Awesome amp! Those are really nice.
Rivera Fandango in the house. Hand-built in California.
Deep, oversized cab. Heavy iron. Both channels have an adjustable boost.
Can use a single patch cable in the loop, and lower the send/return volume controls for a built-in attenuator.
Great little trick for home playing, and a beast for the stage. I can't wait to get out there and gig with it.
55 watts (or 25 watts) of EL34 goodness.
The amp is like a swiss army knife, covering snappy, spanky cleans to Brit grind. I'll work up some clips to post.
The build quality of Rivera amps is top-shelf...pricey $$$$$$$ , but they are excellent buys on the used market. Got this on on 'the bay".
It looks brand new.
Weighs over 50lbs, so that's about as heavy as I'd like to go.
Awesome amp! Those are really nice.
I'd love to try one of those ~ sounds like it's really interesting and versatile
Nice, very nice.
Guitars
Wilburn Versatare, '52 FrankenTele(Fender licensed parts), Fender USA Roadhouse Strat, Fender USA Standard B-bender Telecaster, Agile AL 3000 w/ WCR pickups, Ibanez MIJ V300 Acoustic, Squier Precision Bass,
Amps
Ceriatone Overtone Special, Musicman 212 Sixty-Five, Fender Blues Jr., Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Reverb, Traynor YCV-40 WR Anniversary w/ matching 1x12 ext. cab, Epiphone SoCal 50w head w/ matching 4x12 cab (Lady Luck speakers), Avatar 2x12 semi-open back cab w/ Celestion speakers
Pedals
Digitech Bad Monkey, Digitech Jamman, DVM's ZYS, Goodrich volume pedal
It does some convincing hot-rodded Marshall-style overdrive. This is not "bedroom" volume. It was approaching balls-out, kill people volume.
Still, it was only on half power (25 watts), with the master volume around 3. This is gonna be fun at the next gig
Indulge me in some useless noodling, as I was enjoying the amp while I had the house to myself. I realize the gained-up rock is not everyone's cup of tea, but I'll do some other tones later.
Rivera Fandango Overdrive Channel
I have seen some very good acts getting very good tones out of those. Congrats!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
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WOW....that last 40 seconds was smokin'.