When that tone surprises you...

[Aceman]

I'm talking about when the combination of whatever just leaps out, smacks you in the face and says "Recognize Me!" Except it isn't coming from an R9 LP with Seths into a King of Tone Pedal into a vintage Fender Twin. It comes from a Crate, a a Digitech RP, or some other WTF place.

Sitting in my office and playing through my little Roland Micro Cube, Norlin Les Paul, and a Super Distortion. Using the Recto model and the tone/gain/delay is just EPIC sounding.

 

[El Dunco]

I have this crazy wooly carpet covered solid state I got for $200 on ebay 16 years ago just to have as a spare. I’ll never get rid of it because it’s a secret weapon for really brutal metal sounds out the box. Has an amazing and very distinct tone, a bunch of features like an extra overdrive circuit, a switch that boosts it even more, active midrange control. It’s single channel but you can turn the extra stuff off and it cleans up very nicely.

I did a whole album with it because into eminence legends, it blew me away and didn’t need any help. Lately I am loving it paired with the Dual Rec now that I enjoy blending so much for an even more unique sound, White Zombie did something similar on Astro Creep.

Speaking of the RP, the RP1000 has a pretty awesome Mark IV model. It really helps that the tone stack is modeled before the gain stage so you can cut the bass, dial in the mids with the drive, treble for the ideal pick attack and EQ it after with the built in parametric EQ and do the narrowband 750 cut. It’s much smoother than the Soldano model which despite having a sweet sound, felt and sounded far too stiff to play.

 

[Securb]

Not that it should surprise me because it always sounds great but every once in a while the Les Paul through the Marshall sends chills up my spine, usually when playing Aerosmith or Led Zeppelin.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

I was surprised at how easy it was to get perfect 70's/vintage Sabbath tones (Warpigs, Electric Funeral, Iron Man etc) out of my new solid state Orange combo with minimal fuss/tweaking....just turn the knobs whichever way you want to and BAM ...you have Sabbath :lmao:

OK , maybe I'm exaggerating a bit ..........but yeah

....it's just full of that sweet (leaf) tone :bigthumb:

 

[Aceman]

Not that it should surprise me because it always sounds great but every once in a while the Les Paul through the Marshall sends chills up my spine, usually when playing Aerosmith or Led Zeppelin.

Yeah - that isn't surprising. It should sound right for that!

But right now, I want to put the lead tone I'm getting from that little Cube in a bottle. Maybe I need to get someone to Kemper it?!?!?!?!

 

[Top-L]

Yeah - that isn't surprising. It should sound right for that!

But right now, I want to put the lead tone I'm getting from that little Cube in a bottle. Maybe I need to get someone to Kemper it?!?!?!?!

The Cube *is* the bottle.

Someone said, I wish we could get that Recifier sound and put it in a bottle! (Thus, the Roland Cube.)

If its any consolation, the sound you love is probably also in a Katana. (If you need a bigger bottle.)

 

[Securb]

But right now, I want to put the lead tone I'm getting from that little Cube in a bottle.!

Go direct to the house with the Cube and just use your Marshall for window dressing and stage volume.

 

[Aceman]

The Cube *is* the bottle.

Someone said, I wish we could get that Recifier sound and put it in a bottle! (Thus, the Roland Cube.)

If its any consolation, the sound you love is probably also in a Katana. (If you need a bigger bottle.)

I hear you - but that's not exactly what I mean. I mean the sound is just perfect. Not just a good Recto sound...

This is a circa 2000 model of a Recto coming through a 1x8 speaker.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Roland amps are no guff. I wish mine was 60w or better, I'd rock it every day.

 

[Demanic]

Just run the line out direct into the effects return of one of your larger amps.

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[Senor Blues]

I have had several such moments recently with my new Custom Custom and a few random Tonex models, just SO good is an instant save for a preset.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Just run the line out direct into the effects return of one of your larger amps.

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Aesthetics though.....

 

[Demanic]

Aesthetics though.....

Because the way it looks is more important than the way it sounds?

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[Aceman]

Aesthetics though.....

SO - just put a Marshall head on the cab, put the cube behind it.

 

[Mincer]

My first amp, a Univox probably bought from Sears, had a wonderful low volume clean sound and an excellent spring reverb.

 

[justFred]

Have it happen occasionally…usually turns out to be just the moment rather than the equipment…

 

[Demanic]

I'm still surprised at how this orange box interacts well with every amp that I put it in front of.

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[Rex_Rocker]

Honestly, plugging straight into a 5150III.

I mean, I knew it was going to be good, but it's the first amp I've ever felt didn't need a boost for my taste.

Also, Greenback and their variants. EVH's, Creambacks, Chinese, UK, Heritage. All different flavors. But they're surprisingly chunky and awesome for high-gain.

 

[Demanic]

I've been pretty surprised by the tone of that 59/Jazz hybrid neck pickup that I recently put in my Jackson. After fixing the phase issue, clean I can get the guitar to sound like a dreadnought acoustic.

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[beaubrummels]

SO - just put a Marshall head on the cab, put the cube behind it.

Then get the cab that is really a refrigerator and shock the audience with your crushing tonez while you take a beer out of your cab mid-set.