Crushing as always. John, your mixes are always so damn killer. Excellent. Sometime in the future you should totally do another video explaining your process on the signal chains and tips for drums.
Amazing amp! I bought an E570 preamp right before they were discontinued 3 years ago, and it's awesome! Glad to see this amp come back, and i hope the preamp version will also get reborn again!
Now that's what I want to hear from this amp!!!! I've seen some of the other reviews and they didn't do it justice. The tones you got out of this thing are impeccable. A modern classic amp in the making...in your hands. Awesome!
i have the original e670 special edition since a decade now and just love this amp, one of the best high gain amps ever made in my opinion! just image i bought it for 1300€ new b-stock @ thomann here in germany back then, now the usual used price is over 2000€ 😲.. cheers 🎸🎸
@@SonicDriveStudio the cleans are a bit sterile sounding but ENGL is known for this and no marshall crunch for sure but the gain is just insane! i direct comparison old vs new would be amazing just to hear if clean & crunch sounds may have changed a bit with the update! 💪
The Les Paul and JB combo sounds so fricken good, I never understood the hate JB’s get.. PS: John from your “Can’t be trusted “ vid.. you are absolutely a very well spoken and positive person, your passion shines through your videos to us viewers. 🤘🏼✌🏼
Tbh a bit surprised they would release another full sized amp. Especially as the world is moving more towards digital, or at the very least smaller lunch box amps, it's a bit surprising. That said it sounds brutal and super awesome. I think however as I age, I'm looking towards more simple single/dual channel amps with easier controls. And rather have multiple amps rather than have few amps that does EVERYTHING. I'm regretting the Savage 120 MK2 that I bought a while back. Sounds great, but just a bit too complicated. Everyone's different of course :) Anyway, great demo nontheless, as always! Glad you were included by ENGL to receive it!
I'm very glad that they're still releasing amps like this! It may look daunting at first glance but within minutes of using it you'll realise how easy it is to get great tones out of it!
Man, your riffs deserve to be on an album, you are just crushing it. The amp sounds killer too! and this ..."before they sent it to me, they sent it to a guy named Ola, and to be honest it smells a little bit funny" LMAO
I have the original version; it was the first tube amp head that I ever owned. I have gotten a bunch of amps since then, but none of them have been as good sounding to my ears as the Special Edition. I might as well have just bought a bunch of those lol.
Awesome intro demo. Nutter butter tones Jon! This is an absolutely ridiculous amp, but I think the Savage is still my favorite. Thanks for sharing bud ✌🏼
Have the original e670 special and its a monster. What i like is that i can play whatever i want, not only metal and so on. Hope il grab the FE too. As always my Man, great friking video and tone. Keep them coming 🤘🤘🤘
Artist Edition 100 is my favorite ENGL too, I have the Axe Palace Anniversary one with the blackout cosmetics, blue LEDs, and KT77 tubes. Best tube amp I've owned, trying to sell my Fireball 100 because of it 😄 The SE seems to be closer to the Artist, so it's practically guaranteed I'm going to pick one up
Well, quite simply, that was insane ❤ My multi-channel monster is the Revv Generator 120 MKiii. All things considered, I think I'm covered tonally but God bless that was f****** amazing! Still want it
Hypothetically speaking. Completely and utterly in a "what-if" scenerio. Not speaking about anyone in particular, and in a 100% general sense: If I had say, oh I don't know, like 5 other ENGL's - I'd still TOTALLY have to have this one too.
This is definitely a lot cooler than my old Engl Invader, and with all these additional functions it would really be the king of my Engl-collection. Sadly it's a bit too expensive to buy it right away.
Nice review John. Brilliant idea to run a looper track in and f with the controls!! Best way to see what all those pots and switches do!! Great dig on Ola.. hahahahaha I'm assuming his adding fart noises to his content is what that's about? HAHAHA But just like him I'd say.. damn kids don't know what a point to point circuit is.. hahaha That extra "5th" channel is the best damn thing on these amps!! The difference in the 2 options is the "eq" controls on the back. Don't you damn kids recognize a Marshall Plexi when you see it?? (oh ya you were still swimmers up in your dads sack when plexi's made it all possible for R&R) HAHAHA One option is no eq so it is as direct as a tube amp gets, a lot like a guitar with just one volume pot.. shorter more direct signal chain = purer sound!! So when you do the follow up video for that magical 5th channel hook it up to some lower watt speakers and push em! (and just like a plexi once the volume is loud enough for natural speaker breakup everything beyond that is saturation)(also FYI to fully utilize that plexi sound use a passive single coil, my preference would be a p90, can you say Leslie West?) Personally I hear it as a well refined plexi sound, And why wouldn't it be it's German! Anyway cheers and I hope you find this helpful.
I have been telling people for years. Forget the expensive boutique amps if you want the best most crusbing yet clear metal tone the engl special edition is the king. I have owned or played pretty much everything \m/
I’m still hung up on the ball series amps. Powerball being the one I’d really like to own. This amp however is as per usual an amazing offer from Engl!!!
ENGL just went full nvidia, never go full nvidia. It was already named "special edition", why SE+founders edition? Why not "Founders Special Edition", or "Special Founders Edition, or even E670 Special Edition mkII (they have used this moniker for other amps, why not here??). Naming it something edition, something edition is just bad, bad. Great amp, shit name. Jon, amazing playing and tone as always, I'd love myself an ENGL E670 Special Edition Founders Edition 😂😂😂
I suppose be cause it's basically the same Amp as the original EE670 but with a name change to market it as a new Amp. I have the original EL34 ve sion of this Amp and it's basic the same thing, all buttons, tones, settings and everything, Ed except with blue light . Best sounding Amp I've ever heard of.
I also have the savage mkii. How do you think they compare? Any similarities? Is the founders edition an upgrade worth considering? Or a completely different flavor?
it is a less features and quality version at least in some details than the older...for example: the older has low pow/hi pow switch,the new nope,..the older have speaker A/B function..the new nope..the olderhave impedance checking cable function the new nope...the older have a noise gate with treshold and mute depth controls the new one only theshold...the older have a better and more complex xlr /power amp/preamp/line output with level control knob and the new only a line out jack...the older have in the back panel High quality metal knobs ...the new cheap aliexpress plastic looking knobs...so i can't imagine to see inside the circuit lol..in this particular inflaccionist world...cuting costs...
This or the Revv Generator? Both with tons of features and for about the same price… but honestly, I am somehow still drawn to Diezel amps. Lots of features also, but still “simple” compared to all the options on the Engl and Revv.
Hey man. Not directly related to this video, but I recently watched your video on how to load OwnHammer IRs on Wall of Sound. I recently purchased a torpedo captor and want to do this. I noticed that they are .wav files in your video. But when I go on to the OwnHammer website, under the Fractal section where the cab packs are, it says the files are .IR or .syx. I want to purchase the Recto412 pack that you've recommended or the Heavy Hitters Vol. 1. Will these still be compatible with Wall of Sound? I don't see a separate section on the OwnHammer website for non-Fractal cab packs that are .wav.
@@SonicDriveStudio is there a way to compare the tone from a tube amp/captor vs an axe fx iii using the same IR (for consistency) without having to buy the same bundle twice (to get .wav and .IR/ .syx)?
So, amp that comes from Ola smells funny. He must do 'something' to an amp before playing and making demo video of it. No wonder any amp he plays sound awesome. That quilted veneer on LTD EC is so awesome.
I want to know who the Ricky Bobby was that chose the name. …Special Edition Founder’s Edition. That’s the dumbest name I’ve heard yet. Maybe ‘Special Collection Founder’s Edition’ or even be bold and just call it ‘ENGL’ as if to say, “this amp represents who we are as a company and this is our Flagship, the metric on which all of our amps shall henceforth be judged”.
Big statement. Lol. How about this is your perfect amp as of today but it could change by tomorrow? Gear heads never really find the perfect amp otherwise the G.A.S stops and then what?? Haha . It does seem like a cool amp though. If it is a perfect amp why didn’t you or Ola buy it? Can you not say hey ENGL this is my perfect amp can you cut me a deal and I will buy this?
This amp sounds so nice! i'm probably gonna stick to my Powerball 2, but if i could i would get one of those aswell! for now i can only wait for a quad cortex capture available 🥲
