Re: Mesa Boogie preamp tubes
Like I said, they do seem to be quirky because I too have seen the complaints online but 56 people polled hardly seems like a high enough number compared to the total units that must have been sold. Mine has never given me a problem.
As for loops, I have used the G Major in my loop and it worked just fine. The only thing I didn;t like was that the Triaxis has only one loop send and I would have had to split the send and feed both sides of the G Major to keep the stereo imaging.
The reason I run mine is series between the preamp and power amp is so that nothing is interferring with my preamp tone before the output. I let the Triaxis do it's thing before I add any effects or compression and eq.
As far as the reverb parameters go, its chained like this:
Reverb subtype - rev decay - rev predelay - rev shape - reverb size - rev HiCol - rev HiFact - Rev LoCol - Rev LoFact - Rev RmLvl - Rev RevLvl - Rev Diffus - Rev Miv - Rev OutLvl
Should be enough programmability to just about drive you nuts.
The G Major sounds better than you might think and it's more than flexable.