My eyes just about popped out of my head when I saw the title of this video 😳😳 dope tones my friend! You are an incredible musician and I thank you from the deepest part of my soul for helping a shit day be a little better 😊 thank you.
Yesss! Now we're talking! Super melting face tone with beautiful rich harmonics and killer clean ! I'm in love with this Mezzabarba M Zero ! A true beast
In all honesty... I think this amp is in the top three best sounding amps you’ve demo-ed. Big fan of your Kraken, and of the Revv stuff, and now this monster.
Rabea bought this amp after making this demo-video. Just to let you know what we're talking about... There's a funny story about this fact told by Mezzabarba himself.
Thanks for bringin the treble, Rabea! The demos I’ve seen before make this amp seem so dark-sounding - not so! Blistering, man, thanks for giving us a glimpse into its other side. I really like that feedback control.
hell your reviews are second to none. You're such a versatile player you can actually SHOW what each feature can do in a lot of context instead of "there's that, that and that I've set it to where I like it here how it sit in a mix thanks for watching". I don't want to bash on anyone but you're the best by far. Cheers!
I've been a soldano / boogie / fender amp user for years. Outside of the Buddha this is the first thing to interest me in a long time. Thanks for the heads-up
Hi Rabea… Does the M Zero have a fairly quiet circuit ? I was trying to listen out for humming / static noise coming from the amp while it’s turned up but I couldn’t hear much of it. Obviously single coils would be more susceptible to it when plugged in. A really awesome and thorough review by the way mate! 👍🏼
@@chrisdaviesguitar You can learn to build your own amps. It might take a few less ambitious circuits under your belt before tackling something like this, but you could build something similar for less than a grand, even using the best components.
Tried my first mezzabarba today. I'm sold. They make me feel as if i could chase tones like a mark v. Price is wow lol. They are nice though! Edit. The feedback is probably similar to 2nd stage gain that emphasizes over/under tones. Not many do that for sure.
Eric Steckel plays one, and he's getting some insane tones out of it. You may want to try out his settings: presence and treble around three, and the rest maxed out. Thanks for the review!
I'd love to see you trying to get tones from Toska and Dorje and stuff from a boss katana, oh yeah and tabs for Fire by the silos would be bril. Cheers!
boosts are tricky for me with this amp which i also own one. ime this head doesnt like a lot of volume added to the boost like my marshalls. it works best with the gain a little higher up and the volume only slightly above unity. otherwise it mushes out. it has so much drive in the channel that no boost is really needed with this amp
Love the rawness of the distortion without harshness! Is that from the feedback control? Why do people say this (and the SLO 100) are more for rock than metal? Would love to hear a comparison between a Mezzabarba and a Wizard MTL!
Fun fact about the name of the brand. Mezza ( Or Mezzo somtimes ) in italian, means half. And barba, is beard. So basically the name would roughly translate to Half-beard.
Came to this amp through Eric Steckel, he's a blues guitarist with the fattest tone ever. This amp does it all. Even Frusciante tone. I'll get one one day
That Feedback control seems to work like a Bias knob on a fuzz or distortion. Chewy and bouncy when low, more compression and attack when high. Nice, too bad it's like 4 grand
I’m pretty sure these are turret board construction not point to point. The only amps I can think of that are true point to point hand-wired are the higher end bad cat amps (black cat etc) and some Matchless. There very well may be others, those are the ones I’m aware of. Great amps though none the less and point to point doesn’t necessarily mean better though they are works of art.
Probably not the time or the place for this but the more amps I hear, the more I feel like they pretty much all sound the same? There are a few with characteristic EQs when set flat but even that you can dial in or out. Distortion is distortion. To my ears the guitar makes SUCH a bigger difference than the amp it's running through.
I think your point is very interesting. At some level, high end say, all the distortions sound very similar ... but great! The difference is made by the musician player and his guitar as well.
I guess Rabea tends to use the same equipment and IR's to demo, so it kinds of make everything samey. But if you played the amp in the room, you would notice more differences I'm sure.
@@wilsonsguitarlounge8244 damn i just listen to both of them and he formed them almost the same way, slow build up to 16th note egyptian scale lick into a nice segway leading back into the rythm part
People say point-to-point with no PCB as if that's a good thing. It'll just be less consistent. Electricity doesn't care if the copper it's running through is inside a rubber sleeve or a resin plate.
