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Well after sitting on the phone with Chuck last night and talking his ear off for 2 hours I got up this morning to go put the Rivera through its paces once more.
I learned a couple of tricks from the local Rivera guru here and backed off the gain a little on channels 2 and 3 and finally started getting somewhere.
Channel 1-Beautiful lush Fendery clean with the addition of a tube buffered Hammond long spring reverb this channel is the answer to my clean needs.
Channel 2-This is their "Marshall channel" and after I set the switch on the back of the amp to Vintage vs. Modern I got a bad a@@ hot rodded JCM800 tone rather easily.
Channel 3-Again with the channel switch set to vintage I got gain and sustain for days with a hint of Marshall goodness to boot! Sweet!
With the amp set to maodern I finally got good tone but they dont sound like Marshall or Mesa. It was a good tone, a little less butter and a little more rasp but sounded good as well.
As a side note I discovered that on channel one if you dime the gain and play with the eq a little you can pretty much dial in a dead on Plexi tone, yum!
All the channels have seperate eq's which I also liked.
Now I may have to make an emergency flight to AZ so I can play Chuck's SLO and decide. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I learned a couple of tricks from the local Rivera guru here and backed off the gain a little on channels 2 and 3 and finally started getting somewhere.
Channel 1-Beautiful lush Fendery clean with the addition of a tube buffered Hammond long spring reverb this channel is the answer to my clean needs.
Channel 2-This is their "Marshall channel" and after I set the switch on the back of the amp to Vintage vs. Modern I got a bad a@@ hot rodded JCM800 tone rather easily.
Channel 3-Again with the channel switch set to vintage I got gain and sustain for days with a hint of Marshall goodness to boot! Sweet!
With the amp set to maodern I finally got good tone but they dont sound like Marshall or Mesa. It was a good tone, a little less butter and a little more rasp but sounded good as well.
As a side note I discovered that on channel one if you dime the gain and play with the eq a little you can pretty much dial in a dead on Plexi tone, yum!
All the channels have seperate eq's which I also liked.
Now I may have to make an emergency flight to AZ so I can play Chuck's SLO and decide. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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