On this page, I will share my discoveries and experiences about gear-related stuffs. The videos will mainly deal with pedals, amps, preamps, speakers, guitars, pickups, etc..
Sur cette page, je partagerai mes découvertes et expériences geariennes! Les vidéos porteront principalement sur les pédales, amplificateurs, préamplificateurs, haut-parleurs, guitares, micros de guitares, etc..
Gear On / Rock On !
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Also, that must have been so much work putting this together. Many thanks for your service to the speaker aficionado community!
I love GEAR!!!! WE love GEAR!!!
@@bougear YEAH!!!
Would be keen to see more such speaker comparos!
Black backs are sweeter just saying
the best of them is the MS12 imo but doesnt match that much with mark 4 but play a recto an engl or a mark III with it ...
@@YsAbTones I just bought one. I will give it another chance under my Mark III. Rock On !!
very usefull comparison thx !
UK speaker has better lows at the expense of highs. Chinese speaker has better highs at the expense of lows. It's like the frequency range just moves higher going from the UK to the Chinese. I prefer Creambacks to both of these, personally.
Best demo of these speakers and amp on KZread.
Yes.
So how about the rear settings? Pentode or Triode? Class A or Simulclass? Harmonics or Mid Gain? Everyone seems to ignore this when sharing their settings on these types of demos. Eminence sounds like pure ass on anything but the cleanest setting. I can see why the EVM was considered the upgrade back in the day.
Harmonic and pentode for sure. And I would guess Class A because its my preferred mode, but Im not 100% sure about it. I will check on my cubase project if I took note on it. Thanks and rock On !
@@bougear Right on, Class A is my preferred too. This was still a very helpful video, I'm really glad I stumbled across it. I'm considering buying a C90 Thiele cab and swapping the speakers (EVM-12L currently in my combo). The C90 seems to add really nice high-mids articulation where the balance of the EVM fills out the sound and makes it sound three dimensional when combined, if I'm hearing things right. Thanks for making this it's great!
Booger?
turn it up tp 3!!
Aesthetic AF 🔥 (and nice tones!)
LOVING that tone
Superb work Matt!
I have a Mesa branded EVM 12 inch speaker. Wondering if I can swap it into my MESA MK IV combo with out any issues. Currently the previous owner had installed a Celestion Century 8 ohm speaker, This Celestion Century is the older one, and he said he did the swap to make the combo lighter . Thanks for the video comparison JL
Played this amp many times. One of my favorites
Rock On ! Riff machine !!
I loved every second of this! Such sick tones and playing
The king of tone
These VTM’s have a storied history. Interesting amps. They were born out of a need to compete with Marshall at the time. Peavey built the Butcher, but the circuit was too close to a Marshall JCM so they legally had to stop making them. Undeterred to compete, Peavey modded the circuit further and added dip switches to add enough complexity to be considered distinct, and the VTM 60 and VTM 120 was born. Great amps.
Great sound, great contest!
Great riffs and great editing all together. A lot of work you've put in the video for sure. Great job!
Thanks! I must admit that this capsule has been lying on my desk for 2 years. I don't find it particularly HOT, but I told myself that I would still make the effort to archive it on youtube. We can still hear the small differences of each circuit, and this allows us to get an idea of the products, or at least the comparisons presented. Thank you very much for your words and Rock ON!!
Great sound, great riffs, great contest !
The benchmark in tone chasing I hear the differences, and appreciate the effort. Fine work!
Nice!
My favorite Peavy amp ever. I had a VTM120 for a while. Definitely wish I had it back. Great amp. Yours sounds killer. If you know the right combo of dip switches it’s like a Jose modded Marshall.
These amps are fantastic, I used to have an Ultra 120, then the Ultra Plus, and a JSX, they really all sound pretty fantastic, never tried the XXX/3120, looks like I'm going to have to
Got one today, killer amp!
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Cool demo!! Great job :) J'ai un 3120 avec des KT77 et un 12at7 dans V2 pour adoucir le gain un peu et le rendre plus manageable et bref ça sonne vraiment bien et moins ''recto'' d'ailleurs. As-tu préféré le JSX de Ken? Il est encore dispo chez Amplitubes et ça me tente presque de l'acheter hehe
Ken m'a justement prêté un 3120. J'ai tourné la capsule en fin de semaine passée haha! Drôle de coïncidence !! J'ai bien aimé le 3120.. j'hésite entre le JSX et le 3120 en tête de liste..mais, rapidement, comme cela, entre les 2, je prendrais le JSX à Ken. Le tolex est beau en plus! Merci et Rock On / Gear On !!!
@@bougear Haha malade! Bien hâte de voir la vidéo!! :)
This is the best demo of the Micro Chorus on KZread.⭐️ Thanks so much!
Thanks a lot :) !!!! This is a great little yellow pedal!
definitely a mid point where you want that Soldano sound but doesn't have the money for it but also doesn't want to risk with Jet City.
Great demo - cheers
I have a 3120 and would luv to trade for a JSX, but I've been told both amps are somewhat similar.
I actually have one 3120 on the bench test. I will make a video on it. Great amp!
@@bougear looking forward to that
Soo, what is the 1st switch controlling?? Says volume! How?? 2nd switch is bright after the 1st gain stage (off/1n/4.7n) 3rd switch is bright after the 2nd gain stage (off/1n/4.7n) 4th switch appears to be treble cap and either 250p or 470p It's that first one I'm not sure what it is adjusting (whatever it is, it's significant enough to hear, but mild)
Yes, sorry. I thought afterwards that I should have included the switches and their function more. The 4th switch, if I remember, is more like 250p vs 170p. The first switch is an input gain switch (boost vs standard).
@@bougear input gain, like...68k to 33k or 10 to the grid of V1a, or??!?? Could you explain a little more on how that worked? No diode clipping involved??
@@Amp_Expert It's kind of a boost just after the first gain knob. Write me on facebook and I will send you more information (picture). Thanks for your time and rock on :) !
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Soldano amps to me sound like a Marshall mixed with a nasty BOSS distortion in the mids/upper mids
Eminence sounds terrible in comparison in this video, as if listening to it though a rotary landline phone whereas Celestion sounds alive and present, so to say. I wonder how much this actually reflects on the speakers and how much it's just this video
Eminence in this video makes me think of what my old Unitra radio and columns that my aunt gave me that she had it since way back under Soviet occupation and I eventually broke the bearings they started to rattle. The Eminence here is presumably all in perfect condition yet it has this sandy quality to it that makes me think of that old communist hifi's rattle once the speakers gave in lol
I have a Mark III combo with the EVM12L, and I think it's perfect. I also have a Mark IVB widebody combo that came with a C90, and I liked it for clean and crunch and hated it for lead. I swapped it out for a G12K-100 and prefer it. I would have put in an EVM12L, but because it's a widebody, it doesn't fit properly. I also have a Mark V head, and at that time, the only cabinets you could buy were either C90 or V30. I bought two 1x12 with C90, one open back, one closed back, and a 2x12 closed back with V30s. I like it better through the 2x12, but I use that cab for my rectifier, so the Mark V sits on top of the two 1x12 cabs. I also have a JP2C and bought two thiele 1x12 cabs with the EVM12L, and I think they sound great also. I've played the Mark V through them as well, and I think it sounds better through them. To me, there's something slightly shrill and nasally about the C90. I think since Mark amps are quite bright and generally sound better when you can turn the presence up a little bit, they benefit from a speaker that's a little dark sounding. Even the K100 I have in my Mark IV isn't completely satisfying to me, but options are limited due to the cabinet dimensions. I wish I had bought a head instead of the combo, but it was for a great price used, and it's the hardwood/wicker combo in mint condition. I couldn't pass it up.
I picked one up about 6 months ago for $400, love it!
Do you know what the damper switch does in back?
@@randwillis3405 It acts as a 3-way resonance switch (and presence if I'm not wrong) instead of having a knob that goes from 0 to 10.
Great sound, man!
Amazing sounding amp. Can anyone recommend similar amps to this?
need to play something.....musical, they all sound thin with no bottom at all.
whats the build lead time on one of these
Wow amazing video and excellent detail which is useful! Thank you. Did you try the eq in front of the amp?
Nop, sorry. Only in the loop for this video. It was a little tricky to tweak in the front of the amp, but it can surely be used that way. Rock On !!
Thanks for the reply I ran. Mine through the front of amp and your right it’s a bit of tweaking I overloaded once and ended up running my FatRat pedal first and the TC 1140!man it came alive . It’s guys like you that took the time show this nice gear to what potential it has and I wanted to thank you my friend
@@hayabusa1300100 thanks a lot! I really appreciate it. Rock On!! This is surely a nice powerful eq tool from TC!!!
Question our you running this in front of your amp or in the fX loop
In the FXloop.
Man it sounds killer i just bought one it’s on the way . I have a few TC pieces already I’ve been wanting this one particular for a bit and finally pulled the trigger on one last night. I have already TC Integrated Preamp ,Booster +Linr Driver Distortion,,Sustain + Parameteric EQ I’ve been running through the front and FX loop on a JCM 800 and the Plexi there massive and a killer piece of equipment to have for sure thanks for sharing
Have you tried running a looper like a Keeley ( Apartment) into it so you can turn on and off ? I was just wondering if you could I know the looper if for a lot of applications especially pedals that lack true bypass just wondering
I got my 1140 in today I noticed that Input and output went into overload so I assume it has to Match up to amps output so I tuned it like your settings .. is there anything else I should know or what out for ? I thought I would ask being that own one thanks brother
@@hayabusa1300100 Yes, you must best careful and balance well the input with the signal coming out your preamp or amp fx loop send. I sold the unit few months after the video. I know that I always run a buffer after my preamp to help mismatch impedance problem. Don't know if it help. Rock ON ! Gear ON !
For channel 3, the black label hands down. The MC90 is a close second. Maybe blend the two in a 412? On the second channel, the black label and eminence. On the clean either evm12L or black label. This is a great comparison video. Straight to the point
Celestion's mc90 is the best natural tone of all.I dont like the eminence for this setup sounds very boxy with unpleasant highs Black label is great too
Great demo. I thought the Black Label was far too dark and muddy. That particular Eminence wasn't much better. The Black Shadow and 12L sounded best to my ears.
this is one of the best guitar tones i’ve ever heard. holy.
Thanks!!! I really appreciate it! Rock On ! Gear On !!!
Bro, I’d love to hear a demo in a closed back cab. I have 3 of those ms-12 speakers, looking for a 4th if you know of one….let me know.
Yes, I regret not doing the same capsule in Closed Cab... I sell the 2 of the speaker before I realize that It would have been cool.. maybe one day if someone lend me his speakers. Thanks for watching! Rock On !!!!!
that spring has plenty of drip.