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Originally Posted by DMace
Only one? BFDR. It's got 'verb, is just loud enough, but not too loud, sounds stellar clean, and breaks up nicely when cranked. Plus, it takes pedals beautifully. It's the Swiss Army knife of amps.  |
I love a good DR. HOwever, I can't consider it a 'swiss army knife' of amplifiers. IT just doesn't have the versatility to warrant that description, imho. None of the non-Rivera FEnders have that kind of versatility.
And...the Rivera amps are much more versatile than the amps that he designed for Fender.
Ex: a Rivera R-55 with the footswitch can access 6 levels of gain if you know how to set it up....all at the stomp of the buttons. I had a CHris Duarte LTd Edition Rivera that had 10 levels of gain...from clean to extreme scream....with the use of the footswitch board. That is getting to the 'swixx army' knife type of versatility.
Mark seem to want versatility. IT is a hard thing to find in one amp. Yes, one can use pedals, but hten you get outside of the tube domain to get your OD and gain. I prefer tube gain.