**Shakes fist at everyone in this forum**

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I own both the Einstein and the Herbert and have played the vh4 several times.
The Einstein probably has my favorite lead tone of all of them. The Einstein is also sold anywhere from 2000-2300 used and sometimes less on eBay. People sell them here quite often. I bought mine for 2200 shipped and it dominates. Good news is that if for some impossible reason u don't like it, you can sell it for what u bought it for.
Good luck on your venture!
 
I have been fortunate to have owned a VH4, Herbert, and Einstein combo 50 watter.
Yesterday, a friend of mine came by to have me get his Mesa MK IV sounding good.

I brought out my Einstein combo, which had the dials set for my humbucking guitar. He plays Fender Strats and Teles. Without even turning a dial, I just plugged him in and turned it on.

He said "This is the tone I have been looking for all of my life". How many times have I heard that when someone first plays a Diezel...any Diezel.

His MK IV is a jumble of convoluted dials all interdependant on one another and sounds like crap, no matter how great he thought it finally sounded. We compared it to the Einstein after he loved the tone I finally dragged out of the Mesa and he said to me that there is just no comparison.

I told him to sell both of his Mesa amps and get an Einstein 50 head. It is all he will ever need for any tone. By the by, those Fenders sounded stellar through the Einstein.

He was worried that he would never be able to get the tone I got for him from a Diezel. I told him that no matter where he wound up setting the dials that he could get a terrific tone, but start with everything at 12 o'clock, and just tweak a bit as needed. He was so amazed that it was so easy to get great tone so quickly from the Diezel.

P.S. His MK IV took me 4 hours of constant tweaking, while he played, to get all three channels to a point that were bearable and passable. The tone controls bearly worked when turned all the way in either direction. And yes, the amp was working perfectly for what it was.
It is just a terribly designed amp and not at all user friendly.
 
True ^^^^

It is hard to get any of our amps to sound "bad" no matter how you dial them. It is amazing how easy they are to work with no matter what amp, sound, guitar type, tuning, musical style, etc. I only wish I had started using them sooner. I would have saved myself a lot of time and money and I am no gear flipper. It is a comforting feeling to finally find what works right for you so you can simply play and create which is what is supposed to happen anyway. Plug, Play, Enjoy...Repeat. :thumbsup:
 
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