Bit of a long winded story to start with: I sold my Randall Thrasher and Orange PPC412 early this year when I moved in with my girlfriend as I didn't have anywhere to store it, her place is rather small and I wasn't gigging at the time(which is actually probably my biggest fuck up this year, should have sold that thing! But anyway...).
I've been living off of plugins and a HX Stomp for a while now which to be honest has been actually pretty good, however it's all been through headphones and I miss hearing an actual speaker. Based on the amount of space I would likely have, a 1x12 or a 2x12 was going to be the best fit. I also didn't want something with V30s in it - I wanted something quite different which interestingly made the choice quite difficult as sonically I didn't know what to listen for. So it got thrown on the back burner while I started sifting through different IR's to try and work out what I'd like in a cabinet. Eventually I got bored and forgot about it.
Separately to all of that I had planned on getting a Marshall DSL to run through a loadbox to have some fun replicating Nile tones and other filthy death metal shenanigans. I was in my local music store and saw this DSL20H sitting next to this SV212 cab and thought "Fuck, those two would look visually sick together!" So I took a gamble and bought both!
The DSL20H can JUST be played at a comfortable room volume on the 10W mode in my house without bleeding outside the walls (thin walls, close neighbours, I was a bit concerned about that). The one thing that I'm disappointed that it doesn't have is a Master Volume knob, although built-in reverb is a nice touch that is usually left off of the smaller amps. Also has Resonance and Presence controls (have seen smaller amps skimp on those as well which is a shame as they are needed on smaller heads more than larger ones IMO). I'm probably going to crack it open and add a master volume control to it at some stage.
Quick tone demo I threw together. Signal is guitar -> Fortin Blade -> DSL20H -> Cab and using just the built in mic in my phone.
Pretty fucking happy with how the tone turned out to be honest given that I gambled on the cab. It's got a pair of G12 V-Types in it which until I'd bought the cab I'd never heard of them (in my IR hunting I was really only considering Greenbacks and Creambacks as alternatives as they were the other speakers I had read up on that were considered good for metal). I haven't had a chance to drive them hard yet due to the sound restrictions however so far I'm liking what I hear.
I've been living off of plugins and a HX Stomp for a while now which to be honest has been actually pretty good, however it's all been through headphones and I miss hearing an actual speaker. Based on the amount of space I would likely have, a 1x12 or a 2x12 was going to be the best fit. I also didn't want something with V30s in it - I wanted something quite different which interestingly made the choice quite difficult as sonically I didn't know what to listen for. So it got thrown on the back burner while I started sifting through different IR's to try and work out what I'd like in a cabinet. Eventually I got bored and forgot about it.
Separately to all of that I had planned on getting a Marshall DSL to run through a loadbox to have some fun replicating Nile tones and other filthy death metal shenanigans. I was in my local music store and saw this DSL20H sitting next to this SV212 cab and thought "Fuck, those two would look visually sick together!" So I took a gamble and bought both!
The DSL20H can JUST be played at a comfortable room volume on the 10W mode in my house without bleeding outside the walls (thin walls, close neighbours, I was a bit concerned about that). The one thing that I'm disappointed that it doesn't have is a Master Volume knob, although built-in reverb is a nice touch that is usually left off of the smaller amps. Also has Resonance and Presence controls (have seen smaller amps skimp on those as well which is a shame as they are needed on smaller heads more than larger ones IMO). I'm probably going to crack it open and add a master volume control to it at some stage.
Quick tone demo I threw together. Signal is guitar -> Fortin Blade -> DSL20H -> Cab and using just the built in mic in my phone.
Pretty fucking happy with how the tone turned out to be honest given that I gambled on the cab. It's got a pair of G12 V-Types in it which until I'd bought the cab I'd never heard of them (in my IR hunting I was really only considering Greenbacks and Creambacks as alternatives as they were the other speakers I had read up on that were considered good for metal). I haven't had a chance to drive them hard yet due to the sound restrictions however so far I'm liking what I hear.
