I'm absolutely shocked no one hires you to write songs with them. every demo you come up with something cool, original and catchy. another killer track
I'm sure with Pete's tallent and magic fingers!! He most likely has to turn folks down a lot, but I told him to for sure let us guitar nerds know when he puts out a CD
Sitting here wondering how Pete says he’s not a metal player and still comes up with some of the heaviest riffs out there. Oh yeah - it’s called talent…
Can’t wait for the SLO Mini in this series. I have the Friedman so far and it’s a little beast. My BE50 went down at band practise and the mini got me thru the rest of a loud rehearsal perfectly.
@@bulletproofprs I guess it would be based on Mike’s old GTO pedal which go for silly prices used now, with the power section being the same solid state 30w used in the other amps in this range. I would love even more if these mini amps had a simple clean channel, rather than just being distortion boxes, but maybe I’m expecting too much for the money!
Pete: You Rock! I always wanted a Diezel VH-4.. friend of mine has a Diezel VH-4 half stack and when I plugged my Charvel into it it was the sickest heaviest grinding crushing Tone ! Thank You for all your hard work & time. After watching your informative video I placed my order w/confidence, Thank You-ADR PS: CHEERS AND KEEP SHREDDING FROM UPSTATE, NY U.S.A
I guess all the guitar community really appreciates your reviews Pete. What about a studio tour soon ? Would love to see all the guitars and amps you have over there, including some insights on how you use them and in which situations you priorize one versus others. Keep up the good work man !
Nice job and great playing. You do a fantastic job of demoing gear as well as showing multiple ways it can be used. Between your videos and others from the Tone Talk guys I've learned I've been leaving a lot on the table with gear I already own. Always fun learning I can get some cool new tones without having to spend more money. Thank you!
Gotta love when you are playing the open chords Pete that you are keeping time by stumning above the guitar. Never seen that before. Cool! Tones are great as well!
It does seem like someone took a Mooer micro preamp and a chipamp and put them together with some bigger knobs and got licensed branding for it. And then another one.
@@aharkness5657 I don't know about that, but I think this mini amp website is having Dave, Reinhold, and Peter come up with a simple single channel solid state preamp, and then just coupled it with the same 30w power amp that Dave Friedman discovered. I think the Diezel sounds the best of the three.
Great demo! I really like these little amps. Pete, I would love to see a video in which you play through all 3 micro amps simultaneously... what a beastly sound that might be.
Thanks! I actually was pretty proud of the composition and digging the kind of ambient tremolo picking part a lot… Could be expanded later into something else
Did I see a little EVH run or two??, Sounded great as always Pete, I still am waiting for the Van Halen show seen Great White and Sammy's 1st show and the live without s net video, ( Was just as mind Blowing as same show I saw in Alabama) God Bless and keep the vids coming
As always Pete your playing is absolutely ripping, I watch your content as much for your chops & writing skills as I do to hear the products. Probably more to hear your playing now that I think about it. That said I don’t get these mini heads. You can’t gig with it, it’s not as versatile as having the pedal version & is more expensive. Maybe they’re not made for me but as someone who has a home studio & only does the occasional small gig I’m not sure who it is made for if not for me? Didn’t care for the tone either & I generally like Diezels. To be fair I didn’t like the mini Friedman & they make some of the best sounding amps available now. I dunno, just not vibing on these but to each their own. Great playing either way Pete!
@@teriakamoto Herbet Pedal ran through FX Loop of my Randall Diavlo 20 Watt Tube Amp (6L6's). Pedal is running on 12V (which it comes with). It sounds amazing. I love having the mid scoop chanel on it. I have the matching Cab for the amp but replaced the stock speaker with an Eminence Redcoat RV-75. Soon I plan to swap that speaker for Mick Tomson DV-77 from Eminence. I hear a lot of good things about it.
@@skurge98 Thanks for the get back ANPG Very cool. I have the Herbert pedal N.I.B. for like 6 months and haven't tried it yet. I have a bunch of Amp heads and I also live in a Housing Tract where I can't get too loud so I'll go with my 2 Orange 15 watter's. Dark Terror, & OR15. The OR15 has L-M-H Eq so I'll go with that one. I have a EVH5150lll 6L6 50 watt and I do have a Rivera Rock Crusher. Maybe that's the one on Clean Channel yeah ? Also, have a ENGL FB60w. The EVH w/6L6's would be closest to what you are doing and you love the sound right ? Heavy as f*** right ? Happy Trails my friend.
@@teriakamoto for sure! And you can control the volume very well. My 20 watt can be very loud! But my most recent toy I just got was the line 6 HX stomp. It's awesome for a small rig. Swiss army knife that thing is.
Terrific tone Pete! The FX loop send signal output sounds excellent - do you know if the other amps in the mini lineup (Bogner, Friedman) offer this same feature? Great playing!
It would have been good to hear it with a conventional HSS strat. Perhaps something like a Fender Shawbucker or Suhr SSV humbucker. I admit it sounded decent with EMGs and wah pedal added, but I'm not sure how representative that is of the actual tone from the amp.
I mean basically you’re hearing it with the root beer Suhr. I think you can get an idea from this video what’s going on, if not I don’t know, ha. Big and grindy, not Marshall upper mid kerrang
That's makes it extra big and extra grindy, which I kind of guessed already. More grindy than the Thornbucker bridge pickup. Suhr SSH+ is about as much grind as I can cope with personally.
I'm thinking of getting this amp or the Bogner ecstasy mini. I don't have a cab. But was wondering if I could use my Line6 spider3 75 watt, 1x12 as the cab? If so, how, and would the line6 need to be plugged in? (have power to it) Or would it act like a typical cab that doesn't require electricity? Finally witch amp would you recommend of the two I mentioned. I hope this message finds you in good spirits.
Amazing riffing Pete! Yeah I have two large fire breathing tube amps but would love this for my home office desktop jam sessions. What cab are you using with it? I figure get taste of Diezel for affordable price and save for a Herbert MK3!
Yeah man..this is badass Pete...amp made for your playing style imo... killer little box...all these micros coming out are sweet...! Does suhr have a micro amp?
These things + a JBL speaker or something like that, are just perfect for bringing to a cabin in the woods etc. Fun and with an inspiring feel and sound. If it is a cabin without power though, a IR pedal and a preamp pedal run on a power supply is the king :)
The Friedman is much better for a few more bucks. I’m a huge VH4 fan.. but this one falls a little flat by comparison to the Friedman and the Bogner Ecstasy Mini in my useless opinion.
It’s worth finding a store that has all of these hooked up beside each other. The Friedman had so many tone variations between all the TH-camr demos that it was hard for me to get a solid idea of it.
@@Baileyriffs totally agree with you, as we all have differing taste anyway. This Diezel sounds an awful lot like the Hughes and Kettner Spirit series boxes. I’m not a fan of the fizz sounds they have. I agree that there is a tonal variety of the Friedman in various reviews, but one thing I hear in all of them is that they sound refined and thick like a full sized amp, vs the Diezel which sounds thinner, smaller, and fizzier in all of the reviews over the past 2 weeks. It takes far more post processing it seems. I think I’m going with the Friedman pedal, which is the same as the mini amp just without a power amp. Hope you like whatever you decide on! Cheers 🍻
For the rhythm I actually like it into the V 30 IR! Different strokes. I think generally speaking an amp like this can use V 30s. But that’s not what I have mic’d in the other room usually. Maybe one of these days I will rig up two more microphones on a V30 cab.
My only complaint is such limited bandwidth of sound. Realize for metal people they like that but a guitar has so much more tone than just midrange and too much of it(imho).
Dude, I check your videos out now, as much for your mini demo jams as I do for itching my gear geekery itch. I'm curious, are you using pre-existing material for your intros, or just writing whatever the gear inspires you to write? Or perhaps a combination? Ps. This thing sounds absurd. I'd have a hard time believing that this sound was being produced by this little amp, without prior knowledge of it in a studio! I'd struggle not to laugh! Having said that, this thing is no joke! ✌
I write everything pretty much on the spot, when I plug in the equipment. Usually it comes pretty fast I just try and get inspired by the sound and then write something appropriate for what I hear. Sometimes I’ll start with a drum part/groove and then write a riff that grooves/locks with it, which is what I did with this piece.
@@PeteThorn Ahh, I figured as much, I've been wanting to ask for a while though, as honestly, I was curious if you had a bunch of solo/instrumental recordings I could have discovered 😜 appreciate the reply! Peace and good health to you. ✌🙏🙃
I'm absolutely shocked no one hires you to write songs with them. every demo you come up with something cool, original and catchy. another killer track
We don't know that they don't, just because he may not talk about it. But yes, he writes some great stuff!
I’m sure they do man!
I'm sure with Pete's tallent and magic fingers!! He most likely has to turn folks down a lot, but I told him to for sure let us guitar nerds know when he puts out a CD
He's told stories about writing with other artists and producers in the past. He's a great writer, not just a great guitar player!
@@marmaladecream2233 wait, what?
Pete's the definition of the guitar becoming an extension of the player's body. The gear is always cool, but your playing is what steals the show!
Thanks Jeff!
Sitting here wondering how Pete says he’s not a metal player and still comes up with some of the heaviest riffs out there. Oh yeah - it’s called talent…
the wolf in?? yeah that.
Can’t wait for the SLO Mini in this series. I have the Friedman so far and it’s a little beast. My BE50 went down at band practise and the mini got me thru the rest of a loud rehearsal perfectly.
This video got it all. Damn good music, faces of suffering while string bending, a villain chair swivel and an interesting product! Love it!
faces of suffering hahaha i like that
If you don’t mind, I’m gonna name my new death metal band Faces of Suffering.
I’m really hoping they put out a Soldano SLO one of these! Great little “toy” heads for at home 😃
Would be interesting for sure. Would be curious how they would attend to the power section since that's a key part of the SLO sound
@@bulletproofprs I guess it would be based on Mike’s old GTO pedal which go for silly prices used now, with the power section being the same solid state 30w used in the other amps in this range. I would love even more if these mini amps had a simple clean channel, rather than just being distortion boxes, but maybe I’m expecting too much for the money!
It is coming. Should not be long
That would be the ultimate. Is this really sounds like the 3rd channel Diezel I’ll def buy it
no soldano pedal no micro amp.....
Love it when you write metal riffs! They are always special and musicaly.
Pete your demos have some of the most badass riffs. So freaking great man.
Pete: You Rock! I always wanted a Diezel VH-4.. friend of mine has a Diezel VH-4 half stack and when I plugged my Charvel into it it was the sickest heaviest grinding crushing Tone ! Thank You for all your hard work & time.
After watching your informative video I placed my order w/confidence, Thank You-ADR
PS: CHEERS AND KEEP SHREDDING FROM UPSTATE, NY U.S.A
Pete, you are easily one of my favorite musicians! Great video! Cheers
I guess all the guitar community really appreciates your reviews Pete. What about a studio tour soon ? Would love to see all the guitars and amps you have over there, including some insights on how you use them and in which situations you priorize one versus others. Keep up the good work man !
Damn your playing was good on this! You sounded inspired!
Great playing, my friend...that little amp rules IMHO. Feels nice...
Thanks Nick!
Amp sounds great Pete! I swear you deserve a Grammy award for how talented you are as a musician! Keep up the great work man!
No Grammys for gear demos ha! :)
No Grammys for gear demos ha! :)
Nice job and great playing. You do a fantastic job of demoing gear as well as showing multiple ways it can be used. Between your videos and others from the Tone Talk guys I've learned I've been leaving a lot on the table with gear I already own. Always fun learning I can get some cool new tones without having to spend more money. Thank you!
Gotta love when you are playing the open chords Pete that you are keeping time by stumning above the guitar. Never seen that before. Cool! Tones are great as well!
This mini Amp it's a absolutely little beast! Sounds great and playing awesome. Great video Pete.
Man, you just make everything sound amazing Pete!
It has the Diezel Grease. Terrific sounds and playing.
Wow Pete, that mini amp sounds pretty awesome, your awesome playing really made it sing!
8.30 am here and pete is demoing an amp. its been a good day so far! all the best to you Pete :)
Man, that was some tight riffing!
I suspect Freidman/Bogner/Diezel and the rumored Soldano mini are using the same 30w power amp in these and just the preamp differ.
It does seem like someone took a Mooer micro preamp and a chipamp and put them together with some bigger knobs and got licensed branding for it. And then another one.
@@aharkness5657 I don't know about that, but I think this mini amp website is having Dave, Reinhold, and Peter come up with a simple single channel solid state preamp, and then just coupled it with the same 30w power amp that Dave Friedman discovered. I think the Diezel sounds the best of the three.
Wow. Cool gadget. Great playing by you as usual. I still love that rootbeer colored guitar of yours
It’s a really great guitar. I don’t use it that often and every time I do use it Iim like, why don’t I use this more often?
Best demo ever! =) Love cheers
Great demo! I really like these little amps. Pete, I would love to see a video in which you play through all 3 micro amps simultaneously... what a beastly sound that might be.
A VHT/Fryette Pitbull mini with a clean channel switching function would be a killer addition to these neat little amp series.
Great guitar playing my friend!!
Another banger, Pete! Couldn’t wait to watch this!
Bloody hell Pete! Going at full throttle there...brilliant!
Even when Pete plays metal he uses all them cool chords on his rhythms. I don't think there is any genre that he can't excell in.
Pete you rock your socks off! You’re one bad mother on the guitar!
Dude your videos are awesome!! And ur guitar skills are godly!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much
00:21 Very good, keep it up!
no one Rocks a demo better than Pete Thorn !
Simply awesome!! Mr Thorn!!
that opening track was mind blowing...
Thanks! I actually was pretty proud of the composition and digging the kind of ambient tremolo picking part a lot… Could be expanded later into something else
@@PeteThorn definitely! Love it..
Did I see a little EVH run or two??, Sounded great as always Pete, I still am waiting for the Van Halen show seen Great White and Sammy's 1st show and the live without s net video, ( Was just as mind Blowing as same show I saw in Alabama)
God Bless and keep the vids coming
Just ordered one. If Mr Thorn gives it a Thumbs Up. Then I must have one too!!! Thanks
Pete Thorn tremolo picking! Almost crossing into Black Metal, never thought I‘d see the day.
Wow so it's really true!! Damn.. I Need one. Thanks for the review Pete!
As always Pete your playing is absolutely ripping, I watch your content as much for your chops & writing skills as I do to hear the products. Probably more to hear your playing now that I think about it.
That said I don’t get these mini heads. You can’t gig with it, it’s not as versatile as having the pedal version & is more expensive. Maybe they’re not made for me but as someone who has a home studio & only does the occasional small gig I’m not sure who it is made for if not for me?
Didn’t care for the tone either & I generally like Diezels. To be fair I didn’t like the mini Friedman & they make some of the best sounding amps available now. I dunno, just not vibing on these but to each their own. Great playing either way Pete!
Pete, sounds amazing, love your playing 🎸 keep on Rocking
Diezel the Little monster, thanks for the review Pete 🔥
That’s why I prefer tube amps ;)
Sound flat and harsh despite the tasty playing
Yes, he knows his metal too!
Holy shit, Pete goes heavy! Awesome!
I wish fortin did one of these mini amp heads.
For a brief second I can hear a Beatles chord from "I Want You" in your medley there...5:37 ish....
Pete that is some spectacular heaviness... That song needs some vocals. Great job!!!
Great intro song
Killer job as usual!
Sounded pretty dope, I will still stick with using my Diezel Herbert Pedal into my effects loop of my Randall Amp Head.
How does that Herbert pedal sound throughFX Loop of Randall ? Is the Randall a tube or S.S. version ? Thanks.
@@teriakamoto Herbet Pedal ran through FX Loop of my Randall Diavlo 20 Watt Tube Amp (6L6's). Pedal is running on 12V (which it comes with). It sounds amazing. I love having the mid scoop chanel on it. I have the matching Cab for the amp but replaced the stock speaker with an Eminence Redcoat RV-75. Soon I plan to swap that speaker for Mick Tomson DV-77 from Eminence. I hear a lot of good things about it.
@@skurge98 Thanks for the get back ANPG Very cool. I have the Herbert pedal N.I.B. for like 6 months and haven't tried it yet. I have a bunch of Amp heads and I also live in a Housing Tract where I can't get too loud so I'll go with my 2 Orange 15 watter's. Dark Terror, & OR15. The OR15 has L-M-H Eq so I'll go with that one. I have a EVH5150lll 6L6 50 watt and I do have a Rivera Rock Crusher. Maybe that's the one on Clean Channel yeah ? Also, have a ENGL FB60w. The EVH w/6L6's would be closest to what you are doing and you love the sound right ? Heavy as f*** right ? Happy Trails my friend.
@@skurge98 Cool User name btw. Ha !
@@teriakamoto for sure! And you can control the volume very well. My 20 watt can be very loud! But my most recent toy I just got was the line 6 HX stomp. It's awesome for a small rig. Swiss army knife that thing is.
Can you run these micros without a cab? Would be cool to have it as a fun amp to plug into just sitting on my desk.
Another barn burner 🤘
Can pull off any genre 😀🥇
Very, very cool!
Sounds killer!!!
Man I been waiting so long
So just to clarify, a fun amp that's not a replacement for a standard Diezel head...but still loud enough to play live in a club with drums?
Absolutely 30 watts!
Killer tune!!!
no boost ?
So, do all of these micro amps have the same "guts"? Do they all sound the same?
My understanding is that they’re based off of the distortion pedals that the company makes, just with a power amp
@@colinsmith5124 ok, that's pretty cool. It would suck if they're all the same with only the look of the amps.
Sounds great, but I just want one to look cute sitting on top of my full-sized VH4.
Terrific tone Pete! The FX loop send signal output sounds excellent - do you know if the other amps in the mini lineup (Bogner, Friedman) offer this same feature? Great playing!
I want an actual vh4 sooo bad!!
It would have been good to hear it with a conventional HSS strat. Perhaps something like a Fender Shawbucker or Suhr SSV humbucker. I admit it sounded decent with EMGs and wah pedal added, but I'm not sure how representative that is of the actual tone from the amp.
I mean basically you’re hearing it with the root beer Suhr. I think you can get an idea from this video what’s going on, if not I don’t know, ha. Big and grindy, not Marshall upper mid kerrang
@@PeteThorn Thanks for the reply! I was curious what pickups you have in that Suhr guitar, with the nice metallic finish.
It’s the Aldrich set
That's makes it extra big and extra grindy, which I kind of guessed already. More grindy than the Thornbucker bridge pickup. Suhr SSH+ is about as much grind as I can cope with personally.
What's with the truss rod cover off of the Knaggs SSC?
I have misplaced it unfortunately
@@PeteThorn 🤔
WE NEED THEM TO DO A SOLDANO MINI AMP NEXT!!!
@Pete Thorn which one do you prefer? This one or the Boogner mini? Thanks
I want Pete to make an Opeth tribute album
Hey Pete cheers from NY! Great stringwork on that smokin' intro my man. Thanks for
the vid and check ya later. :-)
how loud is it?
I'm thinking of getting this amp or the Bogner ecstasy mini. I don't have a cab. But was wondering if I could use my Line6 spider3 75 watt, 1x12 as the cab? If so, how, and would the line6 need to be plugged in? (have power to it) Or would it act like a typical cab that doesn't require electricity? Finally witch amp would you recommend of the two I mentioned. I hope this message finds you in good spirits.
TIMMMMMAYYYYY!
Super grooving tune, just add Jack Bruce like vocals = a hit !!!
I dont have a VH4 so... It sounds like the only option! lol
Wouldn't sending the FX Send be bypassing the Amp stage of the amplifier?
The effect send is the preamp out
Amazing riffing Pete! Yeah I have two large fire breathing tube amps but would love this for my home office desktop jam sessions. What cab are you using with it? I figure get taste of Diezel for affordable price and save for a Herbert MK3!
So these companies aren’t actually making these amps then?
i want!!!!
Good lord, that's a lot of useable gain, even if I'm not that struck by the overall tone it's a fab demo - as usual.
So awesome! Do you have experience with the original VH4? I only can assume so haha. That's my personal favorite amp I've ever played through.
Very little- but a little.
Yeah man..this is badass Pete...amp made for your playing style imo... killer little box...all these micros coming out are sweet...! Does suhr have a micro amp?
She’s so ….. HEAVY!!!!
You’re the only one that got that! So far.
There's really only one question to ask and that is now that you've gotten paid to film this commercial do you ever intend to use this again?
Have you checked out Vegatrem??
I have one but I just can’t figure out what guitar to install it on and also just finding the time to reinstall the bridge…
Clearly the gain started to get out of control over 1 o'clock.
These things + a JBL speaker or something like that, are just perfect for bringing to a cabin in the woods etc. Fun and with an inspiring feel and sound. If it is a cabin without power though, a IR pedal and a preamp pedal run on a power supply is the king :)
The Friedman is much better for a few more bucks. I’m a huge VH4 fan.. but this one falls a little flat by comparison to the Friedman and the Bogner Ecstasy Mini in my useless opinion.
It’s worth finding a store that has all of these hooked up beside each other. The Friedman had so many tone variations between all the TH-camr demos that it was hard for me to get a solid idea of it.
@@Baileyriffs totally agree with you, as we all have differing taste anyway. This Diezel sounds an awful lot like the Hughes and Kettner Spirit series boxes. I’m not a fan of the fizz sounds they have. I agree that there is a tonal variety of the Friedman in various reviews, but one thing I hear in all of them is that they sound refined and thick like a full sized amp, vs the Diezel which sounds thinner, smaller, and fizzier in all of the reviews over the past 2 weeks. It takes far more post processing it seems. I think I’m going with the Friedman pedal, which is the same as the mini amp just without a power amp. Hope you like whatever you decide on! Cheers 🍻
Your gear demo tracks are better than 98% of the "music" out there today.
Bogner still the best.
Hetfield style tone
Better thru the Marshall cab.
For the rhythm I actually like it into the V 30 IR! Different strokes. I think generally speaking an amp like this can use V 30s. But that’s not what I have mic’d in the other room usually. Maybe one of these days I will rig up two more microphones on a V30 cab.
Very dark sounding amp . Not bad just deep and dark
Are you suhr erious bro good demo
The man couldn’t write a bad tune if he tried.
I’m sure there’s at least a few out there that are stinkers! Ha! I try and keep the quality high
Who's Next? ;-) Your move Marshall . . . .
My only complaint is such limited bandwidth of sound. Realize for metal people they like that but a guitar has so much more tone than just midrange and too much of it(imho).
Dude, I check your videos out now, as much for your mini demo jams as I do for itching my gear geekery itch. I'm curious, are you using pre-existing material for your intros, or just writing whatever the gear inspires you to write? Or perhaps a combination?
Ps. This thing sounds absurd. I'd have a hard time believing that this sound was being produced by this little amp, without prior knowledge of it in a studio! I'd struggle not to laugh! Having said that, this thing is no joke! ✌
I write everything pretty much on the spot, when I plug in the equipment. Usually it comes pretty fast I just try and get inspired by the sound and then write something appropriate for what I hear. Sometimes I’ll start with a drum part/groove and then write a riff that grooves/locks with it, which is what I did with this piece.
@@PeteThorn Ahh, I figured as much, I've been wanting to ask for a while though, as honestly, I was curious if you had a bunch of solo/instrumental recordings I could have discovered 😜 appreciate the reply! Peace and good health to you. ✌🙏🙃