Racerxrated":1tbdsa0d said:
cardinal":1tbdsa0d said:
I've had a lot of Rectos.
IMHO the Recto's natural character is just fizzy and a bit furry. It just is. I think it's because the amp is actually pretty uncompressed for the amount of gain it can have, so theres just a lot of high end and low end extension (which people complain about as fizz and flub). But it's also why it sounds massive and mean.
Changing tubes doesn't "help." Boosting can compress and lop off top and bottom, tightening and reducing high-end fizz. It does change the Recto's character, but it's just different, not better or worse.
I think if you listen to recordings of the Recto, you can make out the fizz from it. But you have to listen for it as it generally just gets buried by the cymbals and the like. You mostly just hear the awesomeness of it.
But I wonder if a lot of folks struggling with a Recto really want a 5150. That amp to me is tighter, less fizzy, more compressed than the Recto and is idiot proof.
I always wonder about guys talking about 'fizz'....my take is the 'fizz' just the high end with the amp running at a low volume. That 'fizz' goes away when you put some balls to it and turn up. No more 'fizz'.
To be honest, I never found my Dual rec multiwatt to be fizzy. It had a very bright presence in the upper treble region but no fizz as such. I kept my presence at around 8 oclock, treble between 12 and 1 o'clock, gain at 2:30 and absolutely no fizz with enough top end clarity to avoid sounding muddy.
Taking the gain up past 2:30 and raising the presence or treble too high can make it fizzy. The Mesa is unlike other amps and running any EQ setting too high can make that frequency very sharp.
With one exception though...this amp is so scooped that it benefits with the mids at around 3 oclock and that to me makes it sound balanced. Getting rid of the Mesa branded JJ preamp tubes is essential though. Chinese pre tubes shift the midrange from mid/mids to upper mids spectrum and this gives much better note definition.
