First Post...
I started my guitar journey some 18 months ago after decades of playing drums and having to quit that due to health reasons. In short order I caught a severe case of GAS and now have a couple Engls, a Marshall, an Orange, a Carvin... and two Boogies, which I'll now introduce:
My first Boogie: a Series 1 50W Single Rectifier. I bought this during COVID (remember?) and am running it through a 412 with 2 x Vintage 30 and 2 x some other Celestion I can't remember. Bottom line is the Lead channel in Modern mode is unbelievable. This is the best guitar sound I've ever heard, period. It is truly orchestral, with so many of what I'd call sympathetic harmonics, huge but tight driving bass, and no annoyance in the fizz department. This amp eats power chords for breakfast! However, the clean channel is not quite there (and I needed a Boogie for the other room) so I went out and bought...
New to the family: a Roadster 2x12 Combo. Rectifier by name, but LoneStar by nature? Certainly, chalk and cheese to the Single Recto. I sit cross legged in front of the Roadster, thing's on bedroom volume, and the channel 1 in clean mode is just divine. Never heard anything like it. This channel makes the most tedious finger excersises pleasurable. To paraphrase a terrible Nicholas Cage... I can pluck a note for hours... Anwyay, where's the recto magic in the drive channels? I've been able to get half-passable Ride the Lightning rythm chugs out of Channel 3. Channel 4, by the manual ostensibly the same as Ch3 seems incurably middy.
And the Roadster seems to have a huge resonance problem in channels 3 and 4 when palm muting chugs on the low E string fretted at C/C#. It's like twice as loud as say palm muted G on or open E. Oddly, C/C# on the A string ain't half as bad. And it's defo not the guitar, as it's doing it with the ibby and the gibbers, neither of which have this issue on any of the other amps.
The timeless conundrum:
Would a multi-watt recto or even a three-channel recto (dual or triple) combine the cleans of the Roadster and the Lead of the Single?
And here a couple pics of my babies.
I started my guitar journey some 18 months ago after decades of playing drums and having to quit that due to health reasons. In short order I caught a severe case of GAS and now have a couple Engls, a Marshall, an Orange, a Carvin... and two Boogies, which I'll now introduce:
My first Boogie: a Series 1 50W Single Rectifier. I bought this during COVID (remember?) and am running it through a 412 with 2 x Vintage 30 and 2 x some other Celestion I can't remember. Bottom line is the Lead channel in Modern mode is unbelievable. This is the best guitar sound I've ever heard, period. It is truly orchestral, with so many of what I'd call sympathetic harmonics, huge but tight driving bass, and no annoyance in the fizz department. This amp eats power chords for breakfast! However, the clean channel is not quite there (and I needed a Boogie for the other room) so I went out and bought...
New to the family: a Roadster 2x12 Combo. Rectifier by name, but LoneStar by nature? Certainly, chalk and cheese to the Single Recto. I sit cross legged in front of the Roadster, thing's on bedroom volume, and the channel 1 in clean mode is just divine. Never heard anything like it. This channel makes the most tedious finger excersises pleasurable. To paraphrase a terrible Nicholas Cage... I can pluck a note for hours... Anwyay, where's the recto magic in the drive channels? I've been able to get half-passable Ride the Lightning rythm chugs out of Channel 3. Channel 4, by the manual ostensibly the same as Ch3 seems incurably middy.
And the Roadster seems to have a huge resonance problem in channels 3 and 4 when palm muting chugs on the low E string fretted at C/C#. It's like twice as loud as say palm muted G on or open E. Oddly, C/C# on the A string ain't half as bad. And it's defo not the guitar, as it's doing it with the ibby and the gibbers, neither of which have this issue on any of the other amps.
The timeless conundrum:
Would a multi-watt recto or even a three-channel recto (dual or triple) combine the cleans of the Roadster and the Lead of the Single?
And here a couple pics of my babies.