The Diezel VH4 (Model) Thread

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SO 2dor got his hands on a VH4 as well this week, I believe it's a newer model. He kindly made some NAM models at similar settings to me.

I thought I'd try a similar test with emulations to see how close they get to his amp. Started with Helix's model and its instantly way closer in tone. It's hard to get the low end matching the same on all sections, and there's a few other subtle differences. But nothing meaningful and both have plenty of wiggle room to fine tune. Quite funny that with my amp, Helix was most different and with @2dor 's one, it was the easiest to match. The others all had more top end, even when turning presence to 0 and treble way down.

On this one, I didnt bother with Fractal or Amplitube because frankly, its too much effort. Among these are:

Real amp
Helix
STL Borland
STL Amphub
Plugin Alliance/Nembrini Official VH4

Curious what you think here @GuitarJon

 

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I’ve never played the real thing and now I think I’m glad of that. I might have been disappointed vs my (probably unrealistic) expectations lol.

My introduction to these has been via Adam Jones. I may have never heard his VH4 on its own outside of a VIP thing he did. And I don’t remember the actual tone that well considering I was about 6 feet from Adam and 15 feet from the amp and too focused on the discussion to really internalize the tones. It was a Blue and I did get a couple good pics of the amp that day.

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I recently got into some videos by Joey Jones who did some stuff about dialing in a great tone with a Tele. He likes to play in drop/low tunings and was playing blues rock through a Fractal VH4 sim. I remember him mentioning how the dark amp complemented the brightness of the guitar nicely. I was really liking those tones.


Model or capture or both? This has me interested in checking out some V2 captures to see if anything stands out as particularly excellent.

This is so damn cool. What an experience, and that would probably be enough to make me want a VH4 regardless of how it sounds.

 

[GuitarJon]

Model or capture or both? This has me interested in checking out some V2 captures to see if anything stands out as particularly excellent.

Both! I have captures available for the QC and Tonex: https://sonicdrivestudio.com/categories/captures

 

[2dor]

Yessir those are my earcups lol and weigthed duvet piled up on the cab (along with other home-grown insulation "innovations")

 

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This is so damn cool. What an experience, and that would probably be enough to make me want a VH4 regardless of how it sounds.

Well you’d probably want an old silverburst LP as well. I’d been reading about his main guitar and how it had a screw in it in a weird spot that he didn’t want to remove because he was scared it would change the tone. And then at that clinic he hands the guitar around the freaking room. Crazy getting to hold it (TWSS).