Mesa/Boogie vs Marshall
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Lewguitar
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Re: Mesa/Boogie vs Marshall
Just not my style...I'm a simpler is better kinda guy.
Also, Randall Smith's patenting of everything under the sun (including designs he has no interest in ever using!) makes me want to puke...no offence.
He's still POed that he didn't patent the concept of overdriving one gain stage by driving it with the gain stage before it and funneling the whole thing through a master volume control: the Mark I. No one did that with the idea of intentionally creating overdrive/distortion before Smith...and EVERYONE from Marshall on down soon copied it.
So now he patents anything he can think of...just to make it hard on current and future amp designers.
Some people never have enough...even when they're rolling in it.
Lew
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Just not my style...I'm a simpler is better kinda guy.
Also, Randall Smith's patenting of everything under the sun (including designs he has no interest in ever using!) makes me want to puke...no offence.
He's still POed that he didn't patent the concept of overdriving one gain stage by driving it with the gain stage before it and funneling the whole thing through a master volume control: the Mark I. No one did that with the idea of intentionally creating overdrive/distortion before Smith...and EVERYONE from Marshall on down soon copied it.
So now he patents anything he can think of...just to make it hard on current and future amp designers.
Some people never have enough...even when they're rolling in it.
Lew
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Falstaff
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Re: Mesa/Boogie vs Marshall
Just one?
mrid said:One of each, please.
Just one?
TwofacePimp
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Re: Mesa/Boogie vs Marshall
I dunno, IMHO Marshall always seemed to be more classic, and Mesa seems to be more modern, and Mesa always seemed to give me more of the tones that I wanted to use. Unfortunately, my ideal distortion tone is that thick metal oversaturated overcompressed chug-a-chug sound that still somehow sounds clear and cuts through the band (no fuzziness, white noise, etc.). I'm slowly realizing that this sound is an oxymoron in itself (clear distortion?) and might not even be possible.
Can you guys tell I had a tough day recording? Sorry if I strayed off topic a little.
I dunno, IMHO Marshall always seemed to be more classic, and Mesa seems to be more modern, and Mesa always seemed to give me more of the tones that I wanted to use. Unfortunately, my ideal distortion tone is that thick metal oversaturated overcompressed chug-a-chug sound that still somehow sounds clear and cuts through the band (no fuzziness, white noise, etc.). I'm slowly realizing that this sound is an oxymoron in itself (clear distortion?) and might not even be possible.
Can you guys tell I had a tough day recording? Sorry if I strayed off topic a little.
