Members blckbldng Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 I got the opporunity to buy those amps at a pretty good price. 1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members duncan Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Tough choice. I've owned a ToV and a HR50. I preferred the HR50. Do you need a clean channel? Do you use the loop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blckbldng Posted December 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by duncan Tough choice. I've owned a ToV and a HR50. I preferred the HR50.Do you need a clean channel? Do you use the loop? I dont need a clean channel, I just need a mid heavy rock/metal toneand in before "get both" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blckbldng Posted December 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by duncan Tough choice. I've owned a ToV and a HR50. I preferred the HR50.Do you need a clean channel? Do you use the loop? I dont need a clean channel, I just need a mid heavy rock/metal toneand in before "get both" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members duncan Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by blckbldng I dont need a clean channel, I just need a mid heavy rock/metal toneand in before "get both" Do you have the opportunity to try them each out?What cab will you be running with either one?The Soldano sort of sounds like a hot rodded marshall, but still has it's own thing going on. For what it's worth, I found the ToV lifeless compared to the HR. That's me though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blckbldng Posted December 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by duncan Do you have the opportunity to try them each out?What cab will you be running with either one?. Belgium is quite small but the sellers live on opposite sides of the country. About 2 hours drive from me.Maybe I can ask my brother for his company car (free gas)Anyway I watched almost all videos available on youtube and the only good sounding soldano vid I can find is the Ola one. Its good but it is true he makes all his amps sound a bit the same.I could find great clips of dual rectifiers but maybe I could get tired of that whoop whoop tone each time you strike a low chord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members duncan Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by blckbldng Belgium is quite small but the sellers live on opposite sides of the country. About 2 hours drive from me.Maybe I can ask my brother for his company car (free gas)Anyway I watched almost all videos available on youtube and the only good sounding soldano vid I can find is the Ola one. Its good but it is true he makes all his amps sound a bit the same.I could find great clips of dual rectifiers but maybe I could get tired of that whoop whoop tone each time you strike a low chord. The reason there's more good clips of DR's than HR's is because there's just more DR's out there.I'd go try out the Soldano at least. You know what Dual Rectifiers sound like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members magh8 Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 never got to play a HR but of it is anything like the SLO's i have played it wins in my book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jlb32 Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by blckbldng I know how dual rectifiers sound although I never played one. Sometimes I see people playing who get a great tone out of it and some other times it is just plain awefull.I havent heard a soldano in person. Is it too close to a JCM800 sound that I should rather look at the boogie ? The Trem-o-verbs are pretty awesome. They are my favorite of all the Rectifiers. They just need to be loud to sound great though IMO.The Soldano HR's are good amps also. They do have their own thing going on over a Marshall but with you already owning a JCM 800 that you boost I don't know if it would be a drastic tone change worth the buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blckbldng Posted December 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by jlb32 The Trem-o-verbs are pretty awesome. They are my favorite of all the Rectifiers. They just need to be loud to sound great though IMO.The Soldano HR's are good amps also. They do have their own thing going on over a Marshall but with you already owning a JCM 800 that you boost I don't know if it would be a drastic tone change worth the buy. good point, I am going to try that tremoverb. I know it is stupid but I have avoided mesa rectos all that time not only due to the inflated European price but also because of the cheesy metal plate. The tremoverb has cloth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cropduster Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Soldano all the way. Best crunch going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarbilly74 Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 I would go with the HR, but not by a lot... you can't go wrong either way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vangkm Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 I've had rectos and a HR50+, I'd say HR all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chrispsullivan Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 That would be a tough choice for me, but I would probably end up going with whatever is cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PlayboyChris Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by jlb32 The Trem-o-verbs are pretty awesome. They are my favorite of all the Rectifiers. They just need to be loud to sound great though IMO. As does the Soldano, more so than the T-Verb IMO (having owned an HR50 and currently own a T-Verb).I don't think the Soldano would be redundant with the Marshall, as the former has a low-mid grind thing going on whereas the Marshall has that signature upper-mid crunch.The T-verb will be more versatile, and the only channel that has that cliched DR tone to my ears is the Modern High Gain, and it can be dialed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marshallnoise Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 HR as well. The original HR50 was epic sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Soldano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rey Gato Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by blckbldng I got the opporunity to buy those amps at a pretty good price. 1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gary666 Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 HR 50+ was one of the best amps I've ever owned. Played it for years. Had a single Recto for about a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kardula Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 for me it would boil down to good tone with versatility vs {censored}ing awesome tone with limited versatility. The versatility is simply from the mesa being multi-channel. If you don't need the versatility of multi-channels, Soldano all the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rey Gato Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Originally Posted by Kardula for me it would boil down to good tone with versatility vs {censored}ing awesome tone with limited versatility. The versatility is simply from the mesa being multi-channel. If you don't need the versatility of multi-channels, Soldano all the way The Hot Rod 100+ is a two channel amp, just like the Tremoverb, so there's really no difference as far as versatility goes. The only real difference is the Hot Rod uses shared EQ, whereas the Tremo has dedicated EQ for each channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kardula Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 ah, I thought the hotrod 100 was just a single channel 2 mode amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shane159 Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 I miss my HR+ allot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~Abstract~ Posted December 24, 2012 Members Share Posted December 24, 2012 Depends on what you wanna do with it.Rock/Metal...SoldanoMetal/Rock...Mesa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vic Posted December 25, 2012 Members Share Posted December 25, 2012 easily soldano especially for that price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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