Two channels of Soldano tone and 100 watts of pure tube power. The Crunch channel has plenty of headroom to deliver clear, bright clean tones and can be driven hard enough to get downright raunchy. The Overdrive channel is the circuit that made Soldano famous. The HDM version also includes the famous Soldano Depth Control, and a Metal front baffle, standard. The 100w / 50w brings the pain from 4 6L6 output tubes in 100w mode, or in 50w more two tubes are turned off causing the power section to work harder to reach the desired output level, resulting in some pretty hot power amp distortion. Rounding out the feature set is the wire-mounted blue LED, just because it looks cool. This LED is socket mounted so it can be replaced with other colors, a daisy-chain of several LEDs, or removed entirely.
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Five Stars
There's no better sounding amplifier for the money, no matter what style of music you play..
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Straight from the creative genius of Mike Soldano
I was lucky enough to have the loan of an '04 SLO at the time I acquired my HDM, so I was able to A/B bench test them real-time. Once I replaced the tubes on the HDM with an available set of Mesa Boogie's, sh1t started getting real! The HDM got so close to the SLO, with the exception maybe of some of the harmonic nuances, but nothing to date had ever come this close! The best part about the HDM is that it doesn't require allot of tweaking to get rock-god tones, it just simply is on a very similar pinnacle to the SLO... even better, with a bit of fiddling, It was getting serious old Plexi tones! I ask you, what could be better than that? If you're a rocker of 80's / 90's vintage, this is the vehicle you need!
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