Wish list for Diezel Amplification's products

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I actually have a request, since there is going to be a cabinet shop now, can we have an option of grill cloth faceplates for the heads? Also if so, can I get one in wheat?

I think the Herbert would look bad ass with that thick aluminum panel on the chasis anodized black and the chasis the same color it is now underneath and silver lettering (for the name, volume, gain, ect., ect.), and bright green led's (blue is still cool too though, might look better, I'd have to see both), and a wheat grill faceplate. You could call it the vintage/modern look ( or the !@#$ Bogner look, haha). Then I would like to place an order for the items needed to convert it like that for my Herbie, so I can match my Bogner cabs. Then make some Diezel cabs like that so I can sell the Bog cabs and get some Diezel cabs, that look bad ass like the Bog cabs, and will probably sound 1,000,000 X better. :D Come on Pete Pete Peter Pete, you can do it, I have faith my man.

-Nick :yes:
 
Also silver allen head screws to hold that anodized face plate on are a must, snazzy man, haha.

-Nick
 
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eddyrox":a6756 said:
how about including a footswitch like the one included with my new JVM410H?
Doesn't have to be as fancy as the Columbus, ProStage, the Voodoo Labs GCX, Axess Electronics, or even the CAA. It doesn't even have to offer programability, just the CC feature would be fine with me.
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If you already have a rack or other midi switchable rig, selling it with a footswitch would be a waste of time. I already had a MIDI pedal board. My Herbie cost me £2300. I'm glad it didn't cost me £2400, or was built £100 less well, just to provide me with a footswitch I wouldn't use. This is pro gear and quite a lot of pros already have footswitches. If you don't you can grab a 12 button Behringer FCB1010 for only £100 in the UK (that's about $200 US), or one of those Randall 4 button things for about 20 quid less. Surely buying a MIDI foot controller yourself for anywhere between about £70-£700 depending on your needs is the best option, rather than making the amp cost more to provide a foot controller a lot of people wouldn't use.

Peter doesn't make crappy cheap products so I doubt he'd want to make a crappy cheap foot controller to sell with his amps at extra cost and problems, when you can just choose the one that fits your needs for the right price off the shelf. He doesn't sell it with a crap digital reverb unit cuz it doesn't have reverb, so why would he sell it with a crap foot controller cuz it doesn't come with one? :confused:

Duesentrieb":a6756 said:
A modded Herbert - recording out replaced for a switching jack to make +/- switchable.
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Yeah, I'd like my Herbie's +/- to be switchable. Looking at those pics it's not replaced the compensated out though. It's just another jack fitted next to it isn't it!?!

Mmmm... You only need a good bit of coax, a jack socket, a drill hole, and making sure that steel dust doesn't go into the amp. Then I could switch it with the Relay of my TC G-major. Could this make more hum by letting stray E/M fields in the amp. I guess not if it's coax internally, and you use a shielded instrument cable. How about from a ground loops point of view if you switch it with another unit (such as the g-major or an FCB1010 relay jack). If the relay floats I guess not as long and the sleeve of the switching unit's jack is not grounded on the way out of it's case. (It's not in the case of the FCB1010, dunno about the G-maj). I think I'd still leave it til my herbie's a good few years old first. I'd never want to do anything to mess with it and how it works.
 
I would wish the Herbert Compensated out to have a speaker mute option for silent recording - thus negating the need for an external load box.

Another cool feature that amps don't have (that I know of) but some pedals do - is a sweepable mid range frequency, like a parametric.

Have a CC option for MIDI might be a nice touch for some situation.

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Since my Herbie normally has nearly all it's knobs at 12 o'clock 'cuz Peter made it sound lovely with flat EQ, maybe we could have a "tone defeat" button like my hi-fi that bypasses the EQ circuitry in case the knobs might colour the tone! :lol:

You could just make a box with an input, an output, and a volume knob! Guitar goes in one end, lovely crunch sound comes out the other! Job done! :smoker:
 
for me herbert its perfect, the midi option for +- gain in channel 2, i use a ocd overdrive in - position, its not teh same but its work for me!

or use the + position and roll off the volume a little.

more tolex colours, please!!

ciao
 
I would also opt for a 1Ch amp as a small combo or head format.
(Like the Soldano Astroverb)

Should aim for retail price of 999,- or lower.

2x6V6 in A/B could be a cool way to go or single ended or ...
 
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Peter Diezel":06a09 said:
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You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't please all the people all of the time! (So far you've come quite close though!) :D
 
I will say after reading this thread, mods and changes are cool but if I had my way......... A single channel Metal Mayhem amp that someone recommended would be a winner and a VH4 that is more vintage. A VH4 Classic if you will. I otherwise think the layout on the Herbert is great. Maybe a 2nd master on VH4 with a switchable serial loop. Since we are brainstorming, a Einstien with two channels, each with one footswitchable gain and volumn.
Peter I will say that you and your amps are great and if you responded to this entire thing and told us to piss off and you're not changing a thing, we all would still love Diezel and continue to buy and play your amps. You and Uwe are the best!!!
john
 
Something wrong with yours? ;)

If Mesa can do a RK-combo, Diezel should be able to do a Herbie-combo. I don't think it's a crazy idea. Matter of factly, I'd buy one right away.
 
Does that mean Peter should also install a rectifier tube and make that switchable to alternate between it and a solid-state? Definitely not. Also he shouldn't start to use VTLs for switching or apply for 10^7 patents . . .

btw: what the Diezel world really needs is a nice (vintage) 4x12" SLANT rearloaded with G12H or better: custom configurations available thru a webshop.
 
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