What’s the first album to use Mesa Rectifier

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I know Dirt had it sent it for me thinking what came before . Educate me on this please
 
Dave Jerden has contradicted himself on whether a Dual Recto or Bogner Ecstasy was actually used as the "mids" amp on Dirt (September 29, 1992).

These other albums come to mind:

Tool - Undertow (April 6, 1993)
King's X - Dogman (January 18, 1994)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (March 8, 1994)

Most of these were blended with Marshalls.
 
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fearhk213 said:
Not quite as early as those, but another early one:
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair (5/31/94)
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Killer album. They did use Rectos for a bit. I wish they'd remix that one, I didn't like the production.

This was my favorite track. Killer main riff..

 
Snave said:
Dave Jerden has contradicted himself on whether a Dual Recto or Bogner Ecstasy was actually used as the "mids" amp on Dirt (September 29, 1992).

These other albums come to mind:

Tool - Undertow (April 6, 1993)
Candlebox - Candlebox (July 20, 1993)
King's X - Dogman (January 18, 1994)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (March 8, 1994)

Most of these were blended with Marshalls.
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Candlebox’s first album was all Peavey VTM. He added the Dual Rectifier for the tour, but it’s not on the album.
 
napalmdeath said:
Killer album. They did use Rectos for a bit. I wish they'd remix that one, I didn't like the production.

This was my favorite track. Killer main riff..

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fucking love this album. was a great time to be a metalhead.
 
I remember specifically reading somewhere, back in the day, that Neal Schon used the ‘brand new’ Mesa Boogie Rectifier for this Hardline album in 1992.

He thanks Mesa Boogie Amplifiers in the liner notes also… I just checked the CD.

but who really knows, around the same time, he was shilling for Crate Amps.

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There’s another, Winger’s 1993 Pull album.
Reb Beach specifically mentions the Mesa Boogie Rectifier along with Reinhold Bogner’s #3 Ecstasy 100B which he used together …
(On a sidenote, that same Ecstasy was used by George Lynch on the Sacred Groove album and by the Scorpions on their Face The Heat release, I bought the amplifier from Reinhold and it was shipped to me from the Scorpions who were recording in Vancouver Canada at the time)

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I would think an artist from the 80s shred scene rather than an emerging 90s artist. The Recto was designed for shred and fell bass ackwards into the grunge era
 
interesting theme repeating itself here (and everyone probably already knows this) but it seems that the guitar sounds we love on most albums in the last couple of decades aren't a single amp, but rather a combination of kick ass amps.
 
Snave said:
Dave Jerden has contradicted himself on whether a Dual Recto or Bogner Ecstasy was actually used as the "mids" amp on Dirt (September 29, 1992).

These other albums come to mind:

Tool - Undertow (April 6, 1993)
Candlebox - Candlebox (July 20, 1993)
King's X - Dogman (January 18, 1994)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (March 8, 1994)

Most of these were blended with Marshalls.
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I have a guitar world interview where Jerry’s says he used dual rectifier. That’s what made me think of this
 
ewill52 said:
interesting theme repeating itself here (and everyone probably already knows this) but it seems that the guitar sounds we love on most albums in the last couple of decades aren't a single amp, but rather a combination of kick ass amps.
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This is always the case . So iv always picked two as my main amp . This is very true
 
ewill52 said:
interesting theme repeating itself here (and everyone probably already knows this) but it seems that the guitar sounds we love on most albums in the last couple of decades aren't a single amp, but rather a combination of kick ass amps.
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Exactly. Plus a lot of that depends on who is the producer. Nobody really cares what the name on the amp says. Its all about what kind of sound it can get on the track. Petrucci's Images and Words distorted sound on some tracks were blended with a Zoom s.s. half rack thing. Its not enough that when you take it away the whole sound changes, but enough to hear that something is missing.
 
Looks like George Lynch used one sporadically on the Sacred Groove album ('92/'93)
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