TedintheShed
Retired bassist pretending to play guitar
Gimme a Meathead.
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...Am I the only person who heard that demo and thought "wow, this doesn't sound nearly as good as a stock Recto"?
Depends on which Recto, but yea I'd rather have a 2 channel and boost than that sound. Have to remember too that the sound in the video isn't necessarily what the amp actually sounds like.
Got to be honest if I was going for a Hermansson his Recto rebuild is not what I would go for. IMHO his Marshall mods and PA rebuilds sound MUCH better
Damn some nice picks so far, I even had to look up DAR and it's a shame they went under.
Another thing I've noticed (slightly unrelated to this topic) that I was reminded of seeing the few KSR choices, I swear that when I was looking up various amps when I was searching for a new one that KSR/Rhodes was all the rage from like 2011-2014 or so with even posts on SS.org like "they're expensive but that's because you're getting literally the best high gain amp around" etc, but from like 2016-present it seems like all KSR related posts are people selling theirs. Did some new amp company/model come around that was just "KSR but better"? Or maybe everyone went the Kemper/AxeFx route and sold their $3k+amps because the modeling route is cheaper?
For the price point I can get by on a 5150 just fine. The ares is a fine amp but I’m currently a full time student so cuts were made.
Once I’m rolling in dough again probably gonna cop a Gemini, a butterslax, and an insanely heavily modded 5150, and a couple orange heads...
FJA and Voodoo both do 5150 mods.
Why anyone would mod an amp in 2019 is a better question. It may have made sense in 1980 when options were limited to Marshall, Marshall, Traynor, Laney, or Marshall, but nowadays there's thousands of builders all offering their slightly tweaked version of every circuit ever, so you might as well just get what you want stock.
Why anyone would mod an amp in 2019 is a better question.
Why anyone would mod an amp in 2019 is a better question.