I've found with my vh4, the channel volumes need to be at a very healthy 2 o clock for the amp to really come alive. It's a freaking monster, definitely the best amp I've ever played through by far, but that's it's one little caveat. People who say "OH I tried one and it sounded bad" I'd be willing to bet their channel volume wasn't high enough.
Could be, wish I kept mine for a bit longer and spent more time tweaking it in new ways and experimenting. Truly the best looking amp out there hands DOWN. For me it was the feel (at least of this one) and the price, that lead me to selling it it was a very very stiff feeling amp, not a lot of juice/boom IMO. Not bad but I think i just expected something that felt way more connected and expressive to my playing. Plus i could sell this and buy like 4 other great amps. I do miss it though.
Yeah it’s unfortunate if you’re gonna spend that much might as well get a VH4. As much as I respect they doing everything in Germany by hand etc. it just makes them so insanely expensive would be great if they could make a cheaper version. Get the tone out to the masses a bit more.
Keep in mind I was tweaking while I was in the room with the amp and not listening through the mics. In the room, this amp can be very dark and honky hence the cutting of the midrange and boosting lows and highs.
the mic is right in the center up on the grill, didn't really dial in the mic placement on this one just dead center. Most of my other videos are dialed in though and I'm tweaking through monitors. In this one, I'm reacting to how it sounds in the room rather than listening through the mic and tweaking to that. It sounds SUPER dark in the room which is why I'm adding a ton of high-end to it.
Glorious. I definitely want one but not sure I want to shell out almost $5k (with tax). $3k would be more my speed:) Definitely prefer it to the Herbert.
Hey man, have you ever tried the amp with a Mesa Traditional? I have a Traditional and a 2014 VH4, with the controls at noon it sounds really dark, maybe it's the cab, but I need to cranck treble and the presence to open up the amp.
Yup that's pretttty similar to how mine sounded. The cab I'm playing it through is a 4x12 oversized mesa so overall relatively similar to the traditional just looser/deeper bass. Funny though because through my mesa 2x12 is where the VH4 sounded the most balanced. I've got a cab now with K100s and can see why they're the go-to speaker for the VH4s. but yeah generally a bit of a dark amp. I think it's supposed to be like that but if you come from like a marshall or 5150 territory its way too dark. I sold mine.
@@acrylicrecording I've ever gravitated towards Mesa amps, Recto and Marks, I sold my Recto multiwatt to buy this one. I bough the Traditional because of his mids and tighter bass which worked really well with the Recto. This time is the opposite. Lots of people say the OS will sounds much better but on the dark side anyway. So I'm planning to sold the Tradition in favour of a Bogner, a classic one with all V30 or the Ubercab, or a straight Diezel FL. Maybe swapping to V30 in favour of K100 might do the difference without selling it.
@@Hagstrom4ever Hard to say without trying it with the cabs but my first choice would be to match it with the diezel cab, especially a FL cab will sound massively different.
@@acrylicrecording after a year I'm here again watching this video hahahaha with few news, my VH4 is a 2015 but with specs of old VH4s so way darker. At the end I bought a Diezel FL with K100, sold them for V30s, a '99 UK, a 2001 UK and 2 chinese ones. The amp sounds awesome with the FL but I'm thinking to an OS, don't know why, maybe it's the most idiot thing I can do hahah.
Are you saying that the amp has too much bass and mids in general? Because I've got the mids mostly scooped on this guy haha and the deep down pretty low. But yeah this amp is odd to dial in.
I've found with my vh4, the channel volumes need to be at a very healthy 2 o clock for the amp to really come alive. It's a freaking monster, definitely the best amp I've ever played through by far, but that's it's one little caveat.
People who say "OH I tried one and it sounded bad" I'd be willing to bet their channel volume wasn't high enough.
Could be, wish I kept mine for a bit longer and spent more time tweaking it in new ways and experimenting. Truly the best looking amp out there hands DOWN. For me it was the feel (at least of this one) and the price, that lead me to selling it it was a very very stiff feeling amp, not a lot of juice/boom IMO. Not bad but I think i just expected something that felt way more connected and expressive to my playing. Plus i could sell this and buy like 4 other great amps. I do miss it though.
Excellent amp. Never have enough money to buy one.
That’s why I sold mine basically. Great amp but I could own like 4 amps for its price
Good review man... thanks for doing this. I played a VH2, it was okay. not worth the 3k they were asking for it.
Yeah it’s unfortunate if you’re gonna spend that much might as well get a VH4. As much as I respect they doing everything in Germany by hand etc. it just makes them so insanely expensive would be great if they could make a cheaper version. Get the tone out to the masses a bit more.
My 2009 vh4 sounds NOTHING like this. But my vh2 sounds exactly like it. You can tell the newer ones are tuned for kt77s.
What do you have against midrange frequencies?
Keep in mind I was tweaking while I was in the room with the amp and not listening through the mics. In the room, this amp can be very dark and honky hence the cutting of the midrange and boosting lows and highs.
@@acrylicrecording I feel the same about my Herbert
great video! thank you! keep rock!
I'm not sure if it's you making the amp sound terrible or just bad mic placement.
the mic is right in the center up on the grill, didn't really dial in the mic placement on this one just dead center. Most of my other videos are dialed in though and I'm tweaking through monitors. In this one, I'm reacting to how it sounds in the room rather than listening through the mic and tweaking to that. It sounds SUPER dark in the room which is why I'm adding a ton of high-end to it.
Glorious. I definitely want one but not sure I want to shell out almost $5k (with tax). $3k would be more my speed:) Definitely prefer it to the Herbert.
Completely agree. Unfortunately the only reason I sold it, too much money sitting in one place.
Hey man, have you ever tried the amp with a Mesa Traditional? I have a Traditional and a 2014 VH4, with the controls at noon it sounds really dark, maybe it's the cab, but I need to cranck treble and the presence to open up the amp.
Yup that's pretttty similar to how mine sounded. The cab I'm playing it through is a 4x12 oversized mesa so overall relatively similar to the traditional just looser/deeper bass. Funny though because through my mesa 2x12 is where the VH4 sounded the most balanced. I've got a cab now with K100s and can see why they're the go-to speaker for the VH4s. but yeah generally a bit of a dark amp. I think it's supposed to be like that but if you come from like a marshall or 5150 territory its way too dark. I sold mine.
@@acrylicrecording I've ever gravitated towards Mesa amps, Recto and Marks, I sold my Recto multiwatt to buy this one. I bough the Traditional because of his mids and tighter bass which worked really well with the Recto. This time is the opposite. Lots of people say the OS will sounds much better but on the dark side anyway. So I'm planning to sold the Tradition in favour of a Bogner, a classic one with all V30 or the Ubercab, or a straight Diezel FL. Maybe swapping to V30 in favour of K100 might do the difference without selling it.
@@Hagstrom4ever Hard to say without trying it with the cabs but my first choice would be to match it with the diezel cab, especially a FL cab will sound massively different.
@@acrylicrecording after a year I'm here again watching this video hahahaha with few news, my VH4 is a 2015 but with specs of old VH4s so way darker. At the end I bought a Diezel FL with K100, sold them for V30s, a '99 UK, a 2001 UK and 2 chinese ones. The amp sounds awesome with the FL but I'm thinking to an OS, don't know why, maybe it's the most idiot thing I can do hahah.
Too much bass and mids
Are you saying that the amp has too much bass and mids in general? Because I've got the mids mostly scooped on this guy haha and the deep down pretty low. But yeah this amp is odd to dial in.