I recently got the black spirit floor. Love this amp. Portable, lightweight, sounds good. The floor model even powers my cab without the need for an external power amp. No tubes hassle. Perfect for me.
@jesseparrish9198 Hey, I noticed you didn't get a response. I have one and it's great! I still use some pedals with it for certain effects and easier use while playing, but you don't have to. I plug into a Headrush 1x12 cab/PA speaker. The Black Spirit can be used at 2W, 20W or 200W, and my cab is 2000W. It's not always easy to find a 200W+ cab that's affordable. But the Headrush sounds great and is very affordable. Also at 2W it's great for playing at home and it's easier to travel with than bringing a big combo amp when jamming in a band. Extremely versatile!
@@dw1784 thank you I appreciate your input and knowledge. It sounds like it's an for me for sure. Kind of tired of scrolling through menus on modulars lol.
@jesseparrish9198 I should mention that I have the floor amp version. I forgot to mention that. It's the exact same amp, but it has the footswitches built in. It's better for playing in a band. You can get the footswitch pedal for the amp head, but then it will likely cost you more money than the floor amp because the separate footswitch is expensive. Either way, check out the demo version by Rabea Massad. He really dials in these amps. It was his videos a while back that really helped me decide that this was the amp for me. He has videos of both versions of this amp. His ear for getting a great tone is amazing.
Damn, the blue blow of Hughes & Kettner amps is so majestic. Definitely a crowd pleaser along with the incredible tones it has. - Also that Misha guitar is fucking gorgeous, love the finish on it. - Great playing as always Ola! Cheers
Really vibing with the amp unlike the majority of the comments! Me likey some sludge! Also they are baxandall like pots, hence turning one frequency affects all frequencies!
Me too. I think most of the commenters want that higher gain sizzle. I liked the voicing of this amp. Has a nice boxy growl to it. I think it would work great mixed with another amp. It would fill in the frequency gaps.
Hey Ola, I really liked that you switched over to a far camera and mic, it lets my ears consolidate to two sounds (close and far). I would vote "add that always" for 'Rig of the week'. Cheers!
Honestly...that amp sounded terrible except for the cleans. I would like to see you do the EVH 5150 III 50 watt 6L6 head. I have one and wish to see an Ola take on it.
Yes, I have one as well and would love to see what Ola does with some effects pedals and his guitar of choice. I saw he did a video with one before but it wasn’t for his own channel, which i feel would give him more freedom.
inventing genres to suit shitty guitar tones now? remember children folk,classical,country,rock,punk,hard rock,metal these are all the genres.identifying any others is like identifying as an attack helicopter disguised as a dickless man.
@@trillrifaxegrindor4411 Lol. Yeah because punk rock, hardcore and crust punk dont exist. And they never mix. Remember kids: metalheads dont understand punk. You just have to check how they cover the songs.
Ola...your new studio looks cool and professional but sometimes it appears to be a bit too dim. It would be nice if it is a little brighter so can also see the gears you are demoing better.
Hey Ola, regarding the Treble effect - most likely this amplifier is working with active equalization instead of passive equalization as in most amplifiers - this tends to totally overemphasize the frequency you are setting in with the knob, pushing other frequencies out of the way. The Peavey XXX works in a similar fashion (active EQ blocks) schematic-wise. By the way, that might be worth a rig of the week as well.
@@johngloom9235 : I recommend trying an eq pedal through the effects loop, which is how I ran my Ultra Plus amp. You can definitely shape your tone more. However, you may need to eq differently in a mix; sometimes the tones I like when eq'd solo are fairly different than what sounds good with other instruments playing.
@@Rushtallica thanks for the tip! I'm going to have to try that! Yeah, it's weird how much being in a mid changes the tone of your guitar! A lot of the frequencies get drowned out, which is really too bad!
Sounds pretty decent I must say. I think we need a krankenstein rig of the week. Or the krank revolution that dime used since he was robbed of using the krankensteins. Anyway I love the rig of the week series 🤘🏻🤘🏻
@@tylersemyazza Because Ola has been using his Mesa cab a lot lately, we all know what a Mesa+Mesa can do. Change it up, make it more interesting, add a different flavour. I have no problems what so ever with Mesa cabs, I just want to throw something different in the mix. See what happens.
Hi ola. Love the rig of the week. But I reckon adding a short full mix of the rig would give a great indication of how it all sounds, even a 40sec clip. Similar to Pete cottrell. Keep up the great content.
Distortion has balls and grind I like it. Everyone else in comments just wants to use the same 5150 axefx patch. Oh I figured out why now. It's tube emulation so everyone is hating because it isn't tube or axefx
Love that guitar. Looks amazing not a big fan of the amp but that's just my preference. Remember folks music is like food we all enjoy it. just some people like it spiced and cooked differently.
This is arguably the most 'different' you've sounded. Could it be the solar pickups that are the reason that you get accused of always sounding the same?!
Beautiful rig, not sure if it was just the mic placement being slightly off or something else affecting things in the mix, but I tend to agree with some of these comments. For a rig that costs THAT much (I'm in Australia btw), that would be super disappointing to me if the tone outta the box was like this.
The Treble / Mid thing actually sounds like something maxing out. Basically, with the treble down, there is enough power to push all the mids through, but once you bring up the high end, the amp is overwhelmed with highs and cuts out pretty much everything else. It's almost like a compressor / limiter function, but seemingly related to the maximum amount of signal that the amp can handle at some point down the chain. I would say that the amp overall sounds a little stuff and compressed, which may be the issue.
No. It doesn't work this way. Obviously hughes and kettner control digitally what happens in the tonestack, but most amps follow the usual fender tonestack. In that case, you can think of the treble as the final send control... Or a tilt, or mix control. What you've dialed from bass and mids goes through the treble pot. How it's mixed (treble is a hi-pass tone filter in essence) depends on the caps and resistors. But what the mid control does (or how high it goes treble wise) depends again on how the amp maker chose it to be. To give the whole picture, imagine the settings ola used. Mike Landeau uses them as well. They work on a JCM 800, soldano or mesa boogie dual rectifier: The bass and mids can be set to reach out to 4,5 Khz, (mids dimed). The treble control is then dialed to zero. That doesn't mean ZERO treble it means, you mixed the balance of the hi pass filter and what the other two controls did to the side of the bass/mid pot. So, it STILL has treble and it is the area the mid pot affects and it sounds pretty damn good and round to be honest. It's a great trick and you still have the pressene to add some sparkle. So if you have some quality time with some of these amps, dime the mids, adjust bass to taste and have the treble control "zeroed" which means the sound balance is tilted to the other two controls. Adjust pressence and enjoy.
Ola maybe the treble knob on the ultra channel is designed like that to keep people's ears from bleeding when they tweak the EQ, like rebalancing the frequencies internally so that nothing becomes overbearing and removing some frequency content from the highs may leave some headroom for the mids? maybe it's a set multiband compressor to maximize the output on that channel?
Listening to this on my Adams A7s and it sounds pretty nice. Def reckon a OD going in would help, sounds a bit tubby and not that tight in the low end. Sounds better when soloing that riffing to my ears.
Ok so I went back and watched your vid with the H&K Grandmeister 40. It simply sounds superior! Hands down no comparison. Once Ola dials it in sounds like typical Ola tone to me... Lol Which is ok or I wouldn't be here👍
That H&K seems to change the Eq function as we change the mode on it, just like the old Line 6 BOGNER Spider Valve that I have. Once setted up you save your setting assigned to a channel and enjoy the day 😁🤘 Great Amp that little BlackSpirit 200 with many option available 😜👍
Question: have you had any postage issues with US customers buying Solar guitars? E.G. customs being a pain, out-of-country billing issues, things like that. The last one happened with Thomann and I'd like to make sure I actually can buy the guitar before I jump on one of your Vs
Question for Ola.... Do you think/feel that you could play in a tribute band with anselmo and brown and do a GREAT job? I feel you can given you are a huge fan of dimebag
I think H&K should put less features in their amps and get the basic sounds right again. There is so much blue light effects and blinking going on and so many channels and reverbs and choruses and flangers and what not. Just give us a nice clean channel and a nice diezelesque dirtchannel with seperate EQs and add useable reverb and let your world class build quality do the rest. Done. You've got a bestseller.
I've had the grandmeister 40, same muddy no balls distortion sound Ultra channel. I returned it next day. H&K said they are working in fixing this issue so hopefully the next release will improve the distortion
Hey Ola, Can you do a rig with your Mesa Tremoverb? When you got that thing you seemed stoked as hell, but we haven't seen anything with it since. I am thinking about getting one, but want to see you do a play through of this beast. Whaddya say?
Hey, Ola! how are you doing? As I couldn't find any other way to contact you directly, I decided to ask here about "impulse responses". Do you have any store to sell it? Or do you recommend some? Thanks a lot.
Okay would you consider trying a Paul reed Smith head sometime? Sorry if you already have and I didn't catch it, either way keep jamming and kicking ass, you rock Ola!
Ola. Have you ever experimented using multiple amps together in a room simultaneously for recording? I've been using a 3 amp rig and it creates just a massive wall of sound even at the lowest volume I can get crazy harmonics and feedback for leads and micing the room sounds huge. This might be something to try now that you have more room. Rate my rig- Here's my rig rundown. I start with a strat, a TS808, and EHX silencer gate, (but there's also a whammy a touchwah and a jet driver pedal) then the pedalboard goes out into a Soldano JCA high gain 100 watt tube head and then into a 2x12 orange v30 cab then the signal splits off from the pedals into a digitech pedal that does some nice modulation delay and reverb effects in stereo which goes out into an orangemicro dark hybrid tube amp into a Marshall 2x12 cab (left) and then the right side goes into a Peavey Delta blues deluxe 30 watt tube 15" open back combo amp. The Soldano amp has a skysurfer reverb in the FX loop, and the Peavey has coil reverb, I keep those reverbs set low but noticeable and lower on the Soldano amp. So basically between the five speakers and three amps all having their own sound and the split signal path where one is mostly dry and the other has more effects... It basically builds a whole wall of sound like 3 seperate guitars playing through a massive stack. This is basically that holy grail tone I've always wanted but couldn't figure out. Mixing beautiful digital processing on one side with the full analog high gain crystal clear tube tone on the other side and being able to have different amounts of gain on either side (and also at the three amps) gives a ton of tonal variety. Might be something to experiment with.
Hey Ola! Good Rig test this week! Do you by any chance still own your old Bugera TriRec or 333-XL(Infiniums?) I just bought 333xl and would love to see an update
don't they make a black spirit amp in pedal format? I'd like to see if you can make that chug. I love ENGL and enjoy Hughes and Kettners. So, I like german amps? I want to play a black spirit and hear it for meself...
Hi Ola, the EQ on the amp is working like my Tubemeister 18. When you boost one of the knobs, the other knobs seem to cut away. Took me a while to figure that out! I actually like that it does that.
I think it's moreso the guitar and cab than the amp that sounds so swampy. I played this exact amp through an H&K cab with an LTD Eclipse and it sounded absolutely flawless. Could be that it doesn't play nice with the 7 string? Maybe the pickups? IDK.
That tone sounds pretty dry, very low end heavy when compared to the killer high end tones that you usually dial in, that amp definitely needs a pedal to boost it’s tone, but there are definitely worse sounding amps out there! but my god that clean channel though 🤤 the one thing H&K is famously known for are beautiful sparkling cleans like that.
I spent a week fiddling with this amp before returning it. Cleans are beautiful and leads just soar, but nothing I tried (not even a precision drive) can get a good metal rhythm tone out of it. Which is surprising cause I have a mid 90’s H&K Attax that with the right processor delivers the most crushing metal tones. If you play anything but metal this amp is unbeatable. But you want that Sad But True tone, you’re gonna be let down.
