Mezzabarba Nirvana Preamp

[@LeonTodd]

"I love preamps" on a t shirt please

[@NikolausBrocke]

May be preamps are comming back now. I strongly hope so.

[@danthrax7407]

And I want one!!!!

[@RezaKhan2024]

For the love of Sweet soul sister I still can't understand why more people are not subscribing to your channel. Great pre-amp and awesome content , man. Love your channel. Stay blessed.

[@MultiGuitarDave]

A preamp with its own character. I like that. Also a nice transparent tone! Great allround preamp.

[@juhalehtonen9000]

That ch1! Gov't mule right there. Sounds incredible. I'm a mule fan and warren should play thru this 😀

[@ShawnTubbs]

Oh, I'm so jealous right now. I'm always wanted to try that preamp.

[@jamesnorton7601]

Sounds very natural. For what ever that means. Sounds full to me.

[@happycadaver]

Officially have entered the AWESOME ZONE. Dang, that preamp sounds killer. Continually impressed with those guys. Thanks for the vid!!

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Hey gang, remember to check out my official Two Notes Big Hairy Guitars DynIR Cab Pack: store.two-notes.com/en/home/805-big-hairy-collection.html 01:45 Signal Chain 02:05 Channel 1 06:08 Channel 2 08:45 Channel 3

[@SolarWarden88]

LOL, "gonna give it some goosing.... goose here, goose there, gooose..." lol so good.

[@lukather1]

€50 👀😳

[@danthrax7407]

I´m not sponsored in anyway (I´m not so famous!!), check out those IRs and you´ll be surprised!! I´m enjoying each cab every day!! Really good job Michael

[@lukather1]

@@danthrax7407 Hi Any chance you could do a sample pack 1 x 12 vox fender thing and 4 x 12 cab ! Boogie Marshall ? 😎

[@danthrax7407]

@@lukather1 I have in my channel a few recordings using my Torpedo Wall of Sound pack, I´ll try to make some recording using those cabs and also using the Big Hairy Pack from Michael that I´m checking every day, there are a bunch of good sounds using my Triaxis. I´m not a youtuber (I´m too ugly!!), the video quality is not too good but the sound is taken with my RME Babyface. Sorry Michael if this message could be taken like spam or something, It´s not my intention

[@aaronsmithey4044]

Holy Moly! that's awesome. I was loving it, then you hit the on board boost on CH.1 jeez! Killer.

[@ogunhe]

2:45. Lenny's "Circus" tone!

[@peterschaefer1665]

Sounds great Michael! And yes, I concur. Love it when a clean channel sounds great with humbuckers!

[@groopuskul]

It sounds amazing, the kind of preamp I dream of

[@user-nu7xx7pc1d]

great sound and video!

[@ItsNotSafe2Swim]

It sounds good at basically every setting!

[@betelgeuse9038]

5:20 "Sweet Soul Sister" from Sonic Temple by THE CULT !

[@MichaelGuy]

I have to get one of these.... these demo series vids really help players get to what they like. I do all my research on this channel for gear. The wife hates this channel but I love it.

[@timothy5974]

Sounds so nice.

[@user-dm3xm7jw9s]

Nice! This preamp sounds amazing.

[@zacharycollins6548]

Sounds great. Love your gear demos mate.

[@transistedwaves4337]

I kinda wanted this preamp...and now I absolutely have to have it.

[@francescocagnacci]

Mezzabarba is an italian wonder! being italian i love knowing that mezzabarba products are getting recognized all over the world!

[@jasonmccarthy3370]

@Michael Nielsen this sounds great. I hope you will have a chance to profile this!

[@aeugmk2]

That shit sounds fantastic! Great video man!

[@JasonLee-ic7ck]

Sounds killer. Thanks for your demo brother man 🎸🎶

[@kylecoffey6010]

Another Excellent Video Michael! Seems like a really cool 2U Pre for sure. Never had a chance to paly any of the Mezzabaraba stuff. Seems like a really cool company.

[@TavaresProject]

That is a great sounding amp!!!! Love it!!!

[@ibanezleftyclub]

One of those companies that couldn’t make a bad product if they tried. This thing can hold its own against all the other big boys.

[@NunoGuitarsSilva]

This is an awesome preamp, but very, very expensive. Great video man, thank you and cheers from Portugal 👏🤘

[@recklesstoboggan]

This is the first thing from Mezzabarba that I've like the sound of.

[@9ineToe]

This vid wins the internet for the most evocative explanation of a guitar tone ever....taking the balls, giving it a bunch of fur, but keeping it clear, and then punching the balls at the same time! Too good, Michael. LOL

[@ggbobbybrown7881]

Sweet Soul sister..

[@anthonydeconinck8559]

so rad!

[@fusionid]

I was ignoring this video because I thought it was a how to get Nirvana Teen Spirit tone video haha

[@NikolausBrocke]

Very nice design. Looks like a modern CAE preamp. Sounds good. But it could have more distinct character - probably.

[@ian1eh944]

Man, that is WICKED! Love it!!

[@pcbullets8726]

Some nice sounds out of that one. The clean is def pretty sweet.

[@joshc8722]

Love Mezzabarba 🤘

[@PasquiDente]

Wow! I'm glad they sent you one

[@jamesdavis5096]

Thank you Mickey Dolenz. You should play some monkees

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

I would have been happy with that back in the day.

[@SolarWarden88]

Kick-ass as always brother! Rack game 4 LIFEEEEE! lol. Major props to Mezzabarba for sending the preamp! I'll take one too, get the "average-everyday-guy" review approach lol ;p

[@Sonicblue1922]

Sweet soul sister!!!!

[@Phantasm70]

My Langner preamp will have to do. That's as close as I'll get to having one of these.

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Those Lingers are awesome!

[@Phantasm70]

Well I take that back...I have a Nirvana w/a factory metal mod coming this weekend :)

[@claudiomarranghino9224]

Fantastic sound, proud to be italiano i run to buy🤩🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍🤪

[@alguitarchristie]

That thing is awesome!

[@DragonCrestPC]

Awesome! Had a M-zero OD and loved it, only got rid of it because it would hum like mad and couldn't use it for recording.

[@vecchiume1]

I was writing you a 2112 lines comment,then i fucked up all the thing pressing some shit.It was an awsome story telling about The Mezzabarba big red transformers powering my brain cells,and the N-feedback controls carrying that hum(it's the model with midi ,right?)...The amp is not mine, i'm a bass player.I became a guitar gear nerd in the mid 90's after ten years of daily mods bassman style preamps more than ampeg ones like a medicine to avoid too much time on the instrument, remaining "in those territories".I was a little maniac....now i burn gasoline on my bike and covid has burned all my live gigs and almost all my music related works but there is always someone who need help with gears in some recording situation.I think Mr Mezzabarba is clever enough to release the same amp with a fixed negative feedback because such a good amp can't carry all that hum even if a N-feedback control circuit is a great idea.Excuse my terrible english and the need of writing annoying comment I have today.Cheers from Italy.

[@DragonCrestPC]

@@vecchiume1 You should post the story, i love reading real musician stories.

[@TheDogPa]

"Channel 3 - Modern high gain channel, great headroom with rich armonics (sic)..." So the Townshend windmill is back! lol. Awesome piece of equipment :O) PS - take a screw driver to it...the inside of a Mezzabarba (not 'barbera'...lol) is a work of art. Also, kudos for a clean channel demo with the gain cranked :O)

[@scottsouter280]

Plus 1 on the Clean channel demo! With the gain dimed, it didn't get stuffed up and stayed clear. Great setting as a "2nd" channel mid-gain.

[@juhalehtonen9000]

You have that mezzabarba still? Sounds like heaven plz, do a to tonex capture pretty plz!!!

[@StreetsOfVancouverChannel]

**BIG. HAIRY. PERFECT. SOUNDING. PRE-AMP!**

[@Greg-rd8qr]

Awesome as always!!

[@mhoff7722]

Awesome tones right there. Was able to play a couple of their amps at NAMM a couple years ago and was very impressed. Big fat sounds indeed. Would like to hear the preamp through an EHX 44 Magnum pedal power amp because that's all I will be able to afford after buying this preamp!! Make a two channel version for $1000 and I'm in. 😆😆😆

[@christopherhuff3123]

You should test one of those Soldano designed Yamahas. T50 or T100

[@Riffraff12571]

On hell, I want one of these now. 🤑 That sounds amazing.

[@jenniferlawrence2701]

sounds pretty bloody good, if you'll excuse my language

[@yellokrab]

Awesome

[@aronbarabas2074]

Bright, inna good way. Similar to a Jcm800, i bet it cuts through the bandmix.

[@b.scottfarthingsworth]

Not too far off a set of tones, from the Hafler/Bogner TripleGiant [better clean on the Nirvana by far], but with added functions, boost and other buttons that you really didn't explain so I googled for the people: each channel has option to be programmed to have added Boost and Brite, and ch's 2 + 3 have a 2nd Master. The Boost definitely adds what you want to ch 2, Mike overlooked describing it deeper, surely because he was just stunned by the in your face feel of this thing. Getting this to the USA with footswitch, is close to 3 grand. With duties/import/shipping, likely over 3. Hopefully stores like Guitar Center/Sam Ash will stock them so you can at least test it out.

[@PasquiDente]

I'd love to hear the other 2 pickup combinations on your Les Paul

[@BigHairyGuitars]

OH crap! There's more settings on my Les Paul??? Just kidding. The neck pickup volume pot is dying and I have to replace it. So the neck and in-between is crackly, cuts out and is noisy at the moment.

[@Jalliams]

Reckon this amazing preamp is very sensitive to different guitars, and yes with that modern rack tone Michael described so eloquently ;) So much balls! Yet, a vintage geared LP still sounded it’s classic best- low output, fat and open. Would love to hear some hotter, modern pickups on channels 2 & 3 that make input compress a tad more. PRS Custom 24 maybe, Ernie Ball MM, Silverburst LP custom even.. AJ would probably dig this. (Apologies Michael if your LP has more modern pups in it already) 🍻

[@phildem414]

Rad preamp! Son of a CAE3+

[@vondragonnoggin]

This thing sounds amazing! I love preamps too. Great demo. Are you keeping it is what I want to know....

[@germanyanuzzo968]

Nice!! Please check the skrydstrup cgp4 ( I could not find any sound sample out there)

[@mistertwister4862]

want one.

[@robinbaard5121]

Of course everybody wants to know.. How doe sit compare with the CAE 3+? 😀

[@LoBo-ru7xm]

Sweeet Souuul Sisteeer!

[@DavideGuerri]

try the Trinity aswell, it's also a head now, it bites

[@davidlawson7786]

Triaxxis killer? Damn that sounds really good.

[@davidbucket]

Killing video Michael, preamp sound amszing, What the Black friedman amplification back there? hmmm

[@BigHairyGuitars]

It's a NAKED. It's awesome!!! Video in the future

[@davidbucket]

@@BigHairyGuitars Can't wait to see it and keep up the amszing work.

[@studiosdelcontemixmasterin4443]

Mezzabarba is an amazing AMP !! Pierangelo is GOD !

[@joeywilder9708]

The Lord of the RACKS!

[@knowitall1694]

"Taking the balls, giving it a bunch of fur" [insert fist and arm movement]. Great analogy.

[@ericcarpenter3263]

“But it keeps punching the balls” lmao. I may have spit coffee on that one.

[@RavenMadd9]

wow Mike

[@6120orange]

The remarkable aspect to this preamp is the price 😳

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

$2500?

[@Imokyourok440]

I bet it Costs a pretty penny. I got my hours increased at the Goodwill recently, so I’m livin’ pretty high on the hog these days. Fun fact: yesterday someone donated a Fender Bronco silver face at the the Goodwill Inwork at. We put it on the online auction. I can’t keep it or I would be fired.

[@Sharpmusik]

I would like you test a Tech21 Sanamp PSA 1 preamp with Torpedo CAB amp and speaker simulator. What do you think. I am big fan of your channel.

[@AlexandreCriado]

It reminds me a lot of my Brunetti Mille, really nice attack, versatile, so much gain and powerful eqs that you almost cannot go full throttle... and a grain that is quite close :) Italians do great guitar gear :)

[@guidodday]

Killer vid as usual. Throwin' back to Tone-Talk rack gear episode....I missed it live, but had a question for you (Marc replied the other day)...1 preamp, 1 rack effect, and a power amp. What would your choices be?

[@BigHairyGuitars]

If I had no context, and it was for fun, I’d pick a Soldano x88, an Eventide H3000, and a VHT 2150. It would change if I was planning on using it for current modern sessions, or if it was for more metal, or more pop sounds.

[@guidodday]

@@BigHairyGuitars Nice! Forgot to also ask- any experience/opinion on the Symetrix 606 dual delay?

[@DamienTheCat]

The Nebuchadnezzar Preamp

[@riccovrea841]

I totally love all your videos! Sometimes you have a high pitch hum coming through the videos?

[@geezberry8889]

six 12ax7's in this beast. how does it compare with the X88R ?

[@kennethmeeker6369]

It sounds hand wired 3 channel didn’t sound compressed for the gain.

[@bhosterman]

Beautiful sounds. How do like the Bogner 1x12 behind your desk? Is it full sounding our kind of boxy like many 1x12s?

[@57Techboy]

Mezza Barba, ie. Half Beard from Italian.

[@alessandrosegurini2216]

Correct! 😄

[@helmutarseparter]

Mate, are you aware of or tried a Digitech TSR24S? That has a very interesting space station type pitch shifting patch as well as decent reverb/ delays....would love your opinion!

[@frankardos4211]

2 outputs? anything on the back to mention Mike? I too love preamps dude....just a thing. Thx bro

[@luthiervandros]

The Italians do it again.

[@peterknicked]

Back in the early 90-ties Ian Chrichton from Saga used a preamp that was red, I believe, and had a kind of Chevy 50'ties design to it. I sounded as I recall great.....but I do not remeber the manufactuer and it is driving me nuts from time to time. Do you know the preamp?

[@Julesexperience]

Axis Excalibur EP-1?

[@Peetie_Wheatstraw]

How would you run effects for this setup that would normally go into an effects loop of the amp head? Would they go from the output of the preamp to the input of the Power amp?

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Exactly, straight from one to the next. Or ideally, you'd use some kind of rack mixer, like the Red Seven Multi Stereo Line Mixer

[@alguitarchristie]

Have you tried the Victory preamps?

[@Yupppi]

So the name of the preamp is actually Nirvana and this isn't some mysterious Kurt Cobain secret sauce preamp? :D It has some of that soldanoesque tone where you have tons of saturation but it remains clean in a weird way. The looks is legit, like a real old school deal but modernized.

[@Folk661]

Maselec style knobies add a thousand dollars to the retail value.

[@Qwebb5150]

What’s that blacked out friedman on top?

[@alexchia]

Can I ask if you have put some noise or hum suppressor in between? Because I hear the noise cut off soon after you play. If you have use a noise suppressor,, may I know which model are you using? Thanx alot!

[@plugnplaybaby]

Mezzabarba, please reach out to me too to send another Nirvana preamp. please

[@clownhands]

Your mannerisms remind me of the one and only Fran Blanche.

[@TeleCustom72]

Is that a Goldtop 335? Aww man, anything Goldtop gets my GAS going.

[@Skoora]

Shit, I felt sold just from the first few minutes of CH 1. That's my kind of clean and low dirty right there. Gets a great jangle and snap. Personality. I see on CH 2 it got you into a Sonic Temple...lol I'm sure this doesn't cost as much as 2003 Corolla right? Lol Is it pretty noisy without the gate?

[@SteveRayMorse]

Profiles please!!

[@athanasiusdicia117]

Oustanding!!! By the way, he is spelled "Metsabarba", not "Mezabarba".

[@Locoandchooch]

Sounds hella bright. You hear something else?

[@officialpoa3171]

*Way 2 g with that Classik CULT riff*

[@MrJasonsanderson]

Elma Collet Knobs always make gear look posh