Question on 90s reissue dual rec.
I got a 90s reissue dual rec and am having some difficulty dialing it in. I tend to dial amps to resemble a 90s metal tone ala Metallica’s Black album and although I am close with the orange in modern with a boost I am having a hard time figuring a few things out or if the amp I received (open box) is defective.
First, the orange channel is really dark in vintage mode. further when I clone it to modern I have to turn the presence up to 3 o clock or more to hear any difference and from 0 to 10 to be honest I am hard pressed to hear much.
on the red channel in modern I have to have the presence dialed quite a bit down and the treble dialed back below noon as well or it gets fizzy to my ears. oddly the louder I crank the amp the more pronounced it is. When I check youtube videos and crank the presence and treble like they do on the red channel the amp sounds piercing and shrill to me. Also, the effects loop is engaged as I like delay and reverb and that level is set to noon. lastly, the amp isn’t rally a saturated gain like I get from a peavey style amp but it’s also not dry per se like a mark series.
I guess my questions are mainly around the noted presence behavior and the needing to dial the treble back. Every demo I watch these values on the red channel are cranked and I am not able to do that. Combined with the presence on the orange in modern not doing much of anything I wondered if the amp had issues. I am in bold mode and have diode tracking and am playing through a 8 ohm 2x12 mesa can with uk v30s.