I picked up my VH4s 15+ years ago after going through virtually averything in Beyer's Music's impressive amp room and it has proven to be the best gear investment I've ever made. To this day the VH4s is STILL the best amp I've ever tried and it brings me joy every single time I turn it on. 10 or so years ago, I did the pilgrimage from Denmark to Bavaria for a check-up and tube change performed by Peter personally. It is such an rare experience, when both product, service and the man behind the company earn a solid 10/10... but the VH4, Diezel and Peter himself truly does... and then some! I can't see myself EVER needing another amp, but if I do, it'll be a Diezel!

"Hi, I'm Peter and this is my friend Peter. The cameraman's name is Peter too". Love your amps guys, thanks a lot for all that you do! Rock On!! Long Live Heavy Metal!!!

Congratulations Peter, this amp is a swiss knife built in german quality for an american vibe. I remember when I sent you an e-mail in septembre 2014 to order the VH4-S (stereo) loaded in 6L6 power tubes. You said : "Like KT77 much better, but customer is king". I still play this amp and will never regret the 6L6's choice : these tubes give the best modern crystal and warm clean tone I ever heard with the channel 1. The channel 2 sounds fat for the crunch, really better than EL34. And the channel 3 is a master piece for modern rhythmic guitar with a vintage flavor. You managed to put the magic inside. In this video you are talking about your influences and, yeah, it's so true : the VH4 is at the crossroad of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Paul Gilbert, but became a thrash metal weapon of massive destruction with Tool and Metallica. Because the VH4 is the most versatile amp on the market.About the channel 4, what you said in this video is the key : this channel is made for single notes. Sorry, but for the lead tone, the fat and muddy high gain, I have never found better than my old Dual Rectifier Solo Head 2 channels revision G made in the 90's. The parallel FX loop of the Rev G Dual Recto is great for analog delays as the Boss DM2. The mix and the send knobs of the loop works like a master volume. No need a powerbreak here. Its so good that I play 4 heads like that to get a wet/dry/wet system for soloing. In fact, the channel 4 of the VH4 is really good to play with the Rectifier tone. Because the VH4 gives articulation to the sound. You can hear clearly all the notes and it is easier to shred with this channel 4. And it is really better than the "new" sound of the 3 channels Rectifier multi watts in production at the moment. But it's another story.Well, back to the VH4 : to me, the real power of your flagship comes from the FX loops. One insert per channel, each one available or not by midi switching. Crasy! So what we have here ? 4 inserts and 1 stereo loop, serial and parallel ! For live applications, there is nothing better than the VH4. Yeeeeeeeha! Many thanks to Peter "Santa Claus" Diezel. My Boss DM2 Waza Craft (shred delay), my Way Huge Echo Puss (short delay) and my Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail (long delay) need a parallel loop to mix them with the high gain without loosing dynamic. But my JHS Panther Cub, my Jam Llama+ and my Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man need a serial loop. With the VH4, I can play them in the same amp. And my Eventide Time Factor is happy too, especially the ping pong mode in stereo. Crasy I said! The only other amp I know with such a good loop is the wonderful Bogner Ecstasy. I play a 20th anniversary 101A custom shop to get a kind of hot-roded vintage Marshall tone. But it's really expensive for us in Europe (I'm a French bastard). The VH4, the 90's Dual Rectifier and the Ecstasy are the 3 best tube heads ever built. It's impossible to choose, you must play the 3 amps. They are additional. I played many other amps, I'm not talking about combos here (Matchless amps rule in this territory). Some of them are really goods (the Soldano SLO is great for exemple), some of them are not. But they can't reach the high end level of a Diezel VH4 silverface, a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier revision G and a Bogner Ecstasy 20th anniversary together. I'm talking about the tone of heavy rock. This is just the summit. Long live the VH4! Tschuss.

Somehow this just isn’t right without a Silverburst Les Paul tuned to Drop D.

Child of the 70's and 80's indeed! The source of all great rock guitar tones.

Picked up a VH4 pedal on the weekend and ran it through the power amp of my Two-Rock Studio 22, into a Two-Rock 1x12. Without a doubt the best distortion I've ever heard, it was intensely amazing.

Just got a VH4 2 months ago, this was so useful and informative thanks guys, looking forward to more!

Wenn ich euch zuschaue, geht mir das Herz auf. Ihr seid der Hammer. Macht weiter so !!!!!

The best amp I've ever had...greetings from Chile

Adam "Chones." Lol

Fantastic video guys! Great to hear some insight into this legendary amp from the man himself! Thank you and keep up the awesome work. :-)

best amps in the world, cleans are really hifi overdrive is massive

The best amp I've ever heard.... Hands down...

10:34 for the highlight of this video. Just sounds incredible when he dials that volume up.

2021 and I'm still rockin a 2009 Diezel. Nothing compares.

Very entertaining & educating on the side. So proud to own a VH4 since 5 years (remember the Purple Monster?)

I love the smile on Peter Diezel face with the high gain up. Just ordered my first Diezel amp and looking forward to it!

Very nice to see a seasoned player show off some Classic Rock licks on ch 2 & 3. Its beautiful hearin Adam and Het play it but the Ac/Dc riffs on an LP just sound PERFECT! I feel its the sweet spot. Thank you both for bein so cool when I’ve popped by at NAMM years back. Truly humble guys.

Awesome demo - fantasic amp - two great guys!

love these guys!

Amazing job guys. My son Alex Ordered and Bought a 2011 Blueface VH4. What a great machine!!!! Much respect. David Hopkins

I love Diezels for what they do, and this one for me is the champ, together with the Dmoll amazing stuff

Danke fürs geile Video. War gute Übung für meine deutschen Sprachkenntnisse. Der VH4 ist auch ein richtig geiler Amp! Ganz liebe Grüße aus den USA!

The pinnacle of rock tone.

alle paar Monate kuck ich das Video wieder an und erfreu mich über den Sound... der VH4 ist einfach legendär

I keep coming back to these videos

Great amp, must have in the collection. 😀👍

One day I'll have one of these incredible beasts, I made a promise to myself.

Just sounds amazing...

My VH4 arrives next week! Upgrading from the VH2. Can’t wait!

okay, i'm sold... vh4 here i come!

Best amp ever made!

thanks to this video I need a VH4 ! super video danke de France !

This amp sounds phenomenal. So much bottom end and rich gain. I’m waiting for my VH2 arrive and cannot wait!

Demonstrates “Deep” setting... sold. OMG I want one now! 🤤

Imagine Radiohead - The Bends played with the channel 2 on this amp... perfect!

Just ordered a brand new VH4....I was struggling to choose between Hagen, Herbert, and Vh4. Diezel makes the best amps.

Massive sound. Love it. One day I will be rich and I will get one 😃

Ihr seid super :)

the vh4 is the greatest amplifier ever made

Best highgain ever!!!!!!!!!!!

Best rock/metal amp ever made. Only thing that comes close is the Friedman JJ.

I love this amplifier, it is very powerful, rich and dense, it is a pity that it is very expensive in Russia and you only have to listen to it on the Internet.

My 96 Blueface 96030 is my no 1 go to studio amp. I use it for everything......I use Channels 1 and 2 mostly.....always with a Klon Zentaur on Clean Boost and a 1176 after the guitar

Das Frontpanel vom VH4 war wahrscheinlich einfach als großer Mittelfinger an alle Ergonomie-Experten gedacht, oder? 😁

In 16 Jahren wo ich jetzt einen Diezel gerne hätte hab ich es nie geschafft nach Bad Steben zu euch zu fahren und ich komme aus Hof. Ich hab mein Marshall AVT und muss mit dem bisschen Gain leben

Bonjour, Je viens de recevoir mon Vh4, commande passé chez Thomann. Quel Noise Gate conseillez-vous pour cette Tête ? Avez-vous sur cette vidéo un Noise Gate de branché ? Et comment ? Merci pour vos réponses. Musicalement. Bonjour du Pays Basque 🤘

"Eine Swamp Ash Standard oder was is des?" "Weiß gar ned..." - der Blick vom Peter D unbezahlbar! So solls sein, sich geil spielen lass und gut klingen, wurscht was drauf steht.

OK, and I certainly would love to have a Diezel Amp if I can get it.....

i love my vh 4 mega crunch

I have no experience with Diezels. I have taken a break from guitar after 20+ years and looking for something to get back into recording my riffs/songs. I've always been a fan of suuuper straight up simple amps like Cornford, Divided by 13 or old school Marshalls. While I love how those sound in the room, recording them have been always very tough for me in higher gain hard rock territory. It's doable but takes so much mic position fiddling. Mainly cause of their non saturated / non compressed nature ( I think ). Mesas on the other hand have been album like quality sound while recording them with the quickest & dirtiest setups although I don't necessarily prefer their sound in the room. But they sound great on recording! SO... I guess question to VH4 owners is, do you think this amp would do the trick for me? Marshall based sound with more clarity and bottom end. A little more compressed sounding while keeping definition. Hope this makes sense. Thanks!

hallo Herr Diezell, sie machen echt geile Amps. Es wäre super cool wenn sie vom 3 Channel des Vh4 einen Preamp raus bringen, würden viele sofort kaufen.

Papa Speaks!

One day....

In Australia, this amp is close to 10k

16:52 Pretty sweet

This is an Amp with much power, however a very high price. Off course it is handmade, so I do not want to complain. I play currently a BluGuitar Amp1 and a H&K Black Spirit 200 Combo Amp. So it would be great to compare these Amps to your fantastic Diezel Amp, or is there so much difference?

ich baue mir gerade den dritten kanal in einen princeton reverb

Der Gerät.

Yes, they are right, die haben es richtig: man braucht 4 Effekte im Amp, denke ich, wenn man live spielt. Drei gehen auch, zur Not. Ist halt meine Erfahrung als Gitarrist.

Und jetzt bin ich in Bad Steben auf Reha

@15:40

How does this compare to something like a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier or Road King?

What microphone are you using?

Der Amp bringt das echt brutal, stimmts?

Please help identify which year is VH4 silverface with serial 1101284. Thanks in advance

Does it have a built-in attenuator? How can it work on 3 watts?

12:16 intro

das gehör ist nunmal adaptiv. wenn man was macht, dann gewöhnt man sich dran und findet es gut. nach einiger zeit wenn man andres hört wieder schlecht. daher immer referenz stück hören und dann wieder hören

Hier ist ein Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNV-eKx92LGciHk.html Dort kann man Sophie Lloyd mit ihrer Diezel VH4 usw. sehen. Sie erklärt es auch ziemlich gut und einfach.

Hallo Peters, wieder ein klasse Video. Ich lese in den Kommentaren immer "bitte in englisch". Ihr habt viele Fans und Kunden in den USA usw. Warum macht ihr keine kompakten englischen Untertitel? (Für die Franken: Underdiddl)? Ein treuer Herbert-User.

Still no bass amp from diezel? Damn..

Weird mic position, no?

F$3k me that sound at 10.40 ... I thought my VHT 50cl was good but wow that's just sublime.

Schade nur keiner geht ans Telefon oder beantwortet die Anfragen. Hatte das Geld bereit, hab mir jetzt einen Boogie geholt....

I have a Kontrolle Mod and Kechari Mudra mod on mine. Thanks for shipping that big heavy piece of shit every week 😂😂

geleinsen auf CLEAN SOUND sind aktinliche aberkanufe TUBE SCREAMER oder bleiben war sind du STEVE VAI rauchenwasser nach dan DELAY HARMONIZER und uberlegen stucke genau ablast

I would love to be able to afford any Diezel amp, but because of this affordability issue I have I've switched over completely from tube to less expensive solid state amps. I still do love my old Marshall and Fender tube amps and bring them out to gig on occasion, but my Quilter Tone Block 202 can get any tone I need with all the same feel, response and harmonic content of vintage or modern tube amps effortlessly which is quite incredible for a Solid state amp! I fully recommend Quilter amps as the only viable alternative to a tube amp!

video start at 9.00 with a true guitar

dieses teil verpasst mir jedesmal eine brettharte erektion

Escuchaba como se hablaban y estaba esperando a que se caguen a piñas

Das kann mir jemand schenken;

Fuck i don't know German

I think these amps sound fantastic when you play really high gain metal , but , I have to say, for Classic Rock, my Orange Dual Terrror sounds a million times better than a VH4 or an Engl / Mesa Rectifier / SLO type cascading preamp sound. I don’t think it’s possible to do both due to the preamp architecture. That’s why you have amps like the Friedman buxom betty and the dual terror.

Absolutely the worst amp in a live band mix I have ever owned. Truly heartbreaking after spending 4K on this amp. Doesn’t matter how you dial it. I tried removing damn near all the bass, low end and most of the gain, cranking up the treble and mids in a desperate effort to be heard and balanced in the mix proved futile. It only had to keep pace with a peavey 5150 owned by the other guitarist in our band at the time but couldn’t come close. I’m truly shocked and beside myself that anyone endorses this amp. Truly the strangest experience with any amp I’ve ever owned in 40+ years.

this sux..