Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
While I'll admit that I've never played one, the demos I've seen of the Throttle Box were pretty disappointing. The Wampler Triple Wreck on the other hand....
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Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
Not a single pro touring band that I have seen use Rectos or Marks have used sh!tty scooped tones like that. not a single one.
on the other hand, i have seen entirely too many crappy local bands whose guitarists think they are satan's gift to metalkind use exactly those kind of sh!tty scooped tones. And they sound like sh!t on stage.
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Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
Originally posted by CTN View PostExactly! I know they produce good gear, but they have this dumb mindset that all metal requires scooping the hell outta the mids. Why? I have no idea.
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Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
Originally posted by ratherdashing View PostI'd take the Mesa 5 band over any EQ pedal on the market. They should have done this ages ago.Last edited by alteredbeast; 03-20-2014, 07:35 PM.
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Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
Exactly! I know they produce good gear, but they have this dumb mindset that all metal requires scooping the hell outta the mids. Why? I have no idea.
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Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
I'm quite willing to give these a shot. Mesa's reputation for putting out good products is inversely proportional to their ability to demonstrate the tone of said products.
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Originally posted by ratherdashing View PostExactimundo! (But that's not the only reason)
Every other graph EQ pedal I've seen has dumb, arbitrarily-defined frequency bands, usually based on a simple "make the next one double" progression. Mesa specifically picked their slider values (80, 240, 750, 2200, 6600) based on frequencies an electric guitar is most likely to produce. It's a more "musical" EQ, for lack of a better word.
EQ is a very, very, very powerful effect, and it's kind of sad that nobody else seems to do this correctly. In the studio/engineering world, a lot of attention is paid to EQ. If you think the Mesa pedal is expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Guest repliedRe: more Mesa Boogie pedals
It sounds the way I imagine the inside of a colon would sound. ("But it's so tight…")
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Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
Originally posted by dominus View PostPossibly the frequencies it shapes
Every other graph EQ pedal I've seen has dumb, arbitrarily-defined frequency bands, usually based on a simple "make the next one double" progression. Mesa specifically picked their slider values (80, 240, 750, 2200, 6600) based on frequencies an electric guitar is most likely to produce. It's a more "musical" EQ, for lack of a better word.
EQ is a very, very, very powerful effect, and it's kind of sad that nobody else seems to do this correctly. In the studio/engineering world, a lot of attention is paid to EQ. If you think the Mesa pedal is expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
Originally posted by CTN View PostWow. He took a scooped Recto tone and then scooped it more.
Sounds like a can of obese bees, or some pitiful attempt at a killer metal tone by a fat noob in a pantera tshirt in his mother's garage with a line6 spider half stack. I absolutely do not understand Mesa's fascination with scooped mids.
(that said, I do like Pantera, but holy crap, that clip sounded terrible)
And then he turned the pedal on ... oh my.
You are right. Horrendous.
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Re: more Mesa Boogie pedals
Originally posted by ratherdashing View PostI'd take the Mesa 5 band over any EQ pedal on the market. They should have done this ages ago.
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