Does anybody make an amp that is a blend of a recto and Marshall?

acceptance said:
I think the first comment I got on RT was @JackBootedThug suggesting a recto for a modded Marshall tone 🤣
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I got that from Carl to give credit where credit is due. When he made that statement it was kind of like an Aha moment. Seriously… think about it. I know they are completely different amps but like I said….just think about it….😜

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Cheapskate/budget answer;
Carvin V3

Sounds like neither really, but it was marketed as such iirc.
Probably can be had for very little, and maybe for good reason, but those V3 cabs with the front-loaded V30s are a steal.
 
Jimty said:
Another nod for the Stiletto. I own a Stage 1 Stiletto and a ‘78 JMP and they can be dialled in to have a similar vibe, although you can tweak the controls to bring in a rectifier-ish flavour. You won’t get the full fat rectifier “wall of sound” low end from the Stage 1 though.

Fluid Drive is more rectifier-ish out of the box and it can sound even more so if you dial it in and then hit it with a boost (Buxom Boost for me).

I have to say I really like the Stage 1, it just takes time to dial in. Plus I find you need to pick Fluid Drive or Tite Gain on Ch 2 and leave the settings where they are, because Fluid Drive is so much darker than Tite Gain you need to re-EQ when switching between them. Also, it seems to like Greenbacks - V30s are just too harsh.

Good demo of the Stiletto here - he talks about the Marshall / Mesa qualities of the amp. Given how (relatively) cheap they are, I think they’re worth picking up.

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Wow that guy nailed everything about the Stiletto in that vid. Pretty much the same experience. The only thing I didn't do was crank it up thru my PS100 and mess around. Might have to try that with mine.
 
errrrrl said:
Wow that guy nailed everything about the Stiletto in that vid. Pretty much the same experience. The only thing I didn't do was crank it up thru my PS100 and mess around. Might have to try that with mine.
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If you crank it through the PS100 the EQ will even out and you’ll find the knobs starting to gravitate towards noon and even getting the Treble and mid knob above noon, which doesn’t happen at lower volumes.
 
The Mesa DC series is kind of a Mark series am with some Recto thrown in for flavor.
 
skoora said:
If you crank it through the PS100 the EQ will even out and you’ll find the knobs starting to gravitate towards noon and even getting the Treble and mid knob above noon, which doesn’t happen at lower volumes.
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Totally agree on needing to crank those channel volumes up. Really opens the amp up and warms up the tone. It’s interesting though - I have a PS100 but don’t seem to use it with my Stiletto (home use for me is at around 85db). I’m using the loop output as an overall master volume and running the channel volumes up at noon for Channel 1 (on Crunch) and at 2 o’clock for Channel 2 (on Fluid Drive). I was surprised how effective using the loop output for that was and ended up just using that instead of the PS100.
 
Cless357 said:
I thought the Badlander was described a lot as a modded Marshall style Rectifier.
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This. I read the title of this thread and immediately thought of the really impressive sounding Badlander clips I have heard floating around online. I read all the responses - lots of great suggestions - and was surprised that the Badlander wasn’t mentioned til page 3. That’s an amp that continues to tempt me.
 
The Cameron CCV felt like a Mark series meets Marshall all day long. Immediacy of a Mark but open chords had that Marshall roar.
 
I’ve never played the actual amp, but when I first tried the Splawn Nitro model in the AxeFX, it had the spongy—ness of a Recto with the immediacy of a Marshall, which is pretty much an oxymoron in the amp context, but I know it hit the exact “Mesa/Marshall” combo I had always wanted, just not enough focus in the lower mids for me.
 
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