Victory Deputy - Great Cleans/ Great Drive - Could This Be Your Ideal Amp?
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- čas přidán 4. 02. 2024
- In Today's video, Paul Drew from The studio Rats is checking out the brand new amplifier from Victory Amplification called the Deputy.
This 25 watt EL86guitar amplifier is a collaboration between Pete Honore (Danish Pete) and Victory Amplification.
Here is what Victory say about this fantastic amp.
Victory Amps proudly unveils ‘The Deputy’ compact head, designed in collaboration with Pete Honore. This single-channel amplifier is a testament to simplicity, delivering a pure and powerful Classic Rock experience while maintaining Victory’s core values of simplicity in design and sound.
The ethos of The Deputy was simple: let’s create a small amplifier that can transition seamlessly from 60’s blues clean to classic late 60’s/early 70’s Rock with the least resistance. The three-way voice and bright switch add extra versatility, and there is an expansive reverb built in.
Simple, concise, and straight to the point, The Deputy is all about ‘plug and play’ for guitar enthusiasts. Housed in a wooden sleeve, The Deputy is a premium compact head and, in keeping with the Victory tradition, is designed and hand-built in England. If you are looking for a small, portable all-valve amplifier capable of going from 60’s blues cleans to classic rock, this could be your next amp!
Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs. - Hudba
Great demo video on "Thd Deputy "....you have a nice touch on that strat....carry on....I'll be watching!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent playing again Paul, its about time you started your lessons again and tabbing some of those tasty licks for us 👌
This seems to me one the best amps going. Sounds just right to my ears. Good job, victory, and nice review. Thanks.
Thank you Paul. What a fantastic sounding amp. I appreciate your videos and the time involved in producing each. Beautiful playing on all of your demos!
Cheers Steve!
Love the Nik Huber. Awesome. Great playing as usual.
Loving that green LP style guitar with the P90 in the bridge. VERY cool. Wish I could find an affordable LP in that configuration. This idea reminds me of bit of my Little Sister. I absolutely love the simplicity of an amp this versatile. To get the tons I want I just reach up and twist the gain knob. *I hope some genius some day creates a pedal, like a volume pedal, but it controls the gain on an amp, rather than the volume. Using the volume on a guitar can do it so some degree, but it effects the volume, not the gain itself. But, I digress…* Great little amp!
Sounds good dude. Interesting that Mr Kidd has seemingly opened another few years of tubes up by incorporating the ‘new’ valve. Lovely to hear so many of your guitars as well!
Sounds incredible 😮 super versatile ❤
Great tones!
Oh OK. Thanks very much for the information. It sounds really good for sure. I've never been a Head+cab owner, always combo amps. So this picks my curiosity even more
Your guitar playing sounds great.
Damn that sounds sweet mate, would have loved to have heard this at Namm. I’m never missing another Namm again. 🤣 Great video as always. 👍🏻🎸🥃
That Strat looks like it’s been through the wars.
I hope you talk about it tonight on the live stream ❤
Nice! I don’t think it will replace any of my current top 5 amps (Magnatone, Amplified Nation, Matchless, Soldano, and Synergy), but cool to have more options out there.
I like it!
It is a great amp, really the best I tried recently... I also did an in-depth review video on it just now...
Voxy with a lil more hair on a different frequency - cool gain texture. I like it.
It awesome indeed, thx Paul, glad you're in better shape after athe NAMM, cheers
Cheers mate, most of this vid was shot before NAMM, if you look at the dark rings youll see which is post NAMM.
@@TheStudioRats can't wait for Wednsday @10pm, keep warm.
Sweet chords .. I can hear the melody playing in my head over those chords!
Hanger 18 megadeth
Those were nice chords!
cheers Fella
I was seriously considering a Victory lunchbox style amp or one of the EVH units. Then I stumbled onto a 2018 P.R.S. MT15 with the 6L6's and upgraded(quieter) wiring harness type. I still don't think theres a better amp for the price. And if you can live with the super aggressive volume taper, especially on the lead channel, its pretty versatile. I run it through the most expensive 212 cab Harley Benton/Thomann sells, the G212plus Creamback loaded unit. $501 delivered to my door in MT. from Germany. Thats approx. $400 dollars less than the cheapest Creamback loaded 212 Sweetwater currently sells. The MT15 was $617 delivered, so with the MXR Smartgate and Monster Cable for $200, and Sweetwater throwing in the charging adapter for the no battery having noise gate. I'm all in at $1318. Just for shits and giggles I've spent more time playing my newest creation, the DEATHSTAR through it, than any of my way more expensive guitars. Its a black Yamaha Revstar Element thats been heavily modified. If I included the Revstar, the whole rig comes in right at $2k. It sounds utterly monstrous for that meager outlay. Kids these days don't know how good we have it. I can't even imagine trying to build a rig for less than twice that much when I was a kid. And it wouldn't be any better at $4k than what I've got here today for half the cost. $2-3k for an amp and $1000 for a cab all day, wouldnt even leave you any guitar funds?
Love the sound of this amp. Does it take pedals well?
Sounds really nice! To me it fills that spot between the Duchess and the Sheriff perfectly. It’s a real shame there’s no lunchbox option for this one though - that’s the only disappointing thing about it for me.
It would be awesome if you would make a crossover program with Anderton people
Ah so el86 have more open and flattening the mids a little to them, very interesting.
i play blues to 60s and 70s style rock n roll which this amp is really perfect for, but seldom would go to 80s style hair metal when i feel like it. was wondering how well it can be pushed to 80s metal tone with pedals. I have the duchess and really wish this amp came out earlier.
Looking forward to get your Tonex pack for the Deputy
coming
Please do a DI pack for us that run through a power amp and cab :)
You can still get Mullard EL86's
Sounds amazing, but can you make it sound good at bedroom volume ? There's a Master Volume, ok, but sadly they didn't include a 7w switch..😢
Buying a good power attenuator like the Tone King IronMan II or the UA OX really opens up the world of amps to people wanting great sound at any volume. All of a sudden, you can buy any amp out there and play it on stage, in your studio or your bedroom.
I did not realize what I had been missing until I got one.
What are your thoughts as to how this compares with the other similarly designed amps? Thanks. The strat and you are great together.
Cheers, it’s a great sounding amp. Comparing to on if the smaller Matchless amps it can hold it’s own.
There are always so many effects on these videos I can never tell how the guitars and amps truly sound.
I think what you call "so many effects" is the digital reverb of the Deputy...
@@FaberGT86 it’s not my attempt to be rude to the guy. I appreciate his content, but listen to and watch a bunch of his videos. The licks and tone are always pretty much the same.
@@robertalsbury I understand your point of view but I think almost everyone adds ambient effects in post production. This is normal, otherwise the sound would be too dry. It's one thing to listen to live sound in a room or on a stage, but it's another to listen to sound recorded directly into a sound card.
Can only hear the amps reverb ? Which is what people want to hear
Yeah I totally agree - people demo a clean tone with chorus all the time and it’s pretty frustrating.
That, however, is not the case here.
How’s it sound at bedroom/ lower volumes?
Paul what pickups are in that strat?
They are ancho Pablano
Isn’t the Dr Z Maz 18 using EL-86s? Sounds kinda similar to this one I reckon..
I have a Maz 18 Mkii that came with 6N14N tubes and I think they are closer to EL84.
digital reverb means that the signal coming out of the preamp is converted to digital and then back to analog before being sent to poweramp. Can I turn this stupid feature off ?
Nope. You can have digital reverb mixed in to the analog path. You realize that right? The analog path never gets converted. This is a non issue. Enjoy your superior sounding digital reverb.
Wonder how this one sounds with overdrive or distortion pedals. Im Looking for something simple that takes pedals with no issues.
From what I've heard so far it takes pedals very well
Sounds great...so does my Dr Z Jetta, Budda Superdrive 18, Swart, hand wired 5E3, and Marshall Silver Jubilee (1987, the real deal). All good, if you can actually play.
Honestly ..... Does it have its own character like a Marshall or a Dumble style amp even a Fender reverb ??Or are there many that sound just like it .A good rule of thumb is buy an Amp or guitar from a manufacturer that is so proud of their product they put their family name on it Eg Fender,Marshall,Paul Reed Smith,Greg Suhr,,DrZ ( named the Maz18 after his son)Peavey etc Same rule goes for guitars .
so...a single channel silver jube with a slightly different power section?
Is it that close to a Marshall Silver Jubilee 2525?
This seems to be close to a JTM45?
@@rodolpheponthus2948 it’s somewhere between plexi and jubilee…lots of presence like a plexi but tons of “jangle” and transients, presumably this is a cathode biased power section with a cathode follower gain stage (from what I hear). That’s more silver jube. The JTM is a fender bassman copy. This is way more JMP/Jubilee sounding to me
Oh it's made for humbuckers. MOG. Ohhhhhh
doesn't sound any better than a well made Katana modeled sound
And you're making that judgement based on a CZcams video?
That doesn’t mean anything. People will say they can or can’t hear tonal differences/preferences to any audio gear/instruments. But the real question is how does something make you feel personally. Just like choosing an instrument. Buy affordable quality if you feel no difference in the playing experience. Buy the more expensive gear if you feel a positive difference and can afford it. A 2k HiFi will
sound great. A 20k HiFi could
make your hairs stand on end in terms of listening experience. The same logic works on pretty much anything non essential in day to day life 🙂
I was seriously considering a Victory lunchbox style amp or one of the EVH units. Then I stumbled onto a 2018 P.R.S. MT15 with the 6L6's and upgraded(quieter) wiring harness type. I still don't think theres a better amp for the price. And if you can live with the super aggressive volume taper, especially on the lead channel, its pretty versatile. I run it through the most expensive 212 cab Harley Benton/Thomann sells, the G212plus Creamback loaded unit. $501 delivered to my door in MT. from Germany. Thats approx. $400 dollars less than the cheapest Creamback loaded 212 Sweetwater currently sells. The MT15 was $617 delivered, so with the MXR Smartgate and Monster Cable for $200, and Sweetwater throwing in the charging adapter for the no battery having noise gate. I'm all in at $1318. Just for shits and giggles I've spent more time playing my newest creation, the DEATHSTAR through it, than any of my way more expensive guitars. Its a black Yamaha Revstar Element thats been heavily modified. If I included the Revstar, the whole rig comes in right at $2k. It sounds utterly monstrous for that meager outlay. Kids these days don't know how good we have it. I can't even imagine trying to build a rig for less than twice that much when I was a kid. And it wouldn't be any better at $4k than what I've got here today for half the cost. $2-3k for an amp and $1000 for a cab all day, wouldnt even leave you any guitar funds?
Yes that PRS MT15 is a great amp.
However this victory sounds great even though only single Channel
Most expensive Harley Benton cab?! Lol😂 you should have bought a decent cab
@@matt926uk1 You must have missed the whole point of the comment? I said it was the most expensive HB 212 cab they offer for a reason. Not that I'm bragging about the cost, but actually laughing at how inexpensive you can get one. There's no problem whatsoever with it, and it's guys like you I'm specifically trying to reach? Yet you completely miss the point, and insist a more expensive cab is the key? Sad. Have you ever tried an MT15 or HB G212plus cab? Obviously not, or you wouldn't be soo ignorant. A $500 dollar guitar and a $540 dollar amp, works just fine with a $500 212 cab. But you figure a $1000 dollar or more 4x12 cab is the only plausible way to make it work, huh? OK. Thanx for the expert advice.
@@andrewbecker3700 that's like dining out on the most expensive baked beans is what i was trying to say. Why you got to call me sad and ignorant? I've gone the cheap gear route in the past and it didn't work out. I think your the sad and ignorant one.
@@matt926uk1 Its all good, buddy. Sometimes I just get a little fired up because it seems no matter the angle I come at, someone's got issue with it? I'm real happy with the rig, and the HB G212plus Creamback loaded cab is by far the best deal on a 212 around. I looked at it this way, and maybe this is how I should've explained it. If I was gonna pay the same amount to ship ANY, 212 cab from Germany to Montana($116 dollars U.S.) why bother with the Vintage30 loaded Chinese bottom feeder offering? Piss on it, at $385 for the best 212 they offer. Gimme U.K. built Creambacks and an Indonesian built unit. $249 for China, $385 for non China. That's only a $135 dollar difference. That was my point. $501 delivered to my door? Thats winning!