Mercuriall 6160III In-Depth Review: Much More Than a Metal Machine! 

Apologies for the voice quality here. I clipped my microphone too high on my shirt and ruined half the recording with beard hair rustling... classic. My presets will be added by Mercuriall in the first 6160III update, so keep an eye out for that!

i had pretty much the same impression. at first i rolled my eyes because it´s another 5150. then i saw it´s the Stealth and i got stoked. then tried it and fell in love. most other 5150 amp sims feel very generic to me. but this one has that aggressive slicing pick attack ala Trivium and Machine Head that i haven´t experienced with anything else. great video. i think the S/C switch is for Stealth and Classic mode.

Dude so great to hear from you and you sharing such sic tones and jamming. I've got to say, lately it's been hard for me to get into or even enjoy music. Hearing you put the hammer to those riffs I found myself relaxed and absorbing it all like a sponge. Thank you for the gift of music and I'm glad to be here, looking forward to what's to come. :)

Hell yeah, Ryan’s back!

I scrambled to get to your channel and see this video, as expected a mercurial addition, great!

Hey man. Good to see ya.

Great stuff as always man!

Glad youre back!

Awesome review as always,

Awesome work!!

sometimes I revisit your older videos, thanks for making more content, I still haven't got a good 5150 tone with the stuff that I have

That Bastard cover was so sick dude. The plugin sounds great.

killer riffs you made

Sounds phenomenal 🤘

Never thought I'd hear you playing QOTSA. Very close to their weird tone. Also loved the Sanitarium sound

Awesome as always Ryan! As many stated I also rolled my eyes at yet another 5150. But gotta admit, it sounds great and has taken Archetype Gojira in the top spot for a 5150 III tone. Super chunky and the boosts work well. I like the builtin verb, I'm a guy who generally uses a big guitar plugin chain. External boost (where needed), main preamp/power amp setup, external IR plug. So IMO, Mercuriall should ditch the postFX sans the EQ and release FXBox and get crazy with all that lush delay and verb, etc. I often feel like people want a full fledged solution for guitar and that thinking can be limiting. I'd rather build a unique chain with a Vadim Taranov plugin and some lost free IR's from a decade ago. In other words, Mercuriall's strategy seems to be crafting superb amps, spending lotsa R&D on unprocessed tone modeling. Then they throw external things on to round out the plugin. Maybe down the road they'll update those modulations. The guitar plugin world needs more flexible flaners. All that to say I'm gonna pick this one up soon. Peace

Nice hearing Poundcake get some love. DLR Halen was the best, but Van Hagar did have some absolute bangers

I appreciate the work you go through in making these videos man! Can't wait for what's store! Also, what song is that riff/lead from @17:29? :o

Just yesterday I checked the channel to see if I somehow missed something. Glad you are back.

@7:30 I couldn't agree more! Fix those fx and the weird, counter intuitive controls. The way the display the fx also is super cluttered.

I personally had a 50 watt 6l6 stealth with a 4x12. I wish I still have it, ditched it when I ditched the LA gigging scene. Was one of the most awesome and versatile amps I've played. It's a common amp, I know, but holy SHIT that green channel with my Xotic BB pre in front was the most BITCHEN crunch tone, could go from killer blues to straight AC/DC when you worked the volume knob, and when I would switch to my p90 neck it could clean up and get suuuuper creamy. The blue channel was some of the most ballsy glorious rhythm tone, actually never really used the red channel. Gotta get another one when I don't have neighbors lol

Great review, sir! C = Ivory, non-stealth version

Love Mercuriall software

I've gone round and round and round the guitar vst world. Mercuriall is still the best imho. They keep managing to hit something that's always useable but slightly unique in the space. Truly killer stuff. Always looking forward to whatever they're up to next.

Literal goosebumps from the Bastard riff

I have a feeling that S-C switch is probably similar to the Burn switch on the 5150 Iconic that basically changes from Signature/5150 II/5150 III/6505+ voicing to Block Letter voicing, which James Brown himself says has a thicker attack than later 5150s. I've said before and i'll say again that Mercuriall's value to me is in the specific amps they choose to model, and whilst the Stealth is a rarely modeled take on a 5150 (only other one i can think of is in the Fender Tone Master floorboard), it's still ultimately a 5150 and i can get the tones it provides by other means. I'll admit to being biased, as my first tube amp was a clone of this circuit, but i'd have been far more excited to see a model of the Ultra/XXX/JSX because the only models of those i can think of are Kemper (or similar ) captures. Credit where credit is due, the green channel is leagues better than most other 5150 plugins and sims, both in outright sound but also versatility. Wasn't expecting QOTSA tones from this type of amp. I don't know if that specific channels is worth $70 to me, but it's something that allows this plugin to stand out from the rest.

Thanks for the video🔥Do you plan to review MTurboAmp/MGuitarArchitect? It is pretty different from other plugins as far as I can see, would be interesting to see your opinion on it🙂

have you done your presets for the 6160 amp sim yet

Ryan is back yeahhhh ... when will you be on the leon todd podcast?

i was just today watchin ur pod vids....however...i been usin audio assault stuff ...disabling the cabs.....useing 2notes wos ...then guitar rig 6 effects.....actully sounds pretty good....do u ever use audio assault stuff??

I have a problem during instalation of the plugin. I dont know where to copy files. I know that there is description by i do not understand it. 😢I'm not technically backward, but damn

Still wishing Ryan had a discord and a patreon 😢

Thoughts on the new Mateus Asato archetype?

are you sharing your presets