Re: Brought home the Triple Rec Reborn and picked up a couple cabs too.
That is just a wonderful picture!
That is just a wonderful picture!
Brought home the Triple Rec Reborn and picked up a couple cabs too.
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Gone_Shootin
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Re: Brought home the Triple Rec Reborn and picked up a couple cabs too.
Had another chance to get loud today and after blasting my Les Pauls through the JVM, I plugged the Reborn into the Mesa 4x12. I had written that cab off because it sounded tubby with everything else I've ran through it (the 4x12 sounded great in the store, but no so much once I got it home, ya know how that goes...). Today it and the Reborn sounded pretty good together. Good strong solid mids, but not like a Marshall, more dry, if you will. But a midrange tone that would cut, none the less. It did have more top end fizz than I remember from last time, but last time I was running it through the 2x12 with the very well broken in V30s.
This combo also seemed to be picky about the pickups. My Epiphone Les Paul Custom with a Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge cut like a knife and I'm sure it contributed to what I was hearing on the mids. But my Gibson Les Paul Standard with the stock Burstbucker Pros sounded tubby.
Had another chance to get loud today and after blasting my Les Pauls through the JVM, I plugged the Reborn into the Mesa 4x12. I had written that cab off because it sounded tubby with everything else I've ran through it (the 4x12 sounded great in the store, but no so much once I got it home, ya know how that goes...). Today it and the Reborn sounded pretty good together. Good strong solid mids, but not like a Marshall, more dry, if you will. But a midrange tone that would cut, none the less. It did have more top end fizz than I remember from last time, but last time I was running it through the 2x12 with the very well broken in V30s.
This combo also seemed to be picky about the pickups. My Epiphone Les Paul Custom with a Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge cut like a knife and I'm sure it contributed to what I was hearing on the mids. But my Gibson Les Paul Standard with the stock Burstbucker Pros sounded tubby.
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Re: Brought home the Triple Rec Reborn and picked up a couple cabs too.
Yeah those over-sized cabs (especially the true straight-baffle bottom cab) really open-up the highs and lows.
It can be good or bad depending on a million-and-one factors.
Have you tried the mesa 412 and 212 together?
I really like the recto 212 stood vertical combined and the 412 flush on the floor (no wheels) for the triple reborn.
Also really looove the rect0 212 on the floor combined with my avatar212(k100) cab stood vertical.
Most of my guitars/pickups lean towards "modern"(lol) and/or "mid-focused", so maybe that's why it works well for me.
edit;;,,,,,,,It actually wouldn't take much to modify an oversize cab to have traditional-size internal-airspace.
(btw,,,,oversize slant only has a small amount more airspace than a traditional bottom/straight cab)
Boards could be cut to specific sizes and screwed/glued-in, or even better; velcro could be glued to the inside of the cab's bottom or back and the ingoing board's bottom to make it an easily reversible change.
Probably not something for a touring/gigging cab, but for a studio/music-room cab it might work well to tighten the lows and get more mid-focus from an oversize. Might also just be the perfect recipe for internal rattles. lol
Yeah those over-sized cabs (especially the true straight-baffle bottom cab) really open-up the highs and lows.
It can be good or bad depending on a million-and-one factors.
Have you tried the mesa 412 and 212 together?
I really like the recto 212 stood vertical combined and the 412 flush on the floor (no wheels) for the triple reborn.
Also really looove the rect0 212 on the floor combined with my avatar212(k100) cab stood vertical.
Most of my guitars/pickups lean towards "modern"(lol) and/or "mid-focused", so maybe that's why it works well for me.
edit;;,,,,,,,It actually wouldn't take much to modify an oversize cab to have traditional-size internal-airspace.
(btw,,,,oversize slant only has a small amount more airspace than a traditional bottom/straight cab)
Boards could be cut to specific sizes and screwed/glued-in, or even better; velcro could be glued to the inside of the cab's bottom or back and the ingoing board's bottom to make it an easily reversible change.
Probably not something for a touring/gigging cab, but for a studio/music-room cab it might work well to tighten the lows and get more mid-focus from an oversize. Might also just be the perfect recipe for internal rattles. lol
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Gone_Shootin
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Re: Brought home the Triple Rec Reborn and picked up a couple cabs too.
No, I haven't tried the Recto 4x12 with one of the 2x12s. And I have plenty of other cabs if I want less displacement. The fizz I was getting does have me considering other speakers for that cab, since I'm planning on using those V30s in the 2x12s to make them 16 ohm, and then using the V30s from the 2x12s in the 1960b. But, I haven't gotten around to it. The 1960b may end up with G12-EVHs too, or some Scumback Blackback clones. *shrug*
No, I haven't tried the Recto 4x12 with one of the 2x12s. And I have plenty of other cabs if I want less displacement. The fizz I was getting does have me considering other speakers for that cab, since I'm planning on using those V30s in the 2x12s to make them 16 ohm, and then using the V30s from the 2x12s in the 1960b. But, I haven't gotten around to it. The 1960b may end up with G12-EVHs too, or some Scumback Blackback clones. *shrug*
Re: Brought home the Triple Rec Reborn and picked up a couple cabs too.
The possibilities/combinations are almost limitless when you have such a gear stash! lol
I've tried the triple-reborn through a host of cabs, and the best single cab for me has been a friend's stock mesa-traditional. (now I need one)
It still might have the same issues common to most standard "V30-gripes",,,,,but they're far less scooped and the midrange and bass-attack are both punchier.
With the older rev-G rectifiers I actually do prefer the oversized in combo with my avatarK100 cab, which is a waaay too scooped and wide of a combination for the reborns IMO.
The possibilities/combinations are almost limitless when you have such a gear stash! lol
I've tried the triple-reborn through a host of cabs, and the best single cab for me has been a friend's stock mesa-traditional. (now I need one)
It still might have the same issues common to most standard "V30-gripes",,,,,but they're far less scooped and the midrange and bass-attack are both punchier.
With the older rev-G rectifiers I actually do prefer the oversized in combo with my avatarK100 cab, which is a waaay too scooped and wide of a combination for the reborns IMO.
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