Mizati20
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A lot of gear in and out this past couple days, I've managed to acquire all this by trading...and it all came in today, I picked up the cab in person though. I found a guy who had a almost brand new VH-4 and wanted to try a Herbert... a guy who wanted a Mesa cab for recording and traded me straight up for his brand new Mills Afterburner, it's loaded with 2 V30's and 2 K100's in an X-pattern, and I traded my older Les Paul Studio for a brand new EC-1000, I abso-fucking-lutely HATE the EMG's in it, I haven't even play it much because I despise them so much, but I have owned one in the past, and I know it's a good player, pickups are next. I also have a Tech-21 MIDI Moose on the way, it has gotten awesome reviews and it nice and simple and built like a tank...that will be here tomorrow.
I'll do a quick mini-review of the VH-4, as some of you know I traded my Herbert for it, the only reason I got the Herbert in the first place because I knew i would get me closer to a VH-4 (which it did) but I wasn't planning on loving the Herbert so damned much, I ALMOST didn't do the trade, but FourT2 made some clips for me that put me over the edge, and I am EXTREMELY glad that I did... I suppose this review will be a bit of a comparison between the Herbie and VH-4 but I'll try and keep it separate as well...
Vh-4 Channel 1: A very straight forward clean channel with a normal or bright switch, no where near as good as the clean on the Herbert (which is the best I've played) but it is still a great clean channel none-the-less, has an awesome compression going on, all the notes come out very even and for my band and my needs that is absolutely awesome, I have the treble dialed up pretty high trying to get it to sound a bit like the super sparkly chimey cleans of the Herbert, it doesn't quite get there, but it sounds great regardless.
VH-4 Channel 2: I find this channel extremely lacking, even dissapointing, I don't play the type of music this channel would get me into, and this is hard to put into words, but regardless of where I put the gain or any of the settings the channels seems like it's missing something, almost that the channel WANTS something more to be added to it, like I said I don't know how to put it into words... I will honestly probably never use this channel...
VH-4 Channel 3: I'll try not to gush too much about this channel since everybody does, I will just say there is a reason that so many people praise this channel, if this amp was a 1 channel amp and only had this channel I would be satisfied, absolutely incredible, unique sound that I can't really compare to anything I've heard/played in the past...very compressed though, in fact the entire amp is...
CH-4 Channel 4: Stupid amount of gain on tap, can be rolled off to be a convincing rhythm tone but the channel is extremely compressed... the Herbert has the VH-4 beat for leads as well, but even still, channel 3 on the VH-4 makes up for all of the shortcomings...
The one big gripe I have about the VH-4 is the MIDI switchable loop is parallel, it works great, but the effects don't seem 100% there, also, the lack of a second master volume like the Herbert... for me personally and my applications for the amp with my band the Herbert has better features... all I can say is that I fucking want both now, but I am going to hang onto the VH-4 for good... I only just wish I could own both.
The Mills cab: "Holy Shit".... that's about the extent of the review, massive, clear, tight, fills the entire room, breathtaking... end of story...
No review on the guitar, it is what it is and does it's just just as expected, although I was curious if my tried and true JB/59' combo would sound good with the guitar even though it lack's the Maple cap, my other EC-1000 had these passives and sounded great, will the lack of maple on the top make a difference?
I actually had the idea of filming the entire delivery/unpacking process, I always like when people take pics of them opening packages so I thought I would take a video, I even said "Oh Hai UPS man" to the driver when he came to the door LoL, but like an idiot I tried opening everything with one hand and holding the camera with the other instead of just setting the cam down on the tri-pod, so the vid came out WAYYY to long, so you guys get the regular boring pics instead....
I'll do a quick mini-review of the VH-4, as some of you know I traded my Herbert for it, the only reason I got the Herbert in the first place because I knew i would get me closer to a VH-4 (which it did) but I wasn't planning on loving the Herbert so damned much, I ALMOST didn't do the trade, but FourT2 made some clips for me that put me over the edge, and I am EXTREMELY glad that I did... I suppose this review will be a bit of a comparison between the Herbie and VH-4 but I'll try and keep it separate as well...
Vh-4 Channel 1: A very straight forward clean channel with a normal or bright switch, no where near as good as the clean on the Herbert (which is the best I've played) but it is still a great clean channel none-the-less, has an awesome compression going on, all the notes come out very even and for my band and my needs that is absolutely awesome, I have the treble dialed up pretty high trying to get it to sound a bit like the super sparkly chimey cleans of the Herbert, it doesn't quite get there, but it sounds great regardless.
VH-4 Channel 2: I find this channel extremely lacking, even dissapointing, I don't play the type of music this channel would get me into, and this is hard to put into words, but regardless of where I put the gain or any of the settings the channels seems like it's missing something, almost that the channel WANTS something more to be added to it, like I said I don't know how to put it into words... I will honestly probably never use this channel...
VH-4 Channel 3: I'll try not to gush too much about this channel since everybody does, I will just say there is a reason that so many people praise this channel, if this amp was a 1 channel amp and only had this channel I would be satisfied, absolutely incredible, unique sound that I can't really compare to anything I've heard/played in the past...very compressed though, in fact the entire amp is...
CH-4 Channel 4: Stupid amount of gain on tap, can be rolled off to be a convincing rhythm tone but the channel is extremely compressed... the Herbert has the VH-4 beat for leads as well, but even still, channel 3 on the VH-4 makes up for all of the shortcomings...
The one big gripe I have about the VH-4 is the MIDI switchable loop is parallel, it works great, but the effects don't seem 100% there, also, the lack of a second master volume like the Herbert... for me personally and my applications for the amp with my band the Herbert has better features... all I can say is that I fucking want both now, but I am going to hang onto the VH-4 for good... I only just wish I could own both.
The Mills cab: "Holy Shit".... that's about the extent of the review, massive, clear, tight, fills the entire room, breathtaking... end of story...
No review on the guitar, it is what it is and does it's just just as expected, although I was curious if my tried and true JB/59' combo would sound good with the guitar even though it lack's the Maple cap, my other EC-1000 had these passives and sounded great, will the lack of maple on the top make a difference?
I actually had the idea of filming the entire delivery/unpacking process, I always like when people take pics of them opening packages so I thought I would take a video, I even said "Oh Hai UPS man" to the driver when he came to the door LoL, but like an idiot I tried opening everything with one hand and holding the camera with the other instead of just setting the cam down on the tri-pod, so the vid came out WAYYY to long, so you guys get the regular boring pics instead....
I, too, wish I could own both. But, after playing the Herbert again the other day, I decided I really didn't need both and the VH4 is plenty for me. Quick tip: I dislike EMGs ad well. However, if you put the 85 in the bridge and the 81 in the neck, and rock out on CH3 with a good amount of mids, it's a pretty heavy sound that's still dynamic. But, it depends on the type of music you're playing.
