Diezel's Herbert amplifier is a 180-watt pulverizer designed to deliver the meanest of means, the cleanest of cleans — and more. Still considered state-of-the art, nearly 20 years after its release, the Diezel Herbert is a mainstay in heavy rock, and extreme metal productions — anywhere bold, powerful electric guitar tones are required.
Developed by Brainworx, and officially endorsed by legendary amp builder Peter Diezel, the Diezel Herbert plug-in masterfully emulates this six KT77-equipped sledgehammer, for UAD hardware and UA Audio Interfaces:
Pristine to Punishing
A contemporary tube amp if there ever was one, the Diezel Herbert plug-in thoroughly captures the hardware's cutting-edge circuit. From impossible-to-distort piano-like clean tones to searing early-VH textures, to absolutely groundbreaking extreme high-gain tones, the Diezel Herbert plug-in is the one-stop-shop for tracking bold, modern guitar tracks.
Diezel FX Rack
The Diezel Herbert plug-in offers additional control over your tones via the Brainworx FX Rack. It features a Noise Gate, switchable high and low-pass filters, and a Power Soak circuit that allows you to dial in as much overdrive as you want, without having to crank the output gain.
The Diezel Herbert also includes 120 impulse response Recording Chains that were perfectly captured from several boutique cabinets and recorded through Brainworx's vintage Neve console with an array of high-end and vintage microphones and outboard gear, giving you "record ready" tones, instantly.
Unison Technology for UA Audio Interfaces
Harnessing UA's groundbreaking Unison technology, the Diezel Herbert plug-in gives you the impedance, gain staging, and circuit behaviors that have contributed to making it the "King of Kings" in the world of modern tube amps.
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Reviewed By Faydit [all]
December 25th, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.4.0.0 on Windows
Excellent plugin of an excellent amp.
Not only, but mostly a good choice for modern high-gain to Metal sounds, as the Clean and Crunch channel sound very modern, dry and maybe also a litte "sterile" and neutral, if compared with vintage tube amps, which is something, you may like or not, but both channels neverthess sound good. The lead channel is top-notch, a very aggressive, biting, but well adjustable (mostly) hard-core-Metal sound, also due to the activatable, individually adjustable mid-scoop.
I personally nevertheless prefer the VH-4, as it is more like a hot-rod Marshall voiced, while the Herbert sounds more modern, even more brutal and has it's own character, also due to the KT77 poweramp.
Best and most authentically plugin version of this amp for me! The fx section even offers more features than the real amp, such as power soak, delay, adjustable hp and lp filters and a lot of excellent, professionally captured, matching cabinet/speaker/mircrophone IR's, which even make the use of external IR's unnecessary, although even this is possible.
Very professional, if not perfect work.
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