High End Boutique Amps Video 2 - Divided By 13 RSA23 vs Two Rock

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] hi i'm paul from the studio rats in this series of videos i'm looking at a bunch of sort of high-end boutique amplifiers because i'm trying to find my ideal amplifier the amplifier that i'm going to keep for life now in the last video i had a look at the two rock classic reverb signature and in this video i'm going to do something slightly different because i'm going to be looking at an amplifier that i already own and that is a divided by 13 rsa23 now there's a couple of things about this amplifier that make it not really the perfect amplifier or the amplifier for life even though i personally think this is my favorite sounding amplifier of all time but it hasn't got some of the features of the other amplifiers i'm going to be looking at so what i'm going to be doing in this video is to first explain the features and what the rsa23 can do and then we're going to compare it against the two rock classic reverb signature [Music] sound wise this amplifier is my ideal amplifier there is nothing that i would change about the actual tone of this amp it's absolutely perfect it does everything from sort of cleans to quite sort of raucous gain you can't again like the two rock you can't do that sort of high gain metal sound out of it but i'm not that sort of player anyway [Music] lots of guitarists or ant manufacturers talk about the word chime now this has chime all over it's got so much clarity and it never goes into that harsh shrill sort of ear piercing uh treble sort of sound because it's got quite a lot of compression it's a 23 watt amp first of all and when you drive it it goes from quiet to loud and then anything past loud just gets more and more drivey and that is the headroom on this amp doesn't really compete to something like the the two rock and personally i like that in an amplifier i like an amplifier that actually compresses as you turn it up [Music] so for me this is like the perfect fox ac30 clean on the edge of breakup sort of sound that that's what this amp is known for and that's what this amp does best but let's see how clean we can get it [Music] [Music] as i said in the intro there's something slightly different about this amplifier because it's not like a standard divided by 13 rsa23 it's more like the btr-23 which is the brian ray signature now even though it says rsa23 on the front of the amplifier it's definitely got some of the btr controls and i don't know why that is i've got a feeling that this was probably the btr prototype or one of the early btrs now this amplifier if you pull out the volume control has got drive circuit [Music] [Applause] so you can get all of those really nice sort of ac30 drive tones without dimming everything another great thing about this amplifier is that even though so like a telecaster bridge pickup is actually quite a harsh sounding pickup it really smooths out all those transients and it never becomes harsh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] as i said in the intro this amp isn't perfect for me because one it hasn't got an effects loop and two it hasn't got reverb so all of the effects you have to run into the front of the amp now for me this is my perfect recording amplifier it's the amplifier that if i'm doing any recording in the studio this is normally the first one that i plug in because i can add all the effects in afterwards i don't really run reverbs and delays into the front of the app it takes pedals extremely well if i put like achieve screen in front of it [Music] so now that i've shown you what the rsa23 does and what it sounds like what i thought i'd do is to compare it against the two rock classic reverb signature so let's go through some clean and drive sounds and first of all let's have a listen to the clean sound on the rsa23 [Music] [Laughter] and here's a clean tone from the two rock [Music] and now let's try some drive tones [Applause] [Music] and here's a drive sound from the turok [Music] so there's a brief demonstration of the two different amps side by side now let me know in the comments what you preferred if you preferred the sound of the two rock if you prefer the two rock clean or the two rock drive or the divided by 13 clean or the divided by 13 drive anyway i really hope you guys got something out this video if you did get something out of it don't forget to like and subscribe click on the bell button and you'll be notified of any future video that comes out from the studio wraps i'm paul and i'll see you next time cheers [Music] you

Channel: The Studio Rats

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Length: 8min 19sec (499 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 30 2021