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[Fordman65]

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[psychodave]

I can appreciate the effort, but to convince me, I’d like to see him use a guitar amp head and cabinet with a microphone. No IR’s no other bullshit that makes everything sound better like vocoders do with shit singers.

 

[Racerxrated]

Not saying it cops a 68 plexi or a Fender Deluxe like the OGs, but man they sure are usable tones. Great player in Leon also helps

When people think of Rectos, many immediately think of the scooped NuMetal shit..not that it's all bad but I never liked much of those tones. Then, when you play one you remember that it's a clone of an SLO, at least in the pre section. First time I played the F Triple it was hard to even come close to scooping the mids...very modded Marshall with a TON of crushing low end.
They are great amps.

 

[Wizard of Ozz]

Not saying it cops a 68 plexi or a Fender Deluxe like the OGs, but man they sure are usable tones. Great player in Leon also helps

Shhhh... don’t spread it around. I’d like to pickup a few more.

 

[Wizard of Ozz]

I can appreciate the effort, but to convince me, I’d like to see him use a guitar amp head and cabinet with a microphone. No IR’s no other bullshit that makes everything sound better like vocoders do with shit singers.

Agreed. Smoke and mirrors.

 

[JackBootedThug]

i'm a mesa fanboy so I'm biased. best sound I have ever achieved was running a tremoverb halfstack with a zakk wylde sig halfstack in stereo. the zakk was boosted plus i ran it slightly behind the tverb with some delay. it was fucking crushing. sounded like a wall of stacks.

 

[Mailman1971]

Probably one the best sounding long lasting amps I owned.
FJA modded dual rec. that thing. Was a MONSTER!!
Think I played it for 7 Years?
Only sold it to get something new. Damn amp did it all.
Eh well. Life is short. Have fun!!

 

[Metlupass2]

Probably one the best sounding long lasting amps I owned.
FJA modded dual rec. that thing. Was a MONSTER!!
Think I played it for 7 Years?
Only sold it to get something new. Damn amp did it all.
Eh well. Life is short. Have fun!!

You've never owned anything more expensive than a Crate you bullshit artist.

 

[Mailman1971]

Probably one the best sounding long lasting amps I owned.
FJA modded dual rec. that thing. Was a MONSTER!!
Think I played it for 7 Years?
Only sold it to get something new. Damn amp did it all.
Eh well. Life is short. Have fun!!

You've never owned anything more expensive than a Crate you bullshit artist.

Hey!! I play a line 6!!
Get it right

 

[elmeier100]

Leon has great data but he always scoop a lot his Mesa audios. And also take out some treble.

Can’t say those tones are usable on a band context.

 

[Jon BCN]

I can appreciate the effort, but to convince me, I’d like to see him use a guitar amp head and cabinet with a microphone. No IR’s no other bullshit that makes everything sound better like vocoders do with shit singers.

Pretty much this.

Nowadays you can record literally anything and sound good by using IR's. But that's not representative of a real life scenario.

 

[guitarnerdswe]

I can appreciate the effort, but to convince me, I’d like to see him use a guitar amp head and cabinet with a microphone. No IR’s no other bullshit that makes everything sound better like vocoders do with shit singers.

Pretty much this.

Nowadays you can record literally anything and sound good by using IR's. But that's not representative of a real life scenario.

Using IRs is a real life scenario. I haven't used a miced up cab for over 10 years. Saying that using a reactive load + IRs sound different than micing up the actual cab those IRs are of, is not true. As far as I know, nobody has been able to prove that they can tell the difference in blind A/B test. I certainly can't. I have a background as recording engineer and mixer (spending a lot of time in the studio), and I'm slightly obsessed with details and tone chasing.

 

[itsme]

I can appreciate the effort, but to convince me, I’d like to see him use a guitar amp head and cabinet with a microphone. No IR’s no other bullshit that makes everything sound better like vocoders do with shit singers.

Yep. As soon as a clip mentions IR's, I'm out, as I know that's not how it's gonna sound coming out of a speaker cab. I really don't get all the IR love as they don't sound like a miked speaker.

 

[cardinal]

I always set the orange channel to a 2203-ish crunch that boosted well with an SD-1 and set the red channel for metal to boost with an OD808 (and then the Standout once it came around). Between the two channels, pedals, and rolling back the guitar's volume knob, could get any tone I wanted from it.

 

[romanianreaper]

I had a few Mesas over the years and great amps, but I guess I'm more of a Marshall guy. I do think they are phenomenal amps though and are versatile. For the heavier music, those rectifiers were awesome and perfect for that. I really wanted to gel with those amps more than I did but my tone roots are in the 80s vein so makes sense.

 

[bubucci]

Rather any modeler than amps sound in the video ? With respect to Leon’s playing, he always dialing thin and overly harsh sound. And combination with recto, it is killer but for Your ears ??
I like video where he can make Soldano Hot Rod as bad as Jet City ?

 

[harddriver]

I loved Ty Tabor's tone on Dogman. I purchased my first Dual Recto in 2000/2001 three channel recto and it was not the tones on Dogman, I was pissed. I did not know that in 1994 it was the tow channel recto that had evolved into the three channel. W'ell after the tube rectifiers blew I just felt it was too much stuff to go wrong and I went back to my Marshalls.

That being said here's some great two channel live recto for you from 1994.

 

[311boogieman]

My 2 channel Single Rectoverb II is very versatile IMO. It does not copy 100% Marshall tones but Clean/Pushed And Overdrive/Vintage can get some cool low and mid gain tones. Cleans are super nice. Overdrive/Modern is where it is at though. The thing I like most is that once you get it dialed in, you don't have to touch it anymore and still get all kinds of tones just by channel or mode switching alone.

 

[psychodave]

I loved Ty Tabor's tone on Dogman. I purchased my first Dual Recto in 2000/2001 three channel recto and it was not the tones on Dogman, I was pissed. I did not know that in 1994 it was the tow channel recto that had evolved into the three channel. W'ell after the tube rectifiers blew I just felt it was too much stuff to go wrong and I went back to my Marshalls.

That being said here's some great two channel live recto for you from 1994.

I owned that Recto at one time.

 

[JulesDB]

While I own and love my Racktifier, I can’t say it’s one of my favorites.

And that’s not for the sounds you can’t get out of it, I think it’s more than a one trick pony, especially with the clean channel and mid gain vintage orange tones.

It’s the spongy soft bass response that bother me, while I prefer a faster attack.

Yes, the preamp is nearly identical to SLO but they sound miles away.