Nois my RD1 has been performing impeccably faultless for 7 years now even with the stock tubes in it. external boost recomended on stage one gainstack though. Diavlo rules.
It resembles some cryptic Lovecraftian antarctic landscape as like in "At The Mountains of Madness" (the novel). On which many of his songs are related to.
I guess one could fancy whatever they want. Once again I seem to be spending my precious time to reinventing the wheel(or in harder cases piano) instead of playing my instrument and enjoying music.
What we should have been seeing for these days is frets of non-metal materia. Volcanic glass, hardened coloured glass, stone, graffite, cf composite, unobtanium. I mean here we are with all these new designs for guitar bodies, necks, fretboards and in some pesky cases trussroad covers. Why not...
I have Tonezone in rg331 basswood+maple fb. You could not wish for more musical and singing bridge pup for leads. LOve it. Almost no need for neck pup most of the time. For rythm its ok, still quite smooth not brutal and definitely does not like anything lower than D.
I have Liquifire in neck...