What's up everyone? And welcome to Ola Testing Shit.
Today I'm trying out the Victory Amps Kraken pedal amplifier, what?
This right here is a pedal preamp and now also amplifier
I tried out the V4 Kraken preamp, which was basically sporting the same type of looks
But now Victory Amps have come out with this
Which is basically the Victory preamp
And then a D-Class 180 watt power amplifier
And with some added extras as wellp
Not only have you 2 channels
Channel 1 and channel 2, with different Gain, EQ and whatnot
You also have a cabinet sim output designed by Two Notes, so...
So, at the same time as you are running to a cabinet
With 180 watt worth of power
You can also route out a direct signal with a cab-sim going on
And you can switch cab-sims here, on this little knob right there
And you can also hook up the pedal with USB to your computer
You can set and upload your own impulse responses and whatnot
and set reverbs and shit
It's amazing
It has preamplifier tubes in it, I think it's 1 ECAA... uh-huh-huh
And then 3 other ones as well
So it is a tube preamplifier
With a solid-state power amplifier, if that makes sense
Another nifty little feature is that it has a pedal powering output right here, so...
This pedal that I'm running here, the Empress delay pedal
is running power from this unit, with a small little cable
I like that, thank you
There's a serial FX loop
Another footswitch input, so you can...
...use another footswitch, if you wanna keep the pedal at the amplifier
And switch with something else on the floor, you can do that
And then there's also a Line out
And for this demo I'm using this Solar AB 1.6
Going into Ibanez Tube Screamer, and that goes into the Kraken preamp
Uh... Empress delay and reverb EchoSystem right there
This is a Hesu cabinet with a Demon Hesu speaker and a T75 down there
This is a Shure Sm57, that's a Neumann TLM 102
That's a stereo microphone over there
And I also have it hooked up directly to my audio interface so you can hear the cab-sims on this thing, ok?
So here we go, here's the amplifier without the overdrive or the delay engaged
Nice, so we're on...
Are we on Gain 1 or 2 right now? I don't know, but let's swtich over to Gain 2, I guess.
Which is not easy
The front of this pedal is extremely...
...slippery, look at this, it's just moving away
It's just moving around like a hockey puck on ice, basically
So I have to hold it and then switch to the red channel
Ok, I think this is where we get the metal chug going
You have Gain 1, Gain 2
Ok, good
It chugs
Bass
Middle
Treble
You also have a reverb right here
And this reverb can be controlled if you hook it up to a computer
You can save what type of reverb you want
Nice little reverb right there
How do I engage the... can I engage... what?
I was reaching for the whammy bar
The non-existent whammy bar right there
Alright
So we're on Channel 1, let's engage the Tube Screamer and see if we can chug even more
There we go, and then we shut off this
And drop the guitar pick, ok... let's roll over here
Are you guys ok?
Is that... is that my ass right there? Thank you.
You're welcome
Ok, what happens if we change to Channel 2?
I'm having a little hard time getting the bass coming through when I'm using an overdrive, listen to this
It feels like I have to have the bass on maximum to be able to get some... you know, enough bass
Even if I try to dial down the Treble and Middle...
It's just not enough, maybe it's just me
When I shut off the overdrive...
I mean, it sounds like the Bass is compressed a little bit
Maybe it's because of the D-Class power amplifier
Let's try some of the cabinet simulators
I can't hear these while I'm playing, bec-
But it's being recorded, so you just have to uh...
...understand my situation here
So here we go
I'm just gonna flip through it all
I mean...
Not that I've tried
But I imagine you can switch out all of these 6 preamps to whatever you want
Uh... on the unit, using the Torpedo... is it-
I think it's called the Live [Torpedo Remote]
Let's go back to Channel 1
Ok, here we have more bass, you can see it, the pedal's moving even
We're lucky there's a corner on this cabinet, otherwise it would just go on the floor
Alright, I guess we have to do the clean stuff as well
It's clean, relatively clean
I kinda wanna get it to the floor, to be honest
Ok...
This is for science, ok?
It's like it's dying
Those are like death shakes right there on that poor little pedal
Thank you
So there you, that's the Victory V4 amplifier for you right there
That's a full-fledged amplifier in a pedal format
If you wanna downsize your rig...
You know, go out on tour, and play at rehearsal
With a...
Without using an amplifier head
This might be a good alternative to you
Since I also tried out the Victory full-sized head
Obviously when trying this I am comparing, you know
what I hear when play the real head, and...
There's just something about a tube power amplifier that just...
It just gives a lot more
I think this sounds ok for what it is, and for the size, and for the price
But you can't really compare it to a real tube amplifier in that sense
It does sound good, though
It's not competing with a tube amplifier
But then again, it's not a tube amplifier
If you compare it to other D-Class amplifiers and pedal formats that I've tried
This holds up really well, I must say
And as you could see, I could have bass at the end there
So, thank you so much for watching my little video, I hope you enjoyed it
I hope you're not too mad that I let all my shit fall to the floor
I'm sorry, they're probably ok, just saying
But guys, thank you so much for watching my video and I'll see you next time, bye.