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Well I took a plunge toaday and laid out 1700 for a brand spanky new Rivera Tri-Channel Knucklehead amp, also came with Rivera's propreitary "Headmaster" midi foot switch.
Initial impressions are good so far but it will take awhile to get completely dialed in.
It has an amazingly lush clean channel but then again I'm sure everyone figured that would be the case with Paul Rivera's stuff.
Not too impressed with channel two yet it is definately going to take some dialing in if I use it at all. It is supposed to be a Marshally kinda of channel but I haven't heard it yet. It sounds like it wants to be Marshally but it really bassy sounding.
Channel three is the shining star here. Gain for days!!! Sounds much better on the Vintage switch. With the gain on 6 it roughly matches the gain on my Trace Allen head witch has the preamp maxed out!
Here are the specs:
FRONT
1. Three channels-clean(green), crunch(yellow), lead(red)
2. 2 separate eq's 1 for the green and a shared one for the yellow & red channels
3. Separate gain and master volume controls for each channel
4. Separate foot controlled boost for each channel
5. Hammond long pan spring reverb assignable to any channel
6. Focus knob (controls the tightness of the bass)
7. Presence knob
BACK
1. MIDI channel select(rotary knob)
2.MIDI thru, MIDI in & special MIDI for the footswitch that goes to the head(5 pin cable that also allows fs to use phantom power from the head!)
3.Series-Parallel effects loop w/send, return & blend knobs
4.Sub woofer out
5. Direct recording out(utilizes all of the amp except for power tubes and cabinet)
6.Vintage/Modern switch-Modern=cleaner,more headroom,brighter(pentode) & Vintage=sweeter,darker(triode)
7.Power output switch-High gain input=100/50 watts
Low gain input=25/12 watts
4 EL34 Svetlanas
5 12AX7 preamp tubes
I will keep you updated on what I can get out of this amp and hopefully get over my embarassment and get some samples of the sounds the head can make so you guys can hear it.
Initial impressions are good so far but it will take awhile to get completely dialed in.
It has an amazingly lush clean channel but then again I'm sure everyone figured that would be the case with Paul Rivera's stuff.
Not too impressed with channel two yet it is definately going to take some dialing in if I use it at all. It is supposed to be a Marshally kinda of channel but I haven't heard it yet. It sounds like it wants to be Marshally but it really bassy sounding.
Channel three is the shining star here. Gain for days!!! Sounds much better on the Vintage switch. With the gain on 6 it roughly matches the gain on my Trace Allen head witch has the preamp maxed out!
Here are the specs:
FRONT
1. Three channels-clean(green), crunch(yellow), lead(red)
2. 2 separate eq's 1 for the green and a shared one for the yellow & red channels
3. Separate gain and master volume controls for each channel
4. Separate foot controlled boost for each channel
5. Hammond long pan spring reverb assignable to any channel
6. Focus knob (controls the tightness of the bass)
7. Presence knob
BACK
1. MIDI channel select(rotary knob)
2.MIDI thru, MIDI in & special MIDI for the footswitch that goes to the head(5 pin cable that also allows fs to use phantom power from the head!)
3.Series-Parallel effects loop w/send, return & blend knobs
4.Sub woofer out
5. Direct recording out(utilizes all of the amp except for power tubes and cabinet)
6.Vintage/Modern switch-Modern=cleaner,more headroom,brighter(pentode) & Vintage=sweeter,darker(triode)
7.Power output switch-High gain input=100/50 watts
Low gain input=25/12 watts
4 EL34 Svetlanas
5 12AX7 preamp tubes
I will keep you updated on what I can get out of this amp and hopefully get over my embarassment and get some samples of the sounds the head can make so you guys can hear it.
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