Justice4all
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Thought i’d post a couple of pix of my main amp sen as ive done a few posts on my guitars.
This is a 2004 Rivera Knucklehead 6L6 100 watt Reverb head and cab.
To be honest this is one of the most versatile amps ive owned over the years, i love the variaty of music styles it covers.
Most people know all about these beasts but i’ll give a quik overview.
Clean Channel, (1) best cleans ive EVER head from a high gain head, period. If you were blind you would swear you were plugged into a fender! And turn the gain up and you enter some nice dirty blues tones...... engage the boost and your hear Vox like tones......
Crunch Channel, (2) tihs channel i use primarily for rythym from slitghy distorted tones to modded Marshall
thunder! But it cleans up VERY well when rolling the volume on the guitar down, even when the gains at 10.
They have a lot of push/pull knobs that control mid scooping, contour and brightness, alot to tweak! But when you find your sweet spots its well worth the effort!
Lead Channel, (3) even though it shares the same eq as channel 2, it is voiced completely different, this channel is best left for leads, its sound is more “cutting” to my ears than channel 2, not in a bad way though.
I love my Singlecut on the neck pup on this channel, smooth as and so much sustain, and all the gain is usable,
none of this “look how much gain my amp has on 10!”
but its sounds like fuzzy mush!
And tighter than a buss full of nun’s! No flabby bottom’ness some Mesa’s produce.
Ok the Cab, i ordered a cab loaded with Celestions, 2 V30’s on top and 2 G12 75T’s on the bottom, this is my favorite combo for the styles i play.
Anyway im just about to play around with tubes, ive changed the factory Svetlana =C=’s and put in some JJ 6L6 GC’s. And ive just ordered the new JJ 12AX7 ECC803 Longplate preamp tubes along with the GT12AX7M and
C tubes and a 12AX7EH.
It came stock with four Sovtek 12AX7 WA’s and one 12AX7 LP.
So im interested in how these new tubes will make it sound!
well thats enough from me, off to plug in!
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This is a 2004 Rivera Knucklehead 6L6 100 watt Reverb head and cab.
To be honest this is one of the most versatile amps ive owned over the years, i love the variaty of music styles it covers.
Most people know all about these beasts but i’ll give a quik overview.
Clean Channel, (1) best cleans ive EVER head from a high gain head, period. If you were blind you would swear you were plugged into a fender! And turn the gain up and you enter some nice dirty blues tones...... engage the boost and your hear Vox like tones......
Crunch Channel, (2) tihs channel i use primarily for rythym from slitghy distorted tones to modded Marshall
thunder! But it cleans up VERY well when rolling the volume on the guitar down, even when the gains at 10.
They have a lot of push/pull knobs that control mid scooping, contour and brightness, alot to tweak! But when you find your sweet spots its well worth the effort!
Lead Channel, (3) even though it shares the same eq as channel 2, it is voiced completely different, this channel is best left for leads, its sound is more “cutting” to my ears than channel 2, not in a bad way though.
I love my Singlecut on the neck pup on this channel, smooth as and so much sustain, and all the gain is usable,
none of this “look how much gain my amp has on 10!”
but its sounds like fuzzy mush!
And tighter than a buss full of nun’s! No flabby bottom’ness some Mesa’s produce.
Ok the Cab, i ordered a cab loaded with Celestions, 2 V30’s on top and 2 G12 75T’s on the bottom, this is my favorite combo for the styles i play.
Anyway im just about to play around with tubes, ive changed the factory Svetlana =C=’s and put in some JJ 6L6 GC’s. And ive just ordered the new JJ 12AX7 ECC803 Longplate preamp tubes along with the GT12AX7M and
C tubes and a 12AX7EH.
It came stock with four Sovtek 12AX7 WA’s and one 12AX7 LP.
So im interested in how these new tubes will make it sound!
well thats enough from me, off to plug in!
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