IT'S HEEEERE!!!
The Viper arrived at work today and I couldn't wait for quitting time to get home and try her out. Within minutes of arriving at home, i had a beer popped and the Viper plugged in
First impressions: Love the clean. Love the Lead. Love the Crunch...wait, I can get that crunch using the Brown - awesome! Very versatile, sounds big and boomy like my ol' Mesa Boogie DC-5 in the Grind with the emulation on, but I don't have to fiddle with the knobs to get a good sound. It sounds good FLAT LINED on the EQ. Love that. The boost is crazy loud, the Lead channel has more gain than a 3tm (I have no way of confirming this), and it's WAY lighter than my ol' Boogie. Basically, I got my Boogie back, with a MUCH easier EQ to dial in.
Love. It. Already.
I will be noodling all night with this thing, and I'll record a sound clip for y'all.
Update: Hooked up the Nova System, and it sounds amazing. I'm really only using the Reverb and the Grind voicing. Clean is also very nice, almost as warm as the MP-2, warmer than the MP-1 Classic for sure...probably warmer than the stock MP-1 too. Not sure what's going on in there, but yeah, it is a nice clean. Not crazy about the reverb, so I'm using my Nova for that.
Ideally, I'd like a footswitch that could access all the voicings, I don't care about the boost, I have that in the Nova System.
These are the options:
Green ChannelClean (very clean, very warm)
Crunch (gets great overdrive, goes all the way to hot rodded plexi)
Red ChannelVintage (more to come)
Brown (more to come, but I can easily capture the Crunch tone with this voicing)
Grind (HOT Marshall sound - speaker emulation can get you to Boogie realm)
Lead (from MP-1 to 3TM)
That would be a 6 button switch, but i could totally get along with a 5-button and just use the Clean Green and all the RED voicings. That's the ideal foot switch. Here are my settings (right now):
Green
Drive = 5
Bass = 3
Mid = 5.5
Treb = 6
Master = 4
Red (Grind)
Drive = 7
Bass = 5
Mid = 3
Treb = 6
Master = 2
No boost, no Reverb (Nova system does this)
Gate = 7.5
Presence = 6.5
Varicab = 2x10 / Dark
Thump = 5
Hi-Cut = 8