Post by doctorice on Sept 7, 2014 14:00:23 GMT -7
In light of Dan's (stratman89) thread on this topic, I finally did a little attentive listening.
Here are my impressions after spending some time playing both amps into the same cab, which was a closed-back Avatar with a 12" Creamback. (I figured that was a "fair" cabinet to use, given the plexi aspect of the Remedy.) I used my Les Paul throughout.
Knowing I'm repeating some things others have already said, and in no particular order:
1. Remedy on full power seems a bit louder than the Therapy. (I kept the Rem on full throughout.)
2. Therapy seems to have a bit more clean headroom, meaning the Rem struck me as getting into the hairy/OD tones at a lower volume than the Therapy. "Volume" here means sound level at my ears, not where the knobs were turned. That said, but tweaking the tone knobs and using the hi and lo volumes I could get the Rem to be quite loud and clean(ish).
3. The central frequencies of the tone controls seem a bit different. Most notably, the center frequency of the Therapy's treble strikes me as being set higher than on the Remedy.
4. As others have noted, the Therapy has quite a smooth overdrive sound, whereas the Rem is grittier / nastier. Many, many years ago I used to sell "hi fi" gear, including a fair amount of high-end electronics. To me, an analogy from those days would be that the Therapy seems to have lower levels of odd-order harmonic distortion. (The odd-order stuff was very undesirable in hi-fi gear; the even-order, less so.) This is simply an aural impression, not a scientific result! It could be that the amps clip differently; it would be surprising if they didn't, I suppose. So that could also be involved.
5. The Therapy is quite similar to the Z Wreck in terms of touch sensitivity and how notes sustain. Imo, both those amps surpass the Remedy along that dimension.
That's it for now.
Here are my impressions after spending some time playing both amps into the same cab, which was a closed-back Avatar with a 12" Creamback. (I figured that was a "fair" cabinet to use, given the plexi aspect of the Remedy.) I used my Les Paul throughout.
Knowing I'm repeating some things others have already said, and in no particular order:
1. Remedy on full power seems a bit louder than the Therapy. (I kept the Rem on full throughout.)
2. Therapy seems to have a bit more clean headroom, meaning the Rem struck me as getting into the hairy/OD tones at a lower volume than the Therapy. "Volume" here means sound level at my ears, not where the knobs were turned. That said, but tweaking the tone knobs and using the hi and lo volumes I could get the Rem to be quite loud and clean(ish).
3. The central frequencies of the tone controls seem a bit different. Most notably, the center frequency of the Therapy's treble strikes me as being set higher than on the Remedy.
4. As others have noted, the Therapy has quite a smooth overdrive sound, whereas the Rem is grittier / nastier. Many, many years ago I used to sell "hi fi" gear, including a fair amount of high-end electronics. To me, an analogy from those days would be that the Therapy seems to have lower levels of odd-order harmonic distortion. (The odd-order stuff was very undesirable in hi-fi gear; the even-order, less so.) This is simply an aural impression, not a scientific result! It could be that the amps clip differently; it would be surprising if they didn't, I suppose. So that could also be involved.
5. The Therapy is quite similar to the Z Wreck in terms of touch sensitivity and how notes sustain. Imo, both those amps surpass the Remedy along that dimension.
That's it for now.