Synergy Amps Presented by Steve Vai and Greg Koch • NAMM 2019
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2019
- It's time for NAMM, and Wildwood is here to bring you everything you'd need to know from our beloved manufacturers! Fender Guitars, Gibson Guitars, Taylor Guitars, PRS -- it's all there for your viewing pleasure.
We don't know if you're ready for this video though! We were fortunate enough to sit down with legendary shredder Steve Vai to talk about Synergy Amps! Brace yourself!!
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These two guys, even though they have very different playing styles, are talented beyond belief. i would love to hear a jam with these two, each bringing their own touches to a piece of music. I think they would compliment each other and make it great.
Holy smokes...satan´s personal lead guitarist....and Steve Vai!
You have it the other way around.
@@sumoblues Not really
@@sumoblues no he just has a good sense of humour, rare in America
@@sumoblues nope
Good one! Vai hit it on the head too... Greg's "a freak". He can do it all. You gotta love his personality too. His wit is like a crotch rocket to most people's mopeds
There's more guitar talent in that room than 80% of the world.
99.999%*
right on
You got that right.
Lol
OMG... I just heard Steve Vai say that he couldn't steal Greg's stuff, even if he watched. Okay, fellas? How good do you have to be that *Steve Vai* says "he's a freak"?!?
I feel sooo much better right now, thought it was just me. The talent concentration here is near critical mass.
Fellas!
Ah man...I've loved Steve Vai since I was a fresh-faced 12 year old way back in 1990...
...but there's only one human on the earth like Greg Koch. He's the greatest.
Yes, It is in infinite ways impossible not to love Greg.
WTFF?! This is completely INSANE!!!! This is going to create a before and after in technology era on the guitar. What an amazing gear!
Would I ever love to hear that pair trade licks! Great video, thanks for sharing.
Talent overload. Talk about top shelf players. Mind blown!
I think my screen just broke from the awesomeness of this 2 gentleman!!!
Enjoyed the presentation, thanks guys!
2 of the best guys out there. Makes NAMM actually look like fun.
Having Vai demo is worth every penny. I started playing 25 years ago because of Steve and have spent thousands in his name. His customer lifetime value (a metric known as CLV) must be off the charts.
Two different styles and I can appreciate and enjoy both! Koch for emulation of other artists work, Hendrix, Page etc. Saw him live in a pretty small venue. He is a realist when it comes to the guitar and i enjoy his honesty! Vai for his showmanship (bit of a show off), his inventiveness when it comes to the guitar, his tone and the areas he can take us to. He is very cerebral much like Satch which seems to open up possibilities for others.
two awsome guitarits and amazing persons!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE ❤️ LOVE ❤️ LOVE ❤️ LOVE ❤️ LOVE THIS VIDEO.. FROM BEGINNING TO END...
I HAVE WATCHED THIS VIDEO REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY..
This system is a dream for session work!!!
I love those guys!
Steve not only is a great player but a gear expert too which is a skill on it's own..
Thanks Steve for your explanation on how a amp works internally - pre amp & amplifier bravo :)
Steve Vai and Greg Koch talking gear...good lord...guitar nerdgasm.
my exact thoughts when i saw the title haha. 2 hilarious guitar animals.
more like take my money now!!! This system is great!!!!
Greg is so cool. He does not suck the oxigen out of the interview.
I just saw two titans fawning over gear like two young children playing with their favorite action figures. This is truly a sight!
two best of the best!!!
"I gotcha" - Greg Koch
Sco 💰
That's my two favorite guitarist right there.
Holy shit the gristleman and Vai together!!! Never thought I'd see it!!
Excelente. Puro carisma de estos dos guitarristas. Cada uno en su estilo.
What fine men and guitarists!
few comments...Cool to see Koch in this setting. He's from where Im from and I used to see him at the Music Store he worked at. And one of the great players there told me 'you just see Greg play". Some time later I was in there and Greg had some guitar out plinking..and I was like. WTF was THAT??? LOl. He just dominated the goddamned thing. And on Vai… the thing about him is the guy always delivers. He can talk in depth about sounds and music with total credibility. One of the few guitarists who can actually back up what he's talking about.
Thumbs up! Cool to see Greg and Steve in the same vid. Now.....I'll never forget when PIL generic album came out...to this day my favorite Via sound and playing of all time. If you've never heard it....do yourself a favor.
Meeting of great guitarist.
The level of talent in that room....... Man, lovin the mutual respect from Steve for Greg. The only downside is that Greg didn't have a guitar. Alas, no jam.....
My 💓 melts
I just remember having a couple of pedals through my amp!
Man people really need to listen to Steve bais tone it took me a while to really understand it and I love how he still keep the snap in the tone uts beautiful for a rock tone it really is and people that say he just plays fast are ridiculous and do not know anything about guitar he can play blues and he cna play extremely tasteful he can literally play like anything you throw at him look at the way he moves his strings there is s ton of feel in that alone he makes every single note sound good and anybody that truely understands guitar theg know how important it is just to make each single note sound amazing we see fast players alot now but they cant make a note by itself sound good it's just plain I practice every note single notes how to move them how to make them just sound incredible
the only guy that makes a 6'1" steve vai look like a tiny shrunken old man
Best comment on youtube😂
I hope Steve doesn’t see that comment. Steve, you look great.
two gentleman with massive hands
2 Monster guitar players in one room!!!!
I,ve been fantasizing about one power section with a bunch of different vintage preamps. Fender ,supro, gibson ect
Rock and Roll!!!
Greg & Jack Butler talk amps.....Nice.
cutin heads!
magnifico 👏👍
Sweet!
The Gristle King's doing his best to appear politely interested in Vai's gear babble....yep...right...right right...uh huh...yup...umhm...sounds great...got it...I got you...LMAO!!!
this is gold man!!
He prolly thinks "Dude, just give me your guitar and I will show you some delish cockerish greatness."
No, this is how he always talks during NAMM interviews. Go back and see. The only time I see him break that pattern is with Joey from Gretsch, and he's a little curt even then.
“Yea, sounds just like those amps” 💀
Reminds me of when one of those Guy Fieri types hits up a diner and he has to eat their ‘signature dish’ that quite honestly is just another burger or chili-at best. (And I love Vai.)
How many amps am I gonna' use? All of them.
Randall already did the preamp module thang. Quite well.
greg needs his own talk show on primetime
Cool ...take Steve to Jamaica !
The talent in that room. Both amazing players who speak truth.
Got to watch Vai do this interview...through a sound proof window :( At least got to wait in a long line to absorb some of his power through my right hand.
Has anyone noticed the tuner knobs on vais guitar ? Does he have regular volume knobs? Lol
Steinberger Gearless Tuners
He kind of missed the best part of the Syn-1.... The fact you can run it directly into the effect return of your existing amplifier, and essentially add another channel to your amp that can be bypassed, and has an effect loop that will continue working when the Syn-1 is bypassed.
The bandwagon I hope they jump on, is an onboard impulse response loader in the Syn-1 !!
Given that the goal here is to maintain complete analog 'purity', I doubt they'll go for incorporating anything digital. That said however, with the Syn-1 all you have to do is send it into something like the Torpedo CAB or any other of the dozen or so IR-based pedals that have come onto the market in the past year. The Revv D20 is the first amp I've seen that does what you're talking about, but it's preamp section leaves much to be desired in my opinion. Most of the time demos of the D20 people are throwing preamps or pedals in front of it.
Great!!! 😈🤘🏻
Steve Vai knows his gear!!! sometime we gotta ask him where he gets those glasses too!
Pretty sure he got them from my Aunt in the 90s
@@RoyalBlue43 I'll ask her if she has another lying around hehe
This video is essentially me talking to a friend having popped my car bonnet and now pointing at things and hoping they’re interested. They never are.
Greg is saying
Just give me a amp and a guitar!
Steve is a rocket scientist when it comes to gear and what not.
they need to make a preamp module for "The Greg"
the audio sounds like it was a mic being shuffled around in the bottom of a bag of stuff.
What the heck kind of tuners does Steve have on his guitar?!
Not to question Steve Va's judgement, but is he saying that power tubes and the OT have no impact on an amp's tone?
Driving the power tubes is the way to really get rockin' tone. I was thinking the same thing. This rig sounds like a cheap digital amp to me, LOL
I played the T/Dlx module into the effects return of a Hot Rod Deluxe(?) at a local music store and it sounded amazing.
OTOH, Synergy has been saying that they're getting all these other amp manufacturers to create modules, but they haven't released any new modules in two (or more?) years.
At first I wanted them to jam, but then realized the earth would implode.
Am I the only one who hears like 99% effects and like 1% tube amp? Basically, these modules are a tone stack and preamp tubes. The tone stack components, minus the pots, could fit on a quarter. It would be easy to combine about 20 of these modules in to one, since most amps have very similar tone stacks. I don't understand having an entire different module for like 2 different resistor values, LOL. They could just have a rotary switch with a bunch of resistor and cap values - then maybe a bunch of different pot values that light up when engaged. (Check out and download the Duncan Tone Stack Calculator... it has a schematic for the main tone stacks). I'm sure the preamps sound fine when they're dry, but they all sound exactly the same to me, and kind of crappy. Also, the tremolo and reverb, on the Fenders especially, are a huge part of what makes them so fun to play, and simply having the volume and tone stack is not a complete amp. Another thing is... the power tubes being driven hard is what makes the amp sound awesome; I think Steve has it backwards here. I'd take a digital modeler in to an awesome Deluxe Reverb power section over any of this stuff. I mod my amps to bypass the tone stack with a switch, which in my opinion works wonders! The amp becomes much louder and more 3D with the tone stack bypassed.
He lost Koch at Kochery!
Turn the delay off and use a strat. Greg not impressed with Steve's tone.
exactly.turn the fucking delay off.it fucks with your ability to showcase the amp
Turn off the delay for sure, but the Jem is better than any strat.
I love the giant GREG on his hanging name tag... just need a sticker on his shirt that says, "Hi, my name is..."
Steve: “Tone is in the preamp”.
Greg: thinking, “Welllllllllll, …”.
Vai's hands are amazing! Hard not to watch them.
@William Price LOL but no. I'm not a Vai fan other than he's a helluva technician. I did think it odd that Greg had no guitar for this segment.
Doesn’t a lot of the tone we love come from the power amp side?
Only if you believe in myths.
YES. Of course. For tube amps, the power tubes are really what makes the best tone when you reach them cranked. The preamp tubes don’t have the same feel as the power tubes.
Greg's thinking "Hey dude I just plug into a Fender and play, I don't know what all that stuff is you just said, but I can dig it."
Problem is that this guitar works only with 'Legacy' ;)
Is this spinal tap?
Fret Plec 😂😂😂 LOL 👍 best comment so far!!!
I don't use digital/modelling. AXE FX3 sitting atop his rig...
He ment amps obviously.
Homer Simpson did he?
Man thats a hell of knobs n Buttons and blinking lights and all these mother of Pearl fret board inlays..i'm completely lost with the overview....this was all about the Synthesizer of Rick Wakeman..when he played " the six wives of Heinricht XIII" am I wrong...did I digg It?..
After watching many video of greg k.. finaly here for mr.vai.. it's funny when i see mr.vai play guitar and funny tone too .. like i see kid play guitar Lol
That's a plexi... yeah yeah yeah!
Take it on the road boys lol
I want the new Steve Vai green preamp
That’s the most subdued I’ve ever seen Greg Koch - hilarious. “Teacher, am I allowed to speak?”
hahaha, forget it....
@@poldafrucko2109 what.
You might have noticed Stevie saying he couldn't steal from Greg even if he wanted to... "this guy's a freak" is what I think he said.
Holy fuck!! Are you kiddin' me?
i was expecting them to play together.
Clean sound by Steve Vai, he even manages to saturate a Fender "Deluxe". :D
Vai`s tone $10.000 rig ...Greg's tone straight amp
Is there a Koch module? Lol
There is *schwoidel*!
Needs to happen
The Dual Koch
It's called the " Weinerschnitzel Koch Module "
"The tone is not so much in the power amp as it is in the preamp." (11:20). Paradigm shift announced by Professor Vai!
My suggestion - find the one amp tone you like and discard the others! (Or buy a Spark for $299). Or if you're Steve Vai and have a $Billion buy one of these!
Greg:. I just plug straight into my little fender.
I think mr k was doing his Ali g imitation
What a pair.
the same randall did 10 years ago?
Same basic idea, but these are more like the Egnater (who started it all) modules in that they're all dual channels. And...the old Randall and Egnater mods will work in the Synergy system, iirc. I picked up a bunch of the MTS stuff when they phased it out. I'd love to get the SYN 1 and a module or two, but hard to justify the $$ now since I got the Kemper. The SYN 1 is $500 and the modules are $400 a pop. The Synergy mods are are designed by the "real" people and/or company, so if you buy the Saldano mod, for instance, Mike Saldano actually designed it. Tone Talk had a segment with Bruce Egnater and they talked about all this with Dave Friedman.
Got to watch these two through the window at the boutique booth at NAMM, that was some bit of luck! I'm.a big Vai fan ...but don't know much about Greg Koch other than what I've seen on Wildwood Guitar vids...really wish Greg had a guitar in his hands to check it out as well! Volume on guitars are very low...didn't hear anything outside...wasn't the best sound for guitars through the video...wondering how it really sounded? Henning was gaga over these like a year ago or more...am I right? With Vai's stamp on these...I bet they really start selling now, but will they overtake Kemper? It seems like a battle of the technologies and also who's doing it right....at least Synergy pays licensing for the cloned sounds...Kemper...well we know how they do it, and the controversy there. I guess time will tell!
These 2 guys have more talent than 100% of this comment section.
I get the impression that the Gristle Missile was secretly thinking they ALL sound like crap.
Steve, you can't ignore the influence of a tube power section.
Other Mfrs.have attempted this before, and they are no longer in business.
What are you on about? What influence? And what other mfrs?
@@homersimpson2159- Power tubes add another level of tube harmonics and compression. IF the power tube section has been correctly designed and biased.
Other mfrs....🤔🤔....Seymour Duncan, but the Duncan Convertibles had power tubes. I think the German company Hughes & Kettner had/has modular type options. If the modules are edge-connected to sockets on the main board, any module carrying tube voltage seems to be prone to misbehaving.
@@rb032682 To be clear, what part of the interview are you taking about where Steve ignores the power section? And Seymore and H&K are no longer in business?
2 cool cats
Meeting of the tall peoples lol!
Vai is an amazing musician but his tone is not something that I'd strive for. I would love to hear Greg demo it.
But he is saying: The tone is not so much in the power amp, it is in the preamp. That is where I disagree!
i mean they could't find 2 guitars? ohh what a jam that would be.
Love Steve but having his delay always on doesn't give us a clear picture of how the amp's actually sound.
Is everyone screaming “play the Crossroads duel solo”, no, just me then?
Gregory Cockery is Awesome