Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier - Can I Be Convinced
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- In today's video, Paul Drew and James Ivey check out James's new amp a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier.
Although a classic of an era we would all like to forget, this amp has appeared on 1000's of recordings and world tours. Can James convince Paul that this amp is a keeper?
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
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These 3 channel rectifiers are more versatile than most people think. You have to spend time with them, the eq controls are very different from other amps plus you have the choice of tube or diode rectification, bold or spongy power etc. They do sound better with a boost up front but the same can be said of many Marshalls. This was a pretty shit review of a great amp tbh
I love these amps
Best amp ever
The amp comes alive with a tubescreamer out front, especially in modern mode. This is common. Why wasn't that tried here?
Too many controls.
Never cared for them.
Marshall or Orange does great metal with very little tweaking at lower cost and better reliability.
i mean buckley practically had one of these. tremoverb is a great amp too...
You can literally make a proper dual rec sound like anything you want.. Fantastic amp! Basically a Soldano SLO with rectification. Wonderful thing.
I like metal, and i never understood why it's so popular in metal, for me it's a wall of fizzy high end and flubby bass.
Yup… but if you set the bass on 2 and run a tube screamer into the front end it’s a whole new animal. The thing with Boogie is the tone stack is before the preamp stage of the amp… I’m not a fan of that. Be well my friend.
I think that’s why people use them with tube screamers
They're actually very versatile amps which often work brilliantly in mixes. The vintage setting is great. The controls are idiosyncratic, highly interactive and often need a boost or pre-eq.
Because tradition and boosting...
@@cyanidejunkieAre you sure you’re not thinking of the Mark series? In those amps the tone controls are pre-gain, which is why you also have the graphic EQ. The rectifier, I’m pretty sure, has the EQ post-gain.
Mark IIc kicks its arse...
I hate to repeat the sentiment, but as the owner of said amp, that amp REQUIRES a TubeScreamer. I almost returned it after spending a good amount of time tweaking it because it was a wooly mess until I learned about using it in conjunction with the green pedal.
I sold mine before I figured this out unfortunately.
Hermansson Amplification do an amazing modded version of this amp.
I have one but I rarely play it. I mean, I barely play anymore as it is but when I do I like the 4100 more.
I can never get my Dual Rec to not sound fizzy.
Try it with single coils!
Otherwise with humbuckers and no TS/SD1 in-between, very easy to get those overly muddy tones.
Mark series or bust. Rectos always fell like playing a rubber band to me.
Treadplate on the Pod was my “go to” sound for years!
Wrongun!
Dreadful to my ears.
If you don't love a recto you don't know how to dial one.
You should learn how to tune this amplifier before doing a review like this :(
😂 Or just accept they’re a dog. 🐶
@@Adventuresingearland that’s why they’ve been used on countless records with great sound 👍
@@andreabadino4873 and plenty more which sound like utter tripe. 😁
Is it out of tune? What string? 🤣
Engl everytime 😎👍
Maybe "dated" however it's still the best.
I'm sorry to see that this is a terrible review. One of the most recorded amplifiers ever, mortified by those who don't know how to use it. There are other better reviews wasted time.
You should watch some more of our vids and waste some more time.
@@TheStudioRats Yes, I've seen others. You're nice, but in my opinion this one turned out really badly, unfortunately also the one with the Bogner Eclipse. Maybe the problem lies in the choice of speakers, you should have some 4x12s maybe an oversized mesa and mike them well.
No it’s still shit.
You always get keyboard warriors like this.
@@Sorbzski99 This is not about being a keyboard warrior, I have that head and in this video it sounds like crap. We are talking about one of the most used heads in records from 2000 onwards. This demo is merciless.
I said that after i knew what tone was, aka low gain more expression... andy timmons vs kirk hammett for example. I looked back and was glad i couldnt afford the rectifier at the time it was so popular. Now i look at it and a flaming dumpster fire. No idea why it became so popular but i guess it was due to the black Metallica sound. The one amp from mesa that i love and destroyed the rectifier is the subway rocket. Way smoother and deeper tone. Closer to a mark 2c but its own little world.
After such ill will, no wonder it sounded bad. LOL This amp requires a specific learning curve, very rewarding though.
Im not a fan of Dual Recs at all.
BUT I’m in the process of getting a Maverick just now
I like it on certain recordings, but I hate playing them. I dislike the paired v30 cabs and everything is tubby and fizzy with no mids on its own. I love hi gain that barks and is punchy and not 'buzzy'
i had one for a while because of the independent EQ. Once I got my Genz Benz El Diablo 100 I moved it on.
Nu metal was the big thing in my formative years- Korn released their debut when I was 12 - but I never understood the dual rec thing. Sounded ok and as good as you could make it but not for me. Your other packs are great though so I’ll just enjoy them instead 😊
I was forced to use one of these for a festival gig when my Peavey 50w Classic was nicked. I shoved a 7 band graphic EQ in the front and after messing about with that it was far better than I expected. Not perfect though...
Hey I would love to see the two of you enjoy the amplifier and I didn’t want to write this because I didn’t know how to word it. Match it with the matching cabinet. Also I’ve heard each model varies one from another pretty frequently. The best seen example I have is of the new prometheus head being demonstrated by Kyle bull. The moment he switched to the matching cabinet was like the moment light came from a light bulb. Also the carvin company greatly expressed how when they start with the design of their heads it always starts with the cab. I have an Engl head that just doesn’t not get its full justice through an orange v30 despite. You only hear its true sound on its matching v30. However I have an uberschall that sounds out of this world on that orange. I would keep it a little longer and give it a go even with some emg pairing. Cool video and hope you guys have a really good rest of the night 😊
It just needs a Hermansson Amplification mod. ☺️
My biscuit’s just gone limp. 😂
Not my thing but Paul made it sound quite fun with the noodling.
i used the "vintage" channel to get very passable marshall tones while still having my "recto" sound as needed.
Sounds wooly and flubby without a pedal, gents.
Turn the gain up to around 6 or 7 and put a Way Huge Green Rhino and a noise gate in front of it... There you go... Convinced.
i still run a single rec for alot of different styles in a cover band and even use it for church. still love it and have owned single recs for 16 years. before that, mark 4's.
I never head that head, but I did have the road king. Instead, I had the Rivera knucklehead K Tre. 😆
No, but nice playing.
Not into metal, but it sounds great.
I like the lady to the left, she has a lot of goods things to say
Rectumfire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I still go back to the Tone Talk live with Dave Friedman and Mike Soldano, where Dave says that the Mesa Rectifier is an a exact clone of the SLO.
Yeah, also think about that sometimes. It really hurt Mike
And the SLO was based on a Mesa Mark series, which itself was derived from a Fender Princeton. Also, the rectifier has a wildly different power amp, so it’s not like a rectifier or SLO sound anything like each other.
Bring that mesa to any amp tech for a repair and prepare to be told to clear off, talk about a mess under the lid
Try the new Synergy version. It’s epic.
I bet! Probably made by Dave Friedman and / or Steve Fryette 😋
Keep your fire extinguisher handy. 🔥🚒.
For dual recs ...Mesa rev F or G or nothing , modern post 2000 duals modes should be called
Flubby
Fuzzy
Fizzy
Gotta use a boost for this amp tbh , that does change things more than it does on most amps , makes it a snarling monster, still not tight , but not as wooly
I personally don't like dual rectos either. However, they work well if you put a green pedal in front of them with the level high and the gain on zero.
Ah, the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectum Frier - loud as fuck and pretty useless for most applications
Way too much skill for this amp. It’s only built for massive drop d power chords.