Luke Duke
PRSlustologist
Jim Metcalf the guy who owns Argenta Guitars in North Little Rock did a setup on my strat for me (trying to get rid of the 3rd string warble) and in the meantine I took his red 58RI with antiquities into the studio next room over and busted off.....
Mesa Single Rectofier slant front cab
JCM 800 straight front cab
JCM 900 full stack
I played them all at demolition level volume, dry.
The Recto had tons of compression and bass eventually Jim came in and tweaked the EQ and made it sound more passable to me but Mesa's just are my thing I guess. I don't know how high it was turned up in the end close if not wide open
That 800 (50 watt 6L6 vertical inputs) had to have the master past halfway to really start getting that full thick sound, so I understand why so many folks use a booster pedal. I played this one fully dimed once on my own and once when Jim was messing with it. (He walked in and told me it wasn't loud enough so he cranked it) I
The 900 took more work to get dialed in but I think it was the most usable throughout the volume spectrum, with 8X12's ablazin! It was thick and I have to wonder how come they ended up with a bad rap? Maybe that one was a special piece I think he said it has EL34's and maybe the others didn't?
All in all it was fun! I loved to A/B/C the amps great fun. I have used his EL34 100 watt 800 so I do have a frame of reference for the EL34 800 sound and it sounded good too, but I never played it THAT loud.
Luke
Mesa Single Rectofier slant front cab
JCM 800 straight front cab
JCM 900 full stack
I played them all at demolition level volume, dry.
The Recto had tons of compression and bass eventually Jim came in and tweaked the EQ and made it sound more passable to me but Mesa's just are my thing I guess. I don't know how high it was turned up in the end close if not wide open
That 800 (50 watt 6L6 vertical inputs) had to have the master past halfway to really start getting that full thick sound, so I understand why so many folks use a booster pedal. I played this one fully dimed once on my own and once when Jim was messing with it. (He walked in and told me it wasn't loud enough so he cranked it) I
The 900 took more work to get dialed in but I think it was the most usable throughout the volume spectrum, with 8X12's ablazin! It was thick and I have to wonder how come they ended up with a bad rap? Maybe that one was a special piece I think he said it has EL34's and maybe the others didn't?
All in all it was fun! I loved to A/B/C the amps great fun. I have used his EL34 100 watt 800 so I do have a frame of reference for the EL34 800 sound and it sounded good too, but I never played it THAT loud.
Luke
