One pissed off rebuilt Dual Recto!
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Badonkey Kong
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Lol! It makes the camera shake... Sounds killer though...
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As terrible as this sounds, one would be stuck with this and not able to go back.
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I am of the opinion of no, everyone would boost a recto but recently I did some reamps and indeed some 90s seems to not need boosts.
Rock Chalk
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All of that dude's mods sound frickn' great and this one doesn't disappoint.
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Rev G like the one i used to have has kinda entered my radar as of late 
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I'm ok with one Recto sounding like my ideal version of a Recto out of allllllllllll Recto's out there.
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norminal
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And don’t forget that many mods can also be wired to a switch.
MirrorProfiles
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Agree.
I use them without boosts loads, definitely less common for me to use a boost than go straight in. Boosts are needed to achieve a particular sound with them but it overlooks so much of what you can get from those amps. Plenty of solid high gain tones in there without a boost.
If this is your “ideal” recto sound then it means you don’t really like the rectifier sound.
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I do every now and then. Also it really depends on which boost. I can't quite jive 100% with the classic tubescreamer into recto combo. Not enough low-end. I think an EQ pedal would be a better fit for me.
GreatGreen
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If Mesa was smart, they'd buy a few of these modded Rectos, take the best elements of each, and make their own hyper modern ultra tight monster high gain amp. They could even just call it the Rectifier Modded Edition or something. Knowing Gibson though, they'd demand the amp be named something cringy like the Recto MOLTEN SEARING edition or something ridiculous and awful like that lol.
The Recto's diamond plate front has always painted that amp into a corner. It can do so much more than that one specific boosted tone. The Multi-Watt in particular is absurdly versatile. There are like 8 modes in that amp and they all do something cool, yes even the Raw modes. They just all don't do the sound you associate with kick ass hell yeah manly man diamond plate metal so you never hear about them, because most people who buy Rectos are the people looking for that specific tone, because the amp has been marketed to specifically only that kind of player. Rectos are surprisingly dynamic high gain amps, too. Without a boost you actually have to play it pretty hard to get a decent amount of gain out of it.
It would be cool to mess around with a Recto modded like the one in the OP, but I don't think I'd mod one if I only had one Recto. Maybe if I had a 2nd Recto though.
The Recto's diamond plate front has always painted that amp into a corner. It can do so much more than that one specific boosted tone. The Multi-Watt in particular is absurdly versatile. There are like 8 modes in that amp and they all do something cool, yes even the Raw modes. They just all don't do the sound you associate with kick ass hell yeah manly man diamond plate metal so you never hear about them, because most people who buy Rectos are the people looking for that specific tone, because the amp has been marketed to specifically only that kind of player. Rectos are surprisingly dynamic high gain amps, too. Without a boost you actually have to play it pretty hard to get a decent amount of gain out of it.
It would be cool to mess around with a Recto modded like the one in the OP, but I don't think I'd mod one if I only had one Recto. Maybe if I had a 2nd Recto though.
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spawnofthesith
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In real world situations I don’t boost my roadster, unless my compressor that’s always on counts
A boost can take things further of course, but I find it plenty brutal and tight on its own
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