Exploring GALAXIES of TONE W/ the New Soldano Astro 20!
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
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Holy moly, Soldano just dropped their most versatile amp EVER! The new Astro 20 has GALAXIES of tones inside it, and Uncle Ben Eller here is gonna explore them all on the newest episode of Meet the Machines!
Can this amp serve up the classic Van Halen/Van Hagar era Soldano tones? YES! Check out the tune I wrote inspired by this amp (mixed and mastered by the amazing @erockomania ) then slip off those socks and shoes and hang out for a deep dive of all 3 channels of versatile tones this 20 watt all-tube amp has to offer! With its built-in IR's and tone switches, it's just as at home in the studio as it is onstage. All options included, A/C blows COLD!!!
Playing this amp with my Jackson Virtuoso and the amazing UA OX! For more details on the IR capabilities, check out @RiffsAndBeards video!
That opening song is 🔥🔥
Yeah. Kinda Alex Lifeson-y...
@@seanfromaustinprobably was going for a 90’s Van Halen thing maybe w the soldano atleast riff idk about the solo
the amount of features this amp has is insane it is like soldano figured the perfect physical amp with all the tweaking provided by amp modelers like helix and axe fx
Hello Uncle Ben. That intro song was unbelievable. Please don't stop writing songs of that caliber. You Rock. Signed John Zepbass Gregory from Munster Indiana, Bass player.
Thanks a ton!
You don't have to let everyone know your full name,where you're from and what you play , that's really strange actually.
Did you ever hear of promotion. That's part of the entertainment industry.
Soldano is killing it. Love it!
This tune is screaming Van Hager... Very nice.
I don’t know thing number one about amp technology or how to produce any given time, but I know this:
That opening track is the absolute best new rock song I’ve heard this year.
Sorry, Nuno and Reb, the balloting is closed.
I’m not kidding, you were dropping plasma bombs from geosynchronous orbit.
I bow my head in respect to a master with talents far beyond what we thought we knew about him.
❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much!
Uncle Ben that opening tune is killer!!! The Astro sounds amazing!!! Thank you!
Uncle Ben's got some sick gear
He likes things that are nice.
Van hagar to Queensryche with alittle 90's splashed in. That was awesome.
I don’t need another amp.
I need it!
Love that demo song pure 80s goodness sick tone and playing
My SLO-30 is insanely loud, and I think that intro song would be cool to see you with Pete Thorn perform that live.
Ordered mine a few hours ago. It arrives Monday and I can't...f*cking...wait!
Uncle Ben, you are an absolute enabler. This is such a great-sounding video
Wow, just wow! Thank you Unc!
Yeah, I love my mid 80s Yamaha T100 Saldano design Yahmadano!!!
Sweet!! I was waiting for your demo Ben! Great work sir!!
Thanks a lot, buddy
Thanks Uncle Ben for a great review. Well I think it was. I have to keep going back and listening to that amazing composition. The lead lines, rhythm …. What a song. Amazing work !
Well that answers that question, incredible amp and of course playing
Great playing Uncle Ben! Love the demo track.
One of the best videos on this launch. Ticks all the boxes and great playing to boot. 👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, the instrumental at the opening was the kind of stuff I hear in my head. Epic 🤘🏻
This amp sounds real GOOD.
Dude, the opening song is so good. Please release it.
The galloped riff at around 18 mins sound like something Megadeth would have come up. Very hangar 18ish
Sounds fantastic. I can't get over that Jackson, Man. What a hot rod. Love the Schon-ism at 2:20 btw....tasty AF🤘
7:50 love that joke
Ben, Very nice song. I really enjoyed it!! Teach us some of those tasty licks.
Make that a song release. That was wonderful. Thanks Uncle Ben.
Thanks Uncle Ben, that Amp is tone!central!Much Luv 👍
Pretty fantastic amplifier. On my short list of second amps. Now I just need a baby 20w or 30w Engl Savage to come out. Thanks for an informative video and great demo song brother 💯
Great song, great playing, great amp! Nice things!
Nice job Ben, now I'm even more exited to get mine! Should be here tomorrow
Those were some really great tones indeed!
I may have found my new amp to run through my OX Box... and since I am going all in on that early 90's VH tone... this definitely fits the bill... awesome work, its much appreciated.
Another killer amp from Soldano. I bet this will be one of the most popular Soldano for years to come. Great tone & versatility, when compared to the SLO 100 / 30 series. Thanks Ben
Hey Ben, Rush called, they want their song back that you used for the intro 🤣 Very interesting new amp!
I like tomes that are nice. Beautiful sounds. The clean channel sounds almost piezo-like.
WOW...that overdrive red sounded spectacular. Not sure what you did, but you kept it really tight, without losing the mids SLO's are known for. Would love to hear if this amp could come close to matching an SLO crunch/plexi classic-rock rhythm tone. Great demo, Ben! Thanks for sharing.
Man, your reviews are up there with Michael Nielsen and Pete Thorn with the intro songs. Loving them. My wallet is a little afraid though.
great playing
A nice Eddieesque Tone you got there ❤😊
Thanks! 😃
Killer ! Hey Ben could do a lesson on how you like dialing in a great tone like u got going on here .
Such a killer little amp. On my list for purchase.
Wow dude, that opening track!! Holy shit!
Thanks so much. Solo album in the works now ;)
@@BenEller can't wait!
Clearly all of the tone is dripping form those scortching Adidas Slides! My go to around the house vibe as well.
Sounds really good!
Bought a soldano Astro 20 and it’s got to be the most versatile amp I have ever used
Interesting..around 7 channels that i follow , all have this amp demo video published today! 😀
Nice intro Unca.... very mid nineties Edward. And yes that is a compliment. 🤘😎🤘
Love this review!!
So glad! Thanks!
Cool composition bro
I think the blue galaxy with the gain all the way up sounds the best.
Thats too funny right before he started talking about the bottom end i was just thinking how well that would take a tube screamer haha. Love boosting a nice robust amp, full bodied if you will haha
Man, you meld the Balance tone of EVH, Satriani, Neal Schon and so many more in this beast of a demo song. You are the man Ben! Please, More!
Uncle Ben just went and burned out the rice! 🔥 excellent intro jam, Ben! It was original and it rocked me!
I’m hearing so much ou812 and 5150 tones I’m in heaven
Right now I play through a Vox Nu Tube 40-watt. I like this Soldano. 😉
I mean, the opening track is all ya need! Fantastic, my man.
And with that it looks like I’ll be putting my Triple Crown 100 up for sale and getting one of these
Love the song, Ben! When’s your album coming out? Can’t wait!😊
In the works! Stay tuned!
@@BenEller...this opening riff had better be on it, that's all I'm gonna say.
Uncle Ben:
Playing his wall of awesome tube amps
Me:
Looking at my free guitar vsts...
Dude the red channel with the precision drive sounded insane! I’d be all over a 50w
Great video as always. Only criticism is that I think the Presence knob could have been turned up a bit more. Almost sounded muffled
Noted!
Man I like that Jackson you are playing, first tune sounds killer 🤘
Thanks a lot! Love this guitar.
Very VH Carnal knowledge!!! Awesome!!!
Killer playing, killer tone🎉
if there is a sound in there...Uncle Ben can extract it like the best surgeon that ever existed!
Great video! Will the Astro do a smooth lead tone? I know some amps have an inherent fizz to the tone that can’t be dialed out that isn’t always apparent in a video. The tone from Andy’s Gear Box is pretty much my go to right now and that type of smooth drive is what I prefer. I’m trying to decide between this amp and the Lynx 50. Which do you think would best fit this type of smoother lead tone? Thanks Ben!
Uncle Ben are any the stock IRs used or featured in this here vid?
btw...KILLER TUNE-age and RIFFOLA action!!🤘😎👏
The little Michael McDonald whimper got me.
I really like this amp. Its awesome.
It really is!
cool!!! but did you slide in a Loverboy lick at the very end? Oh the shame!!
NEW GUITAR DAY FOR ME IS ONLY A FEW DAYS AWAY!!!!
I keep having "Waves" of excitement in this little "Heart of Mine". I just hope it doesn't "Slide Around" in transport because that would be "Darker than Life" itself. It's a "Rippin and Roaring" guitar, sweeter than Carmel. I couldn't Ash for anything more!!!
No, I'm sorry, I can tell you what it is. That would be bad luck.... those shipping boxes are "Slippery Little Thing"s and I don't want to jinx anything.
I LOVE NEW GUITAR DAY😂
brilliant ! Do you have Seymour Duncan JB and 59 there?
With the precision drive or a Tubescreamer the red channel seems usable
A tube amp that models. How cool is that?
Yeah, jumping in to join the chorus of people who are applauding your opening song. That was really f-n good.
Do you think the red galaxy can compete with a 5150 III Stealth? Considering swamping some amps for this with its flexibility. Want to make sure it can hold up to modern high gain.
Super toight Zom-Ben!!!
Soldano is amazing!
Your vid’s rock uncle Ben! You make me wanna throw $$$ at everything! It’s a bit frustrating. Being a gear head is terrible….😕….. we love the new shiny ✨ toys don’t we. Don’t need it, but I WANT IT! dammit
in a live gig at a medium-size pub with a loud drummer and NO mic on my speakers, could this Soldano Astro-20 watts keep up with a loud drummer in terms of volume?
The red with the overdrive is knarly
Amazing you can play the perfect part for each setting! Great amp- want it… but will my dogs Molly and Charlie?
Joe Satriani would be proud of that intro !
Debating this or the new victory kraken mkll. Any opinions anybody? Was saving up for the slo 30 actually but starting to realize the astro may just be better somehow.
ok I think I get it now, with the galaxies/channels. It seems the two OD channels are identical, they allow versatility. It's the galaxies that have the various gain stages. (pls correct me if I'm wrong). Today I set up 6 separate MIDI footswitch "channels" on my Ampero MIDI footswitch. At first, I set the gain and volume exactly the same for both OD1 and OD2, and tried each galaxy with each channel. Sounded identical to my ears (so Blue on OD1 and Blue on OD2 sounded the same; Purple on OD1 and Purple on OD2 sounded the same). So then I left the volume same for both channels, but set gain at around 10 oclock on OD1 and around 2 oclock on OD2. At that point, I had two noticably different "Blue" channels. Then I did the same thing for Purple, and now I have on one bank of the Ampero, four footswitches: Blue OD1 lower gain, Blue OD2 higher gain, Purple OD1 lower gain, Purple OD2 higher gain. It's so cool...it's a gradual increase from left to right (footswitch buttons). That went so well, that I went to the next bank of the Ampero and set two Red galaxy footswitches, one on OD1 and the other on OD2. So now I have 6 footswitches that give me effectively 6 separate channels (and actually 7 when you include the green/clean channel). Oh and also, I chose a different cabinet IR for the Blue galaxy settings. I have the speaker connection going to a Captor X and into one input of my interface, panned left, then the XLR balanced out going to the second input of the interface, panned right. Next thing to do is record some stuff in Reaper.
How did you record this video? Cab + mic or direct out? Im asking because apparently the amp uses modeling for direct out and I'm wondering about what I'm hearing here
Man I used my UA OX cause that’s just how my home setup is! Watch Ryan Bruce’s video to hear more with the built-in IR’s.
@@BenEller Thanks for the reply! Great tone regardless whatever method you used, I'm considering this as my first tube amp and your and Todd Leon his demo are by far my 2 favorites (it's between the EVH 5150 Stealth 50, ENGL Savage and now this. Hard choice to make ;) )
@@gertjangoetynck5074 decisions decisions! You’ve got some great options there.
Check out this video on using MIDI to control a Soldano Astro 20, Torpedo Captor X, & Golden Boy with an Ampero Control:
ua-cam.com/video/R6382C0bDXY/v-deo.htmlsi=Y90suiYDtDzCuWaV
I'm pretty sure this is what I've been waiting for. And wondering...since I already have a Captor X (currently using with DSL-40), could I have both the balanced out with cab IR to one input of the interface, and one from the Captor X going to another input on the interface? Is the balanced out active when an ext cab is connected? (that would be the Captor X in my scenario)
Yes the blanced out is always active no matter if there is a cabinet connected!
@@politoleo holy crap, imagine how awesome that would be. I'm already controlling the Captor X via MIDI, and so I could with one MIDI footswitch, set what I want for the Captor X cab AND the Astro 20 balanced out.
@@SwinginBluesTube And since you use MIDI already you can control Astro channel AND galaxy, so you could set CH1 with gain at half (or lower), CH2 with more gain than CH1, and use midi to have a 7 channel amp! (Green, Blue CH1, Blue CH2, Purple CH1, Purple CH2, Red CH1, RED CH2)
@@politoleo That is insane!! I can't wait to get my hands on one of these.
@@politoleo Do you have this amp? I got mine the other day and I'm trying to understand how to configure what you're proposing (7 "channels"). I guess I just don't yet understand how to really work with the galaxies.
The best sound ever.
Man your hard rock tones are the best! Would love to see you live rocking out !
Thanks man! Come see a show sometime!
@@BenEller absolutely!
Uncle Ben, did you try this amp with bass?
What did you think? Can it dual duty for bass and guitar?
No, and I would not… guitar amps really just aren’t made to handle those kinds of frequencies.
Sus 2 is my spirit animal.
Brb! Getting me coffee!!
Very special type of home-schooled hahahahahhahah I'm keepin that!
Serving up that fried gold.
Can't u make a video of how u make your drum beats, their awesome
I recently purchased the new Tone Master Pro and the FR-12 powered speaker and could not be happier. The pluses far outweigh any minuses. The tones you can create are simply outstanding. The number of cables has been reduced to two. No more pedalboard or amplifiers. No more worries about signal chain. Overall footprint is drastically reduced. I love my tube amps but my JCM 800, Orange Dark Terror and Blackstar Series One are all in the closet. Modeling is the future. It is inevitable.
But you're still tuning in to hear the soldano..? I wonder why lol
@@asianaxeman
I didn't watch to hear the Soldano. I just like this guy's channel. Like I said, I have a number of really nice tube amps that are now in the closet.
I feel like it’s not really a competition… both have room as far as music playing is concerned…I find the tone master sick as well as this soldano
@@stefanokrivtzoff1593
But it is a competition of sorts. You are going to use one or the other for the most part. Tube amps are great but in terms of versatility, ease of use, footprint reduction and probably a dozen other things I'm forgetting, modeling is the clear winner. The technology in modeling has evolved to where you can mirror the tone of a tube amp and do so much more it's just crazy. When you see a band like Metallica no longer using amps on tour that makes a huge statement. Modeling is the future.
What does this have to do with the soldano?
I wish I could afford anything by Soldano. Unfortunately I don’t own a gold mine. Sounds incredible though.
I’ve got an SLO 30 for sale now, if anyone is interested…