I got my Krank today. I friggin love it. I didn't post this in the rate my mix thread because I'm not really concerned with how the mix sounds (I know it's rough) but I just wanted to demonstrate how quickly I was able to get a usable tone with this little guy. Most of it had to do with sheer luck I'm sure, but I'm pretty stoked anyway. I know the amp is capable of much better tones if I spend some time with it, but I just want to share what I stumbled across within about 10 minutes of pulling the amp out of the box.
I'm posting two clips. One with impulses, one mic'd. For shits and giggle's, I won't say which is which just yet. It probably won't be hard to tell, but let's see what happens.
Signal chain: ESP LTD MH-250NT with EMG 85 > Tube Screamer > Boss NS-2 > Krank Rev Jr > Marshall 1960B (straight) cab with stock celestions, one sm57 on axis and one audix i5 off axis > Allen Heath mixwizard wz3 16:2 (no EQ) > firepod.
The line out out was recorded simultaneously with the mic'd tracks, so the performances are the same on both clips. The impulse tracks were left alone, on the mic'd tracks I used Andy's C4 preset I found here, and a touch of subtle EQ.
The interesting thing about the mic positions is that I set them up two nights ago, before I even had the amp. I guess I was just getting excited and wanted to get a headstart, so I put the mics up where they LOOKED like they'd work well so I could fine tune their placement later. When I got the amp today, I just plugged it in, tweaked the knob for a couple minutes, adjusted the gain on the mic channels and recorded this. I didn't touch the mics at all. No apparent phase issues. Granted it's not the greatest tone ever, but for my first time micing a cab in like 3 years, and placing them without having an amp present, I think I got pretty lucky. I can't wait to start diving in with this thing and getting serious.
I included the impulse version mainly to fulfill a request. Enough rambling, here's the clips:
krank test 1
krank test 2
I'm posting two clips. One with impulses, one mic'd. For shits and giggle's, I won't say which is which just yet. It probably won't be hard to tell, but let's see what happens.
Signal chain: ESP LTD MH-250NT with EMG 85 > Tube Screamer > Boss NS-2 > Krank Rev Jr > Marshall 1960B (straight) cab with stock celestions, one sm57 on axis and one audix i5 off axis > Allen Heath mixwizard wz3 16:2 (no EQ) > firepod.
The line out out was recorded simultaneously with the mic'd tracks, so the performances are the same on both clips. The impulse tracks were left alone, on the mic'd tracks I used Andy's C4 preset I found here, and a touch of subtle EQ.
The interesting thing about the mic positions is that I set them up two nights ago, before I even had the amp. I guess I was just getting excited and wanted to get a headstart, so I put the mics up where they LOOKED like they'd work well so I could fine tune their placement later. When I got the amp today, I just plugged it in, tweaked the knob for a couple minutes, adjusted the gain on the mic channels and recorded this. I didn't touch the mics at all. No apparent phase issues. Granted it's not the greatest tone ever, but for my first time micing a cab in like 3 years, and placing them without having an amp present, I think I got pretty lucky. I can't wait to start diving in with this thing and getting serious.
I included the impulse version mainly to fulfill a request. Enough rambling, here's the clips:
krank test 1
krank test 2
Sweet fucking riffing too man, really tight! I love that snare too; could it perhaps be the Devildriver snare? 
I'm extremely impressed with the huge range of sounds you can get out of the Krank with the sweep knob it's like adding another dimension to the tone options. I just need to settle for something...
