Know your Recto!

[D-Rock]

Bond with it. Take chances. Explore it's EQ beyond the suggested settings.
Crank dials, while reducing others. Listen to how they interact. Use your ears, not your eyes.
Try not boosting the amp. Listen & assimilate.
Try different speakers. Don't limit the amps voice to only V30's. They aren't always the answer.
Think outside the box.
These amps are smarter than they appear.

That is all.

Have a good tone day fellas,

 

[Mailman1971]

Yup....agree 100 percent!
After owning a ton of amps....the way I run my recto sounds the best to me.
Different cabs...pedals..loop settings....
It sounds so damn good.
I have owned a few of them in the past.....dissed them (after not spending some time with them and crappy cabs)
but coming back around...sound awesome!!

 

[Badronald]

Love my Triple Rec.
Really absurd how many great tones are in that box.

 

[Lriagan]

I've played with maybe 50 rectos through my years. Different stores, houses, cities, venues. They have always, and I mean always sounded like ass to me. Not a single one had a usable sound and I keep wanting to try more of them because of their high acclaim, but alas they always sound like doody.

 

[Dallas Marlow]

I've played a few good rectos, I really dig the tremoverb and I played a triple rec that I ended up purchasing which sounds awesome... I'm not fan of the clean channel but its ok, the orange is my favorite by far and I really run mostly just in vintage mode.

Also I had to mod the loop to real serial, I found instructions on the web for it where you take a lead from one of the pre amps and feed it that way, all the other mods allow bleed through and I personally found the parallel loop completely unusable as not only did it bleed the sounds together but it also didn't seem to sound good with anything.

 

[glassjaw7]

I agree! One thing I always did was keep the loop engaged so that I could have the overall "output" volume on the front of the amp to play with. If you set the master for each channel around noon or higher, then set the output really low, you can get out of that fizzy territory and get some really nice thick tones at low volumes.

The EQ controls react with each other in amazing (and frustrating) ways. Good call on experimenting! I just want to cry when I hear 99% of the terrible sound clips of these amps because they are capable of some fantastic tones! Start modding and swapping tubes and it's one of the best out there!

 

[reverymike]

I LOVE my Recto. #635, Rev F. Funny thing is . . .I almost sold it. I had always used it with a Marshall cab with Greenbacks, or my Silver Marshall with 75s. It sounded 'good' but nothing that made me want to keep it around. Then, I bought a Bogner V30 cab to use with my 101b. I plugged the Recto into the Bogner cab and was literally blown away. Then, to top it off, I added an Xotic EP Booster in front, and my God, it's just sick at how good this thing sounds. I use the Orange High Gain channel and the amp just is amazing. It EASILY hangs with my SLO, Ecstasy, '78 JMP, and '71 Superlead.

Does anyone know how I can get the Red channel clean?? I love my Orange high gain channel so much, but it'd be nice to be able to switch to a clean channel. Can you clone Red to Green??

 

[VC4Ever]

I sold my recto but miss it very much now. I would like to get a pre-500 if I can.

 

[primerib]

probably my fav amp of all time, the rectifier solo heads that is. I have a few now and I've had many of them over the years.

 

[stephen sawall]

I still have my Tremoverb ..... do not use it much. But it does things none of my other amps can do. Personally for most sounds I like the midrange around 3 o'clock and the gain at 1 or less.

 

[rlord1974]

I used a Tremoverb for at least 15 years as my main live rig. Loved that amp. Why did I sell it again?

 

[glpg80]

Another Tremoverb owner here. Getting it prepped and updated and as well as a cap job. Cant say enough about them

 

[projectk2r4]

I got a 2-Channel Rev G. Triple Rec off a guy on Craigslist a few months ago. It's freaking amazing. I loved it from the first moment I fired it up. I traded a guy a Marshall Class 5 and an Egnater Tweaker I never used for it. It's MINTY

I have a Mark V that's not loving all the attention the Triple Rec is getting. I loves my Recto.

 

[Badronald]

I got a 2-Channel Rev G. Triple Rec off a guy on Craigslist a few months ago. It's freaking amazing. I loved it from the first moment I fired it up. I traded a guy a Marshall Class 5 and an Egnater Tweaker I never used for it. It's MINTY

I have a Mark V that's not loving all the attention the Triple Rec is getting. I loves my Recto.

Class 5 and a Tweaker for that amp?!
Awesome!

 

[projectk2r4]

Class 5 and a Tweaker for that amp?!
Awesome!

I kinda felt bad, but the guy put an ad on Craigslist requesting a trade for two low wattage amps & I had two I wan't using. I didn't even want to trade the Marshall, but I can buy another one cheap so I figured what the hell. I love it, play it through a 2x12 Recto with V30s and it's smoking.

 

[sinnersmoon]

Crank dials, while reducing others.

I did this - cranked the mids and reduced bass and treble to zero. Then I just added a bit of bass to make the sound fatter and then I engaged the OD =

 

[Moshaholic]

What he said...

Cabs, boost, controls, switches for tube and bold make a huge difference.

This custom shop rectifer smokes most any other amp I have owned. Everything is custom right down to the toggle switches for the modes and the LED's.

This was built for a long time Mesa employeee at the Mesa who sold it to me.

It is one insnae amp, sound so smoth, rich and gooey unlike any of the 20+ recto's I have had in the past.

 

[glassjaw7]

What he said...

Cabs, boost, controls, switches for tube and bold make a huge difference.

This custom shop rectifer smokes most any other amp I have owned. Everything is custom right down to the toggle switches for the modes and the LED's.

This was built for a long time Mesa employeee at the Mesa who sold it to me.

It is one insnae amp, sound so smoth, rich and gooey unlike any of the 20+ recto's I have had in the past.

I remember drooling over that recto when you first posted pics. Is the circuit different than a standard 3-channel? Got any clips?

 

[stratotone]

Love my first year ractifier. Just finished doing some profiles of it for my Kemper so I can use it live. Only bad thing is it's hard to read the damned black lettering on the chrome, especially on the back!

Got a killer lead tone by going orange, running everything around noon but diming the mids and running presence and gain at 3/4, turned OFF the fx loop, master volume for the channel was 1/3rd up, spongy, tube rectifier, EL34s. This kills for neck pickups especially, has a nice little sag to it on the initial attack but feels pretty cool. Was able to replicate it exactly with the Kemper.

 

[some dude]

Big fan of the Recto.

I tried to get away from it about 7 years ago now. Rotated through a bunch of different amps for a few years then traded one of them for another Recto and found my way home again.

I've become really attached to my Roadster, in part because it has the ability to grow with me. I find my 2 channel Recto locks me into clean/high gain whereas the Roadster has two additional channels I can use to cover more of the middle ground, which has become important as my playing has evolved.