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Ivanc
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I'm finally a proud new Diezel user!
I played in a band for 10 years, until life (kids, job etc) made us to slowly lose the interest and to finally to disband in 2005. Our style was a mix of "grunge" and "metal" if you want to put tags on it, think on bands like Creed, Nickelback, Staind, etc.
I was disappointed at how it all ended, so i decided to sell all my equipment (Gibson Les Paul Std, 5150 head and ENGL V30 4x12 cab) just keeping a Boss GT-5 mfx and a ESP LTD Viper with EMG 85/81 to play at home.
8 years later, a friend asked us for his wedding party present to reunite and play again. At first we thought it was crazy, but it started to grow on us and we decided to go for it. We just had a month to get 10 of our old songs ready for it, but we made it and it was a great success plus a really awesome experience to play live and together again, even if just in front of 50 friends. We ended almost crying, specially when my wife came to the mic to thank the friend who asked us to play because it made us to come back together and allowed my 5 years old kid to see his daddy playing live for first time ever.
So after that (2 weeks ago), we decided to come back at least to play a couple of times per week to enjoy and who knows if to play live again in the future.
Of course the first step was to get gear again, and after some quick reading at forums, review sites and listening to hundreds of youtube videos, i decided i wanted a Diezel. I was thinking about waiting for the D-Moll but i found a second hand Einstein 50W Head + Mesa Recto 4x12 cab for a good price, so i jumped over it and the guy brought it to me yesterday.
The head and cab are in mint condition, not any scratch and the head has been re-tubed and biased with Mesa Boogie EL34 power tubes two months ago.
WoooooW! I'm simply amazed at the tone, the youtube videos of course doesn't make it any justice!
I just nervously plugged my guitar into it, tunned to Drop C#, EMG81 at bridge and set all the tone knobs to noon as starting point and checked the 3 modes of channel one:
1- Awesome clean tone, but it distorts early with the bridge EMG81, of course that is the "issue" with hot pickups with any amp. The sound is very warm even with the trebly EMG81, switching to the neck EMG85 is pure cream when it starts to break up.
2- Texas mode is amazing for blues, rock or hard rock, really dynamic, must test it more.
3- Holly shit, I was not expecting this mode to be as Mega as the name says. I tried some palm mutes with gain at 2:00, mids sligthy scooped at 10:00 and highs, bass, resonance and presence at noon and wow, exactly the modern metal tone i love and that was without tweaking at all!
I had to look at the amp a few times to make sure that i was in chn 1 and not 2, as i was not expecting that sound from chn1 at all and even less without tweaking a lot. Compared with my old 5150 that sounded a little harsh until i replaced the stock pre and power tubes with jjs, this mode 3 sounds really full, with earthshaking palm mutes but really tight with clarity when playing more open chords.
Then i tried channel 2 and had to lower the gain to 11:00 to get a similar sound that mode 3, but it's still differently voiced, mode dark and scooped while mode 3 is more open. Palm mutes sound heavier and fuller, but less percussive, not sure yet if i like it more or less than mode 3, it's just different. Raising gain to 2 or 3:00 you are into really high gain territory, more for death or trash metal but weird enough, it still keeps the clarity for rifting or soloing unlike the 5150 that sounds more muddy for that if you setup a good sound for heavy palm mutting.
Then you have the presence and resonance knobs, that are really responsive and change your sound a lot. I never expected such amount of bass even with resonance at noon and with the trebly emg81.
As i want to use my Boss GT-5 for effects and to add chorus etc to clean tones, i set it up with the 4 cable method, so i can use the Einstein preamp "inside" the GT-5 chain. I used the serial loop, adjusted levels in the GT-5 and it sounds perfect, can't appreciate any tone lost.
Then my band mates came in, we started to play some of our old songs and wow, we all were amazed at how big and heavy the sound is, while still clear and very tight. Again all this is without tweaking the amp at all as i had no time before the band mates came in, never in my life could get the sound i had in my brain just plugging into an amp.
Now the question is if i prefer mode 3 with high gain or chan 2 with it lowered, i kept switching all the time between the two and can't decide. Maybe will end using chan 2 more for the heavier stuff just to be able to have the chan 1 in mode 2 for that awesome hard rock sound when needed.
As for it being 50 wats, it won't be an issue at all, it's really loud plugged into the 4x12, for sure enough for medium to large bars without mics. Doubt i'll ever have to put it at full volume.
I was thinking on buying another guitar (PRS or Les Paul) as my main one as in the past, to keep the cheap EMG equipped ESP LTD as backup, but i'm not sure now if i'm even going to need it or at least by now.
I know this is a long writing, sorry about it, but i'm so excited both about playing with my old team mates again and about finding the sound i have always dreamed about. If this Einstein is the more classic voiced Diezel, can't imagine how heavy can sound the vh4 or Herbert, this 50w monster is for sure heavy enough for me.
Attached is a crap pick taken with my phone:
I played in a band for 10 years, until life (kids, job etc) made us to slowly lose the interest and to finally to disband in 2005. Our style was a mix of "grunge" and "metal" if you want to put tags on it, think on bands like Creed, Nickelback, Staind, etc.
I was disappointed at how it all ended, so i decided to sell all my equipment (Gibson Les Paul Std, 5150 head and ENGL V30 4x12 cab) just keeping a Boss GT-5 mfx and a ESP LTD Viper with EMG 85/81 to play at home.
8 years later, a friend asked us for his wedding party present to reunite and play again. At first we thought it was crazy, but it started to grow on us and we decided to go for it. We just had a month to get 10 of our old songs ready for it, but we made it and it was a great success plus a really awesome experience to play live and together again, even if just in front of 50 friends. We ended almost crying, specially when my wife came to the mic to thank the friend who asked us to play because it made us to come back together and allowed my 5 years old kid to see his daddy playing live for first time ever.
So after that (2 weeks ago), we decided to come back at least to play a couple of times per week to enjoy and who knows if to play live again in the future.
Of course the first step was to get gear again, and after some quick reading at forums, review sites and listening to hundreds of youtube videos, i decided i wanted a Diezel. I was thinking about waiting for the D-Moll but i found a second hand Einstein 50W Head + Mesa Recto 4x12 cab for a good price, so i jumped over it and the guy brought it to me yesterday.
The head and cab are in mint condition, not any scratch and the head has been re-tubed and biased with Mesa Boogie EL34 power tubes two months ago.
WoooooW! I'm simply amazed at the tone, the youtube videos of course doesn't make it any justice!
I just nervously plugged my guitar into it, tunned to Drop C#, EMG81 at bridge and set all the tone knobs to noon as starting point and checked the 3 modes of channel one:
1- Awesome clean tone, but it distorts early with the bridge EMG81, of course that is the "issue" with hot pickups with any amp. The sound is very warm even with the trebly EMG81, switching to the neck EMG85 is pure cream when it starts to break up.
2- Texas mode is amazing for blues, rock or hard rock, really dynamic, must test it more.
3- Holly shit, I was not expecting this mode to be as Mega as the name says. I tried some palm mutes with gain at 2:00, mids sligthy scooped at 10:00 and highs, bass, resonance and presence at noon and wow, exactly the modern metal tone i love and that was without tweaking at all!
I had to look at the amp a few times to make sure that i was in chn 1 and not 2, as i was not expecting that sound from chn1 at all and even less without tweaking a lot. Compared with my old 5150 that sounded a little harsh until i replaced the stock pre and power tubes with jjs, this mode 3 sounds really full, with earthshaking palm mutes but really tight with clarity when playing more open chords.
Then i tried channel 2 and had to lower the gain to 11:00 to get a similar sound that mode 3, but it's still differently voiced, mode dark and scooped while mode 3 is more open. Palm mutes sound heavier and fuller, but less percussive, not sure yet if i like it more or less than mode 3, it's just different. Raising gain to 2 or 3:00 you are into really high gain territory, more for death or trash metal but weird enough, it still keeps the clarity for rifting or soloing unlike the 5150 that sounds more muddy for that if you setup a good sound for heavy palm mutting.
Then you have the presence and resonance knobs, that are really responsive and change your sound a lot. I never expected such amount of bass even with resonance at noon and with the trebly emg81.
As i want to use my Boss GT-5 for effects and to add chorus etc to clean tones, i set it up with the 4 cable method, so i can use the Einstein preamp "inside" the GT-5 chain. I used the serial loop, adjusted levels in the GT-5 and it sounds perfect, can't appreciate any tone lost.
Then my band mates came in, we started to play some of our old songs and wow, we all were amazed at how big and heavy the sound is, while still clear and very tight. Again all this is without tweaking the amp at all as i had no time before the band mates came in, never in my life could get the sound i had in my brain just plugging into an amp.
Now the question is if i prefer mode 3 with high gain or chan 2 with it lowered, i kept switching all the time between the two and can't decide. Maybe will end using chan 2 more for the heavier stuff just to be able to have the chan 1 in mode 2 for that awesome hard rock sound when needed.
As for it being 50 wats, it won't be an issue at all, it's really loud plugged into the 4x12, for sure enough for medium to large bars without mics. Doubt i'll ever have to put it at full volume.
I was thinking on buying another guitar (PRS or Les Paul) as my main one as in the past, to keep the cheap EMG equipped ESP LTD as backup, but i'm not sure now if i'm even going to need it or at least by now.
I know this is a long writing, sorry about it, but i'm so excited both about playing with my old team mates again and about finding the sound i have always dreamed about. If this Einstein is the more classic voiced Diezel, can't imagine how heavy can sound the vh4 or Herbert, this 50w monster is for sure heavy enough for me.
Attached is a crap pick taken with my phone:
