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This may sound counterintuitive, but at lower gain settings the Dual Rec does a pretty nice job with blues, at least the older ones did. It's a great amp.
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This may sound counterintuitive, but at lower gain settings the Dual Rec does a pretty nice job with blues, at least the older ones did. It's a great amp.
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I saw a dude let loose on "Pride and Joy" and "Little Wing" with a Fender Strat and a Recto 50 diamondplate. Couldn't believe it.
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It's been a while since I've played my Dual Rec, 3 channel Multi-Watt, so I can't recall the tone exactly, off the top of my head..., but one of the settings I liked that is kind of contrary to how one might think to use this amp, was running the clean channel's gain high. It's a great tone, and one you would not think was coming from a 100 watt Dual Rec.
I can't compare it to any other Mesas, since the other ones I have are power amps that I pair up with an MP-1 and/or Tri Axis, but from playing around with the various tone settings and modes, it's a very versatile amp, imo. More so than I think people tend to give it credit for.
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Absolutely. My post was in jest but it’s a way more versatile amp than people give it credit for.
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Dual Recs, especially the three channel ones, are the most misrepresented and misunderstood amps out there.
Everyone seems to think they’re just modern high gain monsters because a lot of metal guys have used them and in digital land the models are always only the super high gain tones.
I used to used my 3 channel Dual Rec to play in a country band and it sounded great!
Amps are all far more versatile than people realize, it’s more about the player than the amp
Everyone seems to think they’re just modern high gain monsters because a lot of metal guys have used them and in digital land the models are always only the super high gain tones.
I used to used my 3 channel Dual Rec to play in a country band and it sounded great!
Amps are all far more versatile than people realize, it’s more about the player than the amp
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The Mesa Tremoverb was literally a Dual Rec equipped with reverb and tremolo. It may have been modded for more nuance at lower gain settings, but not by much. I had one, it was my main amp for about a decade, and then my son used it with a punk band.
It could do just about anything. Since I play primarily bluesy or roots stuff, the amp worked great for me, but my son was all about cranking the gain. It still sounded great, and more like you'd imagine a dual rec to sound.
Gosh, now I want to get one of the reissues, and I need another amp like a hole in the head.
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The Mesa Tremoverb was literally a Dual Rec equipped with reverb and tremolo. It may have been modded for more nuance at lower gain settings, but not by much. I had one, it was my main amp for about a decade, and then my son used it with a punk band.
It could do just about anything. Since I play primarily bluesy or roots stuff, the amp worked great for me, but my son was all about cranking the gain. It still sounded great, and more like you'd imagine a dual rec to sound.
Gosh, now I want to get one of the reissues, and I need another amp like a hole in the head.
They seriously need to reissue the TOV, if they’re going to be reissuing shit. I agree, it was an amazing amp, and a classic in its own right.
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I would buy one the day they announced it!
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I have always thought the TOV was like a modernized Twin Reverb.... with just more of everything.
That’s probably not far off.
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Sure worked for me for a long time, and I played through it, as did session guys, on hundreds of TV ads.View attachment 57000
Excellent shout on the TOV! I have always thought the TOV was like a modernized Twin Reverb.... with just more of everything.
In the early '00s I had a few Two-Rock Onyx variants that delivered equally well for me, with great cleans and wonderful overdriven tones. TR people sometimes didn't think it was "Dumble" enough, but I thought of it in the way I thought of the Tremo, a Swiss army knife of an amp.
Still, as I said, I'd order a reissue TOV in a second.
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Who's gonna start the thread "Which Fender Twin Reverb for death metal"?
No need for a thread. It would be a Quad Reverb stacked on top of a Super Six with a few pedals in front.
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