More gain in the Renegade??

[Rogue]

You're right, I forgot about the DistX. The Dist is the single channel version of the Dual.

Ok, so we all agree that the Dual is the Dist plus and OD...right?

I'm into that idea, but the odds of having my heavy tone on the Dist side dialed into the tone I get through the clean channel of the Renegade would be a good OD boost for the Renegade's gain channel. I suppose it could by freak chance be right, but I doubt it.

 

[bamfx7]

I have successfully run an EQ into the front end of the Renegade for a clean level increase at various frequencies and have gotten plenty of high gain out of the preamp section.

 

[FastRedPonyCar]

OCD =

That's the most I could get from the amp. The low end/lower midrange is voiced square in vintage british land and is naturally inhibiting the tone of the amp from delivering a tight clean percussive metal type low end. I'm planning on ordering a quartet of matched 6550's and dropping those in to see if it makes much of a difference. When I went from EL34's to KT88's in my splawn, the low end inherited a tighter and more percussive thwack to the note attacks so that may assist the renegade... we'll see.

I tried a pair of 6550's in the lead channel and I can hear the difference from the EL34's but runnign it only on one side is dropping the power a bit and it loses a little extra kick from not running full wattage. on the flip side, running the tube blend in the center for full wattage is getting some of that 6L6 low end fluff into the tone so I'm hoping a full quartet of 6550's will fix that. If not, oh well.. not a huge issue for me.

 

[bamfx7]

For a completely variable selection of tones and gain levels, use an EQ before the amp and in the effects loop. If you are wanting complete control, add a third EQ after the power tubes.