WILL IT CHUG? - MESA V TWIN(modded)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Trying out an old classic, the Mesa V-Twin Preamp pedal. WILL IT CHUG?
Lets find out!
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Guys... seriously... I mean it from the bottom of my heart... have a GREAT Friday!
And we hope you have one too Ola!
You too Ola and family!
Shit... Well maybe I will Ola!! Thanks! Give the puppy a scratch behind the ear from me
You too, Ola!
Ola you have a good day! And enjoy time with your family and whip your brother in some video games and last buuuut not least keep an eye on the sky and dodge them comets. Hahaha😬 i thought it was modified sounds good though. Chug on my friend.
At the end of every year you should hand out an award called the Chuggie to the best sounding amp, guitar and pedal
X2
Yes
I want to watch the Chuggies
Absolutely. I'd check out The Chuggies
@@svincentr Chuggie Awards, biggest event of the year :)
That solar with the binding is niiiice
yeah man. i think we need an s type in black with evertune and luminlays.
Idk if Mike remembers exactly what he did to it, but it'd be cool if he made that info public. It sounds great
Fortin showing Mesa how it has to be done. What a time to be alive :)
I tried that pedal many years ago and to me it sounded massive but it needed definitely an overdrive to get something out of it. After that I bought the V-Twin Rackmound unit, I've modded myself and I was pretty much satisfied of its tones.
That Solar is one of the best looking guitars I've ever seen - fuck
Wish he still made models like that one.
Bring it back!
@@LightCyrus Looks like a Solar S2.6C which is available on the website, am I wrong?
ESP/LTD makes equally awesome guitars ! Just sayin
Hi Ola. I own the V2 version of this baby. And I absolutely love it, because I don't use it as a stand-alone solution in connection with a power amp and a speaker cabinet like in this video. I rather use it to give my frontend a little more boost or push. So I get a whole set of extra tone colours, but I don't need to dial in much gain. Teamed with an already overdriven amp input stage this helps keep the noise leve low. AND MAN, THIS CHUGS! I feel that this is where the V Twin pedal really shines, because it is just a preamp with 3 sound options (1x clean, 2x drive), but not 3 full-featured channels, although the pedal offers a bunch of features for a wide range of applications. Too bad they don't make it any more. Like many amp makers, the company has made a very big mistake by discontinuing the golden oldies and launching new amps which can't hold a candle to the classice of the past century. Cheers!
I ran one of these back in the early 90’s, pushed it with an Ibanez tube screamer, and a crown power amp into a 1960B cab loved it!
My favorite part about Ola is he delivers his jokes as if he has a live Audience in front of him but then treats some of his jokes as if he just bombed the delivery, lingers on it for a half second then moves on.
One of Olas best sounds Ive heard. Record an album with thisssssss 🤘💀🤘
That V-Twin of Ola’s has a killer tight clean/distortion… would love to have one just like it.
Bruh, I’m an indie pop/pop punk guitarist and god I live for this series. Also, my gf watches this with me every now and then, and now she’ll always ask me if it chugs whenever I’m looking at a new piece of gear😂
We need a ultra thin body solar guitar, something like a Ibanez s or a blackmachine
From what Ola has said their bodies are as thick as they need to be to fit the Evertune bridges into. And infact that's why the backplate is surface mounted and not flush to the body the Evertune bridges almost stick out the back of the Guitar.
That sounds amazing! So mean.
It’d be nice to know exactly how it was modded.
Exactly!
4:48 Yes I agree... Glenn Fricker claims tubes make no difference. I cbf proving it myself... but I definitely notice differences in tone between some tubes.... some slight... some very noticeably different. Will Ola take the challenge and prove that tube swaps make a difference in tone? C'monnnnnnnnnnn.
And this is the reason that Glenn sounds like sh*t
All of Glenn’s stuff sounds the same. All fairness to him, the tubes don’t make a huge difference when you use the crap ton of gain he has on his artists’ recordings.
Pete Thorn’s video is a better example. The less complex the circuit, the more you’ll hear the difference. Not so much with a full band, but if you can hear and feel it and it helps you play better, go for it!
Glenn doesn't simply claim, tubes makes no difference. He shows, the different tubes he used in that specific setup make only marginal differences. ;)
I've done a fair bit of tube rolling. They do make a difference, but it's subtle most of the time. Other times it was kind of drastic. Old 50's RCA Blackplates are my favorite, but the new Tung-Sols sound great too.. Probably my favorite newer tube.
@@R3TR0R4V3 yeah its nice new tubes, check svletana too. JJ are nice as power tube but a preamp tube have 50% of new anode current like 0,5 to 0,7mA new tube xD
I don't chug at all but I love this series because I can appreciate the finer things in life
veRy smooth intRoduction of a goRgeous guitaR, veRy smooth...
I have a new Will it Chug this morning. It's already gonna be a great weekend!
this guitar is the most beautiful solar i've seen so far
What mods were done, exactly? Sounds gnarly
Ok...ya had me going...it's modded. I played that box a few times and never really liked it. Yours kicks ass! 🤘
Just put a Fortin sticker on my microwave, which has increased its value to nine grand.
This!!!!!!
Popcorn have more butter 😅
I would like to see will it chug with MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive ;)
Or an MXR Fullbore Metal pedal
@@Ryo7_7 I'm pretty sure he did an episode with the Fullbore. I know he did the Boss Metalcore, maybe I'm confused! The Fullbore is a tricky one, but I definitely dig it.
All chugs due to cooperation with Your right hand Man ;)
Of course it will chug....the 5150 stripe pedal was what started the whole Amp in a Box insanity. It definitely chugs and it definitely sounds better than this by a good bit...much smoother distortion. This shit is too metallic.
Or, bend over to Yngwie,s video from some recently London live act and, how the tone is nailed, just saying
Honestly, I'm a drummer but I watch your channel because you're fucking hilarious....Point being, you'll be hard pressed to find a better sound than that my friend! Love it!
I still have mine. It's unmodded and still works great. I only use it for low gain tone stuff, but it sounds nice. Your modded one sounds badass
Damn straight, it will chug! I have a V twin, and all you gotta do is drop the treble 4, raise the mid to 6/7, and set the bass to 9/10. Gain on 10, and let it rip!
I’m in between yay and nay on buying this. Simply to have some tubes. And something mesa. Love the output selections also.
Chug Is love. Chug is life.
V-twin is awesome! Had mine for years
He asked the will it chug question more seriously than every before.
Rabea and Ola are my favourite youtubers right now
I was a longhaul trucker and know some good metal polishers. During resto/repairs, I took my chassis & had it high speed polished. Now everybody wants to buy it. Dang thing will blind you!
Wow. This modded vTwin sound amazing.
That might be the best solar I have seen so far... good God that thing is beautiful and mean as fuuuuck 🤘 kinda reminds me of the strictly 7.
That's my favorite solar guitar yet
I remember Ola posted a clip years ago of this thing. At the time I asked Fortin if he would mod mine and he doesn't do it anymore. Wish we knew what was done to it because it sounds great. Ola, maybe you can post pics of the insides?
I wanted one of these so bad when I was in high school. ha So cool to see this video.
Ola is chug. Chug is life. Loving the videos man, especially the gear test and comparisons. Your content is always quality.
I have one with the diamond plate and if you put an overdrive in front of it like a mojo mojo or ts9 it is just almost impossible to believe you can get that kind of tone out of something that sits on the floor.
Sounds amazing! I remember these they definitely had lack of gain and sounded more like the Nomad. Now it sounds bad ass!
... but .... how sounds an old classic MESA V-Twin Preamp pedal????
Not even close, I sold mine few months ago.
True! A bit noisey and not nearly the gain of that particular specimen! Lol I wish I was friends with anyone from Fortin!!!!
Hey Lola, a fun fact: mesa 12ax7 tubes are rebranded tung sols! I swear to god
I'm really sorry about that auto correct...I mean ola. Have a great day , my friend!!
Maybe the tubes in his pedal were getting weak if sticking new ones in made a big difference.
No doubt, but as a tung sol fan, myself included, every one should know that mesa boogie doesn't make tubes but rather test and select only the best from several companies, including tung sol. I never intended any disrespect to anyone my friend. Have a good one!
@@dougulman6700 Yeah, the Mesa branded speakers are the same way. They're either Celestions or Eminence speakers depending on which one they are.
It's one of those pedals I rarely use but would never ever sell. It can do so many things few (no?) other (non-rack) units can do, it's become a successful last resort in the most unexpected roles in a signlal chain many times. For any tone chaser experimenting a lot, this piece is one to have.
That Mike Fortin is something special I tell ya
I re-tubed my Blackstar HT-100 amp with all TungSol glass and it made a HUGE difference in my amp. It’s a killer sound for an amp that gets a bad rap.
Changing tubes does almost nothing on tone. I'd argue that the previous ones were too old or defective
@@scacchomattho That's generally what I find as well, though some people are convinced different preamp tubes sound way different. Power tubes a different story, at least when you're talking about going from one tube type to another (EL84, EL34, 6L6, Kt88, etc.. which requires more modification than simply changing the tube) not brand so much.
I owned a mesa mark IV. I could use both 6L6s and EL34 and tried both types without touching the amp and the different is negligable both when recording and playing live. Again, this is the only tube amp I ever owned, so I don't know if it's common or not
@@scacchomattho
Great amp choice man! Mesa has like only 3 AMAZING monsters and we'll, you have one of em ha
Thanks man I now use brainworx single and dual rectifier for my gain amps with ownhammer and redwirez irs and kvassa creme for my cleans. Also, don't underestimate ableton live "pedal" plugin. Best vst tubescreamer I've ever heard
I used to have this pedal, slightly modded by a local engineer to reduce the crazy amount of low end. After keeping it for about 10 years on a shelf I finally sold it. This pedal is not for metal for sure, but you can get some sweet bluesy tones out of it=)
its used for metal😂
he literally chugs instantly weres your ears 😂
And you also Ola…and the weekend may it be good to you…ola Ola,,.🤘
theres more than 1 version and nodel of this and yes they rock
I like how they used guitar vol.... and tone knobs for the knobs on the pedal something different, nice.
I have it, my favourite thing. Gain is fine for me and i find it versitile enough to substitute different drive pedals.
I mostly use mine for the pristine clean channel, especially when plugging into a recording interface, then build my Chug around it.
It sounds like those Mini Recto 5:25 amps with the EL84 power tubes.
This pedal without mods might have sounded good for specific genres with specific settings, but I think it's goot you modded it
Guys I love six feet under, and I never new ola was the guitarist, another reason to love the band and buy their merch!
That Fortin modded thing sounded kick ass. Holy shit. You can tour with that thing without any compromises.
Thanks Ola.. the price of these just went up $100.
my best friend had one of these growing in the late 90s. he ran it through the effects loop of his jcm900 head and used it like a "tube screamer" for extra craziness and it gave more EQ head room on the jcm (if that makes sense). He could mimic a lot of Adam Jones feedbacks and screams with it. But as a main distortion, it didnt have the heftyness as the jcm900 did.
I was gonna say, this sounds almost exactly how I wanted one to sound back in the day but I never ended up buying one. Really glad now that I didn't.
That guitar is awesome looking!
You can really hear the reverberant string noise in the headstock. Pedal sounds nice though.
Power tubes brand do not change the tone, it only changes the level.
Anyone can check out Glen's video from SMG studios about that subject.
Tung sol are known to have a higher gain (electric level) but in no way it changes the signal itself from an other same model of tube
There's nothing scientific in Glenn's test. He's not using a cab and this "eats" at least half of the tone. Bear in mind recording and listening on TH-cam masks the results too. You actually CAN use cabs+mics and change the tubes without changing their placement. Just use a head and a cab (not cheap combo) and 1-2m speaker cable. And yes, use expensive guitar and amp and cab, not some cheap chinese overcompressed 5150 or similar. And last - you have to change all the tubes, if you have even one muffled sounding tube it will mask the difference between the others. It's common knowledge if you know anything about amps, tubes, their plate resistance and low pas filter it creates. Oh, I forgot - Glenn doesn't know anything about amps. And he can't play, so... it's expected.
P.S. Shouting in front of people and calling you "test" scientific doesn't mean anything.
I'm curious to see how Fortin modded it!
Ola is the metal master he can make anything chug although it had a bit of a gated reverb. Chug, chug , CHUG !
Wow sounds so good !!
“Hey guys watch me chug on this thing you can’t buy or get anywhere but will want after seeing this. Have a great day!”
Tung-Sol is all I like to use in my Amps, both Power Tubes and PreAmp tubes!
Ola hope you have a fantastic Friday also
Without even watching...yes!
I have one of those around here somewhere. I made a matching booster pedal which attached to the side of it, then ran that into a clean single channel amp so that I'd have 3 channels and a lead boost. It was OK, but I couldn't sleep at night because the amp that I had set up clean for it was a JCM 800.
I want to try boosting the front of the Marshall with it now, but I need to find it first. It's in one of those boxes over there...
Been my experience that if it chugs well it will be good at everything
mic did a great job shoot! (sorry if I spelled it wrong)
This guy rules.
I'm still confused why Mesa doesn't revisit this concept in this day & age of pedalboard rigs and IRs.
EDIT: We'll I'm not that surprised, Mesa has been behind the curve for years. The Badlander should've come out fifteen years ago.
Yep. Always behind the curve and late to the party. Kinda fitting that Gibson is running then now. Two companies in one that have always been behind.
@@TheAxe4Ever Was gonna mention this once Mesa hands full control to Gibson, Mesa amps will have two product lines Chineseium Amps that sound worse and will tarnish the Mesa name and the custom shop AMPs made in the USA will be 4x's as expensive as a Mesa already was.
@@TheAxe4Ever Gibson is running them? Pretty sure they only bought them and Randy is still running the show until he retires.
Well, there's still a full line of parts. As far as why they're not made anymore. From my research, I mostly found that it was simply a matter of manufacturing costs. The thing's a beast!
Need help from the interwebs! From what song is the riff starting at 6:15? It's absolutely killer! Thanks in advance 🙏
Sounds like the medication by the haunted
dude that thing ffuuuuuuuuu cking crisp
"these preamp tubes make an amp special" glenn fricker's ears are smoking
Do you think he'll yell about it?
sounds super tight bro, dang on! Mike is a legend, nice one.
Try to find a soldano GTO and see if it chugs!
Wow chug chug chug
It sounds awesome
Nice! Please do another with it into a tube power section and also please find out what the mod was, and if possible please to get another stock one and try that too through a tbe power section. I've used this since 90's and it's best preamp ever but many hate it. It's the best.
I'm not into chugging. I don't like chugging, I don't want to chug, and I'm not set up for chugging what with my blues jr, fender guitars and cheap hollowbodies. But I watch this series, and I don't get mad.
I don’t always chug. But when I do, well let’s just say. My neighbors are invited and they don’t have a choice.
Need to try out the Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp. I think that would make a good "Will It Chug" video.
I didn't like the sound of it, even with a Fortin mod. It sounded pretty fluffy (weird midrange and too many harmonics on the treble) through the mics, kinda like playing a distorted amp without a cab/IR hooked to it.
Yeah i agree, feel like I will take his word for it that it sounded bad, and now sounds better than it did... It still sounds bad though
I thought it was a little too metallic sounding and it was missing some much needed clarity. Might sound a little better in a mix, but only slightly.
It's like too much 500 hz on it for my ears and also some unpleasant harshness on the high-end
Imagine what it sounded like before being modded. I love everything about Boogie, from their gear to their awesome small business backstory, i really wanted to like this. Would still love to check it out for a few minutes though. It might sound better through a different signal path.
@@rickfeith6372 Yea, I forgot to mention I didn't like it through Ola's signal path specifically. In the front of an amp or in the loop of a tube power amp it may have sounded quite different and, possibly, better.
Loved the tone. Sounds like old Ampeg VH and Crate GX series.
Will it chug to end the week, what else 👌
You remind more and more on Skwisgaar Skwigelf from Dethklok, Ola. Ha det bra!
Ola, You need to open the School of Chug. Love your right hand form!
That view of that tiny amp on the giant cabinet 🤣
I only changed the preamp tubes in mine and it sounds like that. Sovtek.
That's the best looking solar I've ever seen. Might have to get me one😏
That Solar looks like an Orca ...........................badasss!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well done Bro 🔥🤟💯 this inspires me to go experiment with this pedal... It's just the most afordable (rare now though) MESA preamp to get 🔥💯🤟
Hej! You should do a spoof where you walk the streets of Stockholm or Gothenburg with a guitar and pocket amp and randomly approach people in “will it chug”. Of course by the end of the episode you should find at least a couple people who chug. PS - if you ever find a 15 y/o 10-speed locked to a lamppost in Vaxjo, that’s mine, and I want you to have it.
Seems like the H&K Tubeman MKII owns the Mesa by large, plus it seems more all around for all styles.
I was about to buy this one near around 2003-2004 and ended with a Brunetti Overtone2 would be nice to see what Ola can do with such equipment.
Legendary pedal that started it all! It cost as much as a rack mount DSP preamp!
I kinda like the sound of that .. kinda full .. that pedal is thick
Lol my friend had a Mesa fed to his line 6 Spider II and a BC Rich Warlock xD we thought we were so "metal" back then. Mind you we were like 12 when we did this.
Always wanted this pedal!