Pre-amp Swapping Amplifier? | Synergy Syn30

Pre-amps are the identity of an amplifier, but why settle for one when you could have many? Synergy have created a multi personality amp that features modular, swappable pre-amps to give the greatest amp sounds in a single, valve powered, hardware system.

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[robertsbri]

Thank you for actually playing chords in your demos. So many demos are just people playing noodly solo riffs so you get no real feel for what something sounds like for rhythm players.

[setra]

Heard "no Sane or sensible human being would ever willing subject themselves to" and thought, Henning's done it then.

[kivitelezo]

Hey Colin! Your playing got much much much better lately! Keep up the great work!

[StudiodotCom-Real]

I like the concept of a hardware modular design. I am not a guitar player, but an audio engineer, so I look at things from a different angle. The concept of having one go-to configuration and the swapping out the modules to get the desired sound seems to me an ideal concept for the studio. Now instead of investing in stacks of amps, just a shelf full of modules and near endless variations while the mic system would likely not need to be altered much. I've been kind of saying "wouldn't it be nice if...." for quite some time. Now someone else said it too and then acted on it. Nice!

[zachjollimore]

There's something incredibly musical about your playing when you demo gear that's just... so goddamn accessible.

[billuminati]

What a sweet amp, $1200 new isn't that bad but $400 per module kinda sucks especially if it ends up not being the sound you were looking for (not to mention if they start doing updated revisions of them too). And since these modules will only work with their amp it'll be slim pickings for the resale and used market for this stuff. I feel like this is one of those products to see if it gets picked up by the public and see if other amp companies start doing the same with their own products, seeing that if we learned anything from the '80s this kinda stuff doesn't really catch on or stays popular.

[davidhollowelljr]

Does anyone else remember when Randall tried this with Kirk Hammett's sig amp stack like near a decade ago?
Glad to see the swappable module idea come back

[triledink]

Seriously doe, do you actually keep a fan inside the room just for those playing montages?

[gordontubbs]

I love the concept of this amp, but it seems a little too ambitious given the cost. For example, with so many amp manufacturers giving us "amp-in-a-box" pedals, I would love to see a shoot-out between the Friedman BE module and the $200 Friedman BE overdrive pedal, or the Diezel VH module and the $270 Diezel VH4 distortion pedal. If the only difference between the modules and the pedals is the integration of some tubes in the circuit, then why not give some of Blackstar's $200 tube pedals a go? Or VOX's $100 Straight 6 tube driver? Or Behringer's $50 Vintage Tube Monster? Or go top shelf and get Maxon's $270 TOD-09 overdrive? Lots of options to try before committing to a big boy rig like the Synergy.

[witeshade]

Wow that first demo was fucking awesome. Awesome classic rock feel.

[KnapfordMaster]

That plexi pre sounds KILLER, especially channel 2.

[Steph-dene]

Swapping Pre-amps is indeed a very new concept, not as swapping Tshirts for an example but just as important. And because swapping, changing up and refreshing is sooo important i cant wait to get those new, awesome, stupendous, legendary, longawaited Colin's Sexy Guitars Tshirt to bring a breeze of freshness in to my Tshirt collection.

[MrStephenlederle]

I just looked this up and it's $1300 but it doesn't come with a module. And each module is $400. So just to get your foot in the door of synergy amps you'd have to fork over $1700 before taxes/delivery charges. That's a whole lot, however, to buy a Friedman HBE head it would cost $3500.

[bobjoe]

Reminds me of an article I read a while ago on some of the earliest rack pre-amps, the pre-amps were simply small tube cartridges that could be changed in and out or a level of variability that you can't get with just one pre-amp these days.

[jamescbender]

OMG, if this works it's fucking brilliant!

[low_e_music]

Love that SLO module, it really does sound a lot like the real amp.

[caseyking]

Was skeptical, but this actually looks really cool and useful.

[redriffage]

God I love your channel. Sometimes I have NO clue what your talking about, but it's great. Please don't let your channel die my Scottish Lord. 🤘😆

[Stretchwreckedem]

It would be great to be able to get a solid state version of this that you could convert to a hybrid with different preamps. Solid State power amp with a tube preamp would be a recipe for great tones!

[ricohgill]

Randall used to make a head that had interchangeable preamp cartridges, but it took four instead of just one. There was a rack version that would also take four cartridges. Pretty sure it was the RT series.