First loud jam with the Dual

[Acid Test 69]

Took the dual to a jam with another guitar player and drummer. Mostly doom metal. My rig was a Goldtop with P-90s into the dual with a Redstar 2x12" cab loaded with Eminence Lynch Super V12s.

The cab is really bass heavy and much larger sounding than a lot of 4x12s. Add the nice deep bass of a 6L6 loaded dual and the walls were shaking. Seriously, the other player commented on how big sound my rig was. He plays more in the mid range and cut through quite well while I moved the lower registers. The combo worked perfectly. Channel 3 has all the gain I could ask for with pretty low noise using P-90s. Not sure a P-90 is a great match so next time it is the SD JB/Jazz combo.

Mainly played through channel 3 and still need to get that less heavy sounds of channel 2. Not there yet.

Channel one sounds okay but nothing to write home about. Playing a Black Metal pedal through the clean channel sounded fantastic and a bit more mid-range.

I have a quad of JJs EL34L's on the way. Maybe that will help bring out the tones in channel 2.

 

[guitarzan1143]

Post your experiences with the El34s, im trying to tame the beast that is the trem-o-verb. The distortion is just too much, fumbly and loose. maybe cool for hardcore, but i want it to be usable for some good ol' european power metal type setting. im not worried about losing any gain with the tube switch, god knows its a dual rec. also i think the JB/jazz combo will be much better suited. I've got a custom mahogany strat with a duncan distortion and a custom custom in the neck, talk about high output... yet somehow stays clear.

 

[Acid Test 69]

Post your experiences with the El34s, im trying to tame the beast that is the trem-o-verb. The distortion is just too much, fumbly and loose. maybe cool for hardcore, but i want it to be usable for some good ol' european power metal type setting. im not worried about losing any gain with the tube switch, god knows its a dual rec. also i think the JB/jazz combo will be much better suited. I've got a custom mahogany strat with a duncan distortion and a custom custom in the neck, talk about high output... yet somehow stays clear.

Posted in my other thread. In the descriptions using EL34s, I did switch from the solid state to the tube rectifier.