Yeah, I'm that bored. Which has teh best squeelz IYO?

6505+: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8290798/pinch%2 ... 505%2B.mp3

e530: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8290798/pinch%20test%20e530.mp3

DR Modern: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8290798/pinch%2 ... modern.mp3

DR Vintage: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8290798/pinch%2 ... intage.mp3

and a new one courtesy of teh awesome gearhead neighbor, XTC: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8290798/pinch%20test%20xtc.mp3


I officially hate Cemetery Gates now.

I... don't know...?

But surprisingly I liked the DR Modern best.

They all sounded pretty good... I was also surprised how good the DR modern sounded... that channel gets bashed so often

Yeah I never knew the modern channel got hate...


I like vintage better though.

The rectos record very well, IMO. They make less amazing live amps for that scooped metal sound on the modern channels though. They need to be dialed in carefully. Their smoothness in the gain structure seems to help them get lost in a mix more somehow or something, if attention is not paid to the mid scooping dialed in.

But recorded, they can sound pretty sweet and properly massive.

Out of these i most dig the 6505 and the Recto Modern. For this sort of sound anyhow. I would probably like the Vintage channel for something else though.

Yeah Chris is right. To my eyes they have this hole in their frequency range which happens to be the one that cuts through live, but also sounds pretty gnar when it's missing on a recording.

The best live amp I've ever owned was my old Randall V2, if only because it was so loud. You could dial it in as scoopy as you want and still cut through due to the sheer amount of volume it was capable of. That and it had this mega-tight low end that rather than just being a lot of chunk, it wasn't bassy when you weren't palm muting, but when you palm muted you could feel it in your chest even at moderate volumes.

I miss that amp. Maybe I'll get a T2 someday, as from what I understand, it's basically the clean channel and the tube dirt channel of the V2 with the same poweramp.

Orange/Vintage is a really nice sound. I like it a lot. Red/Modern is excessively bassy, I think, at least for live work. It's wall-o-fuzz, and what the Rec is stereotyped as able to do. (Hint: there's a bunch of other settings, people.) I actually like it as a bass amp. I rip on the Red channel and Modern mode specifically a whole bunch, or have in the past- like, I know you can get it to sound decent, but I've had no luck with the thing. It's a difficult voicing to work with, and people tend to dial it in poorly. I think your clip sounded pretty decent- but you pull good tones, which most people do not do.

I would go for the Rec/Modern myself for the squealies. I liked the Ecstasy, too; those seemed the most... Controlled?, I guess.