Thinking of buying a dual rec multiwatt already have a badlander?

67mike

67mike

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Can get a MINT dual rec multiwatt for about 1800 with tax and shipping.

I already have a 50 watt badlander which I love.

Will this be covering too much of the same ground?

Please chime in. Thanks
 
I had a Triple Multi-watt and Badlander side-by-side for a week. The Badlander does have the signature Recto sizzle on top but the Recto has that big lowend & fat low-mids. I'd say you're looking more at JCM vs Recto with those 2.
 
 
Can get a MINT dual rec multiwatt for about 1800 with tax and shipping.

I already have a 50 watt badlander which I love.

Will this be covering too much of the same ground?

Please chime in. Thanks
Honestly I think having the two would cover a ton of ground with a little overlap. I'm also a big fan of using one main head as the master, and splitting the fx send between two different power sections running dissimilar tubes. Personally I like EL34 to one side and 6550/KT88's on the other, but EL34 and 6L6/5881 are nice too.
 
For real I'm already thinking of all the options that setup would enable using the Multiwatt as your main amp, and slaving the Badlander's power section to it.

The trick to making it work will be finding the settings for output wattage, channel volumes, fx send level, and global Master on the Multiwatt that all work with the Badlander's fixed 50 watt output section as you switch channels on the Multiwatt.

On my two channel Dual Rectifier Tremoverb that meant cranking the loop send and channel volumes, and using the Loop Active Master Volume (global master) to control the Tremoverbs volume. But I didn't have the channel assignable output or rectifier settings to factor in.
 
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