The Randall Recto/Treadplate kind of sucked. The George Lynch/Friedman Grail I think was based off of early rectos and was amazing. Having that with a Red / Orange switch would be amazing
I liked the wave of singles they released for it and thought it was fine enough, but not enough to ever listen to it again. In 5 years I can't imagine Metallica themselves will ever listen to it much less play it again.
curse my empty wallet; this list is making me drool
I wonder if that KSR modded Recto was mine? I had one about 10 years ago and it was amazing! as soon as I dialed it in to perfection it needed to go and I flipped it because that's how I roll
There was a guy here from New Jersey (Kyle?) who also had a bunch of Randall modules, he loved and praised those Baron amps, owned a few of them back around 2012ish
This goes back a few years, but yes I did have the variac mod. It worked as it should and sounded really good, but it seemed like the best application using the lower wattage was when you were going for that pushed lo mid gain led zeppelin tone. I usually don't go for that, so my variac was...