The BEST small tube amp for metal, no contest | ENGL Fireball 25
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You have thoroughly filled the void that Ola Englund left after he stopped doing routine gear reviews. I'm watching every video you put out, keep it up! :)
He should be nominated for the Chug Nobel Prize
Sometime I think Ola is just doun it for the clicks
I want a 10 hour loop of the intro chuggs. I've been all over your channel but never heard anything like this. I'm a chug connoisseur and you are the chosen one
Loving the tone of this at 8.47 . As someone considering this vs an ironball i cant wait to see the next few uploads. Cheers!
Killer tone for such a small amp! I'm a big ENGL fan. I really like this series on ENGL. 🤘🤘🤘
If you add a foot switch, you open up a couple features besides the usual just switching of channels. With a foot switch you get a volume boost and the ability to switch on and off the loop.
I love you testing amps man, you got the best critiques, cheers man!
I love this amp!! My favorite out of the low watt amps!! It will never leave my collection!!
Agreed dude. It's a monster of a mini boy
appreciate how you get straight to the point and actually know what youre talking about.
Ive owned evh, mesa, peavey lunchbox amps and i agree the Fireball 25 kills them all. Not only louder than the others and holds together well while cranked- but the 1 watt setting for low volume jamming gives you that great tube saturation that the other lunchboxes just dont sound great at low volume. This little amp is so killer I got the 100 watt and that one destroys everything imho. Great review and on point opinion.
I have the stealth 50. I want the fireball 25 so fucking bad. ❤
Kyle, you're killing me! Here I am, trying to build a home studio from absolute scratch... I don't even have a 2x12 yet, just a non-belligerent open-backed 1x12 & a Jet City Picovalve! And yet you continue to taunt my bank account with Fireball dreams!
No, I must resist. I need my 2x12 and a Synergy SYN-2 for the home studio! Don't inhale Kyle's G.A.S.!
Love the video, your insight is wonderful into these high-gain beasts. Keep it up!
I have the FB25 with the 212pro cab! A favourite amongst my amps, and the DuncanSolar pups on my V1.6C is a match made in hell!
Gritty high gain right up my alley🤘🏻
Every time I hear this amp, I lament that people mostly play it with the mid boost off. So thank you for giving us some good riffage with it engaged - it's like a magical "sound good" button!
agreed. on all my engls the mid switch is always on
I run this through a ENGL pro horizontal 2x12 and/or a Mesa traditional recto (not mini) horizonal 2x12. Everybody who's ever heard it has good things to say about the way it sounds! Love the ability to turn the output to line out for recording.
Damn, that sounds sooo good. Love the Fireball!
When you switched to low output pickups you hit a sweet spot that made me drool. I love that you tried very different guitars. Sounds like this amp could basically do just about anything. Allegedly it has a clean channel too.
And how dafuq does this channel only have 27k subs? That seems completely wrong.
Sick riffs and super sick tones bro.
I own the older Fireball 100 and its still to this day the best amp I've ever owned. I used it to record a black metal cover of a shock blues song from the 60's using that amp, my SW cab loaded with Fane speakers (Think they're the Sovereign model, but I could be wrong). That thing gives off a sick as fuck black metal tone
Okay damn, I really want this amp now. Super keen to hear to comparison with the bigger models!
I bought a used one from GC to try out and was impressed with the amp honestly, but it sounded very similar to my recto's and 5150 and just returned it. Plus I read that the way they are made the amps are hard to work on and honestly that was another reason for the return, but good sounding amp honestly. \m/
got one, love it. great video, looking forward to engl month.
Finally! ENGL week/month!
The Fireball is pure raw fire in tonal form.
Bought one last year. Love it. Still doesn’t replace my old Peavey 5150 combo, but it’s a way more versatile amp with less noise.
Another top shelf video! I'd love to see you take on the new Orange OR30!
I have one and love it ive been running my Helix for effects and sounds great
I can't believe how good and big it sounds!
Still rocking my one and only tube head, destroys the small amp competition.
I've got an Engl Fireball 25 and I love it! I play it through a Genz Benz G-Flex 2x12. I hear it even has a clean channel. The pedal switches are stupidly priced, though.
Yeah, that Mud Killer with the PT, was on point 🔥
The Boost on this amp is tight. Eq on both channels are perfect match. German still do great pieces of tech. I am using it on a 4cm with my hx stomp. A loud and balance beast. I do not use any noite gate even. The dynamics are immense. I have 2 Telefunken speakers from 1953 and they are still running, again, german tech.
If you like the Fireball, you’ll love the Artist Edition. It sounds like a modded Marshall mixed with a Mesa Mark series.
It sounded the best by far with the LP standard. Sounded more open and percussive.
dang that amp was born from a jackal pure evil i luv it bro awesome
I want one. They’re a little bit pricey in Canada.
Yeah Kyle!! 15:30 that is a gnarly tone, holy s^%$
Very cool...little more metal than the MT15 it seams by this video would love to see a shootout of both...i love my MT15...but now want an ENGAL
Sounds great bro.
👍👍👍 I'm sold, thanks!
I have this amp with the engl 2x12 and love it 🤘
oh man, last riff is a piece of art. reminds me good old OTEP.
Just got the Fireball 100, blows my fking mind! My buddy played it and went and got the 25😂 I can't say enough about these amps... even though I mainly play high gain brutal stuff, I can play 80s metal/hair/glam and it sounds amazing with the right tweaks. Plus I finally gave the clean channel a whirl😮 omg... downright HOLY...I farted around with the shimmer reverb and it felt like I could collapse the house if I kept it up 😂
Love these little things
What 😱🤯😱 first I’m told the EVH Stealth is the best Metal amp, then some dude on Instagram told me today the Mezzabarba Mzero overdrive is the only Metal amp I would ever need … so started selling all my amps. Now wait … the Matt Damon of Metal telling me the ENGL fireball is the best Metal amp 😮
Because there is no "best metal amp". Don't drink the kool-aid.
Hey Kyle! Thanks for a great video! Just ordered mine. :) I've seen alot of videos where it's being used together with a load box like the two notes captor X. Is there a difference using that kind of setup compared to the allready built in line-out? I allready have a bunch of good cab sims in my DAW. Cheers!
Dude this amp rips! Thanks for the badass video 👌
Dude you are FLIRTING with the Ashe zu Ashe riff with the Ltd Phoenix lol
Im holding off for a savage 25. hopefully my patience pays off
Gibson sounds great with or with out OD! Sheesh!
10:12 that tone 🔥🔥🔥
This amp rocks with synergy setup in four cable.
Great video. Loved the tones. Sounded amazing through every guitar.
I made the same face at 16:00 😈Great vid again, thanks!
Damn! Sounds sick af
My favorite ENGL amp is the Invader.
MT 15 is great also. Plus it has full size 6L6’s.
Love mine, only amp I need.
Thanks for the demo! I tried a mini-rectifier and the volume i needed to get it to sound good was way too loud for my apt…does this thing sound better at lower volumes? Also, do you use attenuators?
Lucky me living in Europe :D Insane tone for a little lunchbox
Im a small wattage high gain guy and this is one of them. I wish there are something lower than 10watts. Hope to see that one day.
This one has power scaling
Finally Kyle! Great job showcasing this beast of a mini head. I have this and dsl20hr and it is just huge difference, specially for modern gain tones! And even the clean channel is good. By the way, what is that first 7 string riff? I have heard it before but don't remember the name of the song.. Waiting to see the comparison with the big brother fb100
Do you think the ENGL is better than the DSL, or are they just different and good in their own way?
@@metalinsights9664 they are definitely different. The Dsl20hr is more traditional, more appealing to trash sounds. The ENGL is much more modern and clear. The dsl has some fiziness on the high gain channel that you need to dial around it. To be honest, at the end, I just use the engl a lot more
The Fireball 25 will be my next purchase. I have the Fireball 100. A little loud for a bedroom amp. I mainly use my REVV G20. How do you say the G20 compares to the Fireball 25?
You are 100% dead on with needing to turn on the Mid Boost when using this amp live. I gigged with it and needed to turn that on to cut though better.
I'm really curious how the Fireball compares to the Ironball 20min your opinion.
To me the Ironball is even punchier and more focused.
I have the fireball 25 awesome amp. I just got the KSR Orion ..Kyle you need to get one. I would say it's the best amp in my collection so far..incredible
Cannot wait to hear more demos about that amp! It’s seems to be a great all rounder in a small package at a decent price!
Need to hear that one.
Better than the Fireball 25?
@@wootks not as gritty as a fireball it's very smooth I also put kt88 sin mine you can use el34 6 L 6 or kt88
@@gravelrocks5588 Gunna have to look into one.
Would it work to connect the line out to an ir loader pedal?
Fireball 100 owner here, I love it!
Kyle - if I wanted something with a different voicing for some variety what would you recommend?
I'm not Kyle but i would get the new Peavey 6505 1992. I'm sure he would recommend one too...or at least any 5150 style amp
The "new" 6505 is the same circuit as "old" 6505, which is the same as the original 5150, don't fall into marketing hype.
However, the used market is bonkers, meaning that the new current production is a way to get these tones for cheaper
The rad was going with that schec tele.
@KyleBull Dude what is your day job lol. You have a MASSIVE Killer amp collection for someone with a smaller channel. Really dig your content.
Its a great head, but i would still say the PRS mt15 is the #1 lunchbox head
Had this amp and dsl20… Sold Engl and no regret…
Engl nailed these, so much better than most other lunch box heads, cheaper and better than the Mesa badlander 25 by far
Sounds sick. What about the Friedman jj Junior? Love the friedman jj
All Out War riff??? Let's go
Been looking for a 6l6 powered mini head this one is at the top.
did you try the most basic ENGL thunder head ? it has the same killer tone...
Can this Amp be enough loud in clean without significant gain to gig with a band?
Nice now I can't decide witch amp to get either the engl fireball 25 or the evhiii 50w
right, engl should make fireball 50w (just to be sure) with larger transformer and in evh5150iii50w format (fireball 100w is awesome but soo large)
just keep the output tubes without distortion , it the tube is El 84 the resistor need to be higer than 47 K , so 68 K in the PI section would help ,
The Fireball 25 and the PRS MT-15.... LB only in name...
Omgosh that thing is thu-thu-thu..thirteen hundred and fifty smackeroons?!
Regret selling my Fireball 100. Best metal amp I ever had the joy of playing
Feature wise, it definitely crushes the fireball, but it does not have the power section headroom to hang in a live band setting without being mic'd which is why the fireball is the more practical choice for my uses.
Better then Mesa mark V 25?
I wish these were not so expensive in the USA. I looked up the price on Thomann and it’s basically half but they cannot ship them to the US
Yeeessssss❤
I'm curious to see what the ENGL Ritchie Blackmore 100 has in its guts ??!!
Try the new KT77 version!
So.......headroom notwithstanding...... Those little lunchbox amps with EL84 push/pull output sections can actually be done really right, with a true 4 or 5 stage high gain preamp section and EL84Ms or 7189s if you can get 'em, or even the old leftover Soviet military equivalents (they'll have cyrillic characters saying something that looks like "6P14P-EV"). At least for recording. Headroom for a live show? Nah, you GOTTA have a mic on it and even then, if you need stage volume to hear yourself, have the cab close to you. However, for tracking metal guitar in a dense mix? They're actually sort of like a best kept secret type thing. So like, listen to a Boogie Mark V-25, recorded with the same mic(s) on the same cab, with only volume compensation is post. Solo'ed, they sound VERY close. BUT, in the mix? They actually work BETTER a lot of the time, due to the rounded character of the EL84 output. You won't need to do all that hard high-passing OR really much compressing of chugging parts, it's kinda already gone and did for you by them EL84s. That said, Engl makes MONSTERS, regardless of their size, and this is no exception. Nice demo.
Compare it with the Soldano 30. I have this Engl amp.
Plz do a 4 way shoot-out with Engl
Fireball
Powerball
Inferno
Ironball
I wonder what the difference is between this and the ironball lunchbox head? I mean tonally.
ENGL MONTH YEAH
Ive been wanting an ENGL for years...one of these days ....
Better then the Mezzabarba Skill? 🙀
Surprised it sounds better with les Paul
This or the badlabder 25?
I want to try this i've been using an MT15 and I love it. I wonder how this will compare for me personally.
Same 4 me...I've had the MT15 too for a year...kicks ass
There about the same
@seanobrien9299 they both have same tubes very similar
I’m running my MT-15 through a Mesa 212 vertical and I love it, but I really want to give this one a shot too. Built in noise gate and attenuation is making me jealous lol.
Vs 5150 50s?
I want this amp so bad it hurts
Wonder if we can get an MT15 vs Fireball25 comparison
Unfortunately I no long own either.
Sounds good, though it sounds a bit like the signal is being compressed in the DAW or on the way in. Doesn't happen all the time, though
no compression pre or post
I have the same amp but a smaller cabinet, i cant get these tones at all