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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:31 pm
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That's a nice looking piggyback rig!

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Thanks (I'm back as 51 preissue!). When I ordered the Weber, I specified the blackface cosmetics since I knew it would be attached to a Fender. :D I wrote a review in the amps section, with a typo which erroneously indicated I was still in the market for a guitar amp. It should have said that I am not in the market!

I play a lot of bass these days (Fender '51 P reissue, as you might guess) and I get to listen to my guitarist playing his 335 through this amp! I don't know why my gear always sounds so good when someone else plays through it (no, it can't be what you are thinking) but it sounds great. Love it.


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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:50 pm
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those reverb springs pop out during shipping mind did but got a new one from the dealer


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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:52 pm
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I wouldn't bother with a HRDx. I would sooner have a Supersonic and try it before you buy it or DRR! and same thing , try it! Tubes and circuit boards get vibrated and damaged in transit sometimes.

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 5:36 am
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I wouldn't bother with the Supersonic either. They seem to have their share of problems too. The quest for a reliable, great sounding quality amp could possibly be in our own soldering irons. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:25 pm
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Certain posters prolific negative postings notwithstanding, I recently purchased a
Hot Rod DLX3. :D

It's black and red with "the wizard" speaker.
Great clean tones, and super reverb, even the HR3 with the standard Celestion speaker is very nice.

I bought it as a platform for pedals as I already have a great all tube high gain monster, an Egnater Vengeance.
Good thing cause the HR's distortion channel tone is nasally and not that great.
I think I'll try some new pre's, and fiddle with the bias to see if I can address some of that. Then perhaps a different set of power tubes.

But I'm here because I'm thinking of moving to a DLX Rev/DRRI.
I'm looking for a lower/low power combo for home use and recording.
I really like the sounds from the SS22. It's voiced a bit more on the mid tones compared to the HR3. I'd say a bit more blues voicing, but still great.
I don't need the high gain though, so I'm back to a DRRI, or maybe a Princeton?

I think the DRRI has a tube rectifier, and a tube driven reverb, yes?
The SS22 is a solid state rectifier, but a tube driven reverb?


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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:55 am
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Either a DRRI or Princeton will work great for recording. The DRRI has a tube rectifier and the reverb is tube driven. The difference in wattage isn't that much. Between those two I'd go with the DRRI just for it versatility, two channels with separate EQ is handy. You can have two totally different tone settings and switch channels with a A/B/Y box.
I also have an Egnater. I have the Rebel 20 and two 1x12 cabs. Lots of versatility there, had it over three years with no issues.

Another great option for recording is a 5e3 Tweed Deluxe clone. Plenty of great tones, no pedals required. I built one for about $700 and put a Weber 12A125A speaker in it. It's pretty much my main amp now.

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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:56 pm
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I finally found the sound I've been looking for.
I play in a surf band -- so naturally the 65 DRRI seemed like an obvious choice. But I've never really been able to make it sound quite right. I've tried all kinds of stand alone pedals, Line 6 pedal boards, delays... external reverbs... overdrives... etc. Finally one day it sounded perfect! I looked down and I had accidentally moved the setting. The treble was at 7... and the bass was at 3. (I had always set the controls both at 5) Near perfection! Finally I set the reverb to 4... vibrato to 5... and added a just a touch of overdrive with a Wampler Black '65 pedal. Finally.. the sound I've heard in my head is now in my ears!


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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:27 pm
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I see a lot of player set the tone controls the same thinking it's a flat setting or maybe they think it makes everything "equal". The fun starts where you try all kinds of different settings.

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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:46 pm
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63supro wrote:
I see a lot of player set the tone controls the same thinking it's a flat setting or maybe they think it makes everything "equal". The fun starts where you try all kinds of different settings.


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Absolutely. There are plenty of tasty tones to be found when "diddling" a guitar's tone knobs as well. Experimentation will provide many satisfying combinations.

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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:45 pm
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Arjay, that simple logic is a real Gold nugget, I am ashamed to admit it evaded me for many, many years and as a result in hindsight cost me heaps of money over that time. For years and years I had issues with icepick and volume issues, changing pickups out, selling great amps that I should have kept, you name it, too dumb to figure out a lot of my trouble was caused by my own determination to run the guitar Volume and Tone controls on 10 ALL the time. Finally I worked out the controls on the guitar actually were there for a reason. :idea:

Once I finally figured out that if I turned the Volume down on my Strats they actually started to sound nicer because it got rid of the brittle ice pick, and then "hey if I go even lower on the Strat I can turn the amp UP a fair bit higher to compensate and hey now my amp sounds better too and the ice pick from the Strat is gone to the point where I could turn the Treble knob up higher on the amp to compensate, hey that sounds even better now" :oops:

Took years of gigging and gear searching to discover that simple Gold nugget!


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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:46 pm
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I had the same issues with a Strat, Snowy. I'd dime everything (guitar and amp) then wonder WTF was wrong and why was it so gawd-awful trebly. You can get away with that when playing a Les Paul but the Fender is an altogether different animal.

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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:02 pm
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Oh, my... it never occurred to me to turn the guitar volume way down and turn the amp way up! (somewhere along the way I had read you should always turn the guitar up to 10 to get its true tone.)
Now that I've dialed back the guitar volume -- I get rid of the harshness of the single coil pickups.. and with the amp volume up to compensate, I hear the warmth of the tubes. I can't believe these simple things have eluded me all these years...lol


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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:05 pm
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Glad it worked out for you, Doc.

Rawk on!

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Post subject: Re: DRRI Opinions
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:34 pm
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surgeon00 wrote:
Oh, my... it never occurred to me to turn the guitar volume way down and turn the amp way up! (somewhere along the way I had read you should always turn the guitar up to 10 to get its true tone.)
Now that I've dialed back the guitar volume -- I get rid of the harshness of the single coil pickups.. and with the amp volume up to compensate, I hear the warmth of the tubes. I can't believe these simple things have eluded me all these years...lol


Haha, yep join the club mate, :lol: who knows how much money people have spent on gear that could have been solved with a downward twist of the guitar's volume knob and then turning up the amp and building their tone from there. With the DRRI there may be another benefit to running like that, now that you have the amp turned up to compensate it may be you are also bypassing the pesky treble cap that plagues DRRI users at low volume settings and makes the amp overly brittle and spikey at lower volumes. Win Win. 8)


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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 11:44 pm
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Will this work?

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