Revv amps?

[PSGuitar]

Revv sounds like ENGL making a 5153. Sounds fine, but it's boring and synthetic sounding/feeling. Not what you want from an amp that expensive IMO. For most people interested in Revv I would probably suggest a 5153 or an original Savage.

Why Savage? I've played the Savage but preferred the Savage Mk II or whatever the latest is. I like that one.
I don't think the Revv is synthetic. Not sure what that means. Red channel reminds me of the Bogner I've played.

Two of my dream amps are a Bogner Ecstacy and Diezel Herbert but I've never been able to afford.

Guys keep telling me to just get a Kemper but I don't know. Afraid to go that route.

I could always get the Bogner as I really want, just save for it. I'm such a big Bogner guy. Diezel too.
Would love to try the Friedman Be 100 and a KSR like the Juno, Genesis, etc.
I could always just but a DI box for when I want to go direct.

 

[PSGuitar]

That’s the problem with these amps with just shit loads of features. They’re all just okay. They never really excel at anything. Nor do they ever have a unique tone where you hear it and go oh that’s a “whatever”. I’d rather have a single channel amp that rips than a 4 channel amp that’s just okay at everything.

I hear ya...
I had a PRS Archon but I found it limiting wirh its two channels.
I ended up buying a Bogner Shiva 20th and it's great for what I need now.
Plus more versatile than my Archon with the two modes that I am able to doors witch and the built in boost. Love this amp.
That's sort of why I'd love the 20th Bogner Ecstacy. It's got the Bogner vibe but different from my Shiva, I find all three channels ls great and I vibe well with...plus built in boosts.
It may not be one channel that rips but it's killer to me.

 

[PSGuitar]

They sound awesome in Jeff Schroeder's rig. (Smashing Pumpkins)

Exactly, they are not just modern metal amps. I don't really like modern metal, and I really enjoyed playing the Revv. We played mostly 80s, 90s and 2000s rock, grunge and metal plus originals and I thought the Generator sounded killer.

I got back stage at a Pumpkins show years ago. Quite a trip!

Cool guys and he talks about his Revv heads here. He also does some sound demos and sounds great to me. He sounded great live.

 

[Rex Rocker]

I'm the other way around, LOL. I don't aim for a Smashing Pumpkins tone at all (I thought they used like Big Muffs?). But it's cool to see that the Revv amps can also pull that off.

 

[boltzthrower]

The only good amps are Marshall JMP / JCM 800 2203‘s with a sd-1 or Mesa IIC++’s.

24 is the highest number, fuggedaboutit

 

[godgrinder]

Revv sounds like ENGL making a 5153. Sounds fine, but it's boring and synthetic sounding/feeling. Not what you want from an amp that expensive IMO. For most people interested in Revv I would probably suggest a 5153 or an original Savage.

I had a Revv G20 and that was basically the vibe I felt. While it doesn't sound exactly like an Engl it's definitely in that direction. It was surely tight and modern but I can make all my other amps sound tight and modern with a parametric EQ.

And for the price of a 20 watter I could've probably had an used 100w Engl. So I got rid of it when there's still enough hype and luckily didn't lose money.

 

[DragonCrestPC]

Had a mkII Generator 120 and couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

 

[Candiria]

Why Savage? I've played the Savage but preferred the Savage Mk II or whatever the latest is. I like that one.
I don't think the Revv is synthetic. Not sure what that means. Red channel reminds me of the Bogner I've played.

Two of my dream amps are a Bogner Ecstacy and Diezel Herbert but I've never been able to afford.

Guys keep telling me to just get a Kemper but I don't know. Afraid to go that route.

I could always get the Bogner as I really want, just save for it. I'm such a big Bogner guy. Diezel too.
Would love to try the Friedman Be 100 and a KSR like the Juno, Genesis, etc.
I could always just but a DI box for when I want to go direct.

IMO people looking into Revv are chasing a modern metal tone. I think the 5153 Stealth does that with more character and for a lot less money, and the same for the old ENGL Savage if you can find one at a good price.

The new Savage is expensive, and you don't really get any value from the extra features because you're usually buying that amp just for metal. It's metal tone still destroys, but honestly the other tones it now does aren't good enough to justify the extra cost.

 

[spguitar]

I'm the other way around, LOL. I don't aim for a Smashing Pumpkins tone at all (I thought they used like Big Muffs?). But it's cool to see that the Revv amps can also pull that off.

They only used the big muff for Siamese Dream and Pisces Iscariot with splashes here and there later. It's been Marshall/Diezel/Sound City/Laney/Mesa/Bogner/Orange/Carstens/Selmer and many more amps since 1994. Live it was always amp gain.

 

[Greazygeo]

Yeah I know you were lol. Those 2 amps wouldn’t quite make top 5 for me, but both great imo and stood the test of time. What I respect a lot about those 2 amps is that they (and just the early Recto’s) are the only high gain amps I can think of (of what I’ve tried) that have a truly raw sound like other good vintage amps. After that I found Wizard’s & Naylor’s are to me to be close but no cigar in that department of being raw. If I didn’t have a Klon I would have kept the ‘80’a SD-1. I liked it a lot still

Yeah I would say raw is not what I go for. Not played a Revv amp, but I have one of those pedals. Not sure which one it is, dark brown or black. It gets run direct into a Digitech Distortion Factory turned off so it can be used for the cab sim. Running it into my interface it sounds pretty good for a modernish tone.
Doubt I would buy an amp, but the pedal is kind of fun.

 

[Metalhex]

Glenn Fricker pimps out these amps along when they first came out so I stayed away and never paid much attention....not that I've seen one in the wild, anyway

 

[braintheory]

Yeah I would say raw is not what I go for. Not played a Revv amp, but I have one of those pedals. Not sure which one it is, dark brown or black. It gets run direct into a Digitech Distortion Factory turned off so it can be used for the cab sim. Running it into my interface it sounds pretty good for a modernish tone.
Doubt I would buy an amp, but the pedal is kind of fun.

Yeah you can probably tell by my posts I prefer raw, unprocessed sounds (without the gimmicky bs fx too lol), which is why I’m so disappointed in most recent made gear, but also am that much more impressed that a few amps made now like Wizard’s & Alessandro’s can get pretty close. It’s partly from spending so many years when I was younger not even giving anything vintage a fair chance, (amazingly stupid in retrospect lol), just trying all these trendy boutique amps, assuming they must be better, but never being satisfied with any, only to eventually AB them with good vintage Marshall’s, Boogies, Fenders, etc and those comparisons took me out of the matrix to what I was missing and hoping for. Since then I’ve only really come across non-vintage gear I love once in a while and they still lack the more lively, raw sound/response that I prefer. It’s a big part of this from concentrate vs fresh squeezed oj analogy I use a lot to describe comparisons in gear pieces. Most gear made today imo, especially pedals, are Sunny D to my ears lol. And I wasn’t born when this vintage stuff came out or anything, I just want good tone however I can get it

There are still amps I love that aren’t raw like my original version Uberschall, but I’d probably love it that much more if it also sounded raw and more alive and nuanced in tone

 

[Techdeth]

I definitely want to try a Rev generator mk 3 after reading all this . No clue what they sound like but that this thread just makes me wanna see what you all are getting at

 

[braintheory]

I definitely want to try a Rev generator mk 3 after reading all this . No clue what they sound like but that this thread just makes me wanna see what you all are getting at

Always gotta try to really know! Sometimes I learn more from trying gear I don’t like than the ones I actually love

 

[Techdeth]

Always gotta try to really know! Sometimes I learn more from trying gear I don’t like than the ones I actually love

I agree . Especially this thing. This thing gets a thread going . I’m picturing a tube amp on the modeler side of things . But who knows

 

[braintheory]

I agree . Especially this thing. This thing gets a thread going . I’m picturing a tube amp on the modeler side of things . But who knows

I find most non-vintage amps to be more in that direction really to different extents, but some amps like many of the Engl’s or JVM’s are much farther on that end of the spectrum toward that sound lol. The farthest away on the other end IME would be a ‘50’s Tweed Champ

 

[ultimatemetalguitartones]

3 words: Bland, boring & generic. I’ll wait for the others who’ve also tried them in person to say the same thing…

I couldn't agree more

 

[DECEMBER]

I just got a G20. Used for $700. I wouldn't pay the price for new. I think it's great. The gain is a bit dark and bassy but a Precision Drive in front really helps that out. I also run a 10 band parametric EQ in the loop. Haven't met a small amp that didn't desperately need it. But with the Precision Drive and EQ, into an Eminence DV-77 and Celestion G12H-75 Creamback in parallel it sounds and records great.
I first had a Marshall DSL20CR, then Peavey ValveKing II 20 combo, then Invective MH, then the G20. Each one was an improvement over the previous one, the DSL being the worst. But ultimately, the Vietnamese Marshall and Chinese Peaveys were all muddy, fizzy buzzsaws. Screechy highs, boxy, muddy lows, and wonky mids. The Peaveys have squawky high-mids and the Marshall has this fluffy airy mudrange in the 400-600Hz range. There was nothing I could do with the 10 band parametric EQ to help any of these amps. Cutting the mids on the amp completely and cutting 6 mid frequencies with the EQ and there was still always excessive mids and no definition in the lows and low-mids. In recordings, all you could hear was the harsh screechy noise and the squawky high-mids.
The G20 is SO much more the sound I've been trying to get. Thick low end, note definition in the mids, so much smoother high end. And the best part: no squawky high-mids! I've been redoing my songs with it and comparing the new tracks to the ones recorded with the Invective is like "omg, that was so terrible, wow this is SO much better!"
Yeah, it needs a proper overdrive and some EQ, but don't they all? Out of the 20W tube amps that can be had for under $1000, the G20 is far beyond the overseas junk.
I've never met an IR or cab sim that I would actually use in a finished song. After a week with the TwoNotes in the G20, my opinion hasn't changed. They're fine if you just need to hear it to practice silently, but I've been thru all the factory presets and tweaked out several of my own in the past 6 days, recorded several takes with many of them, and none of it was anything I would keep in a song that I would let anyone hear. I was fixated on high gain tones this whole time, and I just today tried a clean tone thru the IRs and it's distorted thru all of them. Like ugly clipping the high end distorted. Doesn't matter how low the volume is anywhere... I can't figure it out. Oh, well. I didn't have high hopes for the IRs anyway, and I like the amp so much more than the other 3 I've had, and got it for a really good price.

 

[angelspade]

I've never owned a Revv, but in a recent "what amp do you never regret selling?" thread....Revv appeared the most frequently followed closely by ENGL. Generally speaking, they do not seem to be well received here.

 

[JR-OZ]

I have over 50 amps
I was never able to get a usable tone for my playing. Maybe it’s my hands maybe my playing style didn’t gell. Whatever the fact it was very lifeless to me soft and had no oomph everyone in the studio who tried it went with other things. I hear guys love it ? For me hard pass great feature set though will say that.