Two Rock Amps...

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I owed a Two-Rock Custom Reverb Signature V1. It was an incredible amp for Jazz/fusion and blues styles. Beautiful clean tones, and the overdrive sounded more like a tenor sax than a guitar. Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Joe Bonamassa , even Allan Holdsworth tones you can get from it. But for Metal, it didn't cut it. Too much smooth mids. There are many different model's and variation's of the same model to keep up with them. I have some clips on my YouTube channel if you want to get an idea. Peace.
 
lots of different models so depends if you want stellar cleans, type of overdrive, etc.
 
You're are welcome man. Two Rock amps are something every player should experience at least once. The cleans are the best I have experienced and the overdrive tones are the best, except for hardrock and metal.
 
i really liked the custom reverb for best combination of cleans and drive - i havent had a chance to try it yet but a lot of people that have tons of experience with TR love the current Coral model
 
November5th":11ytgwwg said:
. But for Metal, it didn't cut it. Too much smooth mids. There are many different model's and variation's of the same model to keep up with them. I have some clips on my YouTube channel if you want to get an idea. Peace.
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Has anybody in the history of man actually bought a Two Rock for the purpose of metal tones? I'm talking ANY metal tones, even early 80's metal.

I would like to meet these people.
 
though prob not great for metal, the eric gales model had a pretty marshally overdrive...they arent 'just' dumbleish smooth
 
Bob Savage":3pgibzzu said:
November5th":3pgibzzu said:
. But for Metal, it didn't cut it. Too much smooth mids. There are many different model's and variation's of the same model to keep up with them. I have some clips on my YouTube channel if you want to get an idea. Peace.
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Has anybody in the history of man actually bought a Two Rock for the purpose of metal tones? I'm talking ANY metal tones, even early 80's metal.

I would like to meet these people.
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I am predominantly a metal player. I bought a Two-Rock looking to find the best Jazz/fusion, blues tone possible. But I do remember hearing some great clips of a guy with a Two-Rock Opal, and he was playing early Van Halen.
 
November5th":8rkc79zz said:
I bought a Two-Rock looking to find the best Jazz/fusion, blues tone possible. But I do remember <snip>
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You are not whom I am wanting to meet.
 
I had a Two Rock TONE DOG and borrowed a friend's ERIG GALES MODEL. It was very nice but nothing amazing and certainly not worth the price of admission. However, one of the coolest amps of that genre I've played is the GLASWERKS ODS (or whatever it's called). Pulling on a switch/knob (I forgot which one) and cranking the gain yielded wicked high gain SLO-like tones.

I've played a lot of these Dumble-inspired amps because a friend of mine is a the ultimate amp taster and goes for the hard rock-fusion tones (not metal). He buys/sells/trades about one amp per month on average.
 
2Rock is standard requirement for TGP membership to play da Blews because you make north of $250K annual. :dunno:
 
Big Fan. I have a non production 3 channel one right now which is sick. 4 gain control knobs for the third channel and all do something different to take it from plexi to insane gain and everything in between . The second channel is straight up fat plexi, first channel can be fender or dumble. Separate reverb send and returns for gain and clean channels and the best reverb ever on a high gain channel. The cleans are as good as it gets and this amp is the best amp I own.
 
As stated before, cleans and overdrive is where Two-Rock dominates. There are a couple of models that do higher levels of gain, but they tend to have a looser bottom end than most would prefer in that mode. That being said, several models make excellent platforms for OD and distortion pedals. The newest model, the Studio 50/15, is designed as a pedal amp, having a switchable passive/active fx loop with seperate levels for send and return.



The interesting thing about Two-Rock is the prices have gone down, while the construction quality has improved dramatically. If you compare gutshots from an early Onyx to say, a recently built Coral or Classic Reverb, it's immediately apparent.
 
I had a Fuchs TripleDrive Supreme. Great amp for 'that' tonal genre. Andy has outstanding customer service. Incredible!
 
tonedog":1912fq48 said:
Big Fan. I have a non production 3 channel one right now which is sick. 4 gain control knobs for the third channel and all do something different to take it from plexi to insane gain and everything in between . The second channel is straight up fat plexi, first channel can be fender or dumble. Separate reverb send and returns for gain and clean channels and the best reverb ever on a high gain channel. The cleans are as good as it gets and this amp is the best amp I own.
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A non production Fuch or Two Rocks? Just curious.
 
hstlaurent":u4v88zzv said:
tonedog":u4v88zzv said:
Big Fan. I have a non production 3 channel one right now which is sick. 4 gain control knobs for the third channel and all do something different to take it from plexi to insane gain and everything in between . The second channel is straight up fat plexi, first channel can be fender or dumble. Separate reverb send and returns for gain and clean channels and the best reverb ever on a high gain channel. The cleans are as good as it gets and this amp is the best amp I own.
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A non production Fuch or Two Rocks? Just curious.
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Two Rock.

I have owned five different Fuchs over the years including two of the SLX models but none as good as the first one which was serial number 4 in a hardwood headshell. That was a good one. Owned many Two Rocks anfd found them more to my liking in most cases. Less compressed and bigger sounding to me. When I loaned carl Verheyen my current amp for a clinic, he was blown away by it and said " this amp is awesome, I had no idea that Two Rocks sounded like this, why can't my Fuchs sound like this?"
 
tonedog":1taco99r said:
hstlaurent":1taco99r said:
tonedog":1taco99r said:
Big Fan. I have a non production 3 channel one right now which is sick. 4 gain control knobs for the third channel and all do something different to take it from plexi to insane gain and everything in between . The second channel is straight up fat plexi, first channel can be fender or dumble. Separate reverb send and returns for gain and clean channels and the best reverb ever on a high gain channel. The cleans are as good as it gets and this amp is the best amp I own.
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A non production Fuch or Two Rocks? Just curious.
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Two Rock.
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It's too bad they didn't do a production version of it. I would have been a taker. Let-me know if you ever do some clip with it. :rock:
 
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