Out Of This World: Checking Out The Soldano Astro 20

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
  • Let's dive into the all-new amplifier from Soldano, the Astro 20!
    Get One: sweetwater.sjv.io/Soldano
    Full Info: www.soldano.com/
    Time Stamps:
    0:00 - Start
    0:15 - Intro
    0:38 - Disclosure
    0:55 - What Is It?
    1:23 - Features
    1:56 - Full Mix Example
    2:35 - Additional Specs
    3:52 - Desktop Editor
    4:42 - Playthrough
    13:17 - Wrap Up
    Find Me:
    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
    Mixed By Spotify Playlist | spoti.fi/3Gofpoj
    Instagram | / riffsandbeards
    TikTok | / riffsandbeards
    Facebook | / riffsandbeards
    Discord | / discord
    Website | www.riffsandbeards.net
    Merch | teespring.com/stores/riffs-an...
    Musicians Guide To Content Creation: bit.ly/TheMusiciansGuide
    Gear I Use:
    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
    M2 Ultra Mac Studio: sweetwater.sjv.io/M2Ultra
    Apple Studio Display: sweetwater.sjv.io/AppleDisplay
    Apple Keyboard: sweetwater.sjv.io/AppleKeyboard
    Warm WA76: sweetwater.sjv.io/WarmWA76
    Ernie Ball Strings | sweetwater.sjv.io/ErnieBall_S...
    Genelec 8010A | sweetwater.sjv.io/Genelec8010A
    RODE NTG-5 | sweetwater.sjv.io/RODE_NTG5
    My Signature Fishman Pickup | sweetwater.sjv.io/Fishman_Flu...
    Sony FX3 | amzn.to/3RKBdBj
    Sony FX30 | amzn.to/3TomRYk
    Three Legged Thing Tripod | amzn.to/3RGjUBk
    Support This Channel
    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
    My Sweetwater Store: sweetwater.sjv.io/Fluff
    My Reverb Shop: bit.ly/FluffReverb
    All Links Are Affiliate Links
  • Hudba

Komentáře • 99

  • @gregrandallbtsr03
    @gregrandallbtsr03 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thanks Fluff! Really great review and a clear and informed explanation of the amp and how it works. Also, really liked the screen with you, the actual amp and the software at the same time. Peace

  • @douchebagamus
    @douchebagamus Před 7 měsíci +1

    Always love your reviews bud keep up the great work 👌✊

  • @Soldano999
    @Soldano999 Před 7 měsíci +3

    This has been my dream amp for years. I tought i would never be able to use one because i live in an appartement, but now they make it recording friendly and with IR options.
    Awesome. Still can't afford it but it's my dream amp even more now !

    • @j-rod166
      @j-rod166 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Revv G20 !

    • @j-rod166
      @j-rod166 Před 6 měsíci

      @blackorbit416 - I wouldn't say better. But they are similar, and the Revv would be just a little bit more affordable. It's nice to have options, I will say the purple channel on the G20 is very different, it doesn't sound like anything else, it has its own unique character. The soldano does have 3 channels compared to the G20's 2 channels.

  • @GenXtra65
    @GenXtra65 Před 7 měsíci

    Awesome presentation as usual! Placed on the gear wish list!

  • @ClarkBarkly
    @ClarkBarkly Před 7 měsíci

    Great video, as always!

  • @ShawnTubbs
    @ShawnTubbs Před 7 měsíci +1

    Great demo!!

  • @marcelojulio
    @marcelojulio Před 7 měsíci +3

    This video deserves a part 2 with the amp in play mode, we've only seen the IR's so far, but I'd like to see the amp as an amp in action.

    • @maximumguitarage
      @maximumguitarage Před 7 měsíci

      Yup

    • @erikhernandez2990
      @erikhernandez2990 Před 5 měsíci

      On our end it would be the same. He would have to mic a cab but the ir does all that and instantly is able to switch to different cabinets

  • @nowgearthis
    @nowgearthis Před 7 měsíci +2

    Like to see a comparison against the Revv G20. Great video as always Ryan!

  • @francescocapone7966
    @francescocapone7966 Před 7 měsíci

    Really cool amp

  • @IKilledTheDodo
    @IKilledTheDodo Před 7 měsíci +1

    Awesome amp! I hope more affordable amp manufacturers start putting direct outs with optional, interchangable IR's into their builds. I don't want Two Notes to go out of business, but I would be lying if I said I wouldn't ditch my Captor in the blink of an eye if I didn't need it.

  • @TylerJohnstonGuitar
    @TylerJohnstonGuitar Před 7 měsíci +3

    20 watt monster! Only thing missing is the snakeskin tolex.

  • @jonscudder759
    @jonscudder759 Před 7 měsíci +4

    I like that you mixed it up with LP standard. I think it sounded really good. I love the 20 watt amps that can still kill it!

  • @Bwbthacody
    @Bwbthacody Před 7 měsíci

    nice amp and nice riffing bro

  • @starwars095
    @starwars095 Před 7 měsíci +6

    Hey Ryan: Good luck on your surgery and recovery. That said it’s interesting to me that most of the music industry has ignored heavy (including metal) music for quite some time now but most of the electric guitars amps pedals and so on are still being geared towards those styles. Interesting…🤔😎🐝

    • @Tyler-ry3lk
      @Tyler-ry3lk Před 7 měsíci

      Gear style of strings ? Geared for style ? Okay hot slick Willy. The oldest cliche is that the user is in control doesn't mean anything to you puppy snoop frog ? And take the tom cruise glasses off he is dead.

  • @lbarj
    @lbarj Před 7 měsíci

    Seems to be the future of guitar " amps " borrowing from the modeling world to include IR loading and power amp modeling. Well done demo .

  • @therealone1288
    @therealone1288 Před 7 měsíci

    Cool!

  • @PerceptionJ
    @PerceptionJ Před 7 měsíci

    it's nice !!

  • @BreadandFaxes
    @BreadandFaxes Před 7 měsíci

    Mine gets here tomorrow. Im gonna gig it this weekend.

  • @ItsNotSafe2Swim
    @ItsNotSafe2Swim Před 7 měsíci +7

    So it’s a Revv G20 without an internal reactive load? I think it sounds better than the Revv, but it costs a whole lot more

    • @NewPraetorianBlues
      @NewPraetorianBlues Před 7 měsíci +1

      It DOES have an internal reactive load according to the Anderton's video.

    • @aaronhiggs
      @aaronhiggs Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@NewPraetorianBluesvery very nice.

    • @ItsNotSafe2Swim
      @ItsNotSafe2Swim Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@NewPraetorianBluesah thanks! The first few videos of I saw of it didn’t mention that

    • @NewPraetorianBlues
      @NewPraetorianBlues Před 7 měsíci

      @@ItsNotSafe2Swim Yeah no problem! Love the username btw, Veil of Maya fucks.

  • @PaulEubanks
    @PaulEubanks Před 7 měsíci +2

    Sounds like it'd blend nicely with that Bad Cat Lynx

  • @voxhumana2able
    @voxhumana2able Před 7 měsíci

    🔥

  • @MichaelH-ez7cy
    @MichaelH-ez7cy Před 7 měsíci

    hello may i ask what tunning your using for this demo?

  • @ivsiguitarist
    @ivsiguitarist Před 7 měsíci

    Great tone overall...doesn't have the drive that the new SLO series have by a long shot. But for modern hard rock bordering into metal it's a great sound. I'd stick with a SLO but maybe one day they'll throw some of this sweet technology into them.

  • @IoannisHealingMySoulOfficial

    Hello and congrats for your presentations...so, you can't use the software for creating different eq tones and presets...neither when you move the various tone gain knobs the software knobs correspond... we can use it only for irs and channel selection...right?

  • @deathhockey19
    @deathhockey19 Před 7 měsíci

    Would love to know If the IR loader is just after the Preamp, or if it has an actual internal load box to get the power amp saturation too.

    • @bskbishop
      @bskbishop Před 7 měsíci

      Soldano amps are generally designed to have the power section as transparent as possible, so if that carries on here, it's unlikely to make a lot of difference. However, since it seems silent recording is an option here, it's got to be routing the output to some kind of load, at least when there's no cab attached.

    • @josephshelton8106
      @josephshelton8106 Před 7 měsíci

      Anyone know if you can use the XLR DI input without connecting a cab, like you can with Hughes & Kettner heads?

  • @g_giac
    @g_giac Před 7 měsíci

    How close can you get this to some SLO-30 tones? For almost $1,000 less with some additional features it might be worth turning my focus from shopping for an SLO towards the Astro.

  • @HOUSEOFHIXON
    @HOUSEOFHIXON Před 7 měsíci

    🤘💪⚡️

  • @Tyler-ry3lk
    @Tyler-ry3lk Před 7 měsíci

    Impulse of cabs if it was stereo maybe capable of assigning different impulses from the left of the stereo and the right of it... Idk ?

  • @pavelmerkulov7417
    @pavelmerkulov7417 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I’m using FRFR cabinet with Celestion F12M-150 Triple Cone. Is it possible to send IR signal to cabs or only to XLR output?

    • @Andy_Yates
      @Andy_Yates Před 7 měsíci

      The speaker outs will be a powered output like we expect from any normal guitar amp. In HP42's video, he showed the XLR signal volume is connected to the channel volumes, and you also have a 1/4" out for headphones. It looks like the speaker outs and the XLR can both be used at the same time. You don't need a guitar cabinet connected to use the XLR (from the manual: CAB-LESS OPERATION - To use the amp without a cabinet, completely remove ANY connections from all of the speaker jacks and set the MASTER volume to zero.)

    • @pavelmerkulov7417
      @pavelmerkulov7417 Před 7 měsíci

      @@Andy_Yates hey, thanks for your reply. But it’s still not clear for me if I can use this amp with passive FRFR cabinet or not. I assume speakers out will bypass IR section.

    • @politoleo
      @politoleo Před 7 měsíci

      @@pavelmerkulov7417 IR are only active in the DI output, everything else is pure tube analog

    • @pavelmerkulov7417
      @pavelmerkulov7417 Před 7 měsíci

      @@politoleothanks 🙌 then this amp is no go for me unfortunately 😩

  • @brandonbryson3317
    @brandonbryson3317 Před 7 měsíci +46

    I think calling it less than $2000 at $1999 is a bit misleading haha after tax, you are definitely way over. Seems like a cool amp, though.

    • @adeltoral710
      @adeltoral710 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Some places have no sales tax, and therefore still under 2k

    • @brandonbryson3317
      @brandonbryson3317 Před 7 měsíci +11

      @@adeltoral710 okay, so for like the tiniest percentage of people, it MIGHT be a single dollar less than 2k.

    • @o.phillips2522
      @o.phillips2522 Před 7 měsíci +9

      ​@@adeltoral710by your logic, when something is 1999 dollars, you don't just say 2000? Do you also tell people its 9:59 instead of just saying ten o'clock? You must be a riot at parties, bro.

    • @jconner3891
      @jconner3891 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Nobody buys for full price. Should be able to get around 17 to 18 hundred from Sweetwater

    • @kevindie
      @kevindie Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@o.phillips2522*_Just because you’re a gluten for deceptive marketing techniques doesn’t mean the rest of us are._*

  • @user-lv9nh8wf3r
    @user-lv9nh8wf3r Před 6 měsíci

    How does this Soldano Astro-20 watts compare with the EVH 5150iii 50 watts?
    Next question: 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?

  • @rafaelfabiano2984
    @rafaelfabiano2984 Před 7 měsíci

    Forgive me if my question is stupid, but as it's an amp with IR, will it burn out if you don't connect it to a speaker box that can handle 20 watts?

    • @RiffsAndBeards
      @RiffsAndBeards  Před 7 měsíci +3

      Nope there is an internal dummy load, you do not need to connect a speaker cab at all.

    • @rafaelfabiano2984
      @rafaelfabiano2984 Před 7 měsíci

      @@RiffsAndBeards Thanks 🙏🏻

  • @oozede9035
    @oozede9035 Před 7 měsíci +1

    3 videos of the Soldano Atro20 by 3 different chanels in my timeline. Why don't brands see that this seems pretty fishy.

  • @ChaosAttractor13
    @ChaosAttractor13 Před 6 měsíci

    Are impulse responses universal? Can they be used on any device that supports ir?

  • @ericwysocki1659
    @ericwysocki1659 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I wonder how this would stack up against the soldano avenger 🤔

  • @ssmetalrulz
    @ssmetalrulz Před 7 měsíci

    This vs the Engl Ironball SE ?

  • @michaelreilly5067
    @michaelreilly5067 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Does it sound as big as the slo30?

    • @foggyblues13
      @foggyblues13 Před 7 měsíci +1

      I'm not hearing that from all the videos I've watched.

    • @michaelreilly5067
      @michaelreilly5067 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@foggyblues13 can’t say i was either, and i have a slo30 but sometimes it’s hard to tell unless you have played the amp in person

    • @foggyblues13
      @foggyblues13 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@michaelreilly5067 It wouldn't be smart of them to let it go in SLO territory as that's their legacy amp.

    • @chasingtone5748
      @chasingtone5748 Před 6 měsíci +2

      I have this amp and yes it is very very loud and thick

    • @HVACRTECH-83
      @HVACRTECH-83 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@foggyblues13oddly enough there's multiple youtube reviews stating the astro is better than the slo 30 in sound as well as features obviously

  • @matthewearl9824
    @matthewearl9824 Před 6 měsíci

    Ok so gain 1 and gain 2 are NOT gain stages...they are slots to hold the galaxy type in them. So basically I can have two EXACT galaxy and sounds in both Gain 1 and Gain 2 slots if I wanted. I get it now.

  • @BradRocker
    @BradRocker Před 7 měsíci

    Stock IR's sound pretty bitchin'

  • @wheresallthezombies
    @wheresallthezombies Před 7 měsíci

    I’m not crazy about the distortion/overdrive tones from Soldano but the clean tones are amazing.

    • @kevindie
      @kevindie Před 7 měsíci +5

      *_Interesting take. The SLO 100 is usually agreed upon to have one of the greatest distortion tones of all time._*

  • @ToneDeth.
    @ToneDeth. Před 7 měsíci

    Im beginning to think we wont actually be getting any videos about beards or beard product demos

  • @danomnihility2453
    @danomnihility2453 Před 7 měsíci

    This vs Engl Fireball 25..

  • @crock2434
    @crock2434 Před 7 měsíci +1

    2 g's for a 20 watt amp ....must come with a crack rock and a box of brillo pads ...

  • @Starch1b2c3d4a
    @Starch1b2c3d4a Před 7 měsíci

    A once great brand…

  • @stephenzerospace2864
    @stephenzerospace2864 Před 7 měsíci +1

    well it still sounds like a 20 watt head for $2,000 so that's a shame. For $2,000 you can get a lot more bang for your buck.

  • @1HYB
    @1HYB Před 7 měsíci +4

    For $1999.99 at Sweetwater + sales tax there's no way I could justify this amp versus a PRS Archon, EVH 5150, Peavey 6505, Orange OR30, Mesa Mark V, etc. I just don't know how Soldano survives at their price point. The amp sounds great but there are so, so many viable alternatives at $2000 and under.

    • @JorisGriffioen
      @JorisGriffioen Před 7 měsíci +2

      If you want to record any of those direct you're out at least another $500 for a Captor X (which arguably might get better results but is more gear to manage).
      Or a Mark V really that much cheaper?

    • @watcherzero000
      @watcherzero000 Před 7 měsíci +1

      They survive by doctors, lawyers, and any other career that pays a boat load of money.

    • @MickDavies
      @MickDavies Před 7 měsíci

      I have a 20w mark V, 6505MH, tonex, captor x and a good range of neural and amplitude plugins... This new Soldano really ticks a lot of boxes for me. If you buy second hand you can build up a nice collection over time mate.
      Amps like this are very hard to get in Australia as well, I'm inbetween this, the super kraken mk2 or a Friedman BE as a nice high end amp to pass down to my kids one day. Tube amps are the next vinyl and whilst you wait for them to gain in value you get to chug away on them 🤘

  • @yousocrazy1199
    @yousocrazy1199 Před 7 měsíci +3

    6V6 gives me doubt

  • @tdchewy
    @tdchewy Před 7 měsíci

    holy hell, no reason for this to be so expensive

    • @RiffsAndBeards
      @RiffsAndBeards  Před 7 měsíci +5

      If you can make it cheaper you should start an amp company

  • @theRodofwar
    @theRodofwar Před 7 měsíci

    FLUFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soldano ASTRO 20 or KSR Orion 45 ????????????????????????????????????????????????

  • @robh3702
    @robh3702 Před 7 měsíci

    It doesn’t sound very tight.

  • @pbosche
    @pbosche Před měsícem

    This amp continues to confuse me..and thank you, but god bless ya…you just made it worse.
    Explain it to me like I’m 5 🤣.
    Is a galaxy a channel, a preset, or a scene?

  • @marvinmartin3438
    @marvinmartin3438 Před 7 měsíci

    SolDAMNos are good amps for blues and jazz, Marshall still makes the biggest baddest amps for rockin out. Just sayin

    • @kevindie
      @kevindie Před 7 měsíci +6

      *_What Uncle Marvin says while falling through the door after getting back from the bar at 3:00 AM._*

  • @lbonvillain-wm4ds
    @lbonvillain-wm4ds Před 7 měsíci

    Boomer amp

  • @christopher-miles
    @christopher-miles Před 7 měsíci

    big hair studio?

  • @leehenderson8132
    @leehenderson8132 Před 7 měsíci

    For 2 thousand dollars it fucking better sound good.NOT MY MONEY MAN.