I own these and can confirm they are awesome.

Is it loud enough to play with a drummer but also good for low volume in the bedroom?

Much easier/safer to take the springs out of the back, pull the whole bridge out, adjust the action, then put the bridge and springs back in. You can even keep your nut locked and the guitar will stay in tune too.

That Ravelle though!!!

pretty dang close, the difference to my ears is that mesa head had a bit more of a 'sparkly' high end or slightly brighter but not harsh, but overall tone was really good on the TC pedal.

Owned mine for 11 years, best amp I’ve ever owned. Gotta crank that gain down a little bit

Beyerdynamic! Still have mine from 1988!😃🥰😃

The resonance knob on the 5150's/ 6505's is brilliant...and hard to beat...It gives u a clean bottom end boost that is indescribable...

These two amps are exactly what I’m trying to choose between right now!

The goat of gear videos.

Sweet Dude!

I love engl cabs but have almost no experience with their amps.

Gotta use the res and presence for the rhythm section on 6505+ for clean and crunch. Good stuff as usual.

Excellent review

Silas Fernandes?

A Dimmu Borgir quote from their best riff!! :)

Man, Great video for us the poor metal heads. Is this Bandit sounding any close to Supreme/XL/XXL series?

I run my SD PS200 into a 4ohm cab and it's way louder than 16 or 8 ohm.

What's the riff where you say "sick"?

Great trade, this is what MgR exists for; they charge a fair price on used gear and make money on the intake-side, and take a super wide array of stuff. They gotta get paid somehow, and honestly most of us have more gear than we can even play anyway

This amp has unpleasant mid range frequencies response. No bass at all. Randall 1503, Marshall MF has balls (to my ears)

Awesome! Thank you for what you do.

That lick at around 25:00 is insane

got them plugged into my PC right now, sounds good, just got to wait till my AMP comes in

We will rise

Try driving it with a treble booster

That actually causes more tension

Good comparison. What I hear is the difference in the power section. Fryette has flat sound (on purpose) while Recto has very distinctive sound at power section. You should run the pedal to Mesa’s fx return to get it accurate.

Sounds so amazing! What are the setting on the pedal and amp?

The reason your trem gets stuck is not the grooves man, it's the springs that retain a memory. This is even more obvious in FR special bridges because they are build out of cheaper materials. In stead you could install a stabilizer like these: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsx2iJx-lc7TgY0.htmlsi=RChiDoeUYogZCCpY. Good luck.

Sounds a lot cooler than how the people that hate on them make them sound lol

Just curious, did it come with those 3 normal looking Marshall knobs and the rest Mesa style knobs, or did someone do that after market? It makes sense channel 4 sounds like a Mesa with those knobs.

Cool vid man, Got here to find out what people in 2024 think of this gem. Bought mine 20 years ago with the matching mf400 cab. Just this week picked up a second set because these cabs are also very underrated. The K100's have a very aggressive low end which also works very well for a Dual Rectifier. Now have a spare mode four head as parts will be more and more hard to get. These arent the most reliable heads, and they tend to blow up the poweramps. Had my original one in for service twice for this. Nevertheless, Having played lots of amps, this has a special place for me. Keep up the good work!

What pickups are in the explorer?

Sounds great! What speaker(s) / cab are you using?

Need to have a 6505 plus with them

They both sound great. Wish you could hear the 5150 right next to them

Nice!! When you compare it to your other amps like the EVH and stuff, do you think it’s worth it(I mean the RM100 itself)? I’m asking because there’s one in my area right now for a pretty good price (700$ CAD so like 500 USD) that includes 3 modules (they are the old Randall clean, modern and recto but still) and I’m really tempted by it since I change amps all the time haha I would love to have like one clean, one Salvation Audio Spawn(which their version of the Splawn Quick Rod) and other modules.

Dude you need a few wraps of string still. At least 1 full wrap would be good. Nice guitar though. Most guys pull the string through all the was then grap the string at the nut and pull it back to the first fret. That gives you enough string for wraps around the tuning machine

Having had the mode four 350w head, 400w cab, for 20yrs+, i can say reliability, only thing ive had to touch is the fans. Chuck a boost, EQ pedal, and a noisegate in front of this beast and you have a unique bad ass sound

Pretty much sound the same to me

Oh and the noise gate cuts the sizzly highs and some of the lows also slightly

Not sure if you checked the levels on send and return but the footswitch controls if its on or off (can be on even if the footswitch is unplugged because it remembers). If it is on, then even when nothing is plugged in then the send and return are affecting tone and having the return low especially then it sounds anemic. Having the send low also definitely also does the same

Sounds tight af

Worth it. My SLO 30 is the best amp I’ve ever played.