| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Exreme Metal rhythm tone | Modded amp. Discussed in Pre500 Tone thread. LaSanche rhythm tone. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Extreme Metal lead tone | Modifications to amp discussed in Pre500 Tone thread. LaSanche lead tone. |
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| Road King Head Series II | Great high gain tone for chords and solo | ATTENTION - Mode = Modern (can not enter that, but anyway) |
| Road King Head | Fat Marshall like distortion | !! MODE=VINTAGE (Can not enter that on this form). Do adjust to your own speaker and guitar. Nice, fat, Marshall like distortion |
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| Road King Head | Clear and crispy Crunch | Do adjust to your own guitar and amp. For me, with a single coil guitar, this gives me a nice crunch sound, for both chords and solo |
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| Road King Head | Fat Vintage Clean | Adjust based on your own guitar and speakers. With a single coil guitar this delivers fat, vintage like clean sound with lots of harmonics. Think of Lenny Kravitz clean if you know what I mean. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Heavy deep sounding tone | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | | Demostrates the high gain usabillity of Pushed mode in CH 1.
note: you might wanna get a noise gate for this one. |
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| Trem-O-Verb Head | alternative Rock | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | ...and Justice for All | Running Boss ML-2 infront of amp
Everything set to noon, Gain set to lowest |
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| Trem-O-Verb Head | Rock tone, very good in a band setting | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp
Red channel cloned to orange for this setting. Presence on orange channel is active on red and set to 1 o'clock. no tremelo this setting. |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Very tight high end gain. Great for chugging open notes and tight rhythm | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | raw metal tone, like growl from a lion | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | mark tremonti | sonido muy post grunge
en mi anterior post tambien tengo apagado el loop de efectos
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | metal core post hardcore a day to remember | este es un sonido poderoso y agresivo
le recortamos los medio y agregamos agudos y logramos un sonido definido
guitarra : ephiphone custom con emg81 |
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| Rect-O-Verb 50 Head v.2 | aggressive and expressive | put a delay (I use an mxr carbon copy) in the loop, mix set to max. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Dark, Compressed Pop Rock | PRS Custom 22, HFS treble pickup, |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Good Rock Tone | with messing around the settings here's to what i hear as a good rock tone let me know if this was helpful to you |
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| Rect-O-Verb 50 Combo v.2 | Heavy rock/metal rhythm | Add an overdrive with minimal gain for lead tones with added sustain. Adjust "MASTER" to taste. |
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| Road King Head | shit | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Super tight, chunky heaviness. | STR420 6L6 power tubes. NOS mix of preamp tubes. Run power tubes in EL34 bias setting. I use big bottle NOS =C= 5U4G rectifier tubes. |
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| Roadster Combo | METAL! from hell!! | this distortion is a really good metal distortion overall with the presence all the way up. good riff building distortion. |
| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Very fat metal tone | When I use this setting I use a Boss NS2 and a Danelectro Cool Cat Drive Pedal. |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Arch Enemy metal tone | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Mike Einziger of Incubus | Taken from the 2001 article where he told he like more rock tone and dislikes shaping of gutar?s wood tone by amp EQ so his amp setting is strict in 12 Oclock rule - except gain set about 6 ( ment in 1-10 scale) He did not use Dual Recto heads, he used dual recto 2 x 12" combos (discontinued) |
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| Triple Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Korn?s Munky | Munky?s 2003 amp setting. Taken from picture. |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Limp Bizkit?s Mike Smith | Another LB?s setting. This time of their short time guitarist Mike. From the 2003 rig pictures again... as you can hear, his sound is more punchy and mid scooped than wes had. |
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| Dual Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Limp Bizkit?s Wes Borland secondary dist. | He also used channel switcher for two types od distortion. Setting also taken from the amp panel pics. |
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| Triple Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Limp Bizkit?s Wes Borland main dist. | This is the setting Wes Borland had marked on amp?s front panel during Chocolate Starfish tour in 2001. I?ve taken it from the actual pics of his live rig. This is his live sound so please do not compare it to the record sound becouse it is lot more huge (combined with Diezel VH4) |
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| Dual Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Bad Ass Metalcore/Melodic Deathcore Settings | I use an ESP SC-207 with an EMG 81 in the bridge. I also use a Maxon OD808 (Overdrive: 10:30 Tone: 2:30 Balance:2:30 ) and a Boss Super Overdrive SD-1 (Level 10:00, Tone 11:00, Drive: 7:00) in addition to a MXR KFK Ten Band EQ (set it to taste, i turn the volume and gain down a little) |
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| Rect-O-Verb 50 Combo v.2 | Pushed clean rythym | Nice clean sound that breaks up when you turn your guitar volume all the way up. |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Harvester of Sorrow | This sound pins down the Harvester of Sorrow distortion quite well. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | ...And Justice For All | Solo mode is off. I've been working on tweeking this amp for this particular sound for months and I have been avoiding the Solid State/Silicon Diode Recto setting like the plauge...but I gave in and lo and behold it works. The sound is unmistakeable when you are playing through hot pickups like EMG's or Duncan's. I have also posted a more pure setting of the "Justice" sound if you refuse to accept the Silicon Diode setting. |
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| Rect-O-Verb 50 Head v.2 | Nice sounding rock tone | |
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| Dual Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Good Tool Tone | Works very well for early and newer tool tones. with the 4x12 your pushing more air so you can push the volume farther and dial a little gain back. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | hardcore punk/mathcore | mesa 425 in power, tung sol in v1, spax7 in the rest. sounds pretty crushing to me. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Metal Rhythm / Lead | GAIN: MAX
Devices Used:
Ibanez RG-7, Boss Digital Delay5 , Boss Chorus Ensembler and wah. Rectifier 4x12 closed cabinet.
Timebased effects should be in the effectloop so put the delay pedal there. The Wah and the chorus goes with the guitarinput. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Lead with sustain | I run this setting with an Xptic BB preamp ( volume 9oclock : Volume 12 oclock: Treble 1:30 : Bass 10oclock) and then into a Maxon TS9 ( gain off, tone off, level 1 oclock). Without overdrive pedals this settings is not so great* |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | very 90's seattle | ran through a hot plate on 8, and ge-7 in front of amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Very Clean | |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Crunch! | Mark's Crunch Tone |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Hard Rock | Mark's Hard Rock Settings |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Modern Alt Hard Rock/Metal | if you're looking for a good crunchy rhythm in the styles of breaking benjamin, godsmack, chevelle, and others, this is my setting:
run a compressor first (keeley preferred) then to a tubescreamer but just as a clean boost, even the tone knob drop it all the way. just use the level to match the volume of the amp.
finally, use a noise gate, like the ISP or BOSS NS2.
i think the key is using channel 2 (chan 3 is a little harsh) and keeping the gain at 12 o'clock. the sweet spot IMO on the channel volume is 11 o'clock.
use the master volume to your liking, however, i found that at 12 o'clock the amp really shines. if that's too loud, use a THD hotplate to adjust the overall volume. i use one in the studio during rehearsal but onstage i usually turn the hotplate off.
email me at [email protected] if you have questions. enjoy! |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Nu metal, Screamo, post Hardore | KT77's as well and JJ pre's and tungsol in V1, this is a must, this setting gives a nice tight and heavy tone... this works for me! |
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| Trem-O-Verb Combo | Tight Chording and Soloing | This is a great setting for metal/hard rock. JJ 12ax7 in V1, JJ 6l6's in power, everything else is mesa. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | tool | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Road King Combo | Metal chugg | The Mode should be modern. I also use a Maxon OD808, Overdrive - 7:00, Tone -10:00, Balance - 1:00. This tone has low end chugg and is still crisp enough for triplets. |
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| Trem-O-Verb Head | Clean Meaty Rhythm | |
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| Solo 50 Head v.1 | | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | fdgdfg | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | | Having trouble hearing yourself? Dont Knock it untill you try it--the Gain actually adds your bottom and treble without loosing tightness and grants those wonderfull harmonics!! |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | latest petrucci rythm tone (Tot / Octavarium) | guitar ibanez rg1527 with evo7 in bridge position and air norton7 in neck position.
i feel the vintage mode comes closer than the modern, too boomy and grainy. |
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| Dual Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | terrorifing punch like brawn sound..! | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | hard rock: Disturbed/Godsmack | After 2 years of saving and pinching pennies, I was finally able purchase one of these beasts. One thing I recommend to anybody who is planning on getting a Rectifier is this: DO YOUR RESEARCH!
Make sure this is the amp for you. Go to the guitar shop, plug one of these in and throwdown to see if it is what you are looking for. I tried one of these, a Marshall, a Peavey XXX, and a Line 6 Veta, but nothing compared to the face ripping tone of the Triple Rec.
I play PRS SE's with stock pickups. I have a DigiTech X-series delay pedal in the FX loop of channel one. My guitar signal goes through a Boss Overdrive pedal set at a low setting with minimal overdrive (the pedal basically acts as a pick up booster - got the idea from Shadows Fall and Killswitch Engage). This goes into a Boss reverb pedal (pretty much mandatory since Rec's don't have any reverb installed). The signal then goes into a BBE Sonic Maximixer pedal (GET ONE - IT IS WORTH IT) then through a Boss Noise Supressor. With this set up I get a solid and clean distortion tone that rips faces and hurts feelings.
Now, it took me about 3 months of tweaking and switching different pedal combinations before I arrived to what i thought was THE tone I had been hearing in my head. This is what you will have to do if you get one of these awesome amps.
I alos recommmend getting a DI box for live settings. I tried the mic thing but I felt that I lost some edge to my tone, so I did some more research and finally settled on a Behringher Ultra G active DI box. It was pretty much the BEST 35.00 bucks I have ever spent. Now, my tone is EXACTLY the way I like t coming out of the PA. I have to deal with some know-it-all soundmen that think that if they don't use the mic that the world is going to end - but with all the time and energy I have spent in seeking the Holy Grail of tone, they quickly surrender.
Hope this helps some of you and remember - your tone is YOUR tone...you have to find that sound in your head that keeps you up at night. With some hard work, dedication, and some study, you WILL find it.
ROCK ON!
By the way, I would dg to hear from any Triple Rec owners and share war stories and ideas. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Heavy Metal/Hardcore | A good tone for hardcore/metalcore |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Beefy Mids and Bottom--Good Heavy Rock/Hardcore | I play a 97 Gibson SG with a stock 490T on the Bridge and a PRS Dragon 2 Bass in the neck. I play the Triple Rectifier 3 Channel through a Standard Recto Cab, but have also played through Marshall 1960A?s with the GT-75 Speakers. I look for a tone somewhere in the hard-core to hard-rock arena. Before owning this amp, I had a 1996 Tremoverb. After a couple of partially frustrating years of changing pick-ups (JB, SH14, Dragon 2 Treble, EMG 81), twisting knobs to no end, adding pedals (including the Aphex Aural Xciter and compressors), I believe I finally know what I wanted to hear out of this amp. It has always seemed that I have been unable to produce the mid-range girth in the Modern voicing (Channel 3) without compromising the hugeness of the Dipped-Mid?s tone that everyone buy?s this amplifier for. In the manual it suggests an instant gratification setting of 12-1 on the Bass, 7-8 on the Mid?s and 12 on the Treble. My experience with this setting has been the Mid?s are obviously non-existent and the bottom-end is great, the treble is thin and very compressed-feeling with little or no attack. Logic would tell me that I would need to turn up the Mid?s to meet my preference of the aforementioned desired result. What I notice as I turn up the Mid?s is that by the time I reach noon on this control the ?Chunk? is completely gone and the strings are extremely focused and difficult to play. For some reason no matter where I place the Mid-Range knob, there is a hollow-ness in the Lower-Mid?s where you get the nice, big attack that you hear in the recordings. Recommendations in the Mesa manual suggest that you place the Treble control in the 11-1 range ?For the most balanced representation of the 3 regions?. I have noticed that as you turn the Treble from nothing to 12 or more the clarity of sustain is increased but the signal, intern, is thinned out and the entire spectrum of the mid-range is thinned to hollowness and no attack. This thinning starts after the 10 range on the Treble dial. Right @ the 9 spot I noticed that the girth in the Mid?s was introduced. By the time I reached the 10-10:15 region more than enough clarity of sustain while retaining girth in the notes and harmonics. As of this minute I find my best settings with the Bass in the 12-1 region, Mid?s in the 10 region and Treble set to the 10-10:15 region. I keep the Presence @ 11-11:30 to bring out clarity and growl, Master set to about 10, and the gain is usually between 1:45 and 3:00. I sincerely hope that @ least 1 person reads this and is able to shave months of frustration off of their never-ending tone quest. Also, I have read some postings that down the duals and triples, saying that they are crap and cannot be used for metal, and bla, bla, bla. I would like to be quoted as I say ?The only thing I have ever found Mesa guilty of is sacrificing ease-of-use for versatility.? The one thing that all should know when using a Mesa is that it will challenge you to know what it is that your ear is hearing before it will give it to you. It is not a Marshal or other amp that can have the Bass pegged, Mid?s off and Treble @ half to get a good even tone. I would like to encourage all out there who are discouraged with this amp to keep on it?the sound is in there, it just takes the right key to unlock it. Also, before you spend everything you have trying to buy new pick-ups, stomp-boxes etc?. Remember that you didn?t spend $1800 for something that you should have to. Pick-ups, stomp-boxes etc... are great to accent what you are doing?but the bottom line is that you should be able to get almost right on without them. |
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| Solo 50 Head v.2 | AC/DC Plexi crunch @ bedroom level | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp
Bone stock save for the JJ6L6GC power tubes. |
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| Solo 50 Head v.2 | A Good Crunch/Lead Tone | I've Never Turned The Master Higher Than 9 OClock, So If You're The Kind Of Person Who Cranks It To 11, Than I Would Suggest Turning The Bass Up To 12 OClock. |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Rufio ( Clark Domae ) | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Mixture between Godsmack and Papa Roach | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Similar to Bogner Uberschall or a good metal tone. | Take center of bass knob indicator at 2 o'clock line up with bottom of mids indicator and line up bottom of treb with middle of mids indicator.Can use 6l6 too but el34 cut better and are tighter. |
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| Road King Head | Ultimate Metal Blitzkrieg (like Arch Enemy, Carcass) | Stock head. Mode should be set to "Vintage," not "Clean." Beware of the treble on channel 4 - use enough to give definition but rely on your mids for cut. You should be able to feel the bass in your pants, but don't get excessive. I recommend using no presence on this channel. If you don't go crazy with the gain, you will get a very thick, tight rhythm sound with plenty of singing sustain for leads. Experiment! |
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| Road King Head | Single Rec Rock Overdrive | Stock head.
Mode should be set to "Vintage," not "Clean." Season EQ to taste. Use just enough presence to add high-end sparkle. The idea is to push the poweramp just enough to add poweramp distortion, but not so much that you lose tightness. Experiment with Master and Gain settings to find the proper balance for your rig. |
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| Road King Head | Very Crunchy Vintage Marshall | Stock Head.
EQ settings vary depending on guitar, but highs must be set above 12:00 to achieve high amounts of overdrive. Compensate with lots of mids and bass (which will tame the excessive highs) and use little to no presence. EL34s should be set to "Pentode." |
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| Road King Head | Chimey Fender-ish Clean | Stock head.
The EQ settings vary of course depending on your guitar, but for me these settings give a nice chimey clean tone reminiscent of a twin reverb. |
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| Solo 50 Head v.2 | Identical Yngwie Malmsteen Settings | If You Read This Setting, Correction On My Crush 40 Settings, Presence Is At 12 OClock NOT 5 OClock |
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| Solo 50 Head v.2 | Almost Identical Nightranger Settings | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Modern Vintage | My amp is running a pair of EH EL-34's and a pair of THD Yellowjackets. |
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| Solo 50 Head v.2 | Almost Identical Crush 40 Settings | If Your Not Familiar With Crush 40 (Which You're Probably Not), Then Look Up Some Of There Songs On www.dogpile.com |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | A cool lead sound | A cool lead tone on my 1996 two channel dual rectifier head. First channel set to vintage. Solo and output are not used. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Clean recto | This is my clean tone on my 1996 two channel dual rectifier head. Solo and output are not used. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | My main rhythm tone | This is the setting on my modern channel on my 1996 two channel dual rectifier head. solo and output controls are not used. |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | compressed,defined,metal/hard rock sound | This is using an esp guitar equipped with emg 81 bridge,sounds good with passive humbuckers too,Use 12ax7-m groove tube pre's,and either stock mesa 6l6's or groove tube 6l6GE's.
p.s on the gain go slightly above 1:30 but not at 2:00 o'clock.Mids are also slightly higher than 10:30. |
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| Road King Head | Versatile Ch 2. Brit sound | 6 OClock means "off"
Play around with this setting for a Led Zep, SRV, ACDC, etc. type sound. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Alter Bridge/Creed type sound | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Road King Head | Old Metallica (Creeping Death) | Close to Metallica on Ride the lightning. Using no effects in chain straight plugin to amp. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Nu metal crunch/ grunge Aka Nickelback sound | Comments and modifications to your Rectifier Amp |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | heavy grind | This is a voodoo modded dual rectifier. gt 6ca7 #4 in power amp, gt12ax7m v1-3 eh12ax7 v4, jan ge 5751 in v5. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Thrash | These settings were used in combination with a Furman PQ-3 Parametric EQ inside a serial effects loop.
-40db @ 700hz
+3db @ 390hz
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Thrashy | This are used on a Recto Pre/2:100 rig using a Les Paul with EMG 60/81 pickups. |
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| Road King Head | Bouncey Clean > Awesome Piezo | When I record my cleans, I use a 2x12 to remove some of the bottom end. Live, this cuts right through. I also use a bit of chorus in the seriel loop (loop one). |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Similar To Modded Marshall | Effects loop is active in this state. This setting takes away that buzz saw sound I hated in modern mode. |
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| Trem-O-Verb Combo | Blues Lead | Blues lead factory setting for Trem-O-Verb. |
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| Road King Head | Versa Clean | Road King clean setting from factory manual. |
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| Rect-O-Verb 50 Combo v.1 | Pushed Bluesy Rhythm | From the Rect-O-Verb manual. |
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| Triple Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Smoldering Solo | Factory setting for channel 2 high gain on 3 channel Triple Recto. |
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| Dual Rectifier 3 Channel Solo Head | Squeaky Clean | Super clean setting from 3 channel Dual Rectifier manual. |
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| Triple Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Purring Blues | From factory manual. Set gain to Variable High Gain. |
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| Dual Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Molten Red | High gain setting from 2 channel Dual/Triple Rectifier manual. |
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| Dual Rectifier 2 Channel Solo Head | Clean | Clean setting from Dual/Triple Rectifier 2 channel manual. |
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