Synergy DRECT | Classic Recto Tones

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  • čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
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    00:00 - DRECT
    01:02 - In a Mix
    02:30 - Dialling It In
    06:18 - Boosted Drop C Tones
    10:34 - Lower Gain Strat Tones
    13:03 - Smooth Lead Tone
    13:46 - 2 Channels
    14:39 - Conclusion
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Komentáře • 93

  • @johndeschain2156
    @johndeschain2156 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Love that Ragdoll tune you opened with, especially that pre chorus

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci +2

      That pre-chorus is SO FUN to play. Totally getting our King's X on there

  • @fredpastukh3460
    @fredpastukh3460 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Thank you Leon!!!Best video on this module!

  • @rockstarjazzcat
    @rockstarjazzcat Před 2 měsíci +1

    The irony of a sound of silence reference on the thumbnail wins the internet for the day. Glad that physical hardware is properly bolted in for the heaviness. Keep the flammables away! 🔥

  • @peterharvin2775
    @peterharvin2775 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Have yet to hear a Synergy module I didn’t like. And I love this one. If anything could tempt me away from my Marshall this would be it. So many flavors and textures.

  • @Cherry_Sunburst
    @Cherry_Sunburst Před 2 měsíci +1

    EXCELLENT...As always.

  • @RdoGomes
    @RdoGomes Před 2 měsíci +1

    Enjoyed this One a lot. Freaklish delicious tones

  • @John_2Much_Coffee
    @John_2Much_Coffee Před 2 měsíci +1

    Hello Leon, you are the master of demoing! Love all the sounds you got out of the Synergy DRECT, Cheers, be well!

  • @cwaniak5
    @cwaniak5 Před 2 měsíci

    So close to hitting 100k subs. Wishing all the best!

  • @satarello
    @satarello Před 2 měsíci +1

    great TONE Im fall in love with this module DRECT :) amazing sound for homerecording..YEs it has thie RECTO elements character

  • @chrisdekker1108
    @chrisdekker1108 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Sounds great! I have the deliverance, vai, ectasy and peavey modules. And finaly a rectifier module in the synegy eco system.

  • @martynm
    @martynm Před 2 měsíci +4

    It's impressive how well Synergy have done considering that so much of the sound of a Rectifier comes from the power amp, particularly with the lack of negative feedback in modern mode. The module certainly sounds rectifier-adjacent, in the same way that the Mesa Rectifier Recording Preamp was very similar, but was still missing that extra something. Would be very interesting to hear it through a 2:100 power amp to see if the right power amp would really nail the recto-thing.

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci +3

      Yeah they've done really well in that regard. The presence control gets pretty close to "the thing" as well

    • @jkdsteve
      @jkdsteve Před 2 měsíci

      Yeah, it's pretty dark/bass heavy...so glad they added the Presence control...it's obviously not a true Power Amp Presence but it really adds to the flexibility.

    • @francismcfadden3305
      @francismcfadden3305 Před 29 dny

      Not a recto based poweramp (at least I don't think) but out of my Mesa 2:fifty it sounds insane

  • @AlexMessanoMusic
    @AlexMessanoMusic Před 2 měsíci +3

    Dude...a comparison between this module and your Rev G is a must!!

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci +1

      Absolutely!

    • @Robstafarian
      @Robstafarian Před 2 měsíci +2

      Throwing the Synergy Soldano SLO preamp module into the mix would be amazing.

    • @AlexMessanoMusic
      @AlexMessanoMusic Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Robstafarian Ooooh...Totally!!

  • @ericolson326
    @ericolson326 Před 2 měsíci

    Delighted to see some of your settings had the mid all the way up and treb all the way down, which was how I used to dial my 2 channel. Never seen anyone else try that.

  • @jayheath1971
    @jayheath1971 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Nice. You get an extra thumb up for the "Black the Sky" snippet. \m/

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci +2

      One of the heaviest riffs ever!

  • @orlandobandonunez1462
    @orlandobandonunez1462 Před 2 měsíci +1

    oh man, you know how set up a Rectifier.

  • @audiobrainiac
    @audiobrainiac Před 2 měsíci +1

    Would like to see a comparison between this and the IICP module. They’ve nailed the Recto tone.

  • @Taylor___
    @Taylor___ Před 2 měsíci

    Sounds awesome ha. @3:20 In that clip, there's actually some bass for once and that was mint. But then you dial it back and it's got thinner again, like you said, more Marshall style.

  • @guitarlair
    @guitarlair Před 2 měsíci

    I wanna try one of these and use it with the power section of my Archon... it would be interesting to hear the results..

  • @lostinpa-dadenduro7555
    @lostinpa-dadenduro7555 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Need Gallien Krueger 250RL module with clean / dirty with that echo and chorus. 🤘

  • @heavybrett-al4082
    @heavybrett-al4082 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Oh wow 😮sounds pretty dam recto to me!! The new CE pickup's sound perfect for that module.

  • @Robstafarian
    @Robstafarian Před 2 měsíci

    This is miles away from my thing, but I heard so much of it in the '90s that I am tempted to get one. Out of respect, I would buy a Synergy Soldano SLO module at the same time.

  • @mustangguy3706
    @mustangguy3706 Před 2 měsíci

    I'm really liking it and want to add this to the collection. Drect+ metal zone= cannibal corpse 😆

  • @russellzauner
    @russellzauner Před 2 měsíci

    This is like the third video I've seen now and I'm on the verge of liquidating literally every other tube amp I've got. Synergy was actually started up when the other amp guys got a little cheesed that Bruce Egnater built a super transparent yet distinctly voiced power amp and then had a modular system that "mimicked" (copied) other tube amp's preamps; now I think he just sits around and lets the collective cabal of partners decide what modules to let into the stable next.
    I have a feeling that I could probably get by with a Synergy platform and an AMPX would be nice (when it's finally released) and really not need anything else, for home or road.
    EDIT: I just realized that treble all the way up on the red mode is basically a build in rangemaster lol noice

  • @jkdsteve
    @jkdsteve Před 2 měsíci

    Yeah, I think the Module really captures that trick from the real am where you lower the Treble and push the mids.....it;s a cool tone.

  • @Robstafarian
    @Robstafarian Před 2 měsíci +1

    With regard to Synergy, I am most looking forward to the SYN-20IR head and (one day) the Sound City preamp module.

  • @JeffHendricks
    @JeffHendricks Před 2 měsíci +2

    SAVAGE

  • @liontribegc
    @liontribegc Před 2 měsíci +1

    Cheers from Texas!
    🤘😺🤘
    Duuude!!
    (Opening track) That sounds epic!
    Definitely has some
    Ty Tabor flavor 😁
    ???
    I’ve been wondering,
    Do those units generate heat; all jammed into the modules?
    Some hotter than others?
    Peace
    Michael Francis

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci

      Total King's X vibe! They're no worse than any other tube amp heat wise.

  • @berndkiltz
    @berndkiltz Před 2 měsíci

    Awesome Demo! I hope Synergy paid you for that one ;)

  • @dasczwo
    @dasczwo Před 2 měsíci

    "gimme a dollar or gimme fifty cents..." no ranting from me this time. Thanks for citing Kings X ....great riffing. had the joy of having a rev 1 recto for a year on loan... orange was crunch heaven... owner wanted to sell it, took it back. kruspe from rammstein was interested but was beeing an ass, so my friend keot the recto. just a fun amp. starting to Gas for synergy. are there any lunchbox /tinyterror sized 15watt amps for the modules?

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci +1

      They just put out a lunchbox sized head to load modules!

  • @Behemoth92
    @Behemoth92 Před 2 měsíci

    What power amp did you use for this video ? Seems very important for a rect preamp, would be nice to compare the soldano preamp to the rect too, apparently they are almost identical (in the real amps) and the power amp is what makes all the difference.

  • @shreder75
    @shreder75 Před 2 měsíci

    Blind Revolution Mad!
    Haven't heard that in a minute 😅

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yessss!!!

    • @shreder75
      @shreder75 Před 2 měsíci

      @LeonTodd man, SUCK a good album. Oddly enough, i was just a teen when that came out. Hated it! Wasn't until people on a forum (harmony central amp forum) convinced me to give it another spin. I dug it immediately after years away from it. Great, great stuff.

  • @chronicnarnia
    @chronicnarnia Před 2 měsíci +1

    Does the tonestack actually behave like a Rectifier does?

  • @sawyerriggs9525
    @sawyerriggs9525 Před 2 měsíci

    love your vids! but this one gets a like especially for my favourite AC/DC riff RIFF RAFF !!!

  • @lyricbread
    @lyricbread Před 2 měsíci +1

    DRECT + IICP = Mesa Greatest Hits? 😮

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci +1

      A multi channel Mark/Recto in a syn2!!!!

  • @R3dbudd
    @R3dbudd Před 2 měsíci +2

    I always said a PRS into a Recto is a cheat code (play some Incubus!). Shootout with the new ToneX Mesa’s?

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci +1

      Battlestar Scralatchtica time!

    • @brandonjackson5865
      @brandonjackson5865 Před 2 měsíci

      I call PRS into a Recto the Nickel Back thing or 2000s rock radio. It sounds great problem is it’s what everyone sounded like for a while there, am I the only one who thought there was a spell where everyone’s “heavy” guitar tone sounded the same at least the major signed artist you’d hear on the radio between 2000 - 2010 ?

    • @R3dbudd
      @R3dbudd Před 2 měsíci

      Nu Metal did it first, way before that. And Metalcore. It was the best tool in the box, the best blunt instrument lol. Besides, a lot of these bands had clean parts which the 5150 was not great at and jcm800 was not clean or dirty enough to pull off the tones either.

    • @brandonjackson5865
      @brandonjackson5865 Před 2 měsíci

      @@R3dbudd yeah but to me at least the nu metal bands weren’t copping the same or very similar tone out of their rectos. I’m not hating on the Recto at all. I just got board of what everyone was doing with them, the heavy rhythm guitar tones were pretty similar on a lot of heavy and hard rock bands.

    • @R3dbudd
      @R3dbudd Před 2 měsíci +1

      There’s a lot more amp diversity now, thankfully. Mid 90’s to 2010 was mostly 5150/Recto for major “produced”bands. Mesa had a better marketing team at the time. Peavey was for “the poors” in lotta peoples eyes.

  • @nestorcano4354
    @nestorcano4354 Před 2 měsíci

    It says SINERGY 5050 at czcams.com/video/qbga83ABAJw/video.html for the gear chain?

  • @austinfailz
    @austinfailz Před 2 měsíci +7

    After watching the video, while it pretty much does that flabby, soggy low end mid scooped mess distortion, I (and others) likely would've preferred an SLO deluxe that we're likely not going to get.

    • @robertmosack2532
      @robertmosack2532 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Mostly agree. This module is cool in its own way. But it feels like we've been waiting for that SLO Deluxe for a year.
      And since the original Recto circuit was basically a copy of an SLO, releasing this almost seems like a slap in the face to Soldano. Or maybe I'm overthinking.

    • @austinfailz
      @austinfailz Před 2 měsíci

      @robertmosack2532 it kind of is, frankly. Maybe it was done for an artist while not being a signature module, I don't know. Either way, the SLO module should've had the ability to at least get the crunch and high gain channels from the head like the 6505 module. I wish the 6505 module had a II/+ switch on the board.

    • @darellville
      @darellville Před 2 měsíci

      Was this a rumour or something syn- made suggestion to? The deluxe.

    • @robertmosack2532
      @robertmosack2532 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@darellvilleDave Friedman mentioned it on his CZcams channel.

  • @cunjoz
    @cunjoz Před 2 měsíci +1

    drec-t 🤣

  • @straightedgeecw
    @straightedgeecw Před 2 měsíci +1

    Sounds good, but they already make an SLO module 🫢

    • @user-by6eb6zo7g
      @user-by6eb6zo7g Před 2 měsíci

      The difference being the SLO has mids and lots of them. This is scoopy land

  • @FirestormAudio
    @FirestormAudio Před 2 měsíci

    Shouldn't this be identical to the SLO module? lol

  • @Allan-ts1ux
    @Allan-ts1ux Před 2 měsíci

    Leon if you increase that grip and sharpen those claws anymore those strings are gonna be cut in half
    and you'll officially be inducted into the George Lynch clinch Mob .. RU taking lessons from Lupin on how to sharpen claws like razor sharp mini daggers .. 😺

  • @martincockburn6821
    @martincockburn6821 Před 2 měsíci +1

    That sounds mint.... Gotta love a recto ! 🤘 Set em like a Plexi... Bass down ... Everything else up and you're good to go 😅

  • @damianval4626
    @damianval4626 Před 2 měsíci

    Hello recto my old friend 😅
    I'll be singing that all morning now mate 😂

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci

      "I've come to chug with you again"

    • @damianval4626
      @damianval4626 Před 2 měsíci

      @@LeonTodd
      Weird als in trouble

  • @TechMetalRules
    @TechMetalRules Před 2 měsíci

    Sure, the Recto's great and all, but is that Eldorado Fortress back there!!!???

  • @ericolson326
    @ericolson326 Před 2 měsíci

    TTD: 5m 10s (Time to Dogman)

  • @ehsaannoorani
    @ehsaannoorani Před 2 měsíci

    Are you using the Synergy Power Amp too ?

  • @austinfailz
    @austinfailz Před 2 měsíci +2

    Anytime the mid was cranked, I thought it sounded decent. Anytime the mid was set lower, I thought it sounded dreadful. The treble can stand to be lower too.

  • @user-by6eb6zo7g
    @user-by6eb6zo7g Před 2 měsíci +2

    Sounds like a Dual Rec for sure... Still don't like them though lol

    • @LeonTodd
      @LeonTodd  Před 2 měsíci

      They are such an acquired taste hey!

  • @Bajo85
    @Bajo85 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Give me a dollar! (Or give me 50 cents)

  • @matteomidas638
    @matteomidas638 Před 2 měsíci

    This module destroys every fuckin cheap or expensive modeler/profiler out there.