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'Vintage Lo' on the Royal Atlantic with the soak off and the master up past noon is like a real player's 2203, if you've got some chops it's gonna make you sound even better, if not... turn the soak on and it feels a bit more like a 2204 with really hot preamp tubes, the Marshall sound but a...

I bet you lunch and two beers that the "*****, boxy, flubby" sound is great in the band mix, though. If you're actually trying to dial in a live sound you need someone else who knows what they're talking about to hang out while the whole band is playing so you can adjust on the fly. Don't hop on...

For what they go for I'd probably take a used Torpedo Live over a new Captor X. The Captor kinda chains you to the DAW, the Live has a perfectly good standalone interface.

The older generation Two Notes stuff goes for pretty reasonable prices, long run you'd be better off dropping $500 on a used Torpedo Live than making a daisy chain of crappy knockoff boxes... (edit - used a Torpedo Live for years and it's fantastic.)

+1 on the heat gun. The process is more forgiving than you think if you're really patient. The good thing about Mesa using quality materials is that they don't shrink. There's so little market for 4x12s right now (nless they are minty vintage marshalls) that you should just hold onto it if...

try going on the Recto's Modern channel, bold, diodes. Put bass at 7-8 o'clock, mids a little bit higher but still below 9 o'clock, treble at 1:00. start with the gain just below noon and the presence at noon. leave the mids and bass where they are and tune things with the treble, presence, and...

I believe that is a Mark IIB :)

Off topic - your username seems to tell me 'fellow Canadian...'

Run the amp's 8 ohm out to the 8 ohm input of the Rock Crusher. As far as the amp is concerned, that's your speaker load now. Run the combo speaker and/or the EVH cab and/or your 4x12 off of the Rock Crusher's speaker outputs. If you're using the Rock Crusher to cut volume, it doesn't make a...

I have a TOV 100 head and when I stumbled across the idea of turning the knobs outside of 11-to-2, I realized that those clever Boogie *******s hid like three other single-channel amps in here.

Based on my (and I think most people's) experience with V30s, I'm inclined to think that if people hear that kind of difference it's because the UK speaker is 25 years old with over 1500 hours on it and the Chinese one is new...

Imma necro the **** out of this thread. I recently picked up an Xotic RC Booster (the more recent version with 2 gain stages) and, yeah, this is a great alternative to a tubescreamer/OD808 or anything else that has a built-in EQ curve. If, like me, you often clone Red to Vintage to get a nice...

Just get a modern attenuator/cab sim. You're not sending enough power to the cab for the speaker or the cab design to work properly anyway. Trust me, once you use a proper modern setup (I'm a Two Notes guy but none of them are 'bad') you'll end up happily selling all your cabs except the one you...

Hey man - I find noise gates way more effective and easy to tune if you put them as the last thing before the input. 90+ per cent of the noise is coming from before you even hit the amp. Get the noise at the source. Try it!

man, I thought they simplified the controls for the Badlander.

You shouldn't have phasing issues at the speakers. You may still end up having audible phasing effects in a venue just because of how stage/room/rig are laid out. Put your combos side by side, like an inch apart, and if possible close mic them both and get your room volume from the PA instead of...

+1 for adding chorus (and reverb) in post if you can. A lot of modern chorus pedals are engineered to sound their best in stereo because so many pedalheads are building space shuttle rigs. If your pedal didn't work in the loop, check the manual and see if it's got a dip switch hidden inside for...

Do you mean with your Recto? Just like any other dirt box, man. Put it in front of the amp and start twisting knobs. Most pedals are easier to dial in than amps because the controls aren't usually very interactive. What I usually do is put everything on the dirt box at noon, then turn one knob...

12 year necro on a for sale thread, that has gotta be a record...

Arguably the lunchbox Rectos, I guess - the Express series were pretty cool, but they were still aimed at people who need a real amplifier to play or jam live and I think that's a shrinking part of the market (and one that's pretty well served by buying used amps) compared to the purely...