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Re: M/B Dual Rectifier- Red Channel or Orange?

6/14/2000 4:18 PM
Ryan	Re: M/B Dual Rectifier- Red Channel or Orange? Steve, despite having cloned numerous high gain amps and owned even more, I always fall back to my Dual Rec's Orange channel. IMHO it's sweet & smooth but has just enough grind to avoid any loss of definition when cranking it (chording that is). It's very "touch sensative" (I think that's the phrase I want), where I can set the gain high enough for some good sustaining solos, but back of my guitar's volume to get my crunch sound, backing of further to get my clean sound. I have trouble doing this with my MK III and IV (I should say trouble getting the sound I want). The Prescence control on the orange channel is a "real" (negative feedback) prescence control but isn't too effective until around 3:00. The red channel's presence control is horrible (well so is the red channel in general, but I attribute alot of to the "prescence" control). Channel Red is basically a swarm of bees comming at you, the "prescence" control just determins if the bees are wasps / hornets / etc. I should mention that I run my Dual with (2) of the tubes pulled (50 watts), (1) of the 5U4's, I use the "bold" (non variac) setting, I installed a bias pot, and put 6550's into it (this preamp and EL-34s just make too much "mush" and clutter-up the sound.) Hope it helps, -Ryan

6/14/2000 4:18 PM

Ryan

Re: M/B Dual Rectifier- Red Channel or Orange?

Steve, despite having cloned numerous high gain amps and owned even more, I always fall back to my Dual Rec's Orange channel. IMHO it's sweet & smooth but has just enough grind to avoid any loss of definition when cranking it (chording that is). It's very "touch sensative" (I think that's the phrase I want), where I can set the gain high enough for some good sustaining solos, but back of my guitar's volume to get my crunch sound, backing of further to get my clean sound. I have trouble doing this with my MK III and IV (I should say trouble getting the sound I want). The Prescence control on the orange channel is a "real" (negative feedback) prescence control but isn't too effective until around 3:00. The red channel's presence control is horrible (well so is the red channel in general, but I attribute alot of to the "prescence" control). Channel Red is basically a swarm of bees comming at you, the "prescence" control just determins if the bees are wasps / hornets / etc. I should mention that I run my Dual with (2) of the tubes pulled (50 watts), (1) of the 5U4's, I use the "bold" (non variac) setting, I installed a bias pot, and put 6550's into it (this preamp and EL-34s just make too much "mush" and clutter-up the sound.)

Hope it helps,
-Ryan