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Post by adam on Dec 7, 2021 16:48:21 GMT -7
Just wanted to say I picked up a used Remedy and I couldn't be more pleased with it. It's an older version without the master volume or eq bypass and it just sounds fantastic as is. No idea how old it is. I guess what I really wanted to say is that it kind of doesn't matter what Z amp it is, they all just are sonically unreal. It doesn't matter which amp it is, they all just sound fantastic, yet they are all very different from one another. Just harmonically rich and pleasing tone machines that are a complete joy to play. That's all.
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Post by helmi on Dec 7, 2021 17:20:43 GMT -7
Congrats.
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Dec 7, 2021 21:50:02 GMT -7
Here's a little bit of info for you guys from Doc: I started to serialize amps in 1990. I used the letter A to signify 1990, so A - XXXX would be an amp built in 1990. P - XXXXX would be an amp built in 2005.
DR.Z
A - 1990 B - 1991 C - 1992 D - 1993 E - 1994 F - 1995 G - 1996 H - 1997 I - 1998 J - 1999 K - 2000 L - 2001 M - 2002 N - 2003 O - 2004 P - 2005 Q - 2006 R - 2007 S - 2008 T - 2009 U - 2010 V - 2011 W - 2012 X - 2013 Y - 2014 Z - 2015 AA - 2016 BB- 2017 CC - 2018 DD - 2019 EE - 2020 FF - 2021
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Post by "Z" Steve on Dec 7, 2021 21:54:55 GMT -7
Another great plug and play creation by the Doc! Plug & play with just a guitar, or plug & play with different output tubes. Tis a beast of an amp! Congratulations!
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Dec 7, 2021 23:13:58 GMT -7
I've got the 100 watt Remedy - enough said
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Post by adam on Dec 8, 2021 5:34:40 GMT -7
I've got the 100 watt Remedy - enough said oh boy! I must say that I appreciate the concept of this one with the 6v6's and 1/2 power switch though. Fantastic and very practical idea. I must say I get a kick out of my wife's initial reaction when a new Z enters the house and she hears it for the first time. It's alway the same and along the lines of "that thing sounds FANTASTIC". I think she gets more excited about these things than I do. And I swear she never said anything like that about any other amp before the Z's, and she's never really been into guitar either. Anyway, this one is way in my wheelhouse with how I like to play and how it sounds and reacts to what I play. Like it's easy to play pretty clean playing lightly, then hit something harder and it jumps out and over. You can pretty much mix yourself without a pedal or touching the volume on the guitar.
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Post by rickenbacker1953 on Dec 8, 2021 9:43:55 GMT -7
What amps is Z offering MV upgrades for ?
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Dec 8, 2021 10:34:29 GMT -7
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Post by Faze on Dec 8, 2021 10:58:17 GMT -7
Remedy is an all time classic Z amp!
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Post by Russell B on Dec 8, 2021 13:32:20 GMT -7
I think I foresee some new videos coming!
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Post by Chilly Gibbons (Todd T.) on Dec 8, 2021 15:14:22 GMT -7
I've got the 100 watt Remedy - enough said Didn’t realize such a beast existed! And we talk about how loud and punchy our 18 watters are…
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Post by adam on Dec 8, 2021 16:11:02 GMT -7
That's me! Someday it will be like the 64 SG, which is of course better than the 63 or 65 SG. I'm going with that. Thanks
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Post by adam on Dec 8, 2021 16:17:22 GMT -7
That is really cool, never noticed that before. $150 to go over the amp and make sure it's ok by the experts... I don't know how you could go wrong with that.
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Post by nmz on Dec 8, 2021 16:38:38 GMT -7
The mods really helped me dial in the Remedy. Setting up the by-pass first then the whole tone stack gave me the closest thing to a Z two channel amp. It just worked so well. I was close to getting another for my Marshall jones but couldn’t pass up the deal I got on a EMS. Congrats it’s a great amp, loved it with a creamback, gold was nice as well.
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Post by adam on Dec 8, 2021 16:54:49 GMT -7
I think I foresee some new videos coming! Appreciate that. I'm a bit in disarray with gear demos these days and not sure how to approach really anything at this point. You can kind of take almost any piece of gear and make something out of it, like for instance the Pete Thorn video of today or yesterday on the new Wampler dual Pantheon. The video sounds great, as do all his videos, but I have a normal Pantheon and let's just say I'm not totally enamored with that one. One on hand, I think you really need to be honest with this stuff to be of some use to the consumer. Like you think Pete is putting that on his board? Probably not. The other side of that is I don't know how it's possible to really show the value of a given piece of gear. There's just no substitute for having that piece of gear in the room and experiencing that, and most particularly how that sounds in the context of an ensemble live. Not a recorded ensemble. At best, I think you can only give an idea of how an item might work for you. Sort of a snapshot picture if you will. It's like there has to be a better way. Put another way, I don't know how I can really get across how magic a piece of gear might be, this one in particular.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Dec 8, 2021 17:34:03 GMT -7
I think I foresee some new videos coming! Appreciate that. I'm a bit in disarray with gear demos these days and not sure how to approach really anything at this point. You can kind of take almost any piece of gear and make something out of it, like for instance the Pete Thorn video of today or yesterday on the new Wampler dual Pantheon. The video sounds great, as do all his videos, but I have a normal Pantheon and let's just say I'm not totally enamored with that one. One on hand, I think you really need to be honest with this stuff to be of some use to the consumer. Like you think Pete is putting that on his board? Probably not. The other side of that is I don't know how it's possible to really show the value of a given piece of gear. There's just no substitute for having that piece of gear in the room and experiencing that, and most particularly how that sounds in the context of an ensemble live. Not a recorded ensemble. At best, I think you can only give an idea of how an item might work for you. Sort of a snapshot picture if you will. It's like there has to be a better way. Put another way, I don't know how I can really get across how magic a piece of gear might be, this one in particular. It's true that there is no substitute for hands on and ears on experience, but I think the job you've done with the Z amp demos has been very good. It shows what the amp sounds like in as representative way possible. I own some of the amps that you have showcased and think you're spot on. Demos can skew the tone one way or another but my take on what you've done is that they come across authentically.
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Post by adam on Dec 8, 2021 17:37:32 GMT -7
Dave, really appreciate that.
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Dec 8, 2021 18:02:15 GMT -7
That is really cool, never noticed that before. $150 to go over the amp and make sure it's ok by the experts... I don't know how you could go wrong with that. A steal really!
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Post by Russell B on Dec 9, 2021 6:19:45 GMT -7
I think I foresee some new videos coming! Appreciate that. I'm a bit in disarray with gear demos these days and not sure how to approach really anything at this point. You can kind of take almost any piece of gear and make something out of it, like for instance the Pete Thorn video of today or yesterday on the new Wampler dual Pantheon. The video sounds great, as do all his videos, but I have a normal Pantheon and let's just say I'm not totally enamored with that one. One on hand, I think you really need to be honest with this stuff to be of some use to the consumer. Like you think Pete is putting that on his board? Probably not. The other side of that is I don't know how it's possible to really show the value of a given piece of gear. There's just no substitute for having that piece of gear in the room and experiencing that, and most particularly how that sounds in the context of an ensemble live. Not a recorded ensemble. At best, I think you can only give an idea of how an item might work for you. Sort of a snapshot picture if you will. It's like there has to be a better way. Put another way, I don't know how I can really get across how magic a piece of gear might be, this one in particular. Adam, In this case, I don't see it as a gear demo. I just really enjoy watching all of your videos. I would like to see you would do with the Remedy for pure entertainment purposes.
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Post by peteb on Dec 9, 2021 7:59:51 GMT -7
In for a new Adam video with the Remedy!
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Post by adam on Dec 9, 2021 17:54:54 GMT -7
The mods really helped me dial in the Remedy. Setting up the by-pass first then the whole tone stack gave me the closest thing to a Z two channel amp. It just worked so well. I was close to getting another for my Marshall jones but couldn’t pass up the deal I got on a EMS. Congrats it’s a great amp, loved it with a creamback, gold was nice as well. I do the same thing with the bypass and MAZ18-2. Incredibly effective with that amp. On the other hand, I just using the variable boost a little here and there. Lots of great tones in that amp. I think I'm going to leave the Remedy old school, I just love what it does out of the box so much that I don't want to screw that up somehow. It's perfection as is. Speakers - I tried the Marshall GB 4x12 first and that was fantastic. Then the Z 1x12 with the open GB and that was great too, and knocked down some volume which isn't a bad thing. Then the Z 1x12 with the V30 closed back, and that was fantastic. Then had to try the GB/CB straight 4x12 and that was just over the top fantastic, then the Splawn 2x12 with V30 and Alnico Cream and that was fantastic too. I don't have another amp that was that agreeable to all those cabs without basically changing any settings. Then tried the DI IR thing and the magic was gone. I have a couple thoughts about the amp if anyone is interested. They don't show up used very often, or at least recently, but if any of this resonates with anyone, maybe keep a look out for one. 1. It's loud. With the 2 volume controls somewhere around 9pm, it's mostly clean, and that very much depends on the guitar, but it's also quite gritty if you hit it hard. Not just gritty, but a louder and gritty. Tons of dynamic control at your fingers, but not too much. By "too much" I mean I had a modded 1959 for a while with 4 KT88's in it. That could pummel you if you hit the guitar hard. This one much easier to control in that way. 2. At the settings I have it at, various guitar are COMPLETELY different. My LP with lower output Throbak PAF style pickups is the about as glorious as a clean tone from a Les Paul that I've ever heard. My SG with custom buckers (the Gibson pickup they used in the custom shop 59 and custom shop SG currently), those are hotter (even though the resistance measurement is less). Basically I want to back down the volume on the amp with those pickups. The 2019 335, that thing is way too hot to get a clean tone out of it, but on the other hand, it sounds really good too. My strats, going from the LP to any of those, if I just pickup the normal volume a hair, it's right there with the LP. The LP custom (490/498) is way too hot for that amp and the clean tones. Sire L7 (Les Paul type model), currently with SD Saturday Night Special pickups, again way too hot. CS tele sound great like the one LP to the strats, just boost the normal volume a hair and it's right there. 3. So what does it sound like? In a word, glorious! Sort of like the old Skynard or Outlaws stuff. Lots of older sort of cleanish plexi things, which makes sense (duh). It can be very bright if you want it to be, but there's nothing shrill about it in any way. No ice pick crap here. The old Zep stuff, particularly the cleaner stuff, just spades. You haven't played Stairway until you tried this amp. I don't really hear the ac/dc stuff, but could probably get pretty close if I fussed around with it and made it louder. With the right guitar, it would probably be right there. 4. Tried a bunch of pedals with it. All the modulation pedals sound fantastic and have more detail in general than I'm used to. One that stuck out was the JHS angry Charlie which kind of took that amp to another place that would be fantastic for any heavy, hard rock stuff. In general I don't dig that pedal, but the compromise of its compression with the lack of compression in the amp sort of makes it work somehow. 5. It's pretty loud. I said that already, but it's just so musical that it's worth it. At 1/2 power setting, it's grittier and lower volume with basically the same tone. If you were going for more gain, that's a benefit, but staying clean and high headroom, 40 watts wins. The air brake seems to take little of the magic away for me with this amp, where it doesn't with my other amps, and I'm not sure why that might be. I guess that was a pretty long response that sort of turned into a review of sorts. Bottom line, killer, killer amp.
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Post by cfidave on Dec 12, 2021 14:36:06 GMT -7
I love mine, also NMV purchased here from a trusted seller. I run mine on 1/2 power for practice with a Brake Lite on 2. The only pedals I use are a Strymon Flint for reverb and a Wampler Tumnus Deluxe. All this into a 1x12 with a Celestion Creamback. Tone, tone tone, absolutely drips from this amp.
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Post by adam on Dec 12, 2021 17:44:16 GMT -7
I love mine too, and still figuring it out. It really bonds with one my of Les Pauls and 2 of my Strats. Kind of playing with the high volume around 9pm and the normal volume a little less with the LP and a little more with the Strats. It's really loud and clean, but you can control the volume very well with how hard you play and get considerable breakup if you play hard. I can play the guitar volume wide open on the Les Paul and pretty easily control the volume there to be under drummer volume, or say stay reasonable with my wife singing live in the room. If I hit it harder, easy to get grit and go over dummer volume. The point is I feel like I can control that whereas any other amp like that, I can't as easily.
I went down a little path to try and get some ac/dc type sounds today with it. Put a couple different Z 1x12'a in a different room and just kind of moved the knobs around and tried to see how close I could get to matching the recorded tones. The greenback cab was most close, and then I wound up with amp settings like bass at 0, mid at 9pm, treble 11pm, bright volume around noon, and normal around 8:30pm. From there, you could increase the midrange to more closely match some of the stuff with more gain, or turn to down the guitar volume a little to get more in the realm of the cleaner stuff. Last thing noticed was some of the recorded tones have sort of a scooped low mid, and sometimes more bass that is different from the bass or normal volume sound from the amp. That could just be the speakers and cabs and mics they used, but it also really resembled what you can do with a pultek eq (which I didn't get around to trying). Basically the amp does those sounds in spades, but there's some shaping to do with speaker/cab/eq.
Also flipped back to the ems for fun, and that thing just kills too, and it's quite a bit different, and kind of more flexible. They both just reek old killer Marshall tone, but it's also kind of funny how different they are too. I say it all the time, but we are just blessed to have these things available.
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Post by ME on Dec 12, 2021 18:56:36 GMT -7
Try it with a treble booster. I have a Time Machine Boost (Legendary Tones/Keeley). I think you’ll like the results. Just loves my ‘57 BB reissue 3 pu model. ME
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Post by wraparound (Steve) on Dec 14, 2021 22:01:55 GMT -7
Appreciated what you mentioned in point number 2 with regard to different pickups and guitars and their varied responses. It’s so often overlooked along with setups, strings, and picks and how it all interacts with what the designer worked so hard to achieve. You have a great amp there, congratulations.
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Post by John on Dec 26, 2021 6:50:09 GMT -7
and then I wound up with amp settings like bass at 0, mid at 9pm, treble 11pm, bright volume around noon, and normal around 8:30pm. From there, you could increase the midrange to more closely match some of the stuff with more gain, or turn to down the guitar volume a little to get more in the realm of the cleaner stuff.
I used to have a 1971 100 watt super lead with a bottom 4x12 with greenbacks. Glorious tone, but I owned it in the days before attenuators. Pretty much unusable because it was so loud.
But it made me a 4 input Marshall guy. That's the tone in my head.
So I set my Remedy with humbuckers going for the 'classic rock' tone. (non master volume model)
High Volume (Treble): Somewhere around 3 o'clock. Depending on needs/wants and output of pickups. Normal volume: OFF Treble: 9 o'clock mids: noon-three Bass: 3
Match this with a closed back cabinet with greenbacks, and I loved it. With the normal volume set to off, I compensated for the excessive brightness by lowering the treble knob to 9 o'clock or so. This is the setting I found to most remind me of the old Marshall. Just roll off the guitar volume for the limitless levels of crunchy rhythm.
These settings didn't work with open back cabinets, it didn't work with other speakers. It didn't work with single coils. But for humbuckers seeking that 70's classic rock tone...this was IT for me.
And if I wanted to use a single coil pickup....I would increase the 'normal' volume until I had the level of bass I wanted.
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Post by adam on Dec 26, 2021 13:04:25 GMT -7
john - I'll give it a go! Some sounds here if anyone is interested. Just a jam with drums. With the LP, bright volume about 9pm, normal almost off. Part at the beginning with the cajon, the amp was basically at drum volume and I just played with the guitar volume low to match the volume in the room. Same amp settings when the drums come in. With the strat, turned up the normal volume to match the bright volume. Revival drive and compressor here and there, boss chorus and vibrato, thee full tone choral flange doing the Leslie thing, H9 in send/return on the board. Recorded to stereo, so is what it is. Not much of a demo of the amp, but gives an idea of the amp at reasonable volume with some pedals and a couple guitars. I'm SUPER happy with it.
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