Soldano SLO Plus Overdrive

I have a Soldano SLO 100 in the Snake Skin finish which I obviously love. One of the amazing things about the SLO is the Crunch channel which offers a huge amount of tone dialling from rich full cleans to crunchy lead tones that ring with great clarity. The lead channel is just amazing as expected. I also have the normal SLO Overdrive pedal and this one just completes the whole pedal thing that can do the SLO tones very well.
This pedal renders dynamic tones and it responds well to the volume pot and touch. So, if you want to get that tone at gigs that don't require taking your precious SLO out on the road or you simply want to access the Soldano sound at a fraction of the price, this is the way to go. Get them while they are still available. Great stuff from Soldano.

I was super excited getting this pedal, watched all videos I could find on YT and decided to pull the trigger on this 300€ pedal. Once plugged it felt super weird, didn’t sound anything like expected. Tested in front of a fender clean tube amp, as first pedal in the fx loop, single coils, medium and high output humbuckers, basically anything I own. It sounded “off”, tons of gain as you’d expect but thin-ish, with weird high frequencies, engaging the deep switch on the side would make low freqs flubby… I wanted it so bad because I love the SLO tones but ended up returning it in a couple days, unfortunately I suspect the unit was faulty. Maybe in the future I’ll give it another chance. Build quality and looks are top notch and the size is just perfect.