Incoming Suhr Riot

[ThisDyingSoul76]

Found a Riot on Reverb for $155CAD + $15 shipping.

My Joyo US Dream is about to be retired.

[Aceman]

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We need an A/B vid before it goes!!!!

Good deal...

[ThisDyingSoul76]

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I'm not sure how audible the differences will be with my usual method of putting my ipad across the room, but I'll give it a shot.

Maybe I'll need to actually mic the cab for something like that. Which is something I have usually got time for lately.

I'll see how the iPad does and if it's what I expect, I'll see if I can find time to do the mic'd cab. I have a much needed vacation coming soon, so that may do it.

[ThisDyingSoul76]

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I know from YouTube vids I've seen it seems the Riot is more full sounding. The Joyo sounds good, but the Riot has more bottom or lower mids.

[Dave Locher]

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I know from YouTube vids I've seen it seems the Riot is more full sounding. The Joyo sounds good, but the Riot has more bottom or lower mids.

Seems right. I had Frank the Anvil FX build me a Riot clone and it has a lot more low mid and/or low end grunt than the Joyo US Dream it replaced.

[ThisDyingSoul76]

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And the US Dream actually sounds great as is. Tight low end and nice, full, mid range. A great lead tone.

I can't wait for the Riot to get here.

[ThisDyingSoul76]

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ITS HERE!!!

Now to find time to AB with the US Dream.

[ThisDyingSoul76]

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Got it on the board. Found running it at 9V was too compressed so tried 18V and it wasn't compressed enough. My One-Spot CS-7 has dipswitches to set 4 of the 9V outputs to 12V, so I gave it a try. Just right. Feels very natural to me that way.

Comparing it to the Joyo US Dream, it's fuller sounding. The Joyo sounds nice but more mid focus and less lows. It seems to be modelled after the left side of the Voice switch. I'll do a comparison vid when I get time.

I'm using the Riot as my hard rock rhythm sound. For lead tones, stacking it into a Klone with a slight volume boost and a touch of gain and increased treble resulted in a warm, fat lead tone with just the right amount of bite.

I've also had success stacking a Bluesbreaker clone into the Riot. Setting it for a level boost with just enough gain to hear a touch of dirt when the Riot is off it also gives a nice gain boost. The shift in mids has a bit more high mids compared to the Klone. It fattens like the Klone, but gives a brighter and sound. Both cut really well.

[Aceman]

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4 flavors of loud, some chorus and delay, a little verb and tremolo....

sweet

[ThisDyingSoul76]

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4 flavors of loud, some chorus and delay, a little verb and tremolo....

sweet

Actually, 5 flavours of loud (the amp's channel switching and internal boost are wired into the switcher), some squish, chorus, delay, flanger and tremolo. I use the amp's spring Reverb - see the part about amp's switching wired to the Joyo switcher.

And after this, I settled on this configuration - the Bluesbreaker wasn't working with the Riot.