Carol- Ann for metal? how is the Rivera Ktre ?

[Dave L]

The TBR1 basically was a straight-up vintage bassman/plexi thing, and the TBR1SL version was plenty mean for the late 80s in a hot rod Marshall sort of way. Neither have much in common with the lead channels of the Knucklehead Reverbs or the KTre, though.

 

[FourT6and2]

Rivera

That sounds like djent crossed with fall out boy

Meh, ya don't have to like the music. Just an example of how the Rivera sounds.

 

[ras1988]

I have a Carol-Ann triptik and I would characterize it as heavy with a really bold/forward high gain voice. The modern mode on either gain channel will give you a massive bump to the bass and add gain for metal. I happen to like it because it is more responsive and less compressed than my VH4, the clean channel is amazing, and the gain never really saturates too much or clutters up what I am playing.

 

[rokket2005]

I know I've heard that Monuments song a long time ago, cause I've seen that video, but really the vocals in that are very Sevendust-ish. If someone thinks that's what Fallout boy sounds like, they're never actually listened to Fallout Boy.

On another note, I've had my K-tre since 2010 and it's awesome, very much more in the rectifier camp voicing wise than any of Riveras other amps and can be a bitch to dial in just right. It's also very monochromatic tone wise, it does one tone well on the overdrive channels, and raising or lowering the gain doesn't really change the tonality of the amp. It's also an amp where there is a definite best setting eq-wise, and setting it for something else just kinda makes it sound weird.

Also not a dig at you Reza, as I'm a dirty amp slut too, but at the end of the day I think you have what the K-tre does already, and to borrow a line, "You have to be happy with what you have to be happy with."

 

[Crunchtime]

I've had a couple Tre's. Great cleans, fantastic build quality, tons of gain, and very brutal, imo. I tried twice to love this amp and really wanted it to work as it seemed perfect on paper. However, after honymoon wore off, I had to admit the low end was way too loose for my liking. It had to be boosted at all time on gain channel and was still not right to my ears. I really wanted that amp to be the one.