Bought an old Randall RG100 head... review within

[442w30]

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Now that I think about it, I didn't need to bring this up. I will leave my post, but I really didn't need to derail your post with my comments.

[jgcable]

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I am not going to crap on you guys (god knows you all know more about tone and technique than me) but there was a guy with a new Randall SS review that just got crapped on in another thread. Here we are talking about how great the RG100 is. Seems like n00b bashing on the other thread, though I agree that the RG80 and RG100 are awesome amps.

I read that RHXXX review thinking maybe the guy had uncovered the 21st century equivilent of the RG100.

I totally agree with the review here on the RG100 though, the RG80 I had was great at low to med volume - dindn't completely dime it enough to judge that. maybe the 100 would give a little more headroom for gigging, but the 80 would pass for the weak garage jams I've done.

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I am one of the crappers! I didn't crap on his post because of the amp. I crapped on his post because he said it made Marshall and Mesa Boogies sound like garbage.

[jacksonabuser1]

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i just left a post "randalls done it again" about my rh200sc and bashed most marshalls and it started a bunch of static....oh well. but ill agree with you even the g2s sound killer. and mine will keep up with my band. we regularly have the cops called from the next town over. man randall rocks, and i think they rock the hardest...thats what they were built for. i also had the rh100 and liked it a great deal. so if you like it then i think you should try the rh200sc. i found it to be superior to the 1st gen rh series, but again thats just me.

[jgcable]

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i just left a post "randalls done it again" about my rh200sc and bashed most marshalls and it started a bunch of static....oh well. but ill agree with you even the g2s sound killer. and mine will keep up with my band. we regularly have the cops called from the next town over. man randall rocks, and i think they rock the hardest...thats what they were built for. i also had the rh100 and liked it a great deal. so if you like it then i think you should try the rh200sc. i found it to be superior to the 1st gen rh series, but again thats just me.

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I agree with you regarding how Randall amps sound. I have been a fan of Randall for years. They get great reviews and at least normal people can afford them. They also make some really nice high end stuff. I demo'd a Randall Titan that was a monster of an amp. I just responded to the bashing of Marshall and Boogie. Randall rocks.

[jacksonabuser1]

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sorry just my oppinion and tastes. just posted for the others that may share in the same taste. in no way was i trying to change the mind of a mesa/marshall user. me myself, i am an avid mesa fan. tripple recs all the way but it will be cold day when i can afford 1100-1700 usd. so there was left a void and to this day this ss amp is the only that comes close and to me it comes veeery close. so there fore to others who share the same veiw and in the same financial boat(an f'n shi!!y one)i thought this just might shed some light on the prob.. and no worrys i took no offense to the threads, i knew what i was gettin into when i said what i said bout marshall, and thats solely because ive had them ive played them and my fellow guitarist have had them and to me they sound inferior but thats just me and in know way was i saying "hey if you got a marshall you suck and youve been screwed" but apparently thats how some of us took it. but once again just one persons tastes and oppinion [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[jgcable]

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Did you ever try the Randall V-Max?

[jacksonabuser1]

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wanted to but can never find one, which by the way thats what max cavalera plays correct

[jgcable]

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wanted to but can never find one, which by the way thats what max cavalera plays correct

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The sound clips that Randall had of it on their website were pretty crushing. Especially for the newer metal sound.

[horns666]

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Wow Pete...I didn't read thru this whole thread just your intial post...

I bought and owned about five Randal RG 80 and one RG 120..

I was partial to the tone of the RG80's for some reason..so I kept buying everyone I came across never paid over $200 for a single one..I had black tolex , white , grey ozite , faux snakeskin..and etc..

I LOVED them in the bedroom and thought they were GREAT until a drummer friend came over and we attempted to "jam"..well I couldn't get the Randall at a high enough Voplume level to sound "cool:...it turned very obnoxious sounding...I never liked the Randall jagaur speakers that came with those heads, for they sound like ass...so I always ran them right into a 4-12 Marshal cab..they sound better with celestions of course..

So my experience was..Randall's are awesome practice / recording , and giging amps for smallers venues I suppose ..if you don't have to push them that hard...there is a threshold that the Randalls do not like to crosss and once they do ...it just get's "white noise" nasty and incohereant..

The volume "projection" just isn't there opposed to a 50 wt tube Marshall...I discovered this when these amps were new..back in the 80's ...a long , long time ago..when I had hair. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[jgcable]

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Wow Pete...I didn't read thru this whole thread just your intial post...

I bought and owned about five Randal RG 80 and one RG 120..

I was partial to the tone of the RG80's for some reason..so I kept buying everyone I came across never paid over $200 for a single one..I had black tolex , white , grey ozite , faux snakeskin..and etc..

I LOVED them in the bedroom and thought they were GREAT until a drummer friend came over and we attempted to "jam"..well I couldn't get the Randall at a high enough Voplume level to sound "cool:...it turned very obnoxious sounding...I never liked the Randall jagaur speakers that came with those heads, for they sound like ass...so I always ran them right into a 4-12 Marshal cab..they sound better with celestions of course..

So my experience was..Randall's are awesome practice / recording , and giging amps for smallers venues I suppose ..if you don't have to push them that hard...there is a threshold that the Randalls do not like to crosss and once they do ...it just get's "white noise" nasty and incohereant..

The volume "projection" just isn't there opposed to a 50 wt tube Marshall...I discovered this when these amps were new..back in the 80's ...a long , long time ago..when I had hair. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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I had the same experience live many times. At home and at band rehearsal, the Randall RG100ES I had sounded excellent. At the gig though, it would sound shrill and thin. It was crazy loud but you really couldn't hear it if there was a loud drummer and another guitar player playing a tube amp on the stage. For bedroom jammers, moderate practices and small gigs they are good metal amps. I ranked my RG100ES right up there with my Marshall 8100 which I had at the same time. The Randall might have had a little more bottom end. I also had a Laney PL100 Linebacker Pro that was also SS and it killed both the Marshall and the Randall but the ultimate sleeper SS amp that killed them all was the Galien Krueger ML250 plugged into a 4 x 12 Marshall cab. That amp was sick and sounded fantastic at any volume.

[jacksonabuser1]

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i run mine through a modified peavy 412 cab wired mono 4 ohm w/shefields. the new or atleast this modeell randall ss amp still sounds killer cranked. the sound specs on are highly efficient. with a signal to noise ratio of 1% at greater than 80db(thats f'n loud to those who dont know the db to volume ratio of an amp with a very good power efficiency level). and so at that level youll be hard pressed to notice that 1% at that high of a volume level. at any less than that there will be no signal to noise level at all. however, thats +80db and that is a hard volume level to attain on a consistant basis with just about any thing less than 300w and a high efficiency level. on an average day your typical 100-200w amps will only reach +80db on a peak basis like for instance you pick your a string really hard. it also depends on your speaker effeciency, transformer effeciency, component effeciency(ic's and what not)etc. and yet another reason why your typical amp wont reach that level on a consistant basis is that there is a time curve for db dropoff. and its something like -40db in the hour to hour and a half. and whether thats the actuall amp effeciency dropping off or just precieved by your ears +80db is +80db youll be hard pressed to noticed the difference regardless

[Outlander]

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I'm useing an 87 RG100ES 1/2 stack to power my XTL (through the effects loop) and it works great.When I run the RG with the other amp (ADA/G major/BBE/Mesa 20/20, 2x12 G-Flex) I get a terrific sound and tone.
Pete - the boost works great for recording or playing at home but you lose too much volume for live use unless your run through the board.