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Other then a Rectifier???
Doug West indicated that the Badlander sales had a good start but "sadly have fallen on it's face" in the US. Yes the lack of transformers meant they couldn't produce them for two years, which surely played into it. He did go on about this model being a "new take on the Rectifier".
So I'm not really a core Recto guy and TBH not qualified to say if an amp chugs well or not. To my ears the Badlander is more Mark like with a heavy Brit focus and a much tighter low end and I'm a major fanboy.
But should they have marketed it differently? Putting it in the Rectifier line seems to have have set certain expectations. Players who would never consider a Rect would not give it a look. Consider the sales seems Recto folks have not embraced this new Rect take, a puzzling misnomer since it's the one without a Rect Tube .
In fact it wasn't really on my radar till posts on this forum had me take a serious look at one and glad I did.
But with the Mark VII and the TC out there where could they have put it? Should they have created a "Rectiless" model line with it? hmmm
Doug West indicated that the Badlander sales had a good start but "sadly have fallen on it's face" in the US. Yes the lack of transformers meant they couldn't produce them for two years, which surely played into it. He did go on about this model being a "new take on the Rectifier".
So I'm not really a core Recto guy and TBH not qualified to say if an amp chugs well or not. To my ears the Badlander is more Mark like with a heavy Brit focus and a much tighter low end and I'm a major fanboy.
But should they have marketed it differently? Putting it in the Rectifier line seems to have have set certain expectations. Players who would never consider a Rect would not give it a look. Consider the sales seems Recto folks have not embraced this new Rect take, a puzzling misnomer since it's the one without a Rect Tube .
In fact it wasn't really on my radar till posts on this forum had me take a serious look at one and glad I did.
But with the Mark VII and the TC out there where could they have put it? Should they have created a "Rectiless" model line with it? hmmm