Hi everyone, and apologies if this has been covered before (done a bit of searching but not quite found what I'm looking for).
Without going into the backstory of how this came to be, I possess both a DSL5CR and a DSL20HR and have used both (as heads, through the same 1x12 cab) with the pub covers band I play with. Along the journey of acquiring both and deciding what to use when, I have done a little bit of A/B comparison between the two, and I am slightly intrigued by my apparent findings.
It seems to me that the DSL5 actually cleans up better/has noticably less gain than the DSL20, certainly on the clean channel. Does this correlate to anyone else's perceptions? I would have thought the 20 would better for this...,
I personally like having a really crisp un-dirty clean tone, particularly when playing a wide range of covers, but I couldn't make the 20w do this as well as the 5w. There maybe some factors skewing my findings eg the only way I can compare like-for-like high volume settings is through a DI and load box, and I don't know where speaker distortion starts to become a factor? However, so far my perception has been upheld at every turn and I keep co.ing back to the 5w.....which seems a shame as the 20w has a slightly fuller sound to my ear so'd be a shame not to use it for the larger gigs.
What do people think to this, anything in it or is it just me? And if not just me, can anyone suggest why this might be (spec comparison etc.....not that I've managed to gleam anything from what's listed online).
Without going into the backstory of how this came to be, I possess both a DSL5CR and a DSL20HR and have used both (as heads, through the same 1x12 cab) with the pub covers band I play with. Along the journey of acquiring both and deciding what to use when, I have done a little bit of A/B comparison between the two, and I am slightly intrigued by my apparent findings.
It seems to me that the DSL5 actually cleans up better/has noticably less gain than the DSL20, certainly on the clean channel. Does this correlate to anyone else's perceptions? I would have thought the 20 would better for this...,
I personally like having a really crisp un-dirty clean tone, particularly when playing a wide range of covers, but I couldn't make the 20w do this as well as the 5w. There maybe some factors skewing my findings eg the only way I can compare like-for-like high volume settings is through a DI and load box, and I don't know where speaker distortion starts to become a factor? However, so far my perception has been upheld at every turn and I keep co.ing back to the 5w.....which seems a shame as the 20w has a slightly fuller sound to my ear so'd be a shame not to use it for the larger gigs.
What do people think to this, anything in it or is it just me? And if not just me, can anyone suggest why this might be (spec comparison etc.....not that I've managed to gleam anything from what's listed online).
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