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I just tried a few amps on Monday, and I thought I'd pass along my thoughts.
First up was a single Recto 212 combo. It took awhile to warm up. I had this one in one of the quieter rooms, so I could let it loose a bit. After a few minutes of noodling and not really being impressed, it started to wake up nicely (I know tube amps like to warm up, but this one took longer than I'm used to). Nice clean tone on the first channel. The second channel was pretty darn grindy, but you could also back off it and get a more hard rock rather then metal tone out of it. Great on the pinchar harmomics, and it's nice and responsive for hammer-ons, pull-offs and the like. It made a good impression in about 20 minutes of playing time, and I'd really like to play one in a band situation. I also like the footswitchable "solo" feature, which is essentially a boost.
Next was a used Carvin V3. It had some dust on it, and the cool metal front panel was peeling off. This thing is also festooned in knobs, switches, toggles, sliders and probably a retinal scanner that I didn't notice. Still, it was a really good-sounding amp. I didn't get to wring it out quite as much, only about 10 minutes in the main showroom. The clean channel is labeled #3, oddly enough. #1 was pretty much appropriate for your NWOBHM and hard rock, while #2 was more the modern-metal side. Also speedy and responsive like the boogie. Very grinding and modern sounding.
Obviously, I didn't get to know either of them really well, but I could see the potential for really liking them. I probably favor the Boogie because it seems a lot more straightforward.
First up was a single Recto 212 combo. It took awhile to warm up. I had this one in one of the quieter rooms, so I could let it loose a bit. After a few minutes of noodling and not really being impressed, it started to wake up nicely (I know tube amps like to warm up, but this one took longer than I'm used to). Nice clean tone on the first channel. The second channel was pretty darn grindy, but you could also back off it and get a more hard rock rather then metal tone out of it. Great on the pinchar harmomics, and it's nice and responsive for hammer-ons, pull-offs and the like. It made a good impression in about 20 minutes of playing time, and I'd really like to play one in a band situation. I also like the footswitchable "solo" feature, which is essentially a boost.
Next was a used Carvin V3. It had some dust on it, and the cool metal front panel was peeling off. This thing is also festooned in knobs, switches, toggles, sliders and probably a retinal scanner that I didn't notice. Still, it was a really good-sounding amp. I didn't get to wring it out quite as much, only about 10 minutes in the main showroom. The clean channel is labeled #3, oddly enough. #1 was pretty much appropriate for your NWOBHM and hard rock, while #2 was more the modern-metal side. Also speedy and responsive like the boogie. Very grinding and modern sounding.
Obviously, I didn't get to know either of them really well, but I could see the potential for really liking them. I probably favor the Boogie because it seems a lot more straightforward.
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