[Drew]

I agree, Mike. It's only been maybe 6 months for me, yet I'm still getting sounds that surprise me out of a Rectifier.

[Xtremevillan]

Looks like a Mesa is for me, then, I love experimenting, but I always leave little post-it cutouts of my previous sound.


Anyone find that when they're messing around it takes a day or two to return to your normal sound? I clicked on my Rectifier channel on my combo amp and it took a week of not playing and then turning back to the Metal Channel to get back to "normal".


...And then I went back to Recto and fucked with my settings

[Jongpil Yun]

I've said this before and I'll say it again.

Take pictures of your settings. Saved my ass on more than one occasion, and I can't tell you how fucked I was when my hard drive died and took all my pics with it. I'd put the knobs at kinda-sorta the same place as best as I could remember and it'd sound totally different. I also took to marking various places on a piece of tape I put on the faceplate. The 3ch Duals are almost frustratingly tweakable.

All that being said, I really love the Mesa sound. It works great with my Strat, and worked even better with my RG1527+Lundgren M7.

[budda]

Originally Posted by kmanick

Try KT-77's in your JSX . If you like the Dual Recto type of tone, the KT-77's bring the JSX more towards that type of tone than EL34's do.
With my Loomis I can get a great crunchy "Engines of Hate" type of tone (and this is on the Crunch channel with tha gain at around 4 (with my clean boost in front).

After seeing G3 and the Petrucci "rig" video that someone posted , I've
been gasing for a Mark IV

nick, i have KT77's in there :P

[Xtremevillan]

I'm gonna bump this because I will forget this.

Can anyone take pictures of their settings?

[Shaman]

I can't take pics of my settings now, since I am away for work, but the settings I used on the Triple Rec (3chan,stock tubes) clip on SoundClick artist: TomiR - page with MP3 music downloads are as follows:

bold, diodes

red channel, modern mode

bass: 11o'clock
mid: 10o'clock
treble:11o'clock

Presence: 9o'clock
gain: 12o'clock

..thru a Mesa Rectifier Standard 4X12".

The low pass settings on the Invader clip were different from the Recto clip, so it sounds a bit darker.(the Invader clip) I tracked the Invader clip with the mic close to the cab, so there the sound is fuller so to speak.

The mic was a bit too far away from the cab on the Recto clip, but I think it sounds OK. I am going to make a better one when I get home.

The Triple Rectifier is still my favourite amp, it just sounds so damn good and it is capable of a vast array of different killer tones. Even the cleans are great, the orange channel has an awesome lead channel and the note separation and the insanely responsive chug you can get from the red channel.

And of course all the different modes etc. makes this a great amp for tons of different things. It just takes time to find all the right settings etc. but this is one of those amps that sounds awesome straight from the box, so it only gets better.

There is only on downside, the pop when you change channels, but it only happens the first time you change a channel after you have turned the amp on, so it's not bad.

Here's my rig:

[loktide]

man, your guys make me miss my recto