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This thread has turned into a monster! I guess people like Tremonti or something... weird. I asked about his tone on the Seymour Duncan forum and someone joked "I can't respect him because he only uses 9 wahs on his board... I personally use 14!" Ha.

Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster. Its just a clean boost, which is what a lot people use their 250 dollar overdrive pedals for. Tubescreamers and the like have a supposed mid boost, which you either like or you don't. I got my pedal pretty cheap, which is one reason why I use it, but I also leaned...

Pretty much any clean boost will do, I personally use a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster because I picked it up for cheap, 50 bucks. I'd love to have one of those tubescreamers and get it modded, but man its just not worth the extra hundreds of dollars to me. The SD booster is just a clean boost...

This isn't a mod, but I found a good way to eliminate a lot of the fizz from my Roadster. Turn up the master, turn down the gain is a good one. Also, I turn my treble down to around 9:30 (on a clock) and push my mids up to around 2. Keeping your treble setting down could make a big difference-...

Do it. They vastly improve the Recto tone IMO.

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Every time I use my Roadster in practice I make it sound a little bit better. I love how my tone is in the amp, I just have to find it. I'm really jiving with the amp now, after having it for roughly 6 months... I feel like I'm finally coming to understand it. Today I bumped my mids up to around...

I tightened the screws on the bottom as much as I could, and it gave me a few millimeters of clearance. Now all my knobs turn, but a few catch in a couple of places... not a big enough deal for me to worry about. Thanks for helping me out!

I like to use a boost with my overdriven tones because it sounds bigger and chunkier. I use lower output pickups (pearly gates) so I need the boost for the huge distortion... it just rounds out the tone and sounds a lot better than turning the gain up to my ears. I highly recommend using a boost...

Right now for my two main overdriven gigging tones I have my Channel 4 Modern Master at 12 oclock and my Channel 1 Fat Master around 1 oclock (both boosted by a pedal) and I use the Output control to set the volume level for practice/shows. I use the Bold setting too; I bought a Mesa for massive...

What makes you say that running EL34s in Diode mode kills the tube life? Is that just from your experience, or does it apply to EL34s in Rectos in general? I'm not trying to argue, I'm just curious because I have EL34s in my Roadster and my two main gigging tones are with the Diode rectifier and...

I did try this, but I have to pull the knobs far enough out so that they don't grab on well enough. How do I go about repositioning the chassis? When I look at the head from behind, is it the screws that go downwards by/behind the tubes? All this repositioning talk makes me nervous, I hope its...

I just got my Roadster head back from the Mesa repair guy, and everything sounds fine. He said he had to take apart the chassis, and now a couple of my knobs are catching on the black grill- Channel 1 and Channel 3 presence knobs. Is there anything I can do about this without having to take it...

Original Dunlop Crybaby Wah w/ adapter - $60, great condition, barely used, bought it new recently. Mod it for true bypass or any other number of purposes. All prices include shipping to ConUSA. I can provide pictures if you'd like. PM me if you're interested, and thanks for looking![/b]

I swapped Mesa's Semiens EL34s into my Roadster after having 6l6s for 4 or 5 months. I really like the tone, its crunchier, punchier, a better balance between upper and lower mids (more upper, less lower). The highs are more present and pleasant to my ears. It's a more accessible amp for me with...

whoever asked about a boost/OD pedal w/ rectos, there's tons of old threads on here about that topic. for me a boost is completely necessary, especially for playing with a group. Without it my tone is "just okay," with it my tone is freaking badass! plus its nice to use it to toggle between...

From what I've gathered, its basically PRS' copy of the Gibson 500t that he played with before the PRS deal. Not sure on those specs, just a high output ceramic humbucker :)

Because I don't really have a choice; in my crappy little town you practice wherever you can, which means ungrounded college rent houses built in the 1940s. These outlets are two prong and even the adapters you can get just fall right out of the wall. Sketchy, I know, but I love to play with...

Haha, I've got a parellel thread going about the same thing! I'm going to check out his settings as soon as I get my amp back from the shop... has anyone tried them live? I would worry about boosted lows/highs and a lack of mids in a normal band situation.

+1. I haven't had my Roadster long enough to swap tubes multiple times, but I love what the Mesa/Semiens EL34s did for my tone. Much tighter, more responsive (IMO) more "crunch" as opposed to what I'd call "grind," bass sounds more controlled, better attack, and the highs sound more aggressive...