About to turn this thing in for the first time. Reissue Recto

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Might be a mistake but I’m at a gig and had my wife bring it in the middle of our set after being delivered this evening. Hope this goes well
 

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Nice! Hope you like it! First big mistake I see is using the red ch over the orange. The best solution is have your local tech disconnect that ch so it just functions as a footswitchable killswitch/mute when needed rather than be the bland afterthought channel
 
braintheory said:
Nice! Hope you like it! First big mistake I see is using the red ch over the orange. The best solution is have your local tech disconnect that ch so it just functions as a footswitchable killswitch/mute when needed rather than be the bland afterthought channel
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Ouch, hate much? 🤣

Don't get me wrong I mostly lived on Red cloned to Vintage, but Modern Red could be dialed in to sound quite evil.
 
Hiwatts-n-Gibsons said:
Ouch, hate much? 🤣

Don't get me wrong I mostly lived on Red cloned to Vintage, but Modern Red could be dialed in to sound quite evil.
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It's great if one is afraid of the growly fire breathing dragon that is the orange channel. The red ch is just smooth and bland for me. Lacks character and richness. Sure it's tighter than the orange ch, but still not really a tight sound and there are much better amps for that. Orange has the throaty growl on powerchords no other amps have. Red ch doesn't offer that. For many years when I was younger like an idiot thought I was never a recto guy simply because I didn't know about the orange ch somehow. Even on the Rev C the red ch is useless for me with orange being there
 
Bxlxaxkxe said:
I appreciate Orange modern but have always preferred red modern on every recto. Orange is indisputably smoother on every example I’ve owned or played. But the rawness or red takes some taming. But I want the bite and rawness and chaos
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The red ch sounds on all I’ve owned/played sounds indisputably to me like it’s already been tamed. Just literally play some simple long held powerchords, let them ring and there’s that throaty texture and growl to the chords that red doesn’t have in the cards. I guess the higher frequencies are smoother, more subdued, but that’s not where it’s unique throaty growl/furr and aggression is coming from and many other amps are better at doing bite and hard attack than Recto’s. That throaty low mid growly wall of sound is what makes them iconic to me in doing something no other amps do. Red sounds to me generic in comparison including 4 different Rev C’s and D IME

I guess I’m saying orange is way pissed off in the low mids. I guess red can be considered more aggressive elsewhere relative to the orange, but in the bigger picture vs other amps IME not particularly aggressive in one place and thus to me not as interesting or unique a sound
 
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Ok. I have never played a recto. So i am going to need a few things here. First opinions. Second clips.
 
braintheory said:
Nice! Hope you like it! First big mistake I see is using the red ch over the orange. The best solution is have your local tech disconnect that ch so it just functions as a footswitchable killswitch/mute when needed rather than be the bland afterthought channel
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Cannibal corpse, who has maybe the best live tone I’ve ever heard disagrees with you.
 
Bxlxaxkxe said:
It’s a sneaky little girl. Super cheap too - perfect gig amp. Looks like some sort of no name lunchbox. One of my musician buddies thought he was hearing the rectifier for an entire set and was going nuts over the sound - it was the 800
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Look, not to get weird, but considering how consistent the tone is in your videos, I'm pretty sure there's just something about how you play that makes every amp sound great, like there's something about the guitars you choose and the way you strike the strings that pretty much makes anything with any gain at all sound huge, mean, and crunchy.

So yeah I'd imagine that 800 does sound great when you play it at gigs lol.
 
thegame said:
While the Orange channel may be a smidge more tonefull by itself, the Red ch. cuts through a live band 10x better. Sam will never understand that.
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Don’t get me wrong I love the orange channel too. Probably why it’s my favorite amp I own, because both channels rule. But man, cannibal corpse, Rammstein, meshuggah etc using the red channel it’s hard to deny that tone is anything but legendary.

Sidebar… I was watching this, this morning. Rutans playing is absolutely insane to watch

 
TheGreatGreen said:
Look, not to get weird, but considering how consistent the tone is in your videos, I'm pretty sure there's just something about how you play that makes every amp sound great, like there's something about the guitars you choose and the way you strike the strings that pretty much makes anything with any gain at all sound huge, mean, and crunchy.

So yeah I'd imagine that 800 does sound great when you play it at gigs lol.
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I appreciate that man!
 
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