Nice Choice! Interested to hear what you think of it
Really great so far. I think for my purposes, which is recording metal at home at reasonable volumes, the D-Moll works the best for me over the Hagen, VH4, and Einstein. It's much more chug friendly, but there are some great cleans and mid gain tones in there as well. It shipped with TAD EL-34STR which helped cut down on the low end troubles I've had with their previous KT-77 offerings.
I've tried it with multiple boosts, and so far my favorites are the J. Rockett silver Archer pedal and my old DAM Meathead dialed back to overdrive settings. Both are killer, the Archer preserving the tone and most of the low end while adding more gain, the Meathead turning it into another amp entirely, but the D-Moll doesn't need a boost at all. With my EMG 81/60 loaded baritone E-II it's got plenty of gain and tightness. If I crank the hell out of the gain it doesn't get mushy and fall apart, rather it takes on more of a grindy character similar to what I've heard in some Herbert demos. There's something incredible that all Diezel amps do with baritones and low tuned guitars that I just haven't heard in any other brand of amp. Like an almost saxophone type of clarity and sustain on the lower notes, if that makes any sense.
I would say it's a definite lifetime keeper but if I'm being honest I never keep any amp forever (other than my '74 Ampeg SVT which I will *never* sell), but it fits what I do about as well as an amp can and I'm very happy with it, to the point that I've been reamping all my tracks on my recent album with it. I'd give it a solid 9/10.
