#SYNERGY SYN 1 MANUAL#

Not sure yet whether I’ll swap out the V30, or just pick up a third cab and swap the speaker in that. I’m going to take a looat at how easy it is to swap speakers in the Victory cabs. I would like to pair it with a Celestion A-Type soon, to get even closer to that Fender DRRI tone. The module sounds good through the G12M-65. I need to do some recording and mixing before I can say that this is definitely a great pedal platform. I’ve had a couple of them out the cupboard and through the T-DLX, and so far I like what I’ve heard.Įarly days yet. Some pedals just don’t shine through the Blackstar HT-100. Especially on the red channel, which I believe is voiced like a Fender Deluxe. This module takes drive pedals really well. So what are the two modules like? Synergy T-DLX Preamp Module I’m very pleased that I don’t have to any more 🙂 That, and how much it would cost to revalve! I’ve been using software-based emulation in the mean time, which certainly does a job. The sheer weight of it always put me off.

The old Mesa Boogie 2:90 was on my wishlist for a long time. I’ve been after a rack-mountable 6L6 power amp for many years. The volume range is very usable for home use – already a bonus compared to many Fender amps! I’m looking forward to running it through the Two Notes Torpedo Captor so that I can crank it a bit and hear that lovely power tube saturation. It’s 50W in MONO and STEREO modes, and 100W in MONO-BRIDGED mode, I believe. Fortunately, I had a cab plugged into Channel B, so no harm done. I’ve already switched Channel B on by mistake at least once. On the front of the power amp, the STANDBY/ON switches for Channel A and Channel B are next to each other. The diagrams aren’t labelled, the text refers to sections that aren’t included, and the description of MONO, MONO-BRIDGED and STEREO modes wasn’t clear enough for me.

#SYNERGY SYN 1 MANUAL#

I’m hoping it’s just that the manual is a draft, and that they’ll improve it as time goes on. I didn’t find the manual any help at all. One reason why I want to make that a separate post is the manual that comes with the SYN-5050. I’ll do a dedicated post about the SYN-5050’s 3 modes of operation shortly. It was working, it’s just that Channel B’s volume control isn’t always active. It took me a bit of fiddling to get both channels working, and at first I really thought that Channel B wasn’t working. This one’s a little different to what I’ve seen before. I’ve owned a few rack-mount power amps over the years. (I’ll do a follow-up post at some point talking about why fan noise is important.)

Maybe it’s possible to replace it with something more acoustically engineered?

Failing that, the sound reminds me of one of those old 90s computer fans. I’m hoping that it’ll be less noticeable once it’s properly racked. It’s loud enough to be an issue for my environment. Loud enough to be heard when playing at home tone volume levels. When I switched the power amp on, first thing I noticed is that the internal fan is loud. If it was all mounted into a rack, I wouldn’t want to be moving it around much. The SYN-1 enclosures aren’t exactly featherweights either. I have a lot more to say about it than I expected to. The top cab is a V112-C with a G12M-65 Creamback, and the bottom cab is a V112-V with a V30. They’re sat on top of a pair of Victory Amps 1×12 cabs.

1 x Metropoulos Metro Plex preamp module.

Now that I’m back at the Hermit’s Cave, time to unbox everything … just to make sure it survived the journey, right? 😀 I’ve been away for work this last week, and whilst I over the other side of the country, I managed to pick up a set of Synergy Amps modules, enclosures and the power amp. This is a first look at the Synergy Amps system now that it’s home, where I can hear it through my cabs and with my guitars.

Synergy syn 1