry me a river... 🎻
Mike Soldano is a classy guy through & through. Great show....... Now I want a soldano hot rod 50
I don't blame you mate. I had one and sold it which I still regret...it sold in about 5 minutes; fastest online sale I've ever listed doh! :O(
HR50 is the best rock amp I've ever played.
i have a hr50 AND a hr 100+ with XL mod. love em.
Mike is a classy guy but I can.t say the same about Dave F. And I bet that if where Randall Smith intead of Mike Soldano, guess whose ass would be kissed. Mr Friedman there.s no point in bashing an amp like the Recto. After all, slo and rectos are an updated copy of marshall/ Fender amp.
I have a purple 1992 Soldano Hot Rod 50 half stack. I bought a Kemper earlier this year (amazing) and sold most of my amps. I cannot bring myself to sell the Soldano. It's my favorite hard rock amp of all time.
Killer show guys! Mike was a great guest!
Thanks Dan!
Great show guys, Mike is a top notch guy. Great stories!
Thanks, he sure is a great guy!
What a killer show ..legends here!
Thanks!!!
These stories are so badass I have so much admiration and gratitude for all of these insanely talented and historically important guests! Jake is still my all time favorite guest but I love them all!
Mike's technical knowledge on amps and general electronics is staggering!
This channel rules so hard. Many thanks!
Thank you too!
Great way to start the year. Thanks guys!
Francisco Gurdian We agree! Happy New Year to you!
Francisco Gurdian We agree! Happy New Year to you!
Great show, some very interesting info from Mike and Dave.I have been playing for over 45years and since I've played a Soldano, I've never needed another amp.
Martin Reid Thanks for watching and awesome on your amp!
Great show with lots of information thanks guys.
Thanks!!
Just catching up and watched this one. Wow-- what a nice guy! Totally not selling anything-- makes me want to buy one of his amps. With all these legends, it might be nice to always cover certain basics-- where they grew up, their initial inspiration, how they got started, how they met Dave, etc. Mike mentioned how he worked in a body shop and learned to weld and bend metal. That's a crucial detail to how he got where he is. And don't be afraid to talk about old cars, etc.-- it's always interesting to hear about people's other interests and hobbies. It gives insights into what makes them tick. I just look at this as capturing important history for future generations. Don't want to miss any details!! Thanks and great job as always- Andy
This was amazing. The rectifier and 5150 story is crazy. And the Syclone is a GMC. It was an all wheel drive turbo v6 with a intercooler.
Cool show thanks 👍
We need an expanded edition of this. Their last decade of albums have absolutely been stellar!
Great episode guys! Thank you!
Stelios K Thanks!!!
Another great show guys !
Thanks!
I use the soldano in the Axe FX III daily and I like it alot. It has helped me figure out what real amps/cabs/speakers I want to buy.
This is gold! Soldano is a legend
thanks and Mike is awesome!
Thanks Marc and Dave for putting out these videos they are really cool. My only regret is not being able to watch them live, I just can't sit still through a 3-4 hour video. I break em up over the next week after they come out.
No problem! Take your time and thanks for watching.
Missed the live show, but, having some coffee and watching, now. I don't know if Dave and Mike read these comments, but, I don't think they really understand how cool it is to just sit back and listen to their stories. Thanks Marc !!!
Thanks Quentin! We all appreciate you watching.
Soldano is joy.
Fantastic show. David Rand
Thanks!
I just got a Friedman BE Mini and Soldano SLO Mini and they're the most fun bedroom practice amps ever!
What an awesome hangout! Too bad I missed it live… I would have asked Mike how it came about to work with the late great Gary Moore in the early 90’s. As far as I know Gary only used the crunch channel of the SLO, but in my humble opinion, this was his best guitar tone ever. Yet again, we’re talking about Gary Moore here, he could make a crappy little gorilla amp sound amazing.
great show!
Mike is a fantastic guy and the father of the modern high gain amp. Great show as usual. I'm glad to hear that he is going to keep his company alive. As an SLO owner I can tell you no amp on this planet sounds like a cranked SLO. Its a completely unique tone and built to last many lifetimes. Dave is also a great guy. I've had the pleasure of meet Dave and he is great. I also own a BE-100 I plan on doing videos on both of these amps soon.
The Crazy thing is that " Tone" you're chasin' in your mind ... changes with time. A lot of little things go into putting the lightning in the bottle. Thank God for these guys and guys like them. Tone (IMHO) is not something you can keep. It is something you experience. Hopefully over and over... These Builders...get you really close to that, "again and again" feel. Gentlemen... Thank you
Another great episode! I love amps! Keep bringing great amp builders! Hopefully you guys do episodes with Rivera and Bogner too.
SRV used Fender Bogner & Marshalls live together w/his hands made that tone I could see him liking a SLO. Once tracking a blues rock guitarist in studio well his amp blew up during the scratch trx & we finished w/my 5150 on the clean chn w/crunch got some of the best blues rock tone I've ever heard he was surprised he thought that was a Metal only amp. SLO's 5150's can have lots of tones if you retube w/the right tubes & know how to dial em in. Btw that guy was a SRV Clapton Hendrix fan.
I used to use an SLO when I was gigging big rooms in the '90's. Terrific amp. I recently tried an HR25 but it really didn't work for me. Guess I'm getting old! I did love the HR's "Normal" channel though. An amp with two of those channels would be it for me.
Great Interview, Mr Soldano seems like a nice guy. Wish I could afford an SLO.
Really enjoyed watching this.
So glad!
Michael Houser from Widespread Panic. RIP. Very awesome simple lead sound from SLO100. He had an amazing clean tone as well..check out late 90's early 2000's live shows for his best sounds
Love to go to work for Soldano...
The 5150 has an additional gain stage, though heavily padded, and the tone stack is driven by an inverting feedback amplifier instead of a cathode follower. It to is padded and has a high pass filter.
AWESOME EPISODE
reza khan Thanks!
These should be on the History channel because they document so much tonal history! Disappointed that y'all didn't hit the 5 hour standard! Lol Thank you for the time and insights!
YT is one reason TV is dead to many because of great content like this.
What good stuff!!!!
Funny hearing them talk about the feedback you get from a real tube amp. I experienced this firsthand recently. Been playing cheap amps and modelers for 25 years. Finally got my first real 2x12 all tube amp recently. It touched me in places I've never been touched before. They're just different though. I have the Amplitube Soldano & it's the most amazing tone I've ever gotten. But for feel, tubes rule. It's the difference between listening to a CD vs hearing the band play live. They're both great, but just two different experiences.
In 1991 I played the very first 2 Mesa Dual rectifier amps that arrived in Norway, one with EL34s and one with 6L6GC tubes, and it was mentioned that the preamp section was based on the SLO, and the power section like a hyped up 100 watt version of the Marshall JTM45. The dual caliber amps were virtually the SP77 preamp combined with the mark series power sections ... with some alterations
SLO 100- one of the best amps ever
Hi Mark & Dave. Really enjoyed the show. It’s really great to dig into the details of gear and let people stretch out and discuss thing properly. So rare in this day and age. By the way Phillip McKnight uses a company to manage t-shirts for him. He doesn’t need to hold stock and do it himself as they do all the work. Maybe you’ve seen that model but it might be a good way to go if you haven’t. 🤘🏻👍🎸🤘🏻👍🎸🤘🏻👍🎸
Simon Williams Thanks a lot and we will be using a service soon once we get things rolling. We appreciate it
Tone-Talk thanks for the acknowledgment, I’m sure you knew that anyway but you never know. 🤘🏻👍🎸🤘🏻👍🎸
I don't have a TV but that's ok, I have Tone Talk. Love it, Mark and Dave.
Rick Hollis Ha! Awesome! Thanks
SLO 100 and SLO platforms are the Vectors of Amps . MADE IN USA . studio workhorse, military Grade , Industrial strength. ampmlifers . I have dialed these amps in many sessions, achieving astonishing results , also used the Friedman 50 & 100 , super nice amps ..
Mike Soldano seems like a great guy!
It was great to hear you guys mention David Turner....he has been one of my best friends for the better part of 12 years. I feel like I know you guys just from all of the conversations I have had with Dave where he mentions talking to Dave Friedman and Mike Soldano. We constantly tease him about the SLO that Mike made for him with the custom face plate that we call the "Who the F8ck is David Turner" model LOLZ I have one of the rack mount SLO's from 1990 (90366) that David was gracious enough to let me have which I have carried to NUMEROUS tone shoot outs at friends houses and even to James Lugo's place when he had roughly 40 amps there and I thought mine slayed them all... :-P. Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to create this show, as now I have been listening to all the old ones and think its absolutely great you guys are doing this. Really brings back great memories and gives us a lot of insight as to the history that you all have seen and been a part of. Its VERY generous of you all to donate the amount of time that you are to this!!
Bill Niersbach Thanks so much for this post and your story about David Turner. Awesome to hear and we really appreciate you watching the show and taking the time to post.
I have the same view on amp modeling. I love my princeton 5F2A self made clone with my G12H or my oval Jensen. I never get tired of playing that setup. meanwhile.. the rp200 is in the closet.. somewhere.
What a genuine modest guy and total badass genius. Soldano SLO100 to this day is pretty much the only 6l6 amp that I will touch because somehow it has the midrange of Marshall and balls for days unlike the usual American hifi-like variants.
That's it. I am saving up for my SLO.
I had a stars tremelo bridge great stuff
Love the Elvira and Robby posters!
Love it guys!!
Thanks!!
It's so interesting, and the context of 2021 and 2022, to hear Mike talking about things like DC heaters and the loop level and so on. It really was the seed to what became the Next Generation slo.
This is crazy- 2022 and I can watch my fave Amp Builder badasses talk tone … years ago we all figured amp builders never would be cool together. And Classic cars as well??? 😵🔥🤘🏻
Just finished. So good, and no the vids aren’t too long, so much great info. Marc, any chance of getting Reinhold Bogner on?
Brent Pearcy hope so! Thank you
really enjoyed this.. ive had a HR50+ for 19 years now. Always wanted 2 know more about Mike + his amps. These guys are a wealth of knowledge! 1 comment was odd 2 me tho, " i never designed it 2b clean,.. u know, its a rock amp." well the very best + heaviest rock albums involve clean tones. GnR, old metallica, Scorpions, skid row, Led Zep.. everybody except Megadeth lol (evn they use a little).
I owned both #006 and #008. The Lynch amp #006 had been modified for less gain at some point and I put it back original. Mike forgets that the PCB routing was changed at some early point. I have photos of #008 and then a 1988 amp that clearly show the differences in the boards.
2:17:23 The truth about Mesa Rectifier blows my mind!
Yes it is interesting! Thanks for watching
Maybe interview with Randall Smith next time? :P Subscribed!
Yea no shit, I mean I don't look at the schematics, just play them, and mesa sounds good, but not like a slo100 does.
That was like direct fresh air: "Those bastards just basically stole it" It's the same what happens with pedal companies like jhs(angry Charlie and Andy timmons pedal it's a knockoff of a mi crunchbox, wich is a knockoff of a Marshall guvnor)
Awesomeness x19
in Switzerland, they have 1,000 swiss franc bills, they are equal in value to 1,000 in u.s. currency- and reguarly in circulation.
I really like Mike Soldano's philosophy of an all tube signal path and a solid state rectifier.
John Simms Awesome, thanks for watching
He is like THE Hi-gain Hero man lol
Mike is just so fucking stoked about guitar and amps. I wanna be Mike when I grow up and I'm 26.
Friedman and soldano! The greatest of all time.