Elpelotero
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Today FedEx dropped off this beauty:
Blackface/chrome chassis Dual Rectifier, Serial # 33X. She's a little beat up on the metal pieces with small bits of rust and what not, makes some scratchy noises when you turn the volume up some, but after my first fat Echord suddenly a new world opened up to my ears...HOLY MOTHER....
THIS IS TONE!!!!! I set all the eq's flat at 12oclock. It didn't need much else from there on! I realized that this amp has the perfect guitar EQ. Not too much of anything one thing where you have to nag to dial it out. And then talk about clarity! I never understood too well what was meant by this term when people would compare the 3ch vs. 2ch. Now I know. You hit any chord, ugly or pretty, any note, w/e you wish, and it's right there! Immediately, with no fuzz, no veil, no blanket on top. On my 3ch I'd have to turn the presence to like 3oclock to get something remotely close to this.
Biggest differences, besides above, that I noticed to my 2005 3ch...
-the clean sucked. i'd take my 3ch clean anyday of the week.
-Is it just me not being used to it, or does it have some less gain? I didn't put the gain up too much, only 12...
-the above might be answered by the fact that this thing cuts like a knife. There is no "nu-metal" boomy, over bassy sound, and this is thru my 4x12 oversized. At least maybe I don't know how to dial in that trademark recto sound yet on this one, but on my 3ch anything I dial in comes out being boomy. This thing instead reminds me of vintage Mark mesas, so far...very tight, in your face, but still says I'm a recto.
-another thing that made me smile....I only had my output master at 9!!!! I can only imagine what cranking this thing would be like! I can't wait! On my 3ch 9 sounds like mush. Then I gotta crank it to hell and people complain that the walls are shaking.
I do not mean to upset anyone by the above...I simply am in tone heaven and this is my outlet. If i explain to anyone else, they'd think I'm weird. I am in no way discrediting the 3ch, as I own one and still love it for the things it does in it's own right. The 3ch is by far more versatile and has a plethora of great tones found in EVERY mode/channel. This thing tho is simply amazing tone. It's so perfect I don't deserve it.
I gotta start cleaning her up some; looking forward to that. Also gotta get some pics up..image uploaders were being annoying today though..
In the mean time, who's got settings!!!!!???
Blackface/chrome chassis Dual Rectifier, Serial # 33X. She's a little beat up on the metal pieces with small bits of rust and what not, makes some scratchy noises when you turn the volume up some, but after my first fat Echord suddenly a new world opened up to my ears...HOLY MOTHER....
THIS IS TONE!!!!! I set all the eq's flat at 12oclock. It didn't need much else from there on! I realized that this amp has the perfect guitar EQ. Not too much of anything one thing where you have to nag to dial it out. And then talk about clarity! I never understood too well what was meant by this term when people would compare the 3ch vs. 2ch. Now I know. You hit any chord, ugly or pretty, any note, w/e you wish, and it's right there! Immediately, with no fuzz, no veil, no blanket on top. On my 3ch I'd have to turn the presence to like 3oclock to get something remotely close to this.
Biggest differences, besides above, that I noticed to my 2005 3ch...
-the clean sucked. i'd take my 3ch clean anyday of the week.
-Is it just me not being used to it, or does it have some less gain? I didn't put the gain up too much, only 12...
-the above might be answered by the fact that this thing cuts like a knife. There is no "nu-metal" boomy, over bassy sound, and this is thru my 4x12 oversized. At least maybe I don't know how to dial in that trademark recto sound yet on this one, but on my 3ch anything I dial in comes out being boomy. This thing instead reminds me of vintage Mark mesas, so far...very tight, in your face, but still says I'm a recto.
-another thing that made me smile....I only had my output master at 9!!!! I can only imagine what cranking this thing would be like! I can't wait! On my 3ch 9 sounds like mush. Then I gotta crank it to hell and people complain that the walls are shaking.
I do not mean to upset anyone by the above...I simply am in tone heaven and this is my outlet. If i explain to anyone else, they'd think I'm weird. I am in no way discrediting the 3ch, as I own one and still love it for the things it does in it's own right. The 3ch is by far more versatile and has a plethora of great tones found in EVERY mode/channel. This thing tho is simply amazing tone. It's so perfect I don't deserve it.
I gotta start cleaning her up some; looking forward to that. Also gotta get some pics up..image uploaders were being annoying today though..
In the mean time, who's got settings!!!!!???
and there are others here that can kill me any day on guitar. i like to think i'm getting there though. I'm building my rig to last a lifetime. I figured if i had the money and time now why not go for it? Things only get harder later. Plus my band is at its best ever. Who knows when that'll happen again?
