Alright. Im jamming out with a new band, its a new time, and that is a time for a new tone.
I'll be honest, I used to HATE mesa rectifiers. For some reason I was compelled to try them again at a local GC and they had a used triple rec half stack there. I plugged in and it sounded sweet! It didnt have that super high pitched frequency hiss that I always hated about them. I was ready to take it home and it stopped working. Later we find out that the cabinet has some issues and because of that, the head now has issues as well. Im glad I didnt get it.
I then tried a dual rectifier and another triple rectifier fresh out of the box and I just could not get that tone that the used head had. All of the tubes were the same but for some reason it just sounded bad to me.
The new heads have the same Mesa in your face distortion for sure, but theres this annoying high *** frequency thats just right out in front. I played with it for hours and I got nowhere. Everything was sweet except that high "hiss" as I call it on the second and third channels. Is there something Im missing here? I know that whenever I tried marshall heads it was the same thing. The only marshall I ever owned was a jmp-1 preamp because I could tweak that sound out of it.
With the Triple Rectifier I cant seem to get it to disappear. I tried everything I could think of. Is there a way to easily get rid of that annoying uber high white noise over top of the distortion on these heads?
Every recording I hear of a rectifier, be it single, double, or triple, the sound Im describing is either absent or hardly audible, so I know its possible to dial it out somehow.
Thanks for any help!
-Jay
I'll be honest, I used to HATE mesa rectifiers. For some reason I was compelled to try them again at a local GC and they had a used triple rec half stack there. I plugged in and it sounded sweet! It didnt have that super high pitched frequency hiss that I always hated about them. I was ready to take it home and it stopped working. Later we find out that the cabinet has some issues and because of that, the head now has issues as well. Im glad I didnt get it.
I then tried a dual rectifier and another triple rectifier fresh out of the box and I just could not get that tone that the used head had. All of the tubes were the same but for some reason it just sounded bad to me.
The new heads have the same Mesa in your face distortion for sure, but theres this annoying high *** frequency thats just right out in front. I played with it for hours and I got nowhere. Everything was sweet except that high "hiss" as I call it on the second and third channels. Is there something Im missing here? I know that whenever I tried marshall heads it was the same thing. The only marshall I ever owned was a jmp-1 preamp because I could tweak that sound out of it.
With the Triple Rectifier I cant seem to get it to disappear. I tried everything I could think of. Is there a way to easily get rid of that annoying uber high white noise over top of the distortion on these heads?
Every recording I hear of a rectifier, be it single, double, or triple, the sound Im describing is either absent or hardly audible, so I know its possible to dial it out somehow.
Thanks for any help!
-Jay