NAD: Diezel D-Moll

Drew_TNBD

New amp day! Got a D-Moll second hand, with the footswitch, for £1000. Pretty decent price, and it's basically brand new!



It sounds great. I think I'll easily be able to get the tones I want out of this thing, and maaan... it's QUIET. Even on the high-gain settings. Quieter than pretty much every other amp I've played.

The footswitch is massive though. Didn't quite realise it was going to be that big! I may look at replacing it with either a smaller midi foot pedal, or have another look at a midi capable multi-FX and do my FX and amp switching from one unit. (Maybe just settle on the Boss GT-100 and learn to live with the delay pitch artifacts that I've moaned about before, because in all other ways, for FX and switching only, it's the most superior unit on the block.)

Tonally, it seems quite close to the Fryette Sig X, which I was getting pangs for recently. It's got the low end grunt, and the smooth high-end, not really fizzy at all. The cleans are much nicer on this amp though; less ice picky, and the EQ seems really responsive. The mid cut circuit is very nice on all three channels too, and you could easily just leave it turned on for everything.

The channel 2+3 shared EQ thing is not an issue. On other amps I have tended to dial those channels in very similarly anyway, and just use different gain amounts, so this is really easy to get to grips with. Not as much of a knob fest or headfuck to use as the JVM I had.

Part of the reason I went for this is because I could never afford a VH4, which Adam Jones from Tool uses, and is basically the only guitar hero I have (as such) and his tone is always killer, so I always wanted a Diezel. I didn't really know about the D-Moll until RobMac made his thread about it, and that sent me off on a research journey. For the price, I had to give it a go!

Obviously it's the honeymoon period right now, but I really think I will stick with this one. Will record some clips later tonight; got a guy coming round to buy my Ironheart!

octatonic

FINALLY!

ThePrettyDamned

Good work glad you like it, that's a great price, too.

I have to admit, I quite like the footswitch... It would almost replace a pedal board, I'd only need a delay and phaser and that's all my metal sounds, or a qtron and comp and I'm ready for funk.

guitarfishbay

Nice. Looking forward to hearing clips.

Deijavoo

That footswitch!

Happy NAD mate!

Drew_TNBD

I am loving this amp. Been banging out Tool riffs all day though. *gulp*

StefB

I got interested in these when I saw the sub-£1k one for sale on eBay last month. That it one sweet looking machine Drew, enjoy!

ICBM

I like the footswitch - it doesn't piss about trying to be small and neat but making it hard to hit one switch without missing and hitting the next one in the heat of battle, like some do. A proper professional footswitch. I'm assuming from the Neutrik plug in the back that it works on a simple 1/4" cable and not some 8-pin DIN horror or other fragile crap like that too. ie serious kit that's properly designed.

I admit I didn't really take to the Einstein I tried recently - but knowing what you like in a sound, I could see why this is going to be right up your street. No faulting the quality either, it's built like a Tiger tank piece of modern German automotive engineering. I like the colour too, even if it is the colour of Goering's favourite uniform a bit more unusual than the typical black. [/crass WWII stereotyping removed]

Drew_TNBD

^ Didn't know whether to lol or wisdom

But yeah, it seems really well built. The knobs are really lovely - got a really nice twist to them, no fucking about. They feel solid, and road worthy.

The footswitch uses a stereo jack to stereo jack cable. I am rather assuming it will be possible to make a longer one, because this one is a wee bit too short.

octatonic

It is fairly teutonic looking.

ICBM

Drew_fx said:

The footswitch uses a stereo jack to stereo jack cable. I am rather assuming it will be possible to make a longer one, because this one is a wee bit too short.

Yes, that's one of the best things about using standard cabling. Stereo 1/4" isn't too hard to get even if you have to buy one off the shelf in a hurry when your one breaks in some backwoods town. Complicated specialist footswitch cables with multi-pin plugs should be a thing of the past.

Drew_TNBD

This is such a killer amp.
\m/

Deijavoo

Do you still have your 5150 as well? 

octatonic

Drew_fx said:

This is such a killer amp.
\m/

I give it 6 weeks.

Drew_TNBD

Very quick clip! I think I need to screw with the microphone positioning a little more, but it's quite a nice clip given I just threw the microphone up there!!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630473/GearDemos/DMoll/Lateralus_Dmoll.mp3

Deijavoo said:

Do you still have your 5150 as well? 

Yup, still got the 5150III 50-watter. Gonna keep it for recording. The Ironheart went yesterday.

Drew_TNBD

octatonic;158449" said:

I give it 6 weeks.

8-X

Drew_TNBD

Footswitch. Hench.

octatonic

Time to make up a right angled stereo cable.

Drew_TNBD

Truth bruv, truth.

Got no jacks right now though, so was gonna tax a cable from the studio at work for the time being - this one is too short as well!

ThePrettyDamned

I liked those washy sounds you got in the middle of that clip.  Well cool.

Here's to a long and meaningful relationship :P

fretmeister

You sure it's a stereo cable?

Website says a Mono cable: http://www.diezel.co.uk/access.htm