Post #3 First Gig.

Friday 29 September: 

The Super Countess's first gig is a village pub gig. Perhaps a bit simple for what this amp is capable of but these fun live music pubs are our bread and butter.

First off, these Heritage Series amps look really nice atop a Victory vertical 2x12 cab. I have the grey VG212 purchased for the Kraken but it's the same guts as the black one - 2 x Celestion Vintage 30s.


I always take 2 guitars, one as a back up in case of catestrophic failure or a mid song string break. I deliberately took 2 very different guitars and played them both tonight. Front and centre is a Reverend Bayonet with a Rail Hammer P90 in the neck and a Rail Hammer humbucker at the bridge. The white guitar is a PRS Starla.

From a load-in perspective the Heritage series are, as you would expect, not as portable as the Compact series, obviously. What is continuously amazing is the quality and volume of noise you can get from a Kraken and a 1 x 12 which is stunning considering you can walk to a gig carrying that and a guitar. But, that said, I can still carry the 2 x 12 cab and the Super Countess at the same time from the car to the venue.


I am blown away by the way the V130 allows the character of the guitar to come through very clearly, and I think it's because I'm on the clean channel in Crunch voice. There is much more clarity underneath the gain. When I switched from the rail hammers to the Starla, I could really hear the tone of the Starla come through.  I can hear that woody vintage tone of the Starla come through and I can hear the barl of the Rail Hammers too. I've decided to take the Ibanez RG and the EMG powered Luke tomorrow. Next time it will have to be the Gordon Smiths to really hear their character come to the fore.

Sadly I was visited by the Pedal Gremlins tonight and only managed a couple of songs with some moduation pedals on but from the small amount I heard I get the feeling that the V130 is going to genuinely handle these very, very well



I will post more following Saturday's gig but I am getting the opinion that this amp is not just good and is not just great but is extraordinary. We often record the whole gig on one of those hand held zoom thingies so we can hear what the world sounds like in front of the PA. I was listening back to some of these recordings and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up for this one. This is L'il Devil by The Cult. The intro is from the Super Countess on the Crunch voice and the solo (at 1:32) is it on OD2. Not studio quality but the amp tones are here. The guitar is the Reverend and there are no effects on, it's all the amp...


Please note  I wanted to catch how I felt immediately after each gig so I wrote this straight after the gig, then added the media and tweaked the phrasing afterwards.

More info at

Victory Amps
http://www.victoryamps.com/v130-the-super-countess.html 
Andertons Music
https://www.andertons.co.uk/p/VICV130/guitar-amp-heads/victory-v130-super-countess-100w-head

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