PRS HDRX 20 head Demo
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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That was a good description while showing/playing this amp. Heard this amp with Strat single coils, and a Gibson with P90's as well as others and it delivers very nicely indeed on all. Takes pedals nicely as well. I've had Plexi Marshalls and this is no joke. It was actually designed by PRS with Thomas Sewell after a complete sonic and electronic investigation of Jimi Hendrix's original live Woodstock Marshall amps that they were able to procure. Then they modded it with an internal jumper {great idea} plus the mid and bright switches for even more flexibility...or as I call it "plexibility". I love the fact that the 20watt utilizes two 5881 power tubes instead of el84's or el34's. They have more headroom. Have one on order from Sweetwater. The 50 and 100watt versions are much more expensive however and use el34's for power. They go for $2900 for the 50, and $3150 for the 100 USD. So the $799 20watt is a relative deal comparatively.
After a bit playing it now, I will say it's quite like my old 1959 plexi but better. I know that's sacrilege but it being lighter with more features and the sound plus the right amount of more than loud enough watts, it fits the bill brilliantly in my opinion. The 23watt 5881's can be driven plenty loud but not as deafening as 25/30 watt EL-34's or some 6L6's and are better suited for pubs and club work. Very compact and powerful. You can mic your cab/run a direct box for larger venues. This amp pushes closer to 30watts. If not 35. No problem with a two guitar/bass/keyboard/drummer unless you're all about decibels. I did switch to matched Sovtek 5881/6L6WGC tubes. They have a wafer base so you must change the "beartrap" retainers for spring mounts so they won't bite into the glass envelope. They are still a little taller but are modeled after the xtra-rugged mil-spec tubes less prone to microphonics and tube "rattle". I also used fibreglass sheathing on the springs of the tube retainers {for vibration} as well as hi-temp silicone O-rings between the metal tops and tubes for vibration/isolation. This lowered the already low noise floor of the amp compared to any Marshall I have ever owned. Just a low hiss even when dimed. A hand-picked Tung-Sol 12ax7 was placed in the V-1. Russian manufactured Mullards in V-2 and V-3. Everything burned in and bias set at 29ma. Best tube amp I've ever owned in over 50yrs. Wished PRS put a top vent on it though because it gets hot in the small head cab. Maybe my next mod...lol
Great demo, nice to hear an amp demo dry and effects comparison. I actually felt like i was listening to the amp and not just someone showing off!
4:17 For playing demo 👍🏻
I think using a strat type guitar would have been useful in this demo as its based on an Hendrix Marshall.
If only PRS made a Strat-style guitar... 🤔😁
@@lance134679 🤣
Just putting it out there like that but Hendrix was leaning towards Gibson guitars towards the end. And it's not like every single player interested or ones who would purchase the amp would be using Fender guitars and on top of that it's nice to see a demonstration with something different have a great day everybody.
it sounds awesome with both SC and H .....i have one. love it.
@@vinivola first off, this is first time I'm hearing about Jimi "getting interested in humbuckers"... yeah he played them on couple of occasions, but leaning towards Gibsons is just a hoax man... all of the studio recordings from 1970 that I've heard, all of the final concerts are a maple fingerboard strat... PLUS there is literally no demos of this amp using a fuzz and a strat. I keep reading about them, but everyone's playing this with a PRS.
The Allman Brothers used 50 Watt Plexi's. They had JBL in both 4x12 cabs. Both Duane and Dickey. Used on the live recording at Fillmore East.
I really didnt need another amp, but ordered one of these last night because of these videos and the great price point this seems to be. I wish it had reverb but i have a strymon so should be magic!
Would liked to have heard the bridge pickup
Me TOO!
Some have recently pointed out that the "jumpering" cuts your gain a tiny bit which I never knew. I've recently noticed on my plexi that when playing the bright channel, then putting on the patch cable there's a noticeable high end cut before fading in the bass channel.
I definitely think the amp is capable of fantastic sounds I am, however curious about the overall build quality it’s hitting a grace great price point I’m just wondering can I depend on this amp I would have been willing to pay more to make sure of the quality and can certainly buy an extended warranty, but what I am concerned about is Kennett hold up to two or three hours of gigging at a time or maybe more jamming and running constantly tried a PRS amp before 20 W combo and had a lot of problems as I found out the whole line had problems. I like the idea of this amp and don’t really need 50. The price difference is certainly true and I am sure that is, a matter of quality no doubt, but is the PCB board in this a thick heavy one are the tubes protected and is the casing solid sorry these are questions that concern me most as most of these heads that I see under $1000 are certainly capable of the tones they’re just not capable of durability or standing up on the road I’ve been gigging on and off for 40 years and teaching guitar and I’m just trying to make sure I’m spending my money wisely because if it’s better to buy the 50 to save the trouble then that’s what I should do upfront lol Just trying to buy what I can afford out of pocket versus having to charge up credit card bills the amps I have now are high watch and I am doing much smaller venues or gigs. Don’t need the power and they are a lot to carry around with a 412 would love to use this with an oversized 112 or even possibly 212, but either way just want to make sure of what I’m paying for. Thanks again for the great demo. 2:38
It kinda sounds like there’s an Octavia in the amp. It sounds weird. The bigger ones too. It just doesn’t sound “right” to me
Solid amp, I’m not a huge fan of Paul’s amp, but this is kinda neat.
It’s not really a “plexi,” it’s a PRS amp with a touch of Marshall flavor.
I agree that a strat should’ve been used for the demo, or maybe a silver sky😝
it’s based on the same circuit. mods and everything.
Sounds nice but sounds nothing like a Marshall.
Exactly. No marshall here. Carry on...
May I ask how this compares to the SV20H? I have one already but am considering the HDRX 20, just don’t want anything that’s too samey
Nice amp but just get a Marshall Studio Vintage it’s made in the UK and you’ll get ‘THAT ‘sound with your Strat, SG or Les Paul that we all love.
I’m sure they’ll sell like hot cakes, though. Mr Smith doesn’t miss a trick.
I mean that amp is only a little more than double the price of this one. Lol
@@travisthompson4062 they're about the same price
@@elliotgreen987 nope. the SV20 is $1749. this is $799. 2 second Google search..
@@davidfaustino4476 maybe that's how much they cost in America for some reason, but in the UK they are between £700 and £750
Fair Deal Music, PMT, Bax shop, Thomann, Andertons, Peach all have the SV20 head under £800. The most expensive I can find is £1,200 for the limited edition design store head and cab together. Pretty similar pricing to the HDRX20
Is the reverb a pedal, and which one please.
While a nice glassy sounding amp, it still sounds pretty dark!
Cab and mics placement makes it darker
I have the 100W and is not dark at all. The switches make a great difference.
@@notalkguitarampplug-insrev784 Duhh!
@@kalkidasofficial IC
It does sound dark here. Peach guitars did a much better demo that appears to show a much wider range of tone.
10:15 after 35 years of experience and studying joining Jimi Hendrix for many of those years they’re doing their best to reproduce something and they did it exactly from the amplifier. The modifications here are clear obviously, you guys are too damn ignorant to realize that it may have sounded different with the Strat and it may not but it will give somebody the Jimi Hendrix sound, and it certainly makes for an excellent digging amp opportunity. Also understand you have different speaker options and effects loop and a master volume which is unavailable on any other app at this price that’s of any quality PRS makes solid equipment and certainly stands behind it but for these nasty comments you guys make I mean how many of you guys are rock stars as what I’d like to know I mean I’ve only produced and sold two albums, but as a musician, you have to be open minded and the sound you get out of anything as what you put into it, so grow up and stop insulting people because you can’t do any better. I’d like to see one of you on this list who’s talking all that crap design something put it out on UA-cam and let’s hear it if you’re all that great but somehow I have a feeling when you’re sit around complaining that you’re no good at all why don’t you go practice your guitar then watch the videos so you know what the hell you’re talking about and you couldn’t possibly understand a phase if you wanted to I haven’t heard one solid coming on here except for the people it obviously knew what they were talking about. God help you guys PRS rocks they’re doing their best and they’ve done a good job
There is no effects loop
Well, I was wrong about the effect loop. I just think it’s kind of ridiculous that people have such a negative view when I know that everyone’s doing their best and I thought you did a great job explaining the app and you’re giving your time sponsored or not I just thought people should be a little more appreciative instead of so insulting and you certainly demonstrated the tones the app has and it’s versatility and for an Indonesian made amp it’s certainly worth the money. I think you can buy them now for about five 5500 and the speaker cabs like 299 used if not less this is a great rig to get for 650 or 750. Thanks again. 10:15
Err why aren’t they using a Silver Sky on this demo? it would have made more sense given it’s a Jimi Hendrix inspired amp.
Very true. Or at least a Strat.
Paul’s view is that this amp should be used to achieve all sorts of sounds with all sorts of guitars.
Probably because all the demos are using a Silver Sky or a Strat? It's good that they focused on a different perspective. I personally can't stand when there's only one type of pickup type being demo'd just because that's what people's mind race to when thinking of the product
@@PedalPoopers for sure. I also hate it when they only demo a guitar with the sort of music youd expect from it(strat playing hendrix, Tele playing country etc). Show what it's capable of. Most guitars of the same type sound the same through UA-cam anyway.
There they used a maple neck bolted on version for you, not the ordinary custom 24 you normally encounter
It should be spelled HNDRX!
which spkrs in cab,,, which mic u used
For playing pink floyd and srv this amp is good please ?
not much more than £700? no its £799!!
True. This guy must have been an estate agent in a previous life. 😂
my faher in law bought the 50 watt version he paid 2.799 £ and he bought cab 2x12 creamback 849£ he waited cab for 4 months.
im gonna try next week and if i like it then im gonna sell my helix floor and will buy the 20watt one and cab 1x12 they both will cost me 1.114£ much cheapwr then 50watt one , i paid my helix floor 1.200£
£499 with Peach Guitars now and PRS give you one of their expensive pedals for free too. The dual flange is over £300 on its own.
What's the phaser for???
Opening riff.
I don't hear anything plexi about this.
I think it’s because early Plexis we’re basically modded bassmans from Emmy understanding
Hendrix fans tried to replicate Jimi's tones for years.
PRS copies one of Jimi's Woodstock amps down to a T, except they change the "Hendrix bright cap" value to a different one, so it's not really a 1:1 copy.
Hendrix fans ignore it cause it's not advertised as a Marshall or a plexi.
Confused PRS fans try to play it with humbuckers, or at best try playing strat and Little Wing, which wasn't even recorded with a plexi. "It's alright" they say...
Am I the only one seeing what's wrong with this picture? If you're gonna clone a particular amp, don't add your "enhancements". If you're gonna demo that amp, play it with Woodstock setup god damned. Why else would you buy this?
Iintellec explanation but it s not Hendrix sound
Sorry, too much talking,. Watch an RJ Ronquillo demo to see how to do this.
Paul Reed Smith can do no wrong.
LMAO!
Tearing into Jimi's original Marshall Super Lead head, just so he could stamp the Jimi Hendrix name on it to sell more to people who don't know any better was right?
@@robertkise “tearing into”? Which part of trying to build an amp that replicates the sound Hendrix’s amp at a lower wattage and a reasonable price do you object to?
@@robertkise there us ALWAYS one of you on these demos. what a joke.
Demoing this amp with the master at 2 is an insult......
Why no single coils for this review? A Silver Sky if not an actual Strat ,.hell you can find a fender classic player series 60s or wtf ever they're calling them these days for a hundred bucks cheaper then a silver sky SE and try for true Hendrixian tones using that!
To be fair this amp sounds GREAT,.but reverb has an article on how to get "Plexi" tones from several amps and pedals for far fr cheaper than what this costs.
No Strat? You're mad.
Nah.
ok?
NOTHING like Jimis amp tone
Please don’t demo amps with modulation effects. It just distracts from hearing the amp. We all know what phasers do. If you want to show how it takes drive pedals, fine… that’s pertinent. Modulation or time based effects do nothing for an amp demo.
are you gonna keep crying
3-100 watt Marshall plexi stacks going at once. That’s the Hendrix sound. The small amps just can’t reproduce the sound.
That’s just the setup Hendrix used at certain times, live. Hendrix at other times used a single stack, and even Fender amps live, and god knows what else in the studio. But he always had “the Hendrix sound”.
@@darwinsaye - My point being the 20 watts is not nearly enough headroom. Whether it’s a Marshall or a Fender.
It's truly ridiculous how many musical product companies use Jimi's name to attempt to sell products - products that do not even come remotely close to having a Jimi Hendrix sound.
In my opinion, no one but Marshall, maybe, deserves the right to go tearing into Jimi's original equipment to try and copy what they find so they can apply their discovery to their own product and then stamp Jimi's name on it, regardless of the end result. It's not right.
This amp sounds nothing like Jimi - not at Woodstock - not anywhere else.
You should check out vertex effects blatant theft of srv
Doesn’t remind me of a plexi. Not at all.
Wow. It’s spot on in person. Having a/b/c’d it with a super lead and a JTM45, and being a plexi enthusiast for the past 40 years, I’m surprised to say that it’s breathtakingly like a plexi. It seems to take the good things I like about a super lead and combine them with the things Inlike about the JTM45. It sits about half between the two, definitely in the same vein. The amp is based on Jimi Hendrix’s modded plexi, which was modded to be somewhere between the two, so I’d say it’s exactly what they were aiming at.
@@samroney6644 Sounds perfect.
9th liker❤
Congrats!
PRS makes the ugliest amps!
They seem obsessed with the guy's signature, which is a shame because the amp sounds good.
The mt15 has some pretty lights