The Reissue Dual Rec is Modeled after a Rev G, NOT Rev F

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stephen sawall said:
This thread makes it clear people's taste are all over the place. Taste is subjective. Individual amps and rigs vary.

I definitely prefer Red over Orange. That for me has been consistent with all the ones I have played on.

I remember the first time I had three Tremoverb in a room together. I was surprised how different they sounded.
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They vary for sure, although IME AB'ing 3 Rev C's with exactly the same tubes (power and pre to be safe) they at least still all had the same qualities in sound and feel that distinguish Rev C's IME from other Rev's and found the same to be the case when AB'ing different Rev F's. They varied clearly, but still had the key qualities that make F's sound and feel the way they do vs others IME

Somehow I never knew about the orange ch for a while and thought I just wasn't a recto guy since I had only tried red. It was like a not as good mark for me in some ways, but somehow years later I went to orange ch and it was like now I totally get why recto's are special. This is that throaty growly 90's sound I had in my head all this time. The only exception for me is the red ch being much better on my Hermansson modded Triple, but it's a totally different sound and feel than stock recto's
 
Just in case anyone hasn't seen it, here's a video where Doug West specifically talks about how they used a bunch of individual Rev F's and Rev G's the team used to build the reissue.

Doug says it at 1:15
 
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cardinal said:
Gibson may be angling for something like a Historic line (R7, R8, R9).

Total speculation from me, but perhaps they start with G and go F and C over time. Each one more expensive than the last.
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is there that much of a demand for that many rectifiers?
 
grrr_me_scary said:
Does anyone know what Rectifier the Synergy DRect is based upon?

Is it a completely new version or based upon a previous one?
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I havent seen the synergy, but the MTS was its own design, pretty much SLO/Recto base circuit with a few component tweaks to voice it into recto territory to work best with the fixed input and power amp stages
 
acceptance said:
As someone just getting familiar with Recto revisions it's weird how the changes aren't progressive and go from tighter to looser and more desirable to less desirable and then back to more desirable and so on. Weird and confusing.
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That is because Mesa listens to their customers (up until lately anyway) and as the 90's progressed the music got more grungy, dare I say sludgy, looser in sound and was probably what a lot of guys were going for. As opposed to the tight and bright 80's. That 90s rhythm tone is all over stuff like Alice in Chains, Creed, Sound Garden, Tool, Korn, 311, etc.

I'm still new to the Rectifier party but based on the way everyone describes the revisions I have to say I'm loving everything about my G modified to C amp. The back and forth in this thread has me convinced I have the best of both worlds. Tighter for sure but still thick. Also very 3D like and plenty of bounce. Absolutely no boost needed and I'm a boost guy. I prefer it without. My techie guy went over it and replaced a few bad components, did the G to C (Pre 500) mod and converted the FX loop to Serial along with the FX jack replacement mod. I wish someone like @NewWorldMan could come over here and tell me I'm crazy :yes:
 
I picked up the RI. Previously owned a Dual and Single. They were tubby and shitty. The Dual had to be a G. The RI is waaaaay better sounding than those amps FWIW.
 
Man the recto is back in townnnnnnn !! I'm an old early 40s dude and this amp has produced some of the best live tones I've ever heard over the years
 
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