@@JohanSegebornespecially when you hit the open drop D and played the D triad at the 14/15th frets…the low strings and high strings fundamental notes all remained strong and powerful
I lost this channel for a while and glad I stumbled on it again. This dude is great. He‘ll e stone faced dead serious like you ever wonder what 15 dimed out Marshall stacks sound like inside a VW Bug… stay tuned.. He usually likes it loud!
Sounds massive in every way. I bet it gets even more punchy with a boost in front, but that's the thrash and death metal guy in me talking :) It makes me happy to see you so excited for this!
Killer video Johan, this Amp is a Face Melter for sure there is a reason Adam Jones from tool uses this head, The brutality is so amazing in a pleasant way!!!
I've got the pedal and absolutely love it. You don't even have to set the gain high, it does a good medium gain hard rock distortion. And the EQ is just dialed in to exactly the right frequencies. You can set it nearly any way you want and it sounds good. I'd love to see you try the Big Max, Paul and maybe even VH2. The Big Max is basically if Diezel made a JCM800, the Paul is supposed to be more of a vintage sound and the VH2 is a atripped down VH4 that's been said to sound better and more open. Love your videos!
I had one 15 years ago, it reminds me great times... And I'm not surprised you stay on this magnific third channel all the time! What you didn't mentionned is the surprising dynamic for this level of gain. But it was a kind of a unic tone made for modern metal-ish music. Ch.4 is great for heavily compressed leads. But Ch 1 and 2 were too perfect to me. They are suffering of a kind of counter part for their pefection: lack of personnality and a bit too tight. I prefer these sounds to be a bit loose and alive. So I moved to more Uk style rock single channel amps (I play 2 different Matamp). But today I still miss this 3rd channel. Great video! Thank you Johan!
Thanks! Yeah the third channel was my favourite but the others had some great tones too. They were as you say much tighter than the amps I usually play so I’ll probably play my usual Marshall riffs differently on those. Video on the other channel is coming up soon. Cheers
I love mine, planning to buy a second one. I received mine with KT77s, worn out, so I changed them for 6L6s and the amp was beautiful but now I'm using EL34s and I want to sty with them for a while and see, it's a bit brighter with 34s but it's the best amp I've evr owned, all the right frequencies. Great video as always Johan 🙂
Hi, Johan! Absolutely nice video. Looks like mr. Hatfield used Gibson in the studio. I can't believe that it was 33 years ago. The last album of Metallica I liked. See you! S.
Adam Jones plays through these and say what you want about his playing but he's got GREAT tone. His sound is so articulate no matter how much distortion he's pushing
Once I was finally able to buy my Diezel VH4S some 20-odd years ago, my amp search pretty much ended. It’s still the core of my rig and has never let me down. Would I love to have an SLO? Sure! A BE100? Absolutely! A Mesa Mk 2-4? Most certainly! Would I replace my VH4S with either of these amps? Absolutely NOT!
Hejsan Johan, that was really Hetfield chunky, percussive playing - it could be interesting to know how the first gain stages are laid down in your new Diezel head - congratulations on your new half stack, Johan
Great amp! I have the stereo version and it rips. Channel 2 is a sleeper! Most go directly to channel 3 but channel 2 is GREAT! Very comparable to Jcm800
Hi johan, was supried to see you cover the vh4 it is truely a unique amp. A lot of peole miss out on ch2 of this amp which can do some great jcm800 tones, i suggest you to try those out (and maybe do a comparison between the two).
Hi Johan, I see you fell in love with channel 3 straight away. And rightfully so! But don't underestimate channel 2, it's really great and extremely sensitive, it was very surprising to me to find such channel on a modern amp.
The Amp and sounds great. I'm guessing that it has very little Sag, or processes Sag in its own unique way. I recently discovered how medium to high Sag settings on my Modeler often resulted in muddy, weak tones. I turned the Sag way down and all the sounds came to life with clarity, articulation, and string separation. The Gain settings were easier to dial in big sounds as well.
Sounds great! On another topic, have you by any chance heard the EVH iconic 15 combo? Sweetwater have a very good demo on TH-cam. Budget tube amp with (to my ear) unbelievably good driven cleans, genuinely convincing VH1 brown sound and beyond.
I've always wanted to try one, but we don't see these over here in the Republic. I saw some up in NI when I was collecting my custom Matamp 2x12, but it was too late to fire up a 100w amp. The guy in the shop was raving about them. That sounds absolutely fantastic, BTW.
@@JohanSegeborn Thanks Johan, the YGL-3 is a vintage discontinued model. The YGL1/YGL2 are current production and the YGL1 comes with your favorite speaker (greenback) :). The YGL1 has a little more old school tone vs the YGL2 is a little more versatile (old school/modern tone). You can find these used in Canada $300-$500 all day :)
Speaking of Metallica. You can see and hear James Hetfield playing through a VH4 on the St. Anger Rehearsal vid here on YT. You can also get a feel that St. Anger could have been a good album with different production by watching the songs played live.
The thing I always hated was that you either had to have a tight amp to get string to string clarity, but sacrifice the angry dirt in the low end, or get big low end filth, but sacrifice clarity. Both vh4 and herbert give you both, but just different flavors. My favorite amps are always diezel.
There is no question tis VH4 good amplifier or not. Tim Pierce has one as well. For what it is meant for it is a great amplifier. But at that level of gain, I am out, sorry. 30 years ago? Sure I was in for that. Nowadays that is not musical to me anymore. Even one of the best electric guitar performances ever, for me, Garry Moore 1990 Live in Montreux, is not sounding as good as it did for me. I still think it is one of the best performances ever, especially The Messiah will come again. I love how he tames the beast and works with guitar and amplifier controlling it perfectly. Pure essential old School electric guitar as it should be. But it is not best tone for me anymore. I would take some lover gain stuff over it nowadays. Tone wise. Performance wise there is nothing to compete with it and no points to knock off it. th-cam.com/video/WMdbsmuhLZ0/w-d-xo.html for people who do not know it if there could be someone watching this channel and not knowing it.
Great to hear one of these amps in the hands of a classic tone guy. Metalheads don’t understand how to use amp eq. So much so that the only acceptable way to get any clarity and tightness is to run a Tubescreamer.
@@JohanSegeborn I think most of the "modern" amps do. Iv'e seen people complaining about the fizziness of the 5150 Iconic, but when I had a go on one, I just backed off a bunch of bass, pushed up the mids and slightly pulled back the treble, and it sounded tight, clear and musical with no fizz. It's not like the old classic amps that just have an inherent tone that turning the knobs doesn't really change.
Congratulations, now just tune way down and instantly sound like every other mother chugger out there. Sorry not a fan, but if you like it I guess that's what really matters.
@@JohanSegeborn Everybody now that the halveringstid on MXR pedals is about 30 minutes. :D Well played by the way! I've never been previously been interested in this kind of amp. But it sound great! Thanks!
You nailed it. Peter is a genius. I have no idea how he managed to create such an amplifier.
He is indeed! Hats off to Peter
This amp seems to give you so much BASS - MIDDLE and TREBLE at the same time while still sounding so clear all they way through, it's unbelievable!
Yeah, the definition is indeed unbelievable
@@JohanSegebornespecially when you hit the open drop D and played the D triad at the 14/15th frets…the low strings and high strings fundamental notes all remained strong and powerful
Johan and a VH4!?!?! This video is awesome!!! Cheers as always Johan!
Great to hear that! Cheers!
This amps sounds extremely tight for not having any boost on the front end. Great demo as usual, thanks Johan!
Thanks! Yeah one feels in total control of the transients
I lost this channel for a while and glad I stumbled on it again. This dude is great. He‘ll e stone faced dead serious like you ever wonder what 15 dimed out Marshall stacks sound like inside a VW Bug… stay tuned.. He usually likes it loud!
Thanks my friend, glad to have you back!
Have a Diezel head and love it. They are articulate even with stupendous amonths of gain. And you can roll down the volume and clean things up.
The VH4 is an absolute beast! You got it sounding sweet! I'm sure the TH-cam compression doesn't do it justice. God bless and rock on 👍😎🎸
Thanks man, glad to hear it! The TH-cam compression is usually good enough but this amp has so much more low end than the usual amps on the channel.
Sounds massive in every way. I bet it gets even more punchy with a boost in front, but that's the thrash and death metal guy in me talking :) It makes me happy to see you so excited for this!
Thanks Andy! Glad to hear from you!
This has been my favorite amp in the digital world. I can't wait for the extra bit analog will give me when I buy this amp in the future
Would be interesting to compare those
Brilliant. Huge tone Johan. Mic placement is absolutely nailed.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Killer video Johan, this Amp is a Face Melter for sure there is a reason Adam Jones from tool uses this head, The brutality is so amazing in a pleasant way!!!
Thanks Ricky!
I've got the pedal and absolutely love it. You don't even have to set the gain high, it does a good medium gain hard rock distortion. And the EQ is just dialed in to exactly the right frequencies. You can set it nearly any way you want and it sounds good. I'd love to see you try the Big Max, Paul and maybe even VH2. The Big Max is basically if Diezel made a JCM800, the Paul is supposed to be more of a vintage sound and the VH2 is a atripped down VH4 that's been said to sound better and more open. Love your videos!
Thanks man, glad to hear that! I’m gonna include all the Diezel gear I can find on the channel!
@@JohanSegeborn Looking forward to it, you always make it sound good and capture the raw character.
I had one 15 years ago, it reminds me great times... And I'm not surprised you stay on this magnific third channel all the time! What you didn't mentionned is the surprising dynamic for this level of gain.
But it was a kind of a unic tone made for modern metal-ish music. Ch.4 is great for heavily compressed leads.
But Ch 1 and 2 were too perfect to me. They are suffering of a kind of counter part for their pefection: lack of personnality and a bit too tight. I prefer these sounds to be a bit loose and alive. So I moved to more Uk style rock single channel amps (I play 2 different Matamp).
But today I still miss this 3rd channel.
Great video! Thank you Johan!
Thanks! Yeah the third channel was my favourite but the others had some great tones too. They were as you say much tighter than the amps I usually play so I’ll probably play my usual Marshall riffs differently on those. Video on the other channel is coming up soon. Cheers
A very unique soundind and feeling amplifier. I liked the Herbert more at first but the VH4 has been growing on me more and more
Johan you have never sounded better. As much as I love the old classic stuff
This simply eclipses all of them
Thanks Brent! I also think this is one of the better tones here at the channel
You make everything sound great!
Thanks my friend!
Nice score the amp really sounds amazing and great riffage! Another awesome video
Thanks Vince! Glad you liked it
Aloha Johan! Sounds great. Mahalo again Johan.
Aloha Victor! Glad you liked it.
Man it sounds so juicy. If this amp were available in the 70's and 80's, the hard rock Marshall guys would have all been playing it I think.
Glad to hear it, they definitely would’ve
I love mine, planning to buy a second one. I received mine with KT77s, worn out, so I changed them for 6L6s and the amp was beautiful but now I'm using EL34s and I want to sty with them for a while and see, it's a bit brighter with 34s but it's the best amp I've evr owned, all the right frequencies. Great video as always Johan 🙂
Thanks! Glad to hear it!
Your intro is almost like a PTSD moment, clearly in shock!
Awesome and that thing crushes nicely done
Thanks, I am actually kind of shocked by it
It so smooth and CLEAR
Its crazy
Thanks!
That sounded amazing Johan! I love all of your vintage Marshall, Hi-Watt & Fender videos, but really enjoyed this one too 🔥
Thanks a lot!
Hi, Johan!
Absolutely nice video. Looks like mr. Hatfield used Gibson in the studio. I can't believe that it was 33 years ago. The last album of Metallica I liked.
See you!
S.
Hi! The Black Album is hard to beat for any band
Awesome tone and video. Keep Rockin
Thanks John, glad you like it!
Cool amp - and cool video - nice work!
Thanks! Great to hear that!
Adam Jones plays through these and say what you want about his playing but he's got GREAT tone. His sound is so articulate no matter how much distortion he's pushing
Both tone and playing are great
I had one in the middle 2000s. It was very present in the mix and an all around beast.
Yeah even the low is detailed and punchy enough to cut through
Please compare it to a Soldano. This was great sonically and visually.
Yesss what a great idea
Glad to hear it! I will!!
Wow. I'm a little jet-lagged in Japan but that certainly woke me up! Amazing.
Thanks Eddie! You’re quite the Globetrotter! How is it in Japan?
Japan is fantastic! Great scenery, cities, food and guitar shops! I’m currently at a (coronavirus) conference on Awaji Island.
Yeah I like clean sound
The famous and almighty channel 3. 🔥🔥🔥
Cheers! 🤘
Yesss, tried the amp in a store in munich in germany where Peter used to work. I smiled like crazy…
@@j.schaefer5622 I own a VH4 and a VH2, both are absolutely magical amps, not only for high gain metal players!
Never played the amp, but had the twin channel pedal Diezel made to model this amp and it was an incredible preamp to run in my amps effects loop.
Once I was finally able to buy my Diezel VH4S some 20-odd years ago, my amp search pretty much ended. It’s still the core of my rig and has never let me down. Would I love to have an SLO? Sure! A BE100? Absolutely! A Mesa Mk 2-4? Most certainly! Would I replace my VH4S with either of these amps? Absolutely NOT!
Yeah it will most likely end my search for high gain amps as well
Hejsan Johan, that was really Hetfield chunky, percussive playing - it could be interesting to know how the first gain stages are laid down in your new Diezel head - congratulations on your new half stack, Johan
Thanks Steffen! I’m gonna see if I can find a schematic
Great amp! I have the stereo version and it rips. Channel 2 is a sleeper! Most go directly to channel 3 but channel 2 is GREAT! Very comparable to Jcm800
Cool, I didn’t know there was a stereo version
Nice johan !!!!
Lets go !!
Stay heavy cant wait to hear !!! 🤟🤟
Thanks! 🤘
Hi johan, was supried to see you cover the vh4 it is truely a unique amp.
A lot of peole miss out on ch2 of this amp which can do some great jcm800 tones, i suggest you to try those out (and maybe do a comparison between the two).
Yeah a more comprehensive video on the amp will come up soon
Hi Johan, I see you fell in love with channel 3 straight away. And rightfully so! But don't underestimate channel 2, it's really great and extremely sensitive, it was very surprising to me to find such channel on a modern amp.
Hi! Yeah channel 2 did some great vintage tones
Amazing Amp!
Indeed
$8500 in Australia for that genius amp.
The Amp and sounds great. I'm guessing that it has very little Sag, or processes Sag in its own unique way.
I recently discovered how medium to high Sag settings on my Modeler often resulted in muddy, weak tones. I turned the Sag way down and all the sounds came to life with clarity, articulation, and string separation. The Gain settings were easier to dial in big sounds as well.
Thanks! Yeah it responds really quickly but it still breathes very well. Kind of best of both worlds
Sounds great! On another topic, have you by any chance heard the EVH iconic 15 combo? Sweetwater have a very good demo on TH-cam. Budget tube amp with (to my ear) unbelievably good driven cleans, genuinely convincing VH1 brown sound and beyond.
Thanks! Not yet but I’ll demo it first chance
The SOUND of rock &/or roll! \m/
Cheers! 🤘
I've always wanted to try one, but we don't see these over here in the Republic. I saw some up in NI when I was collecting my custom Matamp 2x12, but it was too late to fire up a 100w amp. The guy in the shop was raving about them. That sounds absolutely fantastic, BTW.
Thanks, Im glad you like it!
bolo.............yup i can hear it...............i love this amp.........
Cheers 😉
REQUEST: Find a Traynor YGL1 or YGL2 these are still in production today and can be bought really cheap on the used market!
Cool, I’ll keep it in mind. I think we did the YGL-3 earlier on
@@JohanSegeborn Thanks Johan, the YGL-3 is a vintage discontinued model. The YGL1/YGL2 are current production and the YGL1 comes with your favorite speaker (greenback) :). The YGL1 has a little more old school tone vs the YGL2 is a little more versatile (old school/modern tone). You can find these used in Canada $300-$500 all day :)
Have you ever played the Hagen? It's difficult to find reliable comparisons of the two amps.
No not yet. I’ll compare them first chance I get
@@JohanSegeborn that would be very cool.
Adam jones vibe's ❤
Thanks! ❤️
Speaking of Metallica. You can see and hear James Hetfield playing through a VH4 on the St. Anger Rehearsal vid here on YT. You can also get a feel that St. Anger could have been a good album with different production by watching the songs played live.
Cool, do you know if they have used the VH4 on any other albums?
@@JohanSegeborn Death Magnetic.
The VH4 has been in use since St. Anger.
Are they still running them live, or are they gone digital by now?
@@JohnWiku They went Fractal after Death Magnetic I think.
Hi, can you make a demo more clean or crunch?
Yeah that will come up too
@JohanSegeborn thanks!!!
Could you do a vid mixing purple backs and greenbacks?
Yeah absolutely!
@ WOO that’s fl gonna be so cool
What do you think about pairing it with Fane Speaker Equiped cab?
I think the Fanes I have played would be too middy with this amp but I haven’t tried any modern Fanes
You can put those Marshalls on Reverb now 😎
😆
I’ll be watching 😛
It's been a while since we've had the Swedish fields and rivers
Yeah, I think autumn and winter make the most interesting B-rolls so it’s high season for it now
Johan, brother, you could make a busted chainsaw sound great! \m/ \m/
Thanks, That’s kind of you! 😄
Need a TH-cam or twitch producer to use these samples in something they sound awesome 👏👏
Thanks glad you like them
C’mon man, Tool riffs only on the V4 😂 I’d like a 5 watt version of this to rock in my apartment.
I’ll learn some Tool riffs for the next one🤘
The only thing 'diesel' I own is my 4WD! ;oP
The thing I always hated was that you either had to have a tight amp to get string to string clarity, but sacrifice the angry dirt in the low end, or get big low end filth, but sacrifice clarity. Both vh4 and herbert give you both, but just different flavors. My favorite amps are always diezel.
Yeah you’re having the cake and are eating it with this one
How can you like it? It sound too dark and muffled, as if there was a blanket in front of the cab.
I’m afraid I don’t hear that at all
Damn, I really don’t need another amp!
You got a Diezel?
@@JohanSegeborn no, I don’t. So you’re saying I do need another amp, as long as it’s a Diezel?
There is no question tis VH4 good amplifier or not. Tim Pierce has one as well. For what it is meant for it is a great amplifier. But at that level of gain, I am out, sorry. 30 years ago? Sure I was in for that. Nowadays that is not musical to me anymore. Even one of the best electric guitar performances ever, for me, Garry Moore 1990 Live in Montreux, is not sounding as good as it did for me. I still think it is one of the best performances ever, especially The Messiah will come again. I love how he tames the beast and works with guitar and amplifier controlling it perfectly. Pure essential old School electric guitar as it should be. But it is not best tone for me anymore.
I would take some lover gain stuff over it nowadays. Tone wise. Performance wise there is nothing to compete with it and no points to knock off it.
th-cam.com/video/WMdbsmuhLZ0/w-d-xo.html for people who do not know it if there could be someone watching this channel and not knowing it.
I love Gary Moore! And I love that song with Roy Buchanan too
Great to hear one of these amps in the hands of a classic tone guy.
Metalheads don’t understand how to use amp eq. So much so that the only acceptable way to get any clarity and tightness is to run a Tubescreamer.
Yeah this amp has everything needed onboard
@@JohanSegeborn I think most of the "modern" amps do.
Iv'e seen people complaining about the fizziness of the 5150 Iconic, but when I had a go on one, I just backed off a bunch of bass, pushed up the mids and slightly pulled back the treble, and it sounded tight, clear and musical with no fizz.
It's not like the old classic amps that just have an inherent tone that turning the knobs doesn't really change.
Peter Diezel is a very friendly guy but I‘m afraid I like ENGL and Soldano better.
You sound great with it though
Thanks! Glad to hear it
So many amps, so little time...
...and money 😂😭
Congratulations, now just tune way down and instantly sound like every other mother chugger out there. Sorry not a fan, but if you like it I guess that's what really matters.
Yeah there is always the delicate task to find some original to play
Meh, guess you had to be there; sounds like a used MXR "Badass" distortion pedal to me.
No the video captures basically what I heard in the room. .. so not even an MXR, but a USED MXR? That’s rough
@@JohanSegeborn Everybody now that the halveringstid on MXR pedals is about 30 minutes. :D Well played by the way! I've never been previously been interested in this kind of amp. But it sound great! Thanks!