rmlevasseur
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The SLO is my primary amp and always was in my gigging days. It is a tough beast to tame. When i bought it I did not want a Marshall, and frankly it just isn't one. For so few eq controls, it is amazing how much different sound they put out. VH, Ratt, Knoppfler, Aerosmith, i mean the list goes on and on. It is also indestructible. Ten years of heavy gigging and another five of bedroom use and never so much as a crackle. Just dont use it with whatever eminence speaker Soldano was putting in their stock cab. Yuck.
Marshall's do have a certain soul (at east the old ones) that the slo cant touch, just like old Fender's do. The slo may have been built for the desire for a high gain marshall but it became its own thing.
I have heard people describe it as sterile, but i always thought of it more as a white page. It's up to the player to color it, as opposed to something like a Recto that always sounds like a Recto despite player nuance.
Marshall's do have a certain soul (at east the old ones) that the slo cant touch, just like old Fender's do. The slo may have been built for the desire for a high gain marshall but it became its own thing.
I have heard people describe it as sterile, but i always thought of it more as a white page. It's up to the player to color it, as opposed to something like a Recto that always sounds like a Recto despite player nuance.
you may be right about that. Enuff tone to set the hook yet we can't keep them fizzy bubbles down. Amp after amp after amp with the same complaint many of us have. Ya think they'd be able to clip that shit and still be fine in a mix and not a handicap in the studio dialing it out.
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