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Author Message gtrguy Senior Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 514 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 1:47 pm:    FS: Soldano SP-77 series II preamp. This preamp sound amazing for guitar. It gives you the legendary SLO 100 tone at about 1/6 the cost. It has a clean channel (Fendery shimmer) and an overdrive channel (the mighty SLO 100). You can adjust the gain, volume, bass, middle, and treble on each channel. The clean channel has a bright switch. These units are out of production and hard to find. You can put this preamp in front of a tube amp, like a Mesa power amp, or you can insert the signal into the effects return of a good guitar tube amp head or combo. It is recommended that you use it with a tube amp and not a PA amp. Soldano uses their own preamp tube circuit design using 4 12 AX7 tubes in a unique way. The tube circuit is not designed like a Fender, where they use a pair of tubes for each channel, but rather, all 4 are used for each Soldano channel. The result is amazing tone, both clean and overdriven. This preamp works fine. There is a small amount of rack wear and it does not come with a footswitch. Any standard guitar amp (button on/off) 1/4" cord footswitch will work. You do need the footswitch to switch between channels. $500 plus actual shipping from Oregon. (Message edited by davehouck on October 20, 2012) lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5254 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 6:28 pm:    David: Can the pre-amp get that Santana saturation tone? Bill, tgo gtrguy Senior Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 515 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 6:51 pm:    You can dial in the overdrive in the lead channel and it will saturate out. It is the legendary SLO 100 tone rather than the Mesa Boogie 80's drier tone though, which I happen to like more. gtrguy Senior Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 516 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 6:53 pm:    I mean I like the SLO 100 tone more. It will take the cleanest, most dry sounding guitar pickup and turn it into a singing tone monster! gtrguy Senior Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 540 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 9:40 am:    SOLD