“Thank you for all you do for the music community” Steve Vai. Congratulations Kris. You’ve earned it.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

Francisco Presno Sandar Hey Francisco, that was a special compliment for sure. We highly appreciate that, especially coming from the man himself. 🙌 //cheers! Kris

It's badass how nice Steve Vai is 😂 you see his handlers shadow appear clearly telling him to wrap it up. He gestures with his finger then takes his sweet time to give a great interview. Champ!

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

stuart lawler Exactly. He had to hurry up and get to his press conference and still. He took my last question seriously and gave a fantastic and full answer. You gotta love him. I do. :) //cheers, Kris

@chriskrausesmovie

4 жыл бұрын

Never tell vai hes limited

You can count on Steve Vai to bring color anywhere he goes.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

Shane Wilfon Thanks a lot Shane! It was definitely a bucketlist moment for me / us. //cheers, Kris

His descriptions of his tone through the years were magic! I love Mister Vai.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

Gerry James Edwards Im so happy he liked that question and gave such an incredible answer. Even though they gave us a sign to finish. Steve is a legend and a beautiful person. 🙌 //cheers, Kris

A true inspiration, so humble an absolute genius. God truly blessed him a gift

Wow!!!! thanks for such a great interview. Stevie is a legend, you know, and you keepe it ok. Thanks Kris !!!

Steve sharing his love for music with us all is what makes him greatest guitar player ever.

Great job Kris. It was fun to see you a little nervous with Steve in the beginning. However you came through like a champion and did a great job 👍

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

Jason McNamara a little nervous?? Haha! I was freaking out meeting my hero. 😂 Steve’s a super cool dude and he managed to calm me down within a minute or so. But you know that already, you guys worked together, right? Thanks Jason, really happy you liked the interview! Cheers mate! //Kris

@JasonMcNamara

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses yes indeed Kris. I made an all Go Pro video for Steve back in 2014. It's on my channel and it's done really well. Cheers!

Always a GENTLEMAN! Hats off Mr. VAI 😇

When you finally find a tone that screams you, you finally move on to the next. The beauty of it? We have you till your ends. RIP Neil! You will will be missed.

Just bought a Thomann Harley Benton TB-70VS Deluxe bass. Incredible quality for the price.

What an enjoyable interview to watch. Also the community commenting here is really nice compared to what I'm used to see. Just bought a guitar from Thomann and I must admit, this community feels like home and actually appreciates music. You are doing it right

Great job Kris! You are on the same wavelength with Mr Vai. So cool. 🤟👍🏽👏

I love how Steve is totally owning the sound coming from the preamp and barely from the power amp. He got a lot of heat from those comments last year, but he's got even Dave Friedman on his side!

@robl6189

4 жыл бұрын

piperdaniel my only comment to this would be didnt the jcm800, slo100, 5150, and old dual rec have the same preamp circuitry?

I had the first edition of the Legacy head, signed by Steve. The clean channel was genius. The overdrive channel was a little dark to my taste, it might have been tailored to Vai's JEM guitars. I needed more channels than two so I later sold it to go to Custom Audio Standard Plus. Great amp for the money, great memories.

Still would like to see Carvin bring back their vintage amps...I still have my tweed 50 and 4x10

I love you Stive and thanks for that creamy warm sound.

Steve is absolutely correct. The tone is basically the Preamp. The power amp just magnifies the preamp signal. Once you have the preamp the way you like it, then your off to the races... Steve is just a jewel.. I'm thinking of going to an all pedal board solution..preamp pedals, all anlogue, going to a pedal board amp into a cab and or FOH. I am too old to carry around amps. 😛😉

I was surprised than Reinhold and Steve never made it happen. He seemed to be a natural for Bogner, what with that creamy, sustain for days preference of distortion. His Legacy amps most certainly had a bit of "Red" in their DNA.

Wow! Is that a dream interview or what?!? I bet he would have talked for hours!

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Eagen It definitely was a dream interview for me! Haha! It felt like Steve enjoyed it which was very important for me. The circumstances were pretty funky though, he had to hurry up and also hundreds of fans were staring at us through two huge glass walls. Haha! //cheers, Kris

The king of tons of tones

Great Interview! Finally, an interviewer who asks the right questions and sh... the f... up :)

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I do best! Haha! Seriously though, thanks man! My goal is to encourage my interviewees to tell their stories without me blabbering all the time. Steve was fantastic and I feel honored! //cheers, Kris

Man you gotta love vai.

I love this video,Steve vai is my inspiration on my tone i love their tone

Ein schönes Interview.

Kris cool !! And the sound descriptions were brill Hope u get to see the show

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Dugdale Thanks a lot Paul! It was such an honour talking to him. //cheers, Kris

@pauldncn1

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses Kris Iyou did do well man.. i would have been shaking and grinning like a moron. your a cool dude Barosci

I would be smiling like that dork the whole time too ;) . Nice interview mate.

Steve is always such a thoughtful, engaging guy. Great interview. I love the idea of a modular preamp system, though multiple companies have tried this and it always seems like a proof-of-concept exercise that causes option anxiety as opposed to an actual solution. Why wouldn't Steve just use something like a Kemper to get 99 percent of the mojo of his studio amps? Curious.

@abheceshabemuskk3531

4 жыл бұрын

Because its not 99% it is 90% if you are lucky. And that 10% (or 1% if you want) its the important part: attack and harmonics.

I too started with ice-pick highs; all bridge pickup. I've been mostly stuck on the neck pickup now for years.

Reminds me of the "Rockman" effects from years ago.

Steve Vai! Best Guitarist & Lecturer at the same time)))

What a nice guy!!!

I still think Vai's best tone was during the G3 fire garden era. I think he was using a Bogner ecstasy then. Smooth, warm and harmonic overdrive

🤗modular master channel 🤗 In a head or in a rack. It’s tone keeps ya coming back! Slimey green to really make the scene. From subtle to supreme the gain stage is obscene, from silence to scream this preamp is a Dream.

ive finally stopped using my legacy 1 and im now using a fender pro reverb.wish i found fender pro reverbs 3 decades ago.finally found my amp.so ive gone back in time...btw ada did pre amp power amp set uos in the 80s as did marshall.ive always had a tube stereo power amp my whole career.i use them to feed my favorite amp into so i have 3 amps instead of 1.

I didn't know that Steve used a Soldano with Whitesnake. I always thought he used a Carvin X100b.

It's funny he doesn't usually mention he was in Alcatrazz. I only remember one interview where he talks about being in that band after Yngwie. In this interview, he goes from Frank Zappa to David Lee Ruth skipping Alcatrazz, and it's not the first time.

Creamy Warm Cream - Steve Vai

Goo to Slaashhh!

Steve Vai, I love the jacket, where did you get it? what brand is it?

when he says the sound is in the preamp his totally 100% right,different power amps add very little difference [im talking tube power amps]my main power amp cost 3500$ in parts alone lundall transformers make a difference but just slight.i totally agree with steves thinking,ive been playing as long as steve and i totally hear what he means.im sticking with old fenders for now.

Steve is all about warm and creamy 🤭

Kudos to the interviewer

He's such a nice guy Ozzy could learn from the best

@GeoffSweet

4 жыл бұрын

They worked together for a short time in the mid-90's...

Somebody did think of it. Bruce Egnater invented this tech quite a few years ago.

@skunkwguitar

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, TOL100, what a great amp!

@levipeto

4 жыл бұрын

Yepp, about 20 years

@minus9us677

4 жыл бұрын

then randall did the same thing with the modular series

Steve is quite the salesman

The green finish is his Green Meanie finish from his charvel

Is that an obscura delay on the bottom?

While most of the sound does come from the preamp section, the magic of a great tube amp such as a Marshall plexi era super lead is found in the output stage when you've got it cranked and the output tubes are starting to clip and the output transformer is reaching magnetic saturation which adds its own grind to the mix. You can't really replicate that in any preamp.

Vai had a great tone with the original Legacy, for his style of playing. However, each new version seemed to be worse than the last, and seemed more to be a pricing decision vs. a tonal one. I for one was really hoping he would team up with Friedman, when Carvin folded. I'm sure Dave would've worked extensively with him, and he's the best in the business right now for working with artists to get the tones they want. His live tone with this new module seems to be a big step in the wrong direction (in my humble, and non-important opinion). The biggest pitfall of being an absolute legend as a guitar player is ....who's going to walk up to him and say "Steve, your new tone sounds like shit"? No one that wants to keep their job with him will do that. When you never get told that you're making a shitty decision is easy to think you're a genius.

The original concept came from Egnater, not Randall!

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

CbasCaron You’re absolutely right, It is Bruce Egnators creation. But he did design it for Randall originally. Then when their contract was expired he relaunched it as their own brand in the Boutique Amp Distribution. Cheers man! //Kris

@wildmilne

4 жыл бұрын

Thomann's Guitars & Basses I had the egnater rack and modules before the Randall version came out (or at least the same time). It was assumed the Randall modules and rack units were mass produced version of his own hand wired ones.

So.... Randall modules again?

"I don't touch anything with latency"...hmm...talking about Kemper perhaps? :).

All the tone/sound is not in the pre-amp:) I have tried them all, and oddly my most favorite ever is a Crate Power Block, using just the power section, and I dumped a MESA for that:) hahahahaha... The trick with power amps is to not make them so clean:) People ask me, "How do you get such sweet highs that don't hurt your ears?" :) I'm Headrush now, and it's a little HARD. I wish they would add different preamp tubes, because there is more variety in tone there than the rest of the tone chain:) Probably going with the next Fractal floor thingy, because I like that a little better... NEVER going back to the Rack tho. or heads and speakers:)

So they're a bunch of preamps in a rack, which I'm sure we've seen somewhere before...

I'm pretty sure he's going to end up on Soldano, Friedman or maybe ENGL

I wish that can Mix the bias from Ampifiler 1000 Programms in Love Jimi the Rat

Creamy warm cream

Look at steve vai hands compared to the interviewer ,Trump would never sit next to this guy

Warm cream... alrighty then.

There is a guitar right there behind him. Why doesn’t he grab it and let us hear what the amp actually sounds like?

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think we will ever get to see him playing anything else than his Ibanez. It's probably a contract thing and his loyalty to the brand. That being said, I was also bummed we didn't get to hear his new rig this time. //cheers, Kris

Ok but I would have heard it lol

The guy is so startstruck! Haha

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

FilBack sure I was! He’s a hero of mine since I was 15. But he calmed me down really fast with his friendly aura. What a dude he is. Gotta love him. //cheers, Kris

@FilBack

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses Well, I remember when I met Steve. It's exactly that. He is just great and get's you at ease super quickly.

@michaelweldon1127

4 жыл бұрын

FilBack I’ve had the pleasure of meeting mr. vai at one of his shows (many years ago) I was so nervous, looking back it’s so funny. I saw him make me feel comfortable, and do this for the next 3 people. He is so good at making people who idolize him feel at ease. Looks to me like he has lots of practice.

@dylankopff7139

4 жыл бұрын

Can you blame him it's my dream also!!!

@FilBack

4 жыл бұрын

Dylan kopff Kopff Not at all. I love it!

He's explaining it like no one knows of Synergy. Haha! Now I understand why Millennials call us Boomers. Haha!

sounds pricey!?

@stefanpalicki3538

4 жыл бұрын

The 50 watt head is about 2300 Canadian, the modules usually clock in at about 400 Canadian

Why is he insisting there is latency in Digital. I have a line 6 HXFX, a Mooer preamp live and I go into a Boss Katana 2x12. There isn't a trace of latency anywhere and the signal goes through a lot of digital stuff.. It isn't 2009 anymore guys. If he is trying to sell this product route over others, based on latency, he isn't being honest and deliberately misleading you.

@abheceshabemuskk3531

4 жыл бұрын

You know nothing. Digital has at least 1ms latency, some devices 5ms..it depends. Yes its hard to notice if you always played digital. Usually less than 10 is playable. For 99% of the people is fine, but let's respect the preference of this guy who has been playing analog gear for decades. (But he is something wrong, axefx has latency because it is digital, maybe he routes it in parallel to avoid latency)

@abheceshabemuskk3531

4 жыл бұрын

Pod 1.0 had 2ms latency. Kemper have 5ms. 2020

So, Steve avoids modeling technology, does he?

Like talking to God

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

chris barclay It really felt like it. A humble, friendly and comforting guitar god. //cheers, Kris

@chrisbarclay

4 жыл бұрын

Thomann's Guitars & Basses great job brother👍✊

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Nope. Not gonna play - just talking about it.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

bwgti Hey man, my first question to Steve was if we can get some playing. He didn’t have his guitars there and he barely even had time for the interview. So we went for a nice talk instead, which to be honest, was an informative and very enjoyable one. It was cool to learn why he went for Synergy, etc. //cheers, Kris

@bwgti

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses - thank you for getting back to me. I am sure Vai's fans enjoyed the conversation. Frustrating he wasn't able to spend a few minutes playing the module. I am sure typing a few words into the KZread search box can find what I felt I missed.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

bwgti Oh don’t worry, there are a few demos out there already and I’m sure the amount of reviews is gonna be insane really soon. Thanks again for watching our interview! //Kris

Didn't like the tone in this demo.

@silverpairaducks

4 жыл бұрын

I don't put much stock in namm demos. Pretty hard place to do a real demo.

@tjthegreat7

4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Seymour You must have been tired

@Babs42

4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Seymour You can skip ahead. I know computers are hard but give me a break.

I'm sorry but he's starting to look like an old women, needs to cut the hair

Nobody is interested listening to his guitar playing anymore, so all he does now is see if they'll be interested in hearing him talking about guitar playing .. get over it Steve .. the 80's/90's are long gone ..