Just got this after years struggling to record in my basement home studio with a Peavey XXX amp. Like most home recordists, I do everything in one room, which means there is no isolation from the guitar cabs. If you try to record at low volume it never sounds right. The iso cab lets you crank your amp and listen to the recorded tone through your monitors. For the first time I am actually hearing pro guitar sound through my monitors.

It adds a nice layer of compression and air. Everything is balanced. No strange resonances. The iso cab knocks the volume down to about 1/3rd. It's still loud, but you can hear yourself think. I was planning to be disappointed, but I just plugged in and it sounded great from the start.

I would consider playing out with this tone and using a PA for monitors. It is well made. It gets a 4.0 for features because the mic boom is fixed. I extended it to hold the mic over center of cone. Sounds great clean or with any level of gain.

I've been searching for a studio quality guitar tone in my home studio for about three years now... I've always been frustrated by the poor room acoustics, and the need to record at reduced volume levels in order to keep the cops away. I thought this cabinet might offer a viable solution... but being a die-hard fan of the 4x12 configuration, I was fairly skeptical. My worries where alleviated most completely from the momment I plugged it in, however. In minutes, I had raging guitar tone the likes of which i had never heard outside of a proffesionaly engineered recording. Due to the lack of vents, this inclosure is naturally very heavy on the low end, and the mids can be a bit tricky. I highly recommend swaping the stock sm57, for it's beta series counterpart. This will give you the control over your mids, and the less sensitive low end neended to generate a well balanced, and natural sounding tone. After that, there is no limit... From thunderous rythm tones with that extra searing sizzle on top, all the way to screaming scooped middle leads, all the way back to the most quite and gentle of clean passages. You will not be dissapointed. I will add however, that the cabinet does more for the isolation of your recordings, then it does for the reduction of your level... while it does dramaticaly reduce volume, it is still clearly audible, even loud at extreme volume settings. So don't be to concerned about trying to seal this thing up with aftermarket products... The volume is still reduced enough to satisfy most any city sound ordinance.

This is a recording savior. I started tracking my guitar with my SL Plexi and had to keep the volume down around 3 but the sweet spot is around 6-7 and so I had to find a solution and BAM here it is.

i brought it home and plugged my blue voodoo thru it. this cabinet just blew me away. the sound was very dry, but monstrous! i used my beta 57, and my recording dreams came true,

Had purchased this after reading the good reviews in hopes of recording guitar through this with my ENGL powerball directly into my workstation. Mounted in a SM57 and tried every possible position and still could never get very satisfied with the sound.

A buddy of mine told me about the Grendel Dead Room which is a new isolation cabinet. I read their website and they seem to be confident theirs is the best. The price was hard to beat so I sent back the Randall and ordered a Grendel. Got it and it's similar enough to the Randall except seems more thought out.

You can use two microphones at the same time in it and the overall construction seems more heavy duty. The lid is heavy like it's stuffed with material and the latch on the front is real nifty. It is a tad quieter with the lid closed then the Randall as well. I think I even like the V30 clone in it more then a real V30.

I'm definitely a lot more satisfied with the Dead Room then the Randall especially after exchanging emails with Alex from Grendel. He told me that I would want to use reverb after the mikes with it to simulate a room sound because you're recording such a raw and dry guitar tone through it. Thumbs up to those guys!