Can you pack the IIC+ into a Module? Synergy IICP Review

[@thesash7063]

I love my Axe FX III and I couldn’t be happier. Best tone I have for more than 20 years but if I would buy another amp etc. again, I would go the synergy route. And yes, well done Henning, awesome playing 🤘🏻👍🏻😎

[@berndkiltz]

Yes, the Axe's IIc model misses that high-mid scrathcing the original has. Not completely nailed unfortunately, so I have to keep my JP-2C for now. Really curious it the IICP can get me that.

[@thesash7063]

@@berndkiltz Hi Bernd 👍🏻 I sold all my Amps/Tube Amps and Never regret it. Of course it would be great to collect as much amps as I can but since I went full Fractal, I have no GAS anymore. My last Amp was a Friedman BE 100 DLX and I love it but I could nail the sound with the axe, so I‘m more neighbor friendly right now 😂 The Axe sound just awesome with the RedSound Speakers. But yeah I got you, if I had a warehouse and a huge amount of money, I would collect every amp that I could. Most of them are in the Axe, except of one. Do you know Stevens Amps? I often visited Bernd Stephan in his shop and he build a custom amp for, I miss that one so much but sadly it’s lost in the flooding. I would love to have a Stevens Poundcake in the Axe ❤️

[@EJH-jn6mo]

All the other video reviews are worthwhile watching but Hennings are always the ones I rely on to get the straight skinny on gear. Thanks as always Henning.

[@idiotburns]

This is the best demo, because you did show the great versatility of this amp and its ability to do metal!!

[@davidtguitar]

Always great reviews

[@charlesrocks]

I had a chance to play this, and that EQ is SUPER SENSITIVE. I had to adjust them with a set of tweezers to get the tone just right. It's almost identical to a IIC+. The poweramp really makes a difference though and the IIC+ had a Simul-Class setup. So, you'll have to dial in a bit more SAG on the preamp to really get that crunch tone right.

[@ulfvolz4798]

Why do I keep watching reviews about stuff that I know I can‘t afford? Well, I guess because it is fun! 😀 Thanks for another great review! And that song at the beginning is great! The lead somewhere around the end actually reminded me of Michael Schenker somehow. Keep up the great work and l’ll keep up watching 🤓😎

[@voodoocustompickups2547]

These modules are actually really affordable

[@pablo9364]

Very nice intro song. Very clever artistic visuals at the beginning Hearing some cool sounds too

[@erikhernandez2990]

Man don’t we live in an awesome time for guitar gear? Killer video as always!

[@Sticky_Tea]

that intro track is killer! very well done, awesome

[@nicholaslisanti6310]

Holy shit henning that intro song is incredible great playing

[@dmitriblake61]

Henning! Good demo. I'd buy one if I had income. Also, I had the craziest tealization. I think you might be Delta Empire! If so, well done! If not, sorry to bug you.

[@houseofshred3725]

If I didn't have 57,000 amps already, I'd be ALL about the Synergy stuff. At least I can live vicariously though cats like you.

[@L.Scott_Music]

Yay! Another module video for the Synergy Playlist! Right? Yeah! Seriously though, as soon as I saw the Synergy FB post I looked for the HP42 demo.

[@umbertoyltp]

Glad to see you are happy with a new tool for your swiss army knife. Synergy is such a clever concept.

[@slesher84]

"Synergy" - I already like this name...

[@PooNinja]

Synergy, all the dream amps in one happy tubular tower of tone🤘🏽. It’s not a simulation or a sample it’s the real friggen deal! Nice golden banana and golf balls… 🤣 WTF was that 🤣 an award for something?

[@bradleejaymz]

When the lead drive goes up, that bass knob has got to come down. Almost...completely. Then slowly add low end back in with the 80Hz fader.

[@bradleejaymz]

After re-reading my own comment it sounds like I was being a bit pretentious. Sorry about that. I'll say it another way. I used to own a JP2c. Why I no longer own it is a different story. If this module is set up at all like the Mark amps and my JP2c, that bass knob is pre gain stage low end which ends up flubby when gained up (distorted). On the JP2c, with gain at 3:00, bass would have to be almost all the way down and 80 Hz fader maybe half way up. I didn't apply the full V shape. Added some 80Hz, took out a bit of 750 Hz. It had a great sound. Very tight, full, and roaring. I hope this module does the same or close to it.

[@michaelkoenig6317]

Fantastic guitar work in the intro -I like the song, especially with my new favorite drummer playing on it... later on: the H 150 is out of tune in the beginning, or is it my ears again? Anyway fxxxing great content. As always.

[@CountNetsrac]

Nice demo Henning! I wonder if they couldn't make the faders a bit bigger...looks like they have the space, but I cannot look into the module of course. Btw can you run two modules in the synergy head in parallel? I'm thinking this IICP module parallel with a Friedman. That would come close what they did in the 90s with a Mesa and a Marshall in parallel on recordings.

[@EytschPi42]

no, you can't run them in parallel.

[@CountNetsrac]

@@EytschPi42 That's a pity

[@kieranvirgo9797]

@@CountNetsrac you could if you had 2 syn-1 into a mixer into a single power amp or two separate power amps/stereo power amp

[@ibexthadevil3533]

Great job...that jam was awesome

[@guidobandito4370]

Best to keep Bass Knob (which is pregain) below 11 o'clock to remove flub. Boost it in the Graphic EQ.

[@australier263]

Lieber Henning, deine Vids sind sehr extra, aber Du hast einen Knall weg und das ist der Hit! 😘🎸

[@arkistriph1]

Remember folks if it EytschPi42 its gotta be good; so hit the like already.👍

[@fredriksvard2603]

Somehow it sounds as if the gain etc is floating on top of a di signal, or as if theres a clean and a dirty channel running at the same time

[@cannedheat67]

Any drum room worth it's salt needs a suit of armor. Great demo, not a high gain guy but if I get into the synergy system this module might be my high gain choice.

[@Gy.Hoffmann]

There's hardly any tighter amp than any of the Mark series. The Bass, Mid, Treble, controls are pre EQ (pre distortion). Just turn down that Bass control. So many people don't know how to deal with these kind of amps.

[@EytschPi42]

yap.... I totally didn't do that

[@GASH_one]

Your drummer had the best shirt on your channel so far. ;P

[@rogerdat7807]

Your comment that Mark 2c+ was revered for its metal tone amongst "the players" of that time is incorrect. The tight metal/high gain stage thing had a cult fringe following. Those amps and later the Mark iii's (almost exclusively combos with Black Shadow Eminence, or Altecs) were found in EVERY legitimate recording studio across North America and including Hawaii. Why? Because the CLEAN tones you can dial up are second to none. The great players (studio guys) know this. Even the electric keyboard community jumped on that train. Great demo capturing this modules versatility.

[@nine9nein780]

Hi Henning. I believe when Metallica used the IIc+ or was it ++, they slaved them through JCM 800 2203 heads. It would be interesting to hear how that sounds. To be clear I mean Syn50 loop send into your 800 return, but I think you knew that. Just an idea.

[@GenerationDown]

The main reason they did this was for the el-34 power tubes, for that British bite. The boogies came biased with 6L6. Any power amp with el 34 will achieve this.

[@beautague9163]

I see you do a synergy review, I watch like and comment.

[@theRodofwar]

I wonder if you can compare the pitBull module and this one ???????????

[@daflepail]

Henning is shredding!

[@Sticky_Tea]

hahaha, that banana thingy at the beginning 🤣👍

[@austinfailz]

Eh, I have a IICP and hoped for stuff along the lines of Sykes, but I am vastly underwhelmed by it. I'll probably end up letting it go at some point. Fryette does great work, but this doesn't hit with me.

[@sasacabala]

Is this Mic? or Line simulator?

[@timrussellguitar1516]

Tune it dude!!!

[@JasminMusic1602]

What song is at beginning

[@EytschPi42]

something I wrote

[@MrBluexmas]

Kermit Henning is brilliant

[@chickenlickin3820]

Godawful, how can a beast tune the graphic eq?

[@EytschPi42]

a beast? I don't understand

[@magicbeard8464]

Захотелось поиграть ))

[@berndkiltz]

Lightyears better than Rabeas Demo!

[@andresilvasophisma]

Wasn't a certain Mr Hetfield that made the amp famous?

[@Shawn70Seven]

The graphic clearly shows is was Kurt Cobain :)

[@Starch1b2c3d4a]

@@Shawn70Seven kurt played a preamp based on the iic+

[@Starch1b2c3d4a]

Sounds nothing like a real Mark ii😂 but ok. Nice leads tho 👍

[@EytschPi42]

also consider that what you might know as the iic+ sound was highly formed by the speaker. Hearing it with a different speaker can change the frequency response drastically. I would dare to say that Steven Fryette knows exactly what he is doing and is more than capable to recreate the sound… they also did A/B tests and there was no difference… but so used a 4x12 creamback with a setting that I like… might not be right for the amp or the sound it is known for.

[@Eliphas_Elric]

Did you watch Ola’s demo? It sounds like a mark 2C+ preamp. It doesn’t sound like a 2C+ exactly without the 2C+ power section but it’s pretty damn close.

[@davidjonorato3554]

Man get that heritage set up it’s so out of tune…🙄😣