Recto 4x12 w/Mark III?

[CoG]

Anybody using this combo? Clips?

I have a shot at a Recto slant 4x12 locally for a pretty fair price. Has the stock V30s, but I have a some alternative speakers lying around to try in there. I'm playing heavy rock with pretty classic Mark-type tones for the most part, not teh br00talz.

 

[kmanick]

I run my Mark III thru a Recto 2X12 and it sounds great.
I can only think thru a Recto 4X12 that it will sound amazing.

 

[tony777]

The 4x12 recto w/V30's are my all time favorite cab, I use t with all my mark amps and it sounds killer.
I also have a marshall 4x12 with original '68 greenbacks, the recto is my favorite, alot louder and punchier.

 

[edgecrusher]

I've been wondering this same question lately; I've been using a halfback 4x12 with EVM-12L's and have been thinking about trading it for a traditional Recto cab. I really want to compare my cab to a Recto cab with V30's side by side at band volume, but that means I would have to buy one first, and I'm broke :lol:

I love Petrucci's tone, he sounds great with his IIC+/IV into the V30's, so I know it will sound good, but I'm afraid I might miss the EVM's. Anyone ever had a chance to compare the halfback and recto cabs?

 

[CoG]

so I gave it a quick test drive at moderate volume and it sounds really good-- obviously, R2 and Lead sound HUGE, and more "modern" than the EVM12-loaded 2x12 I'm using now. The EVM cab has bass, but the Recto cab goes WHOMP. I'm itching to see what happens at real volume (like 7 on volume, 3 on master, and 6 on the lead master...) :twisted:

R1 has a fuller sound just from the bigger cab but is a little on the "crisp" side and the very lightly overdriven "clean" tone I use is a bit brighter than I'd like. I am guessing that's the V30s.

That said I've never been 100 per cent happy with the cleans from the MkIIIs anyway-- I'm likely to use my JC77 for a bunch of cleans on our upcoming session.

More on Monday after I get it set up in my house and give it a run at rehearsal.

 

[CoG]

Update-- Yeah, this is an excellent match (at least with my green stripe) as long as you're after "modern" sounds, that is, kinda compressed with very crisp definition and lots of tight bass. It isn't quite as in-your-face aggressive or as dynamic as it is through a pair of EVMs.

It's definitely a huge improvement for straight-up heavy riffing (you can just look at the waveform when you record to see how tight and defined it is!) but not as good for anything R2ish as it really flattens out the dynamics that are usually available in R2. Everything's just loud.

Overall it sounds better with the band, but it's not as much fun to play solo as a smaller EVM-loaded cab.

 

[rotebass]

Nothing wrong with having both

 

[CoG]

Nothing wrong with having both

hahaha not so sure about that I've already got a roadster combo with a recto 2x12, another mark III head with a 1x12, a 2x15 bass rig, a couple 10U racks full of studio gear, and like seven mic stands in my basement. I'm running out of room. I'm probably going to stick one of the EVMs in the 1x12, save the other, and sell the unloaded 2x12 I had them in just because I don't have space for it!