Re: NAD, a tube amp
so after several days with this Randall 45RD Head, I am satisfied to get the tube feel and tone. There is a clean channel here yo, and its very usable for sparkling cleans. All my pickups work well here. Add modulation and its all dreamy. Add some Gain on the clean channel for the crunch and rock and hard rock but it doesn't sound great. Here I'd rather have a standard tone amp like a Fender, Marshall, or Orange. So there is a boost button that kinda acts like a tube screamer but with more bottom. Usable. I also use a tube screamer and it helps a lot if you want to stand out in the mix.
So this thing of course is best on the high gain channel. However I did notice that some pickups don't sound good on this and some pickups do. Namely:
Custom -- ok
Pearly Gates bridge -- meh
Pearly Gates neck -- ok
Dimarzio Air Zone - yuck
Dimarzio Air Classic neck - ok
Guitarfetish mean 90 - yuck
Custom 5 - ok
Dimarzio Titan on my baritone - meh
Dimarzio D Activator - killer
weird eh.
