Victory V40 "The Duchess" - Everything you need to know!
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- The V40 is am amazing clean amp and therefore the ideal pedal platform. I am taking it into many different directions and test it with different guitars and pedals.
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Yep, the "wind blowing" or "paper crumpling" sound is definitely a preamp tube that's gone bad or microphonic. Sometimes you can pinpoint which preamp tube has gone bad by lightly tapping on the preamp tubes with a pencil/wooden dowel and listening for which one causes the tapping to transfer into the speakers in the cabinet.
Christ on a bike, I hadn't watched your video yet but it has been the deciding factor on pushing the button and buying this amp. Exceptionally versatile and just what us pedal platform guys need. Great video :)
the preamp tube problem was really helpful! I think I had the same problem a few times. Now I know what to do =)
Great video! Thanks mate.
I had the same problem, but after fixed the amp never was the same. There a lot of noises
Strange that i watched another youtuber say that he didnt like Victory amps because he had nothing but issues and here i see a live demo and BAM issues. I respect you that you kept it in the video but if i didnt see that other video i would forgive and forget.
I've had the same noise on my newly acquired used V40 and it was NOT a preamp tube but a POWERAMP tube instead! No problem, thanks to your "poweramp tube kit" video I solved it! :)
Thank You!
I bought this amp a month ago. LOVE IT. I use it for anything from clean blues to loud and obnoxious fuzz laden sounds so heavy it sounds like the pedals will melt. It has a beautiful clean but won't get as sparkly and the brightest fenders. Speaker pairing should be considered. if you want a brighter sound look for a brighter speaker , else it will have a softer tone. Perfect amp for me. couldn't be more pleased.
Is it a bedroom amp?
Allan Ardon it does 40watts so not by design, but you can switch down to 0.5watts for bedroom play
I’m really pleased with mine which I’ve played including on stage with a big soul band for more than two years. It is nearer to a Fender than anything else but it is definitely ‘its own man’ when it comes to sound (distinctive as here). It’s great with or without pedals. For agreeable crunch, put the Master Vol at nine o’clock and the Volume to 10. I went for the 6L6 valves which I agree with another reviewer are slightly darker than EL34. It is plugged into a Montage ported cab with a Celestion A Type, American sounding speaker, chosen for the Motown and Stax numbers we play. Because it is ported the cab really let’s out all the sound energy ‘effortlessly’. Montage cabs are incredible value for money, well made and free of buzz and rattle. The digital reverb has none of the horrible nasal quality of spring reverb. Loads of power at 7watts… enough for live work leaving the PA to do the heavy lifting. It also smells nice hot😉 Nothing not to like 👍
Oh yes. I use an ES355 guitar with a Varitone switch. This enables five different levels of capacitance to be applied. Using positions 3 4 & 5 removes any excess ‘darkness’ when needed. Folks moan about the Varitone thing but I just don’t know why.
Thanks, man! I appreciate it. It's not so easy to find jazz tones reviewed. It's as if the players couldn't afford it, or something.
This guy , this amp , that song ... absolutely superb ! Always great videos . Framus Guitcon = A1+ ! Good work bro . Oh and yes I am a big fan of lunch-box style amps . These Victory amps are superb.
thank you!
I am one of those people (who play predominantly clean). All I own is a delay pedal, a reverb pedal and a chorus/vibe pedal. It is great fun. However, even I crank my amps a bit sometimes.
Frickin love your videos. I have the Countess and having played both, EVERYTHING IS TRUE I TELL YOU.
That is everything I need to know about the amp that I, myself and many pedalnerdsanddizzles, have been eyeing.
Some really tasty single coil playing with the Framus. Wonderful amp. Hope you get the chance to also review the V40 Deluxe.
You are by far my favorite gear reviewer. Great entertainment and excellent reviews. Thank you. Subscribed.
I don't think it sounded horrible through the clean speaker. I mean it's not a very sweet sound but it's certainly useable in the right context in recording, especially in double tracking.
Echt Mega sympathisch seid ihr und ihr habt mir mit einem 2 Jahre altem Video geholfen, eine Gitarre zu kaufen :)) Sofort abonniert diesen Kanal!
wow, what an amp! It is very smooth and clear...
That blown tube wouldn't seem such a big deal but Phillip McKnight who had a retail store mentioned he also found quality control issues with Victory amps. Of course Chapman never mentions these things but it's still a bad look on Victory if these issues are a common thing. Nice that they fixed it for you quickly & were honest about it at least. Great sounding amp!
Not trying to be the devil's advocate but... It would be interesting to know if people in Europe and especially in the UK have this same problem with bad valves. It could just be due to it being shipped across the Atlantic after all, valve amps are quite fragile. Now that I think about it if the problem really is that why doesn't this happen in Europe with American amps (or does it? Honestly have no idea)?
My V40 bought in Canada came with 4 broken valves, broken power LED and required all of the valve sockets to be either replaced or re-soldered. It's been a year since and it's still a bit noisy but it does sound pretty damn good cranked with a KTR.
The « master » is buzzing because it’s an OD when turned up and volume turned a bit down
Great video. Had to buy this little lunchbox. Have had many high end amps, this one is amazing. It kind of sits in the middle of many of my previous amps - but in an absolutely good way. And it works really great with pedals :-)
That's a really nice pedal friendly amp, great demo man! Cheers
That opening track was most triumphant.
If you open up the amp and see for yourself the quality of workmanship inside you'd be blown away I own 3 quality is not just in a name it's what they do" in their sleep " also great customer service
I love your collection of amps!! nice work. send me your vocal tracks and ill tune them
I’ve seen the same amp’s demo by Danish Pete and decided to buy it. After this demo I’ve changed my mind.
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Can you get a decent break up tone on the lowest wattage for home use?
I had exactly the same weird noise coming from my Laney Lionheart LT20. After hours of searching google and UA-cam for possible causes, none of which sounded anything like my noise I contacted Laney. They asked for a sound clip which took me forever to record as every time I hit the record button, the noise stopped. Eventually I succeeded, guess what , dodgy preamp valve.
Finally someone mentioning the crappy UI solution for the preheat and power scaling. Probably the only problem with the amp, though. Too bad it's on most of their models :(
Ich habe die Super Duchess in Köln in einem großen Musikalienhandel (na, wo wohl?) getestet und war total begeistert. Wenn man einen Sound sucht und den gefunden hat am Amp, dann holt man sich eben die benötigten Effekte via Pedal. Aber da ist einfach was sehr puristisches dran und das hat mir sehr, sehr gut gefallen!
I completely understood it the way that the 'preheat' stands for middle position, what else should it mean? But maybe they could write all three positions above or below the switch to avoid misunderstandings.
I'd say you don't need that written on at all, everybody who uses such amps will figure out that the middle position is 'standby', wether they're allowed to call it that or not.
Little late to the party but you should update this great review with the new pre-tube at 40 Watts. Not a complete review at 7 watts honestly.
good video pleased you kept it in the comments from Victory
I had the same problem with Marshall JVM410. I sent it back
Terrific review! Thank you very much
That Hartung guitar is really sweet. Nice amp too.
Too much Monty Python and too much coffee created this video, love it Henning haha!
I have a victory n they are a very loud 7. Oddly enough i have had 2 victories both had bad pre amp tubes one i had just got so i exchanged it but then the next one after about 3 months. My tech said something about it using a different tube in low or high mode or something as mine also failed in high power only
"High preheat" is actually 2 different settings. High is high power, preheat is standby, and low is low power. Edit: I spoke too soon!
I disagree, I really enjoyed the Friedman combo, just outstanding!
One the best metal tone ever.
I had the same problem with preamp, but after fixed the amp has never was the same, there are a lot of noises. I think it´s a defect in the project
Henning you should enter the victory is ours song in Eurovision 2017, that's a 100% guaranteed nil points if ever I heard one.
You know by his face when he turns on the compressor that it's a good one
Do you know MV3 amplifier? As a german, you really should try it. It is old, ugly and awkward (same as me) toaster, but man, this thing is beast. It is similar to AC30. It is really amazing pedal platform, huge round mellow clean tone.
sounds good man, it seem like you plug all the Head to one speaker, are you using patch bay to connect all the Head output to Two Note ? what is the easy way that you don't have to unplug two note input when you want to switch amp every time? i have couple amp head and i have only one two note now
I'm new to the pedal platform thing..I have a Hughes and Keltner grandmeister 40 and it's cool for rock and metal but I'd like to be able to be more versatile. I love that Texas tone and I want to be able to access that. If anyone could give me advice I'd appreciate it. I just purchased a v40 duchess , probly gonna grab a Friedman deluxe pedal for my moded Marshall tones. But I'm not well versed in the tube sceamer and blues driver territory. I was thinking King tone soloist and and jhs bonsai for my Texas tones. I've done much research but it seems like there are do many overdrives and boosts out there my head is spinning..anyone got any suggestions? I have a 96 lonestar strat with the pearly gates hb and Texas special single coils and plan on grabbing a silver sky. Please help !!
May be the Hum was there, because the plug of the Nemesis Delay was not pluged in completly, so in the Amps FX Loop there was an open Input and this causes Hum!!
no, I plugged it in... and the loop was on bypass and I also pulled ALL the plugs from the amp. It was a bad tube.
Oh, I see!!
Nice amp and all but I need that compressor so bad. If only it wasn't so expensive in Germany.
Klasse Video. Danke...
I see you got some extra shelves for your amps. Nice.
I have the same noise on my laney lionheart. I'll buy new preamp tubes thanks.
How do you think the MXR 5150 would sound out of it? Just curious if it can deliver that growl the smaller 5150 amps have...
The Noise was gone, after you pluged in the Nemensis Delay correct - not a bad Component or Tube!!
It was still there when he disengaged and unplugged everything, wasn't it?
Rolf D you look like a twin brother of the guy in the video lol
is this a dull sounding amp ? I've read plenty of comments where players had maxed the treble but still wanted more, I find this odd.
Nice amp... But I see very often Victory broken amp on Reverb... Just saying...
I see you have the Ojai from Strymon, I just receive the Zuma and it's great, even able to power my Es-8 and my Neo Ventilator 2!
everything i need to know: i can plug a guitar in it, its loud and sounds decent doing it loud.
... how does it sound with single coils? hum buckers? Hollowbody? Does it take pedals well? Does the FX loop work great? This amp is made for pedals, so you need to throw a bunch of them in front of it... these are questions I answer because over the years I have gotten them over and over again... the viewers determine how I review... and if they need to know these things, I will show them!
thats good to know. my comment wasnt a critique anyway.
Dieser Typ mit seinen flachen Witzen, seinem bekloppten Abgespaste und den anzüglichen Sprüchen die eigentlich garnicht passen...Dafür find ich dich super Henning. Mach weiter so. Das zeichnet dich aus ;)
At around 44:45 I though you were gonna launch into the Beverly Hills 90210 theme song. 😅
Hey Henning, du benutzt die Box of Rock hier im Video und Du hast mal eine Serie über die z.vex Candela gemacht, kann man in Zukunft mal Reviews von z.vex Pedalen erwarten? Die Fuzz Faktory wird wohl nicht ganz was für dich sein, aber die haben ja einige coole Pedale im Portfolio. Würde mich sehr drüber freuen, falls du mal etwas von denen präsentieren könntest.
ich denke da wird sicherlich mal irgendwas kommen
Wampler had the same idea. You saw it in NAMM. How does it compare?
The Katy perry joke will always be funny. Hahahaha
Is it loud enough to have a solo heard over a medium-loud drummer while still staying completely clean?
You should push the box of rock with the ghoul screamer
It's what I do, it sounds nice ;)
can u review the new EVH lunch box amp? thanks....
Do you like this amp? If no, what’s it missing/lacking?
it is missing treble... a lot of it
@@EytschPi42 what year was your example produced? They’ve changed some bright cap issue around late 2016 I think? Also, what speaker did you use with the amp?
I’ve played one from 2017 and while I agree it could use a little more sparkle/top end or a presence control I didn’t find it too dark…
Kannst du noch ein Video zum V30 oder the Sherriff 22 bzw 44 machen?
Gruß Felix
Hi! I've looking for an upgrade for my gear and I'm looking for something with great versability and reliability. The usage would be for practice and studio. I've been searching for many options ( from rack systems, tube amps, solid state amps and kemper/ axe fx stuff) but I can´t decide since I can´t test then in my country (Perú). It seems that you know plenty of this and tried a bunch of gear so... What do you recomend me to buy?
how much flexibility do you need? What is your budget? Do you want to work with pedals? There are a million choices and a million questions!
Hmm I play from jazz, blues, prog metal, and some metal. My budget would be 2500$ and yes I would like to work with pedals. Since my old "gear" is an 15w spider 3 everything would be better.haha
Are these made by Orange (OEM contract) ? I'd be surprised if they weren't to be honest. The build quality and style screams Orange.
Thanks ! Does it lack treble ?
yes
I like the video but the vocals in the track r almost unbearable
riheg if you needed a spirit level, you use hennings vocal track because it is as flat as a pancake.
I personally really enjoyed the vocals for this track, do you know the band?
I don't want to be that guy who is always putting others down for having a different opinion because I respect your views and I don't want to start a war 😂
This demo just tells me one thing.....I NEED THAT FUCKIN AMP! 47:11 was exactly what I was searching for..semi driven pushed with an overdrive..perfect...and ha..the next proove that the BE-OD is pretty much one of the most overrated pedals out there..
Nice video my friend; i have 1380€ and many Good pedals (wampler,boss,mxr,xotic..) i want To buy a tube amp who Can take Well pedals for sound like jimi hendrix, ac dc, classic rock and blues; witch one ??
Fett Boba Karim of course a used jtm45
Friedman Dirty Shirley Mini
haha CLC again :D
Juts an question - for how long have you been playing the guitar?
Dainius Vyšniauskas as he's about my age I guess around 25 years if he started as a teenager like I did. The difference is I still suck badly :(
WOW... this just made my day !!!!
I am 41 years old... been playing guitar for 27 years
I'd say he got close enough o.o
But damn, you've been playing guitar for longer period of tim than I am alive...
Which is great, because I have another 26 and 3/4 years to catch up!
Well, I am nearly 43 and as I've just calculated, have been playing for 27 years, too. This is getting really depressing... but it's all my fault, I am a lazy mf who never really practiced. So, young Dainius, practicing you shall do, until your fingers fall off ;-)
Truth to be told, I am not that young, 24 already.... Should have started 10 years ago, but it is how it is :(
Gotta practice twice as hard then!
KT Perry. I'm knocked :D :D
i have a original vintage Princeton 64 with a 12' speaker and a 63' vibroverb reedition 2x10
Every time i compare it with a kind of these amps i return to my Fender's
heute wohl rechtsträger. NEIN ich hab nicht mit absicht hingeschaut!
read as Volvo V40
First off, that Framus is one ugly guitar, sounds great but man ugh. This amp is fairly inexpensive so I wish you had demoed the white Harley Benton guitar that you played in the intro through it as well as the uber expensive guitars. kudos for keeping the tube issue in.
He says it around 1k, that's pretty cheap compared to a marshal or almost any other good tube amp.
Valves by their very nature are temperamental.
pretty sure it's the transformer tube!
Please, for the sake of humanity, go get an Autotune license. Right now.
why exactly do I need that?
You need it to fix your vocal tracks. When you have to decide between "honesty" and not causing irreparable damage to your audience, the latter has to win. Otherwise quite a fine track, I enjoyed it.
oh my scary song in the beggining. what is that scottish death folk music?.
im scared now....
im sorry but those vocals are horrific. its the persons vioce. aaahhhh....i had to tell the kids leave the room.
i tried again. i cant watch your challen at all.