Renegade at a recent gig (Update)

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I just brought the Renegade out for the second time live last night, and had a bit more time to tweak it. Just for a reference my band plays hard rock and metal covers (Metallica, Pantera, RATM, Alice in Chains, to name a few). At the first gig (head thru Marshall 1960BV), I thought it got a little tubby. I used a BBE Sonic Stomp and a ISP Decimator in the loop. This time (with TM212), I pushed the Density and Presence up (Density 3:00, Presence 2:30) and played with the BBE knobs to rein in all the extra low end. I tried boosting with a Keeley SD-1, and it sounded great, but I ended up leaving it off and driving the amp gain up to about 2:00. The result was a spectacular burning metal crunch that wasn't too scooped, and cut though the mix. The one thing the reveiwers said thing amp couldn't do well, and with a little help, it sounded and played amazing. What modern metal guitarist doesn't juice his amp with extra toys, anyway? Sorry for the lack of clips, btw.
 
i have a renegade and i use it for my post-rock band which is on the much heavier end of the post-rock spectrum and i love the sounds i can get out of it. both clean and distorted and i only use the two channels. no extra pedals used for boosting or anything.
 
I think My Renegade cuts through as well or better than my Mesa DR. I have been playing it more lately and am loving it.
 
I just put the throttle down on my Renegade head at an outdoor motorcross festival last weekend. I followed FastRedPonyCar's beautiful instructions and threw in a pair of JJ KT88's along with a pair of JJ KT77's. Big, tight, snarly crunch with power to spare. I leaned the gain channel mostly to the KT88 side maybe 70/30 and it just killed. Clean channel was 100% KT88 and it was crystal clean, punchy and ridiculously loud. I used the record out rather than micing and the soundman was impressed to say the least. All in all a great weekend with a great amp. Not to mention, the amp was worry free, even with a heavy layer of dew on it.
 
The direct out is AWESOME!! I have stated in several post that I run my rig in 2 channels of the mixing board. One channel is the direct out and the other is for the mic on the speaker. Our sound man then pans the channels left and right.
 
I always run direct out from my tourmaster to the board...I use my Marshall 4x12 cabs as monitors for me basically...
Everyone always says the out front sound is great....I say that mics are passe...less noise and bleed from drums etc etc....
 
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