kyldh
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Hey everyone.
I'm new to the forum and I've been reading around different pages, but I just wanted to get anyone's opinion who might have hands-on experience with the amp I'm looking at. If you don't want to read my background B.S., just skip to the "So here's the plan..." section.
What I want:
Modern rectifier distortion
Clean channel with reverb that has a nice "full" sound similar to Mesa Studio Pre... or Fender/MusicMan amps.
A little background:
I used to play a Triple Rec through a 4x12 cab. Amazing sounding amp, but holy overkill. Also, I didn't really dig the clean channel. I actually used a separate MusicMan head in conjunction to solve my clean tone problem. But with the different things that all needed wired up 2 tube heads to 1 cab every show there were like 15 cables to plug in and I got tired of rushing to set it all up before my band's sets.
I then got rid of the Triple Rec and said "Hey, why not try a rack head?" So I got the rack head and Mesa Studio Pre and Mesa Rectifier Recording Pre. I really liked having these in the home studio, but it just didn't have the sound I wanted live. Didn't have the "life" that the Triple Rec had.
So here's the plan...
I'm thinking about getting a Rectoverb 50 1x12 combo, and I have a 2x12 slanted recto cab that I'll be using it with to help 'spread out the sound' and maybe gain some more low end. I'm thinking, from everything I've read, that the 50w Tube Mesa will be pleeenty loud enough to play any of the small/medium bars and clubs that we'd be playing. Is that accurate?
I unfortunately can't PLAY a rectoverb. I'm going to have to blindly order one online (bummer!). How is the clean tone? Will I be able to achieve similar modern gain sounds to my old Triple Rec?
I'm sorry for the long post asking questions that surely have been asked before. I'm just hoping that someone responding will have some hands-on experience with both Triple Rec and Rectoverb and be able to give their opinion.
I'm new to the forum and I've been reading around different pages, but I just wanted to get anyone's opinion who might have hands-on experience with the amp I'm looking at. If you don't want to read my background B.S., just skip to the "So here's the plan..." section.
What I want:
Modern rectifier distortion
Clean channel with reverb that has a nice "full" sound similar to Mesa Studio Pre... or Fender/MusicMan amps.
A little background:
I used to play a Triple Rec through a 4x12 cab. Amazing sounding amp, but holy overkill. Also, I didn't really dig the clean channel. I actually used a separate MusicMan head in conjunction to solve my clean tone problem. But with the different things that all needed wired up 2 tube heads to 1 cab every show there were like 15 cables to plug in and I got tired of rushing to set it all up before my band's sets.
I then got rid of the Triple Rec and said "Hey, why not try a rack head?" So I got the rack head and Mesa Studio Pre and Mesa Rectifier Recording Pre. I really liked having these in the home studio, but it just didn't have the sound I wanted live. Didn't have the "life" that the Triple Rec had.
So here's the plan...
I'm thinking about getting a Rectoverb 50 1x12 combo, and I have a 2x12 slanted recto cab that I'll be using it with to help 'spread out the sound' and maybe gain some more low end. I'm thinking, from everything I've read, that the 50w Tube Mesa will be pleeenty loud enough to play any of the small/medium bars and clubs that we'd be playing. Is that accurate?
I unfortunately can't PLAY a rectoverb. I'm going to have to blindly order one online (bummer!). How is the clean tone? Will I be able to achieve similar modern gain sounds to my old Triple Rec?
I'm sorry for the long post asking questions that surely have been asked before. I'm just hoping that someone responding will have some hands-on experience with both Triple Rec and Rectoverb and be able to give their opinion.