3 CHANNELS, IR'S, NEW SOLDANO! ASTRO 20 AMP HEAD
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2023
- The Soldano Astro 20, 20w with 3 channels, IR's, DI out, fx loop, midi switchable- for info: www.soldano.com/products/clas...
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You couldn't ask a better person to demo this amp. Very nice!
Every time I watch a Pete Thorn Demo the opening tune is simply tremendous
Thanks!
100% truth.
It's great to see that Soldano understands that, unless you're playing stadiums on a regular basis, 20 watts is all you need. I gigged with a little 20 watt Boogie Subway Rocket 10 inch combo for years, and was told to turn down more than once!!!! In this age of "silent stage", low wattage is the way to go! The amp sounds GREAT!!!! Just like a Soldano should!!!
I hate that I have a bunch of cool amps that I really like, and then another cool amp comes out that I really like!
That head meets all my criteria for an amplifier. Versatile, flexible, and great tone in any channel. Leave it to Mike Soldano.
Sounds much bigger than a 20W 6V6 amp; which is hard to do, great job Mike and great demo !
Wait, just yesterday you had forgotten you had to have this out today, and now we have this rock and roll jewel box. Pete, you’re a machine.
Every time I watch Pete I spend money...not good for my marriage but great for my tone!...Thanks Pete!
it happens to me too🤣
Dang Pete! Your playing always takes my head off! WOW!
Thanks!
I've watched over half a dozen demos on this wonderful amp. IMO, Pet has the best tone.
Once again, Pete, you knocked it out of the park!!! You do the best demos of anyone I follow!!! Awesome awesome awesome!!! The way you write an original tune in a way that shows off each of the features of the amp. Excellent!!
Thanks!!!
I listened to every demo at least three times before purchasing this amp. Pete’s demo is one of the best. An amp for me has to sound good and be able to pass the live band test. I was skeptical about this as I’ve never owned a tube amp under 50w. I’ve been running it through a 4x12 71 Marshall slant cab with 10 yr old greenbacks. It sounds so good. Actually inspired me to play better. Plenty of volume, even at practice where it’s not mic’d. Running it midi with my Musicomlabs, I have it set to 4 distinct channels per bank; just so versatile. And haven’t even used the IR direct capability yet. If you’re on the fence about this amp and you like the Soldano character then I can guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
Pete,
Another excellent video! Thanks for the deep dive on the cleans and the versatility of the amp. You have to get some kind of award for best songs for demoing gear on videos hands down.
Keep up the great videos! Hope you play Hawaii soon!
Much Mahalos
Best review/demo so far. Thanks, Pete!
I just ordered one...I mean...it was a no-brainer. This thing sounds sick. SICK!
That clean tone! Wow. It all sounds great. Fantastic demo as usual Pete!
Great video Pete. Stellar playing as always and a great tune!
This amp is loaded!!! It's a great time to be a guitarist! 🤘
Always enjoy seeing that Danelectro baritone!! Very cool instrument, and of course incredible guitars all around.
Thanks for this demo video, Pete!
More jaw dropping songwriting and playing of an amazing sounding amp from the good Dr. Thorn!
Thank you kindly!
Maybe Pete's nickname should be Dr. Feelgood. His videos and his playing makes my ears feel all right. Speaking of Motley Crue, I'll bet this amp doubles well with a Marshall for that sound.
Pete makes me want to buy just about everything he demos.
Really well thought out and sounds great. I'll be contemplating hard about this one. Thanks Pete!
When you were commenting on the clean modes in IR or "real" speaker, I think that the IR won't emulate cone breakup, since most IRs are static at one (hopefully optimum) recorded level - you can do multiple IRs recorded at multiple levels and blend between them based on some parameter like gain level (especially since the patents on the technology have expired as far as I recall), but it's a lot more complex than just doing a single convolution with a single IR. Still sounds awesome, though!
Great vid as usual Pete. I have the Soldano 30 and this is a whole different animal and maybe more in line what I would use in my studio. I love my Soldano 30 but this definitely has tons more tone options.
Check out this video I made on using MIDI to control a Soldano Astro 20, Torpedo Captor X, & Golden Boy with an Ampero Control (all on different MIDI channels):
ua-cam.com/video/R6382C0bDXY/v-deo.htmlsi=Y90suiYDtDzCuWaV
That was fast, just saw the live and now here you are. Sounds like a very sweet amp, very versatile. Cool demo.
Hey Pete great info ! Just got the Astro on order . Thanks 🙏!
Sounds great! Feature-wise, it reminds me a lot of another amp (lower watt, 3 channel tube , + IRs + headphone out, etc). You’re a trend-setter Pete :)
Cool set of features. Good demo!
Such a great demo!!
Great demo - I bought this because of you . This is great for the regular Joe .
Great job Pete!!
Man.. you write some of the most killer opening songs! All that with those amazing licks… wow
Great tool! Definitely a wanting. I owned a Soldano Hot Rod 50 years ago, but I couldn’t it use live cause of its loudness even at low levels.
That's the best clean sound I've heard in ages. Maybe ever. And the opening track was🔥🤟
Great clean sound!
Hey Pete! Great demo, as usual.
Pete...that was an absolutely awesome intro...you made that Soldano sing!!! 👏
Pete smokin' it! great demo!
God damn I love all of Pete’s tracks, such great vibes on all of them. Makes everything sound good…
Thanks!
Great review. That amp is on my wishlist.
Wow! Really got cooking at the end there
Great!
As soon as I saw this announced I came here. No one better to demo this. 👌
Cool,what a nice demo for this amazing amp, thanks a lot, Peter. ;-)
Rippin opening tune!
Happy Monday! ☀️
Great job. Thank you! 👌🏻
Well done! Killer amp! My wallet has a racing heartbeat. 🤘🏼😯
Best review on this amp I've seen.
Fast becoming my favorite guitarist man. These demo songs of yours are fantastic! Keep kicking ass...rock needs more people with your passion
He's so freaking good. His Wampler Ratsbane demo is a legit banger.
sick! Ill have to find that one@@LP-123
Sounds cool. Doesnt sound like an SLO but still cool. Thx for the demo Pete.
It sounds like a modern American boutique amp set on the foundation of an 80s Marshall like tone which is what I’d expect from a modern Soldano.
They’re not reinventing the wheel but responding to the modern musicians needs unlike companies like Marshall.
From what I could hear tho it still didn’t give that nice bell like tone you’d look for in a chimey clean.
It sounded a little muddy which is good for a rock sound but not necessarily for say a worship band.
It did put out some really nice spacey sounds.
I’m a metal guy who’s trying to get into worship so I’m always trying to find the best of both worlds.
I haven’t been involved with music much since 2016 and I’m trying to find a good rig.
I’ve looked at all the modeler stuff and I’m somewhat impressed but those things come with lots of baggage apparently and this is really interesting to me because it kind of scratches that itch without ditching a physical amp so I’m REALLY interested in this thing.
My church can work with a pedal that doesn’t have an amp but practice won’t necessarily be powered so I still need something with power and a speaker ultimately but having flexibility is extremely important to me since I’m starting over right now.
I still have my old gear but it just needs too much attention and really isn’t suited for any environments I’ll likely be using it in the near future so I’m going to have to dump most of it and like I said, Start from scratch
I run a strymon iridium direct at my church and it's great. My monitor is a QSC CP12 which is great for FRFR.
@@jimyoung9262 A pedal like the Strymon is more about function than fashion.
It’s a practical reliable solution which is what you want on Sunday morning when you have no time for snags so it’s perfect if I was just doing worship but to craft my own sound I need something that’s going to be the sound in my head and that pedal is way too generic for that.
It covers one end of my needs but not the other
That’s a strong amp, very flexible and from what I can tell you don’t loose anything
Looks/sounds good! Pete does not do a lot of amp demos he has his own kit!
What an intro! Awesome vid Pete!
Thank you kindly!
Wow… Pete your soloing always amazes me💯🎸😎 it’s really no wonder why you worked with the likes of the people you you’ve had the opportunity too💪🏻💯🎸
Thank you!
Amazing tones and functionality!!
Are variable master volumes programmable per channel?
Killer intro track!! As per usual… They never lack!!!!
That opening track is sooo good. Sheeeeee
Hot, dayum! That was freakin' epic! Great amp! Though, dude, you are one of my greatest inspirations! 🤘😎🤘
Jeezus Pete, you should make an album just of all the awesome intro jams
Not enough guitars in the opening intro. lol
Always like your gear reviews Pete. Thank you.
Sounds great I may be sold on this. I bought an SLO 100 and returned it, great amp but couldn't personally justify $4k and just way to loud for what I do.
What an informative demo in a compressed time slot. Love Petes delivery.
Dude! Pete! That intro tune is so gooood! And excellent demo as always!
Glad you like it!
I’ve seen the upload from John Browne, a very interesting amp indeed but I have to listen to Pete’s rifs off course, let’s goooo 🔥
wow, that's a winner! really articulate gain sounds, those open G chords ..... {{{{{{spicy!}}}}}}
Any opinion on how this amp takes pedals as well as home volumes? Curious how good the master volume is or if this amp might need any attenuation to sound good less than 90dB?
Its great but 8 wonder if the tight low end and heavy brightness will make my guitar sound brittle, your guitars are top quality.
with a 6V6 power section, you could use JJ 6V6S for a clear bright to compressed creamy sound, or the new TAD Redbase 6V6GT-STR that the founder of Brunetti amps called the best 6V6 he's ever tried for a more classic fat warm 6V6 sound.
This thing sounds amazing
For my personal needs, because this has a simulated power section when running direct I’d prefer a to just take out the power section and make either a rack preamp or a pedal - almost like the Friedman IRX
I doubt I’ll get my wish but that would be ideal
Knowhere in the manual is a simulated power section being mentioned, but maybe the power section goes to a load and then to the IR... but it's seperate from the power amp in some way as it's being mentioned to turn the master volume down... which would contradict that observation. But does it really matter? It sounds good...
@@grtxyz4358 This thing sounds amazing. I thought I remembered a video that mentioned the simulated power section but I could have misheard
Definitely want one
great review. What do you think, SLO or Astro?
Holy damn, man. Intro song is killer.
Thanks u!
Fedup with you Pete. Because of you, can't fox my G.A.S disease! great review as usual
Oooo effects loop for That Clean....is the effects loop MIDI switch able too?
nah, seriously i can't afford it .... nice though.
Dammit, Pete. Now I need to buy another soldano!!
Yes Sir!
👌💥👌Damn that Intro ..Thats how a pro sounds👌💥👌
Are the tone stack values stored and recalled within the presets?
killer demo and killer playing as always, well done Pete and well done Soldano
@PeteThorn Great review Pete! I'm really looking at this amp hard.. could you possibly do a replication of VH tones with it through the years to see how close you could get??
Is it just me or its a very well balanced amp ? Does evetuthing well 😊
This amp plus talent...
I really Ike the features, and the demo is as always killer! But I’m not too keen on the dirty channel tones, Those upper mid’s are a bit too strident for my ears. The clean channel was nice!
Awesome 👍😎
So when saving a channel, it’s IR and EQ and channel gain setting, can the midi presets (128) save all four of those above parameters ? If so. How do you save and assign midi channel ?
Sounds great, but did we think otherwise with Mike Soldano doing it? lol
Does the MIDI just do the gain level/galaxy or are all the channel settings saved too?
It does not, unfortunately, save eq settings. That would have been killer
Did you find that the clean/green channel was level-matched / normalized to the higher gain channels & galaxies, so you could switch back and forth to crystal cleans and scorching leads with no issues or compromises? Thanks, Pete!
Clean and overdrive 1 and overdrive 2 has separate and independent volume controls, so no issue!
Loving the hiss. 😉😄
Well, to be fair, I had my monitors cranked up loud and you're hearing the high game setting, that's just what you get on a high gain amplifier now isn't it?
@@PeteThornI was just joking, of course this is completely normal when playing with that much gain. I am just so used to noise gates these days. 😉
11:00 might have something to do with how they’re doing the internal load /power amp disable for direct recording with no cab? This is good to know because I actually like some hair on a clean sound when you pick hard. Would be interesting to hear blue or purple Galaxy with power amp cranked and bringing up the pre.
Well, it's like I was saying in the video, the tap, for the DI, is actually taken before the power amp. then there is some digital thump/presence going on as part of that output to simulate with a power amp does, but you can't drive the power amp sim into distortion.
I understood what you said. I was just guessing at a reason as to why they designed it that way and weren’t doing a tap off the OT.
I want a Soldano amp with a built in Pete Thorn that can play notes that I miss when I am trying to write a hit…. I start playing and out of nowhere Pete sneaks in and adds his notes and riffage and that is the next amp mod AI…. Artificial Intelligence Amps…. Select an artist and when you play a certain way…. It throws in note ideas from that artist to teach you more than you can play…. Like a private lesson but the amp
Senses more of what you need but from Pete’s idea base
Dont try and write a hit and you might write a hit 😊
Two questions here: (1) 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?
(2) Next question: how does this Soldano Astro 20-watts compare to the EVH 5150iii 50-watts in terms of tone & volume?
Gotta have more watts to keep clean headroom if theres a loud drummer..40w would ve cool
The only way to survive for tube amps is having an onboard reactive load with ir loader..
If they wish to compete with modelling and all the great amp in a pedal stuff that has come out recently then yes tube amps need to change. Or some form of effective on board attenuation, which some amps are starting to offer. Or circuits that work well with good master volumes. Price too. This is a great amp but the price is out of reach for many. The new Boss IR 2 or the Friedman IR-X are great examples of the new reality for guitarists. Lots of other great examples out there at more affordable prices.
I understand what you’re saying, though I prefer my reactive load separate. I paid ~$400 for a Suhr reactive load, and can use it with many different amps. I don’t want to burden every amp with that cost (and the margin that comes with it) when I can make that investment once.
But your overall point is a good one-amps that are easier to integrate into project studios and home use at more reasonable volume levels make good sense. Pete’s PT15-IR is a great idea.
Ignorant statement… the modelers have to have something to model…..there are a lot of bedroom shredders but there are also a ton of real platers who love a live guitar amp. Not everyone is plugging into a PC to be a UA-camr.
@@nicefish10 you re talking with one that plays tube amps.. But for the new generations which plays at home expecially to me amp producers has to offer certains specs.
@@crsantinnope ... tubes stay pure
Now I have to sell a few things and save towards this Amp
Being 20 watts does it have enough headroom?
Also is it loud enough for live settings?
It really depends on the gig. I find it's always drummer dependent, and of course, dependent on how loud you can actually play, usually that's not very loud these days.
Alright. I want it
Maybe I missed it, can you load different cab sims into each of the galaxies?
Yes, on every preset too.
Might need to check the ad settings; I've had 4 ads and I'm just past half way thru
I will change that right now
Fixed, thanks
If only I had the money.
Was a Moserite?
Can anyone tell me what guitar he is he using for the lead part? (HSS pick up configuration)
My signature Suhr!
Maybe I've been missing something, but when the name Soldano comes to mind, I'm not thinking "clean". IMO, it would have been better to have two channels, both with masters and gains and three knob EQ, possibly high and low gain switching - you could get a great crunch sound and a searing lead sound that Soldano is known for. Honestly, a "clean" channel with only a volume and tone (and bright switch)? What were they aiming for? A Fender Champ that can be overdriven to break up? Everyone will be grabbing their Boss EQ for that clean channel or a dirt pedal, OR BOTH.
I'm not trying to piss all over this thing - I like the idea of the IR stuff. This could be a recording monster, without having to buy an Ox Box, just straight into the interface. Cool.