RKII - EL34 - Brit Mode

Stratocaster · Oct 27, 2008

Brit mode. A different animal to dial in.

I had seen someone write…
“Remember the old Marshalls -- the JTM, Plexi & even the 800 series -- you had to crank the tone controls to 11 to get a decent sound? Well this Roadking in Brit mode works the same way. On any other Mesa or Rectifier amp if you even attempted to do this, you would end up with something really disgusting & not at all musical.”

Some of you may have explored this ‘extreme’ before, but it’s a little counter-intuitive to the normal way you might approach dialing a recto.

I decided to fire up Brit mode this morning, but first I looked around for some sound clips. One of the links I came across is this…

http://www.guitartest.moonfruit.com/#/roadking/4517479043

I thought his sounds on the live clip on the bottom left was interesting (Shook Me All Night Long, Start Me Up, and Ain’t Talkin’ ‘bout Love).

Tried his settings - Gain: 100% Treb: 100% Mids: 11:00 Bass: 12:00 Pres: 11:00
I’d never considered bringing the treble up that high, and had kept the gain in the 3:00 to 4:30 range.

Of course, I have other settings to use for Brit in addition to this….but I thought this was worth sharing. Lots of cut & crunch.

Happy jamming.

Strat

CudBucket · Oct 27, 2008

I never liked Ch2. brit mode at all when I had an RKII. Plus, I think those clips are horrible. Especially the brit mode samples.

primal · Oct 28, 2008

On RKI, channel 2 is probably the least used channel for me.

I setup channel 1 in tweed and can get a killer classic rock tone.

It seems channel 2 to me anyway is not articulate enough. Seems like even when I get it to a point that it sounds good, if I switch to channel 1 and use the same settngs, it sounds so much better.

paytojt · Oct 28, 2008

I thought Brit mode (stock) sounded best with EL 34's (obviously) or KT 77's with the bass all the way, mids about 10 (o' clock), treble around 1, presence around 10, and gain all the way.