So true....... sounds sooooooo much better. I'll take it. Hehehehehheheh Thanks for the video, helped me out.

This amp sounds really great - don't know what you're smoking

You're a great player. I like seeing (and hearing) these affordable Les Pauls. I have a red studio that was always really enjoyable. Then I took it to a luthier and wow, what I got back is a dream machine. Got the guitar for $700, later spent another $100 for some blemishes and a pro setup. To me at least, it feels and sounds like top of the line.

I have 2017 tribute, mahogany neck, same pups. Love it sounds great, frets are wearing down a d the pcb board/ pots are failing..I play a lot and aggressive. Will probably refret and get 1950s wiring kit...love it

I would buy the monoprice but i liked the blues jr more. I would just try a different speaker in it. Nothing wrong with the tone, but i like the fender sound more.

Great guitars! Had a Tribute 60’s model with P90’s. Fantastic guitar for the money.

So unfortunate Reverb has turned into what it has. Good on Reverb for eventually stepping in but still sticks it has to come to that as nearly 90% of most transactions do today on Reverb. Great axe!

Main reason i wont buy second hand unless from an actual reputable place that has return policy …even then I prefer new with payment plans ,for a coupla reasons ..one : im poor😬, two: if i dont click with or its got issues etc big box places take back usually no question but if not i can stop payment source on it till they take it back…ive never had to use 2 but its nice to have

Hey OG good to see you back. 🤘

Whilst I believe you didn't ding it to get some money back, some people play those types of games. I've been reluctant to sell some of my stuff on Reverb or eBay for this very reason. I've heard of people getting buyer's remorse and intentionally smashing whatever they've bought to claim it was "damaged" in transit. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer people who operate under an honour system.

I got the 20 cause the 5 was sold out, but I'm glad I did, put an attenuator on it and call it a day.

hi, you really didn't show how to bias, im assuming the black bias vr12 pot one way turned or the other sets the bias for both tubes? and what if you wanted to change the 5881 to 6l6 re bias would be the same values? Thanks

hotter bias for me equals hiss and fizz, cooler bias equals smooth and more articulate, boogies have fixed cold bias not adjustable and love it. makes tube changes easy with no bias adjustment needed.

I love the tight sound. Very modern and metal

DSL sounds fizzy. owned a HT20 and HT5 and HT40 . when I got the dsl series , i went dsl 20, 40 then in the end got the jubilee as live on stage the jubilee absolutely ripped apart the dsl's . they are stiff and fizzy and the gain is unuseable past a certain point if you need detail and responsiveness . The blackstar are better live amps than these dsl's .

The bias is to be set at 35 I have the same Amplifier.

Always funny to see a video where someone tries to act like he knows something but doesn't know what he's talking about. Thank you for the chuckles

That's awesome, bro.Nice chops.That's what I'm talking about right there.Wait a shred buddy respect

V30 sounds better to me. I don't see the added expense of the creamback to be worth it.

The curve matching fingers is bs. For me to apply bar pressure it comes from the center knuckle right at the top of the radius. The theory is backwards but sounds cool for marketing. Also picking and fingering across a hill is much harder than a flat plane. Your experience sounds like typical high setup for less dear instruments. Not the board.

You brought a hell of a heavy tone

Great video. Thanks for posting. I've been reading through some other comments and am thinking the preference might be a generational thing. I ended up leaving the V12 in the amp, but had an old KMD cab from the 90s. I put a V30 in it, and switch back and forth between the two depending on the mood. Sometimes I run both together and hit the full power mode and shake the house apart. 🙂 The Creamback definitely has more bass response in your vid, and the V30 definitely is scooped. At the end of the day, you can't go wrong with Celestions.

Cheers! The classic Gain channel in the DSL1 has more gain than the DSL5? thats the impression i have in the reviews, i like the classic gain in the DSL1

such a great amp but my mh fx loop is causing an infinite delay with a delay pedal that gets extremely loud and distorted, it recently started doing this, my pedals work completely fine in the fronts it just the fx loop. any idea what would cause this, do you know what preamp tube controls the fx loop?

Tried a lot of these Blackstars...did not like any of them. Also....if you cant service em ....whats the point?

Purchased this guitar recently. Which fretboard cleaner would you recommend?

Wow, your comments are totally different than my experience with the PT15. Channel 1 is crystal clean. It’s based on the Suhr Bella. Great pedal platform. Can get a spanky with the bright switch for a more Fender Blackface sound. Turning the gain knob up does make it fatter sounding. You don’t get crunch from it unless you are cranking the master volume way up. The channel volumes and the master all have a symbiotic relationship in the way it was designed. It won’t sound correct unless you have them dialed correctly with each other which is something I had to play with. It generally performs best with the channel volumes at 4-5 and then the master volume to taste but it really sounds best when pushed to at least 3-4 on the master. I have no problem getting a lower gain crunch and keeping it thick sounding. Sounded about 95% the same as my old Marshall Plexi, EVH 100w and DSL100 I sold. Channel 3 I don’t have any problem putting a Klon in front of and getting a singing lead tone without it sounding compressed at all. It doesn’t sing like the Soldano without the Klon though. The gain is more hot rodded Marshall than the liquidy Soldano. For me the Soldano was just un-gigable live as I needed pure clean, crunch and lead and the inability to footswitch between clean and crunch on the SLO30 and the volume drop on the clean channel even if you could is too much of an issue for me and it doesn’t get clean enough with the volume knob in the crunch setting. I’d consider the SLO30 with the Mesa head track switcher as the SLO30 is a fun amp but I’d need a separate clean amp to switch with and being more expensive than the PT15 makes it kind of impractical. Glad you got to try the PT15 though and that you enjoy the SLO so much.

What a waste of time for shootin a vid tha can be of interest to 0.000000000001 o f guitarists in the world.

Speaker wire isn't shielded...

The Soldano sounds wonderful. What speaker are you using in that Friedman cab?

This video sucks!!!!!

Components designated "U" are integrated circuits.

Great playing man, really tearing it up in the intro but in the later sections too! I love that you show the inside of the amp - no where near enough people do that.

Cool vid but curious why you didnt compare the pt15 to the astro instead? The astro is really the amp most similar to the pt15. Slo30 is great but nothing like the pt. The astro is like the best of both worlds. Great clean, crunch, rythmn and searing lead tones with the multiple channels and gain modes.

Don't forget that Sweetwater has only been carrying Suhr products for a few months, so comparing sales numbers may be a bit skewed.

BadAss ! Loved that intro

Did you get a Soldano SLO30 cheaper than a Suhr PT15 non IR? That is nice!

Great review, Soldano make killer amps!!!

That on the Soldano is not a good clean...

Just got the SLO 100R this past Friday. It now has a master volume and depth mod. No problem balancing out clean and crunch.

Great analysis! Somehow you made it easy to understand, even for someone who knows very little. If you hapoen to be familiar with a Peavy Bravo (my favorite practace amp by fare for metal) I would love to know if their is anything you would do to improve a already monster gain amp! Excluding the obvious speaker change. Lol

Great comparison video. The Blues Jr. sounds great but I actually preferred the Monoprice amp!

I have a BB, and as someone who likes to make up riffs and find the right beat to match, it’s frustrating. I ordered a Strum a few days ago, and seeing this video confirms I made the right choice. The BB seems better for well-known songs, while the Strum suits those who create their own stuff

699 now. I just bought one.

Excellent.

Nice demo! Good results. I played mine with the Seventy-80 for a week before I yanked it. I dime the masters and blast, so the original speaker was not worth the pain to me. Maybe it would break in, but its the scratchiest, brain pierciest speaker for a trebly amp. Threw in Greenback - better but surprisingly not quite it. Tonkerlite - better for clarity but not in love. Neo V-type - pretty darn good but its also a bit too bright. Then I had pulled a Neo Creamback from another amp and put it in - this nailed it! It's sort of like a Greenback with a smoother break and doesnt go from Zero-to-Cone Slapping like the Green. So the CB stays. I still need to mellow some highs on the clean channel, even with treble/presence below 9:00, so trying tubes next. As soon as I make it perfect, I'll probably sell it for a JTM or Bluesbreaker, lol.

Excellent video! The DSL40CR is a vast improvement over the 40C. I had both.

Gday I just go 9:11 t my little black box what app are you using for measuring sound

never done this before - so am i right in thinking you have the amp switched on and guitar plugged in - amp turned up to high volume but volume on guitar down yeah?

I’ve owned both the stealth and the EL34 ! I sold the Stealth because I liked the EL34 grit in the Clean channel way better ! From there I bought the Friedman JEL20 . At first I thought the EVH was more me ! Then ; one day, I dialed that JEL in with a Warm Audio Odd Box OD pedal ! After that ; as much as I wanted to like the EVH it sounded sterile ! I then traded my EVH ( even up ) for a Marshall studio Jubilee ! That head with a MXR EQ set into the loop IMHO KILLS IT ! I’ll never look back ! I guess that’s why they make so many different amps . Retubing the EVH heads too , OUCH ! $$$$$. Anyhow; I do understand the love for the EVH , I thought it was pretty good compared to the MT15 , my old Rectoverb 50 , 5150 Block letter , Bogner etc etc , CHEERS ! 👍👊🤘