Soldano Reverb-O-Sonic

I have no idea when this amp was made. Estimated from calling in, it was made around 1998. But I purchased this amp of a fella on ebay. This amp is very very versatile for the music i play. 2- channel with standard bass, treble, mids, and presence controls. It does have the master lead gain on both channels! So this is really nice if you like a real dry clean tone or a little distorted clean! And can you believe this amp has knobs that go all the way to 11!!! Right arm! I play anything from Hard Rock, Emo, Rock, Metal, Blues, Jazz.. The only reason I didnt give this a 10 was due to the reverb and channel switching on 2 different pedals. I would like to have this on one pedal if I could, But no worries! I use this amp primarily for practice and giging so as for feature wise this has it all.. ( Hint: This amp has 12ax7's and 6l6's.. If you want to get warmer cleans and greater distortion, Change the 12ax7's to : Electro-Harmonics and the 6l6's to: Svetlana's )

Well this is my ax collection:
85 Les Paul Custom ( Classic 57 Humbuckers )
00 Les Paul Standard ( New Vburst Humbuckers )
81 Les Paul GoldTop Deluxe ( Mini-Humbuckers )
00 Telecaster Deluxe 72 reissue (Hummer/Neck,Noiseless/bridge)
76 Telecaster custom ( Original Single Coils )
97 SG Standard reissue 61 ( Zebra Humbuckers in both bridge and neck )

Ok so you can see that my ax collection varies with the style of music that I play. This amp fits everthing that I play plus more. I dont use a varity of pedals! I like Guitar, cord, amp for every situation. I used to play with all sorts of different pedals and different arrays.. I still use a Line 6 delay modular and of course, the Boss Tuner pedal but that is about it. I have many different amps: Mashall jcm 800, Mesa boogie Heartbreaker combo, Mesa maverick combo, orange or80 combo, bogner shiva head, voax ac30 .. And this combo guitar covers most of these amps all in one little package.. The marshall is great on distortion and same with mesa's but the but the cleans sacrifices all the time in both brands.. The orange is great but only 1 channel and same with the vox. So this amp solves my every need when I need a 2 channel amp to play with both great clean tone and distortion tones. I usually find my self playing in Local clubs and even bigger venues that hold 800+ people and have no problem hearing myself. If I do need more volume.. I just run another cab ( 4x12 Orange 76 with Green Backs ). The only thing I cant do is run pure metal.. but that is ok.. This amp does everything else! And the reverb.. omg.. this is amazing.. Im usually not a big fan of spring reverb.. But this amp with the setting turned to about 2 is perfect!!!

Well.. this is a really sturdy amp. I dont know though. I can say for being a hand built amp, this will not have too much a prob for now.. The jacks look great, The tubes has been obiously replaced.. but other than that it has been really reliable for the last 30 days I have had it!

Ok that guy that posted that he got really crappy service must have been completely insane or he called a different company. I have talked to Bill at least a dozen times before I even bought the amp of all the features, sounds, reliability, customer service, etc.. and he answered all my questions like an excited kid. I loved it! It was very professional! I must have talked for at least 1 hour or more each time! The only thing that will suck is if the amp breaks, I might have to send it up to Soldano that will cost me an arm and a leg, but so so worth it it!

Well I have been playing for 10 years and have played alot of different amps, guitars, and other music instuments.. This amp I would say is the best buy for the money! This amp is usually cheaper than other botique amps, but well worth the weight in gold. If this was stolen I would be pissed! But I would revert to buying another one exactly like this..

Made around 99 or 2000 50 watts you know the rest! Converted mine to a head Check it out www.bikemike.itgo.com

Tele,strat,PRS MC. and amp that is all you need with this amp. I have had it for 1 year If your looking for classic rock or blues amp check it out! If this don't get the sound you might want to take some lessons This is no beginners amp pro all the way. I found tone Heaven when I ran my legecy 4x12 vintage 30's cab WOW! COMBO tip if your placing it parallel with the wall don't at first I did this sounded tinny turn it 30 to 40 deg. from wall or on amp stand and listen to the change. Turn it up and get that sound everyone wants if you don't turn it up you will not know what your missing.

Changed tubes but thats a tube amp for ya! Everything else doing good

They treated me fine sent me a manual answered ?s ect....

Would have payed full Price! 30 years playing had Fenders,Mesa,peavey,And Marshall"plexi"

Mine is a 2/10 combo and was the 16th one made 2100016, I think that puts it around 1994. 2 channel, clean & crunch. Effects loop,reverb & speaker out. Soldano brand 10" speakers. About 27.25" wide,16" tall and 10" deep. Pretty basic, not alot of bells and whistles, just sound. I like tube amps that way.

I use a Les Paul or a 3 pickup Nighthawk and plug straight in.
I also have a 2/12 soldano bottom I plug this into. The sound of the 10"s themselves sound a little shrill (this is a speaker thing, not an amp thing) Here's the best part. Plugged into a 2/12 closed back cab, the world of sound opens up. You get the benifit of the open & closed back tone. Crank it up and you get the most phenominal blues amp ever made. Great for clean or distorted. I usually play the clean channel with the pre cranked to about 8. I get a heavy Warren Hayes type tone. Absolutely killer. Just enough breakup. I like it more & more each day. Tone wise, this kills just about everything out there, Mesa, Marshall ect...

I bought it used, it had the origional tubes in it & still sounded great. I did order some new tubes. This is the 2nd soldano amp I have & the quality is as always, excellent. I'm guessing that its about 8 years old & still looks and plays great, I dont see any problem with reliability, otherwise it would have died long ago. This was used to gig out & still looks new.

I've emailed Bill several times regarding different things & always had a reply the same day. No matter how trivial my question, he always gave me great advice without making me feel like it was a dumb question, These guys know all I do is plug it in & want it sound great.

I've been at it for about 25 years. I really like this setup. Lots of balls and sweet tone. You can make a note shake through your body with this one. Although I bought mine used, there is a reason why these are expensive, you can hear the quality tone.

This is a 1999 model,2X12,black leather(nice),reverb,presence,clean and dirty channel,effects loop,footswitch,castors,and very user freindly.I traded a 5150 1/2 stack for it.(Thanks Criss).The only thing its lacking is a 4X12!

AHHHHHH! The clarity OR distortion is awesome! Where did they get a name like Reverb-O-Sonic? Sounds like a yuppy amp but it doesn't matter what style of music you play, this combo WILL PUT YOU THERE and you will sound good.I run a strat +,LP Custom and others thru it but it wood make a plywood K-Mart sound great.It has the tone musicians search decades for.There's no more G.A.S. amp purchases for me!

I really can't comment on reliability cause its 2 years old and used.The only thing I've done is replaced a microphonic tube.I hear Soldano's stuff is old school and made to last.

I spoke to Mike and staff several times about trivial things since I didn't get an owners manual and they E-mailed me promptly or returned my calls.They appear to back their products sincerly.

Been playing 30+ year on and of.When my buddy brought it over for me to test drive,well,needless to say he didn't take it home with him.I've played thru a few nice amps and this is one I'm proud of and pamper(not that you could hurt it).Anyone that comes over and plays it is impressed.Sure it ain't cheap but you'll save a lot of money and have your little peice of heaven too when you got this baby under your roof!

It gets a 9 because it needs separate pedals for the reverb and channel switching, a 2 in 1 pedal would be more appropriate. Separate EQ's for both channels would be nice. Also, separate bias pots for the output tubes would be convenient. These are very minor details that can be worked around. When you hear the tone this combo gets, its hardly a gripe.

Hands down a 10.

I've had it a year. Sounds better everyday.

Responded well with emails. Sent out an extra footswitch quickly.

One of the best combos you can buy.

New bought 2001. This 50 watt amp has the basics which include 2 channels (clean & crunch), separate master volume control for each channel, reverb (shared by both channels), bass, mid, and treble knob and a presence knob also shared by both channels. A channel switching pedal comes with the unit, and an optional pedal is required to switch the reverb on or off (very nice feature). There is an effects loop on the back panel, which some guys want but I never use it. Two 12" Eminence speakers, custom built to Soldano specs., and an external speaker jack which can be used with a cab rated at 8 or 16 ohms. Power is supplied by 2 Russian Sovtek 5881/6L6WGC power tubes and 5 AX7LPS preamp tubes. Rated at 9 because of the shared reverb and tone controls. Shared reverb - no problem, just get the foot switch. Would have liked one set of tone controls for each channel, but this is not really a problem at all when you use your guitar volume and tone controls to further adjust the sound. This amp has everything I need for my style of rock and blues.

I use a standard strats 3 single coils. I play in a rock group that does lots of large performances, such as outdoor festivals and tours. Been playing forever. If your a rocker or love to play the blues this amp will smoke any combo out there! I have tried many, Bogner (good but this is better to my ear), Mesa Boogie, Marshall (vintage models were good, IMO all new Marshall's suck), Crate, Fender, Rivera, Laney, and many more. Metal players won't get total saturation, but could get real close if that's your thing. I thought this amp sounded great with the stock Sovtek tubes until my tech suggested trying some Groove Tube KT-66'S. He re-biased the amp with the KT-66's and let me try it out. He knew I would be buying them once I heard the sound of this well made beefy tube. The amp tone went from great to UNBELIEVABLE!! Pure rich sustain, magnificent bell tones with harmonic overtones, superb string definition, lots of strong bass and biting crunch. This amp was made for rockers and blues players wanting the REAL sound. The clean channel is rich and pure, and even a country player would appreciated it's clarity. Both channels came alive with the KT's. They are well worth the extra money, and I suggest if you buy this amp new, to just go ahead and order it with this mod. This amp has LOTS of volume and could easily handle a very large room. Hook it up to a 8 or 16 ohm extension cab, and it will shake the walls. One reviewer I read on this thread gave this amp a bad review. He could have never tried a real Reverb O' Sonic. Said the amp was sold to him with a cracked circuit board, damaged by an earthquake at Soldano's factory. That he spent countless hours with his tech trying to fix Soldano's bad work etc... Please! Get Real! Truth is I can't say enough about this wonderful amp, you just have to hear it for yourself.

This amp was built to last. Soldano handbuilt with quality.

Haven't had to deal with them direct because I haven't had any problems. Always have heard they take good care of their customers, and stand behind their products.

I don't plan on ever replacing this amp until I find a combo that sounds better. That may be a long time. If this amp were lost or stolen I would do it all over again.

I bought this new in 96 or 97.It sounded too trebly so I took it to a tech in town.It was nothin but an expensive Peavey.All printed circuit board.Really crappy parts.I hated the two channels with only one set of tones.You can NEVER get the two to sound right when switching.

The clean was OK but the dirty channel has a bumble bee tone like a cheapo fuzz.We even changed the values inside but could not get rid of the buzziness.Noisy too.I tried a lot of speakers and settled on vintage 30s.The stock eminence sounded awful.

It had a few problems with the reverb but just cables.I called the factory and they talked to me like if I wasn't a famous rock star they didn't care.Take the Sovtechs out and put USA tubes in.The printed circuit board was cracked.The sales rep told me that they had an earthquake at the factory and where still selling the damaged ones.Maybe they sent them all to CANADA.EH!

None unless you are famous.The guy there name dropped like crazy.LOU REED LOVES HIS!!!!!

I could not get this thing to sound good.I spent 300.00 on it with so called amp gurus.All failed and they all hated it.NO resale value either.I traded it for a Gibson Archtop.

I believe this 2x12 (X1200 speakers) amp was made in 1998, although that's only a guess as it was bought second-hand (new value in England was #1859 in 1998, now approx. #1499). It's covered in black
leather (yes - I thought it was vinyl at fist too), not the more groovy red lizard or boa etc. (I suppose it's more subtle though...). The amp is versatile in an old-skool kind of way: the range of tones is vast,
but it relies on careful tweaking of the controls both on the amp *and* the guitar; rather than the flicking of triode/pentode or fat/bright switches and the like. It's easily versatile enough for anyone's needs,
although you'd need a stomp box for certain applications (see 'Sounds', below).

I think other reviewers have given the low-down as far as features are.
(Two channels - 'Clean' and 'Crunch' - as opposed to the Hot Rod's 'Normal' and 'Overdrive'. There are just enough to make the amp totally usable without compromising ease-of-use, or more importantly,
tone. There is no DI out, but to have one would be against the 'old-skool' philosophy this amp is built around - it lives to be mic'd (else buy a Hot-Rod 50/100).

9 might seem a bit high for some when it's compared to, say, a Mesa/Boogie Mk.VI/H&K Triamp - but for the type of amp it is (and the features anyone who really wants tone cares for) it deserves a 10.

I play an Ibanez RG520QS/TB. Wait! Ok, ok... so I play an Ibanez through a Soldano. Obviously a widdling thrash player or melodic Vai/Satraiani fan... Absolutely *not*! This particular Ibanez has twin
vintage voiced humbuckers (no 'super distortion' here, thank you) and a sapele topped mahogany body with a rock maple neck. I tried Les-pauls and it sounded more like one than anything available up to
#1000. It's also much more versatile - but anyway, back to the amp...

I play 60's/70's rock and blues: Hendrix, Peter Green etc. I also dabble in lots of early Black Sabbath and Van Halen etc, and even the odd bit of RATM or Korn etc. (apologies...). The amp seems pretty
much perfect for this kind of music, and certainly for many other types.

The amp is ultra quiet, although I didn't think so at first - it turned out the (still reasonable) buzzing was emanating from the Marshall foot switch I was provided with due to the original being lost by the
previous owner. At bedroom levels the noise it almost inaudible and when you crank it... you can't hear it anyway!

The variety of clean textures is amazing: everything from a more modern Feeder-esq. rhythm to a real glassy and harmonic Fender twin is there with some twiddling. The headroom is excellent - easily
enough for quite a big gig. With the pre-amp set high the clean channel will do a pushed, high biased Plexi, cleaned up with the guitars volume control to give a sound identical to that of Hendrix's 'Little
Wing'.

The 'Crunch' channel is incredible. With the treble rolled of a little, both humbuckers and a fat mid it sounds the closest to Clapton's Bluesbreaker tone (particularly 'Hideaway') I've ever heard - and that
includes a Marshall Bluesbreaker reissue. There is a really heavy crunch available on this channel, but it won't sing in a mega high-gain Peavey 5150 way without external assistance. Maxing the pre-amp is
also not that much use unless the master is really cooking on this channel because it gets a little 'spiky' - but that just proves it's a real amp.

Now for the real test. As we all know, some amps seem to sit best around 7-8, but many of the classics (AC30, Bluesbreaker, Plexi etc.) produce the most amazing tones flat out. Now, don't get me wrong -
this amp sounds incredible at much lower volumes, as good as the best transistor amp I'd say. It's just that at the end of the day it is a handbuilt, leather covered all tube amplifier and what are neighbours for
anyway???...

I wisely took the heavy black box over to a friend's to try this one out. He happens to be an excellent guitar player and the proud owner of a US Fender Strat, so we get some more variations too. We wound
the wick up gradually and it just kept getting better. By the time the pre-amp and master of both channels were flat the noise was incredible. It might only be 50 watts, but you wouldn't even know his 100
watt Valvestate 2x12 Marshall was on in the background. You can feel the distortion inside your body - everything tenses up and... well, just try it and see. An interesting point to note was that the two
channels sound almost exactly the same when completely flat out - I guess this must be because the power tube distortion completely dominates any feeding by the preamp. The tone is really indescribable -
it has a complete voice of it's own. As the friend said as I sat back an listened: 'I haven't heard many classic amps with the wick up - but this is certainly one of them'. I reckon that with the Strat, the clean
tone maxed was better than a Fender Twin. Johnny. B. Goode (thankyou, Guitarist) was a highly memorable moment. As with the Ibanez, you can certainly tell it has humbucker's! With the bridge pickup
the harmonics are incredible - they really do shoot up from nowhere when bending a note and you can hear every harmonic on the fretboard on open chords. The bass response is just as perfect. I must try
it with a fuzz pedal sometime, we know it wo

I had a weird 'Elvis goes to space' microphonic today, but then again it is fitted with Chinese 5881's (albeit excellent US supplied, tested and officially fitted ones, complete with service sticker). Come to
think of it the brief 'squeeck' (now gone) was a preamp tube which I had just removed and reinserted to check it's make (unbranded).

I haven't had it that long really. It had a major service and thorough engineer test by the shop just before I bought it. I don't expect any problems really, it seems to be built like a tank. So far a 10 - I expect
no less!

Err.. it was second-hand. Soldano were excellent when I was finding out about their amps though.

Can't really comment...

I have been playing guitar for 11 years now and I'm not that old now! I am classically trained and so I have a lovely rosewood Cuenca. Apart from that I don't really have much gear, just a Boss Phaser, an
early Bass Collection (EMG's as standard!!!) etc.

If this were lost or stolen, God forbid, I'd crawl naked across a county of broken razors to find one. If I bought another amp (a Soldano Decatone Combo???) then I would still keep this.

Second-hand it was incredible value. New, I'm not so sure - I mean, it's worth it only to hear it maxed one; but then I don't have the money to buy a new one at UK prices (about US No.s with the currency
changed...)

I love the incredible tone and dynamics (just wait until I fit it with Groove-Tubes KT-66's!), the wondrous harmonics, the robustness, the simplicity and lack of bulls**t. The only bit I have a quibble with is the weight, but I'll fit castors and hey - have you
ever tried to lift a Mesa/Boogie Heartbreaker? Anyway man, if it weighed any less it would have flown through the window when we mated it out...

If you are reading this and even *slightly* thinking about buying this amp then don't hesitate to e-mail me. If you think you might buy one, it you appreciate tone that is no longer sound but an entire level
above that, GET DOWN TO THAT SHOP NOW!!!

Before buying this amp, I had gone through many basic, eclectic and everywhere in between rack combinations, cabinets, modeling amps and re-issues. I was a true 'GAS' head, aquiring a new amp every few months. It was becoming a bit of a joke to the band. Every time that I had brought in the latest, they would place bets on how long it would be part of my rig.
In the past year, I've gone through many different amps all good but none of them really had met my standards and they are as follows, along w/ my reasons for dumping them : a Marshall 20/20, not a bad amp but the highs werent really there for me and when I used my 65' Gretsch/Chet with it (a beautiful guitar) the amp sounded muddy. I'd used it in conjunction with a Marshall 9100 pre. I got sick of hauling my rack around, not to mention dailing in tones and using a frigging midi pedal. I'm a singer as well as a guitar player and too many buttons tend to make me to forget the third verse.
Then I picked up a Johnson Millenium, a modelling amp and was pleased with it- for about two weeks. There are no tubes in the power stage, and this causes the Johnson to lose depth when distortion is kicked on.
My next purchase was a Fender Twin Re-issue, It sounded great for a month, then on the day of a gig, it crapped out and began making hidious noises when the reverb was on. So back I went to the store and was just going to send the Twin in for repair but while I was there, I heard a Mesa-Boogie Dc-5. I figured on it being a real workhorse, which they are. They're built like a tank, with just as many knobs and switches. I found myself putting tape strips on the knobs in order to keep the sound I had dialed in. It was also incredibly high gain, ultra saturated with the gain on 4. Don't get me wrong, I dig loud music and hey, I love Santana. But the personality of my guitars was lost in the Boogie. Perhaps I could have gotten another model and been happier, but I did't get a chance to.
I went in to the store and got to talking to a guy who has worked there for a long while and he was laughing at me and my bi-polar ear again as I told him how I thought that I'd never find anything with rich, lusty, deep throat kind of bass and sparkling highs.
Then he said that I should have been here ten minutes ago, what I was looking for had just walked out th door. It was a Rivera chubb 40 that came in as quick as it'd went. Then he said that he'd just gotten in a Soldano Reverb-O-Sonic. I thought that the name was worth about 2 cents. Sounded way retro. I knew about the company, knew that the guy from Blues Traveller used Soldano but I also knew that I didn't like that guys sound. The music store cat said that it wasn't like an SLO, It didn't sound like it was spitting at you through a tin tunnel..
So I took the R-O-S over to the wall and plugged it in, I used a guitar which sounded close to my humbucking telecaster. Wow, it sounded incredible almost like a full cab , no shit. The response was incredible from guitar to amplifier, the tubes are creamy smooth. My first reaction was to walk over to the music store cat and tell him not to sell that amp, I'd be back tommorrow with two guitars to try it out again with. Then I went back to the thing and looked it over, It was a black one( as opposed to the purple and bright red ones floating around). Though I wouldn't have cared if it had looked like a picnic table, it sounded great. The layout of the face has been aready written by the others, I don't think that you need to read it 5 times. I will however say that the inset of the face is a good thing, I can't tell you how many dials I'm missing from other amps and gear that I own. Basically, the R-O-S is a 55-60lb. Box of sound. It's built like a brick shithouse and hums smooth as silk at any volume. Whatever your style of music you will be happy with this amp. We play everything from chill blues, Foo Fighters and Rage against Machine type heavy.
So, I got through with my

No amp is a ten in my mind. This one is close.
It runs quiet with a Blues Hawk with f holes and p-90's, that's saying alot.
My Tele sings through it.
I love the distortion, it's thick and rich with alot of personality.
When your guitar is played through this amp, the sound swirls.

.... Soldano makes something like 25 amps a month, each one is handbuilt. Up until recently the same guy built the whole thing, start to finish, now Mike Soldano's small crew is a tasked operation, i.e.-
one guy cuts the wood for the cabs and another does the wiring and tubing and so-on...
I don't forsee any problems with it but as with any piece of equipment, especially a tube amp, it's good to be on the lookout for
wear probs.

The guys at Soldano couldn't be more helpful.

....I love this amp...God forbid, if it were stolen or lost I would definately get another.
Damn nice amplifier.

1996 SOLDANO REVERB O SONIC, 50 WATT, 2 CHANNEL, 2X12 COMBO, PURPLE TOLEX WITH S-MOD( TO UPDATE IT TO 1998 SPECS)EFFECTS LOOP, CHANNEL SWITCHING, ONE SET OF TONE CONTROLS WHICH ARE STRAIGHT FORWARD. THE AMP TO ME IS VERY BRIGHT, SWITCHING FROM THE CRUNCH CHANNEL TO THE CLEAN CHANNEL CAN BE EAR SHATTERING AT TIMES VERY VERY BRIGHT AND I ALSO HAVE THE REVERB BARKING AT ME WHEN I STEP ON THE FOOTPEDAL. I AM SURE THAT COULD BE FIXED BY USING A DIFFERENT UNIT. BUT ,ONLY HAVING THE UNIT FOR ABOUT A MONTH, I NEED TO PLAY AROUND WITH IT. I LOVE THE STRING DEFINITION AND THE SMOOTH GAIN CHANNEL,THE CLEAN CHANNEL IS BRIGHT AND CRISP BUT SOME MODELS(LIKE MINE) WERE NOT GROUNDED RIGHT BECAUSE OF THE VERY THICK PAINT ON THE CHASSIS. SO IF YOU HERE A SMALL HUM IN THE CLEAN CHANNEL THIS COULD BE THE PROBLEM. OVERALL THE AMP IS AN EXCELLENT AND VERY SIMPLE TUBE AMP

IF YOU WANT A MARSHALL BUY ONE, YOU WILL NOT GET THE MASSIVE LOW END METALICA SOUND OUT OF THIS AMP. IT HAS MORE OF A FENDER SOUND AND I AM SURE THATS WHERE THE SOLDANO GUYS WERE GOING WHEN THE BUILT IT. WHAT YOU DO GET IS VERSILTILITY. YOU CAN PLAY BLUES, STEVIE RAY, TOP 40 AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN; EXCEPT HEAVY METAL. GREAT FOR ROCK, VERY CLEAR STRING DEFINITION AT EVERY VOLUME IN EVERY GAIN STAGE. I CURRENTLY PLAY A JEFF BECK SIG STRAT W/ A SEYMOUR DUNC JB PICKUP AND SINGLE COILS AND AN IBANEZ ARTIST WITH A DUNCAN CUSTOM AND JAZZ NECK PICK UP. BOTH GUITARS SOUND EXCELLENT THROUGH THIS AMP. LOTS OF SUSTAIN VERY CLEAR AMP AND NEVER MUDDY . THROW AWAY YOUR STOMP BOXES JUST BRING ONE CORD AND PLUG IN. THIS PARTICULAR AMP HAD THE 5881'S TAKEN OUT AND REPLACED WITH GERMAN EL34 AND NEW PREAMP TUBES WERE INSTALLED. IF YOU WANT AN AMP WITH VERSITILITY AND AN EXCELLENT SOUND BUY IT. BUT IF YOU WANT NOTHING BUT METALICA E CHORDS, RIPPING GAIN AND THUMP AND NO MIDS BUY A MARSHALL. WHEN YOU GROW OUT OF THE HEAVY METAL SOUNDS OF THE 80'S; THE SOLDANO IS THE BEST AMP YOU WILL EVER BUY.

BUILT LIKE A TANK, WEIGHS A TON, NO EXPENSE SPARED ON THE DURABILITY CRAFTMANSHIP OR QUALITY. THE WIRING AND THE CHASSIS ARE EXTREMELY CLEAN AND WELL THOUGHT OUT. NO PROBLEMS AND I DONT FORSEE ANY.

SOLDANO IS VERY HELPFUL. I SHIPPED THE CHASSIS BACK TO THEM TO ADD THE S-MOD AND I RECEIVED IT BACK IN ONE WEEK; THEY ARE ALL VERY HELPFUL. THE PREMIUM IN THE PRICE YOU PAY IS FOR THE PERSONALIZED SERVICE YOU GET WHEN YOU NEED IT. THEY HELPED ME AS WELL AS MY TECH WHEN WE CHANGED THE 5881'S TO EL34'S. GIVE'M A A+++

PLAYING FOR 20 YEARS I HAVE HAD MARSHALLS, FENDERS, A PEAVEY ETC.. RACK EFFECTS, STOMP BOXES ALL THE TOYS WE WASTE ARE MONEY ON BUT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. TURN THE AMP ON LET IT HEAT UP,GET ONE CORD AND PICK OUT YOUR FAV GUITAR AND YOU WILL LOVE THIS AMP... ANYONE WITH MODS OR COMMENTS, SUGGESTED SETTINGS ETC.. COULD EMAIL ME IF YOU LIKE. GOOD LUCK.