The MK Overdrive - Victory's Most Versatile Amplifier

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@SixStringTales 3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure my ears are still ringing after standing in front of that amp filming for a couple of hours.... 🔥

@douglasnisbet1189 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely great. I remember hearing Yngwie play through the Cornford MKII on a guitarist magazine CD years ago and even he admitted hiw good it was. Martin absolutely makes some of the best amps in the world

@joseph_lacy 3 ай бұрын

Martin seems like such a great guy! So chill and well spoken. Sick amp guys

@shredddr69 3 ай бұрын

He is a great guy. Met him twice at NAMM and he actually wished me a happy birthday a few years in a row and he don’t know me from Adam! Still have my Cornford MK50 II If this amp is a fourth as good as that, it will be better than most! Cheers Martin!!❤god bless

@MaxPowersTastyTones 3 ай бұрын

The lads seem so chill, I love it! The amp looks and sounds amazing! Would love to call one my own. ❤

@ashleyjackson8538 2 ай бұрын

Sounds incredible. Amazing piece of electronics engineering.

@brianrollins7275 3 ай бұрын

Very cool amp indeed. Whoever can afford one I imagine will be a happy camper. I hope to be lucky enough to at least play through one someday. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

@rigorhead01 2 ай бұрын

This amp is on my "money no object" list of amps to get. It's maybe at the top.

@periloustemple8290 11 күн бұрын

This is massive!

@TreyAlexander 3 ай бұрын

Waited my whole life for this amp!! Woohoo!

@bradly373 3 ай бұрын

Played this amp at Namm. What and amazing sounding amp

@vwharman 2 ай бұрын

Jesus, Rabea just knows where all the good notes are. Guy is a fantastic player.

@SalisburySimon 3 ай бұрын

What a beautiful aspirational noise. If I had the choice of a two rock or this, I know where my money would go. If.

@paulwalster6685 3 ай бұрын

I have 24:36 24:37

@marcuslewitzki4610 3 ай бұрын

I absolutely LOVE this amp and it makes me incredibly depressed as I will never afford one 😢

@Robstafarian 3 ай бұрын

Have you considered getting a Synergy SYN-1 (or the upcoming SYN-20IR) and seeing which preamp modules suit you? Though getting started costs as much as a Mexican or American Fender, depending on what one chooses, any additional modules are roughly equivalent to the cost of Squier Classic Vibe guitars.

@NINEWALKING 3 ай бұрын

Never say never. It’s 4999 £. People get guitars that often cost two times more than that. If it is important to you you can save up for it. Or sell some stuff to accelerate the process of saving money for it. Without having great amplifier you can’t hear all that great guitar can do. Now if you have Squier Classic Vibe, that is extremely good for the money you pay, you can save money and go with cheaper amplifier. Rig should be balanced. Not saying that you can’t have peace’s of gear that are better and others that are due to be changed. Anyhow I see lot of people saying I can’t afford an amplifier or more expensive guitar but they get almost every new pedal and are getting a guitar with price level of PRS SE every year. If they wouldn’t do that they could have something extremely valuable in few years. But people have no patience. People want instant satisfaction every month. To each its own I guess.

@Robstafarian 3 ай бұрын

@@NINEWALKING You need to accept that some people, an increasing number of people, both cannot afford some items and have insufficient discretionary spending (or none at all) to reduce in order to save for those items. Such people have seen multiple products announced, released, and discontinued with no hope of affording them. Many costs of living are increasing faster than local inflation while wages remain stunted if not stagnant, and you have the audacity to assume that people are being impatient?! You are cordially invited to leave each to their own!

@NINEWALKING 3 ай бұрын

@Robstafarian first a question. Who put the sand in your vagg? 😀 Now joke a side you read into it as you want. I do not assume at all. When I have said some people do this and that I was talking about actual people I know. People who do not have any money, a group that is constantly growing, btw, do not have enough to have a device to watch this video or comment on it. Let alone dream about expensive amplifiers. I was talking about specific people. Group that is also increasing their numbers with current way of life.

@Silverrats 3 ай бұрын

There are greys between both your responses tbh. I have fallen victim to buying many cheap items that add up in the long run to the cost of one good item that you still then desire. I also understand cost of living pressures. Life is long though

@juhalehtonen9000 2 ай бұрын

I have a kraken preamp pedal and love it, it is just so good. So plz this amp would make a great preamp pedal too!!

@damienbagleeguitar 3 ай бұрын

Looks and sounds unbelievable 🎸❤️

@masterofreality230 3 ай бұрын

This could put the UK on the map for having good amps!

@syxxsyxxsyxx 2 ай бұрын

Considering where Marshall are at, Victory are doing what Marshall should have been doing years ago.

@masterofreality230 2 ай бұрын

@@syxxsyxxsyxx I was joking, but it does seem like a step up from anything else from the UK. Not that a lot of Marshalls arent fine amps.

@neighbourhoodmusician 3 ай бұрын

That first tone was the most Martin Kidd heavy tone I've heard since my old V50.

@NINEWALKING 3 ай бұрын

I am really glad to see that Victory is making these two new MK amplifiers. These seem to be like Rolls Royce edition. Great presentation. Great choice of materials that you interact with. I bet these are going to be objects of desire for so many people. Rightfully so indeed. Quality improvement over standard Victory amplifiers for sure. Though After watching both videos carefully I am bit confused to be honest. Money no object and hand wired claims do me in a bit. Do not get me wrong I do not think that the most expensive parts are always the best either. What I saw was a mix of the, what seems to be, extremely good PCB and the turret board. Then I hear explanation for the hybrid board. Then I see the components. Great coupling caps from Vishay if I saw good. What seems all metal film resistors possibly same source. Then I can’t make out bypass electrolytic caps but they look generic. Than some filter radial cap on board installed pure PCB way most probably Nippon Chemi-con (great quality caps for radial caps). I see handwired written on the face plate. Sure sockets and pots are properly chassis mounted and hand wired. Parts are hand soldered to the turrets but it is a PCB board with the turrets on it. Why? Why bother putting turrets on the PCB? You still use lanes of the PCB. Wires do not connect to turrets. Big filter caps will still cause cold joints over time. All I see is complicating it for the sake of the appearance. These aren’t what they say they are and you know it. Explanation is just silly. Leo Fender trained house wife’s to make perfect point to point amplifiers and later on eyelet board amplifiers with the same layout every time. Turned out their small fingers and dedication made them great builders. This is made to look like Bartel Amplifiers turret boards do look like, but is not even close. I still say putting everywhere same type of resistors is lazy way. Metal films have their place for sure but the other type of resistors do better job in tone part of the circuit. Don’t want reliability issues of carbon composition resistors? Go with the carbon film then. Compared to all pots and sockets on the PCB solution this is way better. But it does not make sense at all. Sorry. Marshall did it properly till 1975 before ST1 PCB came out. UK has tradition of making it right. This is like taking humans work but not trusting them to do their work. Protection that made humans stupid. Why bother making the process slower and not going pure PCB way and leave pots and sockets on the chassis? Like Marshall did from 1975? There is no need for those turrets slowing production down when it is anyways the PCB amplifier. It would cost less and be faster to make and sound so similar that almost no one could hear the difference. Or go full proper turret board like Bartel does and be proud of it. Also price of cabinets is just.. Sure best leather and solid wood sides but common. If the 1375 £ for 1x12 means Alnico gold that means empty cabinet 1x12 is 1100£? Seriously? Price difference between Clean and Overdriven model is also bit strange. 200£ more while it has more parts and way more work assuming that pots are also chassis mounted on the Overdrive model. I know that I am highly demanding. But I do know what I am talking about. I do design and build pure point to point boutique amplifiers. I do know parts. I do know the layout. I do know history. I do know what’s possible. I would have no issues what so ever if few things were not said. Because it is a big step forward in the quality of the Victory amplifiers. Victory has made great PCB amplifiers for fair price. Now you want to step in the big money part of the market. You have to be careful with description now. Other brands do make PCB amplifiers even in China and still demand high boutique prices and sell them good too. But they avoid saying handwired for example. They do not write it on the faceplate. Sure any lawyer would say there is some hand wiring going on so legally we can do it. Still it ain’t telling the whole story. Personally I am sure ditching those turrets off the PCB, leaving same parts selection, leaving chassis mounted pots and sockets, having dedicated iron as you already have would speed up production, sound the same and shave off nice amount off the consumer price. Even 700 plus off the current price? Or go real handwired way and charge 1000 more. Deservingly so. I wish you best of luck.

@briansouther7518 3 ай бұрын

Sweet amp man! I gotta have one.

@eliaslopez2587 3 ай бұрын

A V4 version of the MKs amps wouldn’t be bad hehe… awesome tones!!

@JasonWright-mc6dz 2 ай бұрын

Novel idea.. But I don’t think it’s close to possible for a multi-channel with multi-independent voicing/switching/tone control/gain/volume & master controls.. It would resemble a Revival Drive only being Valve Based it would be about 5x the size.. So essentially a recording desk pedal.. Haha😂

@eliaslopez2587 2 ай бұрын

@@JasonWright-mc6dz u never know is a new world 🤣. It’s like a mini transformer/autobot kinda thing haha

@Johnsalad 3 ай бұрын

I have V30 and V40 and I love it. Victory always makes good amps.

@MRxr400 3 ай бұрын

sweet tones, especially the clean/edge of break up.

@michaelgriffin5304 3 ай бұрын

Definitely an interesting sounding amp but really neat. Has it's own voice, which is important. The gain sounds like a fuzz pedal to me though. No definition there. Very soft and squishy/dark. Not a gain sound I prefer. Speakers make a huge difference though, so it may be that in conjunction with the amp's natural sound.

@PerpetuallyTiredMusician 3 ай бұрын

Potential dream amp found now to figure out where to test one then how and when to get one.

@Soloist1983 Ай бұрын

Anything like this that kind of has a built-in tubescreamer style thing going on? Sounds amazing btw.

@Ninuzzo 3 ай бұрын

Rabea never disappoints creating GAS🙌😂

@TheComedyGuitarGuy 3 ай бұрын

After hearing that opening jam, if Steve Vai doesn’t start using these, he’s crazy.

@sdy30 3 ай бұрын

How does it compare to a Soldano SLO 30 for high gain stuff?

@harrisonmills1753 2 күн бұрын

Calculating what gear I would be willing sell to get my hands on this amp

@RenanSilva-ue5jp 3 ай бұрын

how different would this amp be, sound wise, from the V50, which was also hand wired etc? it does seem to have the same kind of voice but thought to say.

@alguitarchristie 3 ай бұрын

Sounds great. No disrespect to Chris and Rabea, because they are both great players, but it would be great to hear the amp with someone a bit more Bluesy, like Matt Schofield or Joe Bonamassa.

@PALongknife 3 ай бұрын

So, do the two gains have different clipping characteristics and voicing? Or are they the same (albeit working independently)?

@Robstafarian 3 ай бұрын

They sound different to me.

@phillamoore157 3 ай бұрын

IMHO Martin Kidd's pinnacle tone is the "Super-Crunch" tones of the Cornford. At the price of this amp, it disappoints me that these guys didn't even TRY and dial that in. It's what we called "high-gain" back in '87. Martin Kidd's "SLO 100". Over 100 million records were sold (still being sold) due to that tone, and not even 10sec devoted to it? Not trying to sling sh!t at Rabea or Martin, but it's beyond head-scratching that we heard, clean, then straight to rivet-head-esq shredding/chugging. Looks like an exquisite instrument, with equally exquisite options, and I'll go as far as saying it's worth every penny for the players who are hell-bent on having one... But for the cost, this was glorified clinic for the players, not the amp. Which, as far as KZbin is concerned is par for the course.

@allend3127 3 ай бұрын

Sounds epic! Can it be wrapped in something other than leather?

@andertons 3 ай бұрын

You can elect to have normal tolex if you want - just less choice of colours

@TheConspiracytheory1 3 ай бұрын

WOW that is a beautiful looking and incredible sounding amp . it also looks a little lighter than my jvm and 4x12 ;) . Also it's unfair getting those boys to demo anything they'd make 2 cans with string sound awesome

@JasonWright-mc6dz 2 ай бұрын

Never noticed it before, But Rabea must be a really big guy! You look at him with the Les Paul & Music Man and those guitars look really tiny. Then you see the other guy with the Yamaha and it looks typical despite being a small instrument.. On another note, While I love the Copper 35. I definitely don’t think this amplifier is my thing at all!

@6MileHouse 3 ай бұрын

Sounds great! Just way over priced amp though.

@jnovak7892 3 ай бұрын

what a great sounding amp. If you want to send me one feel free to :)

@aarondavidbakman9172 2 ай бұрын

imo 5k for that sound is a scam 7k total for both the cab and head =/. its sounds good but the price is pretty wild

@fortheloveofguitar8589 3 ай бұрын

The matching 1x12 cab at £1349 😮. What a joke.

@peterschaefer1665 3 ай бұрын

Sounds great but probably can't afford it

@fortheloveofguitar8589 3 ай бұрын

Way too much money for most. We need a pedal preamp format please 🙏

@Aeon_Electronics 3 ай бұрын

Honestly, what is a "handmade" transformer? I can't really believe that you wind them by hand. They are wound by winding machines, a bit misleading this claim.

@JacobChoiGuitarBunker 3 ай бұрын

wow..

@Stereostupid 3 ай бұрын

Holy balls this is sick!!daym ill take the preamp pedalboard version please 🙏

@draper858 Ай бұрын

This or kraken? Why?

@myuncle2 3 ай бұрын

Friedman Plex or bust😁

@zeebos99 3 ай бұрын

Anyone who pays that amount of money needs their head looked at

@fortheloveofguitar8589 3 ай бұрын

Stupid Money! I have an original Cornford MK50. Outstanding amp and can be had for £800-1000 on the used market.

@douglasnisbet1189 3 ай бұрын

@@fortheloveofguitar8589 where?? I'm always looking and can never find one!

@dazblade 3 ай бұрын

Great sounding amp, but hang on... a 5 grand amp plus a 1400 quid cab. For that kind of money, I expecting to make me cups of tea on demand and give me reach arounds...