Seach over . Best recto I’ve found

[LPMojoGL]

My conclusion will be hated . But it’s what I think sounds best

First thing I played when I got this:



I freaking love the tone on that tune. Tried to get it with a TS and Big Muff way back, but couldn't get that sludge.
I'll keep this amp just for that sound, although it does so many other great sounds. Absolutely fuggn love it.

 

[LPMojoGL]

Every time I hear shit like this is makes me sad that this was the soundtrack of my youth. It was truly music to kill yourself to.

And I like rectos. A lot. Especially multi-watts. They're like SLOs with much better features but a cheesier power section. But that sounds like crap.

Dude...
Everything you say here is so wrong.
The soundtrack of your youth was one of the finest musical hotbeds after the invention of electric guitar. The 90s were the most exciting, fresh, wild, fun and free times after a decade of Joy Division and Led Zep rehashes, peppered with some awesome new metal stuff, and a resurgence of blues thanks to SRV.

And the SLO is supreme.

 

[LPMojoGL]

Hard disagree.

The entire Down on the Upside album is insane, and artistically, imo, light years ahead of anything STP did after Tiny Music.

The album is way less over produced and rawer than Superunknown. Less gain, less fx, less mud. It's a different sound, but gain level wise it's back around the same range as the guitars on Ultramegaok. The songwriting is amazing, the guitar interplay between Cornell and Thayil is next level.

To me it's a perfect album start to finish. It takes you on a ride, and should be experienced as a total piece of art. Badmoterfinger and Loud Love may have more banger songs, but DotU is one of the best hard rock albums ever imo.

DOTU is a staple. Just one of the best albums the 90s had to offer. While Staley was fading, after Cobain mouthed the muzzle, and the music was getting less raw and more commercial, Soundgarden put out one of the best albums, ever.

 

[mentoneman]

My conclusion will be hated . But it’s what I think sounds best

methinks the word “best” is very divisive on a gtr forum

that being said,
i enjoyed your example due to the way the gtr was articulate and bass stayed in its own lanes allowing for string to string distinction, versus typical gtr white noise and blast beats competing with a person screaming in anguish.
the lyrics and album art weren’t overtly demonic either. yay.

chris cornell was an enjoyably unique voice that stood out from a grungy herd of seattle billygoats.

 

[raakaribul]

Still better than what we have today.

 

[Detroit1973]

its great start to finish. crushing tones too.
i saw them live on that tour in detroit in like april 2000. there was like 4 rows of people there, and that was it. i remember one of the nu-metal bands that were local openers even made fun of the crowd with a "mullet" comment.

horrible, horrible time for metal in america, unless you were methed out, braided and pierced, and sang about "jumping the fuck up".

The Mullet Comment, was this in Michigan? The Mullet in Michigan has been popular since 1971 as has the Canadian Tuxedo.

 

[raakaribul]

Rectos need a good boost to really shine imo and probably a lot of the bands that used them back in the day did just that.

 

[Rackman]

Dude...
Everything you say here is so wrong.
The soundtrack of your youth was one of the finest musical hotbeds after the invention of electric guitar. The 90s were the most exciting, fresh, wild, fun and free times after a decade of Joy Division and Led Zep rehashes, peppered with some awesome new metal stuff, and a resurgence of blues thanks to SRV.

And the SLO is supreme.

You can always count on one guy to come along and nut hug chumps who can't play making music to kill youself to. It's truely reliable.

Of course in the end most of them did kill themselves and it became a self fulfilling prophecy.

 

[shredi knight]

Seach over . Best recto I've found

 

[Beyond Black]

That sounds like my Recto when it had diarrhea after eating a Mexican EVH.

 

[Detroit1973]

That sounds like my Recto when it had diarrhea after eating a Mexican EVH.

was there corn though? it's not real Diarrhea unless you're poppin corn.

 

[thegame]

was there corn though? it's not real Diarrhea unless you're poppin corn.

There was Korn, the worst kind

 

[Techdeth]

Rectos need a good boost to really shine imo and probably a lot of the bands that used them back in the day did just that.

Yes but this is def not boosted .

 

[Techdeth]

That sounds like my Recto when it had diarrhea after eating a Mexican EVH.

I don’t think it sounds bloated at all . Thick and solid ! This tones got fiber

 

[RaceU4her]

soundgarden threads here are always interesting lol. that album was blended with marshall though accroding to Beinhorn

 

[skoora]

I think I spot a Mesa here - you have to look through the piss filter and 2000s hair:

That beautifully summarizes how much I hated that era for what was considered heavy music in the U.S. also hated the styles, the looks, pretty much everything about it. There’s some outliers for sure, but in general it was depressing.

 

[skoora]

soundgarden threads here are always interesting lol. that album was blended with marshall though accroding to Beinhorn

It’s funny how Beinhorn talked about wanting a big low end but I find the low end is all wrong on that record. Not enough of it comes from the bass and the kick. It’s like someone accidentally bumped up 200hz on the mix bus. I try and get into some of the songs on it like Limo Wreck but they just don’t satisfy like Badmotorfinger and Louder than Love do. Cornell sounds great on it, no doubt but the music doesn’t”t stay with me.
I remember being excited when I first heard it because the drums had some life to them after the weird dark sound they got on Badmotorfinger but over time the better arrangements and songs on BM still win the day.

 

[raakaribul]

That beautifully summarizes how much I hated that era for what was considered heavy music in the U.S. also hated the styles, the looks, pretty much everything about it. There’s some outliers for sure, but in general it was depressing.

Not the biggest fan of that music style either, but we sure have come long way down even from that kind of music which says a lot.

 

[RaceU4her]

It’s funny how Beinhorn talked about wanting a big low end but I find the low end is all wrong on that record. Not enough of it comes from the bass and the kick. It’s like someone accidentally bumped up 200hz on the mix bus. I try and get into some of the songs on it like Limo Wreck but they just don’t satisfy like Badmotorfinger and Louder than Love do. Cornell sounds great on it, no doubt but the music doesn’t”t stay with me.
I remember being excited when I first heard it because the drums had some life to them after the weird dark sound they got on Badmotorfinger but over time the better arrangements and songs on BM still win the day.

im listening now on my monitors, i wouldnt call it the biggest sounding record ever but i dont think its lacking any low end. Bumping 2-400hz on the mix buss isnt uncommon though, as Warren said he likes to scoop the 350hz mud on practically everything, adding some back in the mix with a pultec or whatever glues things together, ive experimented with that myself. i dont know i could pick a favorite album from them, my "Soundgarden" playlist on Spotify id say has equal songs from all their albums, i might even pick ultramega as my favorite

 

[Racerxrated]

I don’t think it sounds bloated at all . Thick and solid ! This tones got fiber

It sounds like a Recto on 'mute'.
Sorry. Not my fav Soundgarden tone. Actually, all of Kim's tone is similar to this....turn down the presence and treble and mids and ....boom. Whether its a Tremoverb like this album, or the Badmotorfinger Peavey VTM tone.

Love most of the songs though. Outshined, Room a Thousand Years Wide, Rusty Cage, Superunknown.....Just Like Suicide....defined the 90s. With AIC of course.