Ive fooled ALOT of people with the rg100ES's & made em believe the sounds were comin out of a Marshall that'd been severely hot rodded.

Ive had 5 or 6 of em in the past year, and every one of them has sounded great.

My Randalls have sounded better than most guys expensive Mesas & boutique / home brew built amps.

I can almost get a REALLY convincing EVH thing with em

Im back to having one now. It's an '85 with the Fender style tolex & chrome corners.

I wish I woulda kept the Zebra stripped one I sold Gravedodgers. That one had a bit of "mojo" to it none of the others Ive owned or played thru had. Even before I modded it (the tube-ish mid / more bass mod) .

dude you should soo be some motherfucker's guitar tech.

stone cold tr00

I wish I could. If I knew how to hook up with someone to do it (and if it paid well) I'd do it. I live in a small town though & no connections other than local stuff.

If something ever happens to my job, I'd make an attempt I guess.

I'd like to see watt you can do with a delay pedal. In fact, do you still have that, or any other, boss delay pedal you were willing to trade/sell?

I have a Boss DD6 . It's used & beat up. Has my initials written on it in sharpie on the side of it. No sound issues though. Lemme figure a price.

My Broe traded me an Empty Marshall 1960A late 70's / early 80's 4x12 for a Start project guitar I had. I may sell it. Got a guy wanting it. Im tryin to sell it to get ahold of an empty randall 4x12 XL cab i found. (I'm trying to find a cab to go w my Randall) . I gotta see if dude will come down on his price. Its a bit high for a beater

tubes are the best sounding unless you are going for a very mechanical sound like pantera (tho Machine head manages to make some truely awesome mechanically heavy sounding riffs on their records using an old Peavey 5150)

thing is. if you only have 350 bucks, i dont even know how you can afford a solid state rig, unless you are looking into cheap combos, tubes are still out of your price range... unless you get really lucky at a pawn shop

as for volume...

i have a 100 watt mesa run thru a 4x12 mesa cab... i can barely keep the volume above that shelf of tone suck (somewhere between 8 and 9 oclock on the dial) and not piss off sound guys. (tho that might have just been one weirdo cus i usually run the amp at just above 9 oclock)

i have had to run it in 50 watt mode the last few weeks.

I'm getting ready to sell my re-issue 1959slp 100 watt (no fx loop model). I need to put new tubes (EL34's) in it before I do, what brand should I get to give it the stock sound? Anyone know what these amps came with from the factory?

If your selling it, throw some Electro Harmonix in it. They sound fine & arent too expensive. Or JJ's would be another good choice. Esp if its a bright natured amp.

The first Randall RG i owned was a really ugly '88 Zebra striped model with most of the zebra felt crap stripped off of it. That Randall had the best clean (green) channel i've ever heard from a RG100eS. Really pristine, chimey clean with a great reverb. It's lead channel wasn't quite as good as the RG's i've owned from the mid 80's. The best sounding heads i owned were a '85 and a '86 with the plexi'ish looking head shells... you know, the ones like Kirk uses. It seems...Just like old Marshall's, you gotta kinda pick and choose with these amps, cause there's differences in tone and feel from amp to amp from component tolerances and parts. I also owned a rackmount version (rg100ht) which supposedly has a different transformer and found it sounded a little more stiff and brittle, and didn't have quite as much bass as the normal version. Also had a rg80es, which was just like the 100es but has a tad less headroom to it. Anyways, they are great amps, and i think i'll always have one around cause i find them extremely reliable and consistent, so i love gigging with them. You know what you're gonna get with them... a mean, loud, metal machine.

Yeah. I have one of the older ones like Kirk uses. I added a cap across a resistor & it added some thump, depth & made the low mids more "tube like" . Anymore I run it kind of clean, with a '96 Ibanez Tube King (the USA version that was made bu Tube Works..like the guy from Mastodon uses) that's had some minor tweaks done (cleaned up the gain. Added some caps to seperate the EQ frequencies a bit) and it sounds killer.plenty of power. Plenty of cut. LOTS of "oomph".

The minor mod done the the Randall makes a big difference (for the better). I'd like to grab up another one of these days to see what else can be done with them. There's a few digrams floating around on how to do em. I'd try the "CFH" mod (supposed to do the Dime thing, but without pedals) but have heard it's too grainy & buzzy.

My broe has an RG80ES, that sounds great, but doesnt have the balls that a 100 has. For the 100's, I prefer the older (85-86) models. The 87-up ones do seem to have more gain though. Especially the ones with the black front control panels.

As much as I dont like George Lynch, I run a Marshall mixed with the Randall like he used to do. A good set up. They blend REALLY well, once you get your volumes mixed right.

Hopefully I can get the FX loop hooked back up in mine. I think it just needs a new jack. I wanna try a parametric EQ in the loop of one. Would like to dick around with a Metal Zone & try out the Kirk Style sound with it too.


Wouldnt get rid of my trusty Randall. It'll curb stomp a $1500 Mesa

We had to take all the mods out of the Randall I bought from you. The thing just kept shutting down every time it got hot. We put it all back to normal and it's a fucking beast now, and sounds even better than before.

No shit. If I'd known I'd had you sent it back to me. I'd covered the shipping both ways & made it right. I stand behind my stuff & dont wanna screw anyone or rip em off.

Something coulda got jarred loose when it was shipped. Either way glad its right & no damage was done as a result of what ever was wrong with it.

That one was one of 2 I did that had the "switchable" option. The other one is still holding up, but when I can I'll get ahold of it & open it up to check it out (a buddy of mine has it)

Yeah, we think something got fucked up in the shipping. Probably got bounced around. And yeah, I think it was the switch that was screwing things up. No worries at all though. It still sounds awesome and hasn't had a single issue since we worked on it.

These old 80's RG 100's really are the best value amps out there.