Juancito12
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My Rectoverb is my primary amp (for punk & noise rock). I feel like I've dialed in the tone so now I'm experimenting with my other amps to find a two amp tone I like.
I was using my 60's Magnatone M14 for cleans and using an A/B switch but since I got my Recto modded the cleans are way better than the Maggie so its one amp. The Maggie cranked or with a pedal sounds constipated so its not a good addition to the great Recto sound. I didn't try it clean with the Mesa on vintage grind... guess I could try it and see what happens. Not sure if clean and dirty sounds work?
I also have two Silvertone 1484's with a cab filled with Weber P12 clones and it sounds great. Very tweed-like crunch and takes pedals really well.
So hears what I'm thinking. Voice the Mesa on the vintage channel for low/mid crunch and the Silvertone for the mid/high crunch using a pedal. Borrowed my friend's English Muffin and it seems to dial in that sound really well. After fixing the speaker phase issue, I tried this out tonight and liked what I heard. The Mesa was on Vintage with high at 9, mid at 3/4 and low adjusted to for loudness (started out too loud with the extra amp/speakers so had to back off the volume).
I went direct into a route 66 (its buffered) from my guitar (Gretsch Powerjet) then split the signal to the Mesa and Silvertone. I used the compression side of the Route 66 for a clean boost with the tone knob off.
On the Silvertone I had channel 1 high at 1 and low at 11 with a jumper cable to channel 2 with high at 3 and low at 10. Channel 2 volume was higher than channel 1. It sounded bright and crisp clean and with the English Muffin (tone stack Gain-2, h-9, m-5, L-5) gave off a high mid range grind that I thought complimented the Mesa's more modern grind. Was sort of like bringing the old into the new. Thoughts on this? Yes I know most of you metal beserkers cringe at the thought of that beautiful Mesa paired with a Sear's and Roebuck catalog pawn shop special but what do you think of the two amp concept and the best way to dial in different complimentary tones?
I tried adding other pedals (BD2, TS808, DM2, DM3, DD3, Muff Pi) without much success. Lots of mud with the overdrives, Muff was ok but didn't sound right in the Silvertone at the volumes I had. The delays were better left to the effects loop. Does anyone have experience running delays/reverb on two amps?
I played bit clean and after some tone stack adjustments found a nice combo of sound. I can really dial in the Mesa clean channel to a warm fendery chime. Problem is I couldn't just jump back and forth from clean to dirty with the two amps unless I turned the silvertone down. Need to play with it more.
I was using my 60's Magnatone M14 for cleans and using an A/B switch but since I got my Recto modded the cleans are way better than the Maggie so its one amp. The Maggie cranked or with a pedal sounds constipated so its not a good addition to the great Recto sound. I didn't try it clean with the Mesa on vintage grind... guess I could try it and see what happens. Not sure if clean and dirty sounds work?
I also have two Silvertone 1484's with a cab filled with Weber P12 clones and it sounds great. Very tweed-like crunch and takes pedals really well.
So hears what I'm thinking. Voice the Mesa on the vintage channel for low/mid crunch and the Silvertone for the mid/high crunch using a pedal. Borrowed my friend's English Muffin and it seems to dial in that sound really well. After fixing the speaker phase issue, I tried this out tonight and liked what I heard. The Mesa was on Vintage with high at 9, mid at 3/4 and low adjusted to for loudness (started out too loud with the extra amp/speakers so had to back off the volume).
I went direct into a route 66 (its buffered) from my guitar (Gretsch Powerjet) then split the signal to the Mesa and Silvertone. I used the compression side of the Route 66 for a clean boost with the tone knob off.
On the Silvertone I had channel 1 high at 1 and low at 11 with a jumper cable to channel 2 with high at 3 and low at 10. Channel 2 volume was higher than channel 1. It sounded bright and crisp clean and with the English Muffin (tone stack Gain-2, h-9, m-5, L-5) gave off a high mid range grind that I thought complimented the Mesa's more modern grind. Was sort of like bringing the old into the new. Thoughts on this? Yes I know most of you metal beserkers cringe at the thought of that beautiful Mesa paired with a Sear's and Roebuck catalog pawn shop special but what do you think of the two amp concept and the best way to dial in different complimentary tones?
I tried adding other pedals (BD2, TS808, DM2, DM3, DD3, Muff Pi) without much success. Lots of mud with the overdrives, Muff was ok but didn't sound right in the Silvertone at the volumes I had. The delays were better left to the effects loop. Does anyone have experience running delays/reverb on two amps?
I played bit clean and after some tone stack adjustments found a nice combo of sound. I can really dial in the Mesa clean channel to a warm fendery chime. Problem is I couldn't just jump back and forth from clean to dirty with the two amps unless I turned the silvertone down. Need to play with it more.
