I should point out that alot of the reason those old solid state amps sounded like shit is because they were often comboed with cheap shitty 1x10 or 1x8 speakers. Running an ok sounding solid state amp through decent speakers makes a bit difference. In that respect diezel is smart making it a head and not making it a cheap, shitty sounding combo or an expensive decent sounding combo. As an EE, I've always felt that the magic of tubes was some particular combo of headroom, clipping, EQ and nonlinear saturation. There's no reason tube sound can't be reproduced in a solid state circuitry so long as the producer of the amp knew what they were doing.
True a good chunk of times id get a decent sound out my sg I used to have with an 06 mg100hdfx n a 4x12 was watching Dave Simpson the other day guy gets killer sounds out of solid state it can be done lil longer to dial in but yeah I agree
I never saw the hate with the Jazz Chorus 120 and those solid state amps are selling for over $1,000. Of course the key was probably the higher end speakers.
I completely agree about the small speaker combos. I have a Orange Crush 20RT (8" speaker) which could be plenty loud and had a good sound, but I ended up getting a Marshall DSL 20CR because it has a 12" speaker. Worlds of difference.
I have a late 90s kustom tuck n roll combo that always sounded like ass. A few years back as an experiment I wired in an external speaker jack and ran it through my eminence swamp thang loaded can. Is it the best amp ever? No... But it is definitely a fun and unique sounding amp. The gain channel is big and static-y (in a good way) with a nicely pronounced midrange. The speakers made a night and day difference.
@@derrickharmon7980 I had one too with a handful of stomp boxes including a Digitech Metal Master that we got by accident and I fell in love with (was in the bag of a guitar we got from the pawn store), anyway, was complimented quite a bit about my sound on a 4X12 solid state.
@Cyrus Freeman Yeah I just use a dirt cheap ABY pedal. It sounds great, kinda noisy though. Usually I never use a noise gate but I kinda have to with this setup.
Coming from a Diezel VH4 owner, this mini amp offers *outstanding* tone considering the size and price point! Would have loved it to have been around back when I was starting out.
GLEEEEEEEEEN! I am sure you have heard of the situation with the Travis scott concert. Could you make a video on the basics of crowd control as it seems to be no longer the focus as promoters will over book and just push for more revenue' putting patrons at unnecessary risk.
I think this is a good idea. One of the first things I thought of when hearing about Travis is how metal bands have mosh pits and walls of death without so many injuries.
What really angers me is that previous iterations of Astroworld also caused fans to rush to the stage, and 3 were injured because of this in 2019, so it could somewhat be foreseen that this would happen, but it seems like the organizers of the festival did not implement measures that suffice to prevent it. When you have people crushing through entry barriers to get in (like it happened in the afternoon before the deadly crowd surge in the evening), that's pretty hard to predict. But people rushing towards the stage to the detriment of others was predictable, given that IT HAPPENED THE PREVIOUS FUCKING TIMES! The people in that crowd talk about it like getting pushed and squeezed by the crowd is usual business and that's freaking horrifying. It's inacceptable that this circumstance was not given sufficient attention to during the planning stages of the event.
You might want to go with the VHX. I haven't played one myself, but they say it has all the different Diezel preamp tones in it, and it's programmable...meaning you can recall a lot of different settings quickly with a midi controller instead of fiddling with knobs for different songs (or live vs. recording). The downside of course is sometimes infinite options end up killing your progress more than knobs.
I think there's people out there that hate on these in order to justify the 4 grand they dropped on a tube Diezel. 🤷♂️ The Diezel tone isn't really for me, but I plan on getting the Bogner one with a 112 cab. Together with a very simple pedal board that is going to be my solution to playing live once I get back to doing it. Can't justify the need to lug big ass amps and shit around at my age, especially not for playing bars with stages the size of postage stamps.
I've got a big old barn, and I wanna rent it out a practice room for local bands. What's a reasonable rate to charge? I expect to make beer money, not earn a living. And what kinda preperations should I make for the building? I've enclosed a reasonable portion lf the space with insulation, lights and a floor on hockey pucks for the drummer. The building has no electric outlets, so power is provided by extension. I know ground issues can be a problem recording, but I'm only a practice room. Any advice? Should I provide Tea facilities (I'm in the UK)?
OK, here goes (from a voice of experience in crappy practice rooms): Rates: the going rate for a room with a skeleton kit, amps and a vocal PA is like £10/hr, depending on location. The skeleton kit and PA can be found pretty cheap second hand, so I'd look into acquiring those two as a priority. Preparations: Parking, paths and pissing. If people need to bring gear, they need to park, and carry. So you want a decent parking area and a path to the barn. Not saying it doesn't already exist, but it is worth considering. And, you know, bathroom arrangements. A pit and bag of quicklime might not cut it.
Man I was really diggin this till I realized there was no on board cab emulation or headphone jack. Recording ideas into my digital recorder (as opposed to booting up the c) or just wanting to silently jam w headphones are the the most common uses I get out of my joyo zombie. Thats a real shame.
I definitely need to pick up each of these to check out. Suoer cool times to be a musician. Except for COVID ruining the gigging scene, the parts shortage making getting the cool stuff harder and the 5 guys who have the music industry in a vice grip headlock of course.
Does it have line in line out effects loop and channel switch . Because the Joyo does , too bad is has no chug The fender digital has 2 channels but no loop
The Vh Micro sounds great on its own, and paired with other amps with different sonic characters. Does it sound like a real VH4? Not quite - there’s just a grunt in the low mids/bass that up to now only a true tube output section and output transformer can provide - but that’s ok. I have the VH, the SLO Mini, and I run them in a stereo quartet with a Micro Dark and DSL20, all through separate 212s, and as is often the case, speakers make all the difference. All of these pieces together come in for less than half the price of a VH4 and 212/412. Suits me just fine, and perfect for my applications. No buyer’s remorse on any part of this setup.
Actually my good friend Jake has a real VH4 and we’ve used it on a couple of recordings. The mini sounds great and you don’t loose too much character. The VH4 has way more bass and a bit more grit. You can check out his side by side on CGS guitars channel.
Can you please talk about concert safety again but in terms of barriers, how even spacious venues not filled to their limit can be dangerous, and lastly why it’s known to many that festival concerts can easily become dangerous? This will help people make their concerts safer perhaps.
There's nothing wrong with these amps ... they sound fine. Better than fine, actually. In fact, both the Bogner and the Friedman sound really good. I commented on another video that putting those two together, one each into a 1X12 would be a killer little heavy-rock rig. I'm a little less sold on the Diezel but that's just a preference, like Fender over Gibson.
I don't hate these things. It's pretty cool to have a JFET amp in a box style sounding thing in a little head cabinet. Could be really collectable and fun. BUT... for a home studio I don't need a bunch solid state power amps integrated into everything (and boxes that require some 24v wall wart power supply) when I have the effects return of a tube amp available. I do like grabbing amp in a box pedals for recording of rare or expensive sounds I'm probably not going to own any time soon.
seems like a VH-4 pedal jammed in front of a cheap chinese poweramp. The answer is transistors, diodes, jfets, all can act like tubes in the right circuit.
I've got a question. I've seen several times that you run bass through guitar amps, which I'm not going to complain about, it works fine and has been done for a very long time. Just kind of surprised you don't have an SVT that you run through. I admittedly don't play metal, but I do try to play a heavy Entwistle sound even when I'm doing blues and it works great for it. Maybe there's someone around with a tube SVT and 810 you can do a shootout amp comparison with what you usually use?
This amp sounds like it would be cool to run a bass guitar direct in with a 410 impulse or something. It sounds like there is enough thick bottom end in it to do the job. Plenty of grind. I know thats not it's intended purpose but if there is one thing I've learned here at SMG is that if it works .... it works. First impression of this lunchbox tells me it would work.
Wow, even at noon that was great, but when the gain was up it crunched (in a good way) so hard. It makes me want to pick up my fret-less bass and put guitar strings on it and see how awesome it would sound with a piccolo bass. Usually the guitar strings are super clean and bright which is good for jazz stuff, but actually adding decent quality crunch to them creates an awesome sound nobody uses. This would be great to play around with.
I like Marshall's & Soldano's but , Mississippi Queen was recorded with a old SUNN solid state. They have their place not as often ,but they have their place.
Glenn had an Irish Rovers album!!!.....Glenn, you are a Canadian treasure. ...(I bet you watched the BeachCombers and then the Tommy Hunter Show on Sinday nights ...haha)....the Diezal sounds awesome!!! ....Sold.
Been thinking of picking up one of these mini me tube amps. I've been using a 100watt Peavey Vypyr 3. While it's got some usable tones, You can tell the components used are complete garbage. It picks up all kinds of interference, and has this constant digital fizz to it.. I'm assuming super cheap transformer, etc.. Do I really need 100 digital modeling effects? Or one good natural useable tone. Thanks for the video, Glenn .
Replace the speaker [if you haven't already] with something more suited to Rock/metal amps and cabs. I thought the same about the Vypyr's until i swapped the speaker out. It cuts the higher freq out [where the DIgital fizz lives]. Modelling amp stock speakers tend to have a fuller range [for all the effects] and lets the fizz through as a side effect of that.
@@Timbo6669 Yes. I'm on the hunt for a premium full range 12" speaker. I use all the models on the Vypyr. I'm concerned a Celestion speaker, While it may sound good on the hi gain stuff, The acoustic and bass models might suffer.. Ola Englund tried what You're talking about, and had mixed results..
I’m gonna be honest. Peavey is my all-time favorite amp company, but I hate the 2nd gen vypyr more than any other amp I’ve played. None of the tones sound usable in my opinion, and even the bigger ones get completely lost with a drummer. For the same price, I think just getting a decent 2 channel solid state amp with reverb is more than enough tone. I went the route of buying pedals too, and I feel you can really tell the difference between a modeling amp “simulating” effects vs. an effects pedal that gives it more of a studio quality sound.
@@scottoleson1997 I hear ya. I'm an old head. Tried giving the modeling amp thing a shot. What attracted me to the Peavey, was the Transtube feature. I also got a great deal on it, with the Vypyr footswitch, slightly used. It supposedly runs the signal through an analog path. Doesn't seem to be doing the trick tho. I'm going to upgrade the speaker. See if there's any improvement. I'll be going back to tubes at some point. It's inevitable lol.. There's no way I'm dropping thousands on an axefx, or neural DSP . If I had that much money for gear, I'd put it towards more Cymbals and hardware..
If i didn't own an awsome Tube amp already and I was starting out, I would defiantly look into it for the price. I'm just disappoint, and I think a lot of us are is because I wanted a 20-50 watt version of the VH4
Does the "Deep" knob on this work similarly to the "Resonance" knob on a 5150/6505? If so, perhaps that's why I'm not a fan of the tone used here. Sounds a little muddy to me on your rhythm tone. The lead tone in the full mix is pretty nice though.
I dunno why so many people talk down on solid state amps. Watching "Rig Rundown" at Premier Guitar, you see that more pros use them than you realize. Many have SS backup amps in case they're tube amps go down. In fact, they even get used at events because things happen like picking up a radio station over the amplifier. That band had to switch to their SS Marshall and nobody in the crowd was the wiser. Unless someone tells them, I doubt most people could identity whether a professional band is using solid state amps at a show.
I love it when Glenn does the demos and not someone else. I have this on my radar but I really need a new axe first. Glad to see your approval Glenn! I was hoping you’d demo this one - oh and I almost forgot: Fuck You Glenn!
Honestly, having a consistent song that he compares to might be really helpful. We all know it at this point and could mostly pick out variation on the theme without having to go back and listen to the original every time.
Hate comes in many forms. Some people think it should sound and behave like a real big Diezel since it says so on the amp (disregarding that it's a cheap solid state licensed head and not the expensive tube monster it emulates). Some people hate solid state amps in general and blindly worship tubes like the second coming of tone itself (which just shows how much they know, since Iron Maiden used GK 250MLs, Schuldiner used Marshall Valvestate, Dimebag used Randall Warhead, everyone and their mother used a Roland Jazz Chorus at one point for cleans, not to mention freaking Santana and BB King rocked SS amps). Some people think you are better off with a distortion pedal in front of a clean-ish tube amp for a few bucks extra (not gonna lie - i understand those folk since i have a soft spot for that tube imperfectness and dynamics, but then again i don't really play metal anymore these days so it's easy for me to be a snob). Some people just don't like the way it sounds or the fact that it's a one channel amp (subjective so admissible as an argument, even though they fail to understand the true purpose of the amp is to allow poor kids and adults to make noise not so unlike the one they dream about (try finding an actual physical amp that sounds like a Diezel for a couple hundred bucks. I'll wait....) and us bedroom dwellers to practice our grindcore or whatever without inducing an open pitchfork-enhanced revolt in our apartment building). Some people just like to watch the world burn. I think it sounds fine. Not a world beater, better than the Friedman mini, not quite as good as the Bogner one. It does what it can at the price point.
Does the thing, crucial to me is how does it sound in band mix? To me sounds perfectly reasonable (all the way up to pretty darn good). Now will it sound superb up against a corksniffers curated tube amp in their $25000 home studio setup, whose audience primarily consists of their cat? Probably not. However, 99.9% of listeners who are NOT guitarists don't give a flying f*ck about whether this or that guitar is playing through a solid state or tube amp. In fact they don't even care what scale we're using or what preamp we used, and wouldn't know a Neve from a can of baked beans. I'm as guilty as the next player of falling into the trap of the "Excalibur" piece of gear, that will solve all my shortcomings as a musician and producer, hmm maybe there's an episode? "10 Excalibur pieces of gear that WON'T help your inadequacy." Anyway enough ranting, I'm off to polish my Neve. 🙄
Have the pedal. This amp is not the pedal with the added power amp. The pedal is made by Diezel in Germany. These amps are LICENSED DESIGNS of the amp manufacturers- made by Boutique *** *******. THAT in and of itself is why alot of people hate them. They need to put the "TM" sign under the amp logos to clear up any confusion. They aren't bad for what they are though. People buy Mooer, Donner, etc versions of bigger amp preamps- same thing. Eventually someone will do a shootout between the pedals and these amps. If it sounds close enough boo fckn hoo cares \m/
It kinda reminds me of a more modern version of the Peavey Bandit. Very nice, crunchy or fizzy solid state distortion. Difference being I only paid $150 for mine from 1989
@@scottoleson1997 see I play old solid state amp heads so I think of it in the terms of like I could buy a more tweakable amp for less money on reverb because I have an idea of what I am looking for
It's always nice seeing a father and son getting along
I should point out that alot of the reason those old solid state amps sounded like shit is because they were often comboed with cheap shitty 1x10 or 1x8 speakers. Running an ok sounding solid state amp through decent speakers makes a bit difference. In that respect diezel is smart making it a head and not making it a cheap, shitty sounding combo or an expensive decent sounding combo.
As an EE, I've always felt that the magic of tubes was some particular combo of headroom, clipping, EQ and nonlinear saturation. There's no reason tube sound can't be reproduced in a solid state circuitry so long as the producer of the amp knew what they were doing.
True a good chunk of times id get a decent sound out my sg I used to have with an 06 mg100hdfx n a 4x12 was watching Dave Simpson the other day guy gets killer sounds out of solid state it can be done lil longer to dial in but yeah I agree
I never saw the hate with the Jazz Chorus 120 and those solid state amps are selling for over $1,000. Of course the key was probably the higher end speakers.
I completely agree about the small speaker combos. I have a Orange Crush 20RT (8" speaker) which could be plenty loud and had a good sound, but I ended up getting a Marshall DSL 20CR because it has a 12" speaker. Worlds of difference.
I have a late 90s kustom tuck n roll combo that always sounded like ass. A few years back as an experiment I wired in an external speaker jack and ran it through my eminence swamp thang loaded can. Is it the best amp ever? No... But it is definitely a fun and unique sounding amp. The gain channel is big and static-y (in a good way) with a nicely pronounced midrange. The speakers made a night and day difference.
@@derrickharmon7980 I had one too with a handful of stomp boxes including a Digitech Metal Master that we got by accident and I fell in love with (was in the bag of a guitar we got from the pawn store), anyway, was complimented quite a bit about my sound on a 4X12 solid state.
I guess some people would prefer to play a Gas/ Electric hybrid? I guess they just don’t understand that the Diezel isn’t Diesel it’s all electric ???
I run the Diezel and Bogner as a stereo pair. Orange 8" cabs for travel and fun and 212 cabs for studio (live when that can happen again). Love mine.
That sounds like a cool set up
@Cyrus Freeman Yeah I just use a dirt cheap ABY pedal. It sounds great, kinda noisy though. Usually I never use a noise gate but I kinda have to with this setup.
Coming from a Diezel VH4 owner, this mini amp offers *outstanding* tone considering the size and price point! Would have loved it to have been around back when I was starting out.
As a fellow VH4 owner, I salute you.
It sounds so good by itself and even better in the mix!
GLEEEEEEEEEN! I am sure you have heard of the situation with the Travis scott concert.
Could you make a video on the basics of crowd control as it seems to be no longer the focus as promoters will over book and just push for more revenue' putting patrons at unnecessary risk.
I think this is a good idea. One of the first things I thought of when hearing about Travis is how metal bands have mosh pits and walls of death without so many injuries.
What really angers me is that previous iterations of Astroworld also caused fans to rush to the stage, and 3 were injured because of this in 2019, so it could somewhat be foreseen that this would happen, but it seems like the organizers of the festival did not implement measures that suffice to prevent it. When you have people crushing through entry barriers to get in (like it happened in the afternoon before the deadly crowd surge in the evening), that's pretty hard to predict. But people rushing towards the stage to the detriment of others was predictable, given that IT HAPPENED THE PREVIOUS FUCKING TIMES! The people in that crowd talk about it like getting pushed and squeezed by the crowd is usual business and that's freaking horrifying. It's inacceptable that this circumstance was not given sufficient attention to during the planning stages of the event.
Why dude?
I’ve been GASsing for a Diezel VH4 for the better part of 20 years. I would’ve killed for an amp like this when I was first learning guitar.
You might want to go with the VHX. I haven't played one myself, but they say it has all the different Diezel preamp tones in it, and it's programmable...meaning you can recall a lot of different settings quickly with a midi controller instead of fiddling with knobs for different songs (or live vs. recording). The downside of course is sometimes infinite options end up killing your progress more than knobs.
I think there's people out there that hate on these in order to justify the 4 grand they dropped on a tube Diezel. 🤷♂️
The Diezel tone isn't really for me, but I plan on getting the Bogner one with a 112 cab. Together with a very simple pedal board that is going to be my solution to playing live once I get back to doing it. Can't justify the need to lug big ass amps and shit around at my age, especially not for playing bars with stages the size of postage stamps.
If I were to buy a solid state amp, I'd pay 100 bucks more and buy the new orange amp. That is fucking great.
It fooled Glenn, and it sounds amazing in the mix. Thumbs up.
That guitarist in the full mix always comes up with great licks, i definitely enjoy his playing more than the other guys on the show
Man that's a beautiful Les Paul! Sounds great! Sounds like a tube amp to me! Sounds very cool in the full mix!
Just when I thought I had enough stuff on my Christmas list!
GLENN IS PLAYING A GIBSON! ELITIST! HE JUST PUT ANOTHER STICKER IN THE HEADSTOCK! MU AH HA HAAAAA!
I've got a big old barn, and I wanna rent it out a practice room for local bands.
What's a reasonable rate to charge? I expect to make beer money, not earn a living.
And what kinda preperations should I make for the building?
I've enclosed a reasonable portion lf the space with insulation, lights and a floor on hockey pucks for the drummer. The building has no electric outlets, so power is provided by extension. I know ground issues can be a problem recording, but I'm only a practice room.
Any advice?
Should I provide Tea facilities (I'm in the UK)?
OK, here goes (from a voice of experience in crappy practice rooms):
Rates: the going rate for a room with a skeleton kit, amps and a vocal PA is like £10/hr, depending on location. The skeleton kit and PA can be found pretty cheap second hand, so I'd look into acquiring those two as a priority.
Preparations: Parking, paths and pissing. If people need to bring gear, they need to park, and carry. So you want a decent parking area and a path to the barn. Not saying it doesn't already exist, but it is worth considering. And, you know, bathroom arrangements. A pit and bag of quicklime might not cut it.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Thanx
It sounds solid state, that all I can say
Nah that’s just Glen’s playing! Hahaha.
I did not expect that kind of sound from that small of an amp. Wow!
Man I was really diggin this till I realized there was no on board cab emulation or headphone jack. Recording ideas into my digital recorder (as opposed to booting up the c) or just wanting to silently jam w headphones are the the most common uses I get out of my joyo zombie. Thats a real shame.
What’s that blue 335 looking guitar in the center on the stand?
I definitely need to pick up each of these to check out. Suoer cool times to be a musician.
Except for COVID ruining the gigging scene, the parts shortage making getting the cool stuff harder and the 5 guys who have the music industry in a vice grip headlock of course.
Does it have line in line out effects loop and channel switch .
Because the Joyo does , too bad is has no chug
The fender digital has 2 channels but no loop
The Vh Micro sounds great on its own, and paired with other amps with different sonic characters. Does it sound like a real VH4? Not quite - there’s just a grunt in the low mids/bass that up to now only a true tube output section and output transformer can provide - but that’s ok. I have the VH, the SLO Mini, and I run them in a stereo quartet with a Micro Dark and DSL20, all through separate 212s, and as is often the case, speakers make all the difference. All of these pieces together come in for less than half the price of a VH4 and 212/412. Suits me just fine, and perfect for my applications. No buyer’s remorse on any part of this setup.
Tried looking up the Diezel Mini, then I realized its the Diezel micro. Tight chunky sound. Thanks for the review
Actually my good friend Jake has a real VH4 and we’ve used it on a couple of recordings. The mini sounds great and you don’t loose too much character. The VH4 has way more bass and a bit more grit. You can check out his side by side on CGS guitars channel.
Had to watch this ASAP because I saw you playing a Les Paul in the thumbnail, but it's not a Gibson so this checks out 👍
I know you mention them here, but what are your thoughts on electronic drum kits like Roland V Drums?
Seems like a ballin little amp. Those leads in the full mix are super zesty!
The house band killed that demo . Great work guys
Can you please talk about concert safety again but in terms of barriers, how even spacious venues not filled to their limit can be dangerous, and lastly why it’s known to many that festival concerts can easily become dangerous? This will help people make their concerts safer perhaps.
There's nothing wrong with these amps ... they sound fine. Better than fine, actually. In fact, both the Bogner and the Friedman sound really good. I commented on another video that putting those two together, one each into a 1X12 would be a killer little heavy-rock rig. I'm a little less sold on the Diezel but that's just a preference, like Fender over Gibson.
I don't hate these things. It's pretty cool to have a JFET amp in a box style sounding thing in a little head cabinet. Could be really collectable and fun. BUT... for a home studio I don't need a bunch solid state power amps integrated into everything (and boxes that require some 24v wall wart power supply) when I have the effects return of a tube amp available. I do like grabbing amp in a box pedals for recording of rare or expensive sounds I'm probably not going to own any time soon.
Worlds collide! Glenn and Adam! Love Adam's Reaper videos, I have to watch them multiple times to pick up all the knowledge he drops.
I find it cool that "single channel" amps are making a stellar comeback by way of these mini amps. Simple, no fluff. Who needs a clean channel?
I disagree. There's no excuse to not have a clean channel with today's technologies and fab capabilities.
So funny I love that dude
@@ivanbrasla I always prefer Fender for clean tone. So, I always need a separate amp for cleans.
@@ivanbrasla Kerry King just used a chorus pedal to front of house. For dirty it was single channel Marshall JCM800s. IMO, the simpler the better.
@@deadsky13 This amp doesn't do cleans like a jcm800
Morningtown ride by the seekers was also the theme tune to a UK kiddies request show on the radio back in the day. still haunts us.
I haven't seen any negative reviews on this little amp.
Sounds like a perfect amp for some tool type tones.
I would love to get this Diezel mini along with Soldano mini, Friedman and Bogner mini for killer rig.
seems like a VH-4 pedal jammed in front of a cheap chinese poweramp. The answer is transistors, diodes, jfets, all can act like tubes in the right circuit.
I've got a question. I've seen several times that you run bass through guitar amps, which I'm not going to complain about, it works fine and has been done for a very long time. Just kind of surprised you don't have an SVT that you run through. I admittedly don't play metal, but I do try to play a heavy Entwistle sound even when I'm doing blues and it works great for it. Maybe there's someone around with a tube SVT and 810 you can do a shootout amp comparison with what you usually use?
Dude I love that amp your right bro
Someone else who grew up with the Irish Rovers! My first concert was the Irish Rovers at my Catholic school auditorium.
Damn....what a ggreat sounding amp. Affordable too!
f*kkin sh*t glenn, that was tearing it up... badass playin
This amp sounds like it would be cool to run a bass guitar direct in with a 410 impulse or something. It sounds like there is enough thick bottom end in it to do the job. Plenty of grind.
I know thats not it's intended purpose but if there is one thing I've learned here at SMG is that if it works .... it works. First impression of this lunchbox tells me it would work.
Wow, even at noon that was great, but when the gain was up it crunched (in a good way) so hard. It makes me want to pick up my fret-less bass and put guitar strings on it and see how awesome it would sound with a piccolo bass. Usually the guitar strings are super clean and bright which is good for jazz stuff, but actually adding decent quality crunch to them creates an awesome sound nobody uses. This would be great to play around with.
I like Marshall's & Soldano's but , Mississippi Queen was recorded with a old SUNN solid state. They have their place not as often ,but they have their place.
I think this line of amps are some kind of souvenirs. For this price you can grab proper tube amp.
Glenn had an Irish Rovers album!!!.....Glenn, you are a Canadian treasure. ...(I bet you watched the BeachCombers and then the Tommy Hunter Show on Sinday nights ...haha)....the Diezal sounds awesome!!! ....Sold.
It didn't please my ears played alone. How do you recognize a good amp by listening to it solo?
Been thinking of picking up one of these mini me tube amps. I've been using a 100watt Peavey Vypyr 3. While it's got some usable tones, You can tell the components used are complete garbage. It picks up all kinds of interference, and has this constant digital fizz to it.. I'm assuming super cheap transformer, etc.. Do I really need 100 digital modeling effects? Or one good natural useable tone. Thanks for the video, Glenn .
Replace the speaker [if you haven't already] with something more suited to Rock/metal amps and cabs.
I thought the same about the Vypyr's until i swapped the speaker out. It cuts the higher freq out [where the DIgital fizz lives]. Modelling amp stock speakers tend to have a fuller range [for all the effects] and lets the fizz through as a side effect of that.
@@Timbo6669 Yes. I'm on the hunt for a premium full range 12" speaker. I use all the models on the Vypyr. I'm concerned a Celestion speaker, While it may sound good on the hi gain stuff, The acoustic and bass models might suffer.. Ola Englund tried what You're talking about, and had mixed results..
I’m gonna be honest. Peavey is my all-time favorite amp company, but I hate the 2nd gen vypyr more than any other amp I’ve played. None of the tones sound usable in my opinion, and even the bigger ones get completely lost with a drummer. For the same price, I think just getting a decent 2 channel solid state amp with reverb is more than enough tone. I went the route of buying pedals too, and I feel you can really tell the difference between a modeling amp “simulating” effects vs. an effects pedal that gives it more of a studio quality sound.
@@scottoleson1997 I hear ya. I'm an old head. Tried giving the modeling amp thing a shot. What attracted me to the Peavey, was the Transtube feature. I also got a great deal on it, with the Vypyr footswitch, slightly used. It supposedly runs the signal through an analog path. Doesn't seem to be doing the trick tho. I'm going to upgrade the speaker. See if there's any improvement. I'll be going back to tubes at some point. It's inevitable lol.. There's no way I'm dropping thousands on an axefx, or neural DSP . If I had that much money for gear, I'd put it towards more Cymbals and hardware..
If i didn't own an awsome Tube amp already and I was starting out, I would defiantly look into it for the price. I'm just disappoint, and I think a lot of us are is because I wanted a 20-50 watt version of the VH4
Does the "Deep" knob on this work similarly to the "Resonance" knob on a 5150/6505? If so, perhaps that's why I'm not a fan of the tone used here. Sounds a little muddy to me on your rhythm tone. The lead tone in the full mix is pretty nice though.
I dunno why so many people talk down on solid state amps. Watching "Rig Rundown" at Premier Guitar, you see that more pros use them than you realize. Many have SS backup amps in case they're tube amps go down. In fact, they even get used at events because things happen like picking up a radio station over the amplifier. That band had to switch to their SS Marshall and nobody in the crowd was the wiser.
Unless someone tells them, I doubt most people could identity whether a professional band is using solid state amps at a show.
Can anyone get a closer Adam Jones tone/distortion with a non-diezel amp or pedal?
lol you either just do a ton of stuff, or I'm on a wavelength right now. Thanks for sharing!
That Heritage is freaking beautiful.
I own one and it sounds fucking awesome. Don’t knock it till you try it and the 30 watts is more than enough.
That amp and cab sounds killer!
It sounds awesome, I'm probably going to buy one, but I'm just going to use a 1X12 cab
Sounded great to me. Great tone
I love it when Glenn does the demos and not someone else. I have this on my radar but I really need a new axe first. Glad to see your approval Glenn! I was hoping you’d demo this one - oh and I almost forgot:
Fuck You Glenn!
What's better? This or the Joyo Zombie?
Every time Jon Suki plays I am amazed. Is he in a band I can check out. Anyone Know?
I wouldn't mind having a whole wall full of these mini amps.
Dayum, Hennings hair looking good! 😀😀
I love the Diezel Herbert tube head
bit autentic. like my micro cube. loveing my bugera infinium, kustom cab, celestions, meta zone.
Love how you brought back The Eagle Has Landed, albeit in a different key haha. Sounds pretty killer.
Honestly, having a consistent song that he compares to might be really helpful. We all know it at this point and could mostly pick out variation on the theme without having to go back and listen to the original every time.
@@girhen Just like the one riff Ola always plays every single time in Will it Chug. Good move indeed.
Hate comes in many forms.
Some people think it should sound and behave like a real big Diezel since it says so on the amp (disregarding that it's a cheap solid state licensed head and not the expensive tube monster it emulates).
Some people hate solid state amps in general and blindly worship tubes like the second coming of tone itself (which just shows how much they know, since Iron Maiden used GK 250MLs, Schuldiner used Marshall Valvestate, Dimebag used Randall Warhead, everyone and their mother used a Roland Jazz Chorus at one point for cleans, not to mention freaking Santana and BB King rocked SS amps).
Some people think you are better off with a distortion pedal in front of a clean-ish tube amp for a few bucks extra (not gonna lie - i understand those folk since i have a soft spot for that tube imperfectness and dynamics, but then again i don't really play metal anymore these days so it's easy for me to be a snob).
Some people just don't like the way it sounds or the fact that it's a one channel amp (subjective so admissible as an argument, even though they fail to understand the true purpose of the amp is to allow poor kids and adults to make noise not so unlike the one they dream about (try finding an actual physical amp that sounds like a Diezel for a couple hundred bucks. I'll wait....) and us bedroom dwellers to practice our grindcore or whatever without inducing an open pitchfork-enhanced revolt in our apartment building).
Some people just like to watch the world burn.
I think it sounds fine. Not a world beater, better than the Friedman mini, not quite as good as the Bogner one. It does what it can at the price point.
Those mini amps are great and I hear there is a fourth one coming out in December
I'm torn between this and the Bogner ecstacy mini.
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Diezel Mini? That thing looks huge! How big must a full size one be? Why yes, I am a bass player, why did you ask?
" I honestly don't understand all the hate it's getting." Snobbery maybe?
Definitely that classic guitarist snobbery. It's a solid state lunchbox amp so theres going to be hate no matter how it sounds.
Yeah I love my Diezel Herbert pedal
I want one bad. Great sneaky work amp is what I’m thinking.
thanks Glenn
Salute to the Heritage H-150. Great guitars!
Wow! Nice guitar, Glenn! What is it? I want one!
A heritage
Wow this sound amazing 🔥🔥🔥
I'll take your word for it guys and won't judge it by what I'm hearing out of my thumb tack sized cell phone speaker!
It would be interesting to have it, if I hadn't the Herbert already :D
A cool sounding amp tho and i want one. I dont get where all the hate's comin' from.
dang that single cut f-in stays in tune!
Pastor Glenn holds church.
My favorite solid state is TECH 21 Sansamp GT2
That is a killer sounding amp
"In the clinic."
ROFL
"Go Do Some Work, You Lazy Fucks"
Sounds like a great idea for a T-Shirt
Father Glenn of the Church of Spider III
Dayummmmm. Good dirt!!!
I like it.
Krauser would be proud!
Does the thing, crucial to me is how does it sound in band mix? To me sounds perfectly reasonable (all the way up to pretty darn good). Now will it sound superb up against a corksniffers curated tube amp in their $25000 home studio setup, whose audience primarily consists of their cat? Probably not. However, 99.9% of listeners who are NOT guitarists don't give a flying f*ck about whether this or that guitar is playing through a solid state or tube amp. In fact they don't even care what scale we're using or what preamp we used, and wouldn't know a Neve from a can of baked beans. I'm as guilty as the next player of falling into the trap of the "Excalibur" piece of gear, that will solve all my shortcomings as a musician and producer, hmm maybe there's an episode? "10 Excalibur pieces of gear that WON'T help your inadequacy." Anyway enough ranting, I'm off to polish my Neve. 🙄
Lolol Glen turns into Don Vito at 3:43
Have the pedal. This amp is not the pedal with the added power amp. The pedal is made by Diezel in Germany. These amps are LICENSED DESIGNS of the amp manufacturers- made by Boutique *** *******. THAT in and of itself is why alot of people hate them. They need to put the "TM" sign under the amp logos to clear up any confusion. They aren't bad for what they are though. People buy Mooer, Donner, etc versions of bigger amp preamps- same thing. Eventually someone will do a shootout between the pedals and these amps. If it sounds close enough boo fckn hoo cares \m/
Because it’s not the VH Mini we wanted :/
Sweet heritage, too
HEY the RUclips DISLIKE COUNTER isn't showing. That's RUclips manipulating your perception.
I don't really care for the sound it's got too much lower mids for me, it sounds kinda mushy but if people like it more power to them
It kinda reminds me of a more modern version of the Peavey Bandit. Very nice, crunchy or fizzy solid state distortion. Difference being I only paid $150 for mine from 1989
@@scottoleson1997 see I play old solid state amp heads so I think of it in the terms of like I could buy a more tweakable amp for less money on reverb because I have an idea of what I am looking for
Do they do bass amps? 😂