Who has multiple rectifiers and why?

[NorCal-Mesa]

Who has multiple rectifiers and why?

 

[dlpasco]

Who has multiple rectifiers and why?

Well, it looks like you do, for one. Why?

I also have multiple rectifiers, mostly because I can't convince myself that I could sell one and be able to dial in it's particular tones on the ones that stay. Or that I'd be okay without that tone.

 

[NorCal-Mesa]

I have Ben playing roadster for yrs and like the warm I guess you can call it darker sound. I also like the bright open sound of single rec also. They both sound like rectifiers in there own right. But two totally different animals.

 

[firmani99]

I have an older 3 channel dual and multiwatt triple. I hated the parallel loop of the dual, it didn't work well for my effects. I thought about doing the loop mod but in the meantime I found a great deal on a multi watt triple that I couldn't pass up. I wasn't necessarily looking for a triple but it was a multi watt and it had a series loop so I picked it up.

I could sell the dual because the triple definitely sounds the way I want it to but I figure I probably won't get much for the dual and I can hang on to it in case I want to lug something to jam with someone and I don't have to move my pristine triple unless I find a band and start to gig again. So I guess you could say the dual is my "beater" but I wouldn't be opposed to selling it.

 

[Chadd]

I've had a single for years and bought a Roadster a few months ago. I've been planning on selling my Marshall TSL 60 and keeping the single as a backup but there hasn't been a ton of interest in the TSL. I may end up keeping that for a backup and selling the single.

 

[dlpasco]

I just did a comparison of modern mode on four of my rectos. They sound very similar but if you go back and compare them, the Tremoverb sounds much more articulate (to me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ0mdvR-mwA&list=UUFpi3GKiSjreuMHrJRajUgA.

Then there's the issue of what features the different amps have, etc. It's the hell of choice, really, but it's a nice kind of hell.

 

[LesPaul70]

why?

...because they sound different?

Why does anyone have several amps or guitars?

As noted under another topic, I am currently 'stuck' with two 2-channels, a C and a G. Either can be dialed to give me the general kind of sound I can use to play my setlist, so they can be used as backup amps for each other - OTOH, each can also be used for certain very different sounds and applications that the other cannot comfortably cover. The massive dark Recto 'wall of sound' is beyond the reach of the C, and, likewise, the G has difficulties trying to produce the tight, Soldanoish 'hot-rodded Marshall' style sound that the C gives you right out of the box.
(You can narrow the sonic gap with pedals like an OD in front and an EQ in the loop, though.)

 

[Silverwulf]

I've kept a pair of older 2 channel models:

1993 Dual Rectifier Revision F (Blackface)

1994 Dual Rectifier Revision G (Blackface) - "Transitional Model", meaning it has all the trappings of the earlier models (including a factory serial loop) and was actually built into a Revision C/D chassis. It's the most odd transitional model I've ran across, and Iv'e had tons.

I keep both because they're set up a little different, and tonally they're a little different as well. At one point I had 8 of the old 2 channels sitting in my basement (which included one from every revision)!