Winter NAMM 2010!
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iekobrid
Authorized XSr Dealer
Turns out Jet City's ISO box not only has an XLR output, but also an onboard A/D converter and USB output.
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Sloan
Sounds like shit!
HOLY SHIT. HE'S PLAYING THAT RIFF FROM QUEEN'S "IT'S LATE" WHICH IS ALSO ONE OF MY FAVORITE 'I'M TESTING SHIT' RIFFS. Awesome tune y'all1!!
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Sloan
Sounds like shit!
yeah dude, i've been craving one of the 20w heads for a few weeks. there's a great clip on youtube of some dude with an Edwards John Sykes model busting out some Thin Lizzy riffage and I was totally sold.
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Rex Rocker
Call me Hugo!
So those Jet City Soldanos aren't really high-gain amps or are they? They're not based around the high-gain channel of the SLO, are they?
Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
Guitars and plug-ins! Bah! This caught my eye (not surprisingly!)
Interesting, can't find any news about it. The original MoPho is a great sounding synth, but it lacks the size to have enough physical controls to be as tweakable as it could be. I dig the integrated keyboard and wood siding on this new unit. I've been thinking about a mono analog synth for a while but torn between all the options. Moog still sounds the best/fullest though IMO.
Never mind, found a video here:
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/01/16/the-dave-smith-instruments-mopho-keyboard/
iekobrid
Authorized XSr Dealer
The 20w and 5w heads, no. The 100w head, maybe.
' The Overdrive channel is the circuit that made Soldano famous. Its been modeled and imitated, but this is the real-effing-high-gain-deal. '
'... said Michael Soldano, cofounder of the new Seattle-based company. These new Jet City amps offer my classic Soldano tones at a killer price" '
Yeah, I seem to remember reading the 100 watt model is supposedly based on the SLO sans all the military-spec hooha that make it so expensive - curiosity is quite piqued! (and I'd love to try the 20-watter, I'd imagine with a TS it could get pretty mean!)
gabriel g.
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found this nice vid
IMO with a TS you should get some nice metalsounds out of it
IMO with a TS you should get some nice metalsounds out of it
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gabriel g.
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FloridaRolf
W.A.T.
Sloan
Sounds like shit!
iekobrid
Authorized XSr Dealer
http://www.thefret.net/showthread.php?t=13161
Doug White @ Jet City Amplification:
' Regarding the JCA20H and comparisons to the SLO100 - I think there may be some misconceptions... Marnold has it right: there's no way a 20 watt amp is going to represent the tone of an SLO100. Of course there is A LOT more to it than I could write in one post, but let me just say, both our JCA20H and our JCA100H we personally designed by Mike Soldano, with his own hands and ears (various other body parts too). JCA20H sounds very "Soldano" and probably has more gain than most amps in it's class, but it isn't based on the SLO100 at all.
JCA100H has two channels, and the OVERDRIVE channel indeed has the now-famous-often-modelled-and-copied SOLDANO overdrive circuit which is also found in the SLO100. But! that doesn't make this amp an SLO100 either... there are many things which go into that amp which are beyond the scope of a single post.
But I can say with complete satisfaction that both amps (plus our combo and other stuff we are working on) sound VERY Soldano, because they ARE. And if you're looking for the signature SLO100 overdrive sound, the JCA100H delivers a pretty d@mn good version of it. '
' What makes us unique? There are a couple of tube heads for a bit less money than [the JCA20H], but they're in the 5watt range and typically have only a single preamp tube and single power tube. There are several heads at 15watts or 20watts, which are at least $50 more than us, but typically $200 or more higher than us. So what out there offers 20 watts, 3 12ax7 and 2 EL 84 at only $299? As far as I know, no amp other than ours.
Transformers - VERY important! We started with a Soldano Atomic 16 and the goal of making a highly similar transformer to the American-made trannys in the Atomic. I personally worked with the transformer maker and through both critical listening and Audio-Precision measurements, revised the design probably 4 or 5 times. THEN Soldano himself compared it to his original tranny and even though he was happy with what I had done, made a couple more improvements and then signed off on the final version. So we spent some important time on the trans and I'm very pleased with how it turned out. Hopefully, you will be too. '
' 20H and 2112 [combo] are both based upon the Astroverb circuit but are slightly different. 20H has more gain cos he's just a head without verb, so we could crank him up. 2112 we slightly backed off the gain cos the higher gain with reverb just isn't as desireable. Plus, the 2 extra tubes in the circiut for the reverb itself do change the signal path a little bit. Not sure I can hear it, but it is on the scope. And of course he has an open back. '
' Andy Marshall (owner of THD) and I have been friends for several years now, and have been wanting to do a project together. So when I told him about Jet City, he had the idea to contribute the PicoValve -- it's 5 watts, with a 1/2 power switch, and full EQ. It also features Andy's cool "swappable power tubes" topology, which allows the player to use almost any octal power tube without changing the bias or any other settings. It will be playable at NAMM, and available on the street probably March. '
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Doug White @ Jet City Amplification:
' Regarding the JCA20H and comparisons to the SLO100 - I think there may be some misconceptions... Marnold has it right: there's no way a 20 watt amp is going to represent the tone of an SLO100. Of course there is A LOT more to it than I could write in one post, but let me just say, both our JCA20H and our JCA100H we personally designed by Mike Soldano, with his own hands and ears (various other body parts too). JCA20H sounds very "Soldano" and probably has more gain than most amps in it's class, but it isn't based on the SLO100 at all.
JCA100H has two channels, and the OVERDRIVE channel indeed has the now-famous-often-modelled-and-copied SOLDANO overdrive circuit which is also found in the SLO100. But! that doesn't make this amp an SLO100 either... there are many things which go into that amp which are beyond the scope of a single post.
But I can say with complete satisfaction that both amps (plus our combo and other stuff we are working on) sound VERY Soldano, because they ARE. And if you're looking for the signature SLO100 overdrive sound, the JCA100H delivers a pretty d@mn good version of it. '
' What makes us unique? There are a couple of tube heads for a bit less money than [the JCA20H], but they're in the 5watt range and typically have only a single preamp tube and single power tube. There are several heads at 15watts or 20watts, which are at least $50 more than us, but typically $200 or more higher than us. So what out there offers 20 watts, 3 12ax7 and 2 EL 84 at only $299? As far as I know, no amp other than ours.
Transformers - VERY important! We started with a Soldano Atomic 16 and the goal of making a highly similar transformer to the American-made trannys in the Atomic. I personally worked with the transformer maker and through both critical listening and Audio-Precision measurements, revised the design probably 4 or 5 times. THEN Soldano himself compared it to his original tranny and even though he was happy with what I had done, made a couple more improvements and then signed off on the final version. So we spent some important time on the trans and I'm very pleased with how it turned out. Hopefully, you will be too. '
' 20H and 2112 [combo] are both based upon the Astroverb circuit but are slightly different. 20H has more gain cos he's just a head without verb, so we could crank him up. 2112 we slightly backed off the gain cos the higher gain with reverb just isn't as desireable. Plus, the 2 extra tubes in the circiut for the reverb itself do change the signal path a little bit. Not sure I can hear it, but it is on the scope. And of course he has an open back. '
' Andy Marshall (owner of THD) and I have been friends for several years now, and have been wanting to do a project together. So when I told him about Jet City, he had the idea to contribute the PicoValve -- it's 5 watts, with a 1/2 power switch, and full EQ. It also features Andy's cool "swappable power tubes" topology, which allows the player to use almost any octal power tube without changing the bias or any other settings. It will be playable at NAMM, and available on the street probably March. '
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Rex Rocker
Call me Hugo!
Yeah, he mentions in the vid that the 100 head is based on the 'normal' channel of the SLO and it says 'overdrive' channel on the article ieokobrid posted, but I'm not really a Soldano conossieur, so I don't really know what that means. I guess it kinda sounds like it's not the 'lead' channel, tho, right? Like as in As Daylight Dies kinda tone? (sorry, don't know other example of an SLO doing modern metal)
slashvanyoung
Dopefish lives!
The JCA100H has, just like the SLO-100, two channels: normal and overdrive. The overdrive on the JCA100H is the same circuit as the SLO-100's overdrive channel. That overdrive circuit is to be found in most Soldano amps, yet none sounds exactly like the SLO-100.
slashvanyoung
Dopefish lives!
Looks like Marshall's throwing another 2203 reissue on the market: The AFD100, modelled after the one Slash used to record "Appetite For Destruction". Which, ironically, was actually just a stock 2203 he rented from a music store. The only thing special about it was that it's been hand selected over the amps they had there.
No pics or specs available yet.
No pics or specs available yet.
