Two Notes Revolt Guitar

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I am giving my Strymon Iridium to my son. But I still want a box around that people can use when they come over to jam but aren't used to modelers. The Two Notes Revolt ticks all the boxes for simplicity - 3 switches and regular knobs for each channel. What a disappointment. It sounds small, thin, and harsh compared to all the other modeling platforms.

Thinking of a Tech 21 Character series or maybe one of the Amazon Flyrig ripoff boxes. Any other ideas?
 
I've been enjoying my Revolt. I set mine up for the clean channel to be boosted at startup. Then I replaced the PS Vane tube with a Mesa SPAX7. I don't use the emulated cab out, though. Straight into a pedal amp and on to a regular cab. I've seen plenty of mixed reviews, though. Maybe I got lucky?
 
I know this won’t gain much traction here but the AmpliFirebox II is the bomb. It blows away anything I have tried in that form factor. Iridium, Revolt, Simplifier DLX, Boss IR-200… etc.
 
Jaji said:
I've been enjoying my Revolt. I set mine up for the clean channel to be boosted at startup. Then I replaced the PS Vane tube with a Mesa SPAX7. I don't use the emulated cab out, though. Straight into a pedal amp and on to a regular cab. I've seen plenty of mixed reviews, though. Maybe I got lucky?
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I was pretty jazzed to try one until the mixed reviews piled in, but I’d probably want to run one similar to your setup, straight into a PS100 to cab.

I’m curious how it stacks up relative to Synergy preamps, which are great.
 
I was actually expecting a lot of this one, too. Thought of it as a possible replacement for my Amplifirebox/Amp Academy combo on my live board, simply because I just happen to dig WYSIWYG. But as I'd defenitely want nice clean sounds, I was almost shocked as they were sooo lackluster in all demos I watched. Too bad as it otherwise seems to be a pretty well thought out unit.
 
Into the CAB M where it picks up power amp modeling, EQ and Two Notes speaker simulation (or 3rd party IR's) helps it a lot. Into a DAW with Wall of Sound running it is a nice analog front end any traditional amp user can enjoy.
Without that it is mediocre but at less than the price of a CAB M plus the Revolt you could get a Yamaha THR 10 or any other small modeling amp and a non-modeling type user will be just as happy without needing to learn about the CAB M to get good sounds.

Using ReVolt 4CM into a decent tube amp it is a nice additional 3 preamp device. Into a Fryette Lxii power amp and a 2x12 with cream backs it was a solid 8 out of 10.
Actually, the clean channel with the built in boost turned on is pretty sweet anyway you use it.
 
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Enchilada Jones said:
Into the CAB M where it picks up power amp modeling, EQ and Two Notes speaker simulation (or 3rd party IR's) helps it a lot. Into a DAW with Wall of Sound running it is a nice analog front end any traditional amp user can enjoy.
Without that it is mediocre but at less than the price of a CAB M plus the Revolt you could get a Yamaha THR 10 or any other small modeling amp and a non-modeling type user will be just as happy without needing to learn about the CAB M to get good sounds.

Using ReVolt 4CM into a decent tube amp it is a nice additional 3 preamp device. Into a Fryette Lxii power amp and a 2x12 with cream backs it was a solid 8 out of 10.
Actually, the clean channel with the built in boost turned on is pretty sweet anyway you use it.
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The clean channel is sweet with or without boost… but once you use the boost… we’ll it’s hard to go back to it without it.

kinda like a JCM800 with or without boost IMO.
 
I tried it as a pedalboard amp replacement and I was disappointed with it. The cleans were extremely bland and uninspiring and what I really need is a good base clean. A huge part is the analog cab sim. I don’t think it’s very good. Sure I could add an IR pedal after it but for the total space and cost there are better solutions for what I want.

It may be better for recording and I can definitely see it being useful for adding additional channels to an amp but those aren’t what I need it for.
 
AFKAEjay said:
I’m confused why y’all didn’t like this one…sounds great!
Clean channel super fendry (not my thing)…but with the boost on it gets the mid hump/low cut I need.

Crunch channel sounds great…with the boost engaged I can imagine to some peeps it lacks lows…in my mind this will work great in a mix.
Lead channel…modern lead sound…not my goto…but good for what it is.

midicontrolled, cabsim as a backup…200,- used/350,- new?….I’d imagine this thing deserves more popularity;)…
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I didn't give mine a fair shake, methinks. I only used it with it's onboard cab sim, and I never tried my trusted IRs with it.

It was also an open box unit, so it didn't have the midi cable, so I couldn't use midi with it, and I just got turned off on it.
 
I tried it with Opus and Ox Stomp. Either of those improved it greatly but ultimately other ‘preamp’ or ‘amp in a box’ choices I have made me realize I wasn’t going to use ReVolt over them so out the door it went.
weirdly IR-X is great but doesn’t seem to need the outboard IR device. It just does its job really well without any help.
 
AFKAEjay said:
The more I play this unit…to more I look at my main board as a candidate for shrinking to a smaller one…
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Yeah, thinking about shrinking my board, too. But from all I know, the IR-X would be a vastly better solution for my use cases.
 
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