Product: Rivera M100-410
Price Paid: US $1400
Submitted
05/07/1998
at
01:17pm
by
Doug Woodall
Email: dwoodall at cyberramp<dot>net
Features
:
8
Two channel 4 x 10 combo with Reverb. This amp has about everything you want. See the M100 reviews or Rivera homepage for features. Good effects loop with both send and return levels. Unique Slave/Master with seperate loop simulates a cranked amp with compression and rolled off highs. Full/Half Power. Triode/Pentode. High and Low sensativity inputs. Wish it had the option to run a tube rectifier. To gains on the hi gain channel, one gain (f/s selectable) on the normal channel. Basically a 5 sound amp.
Sound Quality
:
9
All kinds and just about whatever you would want. I play it with PRS's and Strat's and can get everything from jazzy clean to outrageous distortion. Very quite even with all gains cranked. It will take a while to to get used to is and dial in your tones. Great Mid Notch control makes HB really shine and makes it very easy to go from a Strat to a PRS without having to mess with tone controls. Dial in the tone you want for a Strat, plug in the PRS and pull the notch control (don't forget to push it back in when you go back to the Strat - you remember as soon as play a note.)
Reliability
:
9
This one is 3 years old (bought it new) and has been played and moved a lot. Just stick in a new pair of tubes once in a while and thats about it. As this is a combo, I do vacuum the dust out of it once in while. Never broken, never not sounded great. I did find one one a dealer floor that had a reverb that did not work.
Customer Support
:
9
Haven't needed much, but when I did, Paul helped me. Answers all your questions promptly.
Overall Rating
:
9
The best amp I've ever owned. The only thing I might do diffent is to get a seperate head and the 4 x 10 enclosure because this thing weighs a ton, but it has a ton of tone. Paul did offer to sell me a seperate enclosure for the head. How many dealers would do that? It is an expensive amp and does take some tweaking, but once you have it nailed, your pretty muchly in tone nirvana. It's Great, but I still have not heard a 10.