DirtyNoise said:
I bought my first 3 c
hannel Duel Recto Yesterday! I had/have
a Peavey JSX, and xxx. I tried the KranK,
the Marshalls, and NOTHING sounds as
good as the boogie IMHO!
I could have saved thousands over the last
few years if I would have just went to a
boogie in the first place!
My band is having our first gig next week
and I can't wait to show up with this thing
and the cab!!
Boogie RULES.
Congrats!! I can remember getting my
Triple a couple of years ago........ Im excited
for you! Im not sure what guitar/pickups
you are playing withor what tone your looking
for or anything but I can tell you from my
expirience some things that might help you
to nail your tone with it in a shorter amount
of time than I spent messing around and changing
pickups and twisting knobs! One thing is:
Dont be afraid to turn up the tone controls!!
I have found that you can actually peg the
Bass control and as long as you bring the
mids up to compensate for it it will not get
muddy. I made this mistake for a long time
and it caused a great deal of frustration for
me because I could never get enough punch/chunk.
Another thing is that you will want to give it enough
treble to have some clarity but not more than that
(depending on your tastes) or you will start to loose
the chunk on the upward strum. Also, a personal
trick of mine is:
I stand by my theory of pegging the overall
amp volume and barely touching the preamp
master (channel volume) volume to get your
overall volume. The sustain and clarity and
tightness of bottom end that I get is not replicated
to my ears when the amp volume is @ half and
the preamp volume is @ 10-11. You
wont be disappointed by trying this!!
Also, here is how I set my controls as of this
moment to get a great Metal/Hard tone in the
3rd channel set to Vintage:
(I play: 97 Gibson SG With a set of PRS
Dragon II's into a Standard Recto Cab and
sometimes the Marshall 1960A with the
GT75 Spaekers)
All of these settings are assuming
positions are a CLOCKWISE Knob
configuration!!!!!
Vintage High Gain/Bold/Tube
Overall Amp Master
PEGGED! (up to 11)
Presence
10:30-11
Master
7-8
Gain
2:30-3
Bass
4-4:30
Mid
4:30-5
Treble
2-2:30
It absolutly tickled my ears! It seems that
these high settings really make up for the
lack of punch I have in the PRS Dragon II's--
Im actually ok with that though because
I can keep the versatility of the Dragons
and still have the nasty that I was missing!
Life is good! I have my cake and ate it too!!
I would have never thought
to set my knobs that high! This is my taste
but let your ears do the walking--Hope this
Helps you get a jumpstart on this head!! :wink: :lol:
