Amp of the Day - Richter 5e3 test with clips and pics from me!

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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Clip: http://markweinguitarlessons.com/soundfiles/Richter.mp3

OK. Puckman sold his Richter 5e3 Tweed Deluxe clone to one of my students a few months ago and my student brought it in for his class tonight. We had a little time before we got started and the studio was empty so I figured I would make a quick demo of it.

The amp has a Jensen 12" speaker in it an NO frills or features.

There is a Shure Beta 57 on the speaker and a Sennheiser e609 several feet away at about head height to get some room sound. Both mics went into ProTools and are panned slight left and right. There is no other processing.

I played my Suhr classic straight into the first input, had the tone mostly on about 6 for most of this and just played with the volume for the channel and my pickup switch.

One thing that I love about this amp is how responsive it is to play through. Even at high volumes. If I back off my right hand attack it totally cleans up. Hit it harder and it crunches out. I'm not a tweed amp guy but I would totally buy one of these. Especially since they go for about $700-$800 new :eek:


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Plug into the #4 input set that (3/4) volume to about 5/6, set vol 1/2 to 1/2 and tone to about 6/7. The vol and tone controls are very interactive and you have to play around a little until you figure out how everything works.

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SLBluz said:
Plug into the #4 input set that (3/4) volume to about 5/6, set vol 1/2 to 1/2 and tone to about 6/7. The vol and tone controls are very interactive and you have to play around a little until you figure out how everything works.

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Great amps, huh? :thu:
 
Yes , great amps indeed. If you get a chance to make another clip using the settings above, everyone will really appreciate what a bargain Sara's amps are. Give it a try and I guarantee it will be completely different than the tone of your previous clip. Nice playing on that clip BTW. Turning up the Tone adds gain and turning up the unused Vol cleans it up a bit.
 
SLBluz said:
Yes , great amps indeed. If you get a chance to make another clip using the settings above, everyone will really appreciate what a bargain Sara's amps are. Give it a try and I guarantee it will be completely different than the tone of your previous clip. Nice playing on that clip BTW. Turning up the Tone adds gain and turning up the unused Vol cleans it up a bit.
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My student usually brings it to his class so I might mess with it some more.

The amp is so much better than many of the really expensive boutique amps out there its not funny.
 
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