The Diezel Schmidt is an absolute work of art.

[philbag]

Earlier this afternoon, a friend came around with some cheap, stock 2nd hand Magnum strat he bought at a pawn shop. Cleaned it, restrung it and I ran it through my Schmidt. Mother of God! I couldn't get over how fantastic it sounded through the Schmidt. I'm not saying the guitar was carved by God, rather the Schmidt has the ability to make ANY guitar sound phenominal I think. Not an ounce of feedback/huge powerful chords/detailed overdrive etc. I ADORE that amplifier. Anyone umm-ing and ahh-ing about one, STOP IT and just get it! Argh I can't articulate my feelings for it accurately enough!

I need to buy a strat now too, dammit.

Peter, I can't thank you enough for the Schmidt. It's my favourite amp at the moment, even over my VH4. It surpasses anything I have played in my life.

THANK YOU! !

 

[uwgestein]

I agree 100%

This amp rocks!!

 

[sombersoul]

Anyone umm-ing and ahh-ing about one, STOP IT and just get it! Argh I can't articulate my feelings for it accurately enough!

Ummm.....ahhhh...(looks at account balance )...I hear ya!

 

[Sikor]

Schmidt sounds amazing! I love almost every demo I've heard
It's only pity they are so hard to find in a stores to test
Even at such a big as Musik Schmidt.
They always have all Diezles there, but no Schmidt

 

[duesentrieb]

Phone Peter and drive to Bad Steben when the next batch is ready

 

[philbag]

Schmidt sounds amazing! I love almost every demo I've heard
It's only pity they are so hard to find in a stores to test
Even at such a big as Musik Schmidt.
They always have all Diezles there, but no Schmidt

Take a roadtrip to Diezel HQ! I was contemplating a trip across australia to try a VH4 out but felt I should trust my gut. So I bought both my Schmidt and VH4 without hearing either amplifier. Luckily the gamble paid off

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I'm about to book a ticket to fly over to Bristol to try out all the Diezel amps - including the Schmidt - in Mansons, South-West England.

I contacted James at Diezel UK to begin with in the hope that I would be able to go over during the summer to try the amps out, but I couldn't find a date that was cheap and eligible enough. Plus, since Mansons also has other amps I'm interested in - Bad Cat Hot Cat, Mesa Boogie Lonestar - and is an easy to find guitar shop, I thought it wise to go there instead.

 

[Little B]

I love my Schmidt too!...I bought one w/ a reverb issue on ch. 1, but now it is fine..Im constantly trying different tubes- it makes a big difference in this amp...I'm wondering what el84's would do in the amp( obviously with yellow jackets)?...Im running mine w/ a custom shop badcat and Bogner 20th anniv Shiva w/an amp switcher- they all compliment each other very nicely...

 

[Anonymous]

I love mine as well. With the Diezel 2x12 TT hemp ceramic speakers, it is beyond amazing to play through.

I get a laugh as on The Gear Page Amp section, they are always touting p-t-p low wattage amps, but they cannot begin to meet or touch what a Schmidt can do.
Those poor, uniformed cork-sniffers.

 

[Gutmann]

The Schmidt needs to become a bit more popular, many active guitarplayers would find the perfect amp.

 

[philbag]

I would very happily play the Schmidt as my main live amp, better yet if I had two! The clean and crunch channel's easily have more than one usable live tone in them. Infact, my main complaint about the scmidt is that I don't have two of them! My guitarist originally wished it had a presence knob but now doesn't care, he loves it wildly too.

I play two styles of music, one is like a dark ambient, catchy doom rock kind of style (hard to describe) and the other is an industrial psytrance metal hybrid type style. The Schmidt is such a versatile amplifier that it pulls off both styles extremely well! Whether it's beautiful, delicate, intricate clean passages - low/medium crunch with heart and punch - high gain, enormous chordage and ridiculously amazing singing lead tones... God! It does it all. I'm not even the slightest bit tempted to test out different tubes in it because I'm so content with it's tone and feel! And it's not lIke I even tweak the ell out of it, I currently have all eq's, vollumes and gains at 12 o'clock. But if i do tweak, tones come flooding out and I'm not exagurrating! It has the perfect balance of tightness and give in pick attack. Im wishing my vh4 was more up that alley, haha. I also wish my vh4 had schmidt's reverb! I cannot tell you guys how much I bloody ADORE that reverb!! I need to find out where I can buy the same unit to put in my marshall ( despite it's reverb already being quite beautiful... Schmidt's is more hall-like while the Marshall is big springy.)

I really have to stop myself from typing about the schmidt, it is extremely difficult to stop!

The Schmidt actually feels like a living/breathing entity, tonally... And I have emg's in every guitar currently haha ( not for long though, I'm changing every guitar when I have the chance).

 

[MontyW]

I love mine as well. With the Diezel 2x12 TT hemp ceramic speakers, it is beyond amazing to play through.

I get a laugh as on The Gear Page Amp section, they are always touting p-t-p low wattage amps, but they cannot begin to meet or touch what a Schmidt can do.
Those poor, uniformed cork-sniffers.

I'm hopefully a few weeks away from getting my Schmidt and 212R cab. When I was looking for a new amp I researched many forums including TGP. I tried many... man I tried so many amps. Some costed less than the Schmidt and some more, some were point to point and others PCBs. I kept going back to the Schmidt (that is owned by a friend of a friend) time after time, and each time I played it "straight out of the box" I could easily get some amazing tones.

Dare I say that there are many 'snobs' around that would not even look at the Schmidt because it is either not point-to-point or American. All I can say, its your loss because the cleans, crunch and reverb of the Schmidt are some of the best I heard.

I know there is often little point in adding dirt to some Diezels, but again I was amazed at how the Schmidt takes dirt pedals too!

I'm currently really taking stock of my guitar, amp and effects needs - sort of downsizing. In the next few months my amps will consist of the Einstein and Schmidt and nothing else, as I know I can get almost every tone I need from these amps.