I don’t even play and I’m running two amps stereo and getting ready to go w/d/w…lol..and I might play ten minutes a week. But it sounds fuckin glorious when I do….plus momma’s pants just fly off when I power on and hit an e.
Well my Herm Single Rec like yours has almost nothing in common soundwise with the C or other 2ch Rec’s, but the Rev G is my standout favorite of my 4 Hermansson’s and maintains more of that sound in it. Like all the Hermansson’s he makes the mids very hollow (won’t growl or have juice in that region) and scooped in parts of the low mids, but it’s way tighter, faster, cutting and more attack-y than my C or any stock recto. It’s basically the Herm sound that all his amps have to varying degrees (super tight/fast, but hollow and colder) with some of the 2ch Recto sound maintained in there. The C is much fatter (but way darker) and has all that throat growly, where the Herm G has some of that left in it, but both are among my top 3 high gain amps
This is partly why my some of favorite speaker mixes so far have been 20w GB’s/JBL D120F’s, 20w GB’s/Altec 417C’s, and Redbacks/JBL E120’s (most brutal sound I’ve had so far). The celestions bring the best mids, while the Altec’s and JBL’s give the lows and highs that aren’t in the cards for any celestions including K100’s and 75’s
Sam explained it well; I would only add that stock, classic rock all day (think early ac/dc), 1-2 ODs and 80s, then hit it with a Dist + OD and you now have the vol on the Dist pedal acting like a MV, and stacking an OD with it will get you modern super heavy.
So it is Rev C, RevG Herm and the third one would be?
OD’s get it into ‘80’s, but a few other amps of mine I feel do that job a bit better. I find my 72, while it can cover many styles with pedals kinda like how some of my other amps can cover many styles, I just like to focus on what amps do at a top notch level vs others. With the 72 I find that to be all things rock, some old school metal like Priest, much like how with Herm’s I only really use them for modern and fast styles of metal even though they can do other styles at a lesser level imo
The Rev C is stock (not Hermansson modded). For Hermansson’s I’ve got a Single Recto, Rev G Dual Recto, Carlsboro 5 Gain Stage and Marshall 5 Gain Stage. They all have that signature Hermansson flavor in there, but still all different enough that I’ll keep them now at least
I meant for top 3 you mentioned, Rev C and Rev G Herm were two, and the third is?
