WILL IT CHUG? - MESA V TWIN(modded)

Trying out an old classic, the Mesa V-Twin Preamp pedal. WILL IT CHUG?
Lets find out!
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[@OlaEnglund]

Guys... seriously... I mean it from the bottom of my heart... have a GREAT Friday!

[@indraptor]

And we hope you have one too Ola!

[@clairemarie4621]

You too Ola and family!

[@Thomalom]

Shit... Well maybe I will Ola!! Thanks! Give the puppy a scratch behind the ear from me

[@pauljohnson3317]

You too, Ola!

[@jamessteelman9276]

Ola you have a good day! And enjoy time with your family and whip your brother in some video games and last buuuut not least keep an eye on the sky and dodge them comets. Hahaha😬 i thought it was modified sounds good though. Chug on my friend.

[@7DavesToDie]

At the end of every year you should hand out an award called the Chuggie to the best sounding amp, guitar and pedal

[@WardGuitarCabinets]

X2

[@aazreaal]

Yes

[@svincentr]

I want to watch the Chuggies

[@jeremyduran8896]

Absolutely. I'd check out The Chuggies

[@RSProduxx]

@@svincentr Chuggie Awards, biggest event of the year :)

[@JLCwakeboardingFL]

That solar with the binding is niiiice

[@cohiba6432]

yeah man. i think we need an s type in black with evertune and luminlays.

[@anonymone453]

Idk if Mike remembers exactly what he did to it, but it'd be cool if he made that info public. It sounds great

[@chrizzlerguitaroni1928]

Fortin showing Mesa how it has to be done. What a time to be alive :)

[@paulkielt9301]

I tried that pedal many years ago and to me it sounded massive but it needed definitely an overdrive to get something out of it. After that I bought the V-Twin Rackmound unit, I've modded myself and I was pretty much satisfied of its tones.

[@johnmunn3641]

I ran one of these back in the early 90’s, pushed it with an Ibanez tube screamer, and a crown power amp into a 1960B cab loved it!

[@jorrickthole6505]

One of Olas best sounds Ive heard. Record an album with thisssssss 🤘💀🤘

[@The_Bass_Stunters]

That V-Twin of Ola’s has a killer tight clean/distortion… would love to have one just like it.

[@Barrsie]

Ola is chug. Chug is life. Loving the videos man, especially the gear test and comparisons. Your content is always quality.

[@sexyguitarboy69]

Hi Ola. I own the V2 version of this baby. And I absolutely love it, because I don't use it as a stand-alone solution in connection with a power amp and a speaker cabinet like in this video. I rather use it to give my frontend a little more boost or push. So I get a whole set of extra tone colours, but I don't need to dial in much gain. Teamed with an already overdriven amp input stage this helps keep the noise leve low. AND MAN, THIS CHUGS! I feel that this is where the V Twin pedal really shines, because it is just a preamp with 3 sound options (1x clean, 2x drive), but not 3 full-featured channels, although the pedal offers a bunch of features for a wide range of applications. Too bad they don't make it any more. Like many amp makers, the company has made a very big mistake by discontinuing the golden oldies and launching new amps which can't hold a candle to the classice of the past century. Cheers!

[@d1l4te43]

I still have mine. It's unmodded and still works great. I only use it for low gain tone stuff, but it sounds nice. Your modded one sounds badass

[@AngryTonesRiffClips]

Sounds amazing! I remember these they definitely had lack of gain and sounded more like the Nomad. Now it sounds bad ass!

[@jparkerriffs]

sounds super tight bro, dang on! Mike is a legend, nice one.

[@2299rec]

That Solar is one of the best looking guitars I've ever seen - fuck

[@LightCyrus]

Wish he still made models like that one.

[@BA99253]

Bring it back!

[@fl4shbangz]

@@LightCyrus Looks like a Solar S2.6C which is available on the website, am I wrong?

[@rickleblanc8900]

ESP/LTD makes equally awesome guitars ! Just sayin

[@BigDogBravo]

Sounds Epic. And that guitar is sick 🤘🏼

[@nihiabstracto]

Wow sounds so good !!

[@M3tal_matt]

That might be the best solar I have seen so far... good God that thing is beautiful and mean as fuuuuck 🤘 kinda reminds me of the strictly 7.

[@unherolike]

My favorite part about Ola is he delivers his jokes as if he has a live Audience in front of him but then treats some of his jokes as if he just bombed the delivery, lingers on it for a half second then moves on.

[@brianbowersox8392]

I wanted one of these so bad when I was in high school. ha So cool to see this video.

[@yourguitarist]

Ok...ya had me going...it's modded. I played that box a few times and never really liked it. Yours kicks ass! 🤘

[@kevinstarofficial]

amazing video. love the v-twin

[@Kochiha]

I have a new Will it Chug this morning. It's already gonna be a great weekend!

[@dougulman6700]

That's my favorite solar guitar yet

[@kodas3366]

V-twin is awesome! Had mine for years

[@mudzera]

this guitar is the most beautiful solar i've seen so far

[@Michael_Michaels]

That guitar is awesome looking!

[@jacobseal]

Wow. This modded vTwin sound amazing.

[@Frenchmelodymaker]

We need a ultra thin body solar guitar, something like a Ibanez s or a blackmachine

[@unherolike]

From what Ola has said their bodies are as thick as they need to be to fit the Evertune bridges into. And infact that's why the backplate is surface mounted and not flush to the body the Evertune bridges almost stick out the back of the Guitar.

[@jmaaybraak]

Honestly, I'm a drummer but I watch your channel because you're fucking hilarious....Point being, you'll be hard pressed to find a better sound than that my friend! Love it!

[@sn1ffy85]

I’m in between yay and nay on buying this. Simply to have some tubes. And something mesa. Love the output selections also.

[@sirdeetoh]

I was about to buy this one near around 2003-2004 and ended with a Brunetti Overtone2 would be nice to see what Ola can do with such equipment.

[@richardmunka41]

This is sick man 🔥🤟

[@nickx1754]

That sounds amazing! So mean. It’d be nice to know exactly how it was modded.

[@thephoenixcycle8854]

Exactly!

[@tome4961]

veRy smooth intRoduction of a goRgeous guitaR, veRy smooth...

[@jeffreyschned4200]

And you also Ola…and the weekend may it be good to you…ola Ola,,.🤘

[@jakedibiase7404]

I remember Ola posted a clip years ago of this thing. At the time I asked Fortin if he would mod mine and he doesn't do it anymore. Wish we knew what was done to it because it sounds great. Ola, maybe you can post pics of the insides?

[@Ronniebj81]

Always wanted this pedal!

[@buxeyotl]

Well done Bro 🔥🤟💯 this inspires me to go experiment with this pedal... It's just the most afordable (rare now though) MESA preamp to get 🔥💯🤟

[@josebarahona7114]

Bruh, I’m an indie pop/pop punk guitarist and god I live for this series. Also, my gf watches this with me every now and then, and now she’ll always ask me if it chugs whenever I’m looking at a new piece of gear😂

[@ronchabot3449]

Ola hope you have a fantastic Friday also

[@Admiral_Bongo]

Loved the tone. Sounds like old Ampeg VH and Crate GX series.

[@SumoRabbitOfDoom]

I have one of those around here somewhere. I made a matching booster pedal which attached to the side of it, then ran that into a clean single channel amp so that I'd have 3 channels and a lead boost. It was OK, but I couldn't sleep at night because the amp that I had set up clean for it was a JCM 800. I want to try boosting the front of the Marshall with it now, but I need to find it first. It's in one of those boxes over there...

[@rowdy5.9L]

That's the best looking solar I've ever seen. Might have to get me one😏

[@musicmore5169]

I like how they used guitar vol.... and tone knobs for the knobs on the pedal something different, nice.

[@vonmilash823]

I have one with the diamond plate and if you put an overdrive in front of it like a mojo mojo or ts9 it is just almost impossible to believe you can get that kind of tone out of something that sits on the floor.

[@Shadow-ou2hp]

This pedal without mods might have sounded good for specific genres with specific settings, but I think it's goot you modded it

[@MaxPowersTastyTones]

That Fortin modded thing sounded kick ass. Holy shit. You can tour with that thing without any compromises.

[@michelmoe]

Hey SWOLA!!! Great video, really chugging! I love VTwins :) sounds to me like yours is gainier and has way less bottom end. Do you know any details about the mod Fortin did? Thanks!!!!

[@trasolo7959]

sounds nice

[@RequiemDead]

I would love to know what this guy would sound like through the tube power amp with a fortin 33 in front of it.

[@dsapasd]

It's one of those pedals I rarely use but would never ever sell. It can do so many things few (no?) other (non-rack) units can do, it's become a successful last resort in the most unexpected roles in a signlal chain many times. For any tone chaser experimenting a lot, this piece is one to have.

[@millioncatman2995]

Dude that sounded sick! Ola, what tuning did you use in this video, and what's your preferred tuning?

[@alibibalibi1373]

Nice! Please do another with it into a tube power section and also please find out what the mod was, and if possible please to get another stock one and try that too through a tbe power section. I've used this since 90's and it's best preamp ever but many hate it. It's the best.

[@DJ33]

Need to release more Solars with bindings. Looks F‘n Great!!

[@thought1212]

i remember marshall had pedals too. one of them had a good rhythm tone. cant recall the name, a long time ago.

[@calebmunkirs9661]

That end bit playing reminded me of the kind of tone Paul Gilbert played with in Racer X (that was the right band right?)

[@DanielRodrigues-fz9xi]

Ola Englund how about in a near future review the Positive Grid Spark Amp? I would like to hear your opinion on it. Keep it going man!

[@Alek_Archer]

I used to have this pedal, slightly modded by a local engineer to reduce the crazy amount of low end. After keeping it for about 10 years on a shelf I finally sold it. This pedal is not for metal for sure, but you can get some sweet bluesy tones out of it=)

[@SwedishMeattball]

its used for metal😂

[@SwedishMeattball]

he literally chugs instantly weres your ears 😂

[@coelhovinicius140]

I have it, my favourite thing. Gain is fine for me and i find it versitile enough to substitute different drive pedals.

[@immadeofwaxx]

I don't chug at all but I love this series because I can appreciate the finer things in life

[@MisterRorschach90]

He asked the will it chug question more seriously than every before.

[@KaddysJamKave]

4:48 Yes I agree... Glenn Fricker claims tubes make no difference. I cbf proving it myself... but I definitely notice differences in tone between some tubes.... some slight... some very noticeably different. Will Ola take the challenge and prove that tube swaps make a difference in tone? C'monnnnnnnnnnn.

[@RadOGuitar]

And this is the reason that Glenn sounds like sh*t

[@nicholastotoro7721]

All of Glenn’s stuff sounds the same. All fairness to him, the tubes don’t make a huge difference when you use the crap ton of gain he has on his artists’ recordings. Pete Thorn’s video is a better example. The less complex the circuit, the more you’ll hear the difference. Not so much with a full band, but if you can hear and feel it and it helps you play better, go for it!

[@AnyDrug]

Glenn doesn't simply claim, tubes makes no difference. He shows, the different tubes he used in that specific setup make only marginal differences. ;)

[@R3TR0R4V3]

I've done a fair bit of tube rolling. They do make a difference, but it's subtle most of the time. Other times it was kind of drastic. Old 50's RCA Blackplates are my favorite, but the new Tung-Sols sound great too.. Probably my favorite newer tube.

[@RadOGuitar]

@@R3TR0R4V3 yeah its nice new tubes, check svletana too. JJ are nice as power tube but a preamp tube have 50% of new anode current like 0,5 to 0,7mA new tube xD

[@benirott9068]

Rabea and Ola are my favourite youtubers right now

[@doctoribanez]

Pretty awesome

[@maynardcrow6447]

my best friend had one of these growing in the late 90s. he ran it through the effects loop of his jcm900 head and used it like a "tube screamer" for extra craziness and it gave more EQ head room on the jcm (if that makes sense). He could mimic a lot of Adam Jones feedbacks and screams with it. But as a main distortion, it didnt have the heftyness as the jcm900 did.

[@yohanonshine4664]

Ola is the metal master he can make anything chug although it had a bit of a gated reverb. Chug, chug , CHUG !

[@stangfan1984]

Need to try out the Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp. I think that would make a good "Will It Chug" video.

[@vmcvmc6505]

Master Ola rules

[@DroneShotFPV]

Tung-Sol is all I like to use in my Amps, both Power Tubes and PreAmp tubes!

[@danielnugent7046]

I mostly use mine for the pristine clean channel, especially when plugging into a recording interface, then build my Chug around it.

[@spamsponge]

You can really hear the reverberant string noise in the headstock. Pedal sounds nice though.

[@goeteboerg]

Really wondered „gosh, why is it sounding so good?!“ :D I have one of those but never got used to it.

[@MrGoodCat1928]

Hi Ola ! Would it be possible to share the exact modification made by Fortin? I have a V-Twin and indeed the sound is meh but this one !!! Chuging is life !

[@ricardosarmiento2666]

Yo! This sounds awesome! How can get mine to sound like that?! For real tho, would like to know.

[@unholyramen8044]

Need help from the interwebs! From what song is the riff starting at 6:15? It's absolutely killer! Thanks in advance 🙏

[@bellyflopofdoom]

Sounds like the medication by the haunted

[@carolinawestern3875]

I was a longhaul trucker and know some good metal polishers. During resto/repairs, I took my chassis & had it high speed polished. Now everybody wants to buy it. Dang thing will blind you!

[@maynardaquino6592]

Thats a sick guitar

[@garrettgeary5531]

What mods were done, exactly? Sounds gnarly

[@damonwolf7222]

It sounds like those Mini Recto 5:25 amps with the EL84 power tubes.

[@Epochstudios]

That Mike Fortin is something special I tell ya

[@GuernB2]

This thing sounds like some mix of a mark series and a recto, with more gain. If they made this pedal with this modded circuit I would buy it.

[@gregmccourt4730]

Ola, You need to open the School of Chug. Love your right hand form!

[@julianthesmooshyhusky8976]

Ola, do you think Mesa is gonna survive its Gibson acquisition? I have a feeling we’re going to see a lot of “pre-gibson” mesas on reverb fetching more coin in the not so distant future.

[@kramersurfer5280]

Love the guitar...

[@TheFatzius]

The Guitar is awesome!!

[@SuperDukEvo]

Wow chug chug chug It sounds awesome

[@brpadington]

I almost bought one of these back in the day. The shop wanted 250 for it and I was not able to get a good high gain sound out of it.

[@StrickleeFpv]

Miss me some six feet under bone saw was my teen age agnst jammmmmm.. love ya ola .🤘🤘

[@ericponthiaux4855]

Pretty good tone ....

[@pointsource1]

I got an Orange Micro Dark because of your video, nice 🤘🤘

[@sn1ffy85]

It’s a good one.

[@diegoambrosio9121]

Hey, Ola! Does the Mesa Boogie V-Twin allow possibility for send/return configuration so a Boss NS-2 type of pedal can be hooked with the 4-cable method? Thanks

[@jasonb7611]

Guys I love six feet under, and I never new ola was the guitarist, another reason to love the band and buy their merch!

[@tattoo_suit6197]

Would adding one of those preamp tubes work in my orange micro dark?

[@kratanicverses4805]

to hell with the pedal...Im diggin that guitar!... why dont you do more models with binding? and more S types?

[@janvirtanen6199]

You remind more and more on Skwisgaar Skwigelf from Dethklok, Ola. Ha det bra!

[@guitarrizer]

Seems like the H&K Tubeman MKII owns the Mesa by large, plus it seems more all around for all styles.

[@Golem29]

I have the rack version of this. Very nice unit, not a Triaxis but it has good tonal options. It's sort of its own thing but I think it sounds a little recto, a little Mark IIB

[@fluffkiller]

This guy rules.

[@stug5041]

I’d be curious to see the mesa throttle box on will it chug; I’ve heard mixed things

[@jeffreygraham9553]

They definitely kick ass,hooked it up to solid state Randall sounds brutal When I use it with my Marshall tube head its definitely Lamb of God/Vader sounding