Easily the best demo of this amp I've seen on youtube

@TheGuitarNerdShow

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, that's very kind. I'm kind of in a holding pattern right now but in the next year hope to be up and running and in my new house (and studio) and will be doing a LOT of new video, including a demo of this and quite a few other amps. Can't wait!

Great representation of this legendary 80s amp.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man - since I did this video I've had a cap job done on the amp & replaced and biased the power tubes so now it's even more badass. Look for more video soon!

Finally a good review. I had one of these a few years back, amazing amp, i REALLY regret losing it.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

4 жыл бұрын

They're great amps especially if you find one in good condition.

Finally I've found an AOR demo that isn't just shitty Tony Iommi wannabe riffs.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great chops man, tone from both amps is killer. Big fan of the Bugera amps in general. I'm new to your channel and dig what you have here. Subscribed, Cheers.......Rich

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words Rich! I plan to record and upload some more stuff here shortly so stay tuned. I like what I've heard from Bugera thus far - I'm concerned, though, at the build quality, based on the price. I've already had an issue with the Bugera 1960 - a few months ago, it lost virtually all of it's output volume. Wasn't tubes as I swapped 'em all out, one at a time, and tried running through the FX return to no avail. That said, though, Bugera's customer service was really good. I sent the amp to the service center, they were out of stock on whatever they were waiting for to diagnose the issue so the company just sent me a brand new one. Thus far the new one (which is the one in this video) has been great! I bought a Trirec in a pawn shop, which got this whole amp buying frenzy started in the first place LOL! Sounds great but not quite as good as a Mesa Dual Rec so I'll be selling it. Stay tuned and thanks again!

Finally a decent demo of this head! Just as I remember it, and great playing too bro!

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lars! There is a much more in depth video on the way in the coming weeks so stay tuned!

@larslevinberget9558

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarNerdShow 3 years...wow, I was about to comment on my own comment LOL

Dude!!! I just discovered your channel through the Bugera demo video. You’re fantastic, man. We play a LOT of the same riffs. Small world.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

3 жыл бұрын

That's really kind of you to say, thank you! There will be a lot more video content soon so stay tuned!

@RobSchauland

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarNerdShow Just subscribed on your good word. LOL

You dude made it sound really sick!! I use one of those with one of my band it seriously kicks ass. I too crank the mids all the way, it really help tighten the sound. My amp is 30 years old and I never had any problem with reliability. The finish feels cheap compared to a marshall, the cabinet is made of particle board, but the guts of this amp screams 80's metal! It can also sound like a plexi if you dial it right.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man - really great sounding amps!

Best review, i love this amp!

@TheGuitarNerdShow

3 жыл бұрын

Thank You!

This is the best demo of this amp!!!!!! i really bored by a lot of stoner-doom demo..

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The amp sounds considerably better now - I changed the power tubes to a new set of JJ E34Ls (I read on some forums that AOR amps like these), had the amp's BIAS set to them, and had a full cap job done - all the capacitors were the originals - meaning they were WELL PAST the point of needing to be replaced. I hope to do another video soon, this time with better audio - I'd planned to do it last week but Hurricane Florence had different ideas (I live 2 blocks from the ocean in northern South Carolina) - hopefully next week if my schedule will allow.

@purpled4864

3 жыл бұрын

You think? I personally think Steve Reese from Does it Doom gets a better tone out of it but I guess it comes down to taste. I prefer sludge to 80's gain

They are wonderful amps. Since everyone caught on... the price went up up up

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

I know, dammit LOL!!!

@luisangelEXALTA

4 жыл бұрын

I got one I might consider letting loose so I can get a super reverb

I owned one of those in mid 80s pushing 4/12. Full boss pedal board + RAT & Rocktron Hush IIBX rack mount was icing on cake.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

It's a killer amp. I haven't had the occasion yet to run it with a pedalboard but I'm hoping to soon!

Solid as hell video for the Laney AOR

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! The Laney is in for a cap job right now, my tech has the exact same caps as Laney used when building the amp, so it should sound outstanding - look for more video when I get the amp back!

@FrostGiantElectronics

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Senes I own 2 at the moment plus one of the new GH100R’s. There’s a killer relay mode you can wire up to make it a 2 channel with the low and high input

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Really? An internal mod? What's it change, sound-wise?

@horsthansen6959

4 жыл бұрын

@@FrostGiantElectronics hi, do you sell one of the AOR's? :-)

Nice, crazy nights to kick things off. I always wondered about these since Vinnie Moore played one in the early days and I always loved his tone. I think his 50 watter is still floating around for a relatively low price.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

If you keep your eyes open you can find them relatively cheap. Great amps!

Damn dude sounded awesome!!!

@TheGuitarNerdShow

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ron!

Great amp and playing

@TheGuitarNerdShow

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great clip. AOR is fantastic.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Currently the amp is with my tech getting a cap job (the caps have never been replaced so it's way past due). Should make a pretty significant difference in the sound and feel of the amp. Look for more video when I get the amp back.

@dariusmaroszyk283

5 жыл бұрын

I own two AOR's. One is 1987 AOR100 MV 9 6 knobber and the second is 1991 AOR 50 Series 2. I recapped them recently . Series 2 got a bit more gain than 6 knobber, but 6 knobber sounds so great. Especially with good OD pedals. I'm using it with Bogner Ubershall or Boss Power Stack ST-2. Power Stack got a bit more overdrive than TS-9 and much more low end. Anyway AOR is my #1 amp. #2 is Laney iRT.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

If you dig it more than your Bogner that's a great endorsement of it right there!

Great chops bro. Sounds like Zakk Wylde on Bugera. AOR sounds like Paul Gilbert. Makes sense. Great sounding amps.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Check out some of my newer videos for some more great tone stuff. I recently uploaded a walkthrough of my entire studio guitar rig - you definitely don't want to miss that one!

AOR awesome amp, want one bad.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

It really is. They can be found pretty cheap on Reverb, that's where I got this one...

Loudness fucking rules! Sweet demo

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!!!!

killer setup...would love to get some more details on how everything is routed for switching/blending etc

@TheGuitarNerdShow

6 жыл бұрын

It's a fairly simple setup. I run from my guitar into a Sonic Research Turbo Tuner and an EP Booster from Xotic. From there I can either run directly into my Lehle P-Split II to split the signal OR run through whichever pedal effects I may want, then into the splitter. From the splitter the signal runs into whichever amps I'm using. Each amps' speaker output is routed to an amp/cab switch made by deLisle where I can switch from between 3 amp heads - the output is routed to a Suhr Reactive Load. I have a stack of 3 amp heads on each side of my mix desk. Each set of three has a switch and Suhr Reactive Load. It's set up this way so that I can have several options for combining amps. The blending is done in my DAW software (Logic Pro X) - it's just mixing two sources to taste. In this video each amp's signal is equal. You're hearing the sound from my studio monitors.

Thanks for posting this, but I also want to tell you just how bad I feel that the seller did not pack it well enough to arrive in the condition you expected. I bought an AOR 50 Watt PTL about 5-7 years ago face to face with a guy and later have found out it had some mouse eaten wires inside. Now I have to be about rewiring the chewed ones plus some coupling caps it got. Great demo sir. thanks.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Mark, thanks for your kind words! Weird about the mouse chewing - a few weeks after I made this video, I put this amp in for a retube (Biasing) and had all the capacitors changed (all told over $300 - almost what I ended up paying for the amp LOL - yeesh!). Prior to this I had taken the amp out of the head box to look at the innards to see how easy it'd be to set the bias myself (I had a Bias probe on order) and noticed a wire or two appeared to either have burnt a little, or been chewed LOL! So I was sure to point it out to the tech to whom I took the amp and asked him to repair that. I will be doing an updated and much better demo of this amp in the coming weeks. I'm working on a pretty major relaunch of this channel with much more frequent content uploads so if you haven't already, please hit the Subscribe button. Thanks! And thanks again for your kind words!

@mlasch1478

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarNerdShow You are welcome. That $300 sounds reasonable with parts too, I basically did the same with a Marshall JMP 50 watt I have. Sadly the tech was ok at replacing tubes, caps and fixing my power cord, but I suspect he replaced my original Marshall Power transformer without me actually needing it. As I later discovered when I still had the issue I brought the amp to him for occurred despite me hardly using it, (intermittent loss of signal issue) I decided to learn diagnosing and fixing things myself. It turned out my ohms selector had gotten loose socket and would lose electrical signal. I found this quite by accident simply trying to find ANYTHING,,,,,,, that was amiss and would restore some semblance of sound thru speaker. Whether it be crackling, or good guitar sound or what. Basically a $0 fix and I have been good ever since.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Ahhh man that sucks - gotta be careful with some techs - I'm very fortunate to have a really solid guy - dude could probably fix a space shuttle LOL!!!!!!!! Yeah I'm not complaining about the price, just funny that it was almost as much as I paid for the amp (the guy from whom I bought it agreed to refund some of the money I paid to make up for the damage that occurred in shipping).

@mlasch1478

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarNerdShow that is great about the refund. I too paid just about $300 for mine. Hoping to get the wiring done myself and certainly can fix damaged coupling caps etc.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Best wishes - wish I had the guts to go into the wiring myself LOL!

LOUDNESS!

@TheGuitarNerdShow

4 жыл бұрын

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That Laney sounds amazing Thanks for posting. Which one are you taking to your next Gig?

@TheGuitarNerdShow

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. None of these. For my gigging I'm using a Fender Deluxe Reverb LOL!!!!!!!!

@surfthejapstrat7010

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Senes excellent choice for many reasons

Great video man! Is it possibel to get a Marshall JCM 800 2203 Souns with this Amp? ;)

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words Erik! I haven't really tried, yet, to do that. From what I'm told it's too different an amp but i wanna reserve judgement till I actually try to do it LOL!!!! I'm planning a much more comprehensive walkthrough of this amp, as well as some of my other gear in the near future so definitely stay tuned!

Rock and roll crazy niiiiiiiights

@TheGuitarNerdShow

6 ай бұрын

LOL!!!!!!!!!! Check out some of my more recent videos, some good stuff there and more coming soon!

Fucking finally a demo of musical gear that dosen't fucking suck only issue is needs more riffage.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned - lots more stuff coming very soon!

Laney is the truth!

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

Great Amps!

I had a 6 knob AOR and it had the same characteristic as this one did with the fizz...I modded it into a straight up 2204 and it sounded great so I threw a PTP in there and turned it into a 2204 with more tweaks. Killer sounding now and that's likely what it will stay. They were decent amps but not on par with Marshall imo. Volume up and preamp down helped though.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment! Yeah, I found the same thing, crank the volume and let that do the work - sounds much better that way! Thanks for watching!

I have the AOR but it's the 50 watt and I run with with my GH50L great sound.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

4 жыл бұрын

I used to have a GH100L, I loved that amp. It was stolen in 2000, along with the band's entire gear trailer. Also lost a Year 1 5150, two 5150 4x13 cabs, 2 Ibanez SC420's, a rack and pedalboard full of gear. Broke my heart LOL! And my bank account!

@m.giffin5133

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarNerdShow I haven't been ripped off but I get those crap bags that always say they want to buy an Amp or Guitar from me but their out of town and would like me to open a Paypal account so they can pay me. I can't believe their are people out there that are stupid enough to do it in order to sell something? I would like to find the ones pulling this scam and hang them buy their thumbs in the town square like they did in the middle ages. Like that old saying say's (hangings to good for them!)

Loudness... fuck yeah

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite riffs for sure! A staple for soundchecks!

This guy can fucking play. good on yah.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! There's more coming very soon!

Dude what’s the opening riff from?! Love that

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

Rock N Roll Crazy Nights from the band Loudness, from Japan. Great riff and song. Akira Takasaki is a badass!

@alexwalker5645

5 жыл бұрын

Kick ass!! Forgot who it was from. Gonna learn this one now. Thanks man. Killer!

A buddy of mine used those in the early 90s. Total hair metal tone. Of course he was in a hair metal band 🤣😂

@TheGuitarNerdShow

6 ай бұрын

They're really great sounding amps!

How would you fair it tone wise vs say a jcm800 900 ?

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

Ya know, it can sorta do the 800 thing but there's a certain aspect of the 'Bark' that a JCM800 has that I'm not able to get. Stay tuned - I've got a video coming soon of an amp that nails the JCM800 perfectly!

Are you aware that both the original 3-tube and the later 4-tube (12AX7) AOR series are made with the same British components, transformers, etc. that Marshall used? Yep, the transformers are Drake in the 50 watt, and Dagnall in the 100... the same as Marshall used in the early JCM800 amps! Even the capacitors, resistors, etc. are from the same vendors. You used to be able to buy those early AOR, or even earlier 3-tube Pro Tube heads for $150-200, because people had no idea these are literally a "down-the-road" version of a Marshall JCM800... literally. You can still pick these up pretty reasonably... certainly much less than you'd find even an old, beat-up 2203/2204 Marshall for. Regards 🎸

@TheGuitarNerdShow

3 жыл бұрын

Great info - thank you!

Typically , what was the tubes used originally ?

@TheGuitarNerdShow

4 жыл бұрын

I have no idea.

What speakers are in your cab? G 12-T's ?

@TheGuitarNerdShow

5 жыл бұрын

There are no cabs. The amps are running into Suhr Reactive Load boxes, into my DAW and using speaker impulse responses.

@dariusmaroszyk283

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Did not hear it at first.

Is the AOR engaged? I don't see the red light on.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

3 жыл бұрын

No, as I recall, no AOR or EQ boosting happening. I am also running a Tube Screamer in front and combining it with a Bugera 1960 Infinium (plexi clone) on here (I think the video mentions that but I don't remember LOL).

How is fx loop working on this amp with stoimpboxes?

@TheGuitarNerdShow

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest I haven't tried it that way yet. I recently moved into a new house & hope to have my studio up and running soon so I can make a bunch of new videos. Stay Tuned!

@petkopeet

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarNerdShow Do you prefere aor or Dsl? Im stuck between aor 50 and dsl 50.

What aby were you using?

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 ай бұрын

I don’t recall as it was a long time ago. Thanks for watching!

Where do you gig at? Do you live in Nashville?

@TheGuitarNerdShow

3 жыл бұрын

No I'm in SC.

Roudness, M Z A

@TheGuitarNerdShow

6 ай бұрын

Ok, I just spit coffee from laughing. Thanks alot LOL!!!!!

I've got a six pot version

@TheGuitarNerdShow

4 жыл бұрын

I'd love to plug into that!

Old video I know, but I'm just curious that for a video trying to demonstrate how an amp sounds,, you decided to record the amps using reactive loads through a daw and apply a cab response, and instead of giving us that audio, you instead used a cell phone to record monitoring through your near field monitors? Just sounds like a cell phone to me.

@Apeironus

2 жыл бұрын

I mean its just a quick demo. Seemed like he had just gotten the amp and made a quick little preview. Running the bugera and the laney sounds epic by the way! Even with the phone mic.

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

You’re right (and so is the other commenter Neil). This was with the original capacitors (from 1986!!!!) and severely mismatched tubes. I’d intended to do a more thorough demo after having the amp recapped and new tubes but until recently some stuff happened that prevented me from making any real videos. I’ve just started back though and the Laney is definitely on my list!

You almost made me loose interest in this amp with that tone. Good playing though 👌

@TheGuitarNerdShow

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry. Different strokes for different folks. Nonetheless I appreciate your kind words!