Deliverance is the bomb! I used em on the whole Angel Down- Sebastian Bach record. Steve is the man! Rock!!

@jasonwebbguitar

3 жыл бұрын

Listening right now! Big fan of Sebastian and I own a D120 Masterbuilt.

@jasonwebbguitar

3 жыл бұрын

What cabs on the Angel Down album?

@guitarmainiac80

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonwebbguitar VHT (Freyette) Fat Bottom. Eminence custom speakers. Badass. I still use Eminence. 👍

@reereelization

2 жыл бұрын

Woah. Awesome. So. Awesome. Baz is legendary. So cool to see your comment here.

Not the content we expected, but the content that we deserve.

Morning Michael...got my coffee at the ready.

Ahh my man michael !! Your vids are always a must everyday !! Thanks for everything !!

The Synergy definitely sounds nice on those Adam Jones riffs But I gotta say, the Deliverance head just has that iconic pick attack & clarity Fantastic video!

@marvinbrown7869

Жыл бұрын

Try a Fm9

"Holy dix!" Sir Michael Nielsen. Thanks for the awesome videos!!

"it sounds ridiculous ....ting". I love how real your videos are!!! I really want a synergy

@BigHairyGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I appreciate that. I try to not plan too much, and react to what's happening. on the down side, my videos aren't too structured. So, plus and minus. But thanks for the kind words!

Man you are the most preamp / power amp oriented channel on YT!

my favorite was both the synergy modules into the fryette power station. so good. also excited to see you get more modules on this channel. ive been waiting for forever for you to play through them.

I love the Synergy stuff! I've had my SYN1 for almost 3 years and I use the SLO module the most. I enjoy your Rack Videos!

Dude, I’ve got to immediately recommend the Synergy power amp, the Syn5050 for your Syn1 or Syn2. Steven Fryette developed it himself. I’ve got one and I LOVE it. Sounds AMAZING. A quartet of 6L6’s bring the balls, and only 1 rack space. Great video btw sir!

Love Fryette/VHT. I've owned my CLX since 2000 and it will never leave me. Definitely will be looking into a Deliverance in the future.

Dig your channel Michael, as a rack nerd myself I appreciate your whole angle on gear.

Great idea for a video. Looking forward to this.

Cool! Thanks for posting this! I have had a VHT 2150, and use a VHT 2/50/2 power amp, but I have never really paid much attention to their amp heads....but that Deliverance head sounds SICK! Cheers!

Woo! Props on 46 & 2 riffage. What a tone!!

I don’t have any time with Fryette or VHT stuff but I really like the way that Deliverance head sounds. Especially the bottom end, it has this really great “ragged” quality to it, I bet some P90’s would sound doomy as fuck. “Holy dicks...” Michael Nielsen - 2021

@realtruenorth

3 ай бұрын

I have a Fryette Sig X into an ld school EV12 cab, and it is a beast of a rig.

Great comparison video.I never owned a Fryette full sized head,so I don't have that point of reference.I do own a Fryette LXII 100W Tube Stereo Power Amplifier and a Synergy Fryette Deliverance Module and Synergy Bogner Ecstacy Module and they both sound phenomenal. There may be a difference between a full sized head with power amp,transformer,preamp and all circuitry enclosed in a head shell, but the Synergy Preamp ,power amp combinations are an affordable ,and flexable tube amp solution .My setup and 2 pedalboards full of top notch pedals give me pretty much any tone I could ever want or need.Thanks Michael,it sounded great!

Great content. Maybe the best guitar content on the tube.

Great demo as usual. I really liked all of the units, but the UL module in to your IR at the end really stood out nicely to me. One of these days you need to do a demo and comparison with the Valvulator GP/DI. I love that It has the two gain knobs. It lets the user tweak the Ultra Lead mode just like the Deliverance. I only wish Steve could have fit the 6 band on the GP/DI.

Both sound great... And very close that I couldn't tell.

This channel should have a far greater subscription number..

Another winner. My personal fav is the Deliverance head. Second fav is the Ultra-lead module. KILLER IR btw!

Like every a/b comparaisons the Synergy is always up to the real amp. Certainly the best product that came out in the recent years 👍👍🎸

@jayteesgear

2 жыл бұрын

Im DEFINITELY gettin one

Dude!!!! Did you just read my mind??? I’ve been wanting this! Common broddah Mike I gotta know! Did you read my comments?! LOL!!! Thank you! Whoo sounds so good! Tool sounded so good too! The graphic eq was killer! Ey, but now you gotta get the Diezel! I think it’s SYN2 time! Your IR was definitely better too. Great job;) Alright yeah! Thanks and Oakloha! Whoooo!

"...it just sound ridiculous...if you plug it in" Oh man I almost fell out of the chair laughing, you caught me off guard !!

Wow that module with active eq & you ir setup just crushed! So nice! 🤘🤘

You are the man Michael \m/

Michael, thank you for making this video. I have owned my 2150 for 22 years and was wondering how the Syn stuff would sound through it.

Gotta love that Nielsen curiosity. Steve does amazing things and deserves much more credit than he gets. I wonder if you tried the Fryette Aether amp.

Great great amps.... oh, i would love to play one...inspiring.

I’m glad I ordered the Pittbull now! 🤘

NEVER shoulda sold my VHT Deliv 120- seeing Synergy put this product out is like EXACTLY what Ive been looking for. (And Bogner, Friedman as well???) FULL on Score! Great Vid🎸🎶 just sub’d

"if you plug it in", yeah, I had that same thing just now. All prepared to start out with some nice volume swells.... NO'N. 🤣 Good to see it happens to the best of us.

Awesome Michael

Yes!!! I've always wondered how you felt about the Synergy stuff. I'd be just about ready to die if you'd try your hand at the Uberschall module and dialing in some modern Jerry Cantrell tones.

I pump my Synergy thru a Fryette PS-100. I have a Deliverance module. I also have a Pitbull module. My adopted shredder son is fixing to record straight into his laptop with amazing results so he says. I've got a 2×100 Rectifier power amp for live performances. We haven't tried it live. He's using my vintage Triple Rectifier to perform with now. I guess it's aesthetics cause I know it sounds better. Growing pains. Hell I've already moved on to the next thing....Fractal....almost forgot..I also recently bought the Synergy Mesa Mark IIC module by Fryette too. Needless to say we are huge Fryette fans . With the death of Alexander Dumble and the semi-retirement of Mr. Smith at Mesa I'd say Steven Fryette is the most prominent and important amp builder period.

I dig BHP. I HAVE ALL HIS PROFILES.. now I have synergy... Thanks Michael 😁

I mean for what the synergy is that’s pretty spot on to me!

Massive sounding!

The Deliverance is so awesome.

That tone at 6:15, DAMN!

The Synergy Modules ROCK

A/B sound great ..the amp has that top end raw break up the module can likely get to with more dialing in on the power amp....what a great product though, wow on Synergy!

I thought the modules sounded a bit flubby through the 2150, particularly when you were playing high up on the low strings. (I kept looking to make sure you hadn't bumped the pickup selector to neck position.) But they tightened up nicely through the Power Station.

Can´t return from a Helmet gig without the desire to have that sound. I own a Syn 30 head and several modules, the Pitbull is gonna be next.

@chrismijares488

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was sold on that tone since Aftertaste. 21 years later I finally got a Hundred CL... Almost the Ultra Lead, and beyond killer IMO

Hey Michael, when you walk into the studio, grab your favorite guitar, what is your go-to amp? Do you find yourself plugging into amps more, Kemper, or perhaps like some of the TH-U amp sims you created? Thank you!

Siiiiiiiiiiick

Hey Michael! I know it's been a while since you did this video, but do you remember what pickups were in your Les Paul at the time? BTW, I bought a D60-II after watching your older demo. Got the matching 2x12 Fane cab as well. It kills. Has to have the best master volume I've used in a tube amp. I found little benefit of using my expensive attenuator at normal volume over just using the master.

Great, now I want a Fryette amp too 😂

I have the D120 Masterbuilt, and I’ll likely pick this up for a grab and go solution for small shows. It’s pretty damn close. I will say the noise seems to be quite higher

The big head sounds a bit tighter but the difference is very small!

The head reminds me of an Ultra Lead (no graphic EQ) I had back around 2002 or so.

Awesome Michael how far do you have your camera away from the syn 1 please Michael

Love the PitchingNinja shirt

i had several vht/fryette amps in the past also the deliverance 60&120 and now i own the synergy 50 head with several modules incl both fryette del/ulead and i love it even more then the original amps because its so much more versatile, cost effective and sounds 90% like the original mostly 2000-4000€ amps ! you can also try different power amps with the rack stuff, the synergy is not the best in my experience, nothing can beat the good old mesa 2:90 💪

@beautague9163

3 жыл бұрын

I freaking love my synergy 50 head with a pitbull and uberschall. And I spent under 2k for all of that

@Turbo-D

3 жыл бұрын

@@beautague9163 🥰

Time increment from 6:40-7:00 minutes...listening several times...I think the synergy combined with the VHT Power Amp is certainly a sound anyone could be proud to play, and I know from having a VHT Pitbull head for 25 years, (those dry amps demand you to clean up and polish the clarity upon which you navigate the strings for they reveal every detail of how you strike the notes) These synergy versions MIMIC that sound very closely, but in my humble opinion, listening to the Deliverance Head in this particular segment of time in the video shows the slight nuance of a more complete dynamic to the sound with harmonic content more infused to the overall tonality and presence within the saturation. (There's a run on sentence somewhere around here.) Maybe that's from the transformer interacting with the speakers. I am a believer of the old iron working its way with the rest of the components that make up the circuit. Perhaps when it's all physically housed together in one box (Shortening the distance of the sound signal traveling through its course) the specific nature of the sound cannot be repeated together in its entirety when the amplifier is farther separated from the preamp. That being said, the technology of the synergy approach is so very close! I know the Peter guy from Ampete (check out his Ampete one demos on youtube) knows how to build incredible amps. They have the right minds (Friedman, Fryette, Diezel) involved and they are very close, but I will take the old school head and continue to hit the gym to use such ancient beasts within my musical approach. Alright sorry for the long writing. I just totally geek out over this stuff. Thanks Michael! Love your channel. I think the Deliverance 120 is incredible, I'm pinching pennies.

fryette.... vht.... still have a clx, sig x, vht straight cab, synergy ultra lead running into my chrome 2100. i guess i 👍 the brand.

Hi Michael, I like the API preamps with that cab and Fryette. They bring out the aggressiveness of amp. Do you have the 57 & 58 on axis or something like a Fredman setup?

Less low ends,less high ends,less everything than the real sh*t in a/b situation but considering the price difference between the Deliverance and a Synergy 1+ Deliverance module,the weight factor and all,i'd get the Synergy.

Already tracked final solos in a tune. Had the sound but then.....I got curious. I put your bump and grind setting from your rig pack with someSPX-90 and some delay on the solo stereo buss after the fact on top of what was there. Oozed and dripped creamy, molten guitar goodness. 🎸😎

Mike, just curious.....what pickup is in the bridge of your LP ?

Can you answer a question for me Michael? We can usually hear and or feel a certain characteristic(s) of a preamp(s). Whether it be preamps like those Victory preamps or the new Chase Bliss ones. The Victory preamps had this thing about them that I felt carried over into all of them. In your expert opinion, do the Synergy Modules do the same as in carrying a certain characteristic that bleeds into every Module? Rip Tommy Lasorda

Cool.. now do the SLO one.

Something about your signal is clipping the modules. You have sag dialed all the way down yet it's still lighting up. You also have the graphic EQ on the UL module off but it's lighting up like it's clipping. I still sounds really good, I'm just curious why that is. My Sag light on my SYN-1 typically doesn't start to light up till around 11:00 with humnbuckers.

Sounds Killer ☠️

A cost affective way to own a Deliverance head when You don't have $3200.00 for an amp. I owned a D130 back when they was VHT. Loudest amp I ever played through. Incredible amp cleanest cleans to this stuff you are playing here. and everything in between. only Amp I prefer other then a JCM Marshall.

Damn that sounds chunky! Beefy like a Mark, but not too oversaturated of flubby. Wow. I can feel my bank account shrinking by the second.

Awesome video, Michael! Wish you would try the Überschall synergy module. I’d love to see your take on it! Cheers, my friend!

@Turbo-D

3 жыл бұрын

the ueberschall kills it all, second best is the ecstasy, than the engl und fryette stuff, all of them are amazing but the ueberschall is the most brutal of them all if you want that kind of sound.

Commenting before I watch: I picked up the Synergy module after stumbling on to your playthrough of the head a while back! I'm loving the module for its sheer versatility. Okay, watching the vid!

@BigHairyGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Bobby, What do you think? I personally thought that the head and Synergy Deliverance were REALLY close. Another friend of mine said that he thought the head was way fuller sounding.

@BobbyDoesMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigHairyGuitars Just going off your video, I thought the Synergy was a little brighter, and the head was a little fuller, but they both do that Fryette "dry thing." And you did have the depth all the way down on the module while you still had it up a bit on the amp. Not sure if you had the poweramp making up that depth or not. Honestly, my favorite way to run the Syn module is with Gain II cranked and Gain I somewhere between 10 and 11 o clock. It's a tighter, but more open sound to my ears. But it's such a versatile module. Between the two gain knobs and the less/more switch, you can do so much with it. I'm sure the head is equally versatile. :)

@BigHairyGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

@@BobbyDoesMusic Yeah. I had a similar depth setting already on the 2150, so I though it might be too much to put it on the module as well. Thanks for your input. I appreciate the insight.

@barrymurphy5548

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigHairyGuitars Well Michael seeing as you heard them both in person, that's good enough for me ! If there was any difference with the 'fullness' of the Synergy, I'm pretty sure the Depth dial or an EQ pedal would make up a lot of the perceived difference. The irony is you'd probably be EQing that 'fullness' out of the head in a mix to make it sit right. Thanks again for this, super timing !!

The Synergy Ultra Lead is the closest to the real amp tone to me.. It sounds more compressed in a pleasing way and more harmonically rich.. But what do you amplify the thing with to get those same tones live ?

HOLY DICKS! You're killing me over here!

So for recording do you have to get a poweramp along with the Synergy and Module?

I kinda assumed that they'd sound the same but there's something about that head!

@ZiwaHD

3 жыл бұрын

I concur ! I personally felt based on my ears the synergy is congested and feels more compressed ; it lacks some of the openness ! I closed my eyes 👀 to make sure I wasn’t biased ... !

The Synergy stuff sounds great. How are the cleans on the Pittbull module?

@idiotburns

2 жыл бұрын

amazing

are you using 4 kt88 in the power amp with the synergy?

have you ever tried the Orange Power Baby amp?

❤

Hey Michael any plans to make your IR available to players who use other IR loaders other than two notes? Thanks!!

Wish you make Deliverance profile for Kemper !!!

The pitbull sounded a little less congested to me, maybe it's the GEQ though.

@currituck

3 жыл бұрын

And EL34 tubes. I had one. A paint stripper!!

never clicked so fast in my life

Reviewing this video again, I'm curious so I'm just gonna ask it here: What (in your opinion) is the closest amp to the Diezel Blueface that's not a Diezel amp? So the VHX wouldn't count.

Uhh where were the Friedman guitars Mike? The Les Paul is just a lttle too warm and vintage-y

Hey amigo When are you going to review the Blackwidow Audio Design MGP-1A I’m pretty sure you’ll end up keeping it A genius piece of engineering Peace, health Michael

The Deliverance's sound pretty damn close! The Synergy module sounds a bit cleaner/tighter to your playing, but the same tone. Thanks for showing the UL as well. If I were you I'd keep that over the UL module over the Deliverance one since you already have the Deliverance 120 and it's clearly so similar to the head.

@BigHairyGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

I kinda agree with you on all points. The UL is SO fun because of the graphic. I forgot to test cleaner sounds on the Deliverance vs the module. I'll have to see how that pans out.

@1974zah

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigHairyGuitars I'm trying to decide between the Pitbull and Deliverance module to use in Clean, Crunch , Lead setup with the Syn30 combo. I have a D60. No experience with Pitbull, and didn't realize they were similar in tone. Your video got me considering the Pitbull. Any advice?

@BigHairyGuitars

3 жыл бұрын

Uhhhh The Deliverance is more gritty, the UL has a little more of a hi-fi or scooped sound, as opposed to the Deliverance's strong mid crunch. They're like brothers with a difference flavor.

@1974zah

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigHairyGuitars thanks! I think I'll probably stick with what I know then.

Sounds like Mesa Dual R! Awesome/

Did you get rid of your Friedmans? Is it just me or does that first tone sound really dark? Almost like a blanket is over the cab or something. I'd be lying if I said the Synergy didn't sound as good, sounded way better atleast in these recordings. More clarity and top end. EDIT: came back and listened again 6 months later, monitors and headphones, that first tone is really dark/muffled sounding for sure. The Synergy sounded looser but had a bit more top end at least.

Can’t imagine deliverance tone and VH4 in the same amp. Synergy head with multiple preamp seems to be nothing but bliss. Jus5 curious about its power amp which must differ from other original power amps.

What knobs are those on your LP?

I couldn't care less about baseball, but that shirt rocks!

There's some kind of constant beep noise in the background of the talking sections, wonder what that is. A fan perhaps?

As soon as you plugged in, HELMET all the way!!!!

Really glad to see this vid....not too familiar with VHT.....but I like what I’ve heard. Reminds me of a scooped Soldano (and a little grainy...which isn’t bad). This vid only more solidified my confidence in synergy. Every demo I’ve heard A/B’d with its original was virtually identical.

Be careful of the clipping input on the ultralead (middle of the graphic eq).

that thing sounds great. both do. best bang for the buck going. i have seen the deliverance priced criminally low on the used market. what pickups do you have in that les paul? sounds tight and articulate, just how i like it.

Shocked you don’t have an Ampete switcher at this point. Why not?

She`s only seventeen, 😎

Highlight - 8:07 ...you’re welcome.

Don't think I didn't catch that Tool I caught that Tool

@kellyjackson7889

3 жыл бұрын

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