I think I am the shopper from hell.

[seanzilla]

Hi, I bought my DR 3-Chan about 4 days ago and I love it. So here is the story.

Went into GC looking to buy a Fender Hot Rod Deville 2x12. Loved the cleans, very bubbley and nice. I play Blues mostly but also love to play hard rock, nu-metal, metal.

He talked me into the USED mesa single rec and a USED marshall cab: I hated it, couldn't dial in any good blues tone, loved the high gain, not loud enough, clean suuucked. I brought it back.

swapped single rec for jcm 2000 tsl because he said it was modeled after fender clean: liked it a lot for blues, nice and loud, bad sounding high gain, not tough enough. I brought it back.

The guy at GC was really gettin sick of me so I told him I love the cleans of the Hot rod deville and liked the high gain of the Single rec.

SO HE SAYS - "Buy your ultimate high gain setup and I'll throw in the hot rod deville". - nice, this is even after I haggled the **** out of him. So I got the Single rec and a ugly *** cream colored oversized mesa 4x12 AND the Hot rod deville.

So took it home was happy for a week and was like this single rec is not loud enough for me and I really hate this color cab, I need the 100 watt dual rec with the all tube action or silicon diode. SO I TOOK IT BACK once they got in a DR - 3 chan.

Got a used DR-3chan and a brand new black oversized slant cab. Still kept the Hot Rod Deville. Liked the tone a lot, am getting tons of tones from, classic rock, blues, everything. WAAAAY different from the single rectifier in my opinion.

So today I go to play it and it lost all that tone, volume, and gain.... man I was pissed, Turned out the rectifier tube was bad.

So I brought it in and they replaced both the rectifier tubes and it fixed it but I think it lost a little tone. Oh well, I can deal with it with tweaks.

Well, he plugs it into a traditional cab for me to test it and it sounded like a whole new amp, very tight, sounded like the **** marshall but with even better gain. I was like ok whatever.

Go home and play my amp - Sounds flubby and farty.

SO I'M OFF TOMORROW TO TRADE IN MY STANDARD CAB FOR THE TRADITIONAL. :twisted:

 

[dmroeder]

You are a salesmans nightmare! :wink:

Congrats on finding the tone that you were looking for.

 

[seanzilla]

Oh, I also bought an american strat while I was there too. So at:

$800 - Fender Strat
$1150 - Dual Rec
$900 - CAB

I think I should be able to picky like this.

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS, "SORRY MIKE FROM GC IN THE TWIN CITIES"

-- I think I will throw him a $20 for being pretty cool about this whole ordeal.

I'm sooooo **** picky and I think for that amount of money I should be HUUUGELY inspired to play by an amp.

when you play through an amp and hear it's tone it SHOULD inspire you to want to play through it.

 

[Mr_You]

So the lessons we've learned here:

Don't listen to salesmen.
Do your research.

:lol:

 

[ibanez4life SZ!]

You're paying the money! Get what you want out of it!

**** good deal on the HRD....I wish my GC had Mesa....I bought my DR form a smaller shop, and got no deal, as they are the only Mesa carriers around.

I'm happy, but I wish I could have gotten atleast a bit of a break...

And do you find hte traditional to be that much better? One thing I have found is that the oversized really needs some driving to wake up!

 

[seanzilla]

Hey Ibanez4life,

Didn't you have the traditional cab? Did you like that one better?

From what little I heard it sounded great for some reason it just had a lot more tone and really tight with a lot of low end chunk too not as bassy or farty as others would call it. Just sounded mean. I was amazed that it could make that much of a difference.


anyone have any other comments on the traditional cab?

 

[ibanez4life SZ!]

I currently own an oversized and really love it! It took me quite a bit to dial in a tight yet huge tone with it, but I've done it, and I'm very happy!

The way I look at it, the oversized was designed for the amp. There are some characteristics it brings out in it that a traditional will not.

But I still want to try a traditional with it!