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The Revelation 72
all clips recorded with the guitar plugged straight into the amp with no pedals
Noodling Clips These clips were done with a 72 head into an Avatar 2x12 cabinet with an Eminence Red Fang and an Eminence Wizard speaker. Both speakers were mic'd and run in sereo for the final mix. The guitar is an Ibanez TM71 semi-hollowbody with DiMarzio PAF in the bridge and an old Burny PAF in the neck. I just plugged in and played the amp in one continuous take and then edited it down. One thing to note is that I did not change the gain levels between these clips or do any normalizing or that kind of thing. So the levels can easily be compared from one to another, these indicate how loud, comparatively, the amp was under each of these conditions. This was mostly at full on club gig levels. 72 Noodling 1 - Normal channel, volume 12:00, tone 12:00, cut off
72 Blues - Fender Telecaster, rhythm track is the 72 Normal channel, lead track is the 72 Overdrive channel72 Noodling 2 - Normal channel, volume 9:00, tone 9:00, cut off 72 Noodling 3 - Normal channel, volume max, tone 12:00, cut off 72 Noodling 4 - Normal channel, volume max, tone 12:00, cut off 72 Noodling 5 - Normal channel, volume max, tone 12:00, cut off, changing volume controls and pickups on the guitar 72 Noodling 6 - Normal channel, volume 9:00, tone 3:00, cut 3:00 72 Noodling 7 - Overdrive channel, drive 12:00, response 12:00, tone 12:00, volume 9:00, cut off 72 Noodling 8 - Overdrive channel, blackface bluesy kind of tone 72 Noodling 9 - Overdrive channel, hotter blues tone 72 Noodling 10 - Overdrive channel, chimey rhythm tone 72 Noodling 11 - Overdrive channel, cleanish tone 72 Noodling 12 - Overdrive channel, more gainy, scoopy lead tone Studio Clips These clips were recorded in the Olive Tree Studio and feature a Revelation 72 combo in the mix with other instruments. Shure SM58 into Yamaha PM-1000 channel preamp, no effects on the guitar tracks
72 Clean - clean rhythm tones from the 72 Normal channel and a Fender TelecasterA little bit of Lexicon reverb on the whole mix Shure SM58 into Yamaha PM-1000 channel preamp, amp recorded dry
72 Leads - the above clean
tracks, plus lead guitar stuff with the 72 Overdrive channel and
varying guitars (Telecaster, humbucker guitar)Guitar tracks have some mixdown delay which you can hear ringing at the end of the clip. A little bit of Lexicon reverb on the whole mix Shure SM58 into Yamaha PM-1000 channel preamp, amp recorded dry
The Revelation 72 Player's Manual (pdf)Rhythm/clean tracks have some mixdown delay No effects on the lead tracks A little bit of Lexicon reverb on the whole mix The 72 Concept This amp was created with a very simple set of goals in mind: light enough to carry into the gig in one hand, loud enough to play with any reasonable band, with a shimmery and chimey clean tone and a cranked-amp overdrive tone both on tap at the same volume level at the touch of a foot switch. This turned out to be quite a challenge! After a few design design changes and a lot of failures and near-misses, I finally arrived at the 72. |
