6505 Revalver III tone test

[Splat88]

I download the Revalver III demo and I can tell its going to change my life! I instantly fell in love with the JSX, but after tweaking for a while, I think the 6505 is my favorite. Here's a little quad tracked sample. Two guitars are on the red channel, two on the green channel. How does it sound?

Guitar chain:
Ibanez S with Seymour Duncan JB > Modded TS9 > DOD direct box > ART MPA Pro tube preamp > Delta 1010 > Revalver III. I used an impulse called "Behindert NewIR_1."

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=404561&songID=6476066

 

[Ermz]

Nice work there. I think you managed to get some cool tones out of the software. I'm still not 100% sold on it though. The mids there are a bit plastic and flat sounding, and there's no real 'oomph' or body as you would find in the real counterparts. I believe I'll be playing through, and mic'ing a real amp for some time yet.

Whilst you can probably hide the intricacies of the tone in a large and well-balanced mix, I just don't think it would really cut it for an album release.

 

[jhrv]

Great tone man!

I'm still not 100% sold on it though. The mids there are a bit plastic and flat sounding, and there's no real 'oomph' or body as you would find in the real counterparts.

+1

 

[Splat88]

The plasticy mids are my fault, not Revalver's. The palm mutes were huge on the original tone, but then I broke out the standard Sneap C4 settings to clamp down severely on the low mids and then I used a mutiband compressor to lock it into place even more. I probably went a little overboard on that! The dynamic swings on the palm mutes were huge though and I wanted to tame them.

To me though, this first Revalver III tone seems so much better than my standard Gearbox setup and I firmly believe it will sound convincing in the context of a full mix and after I get some time do really get into tweaking.

 

[Fifth_Horseman]

Nice tone!
So you use a Duncan JB... how did you set the input voltage?

 

[Ermz]

By all means, I look forward to what you can tweak out of it in the future. I think I'm still set on buying a cheap Bugera head, a dummy load and just using impulses on top.

 

[Splat88]

Nice tone!
So you use a Duncan JB... how did you set the input voltage?

Its at 1.0

Gain on the Red channel is 3.5

Gain on Green channel is 6.5

 

[Behindert]

Sounds really nice man.. I just downloaded the demo and wil be trying it out later. But hey, you gotta rename that impulse file, I didn't make it! I just don'nt want to have cred for something someone else has done.. It's all GuitarHacks work

 

[Splat88]

By all means, I look forward to what you can tweak out of it in the future. I think I'm still set on buying a cheap Bugera head, a dummy load and just using impulses on top.

A real head with impulses is probably superior to all software. Unfortunately, I Ebayed most of my real amps gear long ago so its all software for me now!

I miss my 5150 and Laney the most. I also had a 1993 Dual Rectifier, a Lee Jackson modded JCM800, a DSL, a Line 6 Flextone HD, and a JMP1. Now all I've got is my Rockmaster, modded ADA, Peavey poweramp and my Marshall cabs. I am not impressed with the Rockmaster and ADA with impulses so no dice there. I'm determined to get Revalver III as good as possible, dammit!!!!

 

[Splat88]

Sounds really nice man.. I just downloaded the demo and wil be trying it out later. But hey, you gotta rename that impulse file, I didn't make it! I just don'nt want to have cred for something someone else has done.. It's all GuitarHacks work

Really? I was ABing that one with GuitarHacks collection to make this sample. I didn't hear one that sounded like the one you renamed!

 

[Frankzappa]

Nice sound dude, so you didn't use tone matching this time?

 

[Fifth_Horseman]

Ok thanks!
Since yesterday I'm doing lots of sound testing with the Mk III demo as well, and settled for around 1 Volt myself (with a Jackson Archtop Soloist Pro w/ Duncan Distortion).

 

[Machinated]

Really cool tone man. I'm certainly not looking at this as a replacement for micing a real amp, but can definitely see the uses. Did some tracking yesterday and had to use the built in Logic amp sim (thanks to line 6 for having it so the Podxt acts as a dongle for Gearbox). I have downloaded the demo, but haven't installed it to the studio machine yet. Will definitely be buying this.

 

[16S]

awesome tone! i can't dial in a good tone for shit - i was blown away by your posting. Are you running the impluse in RIR or another plug in? Did you adjust the low,high, dist & crunch settings?

thanks!

 

[Behindert]

Splat88: That one is not really in his collection.. He posted it here a while ago without telling anyone what it was.. just posted it as a .wav-file haha. I think the headline was something like "I made a new wav" or something like that.. can't remember. I figured out it had to be an impulse, so I tried it out as one