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Default Re: What's the difference? - 11-01-2008, 11:48 AM

You're in for a ride, buddy, because the Recto are HUGE sounding amplifiers. And the 3-channels have nice cleans, imo.

There's so many buttons and switches on the 3-channel Rectos bro, that you'll be spending a lot of time tweaking to get 'your sound' plus many more.

...another amazing thing about the Recto is that we think 'hard rock and metal' when we think 'Recto', yet lots of different style of artists use the Mesa Boogie Rectifier. They are a wonderful amp. 99.9% of the negative rap you might read about the Recto is user error.

Rectos are a bit harder to tweak than other amps.

I got a 3-channel Recto off a guy in Detroit once, I met him half way to do the exchange, and we were standing at the parking lot of McDonalds parking lot and he was telling me how he likes to set the eq on the amp. He goes on to explain that he literally turns the treble completely to 0.

I was a bit unsure about his claims. So when I got home with the Recto, I plugged it in (kept his settings) and played on it and he was right, turning the treble to 0 or nearly to 0 and boosted the mids did sound good for a mid-gain rock sound. I was impressed with that and that's when I realized that Recto's, despite how we think an eq should be set, really are an eccentric amp to tweak.

So that's my soap box of the day...

Turn those knobs and flick those switches, you'll discover many different breeds of tone.


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