LoneStar special
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Lazarus1140
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Al.C
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Re: LoneStar special
I had one in my house a couple weeks ago and was a/b it agains a MK5. It was great! Wonderful cleans and more than enough gain for most of us. Love the EL 84 chime. I stuck with the MK5 only because of the 3 channel versatity, honestly the Lonestar was beautiful sounding. I contacted my brother (an amp builder ) to see if he would consider redoing one of my custom amp's pre-amps along the lines of the 2nd channel of the lonestar.
I had one in my house a couple weeks ago and was a/b it agains a MK5. It was great! Wonderful cleans and more than enough gain for most of us. Love the EL 84 chime. I stuck with the MK5 only because of the 3 channel versatity, honestly the Lonestar was beautiful sounding. I contacted my brother (an amp builder ) to see if he would consider redoing one of my custom amp's pre-amps along the lines of the 2nd channel of the lonestar.
Boogie Bill
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The LSS is a a really good amp--even with five Mesas, I still have one of these in my sights.
One of my favorite amps is my Maverick 212. Sounds similar to the LSS, though the Mav's LEAD channel has less gain. I like it with the tube rectifier--it has a very organice feel.
Bill
The LSS is a a really good amp--even with five Mesas, I still have one of these in my sights.
One of my favorite amps is my Maverick 212. Sounds similar to the LSS, though the Mav's LEAD channel has less gain. I like it with the tube rectifier--it has a very organice feel.
Bill
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Ha ha ha ... I have a Stiletto Ace and actually played a gig with a LSS. Bow down before your master!
My impressions:
Beautiful clean. Absolutely amazing clean. Light crunch is nice too. Anything crunchier than that, and it loses clarity and gets lost in the mix. Do not expect this amp to pull off a Marshall-style crunch (the Stiletto, however, does that beautifully). Clean and bluesy overdrive though ... gorgeous. For that alone, I'd put the Lonestar's in the top five best amps Mesa's ever made.
Like all Mesas, there is a lot of versatility in the tone controls. Even though it's a small amp, it's loud enough to handle pretty much any club gig, and there's plenty of clean headroom for the solo boost. The channel-assignable wattage makes it easy to tailor how much headroom you want each channel to have.
If it weren't really expensive and logistically difficult, I'd love to have a Lonestar or Lonestar Special to go with my Stiletto. I'd set the Lonestar's channels to sparkly clean and almost-breaking-up clean, and the Stiletto's channels to light crunch and heavy chunky gain. That would be my dream amp rig basically.
Ha ha ha ... I have a Stiletto Ace and actually played a gig with a LSS. Bow down before your master!
My impressions:
Beautiful clean. Absolutely amazing clean. Light crunch is nice too. Anything crunchier than that, and it loses clarity and gets lost in the mix. Do not expect this amp to pull off a Marshall-style crunch (the Stiletto, however, does that beautifully). Clean and bluesy overdrive though ... gorgeous. For that alone, I'd put the Lonestar's in the top five best amps Mesa's ever made.
Like all Mesas, there is a lot of versatility in the tone controls. Even though it's a small amp, it's loud enough to handle pretty much any club gig, and there's plenty of clean headroom for the solo boost. The channel-assignable wattage makes it easy to tailor how much headroom you want each channel to have.
If it weren't really expensive and logistically difficult, I'd love to have a Lonestar or Lonestar Special to go with my Stiletto. I'd set the Lonestar's channels to sparkly clean and almost-breaking-up clean, and the Stiletto's channels to light crunch and heavy chunky gain. That would be my dream amp rig basically.
