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I had an old '68 Twin Reverb which I used as a pedal platform and regret letting it go. The sound was perfect even at 3 on the dial.
The Revival Drive looks to be a much more solid unit and I need to read up more and try one as I've only just realised what it actually does. The regular Compact looks good but the Hot Rod might be more me. However, for today, the MT-15 has stolen the show. I just wish that someone would do a 'non-metal' demo of it as whilst it might excel at that, the signature association could mean that people don't look beyond that and what else it can do and the other genres it can be used in. I must say, it's a fantastic pedal platform if you use the clean channel
The RevivalDRIVE oozes build quality. I've got the standard "2 sides" version, not a compact.
I'm thinking, stay with the DRRI and clip the Bright Cap as my OD pedals already sound good but there's the odd clip or metaliic clang.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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Thanks
The two channels on BF/SF reverb amps are out out phase, so you want to avoid setting the volume controls too close to the same or it can thin the sound out, but that won't be what you need to do for this anyway.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Gain one at 11 o'clock, gain two at 8 o'clock.
Based on specs, demos and budget, I've shortlisted a couple but I really need to try them to be 100% sure.
Cheers
Each to their own, but I found those type of sounds very poor relative to just putting an overdrive pedal into the clean channel.
It's so close to being a perfect amp in form factor and features, but has a number of annoying flaws (I owned and gigged one for a couple of years).
The reverb is noisy
The foot pedal is massive and 4 buttons only one of which (channel switch) you probably want to use
The foot pedal uses a DIN cable which is hard to replace and means you can't just use a 1 button switch for channels, or control it from an MFX / switcher.
The supplied footswitch cable is weak and prone to breaking and if it breaks it often cases a short which blows a component and breaks the channel switching (luckily a cheap fix)
The footswitchable fat boost on the clean channel makes it work much better with pedals but has a massive volume jump which makes it unusable
It has a design fault which means it either has an intermittent loud "pop" on channel change, or a momentary drop out.
All of the above meant I ended up using it on the clean channel without the footswitch so I would have been better off with a DRRI.
That said it does look and sound good for the price and it served me very well.