Just saying: this stuff is amazing, I love it. If someone is processed to "sounding exactly" like an certain amp, then by all means drop $4K on your one trick pony and lament the clean sound on my VH4 is just not there. Synergy ranges it all. I love they actually go beyond the target range amp like modified versions of them if you get in there and try some of the option switches on most of them. I have agonized on "which ones to get next" only to keep discovering they are all really good, just target the type of amp you like I am sure it will have a range beyond the intended one trick pony. If you have every dropped $4K on a cool amp and then discovered hey it does one thing really well, then look at Synergy and how you can get that sound plus a range of tweaking the real amp can't do without severe operation. Maybe you're that player who laments over how different batteries sound and you cannot really grasp not even two "identical" amps are going to sound the same then really try a Synergy rig for yourself, if you do not like it or find it makes you want to play, the maybe piano???
I was really sold on the Friedman BE/BB module, but this makes much more sense given that my other module will be the forthcoming Fryette Deliverance module.
The cleans are so uniquely jazz on this module. I hear "acoustic" being used to describe them and I guess that's true, because what it reminds me of is the tones on Gabor Szabo's "Dreams" album and on Pat Metheny's Bright Size Life album.
Great review, I bought one immediately after watching. I'm in love with it too. My buddy has a $4,000.00 Two Rock. He made my lug my lowly Randall RM50 with the Synergy OS module to his house for a shootout. Believe me, he wanted to hate this....he played it for 30 minutes, A/Bing it to the Two Rock, looked at me and said, "I would gig with this, no question" I knew then I had made a good decision. Use good tubes and great speakers and these amps cannot be beat.
Hi, great demo - as always. Conundrum - Which module would you think complements the Morgan (rhythm/chords) better, either a OS or the SLO for leads and heavy??? I love all three! ( I own a FUCHS Head too)
@@EytschPi42 hello. I just want to say that you have wonderful heartfelt feel when you play. I am a singer, songwriter and guitarist of 30 years and I only wish I had your kind of feel. Feel, soul and colour are what I feel you have and I try to achieve but however I can't seem to improve to a more improved point with my guitar playing. I really like your playing and I wish you well.
Yeah. Synergy is scoring a lot of points with the new modules! This one is wonderfull and the BEBB is killer too.. And the SLO and VH4.. And Morgan and Metroplex.. Too bad that the entry level SYN 1 is so expensive. They should create a bundle pack for example Syn1+1 module gives you 50%off on the 1st module. Lowering the entry price will boost the sales of the modules by a much higher margin!
Joël Cugnoni you're right. At $900 they're fighting in used Mesa triaxis territory, and having every important Mesa in 1u of rack space is tough competition
puppys like reverb old dogs like Dumble tone Cats won't confirm or deny any preference other than they like to eat things and throw them up in hard to find/clean places
EYTSCHPI42, ^^ SRV used the Dumble tone for which SRV songs studio and live concerts? because I can't hear what that Dumble SRV tone people are talking about. I'm just wondering if the Dumble Steel String Singer gives you that SRV Texas glassy clean tones or its just a flatline no color added clean tones?
I think they Mis-Labeled the module Gain ratio should be how much overdrive . Gain level should be how much Volume. But that's just me, No matter, this iOS a great Module for Blues and blues Rock & fusion, May even nix teh need to but a Clean module such as the TDLX as the cleans are really nice !
Curious what user experiences have been with the OS module & pedals. I’ve understood that Dumble’s don’t take well to overdrive and fuzz pedals. Would the same apply here? Thanks in advance for input.
Is there some sort of noise gate built into the Synergy Modules? One of the reasons I hate high gain amps (including all of the ones Synergy has a module for) is all the annoying hiss and noise when you start to move the overdrive past noon.. It seems like all of your examples with high gain are extremely quiet. Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thx!
Just throw a noise gate on it if it's too noisy. It's an extremely common practice and you can get one for pretty cheap. Only a few amps have built in gates.
Insane prices for the "empty" preamp module cabinet. The intelligent thing would be to sell the SYN-1 without profit. Then make money on the modules. They probably dont want to sell too much but just keep a small exclusive business. Too bad, the stuff sounds great. I'll keep buying heads.
Hi Henning Many thanks for the great review and splendid playing Please try to review the Blackwidow Designs MGP-1A tube modeling midi preamplifier, I think you might be very pleasantly surprised It operates at the very high tube plate voltages iof the original preamps it models and readjust the biasing accordingly 256 different preamps in two rack spaces A much more reasonably priced contender Have a nice day
Ok. Great sound and all but the whole "for $399" thing is a load of crap. The minimum cost in US dollars to use this module, rather than sit and look at it in its box as a useless piece of equipment, is $900 plus tax, so about $1000USD. You guys all need to stop advertising it this way because its false advertising. Yes, you can buy the little dumble unit for $399, but you cant use it without the additional purchase of something to plug the thing into. Its the same as buying hard drive for a computer for $399 and not actually having a computer to load it into, which just like this synergy unit, makes it nothing more than a $400 paperweight.
I mean you can't run 90% of tube amplifiers without speakers attached but I don't see anybody adding the $400-$1500 choice of cabinet in the price of an amplifier. To be fair it would be borderline philanthropy to make something so convenient and good quality as well as being as affordable as most solid state amps. I mean realistically the point of these modules is to get either the preamp and essentially add a second channel to your amp or buy the synergy amp and have multiple voiced preamps. The synergy devices aren't the only things that accept these modules, so it isn't unlikely that someone would just have an older, less optimized platform, that they could just simply use with these. What a surprise, you also happen to require either an entire preexisting amplifier that you've surely spent hundreds of dollars on (along with a pretty damn reasonably priced chassis considering with it you can essentially turn any amp you plug it into, into that amp), or a decent sounding (at least $600-700, as a standard) cabinet so you aren't just completely ruining the sound with cheapo speakers. Hey tone costs money man you can either justify spending it or be satisfied with solid state, nothing wrong with either but different strokes for different folks mane I haven't once heard of somebody advertising these without making clear that you need something to plug it into at least. That's like saying "it's kinda fucked up saying you can have an amp rig with just a pedal and a power amp for $400". Surprise, even if you wanted to just use the preamp into an impulse response, you're gonna need a good audio interface as well as an impulse response and an ir loader.
I don't know that it was click bait. "John Mayer" is click bait for sure but the Synergy OS is based solely on the Dumble Overdrive Special. If anything, it was honest.
