Synergy IICP Preamp Module 

This is the best Insane Clown Posse signature amp I've ever heard.

Your demos are just the best you can find, thank you.

You and Leon release a video on this at the same time!!! My ears are ready for this. Funnily enough I was just playing through my Mark IV as I got the notification for this.

4:14 That little passage sounded just like John Sykes - Whitesnake 1986, “Don’t Turn Away, before the night is over”, very nice tone. Who can forget that album, I love John Sykes tone and playing, just one of the best. He can play metal, but when he does his slow Blues, that’s when he is killer. He is tied with EVH for the best guitar players of all time for me, put Jimmy Page in there too, because they are so different, but so damn good. Their feel for the guitar and music is impeccable.

This might be one of your best demo songs yet!! Nice work!!

Best track yet. Love how the bottom falls out and the bass and drums are grooving.

Great demo, I particularly liked the black Friedman guitar thru the last set up at the end. Thanks Michael!

Holy hell Michael...that had to be one of the most awesome opening tracks you've ever done (and there's been quite a few).

This unit not only sounds incredible it also let's you play really cool stuff

The opening demo song was great!

I think that the Synergy system is great for people that want to own these classic amps but can't get a hold of them anymore. I mean finding a IIC+, Mark IV, SLO100, Pittbull Ultra Lead, Savage, older Recto, Bogner Uberschall is challenging and could easily bankrupt you. You could go with a modeler but lots of people still like the straight-forward feeling of an amp. Kudos to synergy for making this a reality. The Egnater/Randall MTS never really worked out, but this seems to really be catching on, which is really cool

Tks a lot Michael for share. Awesome review.

fantastic playing!

First time watching your videos on my 5.1 surround system... Man, that mix is off the hook! People! Put your headphones down! Check out the intro in 5.1 surround sound! What a killer producer you are Mike! Keep it up!

Really cool intro song. Excellent Love your channel and work

You’re one hell of a guitarist! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Need to hear this through a 2:ninety, or side by side with an old Studio or Quad preamp to get a good comparison to the legacy amp. The power amp on the IIC+ adds a fair amount of color to the sound. Fryette’s stuff is more like a Marshall or Dual Rectifier, which are voiced differently.

Dude, SICK intro piece. Well done man. You're waaaaay too humble on your playing and lead playing brother lol. Great demo & video!

Great track... Great Demo... Great channel

My late 80s intro to Mesa was a Quad Preamp / Strategy 400 power amp into 2 2x12. metal grill Mesa slant cabs. A 2290 w foot controller MIDI'd to a Sholtz Octopus to switch it all . This seems to nail the that vibe for sure

Sounded great to me! Great video as always. I love idea of the Synergy line, but I do find myself using modeling because of bang for the buck.

The neck on that strat is gorgeous

Ooh this is exciting. I have a feeling an OD-100 or an SE-100 module is going to be coming soon

All I can say is wow & I want one!!!!

Sounds great to these ears, probably the best sounding Synergy module. I had a Studio .22+, which utilized a similar interaction between the "clean" channel and the "gain" channel. Once you understand that, there are many tone shades to be found. Sort of pissed really, as I had my 22+ modded by Mesa to make that less of an interaction via a pot on the back of the amp. Never sounded as good after.

And the award for shiniest fretboard goes to:

I have this module, it is a painters palette of tone. It is a bit quirky to dial in but it goes from bell chime cleans to thick, crispy bacon fat lead. Its like the Fry Pitbull module, you have to take her to dinner, strokes her hair and tell her she is pretty.......then she starts kissing your neck.... ;-)

Screw the module, diggin the intro tune mate. Killer.

Note to self- Cliff. 1. The shift lifts the mids and pushes them out a bit. 2. Red channel has all the good adjectives.* * doesn't have quite a lot of bite* Poetry 3. Bright ** switch to get more bite. ** possibly labled Bight with mid-shift. 4. Graphic EQ on Follow the herd, pull down 750 Hz, for the extra Little bite you been looking for since 1978. 5. Bass Button - at this point don't go crazy with it like you normally do,use the 5 band*** instead. - ***** rear end

Synergy ll rackmount preamp is the shit. I sold my Marshall Jmp-1 preamp for one, that says it all. I personally like the Marshall 800 and Plexi Module setup.

Nice leads !!

Really nice demo man ! But honestly i don't really recognize the famous Mesa MK2c+ chung tone , neither the liquid neck pickup lead tone . But again , nice job man

I need this module. Would love to hear some Soundgarden through it.

YES!!

That's it... I need a Mesa Mark amp now.

Killer intro

Hey Michael, how do you feel about the PS2 vs. your other power amps for the Synergy stuff?

Kick ass!

Not sure about this one...I do trust Fryette being an amp genius and all, but the original is based on the interaction of the pre-gain EQ which works like a boost and the post-gain Graphic EQ that works as a tone shape...And the Pre-gain EQ here lacks significantly. Especially the interaction of the PRE-gain EQ and the actual Gain is fundamental to get the tone out...I have 2 Triaxis that I am very happy with and are pretty close to the 2C+ and all other things that come with the Triaxis interface. I would stick with the Triaxis instead of this. And if you wanna go full 2C+, then the JP2C amp is the only way. And that thing is GONNA BE MINE!!! (someday...)

One more reason to get a synergy. Ever consider comparing the plexi and metroplex modules to your super lead?

there is a big Zakk and Sykes influence in here

What pick ups are in the Friedman guitar 🎸 Mr.Micheal?🤘⚾️

Jesus Christ Michael... That intro track was amazing!!! Great piece of music

Faygo 🍺🍺🍺🤘🤘🤘

I´m sorry man, my english is not good enough to say how impressive is you sound/tone and playing

Great demo and overview, Michael. It doesn't sound quite like a IIC+ to me. The power sections play such a large role in the sound of the amp. I'm sure you have access to people who own a real IIC+ but if not you can shoot that out against one of mine if you want.

head to head this against the triaxis or a mark v pls

Have you talked about this Friedman guitar previously? I like the purple pickup bobbins!

Could you do a Queensryche episode?

Sounds great but I'm not hearing a miic+.

Intro song and how you set it up….pretty much a John Sykes tone in a box.

Sykes? humm pretty sure he IS /WAS a Marshall player. i could be wrong. Any proof of him using mesa>?

When guitarists lower the bass knob and then on their EQ pedal increase the bass frequencies, I feel like a chef is removing a salty ingredient (too avoid making the food salty) but then adds salt! Come on make up your minds, do you need those bass frequencies or not? :D

Better buy a Mesa Studio Preamp for a better mk 2C+ sound…

I don't get the classic Petrucci IIC+ vibe from this. It feels like something got lost in translation.

I don’t think it sounds like a Mark II. Cool amp though

But but butt, does it Hetfield like the real deal?

A little bit disappointed with this module tbh. Don't need the clean, just want the dirty channel with the 3 band, presence, gain and the graphic.

Synergy looks very interesting, but not quite enough for me to abandon Kemper for. My Kemper has been amazing for my purposes; recording.

Came over here after hearing it on Leon's. The Synergy fanboys are going to lynch me for this, but I'm hearing the same thing here. I know the Mark sound, this doesn't sound like one. Like I said on Leon's video, it sounds like they took a generic preamp circuit and put the tone stack before the main gain stage and added a graphic eq. It has none of the character of any amp in the Mark series that I have played or heard. The mid-range character isn't even in the ballpark, imo.

Meh

Hey Michael, what's your John Sykes and Metallica settings? Also, did Sykes use a chorus for his gain tones?