sorry I disagree with the clean of the recto , I ve played years and years with distortion units in recto's clean and it was great sounding . It was a way to not have this huge volume gap between the dist and clean channel in those amp, and do not use a boost to have a pure clean /heavy dist in a switch , the 5150 overdrive was very nice sounding on it . the clean is weak in volume compared to the dist channel , but the sound itself is warm and very pedal friendly . I always loved the cleans in my road and whatever mesas . Yes, warm .
Now that we have the JMP in the beta , cant wait to have all the others clean sounds one by one !
because we all know that Cliff is the cutest man on earth
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I'm enjoying the JMP cleans, they're fine. Butttt... I would love an explanation as to why on earth anyone would need these cleans over ANY of the other models. Like honestly asking for more amp models at this point, I genuinely feel insane. All that has really happened if is I now have an emotional reaction going on where my brain is like, oh wow all the JMP1 channels are in here now.
If you look at the last year or so, amp model requests seem to me to be getting less and less frequent.
I used to actually switch through and "try out" amp models wayyyyy more often. I find myself 90% of the time I plug in just hearing an amazing tone and playing my guitar and not touching anything.
On the mesa dual rectifier clean. I can remember vividly, everyone would tell you simple as they can. The mesa mark series cleans are 10x better than the recitifer. People used to have triaxis rack rigs with rectifier racks as well in their racks. Which clean channel do you think you would be choosing in that scenario? If the rectifier clean channel was added, people would use it for one or a few days. Then likely practically never touch the thing again. Why? Because it's not the best option or even close to it. Same with the JMP1 clean. Is anyone really going to put this in a patch that isn't just a JMP1 "full rig" preset? Not often.
It's been said a million times but almost every clean channel amp is a blackface fender copy, if I was cliff I wouldn't bother modeling every single one of those either. It's a genuine waste of his valuable time. I want cliff using his giant brain and not slaving away modeling every clean channel that all sound 90% the same and accomplish the exact same tasks.
If you go into a real studio right now, you are recording your new album. You walk in there and lets say you are making a record like the band Opeth. Okay so you need what, a good high gain amp to lay down the heavy tracks, the engineer has a dual rectifier, okay great. Now you need a clean amp for all the melodic soft parts that are going to be on the album. Okay, the engineer has a mint condition brownface vibrolux he bought for 6 grand. Oh but sir engineer, I would rather the dual rectifiers clean channel because that matches the recto.... Do you guys see how insane this is????? The engineer is going to look at you like you just swallowed a tub of acid. And he would be completely justified...
And I use opeth as an example because... guess what. When they record their clean parts they use FENDERSSSSSSSS. They have access to the decent laney VH clean channel, literally a totally fine clean channel by any metric.. They STILL use the fenders in studio.