Recto/ treble at zero

JackBootedThug said:
I have ran it that way for years. Treble at zero and presence to taste. I have also said instead of getting your Marshall modded just get a rectifier…but hey-what the fuck does this hair lipped white boy from West Virginia know?
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I'll have to check that out.. I picked up a Mini Rectifier cheap. Do you run Modern mode or Vintage on CH2?
 
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It doesnt make it marshally at all to me. Just a more balanced version of this…. Bobo riffs bit you get the idea of what i use them for. I live marshalls too, but not the brutal stuff. The mids jacked and the bass and treble dumped brings back som higher mids though and some treble. Ill try to get a clip of it this weekend. Just a cool recto trick. Not making it sound like a different amp at all.
 
Exactly. No amount of knob twisting is going to make a Recto sound like a Marshall.
 
Shask said:
The mids on a Recto are centered around 500hz, which is a cardboard frequency I usually use external EQs to get rid of.
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Oh, so it's 500? No surprise there. No wonder I don't like running the mid knob high on Rectos.
 
Rex Rocker said:
Oh, so it's 500? No surprise there. No wonder I don't like running the mid knob high on Rectos.
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Yeah, and the Orange channel has even more of it, which is one reason I have never liked the Orange channel.

Marshalls and the graphic on the Mark series is closer to 750 - 800 hz.
 
Rex Rocker said:
I've done it before, and it's a cool sound, but I kinda felt like Rectos kinda stop sounding like Rectos at some point if you do that.

I've also never liked running the mid knob above noon on Rectos. The mid knob is focused at a certain frequency that I feel like if you run it too high, they don't sound less scooped, but they just kinda sound weird/worse, LOL.

I think it's a cool sound that people don't often realize is hidden in a Recto. But I don't feel it's a Recto's most "Recto-y" sound either.

To get a nice aggressive midrange from Rectos, I like the results I get from slamming a hot and mid-focused pickup into them so that you can lower the gain knob as low as you can, boosting them with something with aggressive mids like an SD-1, and runining them into V30's. JMO, of course.
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This is kind of where I fall too on the whole thing. Treble at '0' works great on my Quick Rod though. Not so much on the Dual Rec. Now that I've done the Pre 500 mod on my G, no boost needed - which completely trips me out :lol:
 
When I got my first SLO, I read about EVH's settings on the SLO forum. Dime presence, start treble at 0 and bring it up slowly. I was amazed at how great the sound was, vs going to noon and adjusting from there. I've done that with every amp since....all my Marshalls, Mesas etc.
Treble usually gets no higher than 2, 3 that way on any amp.
 
Someone on one of the gear forums posted a long article on why the treble-at-0 trick works with Rectos that was pretty interesting. Trying to find it...

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For those not banned.
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/dual-rectifier-treble-hack.2281946/
 
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I’ve tried it with my SLO and Single Rectifier.
Worked pretty good from what I remember. I have to remember to revisit this again.
 
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