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colimofsmoke
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So it's not really news after my other thread, but here she is:
VHT Deliverance 60
I couldn't be happier with the trade. I was having doubts before I let the Mesa go, but after a couple days of playing this amp, they are gone. I've never played an amp that had such a reactive set of controls. Between the two gain controls and the preamp and power amp tone controls, I can get basically any tone I'm after. And more than that, is how the guitar knobs affect the amp. I can set the amp for super high gain settings and then get a huge range of tones just by playing with the knobs. It's really amazing: set the amp for killer high gain and I can get everything from a beautiful clean with a slight edge to it, to a crunchy vintage tone, to a slaying metal sound. Set treble at 0, mids at about 10 or 11 o clock, bass at 1 o'clock, presence low, depth high, neck pickup, and gain nearly maxed, and you've got a killer doom tone. Modern metal, djent, etc, all really easy to find. With my Mesa, I felt like I tried every single knob combo on all four channels and still couldn't find a tone I really loved. I have yet to hear a tone out of the VHT that didn't make me go HELL YES! The cleans are absolutely beautiful. Not crystal clear, but so much great tone it's kind of ridiculous. And yes, your playing mistakes Really show. Even at the highest gain settings and high volume, you can still hear all the individual chorded notes, the natural sound o a vibrating string, and your pick attack. Even with compressed high output active pups, the amp is still highly sensitive to pick attack, fretting technique, etc. there is no question this amp is going to force me
To be a better player. Oh, and it takes a delay in front a lot better than I thought it would. One thing i do miss about the Mesa is the sustain, thing was more like a synth than a guitar amp sometimes. But where adding treble to the Mesa made things piercing and fizzy, the VHT jut cuts. So much cut without being piercing or thin or fizzy. And so much bass, too. I actually have to run the depth and bass knobs at around noon or it's too much bass for my speakers.
At any rate, to say the least, I'm stoked.
VHT Deliverance 60
I couldn't be happier with the trade. I was having doubts before I let the Mesa go, but after a couple days of playing this amp, they are gone. I've never played an amp that had such a reactive set of controls. Between the two gain controls and the preamp and power amp tone controls, I can get basically any tone I'm after. And more than that, is how the guitar knobs affect the amp. I can set the amp for super high gain settings and then get a huge range of tones just by playing with the knobs. It's really amazing: set the amp for killer high gain and I can get everything from a beautiful clean with a slight edge to it, to a crunchy vintage tone, to a slaying metal sound. Set treble at 0, mids at about 10 or 11 o clock, bass at 1 o'clock, presence low, depth high, neck pickup, and gain nearly maxed, and you've got a killer doom tone. Modern metal, djent, etc, all really easy to find. With my Mesa, I felt like I tried every single knob combo on all four channels and still couldn't find a tone I really loved. I have yet to hear a tone out of the VHT that didn't make me go HELL YES! The cleans are absolutely beautiful. Not crystal clear, but so much great tone it's kind of ridiculous. And yes, your playing mistakes Really show. Even at the highest gain settings and high volume, you can still hear all the individual chorded notes, the natural sound o a vibrating string, and your pick attack. Even with compressed high output active pups, the amp is still highly sensitive to pick attack, fretting technique, etc. there is no question this amp is going to force me
To be a better player. Oh, and it takes a delay in front a lot better than I thought it would. One thing i do miss about the Mesa is the sustain, thing was more like a synth than a guitar amp sometimes. But where adding treble to the Mesa made things piercing and fizzy, the VHT jut cuts. So much cut without being piercing or thin or fizzy. And so much bass, too. I actually have to run the depth and bass knobs at around noon or it's too much bass for my speakers.
At any rate, to say the least, I'm stoked.
