That’s awesome to hear! Yeah man, this amp is like the best, modded original WITH a variac. Unbelievable.

Yeah, with a sledgehammer. Booooom, haha!

@@KrisBarocsi I will forever know him as the wife whisperer. 😂 he knows why but I’ll just say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas 😂

@@PooNinja You know what? I really wanna hear that story so let’s meet up in Vegas. I guess it’s allowed to tell it there, right? So when is your plane leaving? 😆

@@KrisBarocsi just watch the tone talk with jake e lee 😂it’s long but sooo worth the time

Thanks so much Mario! I am a lucky bastard, indeed. 😅

Hey brother, thanks so much! 🤗 I hope you had an amazing time with the fam. 🙌

Aww man, that’s awesome to hear. Yeah I felt exactly like how I looked in that video, haha! 100% mind blown from this thing. 😆

Man, you’re the best. Thank you so much. 🙌

Awesome, congrats buddy! How would you compare the TS to the Plex?

@@KrisBarocsi The TS has more of the JTM saggy/squishy feel along with a looser and more substantial low end response. The TS is loud at 40w, but the Plex is WAY louder at 50w. Like with some of the old Plexi amps when measured, I really wonder how much the Plex is putting out. I will say the TS with it's master is far more controllable in my opinion. The Plex master doesn't really seem to lower volume until you get it cranked around to 2 or lower. That said, I wanted a full on modern wild plexi so I have ZERO complaints with the Plex. Out of the box the TS is voiced darker, but adjusting the tone stack especially the Bass and Deep knobs will open it up. The Plex out of the box, is just "there" as far as tone EQ for me. And definitely like you, I'm finding I like the bright switches set in default position most of the time, although to the left on channel 2 really is fantastic in my opinion. I think now with having both of them I have the ultimate pair of a modern JTM style amp along with a modern Plexi. You should definitely give the TS a shot!

When the TK Royalist came out last year I AB’d with my Twin Sister and for me there was no contest. The TS went out the door straight away because it is very muted by comparison. When the Friedman Plex came along I wanted to AB again and throw a BE50-Dlx with custom Channel 1 Plexi into the comparison. Again the BE-50Dlx with Plexi channel fell well short and I found the new Friedman Plex giving a far more natural tone. It also made the excellent Royalist seem more sterile in tone than the Friedman Plex. I swapped the BE50-Dlx out for the new Plex and thought I might be letting the Royalist go too. But back at home when trying both the Royalist and Plex together I started to feel more magic in tandem. I have to say what I find most surprising is how pleasing the Plex clean tone comes across. It has a very sweet treble which really gives it a HiFi quality but in a lush way, not analytical. This Plex is one great amp, but I must admit I am experiencing it through a Fryette Power Station for ultimate control of the amp with FX loop. Without a Fryette PS other users might find the other amps more flexible for their own use.

Haha, thanks man! F# is awesome and always there to help whenever you‘re in the „I’m so fed up with A and E“ mood. 😆

Thanks a lot!

Haha, all hail the anarchy. 🤘😆

Thanks man! Oh yeah that Bogner is insane too, have fun with it!

😆 Well, if you crank this thing and stand right in front of the cab, it will hurt you. Btw I ask myself all the time, pretty much every single day „What the hell did I just say?“ At least I keep myself entertained, haha!

Hi, yeah the MVC is great but the amp sounds best when the knob is at least over 12 o'clock. So a good attenuator is the way to get the most out of the Plex.

Thanks! Someone shared his experience with the Twin Sister and the Plex: Tomshoemaker662: "The Twin Sister has more of the JTM saggy/squishy feel along with a looser and more substantial low end response. The TS is loud at 40w, but the Plex is WAY louder at 50w. Like with some of the old Plexi amps when measured, I really wonder how much the Plex is putting out. I will say the TS with it's master is far more controllable in my opinion. The Plex master doesn't really seem to lower volume until you get it cranked around to 2 or lower. That said, I wanted a full on modern wild plexi so I have ZERO complaints with the Plex. Out of the box the TS is voiced darker, but adjusting the tone stack especially the Bass and Deep knobs will open it up. The Plex out of the box, is just "there" as far as tone EQ for me. And definitely like you, I'm finding I like the bright switches set in default position most of the time, although to the left on channel 2 really is fantastic in my opinion. I think now with having both of them I have the ultimate pair of a modern JTM style amp along with a modern Plexi."

@@KrisBarocsi thank you so much. It’s what I feared. I need both. 🤣

@@mrnorbotron3308 Sorry for the „bad“ news. 😆

@@KrisBarocsi 🤣

Yes, sorry if it came through the wrong way but that‘s exactly what I meant. The H.V. (normal) power setting is the full power and the L.V. (Variac) setting is reduced power. So nothing increases the voltage, it’s quite the opposite. 👍

KZfaq compresses alot, so it may be that.

What are you listening on? No lack of bottom end in good headphones here.

Yeah, it sounds a little different in my DAW compared to YT but it's not a huge difference. The thing with these plexi style amps is, that the power amp distorts, so you can't really add extra umph with resonance knobs, etc. If you want it to be as crazy tight as this is, you can't have the rumble, at least not as much of it as modern amps sometimes have. Also, I have a low cut on the guitar track, which is the first thing every sound engineer does anyhow. I mean, check out a few EVH recordings from his Plexi era, those amazing guitar sounds also don't have a lot of low end. Cheers!

​@@KrisBarocsiThat's the bass player's job.

@@KrisBarocsi Yes Chris; any amp by itself is going to be eq'd differently if mixed into a track with other instruments. I'm probably basing my taste for fuller low end on an old late sixties 100 watt plexi I used to own, and the 100's sound quite different from the 50's, in that the 100's have more dynamic kick or attack, whereas the 50's are what Yngvei describes as "sweeter and mire compressed." My old plexi was extremely loud ( probably the transformers varied a lot in the early Marshalls) and therefore the amp had beaucoup headroom, but it was a much warmer and darker sounding amp than some of the later ones; after all it had no master volume. This sound actually persisted, though, even in studio mixes from the late seventies that I still have, and I often found I had to avoid making it too muddy by cutting some lows, but still enjoyed a sound that was fat. Gradual deterioration of filter caps in some old Marshalls can often not be noticed by the player whose ear adjusts to accommodate the slow death of highs. Then again many don't like the fizzy top end that sometimes goes with power smp saturation in Marshalls and subconsciously wind out the highs to avoid it, fir instance many Eric Johnson solo licks are so muffled it dounds as if he's Kenny Burrell playing in the next room with a wet blanket over the quad. I haven't spent much time listening to EVH although I've heard some of his early albums, snd I don't reslly like the guitar tone that much because it's a little too sharp for me, and I don't like the sound of thise Peavy amps he had either, but then his three piece sound is mixed with an extremely low bass track from Michael Antony who keeps tight out of the way, but mskes the guitar stand out mire than blend in. I suppose it's also the effect historically of sounds being compressed onto analogue tape that tends to smooth out the tone, but personally I find most amps in the modern era too bright, so it may be a generational thing, as well as personal taste. I had two Marshall 2210 amps ( JCM 800's) that sounded ok to me but didn't like the JCM900 amps that followed, but most folks I've spoken to find the 2210 100 watters too dark, so who knows? Maybe it's just personal preference as well as modern, master volumed, and 50 watted sound that's more popular, and that's even without involving the subtlety of the attenuated output before the speaker, and the crisp digital recording.

@@rocker8692 Yes, with the OX Box. I used a 4x12 marshall cab simulation with Greenback speakers. If I used the cab right behind me I’d be deaf now. This amp does 120dB when fully cranked. 🫣

Thanks brother! It's ridiculous. In person even more so. 🫠 Cheers bro!

Haha, yep. Coolest strat mod ever. 🙌

@@KrisBarocsi oh nooooo..., dont give me that idea 😅

@@teguharifandi3489 haha, too late I guess 🤪

Hey, very interesting subject. I definitely wanna talk about this is my next Comment Time video. The quick and dirty answer is: you can put a loop on an amp like this but it’s gonna distort everything in the loop, so what’s the point. I’ve played both amps quite a lot, so I have an impression of their tone. I’ll talk about that in the q&a soon. 👍 Cheers!

@@KrisBarocsi sounds good! Keep up the great work!

@@silvel2edge It‘s amazing with a fuzz, a screamer, SD-1 or klon style pedals in front of it. If you keep it clean(ish) it‘s great with delays etc too. But it’s not your transparent drive pedal platform. 😅

@@KrisBarocsi how does the Plex compare to thr Small Box? Can the Plex do like Metallica tones as well on its own and/or can it if i push it with any other overdrive pedals in front?

@@silvel2edge The Small Box is much more modern but I‘m sure the Plex can „go there“ too somehow. This sounds like a subject that deserves a video, haha!

@@kengyang1908 what else do you wanna nail with a plexi? Modern chuggy metal? You should check back here soon then. 🤘😏

Haha, thanks so much man! 🙌 Actually I was thinking to stop introducing myself in the videos, now you suggest to slow down and pronounce it better. I guess you're right but at this point this quick intro sentence is like being on auto pilot. It happens automatically, I don't even realise that I said it. 😂

Soll ich‘s auch einmal? Du wirst ihn NICHT kaufen. Besser? 😆

@@KrisBarocsi viel besser 😂

@@titahibayflier3160 😅 Let’s maybe not mix those two things together. Hear me out: I‘ve heard other bands sound checks multiple times playing a Helix or a Kemper and I loved the tone through the pa. That doesn’t mean that I enjoy PLAYING a modeler nearly as much as playing through such an amp as the Plex. To me getting a great live tone is a very different thing compared to getting a great feel whilst playing. I hope that explains what I said in the video. Cheers!