the recto recording pre is a great live preamp, but the "recording feature" is useless.
it's not his fault, it's just the amp, i struggeled with mine for some days/weeks, thinking about bad tubes, broken circuit and stuff like that, after heaving read the description on the mesa side (like a miced stack) I just couldn't believ the sound has to be that crappy.
it is crappy, any behringer v-amp -recto-model sounds better and way more realistic than that piece of crap (only talking about the recording feature!!).
I just couldn't believe my pre is meant to sound like that and the guys at boogie really dare to bring out stuff like that with their name on it......
then i tried some other recto rec-pres and they all sound like that when directly recorded...exactly like the hosted clip.
I just couldn't believe mesa did that...
to make it clear:
the recto pre is a great preamp for live applications and in combination with a poweramp, but the direct recording feature is bullshit and absolutly USELESS for any purpose!