RACK IS BACK! | Soldano X88-IR The Holy Grail Of Rack Preamps?

[@jayboy6895]

Dammmmm Brother. I love everything you have done here. I wish I lived next door to you. Incredible playing and tones. I hope you do much more. 👌

[@jasonstone1046]

Used to have one of those Valley Arts, the Luke model when I was a kid. Brilliant guitar. Killer tones my friend.

[@rooperiihijarvi]

Thank you! Valley Arts guitars are awesome!

[@sebastiaan88music]

Dude! Amazing playing and solo! Would love a transcription, there is some really interesting phrasing going on there

[@grahambrecke9292]

man that kicks ass.... thank you. that spx with the verb gets it...

[@athanasiusdicia117]

Great tone! Now, it's time for Fryette to unleash the 2150 again, and for Bogner Fish too...

[@rooperiihijarvi]

@@athanasiusdicia117 Yes defitnely! Bring the racks back!

[@realtruenorth]

The Fryette and Soldano preamp would be quite a match!

[@jessiebeveridge742]

❤

[@juhalehtonen9000]

Suhr should release CAE 3+ SE

[@progpogs]

Would love to hear your stuff with the direct sound too.

[@discodawgsy4674]

Nice playing

[@ianmacneil556]

Man, that was GREAT!! Loved it!!

[@TonyEvansMusic1]

Nice track and playing! Getting some Lukather vibes

[@edpitman7035]

Excellent work🎉

[@Shredilicous]

Great video my friend! Love the tone. Can you tell me all of the other effects you were using? Thank you! Keith

[@rooperiihijarvi]

Thanks! There’s quite a lot rack effects going on. PCM70 is doing circular delays, SPX90 and Eventide Eclipse is doing micro pitch, TC D-Two is on 2290 preset and doing really wide delays. Reverbs are from PCM 91 and preset is called Deep Blue.

[@Shredilicous]

@ thank you so much for your reply and help!

[@WWJonttu]

Uusia leluja ❤❤❤

[@Rick-hg8ew]

Sounds fantastic! What monitoring/cab and recording did you use for this demo?

[@rooperiihijarvi]

Two Notes Torpedo Live doing attenuation only, then signal goes to hx stomp which is doing IR. I used OwnHammer Bogner 412 impulse response (mic’d with 57 and Royer121). I use Hx Stomp for IR’s because there I can blend some DI signal with IR in 80s clean tones.

[@Rick-hg8ew]

@rooperiihijarvi cool, thanks! Do you use any cabs in your home studio? What would be best in a home studio environment? I'm building mine soon, that's why. Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it :)

[@rooperiihijarvi]

​​⁠No, in my room there isn’t any possibilty use cabs, because heads are too loud, if I want to have right sound out of those. I recommend to get good set of monitors. If you want bang for buck, check Kali Audio In series and Focal Shape series out.

[@davidgray8796]

If you had to pick between the X88IR and a SLO 100, which would you choose?

[@rooperiihijarvi]

@@davidgray8796 If you are looking great direct tones, then I would go with X88. Both are still great!

[@GregSimon]

Is there any difference between the SLO-30/100 premaps and the XR88IR preamps?

[@rooperiihijarvi]

Of course they shares same nature, but they doesn’t sound exactly same. With X88 you have more options to choose and also channel’s modes are midi controllable.

[@GregSimon]

@@rooperiihijarvi Thank you. I'm trying to decide between the SLO-30 and the XR88IR. Tricky...

[@rooperiihijarvi]

You can’t go wrong with either one!

[@London-x6h]

10:27 Awesome, which Pickups do u have in that cool GTR!?

[@rooperiihijarvi]

EMG 85, 2 x EMG SLV!

[@danielconrad764]

CAE 3+ SE all day. But the x88IR doesnt sound bad!

[@rooperiihijarvi]

Both are great preamps! I just love soldano’s middlle range, it’s on right spot, not harsh and pretty effective. 🙏🏻

[@andrewphillips9142]

Great tone and playing!

[@worldwarmini3919]

Any latency with the digital back-end?

[@rooperiihijarvi]

Ofcourse there is some, but max 1-5 ms. I can't feel any latency.