My SLO100 Sounds Like a JCM800

[TSJMajesty]

Sorry guys, Randy ripped off the SLO for the Recto

 

[shanesiegle]

Same cabinet I assume?

I used various cabs over the years. There was differences in tone but not as much as I would have expected.

 

[BahamaDada]

Rectifier == JCM800
SLO == JCM800
Helix has a Rectifier
Helix has an SLO
Helix has not one; but two JCM800s.

And both are kinda meh.

 

[GreatGreen]

Timestamped at 4:31 where Zach plays a JCM 800 and Soldano SLO-30 back to back, A/B'd through a Radial Headbone, so everything else in the chain is the same.

Most amps, provided they use similar amounts of gain, are much closer to each other in sound than most people think.

 

[hunter]

A JMP/JCM with a pedal and an SLO, both cranked and through the same cab, will indeed be more similar than most people think. Just use any amp in DI and switch through a few different IRs will make it obvious, that Cab/Room/Mic have a far greater impact on the sound than most components before.

 

[Devin]

With the Revv models arriving on Fractal the other day, I set up a little comparison preset between Cornford MK50, Diezel VH4 and the Revv models. They honestly weren't that far off from each other, like I could have probably spent more time and gotten them fairly close with vastly different EQ settings and picking one as a reference. I got far bigger differences out of each by just swapping between cabs.

To me this translates to the real world rigs too. When I had the Vox AC30-ish Victory VC35 and the Fender-meets-Marshall Bogner Goldfinger 45 SL, if I ran both of them into the same 4x10 with 10" Greenbacks the Victory ended up sounding far more Marshallish than if I ran it into a 1x12 with an Alnico Gold which brought in that Vox style chime.

People keep buying more amps because those are more exciting, but in reality would be probably better off buying more cabs.

100%

I've played tons of different amps over the years including unobtainium type stuff like Wizards and $9,000 Welagen Dumble clones

While they are all great, for the most part the differences are much more subtle than some people would have you believe

Tone chasing is just a money pit and I will die on that hill


It is fun though lol