TexasDeathRide

Good to see this thread come back years later. I regret the way my post was first worded. All respect to Peter for his amps. I highly enjoy the flaming that went on though. Fighting about stupid {censored} is always fun. In retrospect, every amp talked about in this thread is top-notch and as Peter said its all in the ears of that player to which the sound makes him happy with an amp. I still love my recto, perhaps now more than ever. Four years of tweaking will do that to you.

Wow this thread blew up overnight. I think a few of my first comments were worded the wrong way. I like the herbert. I really do, it sounds better than my recto, i was just upset that it wasn't a whole new level above my recto and that's my fault because I hyped the thing up in my head. In response to some of your concerns, i did play the thing pretty damn loud at GC in one of their "loud rooms" and that is definitley where the amps shines and I spent a good 20-30 minutes with it tweaking with the mid-cut and eq. On a side note, I got really pissed when I first looked at the EQ, the gain was cranked on channel three and mids were at 9 o'clock with the mid cut on.

It's funny that overseas mesa rectifiers are just as or more expensive then diezel and they give the same "it's better because it's more expensive" response I see abut diezel

I think if the herbert lived up to a lot of its hype (which is impossible considering the talk it gets around here) I would sell my entire rig to get one.

yeah the einstein is badass. It wasn't my style but I really liked it for what it does.

I went to the North Dallas guitar center on 75 and was able to plug in and jam on a herbert through a diezel speaker loaded 4x12. I have to say i was impressed, but not $4100 impressed. Everyone who talks about them around here is basically right. The amp sounds like a very produced high gain mesa with rectifierish sag but it still plays tighter than my triple rec. The gain on channel 3 was over the top and the mid cut put chanel three into nu metal territory instantly. I still couldn't hear anything that said, this warrants twice the price of a recto. Maybe I didn't hear it in the right space or at the right distance from the cab but I went home, cranked the recto and my gas for the herbert died.