Victory V130 Super Countess

The Super Countess has made it to first practice. This was an unusual session for us as our other guitarist is on night shift this week so wasn't able to attend. As this was all about keys and song structure for the three new songs we wanted to look at this was fine. It also gave me a unique opportunity to hear the V130 in isolation with just bass and not in the mix with a second guitar. It's worth noting that I'm plugged into my practice cab which is a home built thing with some Yamaha speakers from the 1970s in it. Its OK but it is not the Victory VG212. At least it's in band colours. The first thing that struck me about playing at volume, in Low mode, was how nicely loud this amp is. It is loud but not deafening. It is manageable, controllable. In High mode it will need a bigger room to really stretch its wings but in our practice cave, in Low, I was able to get the Volume up to about half way which is a nice gigging volume. A couple of twiddles with th...

So a thing I never thought would happen has happened. I have sold my V40 Compact Head. My V40 Deluxe is now being used for preference as the clean amp and the Kraken has been used all year as the gigging amp, which has the meant the V40 has not been used since March and it is too good an amp to not get used. So she has gone to a new home.  However a new beasty has appeared. Meet the new Victory V130 Super Countess Heritage Series 100W Head! The Clean voice is lovely and on the Gain setting I use has just a sniff of break-up.  The Crunch voice is Malcolm Young in a box (again, as I set it).  And the 2 overdrive voices destroy any other hotrodded amp tones I have ever heard. I'll leave it until it's played live to decide on Overdrive 1 or 2 but right now I could noodle OD2 all day long.  This is every amp I ever wanted to play live in one box and my goodness can it be loud. This is not a bedroom use amp!! I am so looking forward to its first full outin...