Dont expect to see many of these come up used!!! Just got mine today and I have to tell you this is the amp I have been looking for!! For me I dont think it can get any better than this. The cleaner channel just has this mixture of marshall with the chime of a vox thrown in!! It just sounds awesome.....just enough headroom....especially with a strat at volume with the volume knob on the guitar turned down to clean it up.......I just cant say enough about the tone!! Then the click channel......well, best way to describe it is..... your gonna save a ton of money on OD pedals.....you dont need them!!! No, really.......the click tone knob gives you such an assortment of different gain tones its unreal....All you need is a voodoo lab amp selector and plug into both channels and rock!!!!! Now the bad news.......I already have to send it back (thank you fed-ex) a connection must have come loose in transit because on the click channel it keeps cutting out.... .....Cant believe I waited 4 months and now I have to send it back........what a tease!!!!! But between this and my FTR 37 I am done........really......
My gosh....can anything be more irritating or anticlimactic? Sorry to hear about the shipping foibles....
AWSOME! i've got my ftr 37 and within the next year, i'll picking up another one of fred's amps without a doubt.
Dude, there has to be somebody around you, including maybe you yourself, that can look inside and see what possibly simple thing is wrong...Before you ship it two more times across the country! BTW you have me totally stoked to hear this amp....
Just following instructions......when I told Fred about it, his instructions were to send it right back....this way he can deal with fed-ex on it......I think he wants to make sure the amp is perfect.....
Well, I guess I can understand that then, but still seems like overkill to me...Might just be a loose tube..or somethin' easy Blessings Dennis
What is total wattage on this amp ? I'm assuming that the RSA23 is 23 "clean" watts, but how many over all ? Or maybe the more important question is: how loud is it ?
I know how bad that sux! Most, if not all of us have been there in one way or another. You know Fred will take care of you! In the meantime, I think we need an RSA23 support group for everyone waiting on one!!!
That sucks cr8z4life!! I'm sure that they won't do the amp justice, but when can we hear clips of the rsa 23? I'm really starting to lose sleep over just talk about this amp, and want to get an idea what this puppy really sounds like. Alternatively, Is there anyone in or around Atlanta that has one and wouldn't mind letting me hear it in person?
roky, you can expect this amp to peak at around 40w i have the first 'production" rsa23 (he made the protos & then changed them again & did an update for rusty - i got the first with the eventual design). it is a different amp than i played at his place. a year later i still love it, but would like a little more big clean head room ala my other mainstay - a matchless Clubman. as for loudness, i played with some fellows - a loud drummer (i shoudl say LOUD) & a bass player with an svt + an 8x10 & it more than kept up - in fact everyone said the collective volume was a little too loud. if you get shows that that volume is ok, i congratulate you... the rsa23 is not a big loud clean amp. it is a Marshall-y type amp that breaks up pretty quickly. I am interested to head a friends ert33 that is presently getting modded to rsa31 that is coming soon. having said that, my own white whale is the sound i got from a 70s 50w Marshall jmp combo I sold 12 years ago (in Seattle at trading musician if anyone has it - changed grill cloth to black & a couple of other markings i know)- this amp is the closest i have experienced to that amp & it rawks. The combination with a g12h & a blue bell is awesome. however, if anything i would say the g12h is the perfect speaker with this amp (having blown a blue bell for dumb reasons - see my above comment about the amp peaking at 40w - the blue bell is a 15w speaker...) if i were to do it again, i woudl do a cab with 2xg12h's - i used a matchless cab for a while with this amp (because i, err, blew a speaker...) & it was great. it takes time to get a /13 but it is worth it... /i
I have it currently set up with two new model heritage greenbacks and love them with it.....I also have a cab with a g12h30 and a v30 and I'll have to compare them.....question.....is the treble really sensitive on yours and as you go up on treble it also seams to effect the output....less treble seems like more power and dirtier??
I should get my RSA23 next week, with the 4x12 cab. How does it compare to the Komet Constellation volume-wise?
Cant tell you how it compares to the constellation. I have heard them and liked them but unless they are in the same room at the same time through the same speakers......couldnt tell ya. I will say its loud enough for me and I am sure my bandmembers as usual will ask me to "turn it down" To me its got just enough of everything I like!
tell you what everyone, if you all pitch in ... call fred and order me a rsa23 and rsa 31 ... and i'll make hours of clips for you guys.
Well, another believer! Chris (cbeepber) met me at a studio today where I plugged the ftr into his bob burt 2x12 with a blue and a g12h and the rsa 23 into 2x12 greenbacks and whoaaaaa! Tone for days....I put them all through a voodoo labs amp selector so I was able to have the ftr clean and click and rsa clean and click at my feet a click away......the most dramatic tone was having the RSA on the clean and the FTR on 1/2 power on the dirty cranked at the same time! Absolutely killer..... In the end I asked if you had to choose- which would you choose.......both of us agreed they are both so amazing you have to collect them all!!!! Just wish I didnt have to send the RSA back for the repair......ughhhhh! damn shipping companys!
OK people, STOP! Like my list isn't long enough! I refuse to quit surfing for a used one even though it's likely to be rare.
