WILL IT CHUG? - MESA V TWIN(modded)
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2021
- Trying out an old classic, the Mesa V-Twin Preamp pedal. WILL IT CHUG?
Lets find out!
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Guys... seriously... I mean it from the bottom of my heart... have a GREAT Friday!
And we hope you have one too Ola!
You too Ola and family!
Shit... Well maybe I will Ola!! Thanks! Give the puppy a scratch behind the ear from me
You too, Ola!
Ola you have a good day! And enjoy time with your family and whip your brother in some video games and last buuuut not least keep an eye on the sky and dodge them comets. Hahaha😬 i thought it was modified sounds good though. Chug on my friend.
At the end of every year you should hand out an award called the Chuggie to the best sounding amp, guitar and pedal
X2
Yes
I want to watch the Chuggies
Absolutely. I'd check out The Chuggies
@@svincentr Chuggie Awards, biggest event of the year :)
That solar with the binding is niiiice
yeah man. i think we need an s type in black with evertune and luminlays.
Idk if Mike remembers exactly what he did to it, but it'd be cool if he made that info public. It sounds great
Fortin showing Mesa how it has to be done. What a time to be alive :)
I ran one of these back in the early 90’s, pushed it with an Ibanez tube screamer, and a crown power amp into a 1960B cab loved it!
One of Olas best sounds Ive heard. Record an album with thisssssss 🤘💀🤘
I tried that pedal many years ago and to me it sounded massive but it needed definitely an overdrive to get something out of it. After that I bought the V-Twin Rackmound unit, I've modded myself and I was pretty much satisfied of its tones.
Ola is chug. Chug is life. Loving the videos man, especially the gear test and comparisons. Your content is always quality.
That V-Twin of Ola’s has a killer tight clean/distortion… would love to have one just like it.
sounds super tight bro, dang on! Mike is a legend, nice one.
Sounds amazing! I remember these they definitely had lack of gain and sounded more like the Nomad. Now it sounds bad ass!
Sounds Epic. And that guitar is sick 🤘🏼
That Solar is one of the best looking guitars I've ever seen - fuck
Wish he still made models like that one.
Bring it back!
@@LightCyrus Looks like a Solar S2.6C which is available on the website, am I wrong?
ESP/LTD makes equally awesome guitars ! Just sayin
I still have mine. It's unmodded and still works great. I only use it for low gain tone stuff, but it sounds nice. Your modded one sounds badass
Hi Ola. I own the V2 version of this baby. And I absolutely love it, because I don't use it as a stand-alone solution in connection with a power amp and a speaker cabinet like in this video. I rather use it to give my frontend a little more boost or push. So I get a whole set of extra tone colours, but I don't need to dial in much gain. Teamed with an already overdriven amp input stage this helps keep the noise leve low. AND MAN, THIS CHUGS! I feel that this is where the V Twin pedal really shines, because it is just a preamp with 3 sound options (1x clean, 2x drive), but not 3 full-featured channels, although the pedal offers a bunch of features for a wide range of applications. Too bad they don't make it any more. Like many amp makers, the company has made a very big mistake by discontinuing the golden oldies and launching new amps which can't hold a candle to the classice of the past century. Cheers!
V-twin is awesome! Had mine for years
Wow sounds so good !!
That's my favorite solar guitar yet
My favorite part about Ola is he delivers his jokes as if he has a live Audience in front of him but then treats some of his jokes as if he just bombed the delivery, lingers on it for a half second then moves on.
Wow. This modded vTwin sound amazing.
veRy smooth intRoduction of a goRgeous guitaR, veRy smooth...
Loved the tone. Sounds like old Ampeg VH and Crate GX series.
I have a new Will it Chug this morning. It's already gonna be a great weekend!
this guitar is the most beautiful solar i've seen so far
That guitar is awesome looking!
I wanted one of these so bad when I was in high school. ha So cool to see this video.
That might be the best solar I have seen so far... good God that thing is beautiful and mean as fuuuuck 🤘 kinda reminds me of the strictly 7.
amazing video. love the v-twin
And you also Ola…and the weekend may it be good to you…ola Ola,,.🤘
Well done Bro 🔥🤟💯 this inspires me to go experiment with this pedal... It's just the most afordable (rare now though) MESA preamp to get 🔥💯🤟
This is sick man 🔥🤟
Need to release more Solars with bindings. Looks F‘n Great!!
We need a ultra thin body solar guitar, something like a Ibanez s or a blackmachine
From what Ola has said their bodies are as thick as they need to be to fit the Evertune bridges into. And infact that's why the backplate is surface mounted and not flush to the body the Evertune bridges almost stick out the back of the Guitar.
I’m in between yay and nay on buying this. Simply to have some tubes. And something mesa. Love the output selections also.
Always wanted this pedal!
Ok...ya had me going...it's modded. I played that box a few times and never really liked it. Yours kicks ass! 🤘
That's the best looking solar I've ever seen. Might have to get me one😏
Bruh, I’m an indie pop/pop punk guitarist and god I live for this series. Also, my gf watches this with me every now and then, and now she’ll always ask me if it chugs whenever I’m looking at a new piece of gear😂
Ola hope you have a fantastic Friday also
He asked the will it chug question more seriously than every before.
I like how they used guitar vol.... and tone knobs for the knobs on the pedal something different, nice.
Tung-Sol is all I like to use in my Amps, both Power Tubes and PreAmp tubes!
That Fortin modded thing sounded kick ass. Holy shit. You can tour with that thing without any compromises.
That sounds amazing! So mean.
It’d be nice to know exactly how it was modded.
Exactly!
This pedal without mods might have sounded good for specific genres with specific settings, but I think it's goot you modded it
Rabea and Ola are my favourite youtubers right now
Pretty awesome
sounds nice
I have it, my favourite thing. Gain is fine for me and i find it versitile enough to substitute different drive pedals.
Ola is the metal master he can make anything chug although it had a bit of a gated reverb. Chug, chug , CHUG !
I was about to buy this one near around 2003-2004 and ended with a Brunetti Overtone2 would be nice to see what Ola can do with such equipment.
I have one of those around here somewhere. I made a matching booster pedal which attached to the side of it, then ran that into a clean single channel amp so that I'd have 3 channels and a lead boost. It was OK, but I couldn't sleep at night because the amp that I had set up clean for it was a JCM 800.
I want to try boosting the front of the Marshall with it now, but I need to find it first. It's in one of those boxes over there...
Love the guitar...
It's one of those pedals I rarely use but would never ever sell. It can do so many things few (no?) other (non-rack) units can do, it's become a successful last resort in the most unexpected roles in a signlal chain many times. For any tone chaser experimenting a lot, this piece is one to have.
I don't chug at all but I love this series because I can appreciate the finer things in life
Really wondered „gosh, why is it sounding so good?!“ :D
I have one of those but never got used to it.
Hey, Ola!
Does the Mesa Boogie V-Twin allow possibility for send/return configuration so a Boss NS-2 type of pedal can be hooked with the 4-cable method?
Thanks
I mostly use mine for the pristine clean channel, especially when plugging into a recording interface, then build my Chug around it.
Guys I love six feet under, and I never new ola was the guitarist, another reason to love the band and buy their merch!
Pretty good tone ....
Master Ola rules
Would adding one of those preamp tubes work in my orange micro dark?
The Guitar is awesome!!
I got an Orange Micro Dark because of your video, nice 🤘🤘
It’s a good one.
Miss me some six feet under bone saw was my teen age agnst jammmmmm.. love ya ola .🤘🤘
Thats a sick guitar
Ola, You need to open the School of Chug. Love your right hand form!
Hey SWOLA!!! Great video, really chugging! I love VTwins :) sounds to me like yours is gainier and has way less bottom end. Do you know any details about the mod Fortin did? Thanks!!!!
I was a longhaul trucker and know some good metal polishers. During resto/repairs, I took my chassis & had it high speed polished. Now everybody wants to buy it. Dang thing will blind you!
Wow chug chug chug
It sounds awesome
Nice! Please do another with it into a tube power section and also please find out what the mod was, and if possible please to get another stock one and try that too through a tbe power section. I've used this since 90's and it's best preamp ever but many hate it. It's the best.
Honestly, I'm a drummer but I watch your channel because you're fucking hilarious....Point being, you'll be hard pressed to find a better sound than that my friend! Love it!
I would grab that finish in a t style in a heartbeat
I would love to know what this guy would sound like through the tube power amp with a fortin 33 in front of it.
Legendary pedal that started it all! It cost as much as a rack mount DSP preamp!
Man I was so ready to get this. Personally I think that tone cuts and just what i'm looking for. Darn :(
This thing sounds like some mix of a mark series and a recto, with more gain. If they made this pedal with this modded circuit I would buy it.
I used to have this pedal, slightly modded by a local engineer to reduce the crazy amount of low end. After keeping it for about 10 years on a shelf I finally sold it. This pedal is not for metal for sure, but you can get some sweet bluesy tones out of it=)
its used for metal😂
he literally chugs instantly weres your ears 😂
Hi Ola !
Would it be possible to share the exact modification made by Fortin? I have a V-Twin and indeed the sound is meh but this one !!!
Chuging is life !
my best friend had one of these growing in the late 90s. he ran it through the effects loop of his jcm900 head and used it like a "tube screamer" for extra craziness and it gave more EQ head room on the jcm (if that makes sense). He could mimic a lot of Adam Jones feedbacks and screams with it. But as a main distortion, it didnt have the heftyness as the jcm900 did.
It sounds like those Mini Recto 5:25 amps with the EL84 power tubes.
Ola Englund how about in a near future review the Positive Grid Spark Amp?
I would like to hear your opinion on it.
Keep it going man!
Dude that sounded sick! Ola, what tuning did you use in this video, and what's your preferred tuning?
are the tung sol tubes the best for brutal metal tones into a mesa boogie dual rectifier ????
i remember marshall had pedals too. one of them had a good rhythm tone. cant recall the name, a long time ago.
Need to try out the Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp. I think that would make a good "Will It Chug" video.
This guy rules.
That end bit playing reminded me of the kind of tone Paul Gilbert played with in Racer X (that was the right band right?)
4:48 Yes I agree... Glenn Fricker claims tubes make no difference. I cbf proving it myself... but I definitely notice differences in tone between some tubes.... some slight... some very noticeably different. Will Ola take the challenge and prove that tube swaps make a difference in tone? C'monnnnnnnnnnn.
And this is the reason that Glenn sounds like sh*t
All of Glenn’s stuff sounds the same. All fairness to him, the tubes don’t make a huge difference when you use the crap ton of gain he has on his artists’ recordings.
Pete Thorn’s video is a better example. The less complex the circuit, the more you’ll hear the difference. Not so much with a full band, but if you can hear and feel it and it helps you play better, go for it!
Glenn doesn't simply claim, tubes makes no difference. He shows, the different tubes he used in that specific setup make only marginal differences. ;)
I've done a fair bit of tube rolling. They do make a difference, but it's subtle most of the time. Other times it was kind of drastic. Old 50's RCA Blackplates are my favorite, but the new Tung-Sols sound great too.. Probably my favorite newer tube.
@@R3TR0R4V3 yeah its nice new tubes, check svletana too. JJ are nice as power tube but a preamp tube have 50% of new anode current like 0,5 to 0,7mA new tube xD
nice binding on shoes :D
I’d be curious to see the mesa throttle box on will it chug; I’ve heard mixed things
They definitely kick ass,hooked it up to solid state Randall sounds brutal
When I use it with my Marshall tube head its definitely Lamb of God/Vader sounding
Hey ola I see you have some bass guitars on your stand any reviews on bass
I was gonna say, this sounds almost exactly how I wanted one to sound back in the day but I never ended up buying one. Really glad now that I didn't.
I would like to see will it chug with MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive ;)
Or an MXR Fullbore Metal pedal
@@Ryo7_7 I'm pretty sure he did an episode with the Fullbore. I know he did the Boss Metalcore, maybe I'm confused! The Fullbore is a tricky one, but I definitely dig it.
All chugs due to cooperation with Your right hand Man ;)
Of course it will chug....the 5150 stripe pedal was what started the whole Amp in a Box insanity. It definitely chugs and it definitely sounds better than this by a good bit...much smoother distortion. This shit is too metallic.
Or, bend over to Yngwie,s video from some recently London live act and, how the tone is nailed, just saying
That Mike Fortin is something special I tell ya
Yo! This sounds awesome!
How can get mine to sound like that?!
For real tho, would like to know.
Love Tung Sol's before I sold my 6505+ I ran a JJ 5751 at #6 for the clean channel, and a tung sol ax7 on the #4 on the od chanel better cleans and chugs than the factory!
Ok. That's evil as it can be. I loved it.
mic did a great job shoot! (sorry if I spelled it wrong)