Tiny Amps! DV Mark Micro 50 Amps Review
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- These are two of the Micro 50 range of DV Mark amps. The micro 50 mark II and Micro 50 M.
Small light and powerful. What do you think of them?
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But how will the guy at the bar, facing the other way, who's tone deaf and 18 pints in be able to appreciate my tone if it's not a tube amp?
That's what the Trilby and Tele are for
You haven't lived until you've muscled a Fender Quad Reverb up a flight of stairs.
And haven't died until said Quad Reverb crushes you in that same flight of stairs.
You haven't lived till you've cranked an AC15 within an inch of it's life
@Gustavo Vipava 4X12" 100W Combo from the '70s.
@@JohnsDough1918 That's true.
@Gustavo Vipava What did Mesa do? That's really heavy for 1X12".
Legit the only "gear review/guitar" channel I can trust without doubting if his opinions are biased. Kudos to you
KDH and Louis Torres also.
Lol imagine planning for gigs... 🙃
Ps sorry for the crunchy voice over, I was trying something new out. It didn’t work
"I was trying something new out, it didn't work"
God, why does that sound like my life 🤣🤣
God you’re an underrated guitar channel.
He is definitely doing God's work
I emailed DV Mark about running 16 ohm cabs as I’ve got the micro 50 (MK 1) and had trouble finding anything about it for 16 ohm. They said Minimum impedance load for the DV Micro 50 is 4ohm so no problem to match it with a 16ohm cabinet, the power amp will give about 30W@16ohm.
It is interesting how much the clean tone is present, even with the gain maxed, on the overdrive channel on the 50 II. Not for me, but eeenteresting
Probably best solution is just a FX8 into the house PA or a clean micro power amp.
My main amp is a Mesa 525,small and powerful. These micro heads look very cool. Great video, catching up with all your videos .we have to support the Irish 🇮🇪
The discontinued 200 watt tone block version is really cool. Played a gig last week and another band used one. Highly recommend. Was set to 20 watts and was loudddd.
Cheers on those riffs! Great selection this time around.
I have the DV Mark Micro II and it’s a fabulous amp. For even more headroom and volume, I also have the Quilter Pro Block 200 which I like the sound of just a tiny bit more. The Quilter and my Barefaced 1x12 Reformer cab are all I’ll ever need for any gig. Small, lightweight and an easy-to-transport package.
That winger riff sounded amazing
These have been around awhile but with very few reviews. My setup is a Synergy Syn1 into a Quilter Toneblock 201 and its awesome. Thanks for the review man!
Great demo, great playing! Regarding comments about gain on the Micro 50II. The drive channel overlays the level/tone on the clean channel. Switching to drive "adds" the drive knobs to the clean knobs. This includes the "level" control which, on your demo is set incredibly low (visible at 7.29), so it ain't gonna give you much drive if the start point of the gain is so low to begin with?
DV Mark does great stuff; I own a micro II and a wonderful 2x12 neo cab, which I use also with Kemper; great demo and playing!
I completely understand the bright led complaint. I have a semour duncan vapor trails that blinks whenever it's plugged in and it is so annoying for me because I'm a bedroom player and it blinks so bright that I can't sleep with it plugged in. I've tried putting painter's tape on it and it still gives off a ton of light.
just got one of these micro dv mark amps will watch your video after i've done mine
Agree on the EQ of the micro 50 II I have... Way to bassy and not enough treble at noon settings. I run the bass at 9 oclock and treble at 3 oclock. with an 1x12 open back cab with an eminence GB128.
Mid knob is very speaker dependent . The GB128 is heavy on lower mids which I find is the frequency center of the mid knob of the amp. So with the GB128 I need to roll the mids down to around 10 oclock for clarity.. WIth other speakers with more high mid emphasis (celestion 70/80 or Jensen american speakers) you can increase the mids to noon. With the GB128 with mids at noon playing with the band it was loud but without much "cut" due to the range between 1000Hz to 2000Hz being fairly low. SOme say that the micro 50 II bass tone is like a silverface fender without a bright button.. THose amps can be very bass heavy with guitar in a mix and hence when you push volume you EQ the fender with the magic 6. (volume 6/10, Treble 6/10, mids 3-4/10, bass 2/10).. This EQ seems right with my micro 50, Bass just slighty below 9 o'clock, mids around 10 o'clock and treble around 2 oclock.
Didn’t crate do something like this before they went under?
why on earth would you need the clean channel to always be on? that sounds like a nightmare
For noiseless switching between the "channels". If it's like switching a distortion pedal on which is connected to the clean channel than it's usually noiseless or produces less than switching between two real channels. The philosophy here might be to make it as tiny as possible but without using too many micro components. So they used real amp - size capacitors and so on in a very small form factor.
@@InTheSh8 I think at this point it might as well not have a distortion channel, this is unusable.
@@InTheSh8 thing is, it doesn't sound like a distortion pedal into the clean channel, it sounds like a distortion pedal into a clean channel + a purely clean sound. Who on earth wants a clean sound in their distorted tone?
@@InTheSh8 I'd rather just use a real distortion pedal before the amp at this point
@@iurigrang There are 1 channel valve amps. They technically do the same, or? You just turn the gain up until it distorts (Randall RD-5). But dude, all a matter of taste. It's all good.
I hear those Quilter amps are a pretty good pedal platform.
i just bought a tone block 201 as a power amp for my preamp. i run an isp theta pedal into the fx return and it sounds pretty good. the tonality of the amp's preamp is fendery.
I ve got two quilter od200. Very nice jmp like amp. With a boss sd1 i ve a fucking great amp. I have two heads to play with four 4x12. Each head can be connected to two cabs. These amps are silly loud
WINGER!!!!!!!!!!
I use the Micro 50 live as a pedal platform and it gets the job done. Great video man :)
Quilter have been nailing this idea for years.
Ooof not sure about that distortion over clean tone, like running a Twin Reverb/5150 dual amp rig.
Also JJ Abrahms approves of those LEDs
Gave up on tube amps when I acquired the dv mark raw dawg. Eats pedals, sounds great, period.
and kdh is such a great player. his band is awesome!!!!
Whoa bro I love your vids. You ever try unchained using the a-shape?
When you said "the only problem with these" my first thought was "those light's on them are BRIGHT". 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Great review. I've been wondering about them and there's not much info. I play mostly 70 and 80s rock and metal and Imtrying to build a pedal board amp solution to record and gig with. I usually would only play small gigs and would go to FOH, but also want the ability to go to a cab, even if just a 1 x 12, but would probably be a 2 x 12 so I can do all the old school feedback thing, etc, which I'm not sure how you would do going direct for instance with a modeler even though I'm sure there is a solution. I actually prefer solid state amps anyway. They don't sound qhite as good as huge tube amps cranked, but most gigs near me don't allow cranked valve amps or some don't allow amps at all or only FOH only. So, a pedal board with the ability to use IRs for FOH and at the same time being able to use a cab or Full range monitor type speaker is a huge advantage and helps my 59 year old back and bad heart.
Thanks man for all the great, honest, and informative videos. Appreciate the value you bring fo my life kind sir.
Regards from southern Indiana USA. The heartland.
Tim
Take a look at the Pedal Baby by Orange Amplification
@@alecmullaney7957 Thanks man.
This might be a stupid question but why haven't more guitar amp companies tried selling tube preamps in a compact and affordable form? It seems like a really good idea to me with the prescence of cab and power amp sims.
I have two ideas about why.
1. Tubes get HOT when you push them for long amounts of time. That would make it difficult to package them in a small housing and keep it from overheating and doing damage (either to the preamp itself or to the pedal). You may ask 'why not put it in a bigger enclosure?', to which I would point you to lunchbox amps
2. Tubes themselves are very large, which makes it hard to shrink them to a pedal size easily.
I think if I had to put together the smallest possible rig, I'd base it around the Orange Terror Stamp. Add a booster, maybe a fuzz or something, and I could gig with it.
Perhaps also an IR loader if there's no cab.
I currently use a quilter mini with a fractal floor modeler but the dv prices can't be beat.
Pedal rig with tiny solid state power amp until I goddamn die. I refuse to hurt my back because it already is hurt (tall guy problems) and my Friedman BE-OD Deluxe sounds absolutely fantastic when ran through a super clean power amp like a Quilter or SD Power Stage.
Loved the video also those are Greg Howe signatures.
I have the DVM 250M and tried it with a 4ohm cab. Its so loud and allows you to use the full 300watts. Very excessive for just practicing so I stick with 16ohms but it was fun to see what the little thing could do
love this video ty kdh.
Dude I've been looking for a budget way to power a line6 pod go and you did it! Thanks brothaaaa. I was looking at the seymour duncan Power stage 170 but those are 400
I dunno man, my girl dumped be because she said I had a micro head.
Wait...
I mean… I'll be honest with you. Many of the bassists that I've played with brought their giant Hartke 8 x 10. They aren't smiling for anything! 😂
I have a Carvin 2x12 with a built in trolley-roll handle, and O thought that was excessive - holy crow!
We just drilled some wheels into the bottom of our half stack ! Problem solved. 😂
Doesn't help much with narrow staircases though 😂
Lol or my 8x10 that's 180 pounds.. yep why I have been using a markbass lmk tube 800 and 2 104hrs (4x10s that weigh less then 50 lbs each way easier to move around may require 2 runs.. and depending on the gig may even just bring my tc electronics bam 200 and bc208s (2 of them of course)
Joyo zombie + Boss SD-1 (as a boost) and if you feel like it you could always put a reverb pedal in the FX loop.
You should try it.
Honestly these sounds pretty good and def get the job done
Hi, Great video. thanks. what do you think about the DV Mark little GH. ?
I've now use strymon Iridium with orange pedal baby most of the time.
These are perfect for wet-dry rigs and lightweight stereo rigs! Since you made a video showcasing your krakens, I have been playing with 2 amps way more often. Do you have any cool tips and tricks with wet-dry or some wacky effects like ping pong delays/panning effects that you really like?
Nice job KD!
Have you ever tried just plugging a multi-effects pedal or Helix straight into the Return of the loop ?
I'm trying to compare that to the same thing into the Return of a tube amp.
Thanks
Cool sound!
I have the dv mark micro 50 m and I use it with my two bands. I like the sound, and this heads are very confortables. But I don't very like that the clean channel is still working on the drive channel. Maybe it could not be confortable when you need to switch from the 2 channels. There are also the series Little 250. 250 w are to much for a very lot of situation. Maybe they can be useful in a stadium. Dv Mark should made a head in the between of 50w and 250w IMHO.
Hey, where can I find the "Audio Audit" that topics Glenn Fricker? I can't find it, but I'm really interested in seeing it.
Greetings from Germany, love your work!
I think Glenn talked with him and he took in the criticism and they agreed to remove it
Winger Easy Come Easy go riff... yeah baby!
what PCB or circuit is that you've got when you show the "5 dollar class d power?" I love tinkering, that looks fun.
Love your Review. I just sold my tube amp for something portable. Micro 50M will fit my gig bag. How can I contact you?
Sand the leds to roughen up the surface, will diffuse the light, did this to my MXR silver ten band (if you know, you know) and it was much much better.
The brightest pedal on my board hands down.. lol
@@DroneShotFPV I couldnt look at the bloody thing to adjust it, after I roughed up the leds good to go! Still bright, but not piercing! Very easy to do, they just pull out of the slider and slip back in
@@BBGuitars Thanks for the advice, I will give her a try! Yeah, they went above and beyond when the designer asked "ok,now, how bright do we want the LED's? " lol
i would love to take my at home rig to a live gig. but these days venues are smaller and going more direct where i live. so these lil micro amps are great with my pedal board with just a small 2x12 cab.that is when there are gigs to play...urrrggg.
Can you use it without speaker cab connected to it ? Something like just try to get the signal from direct line out to the di box on stage?
I have a DV250M for the price it’s amazing
You may cover this later in the video but I'm to impatient to wait so I'm asking this at 2:30 into the video. But do you need like a powerstage or powered cab to use them with a speaker cab. Or can you just plug it into a regular old 2x12
They are fully functional amplifiers. You don’t need anything extra to power a standard cabinet
60 at 4 and 50 at 8 doesn't sound right... if either of those numbers are correct, it's somewhere between 15-25 watts at 16 ohms - probably closer to 15.
It is not a class D amp which often doubles the power when halving the impedance.. Its Class AB, and if it 60w at 4 ohm it is probably around 45w at 8 ohm and down around 33w at 16 ohm..
Are the clean channels the same on each amp? Is it just the dirt that's voiced differently?
Is the clean channel of the Micro 50M the same as the Micro 50 MK2?
Another size video for sure
What do you think about the bass response? I like a lot of resonance feel from the low end. Wondered how deep the bass on it sounds? Thank you!
He does mention they're very bass-heavy amps
How do these compare to Joyo micro amps or stuff like the Piranha?
I think this makes you a UA-camR!!!
Please.. no.. God..no
@@KDH sorry... Great work Sir!!!
@@KDH Embrace it.
Did u play winger???
Reb Beach RawkZ!⚡
Now they just need to release a micro 4X12....
Blob of blutack would fix the lights
Ive been looking for something that can act as a power amp for my modellor. You mentioned that in this video but you never followed up on it. I was looking at the orange terror stamp but then i remembered you made a video about these. How is it for the modellor
Have you considered the Pedal Baby by Orange?
@@alecmullaney7957 I have, that was a little out of my price range. I have since found what I needes though
@@FISHYFILMPRODUCTIONS could you share? I'm looking for a solution for bass
@@alecmullaney7957 Not sure what your power needs are, but this is what i bought www.hotoneaudio.com/products/nano-legacy-floor/loudster
@@FISHYFILMPRODUCTIONS this is spectacular, thanks
sounds way better with cam mic
6:07 OMFG THIS RIFF IS DIRTY 🤘🤮🤘
Shutup and plays channel did a lesson on Unchained. You should watch it.
👍👍
Hi kdh just wanted to ask why your stevie t video was age restricted
Because UA-cam is stupid
@@KDH yeah and you cant even watch it cause you have to give them your credit card info or your id. And giving google your information is like buying something from fortin
Yo, why would you put that annoying background music over your sound demos?
Why not go digital?
Look your already saying weight so bring your usual pedal board.
Is it loud enough to equal a drum kit being thrashed? 50w valve probably is (just) but never used a digital amp.
Can anyone recommend this mini head, made by other companyes other than the DV mark? It's not that i hate the brand, i don't, i just want more options.
Quilter makes many mini heads that are very similar to these two
@@wellmax3749 thank you really!
I used to live in upstairs apt. and had to lug either marshall dsl 100 or 6505 or even my old randall amp to band practice and noticed that kinda got the blood flowing. Those mini heads like 6505 mh have my life easier but I hate trying to compete with drums with a 20 watt head, so my question for you KDH, does this amp cut through drums?
No problem, ( 45w ) with a 12" cab
There goes your lowback
It's 2020, what are these "gigs" you are talking about?
Hi I use to have Micro dv mark great sound clean warm dynamics yes I other one too . That had fender tone it was base on sliver face I Then buy muliamp then evo an little 40 an 666 120watt dv mark great just Micro 50 is amazing fx loop would be good mite be on Micro 2 ? An little trick use tube buffer or compression the gurus one it will get wet tube amp feel if run tube overdrive maxon Micro tube one wow it great run off Pedalboard in fx loop tube buffer with out volume stop over load . I have more on use bluguitar it's lite powerful an victory duchess v4 amp really 2 bluguitar an victory big sound 😁😁😁 still got dv mark speaker cab an great evo muliamp sell off . I dv mark multiamp an evo amazing sound feel get amp sim fx poweramp witch one get . If got great Pedalboard tube pedal just Micro 50 use eq help in fx loop if got one .
Turn off the music when you play
Seven-teeeeeeeeen
2 winger riffs in one review.....arrest him...arrest him!!!!
They are not Class D power amp! Take a look at my extra gain mod
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KDH: before I review this gear, I need you to know I thinks It's heavy.
Even though I jest, I genuinely simp KDH.
Bright LEDs?
So you were ... blinded by the light?
They sound absolutely terrible...
You want a real fly rig ? Get a mooer preamp and a poweramp pedal, so you only have your guitar and a pedalboard and plug to whichever cabinet the venue has
I'll be shocked if gigs come back. Just sayin
Ew a MA100H
ill never understand the amount of grousing i hear from guitarists about having to move a 50lb amp once a week to their gig that no one cares about anyway
No these are a fail.