Mesa Mark V continues to impress.

[NegativeEase]

That's tiny compared to the Road King pedal, I used to lay mine on the floor and put taller feet on my pedal board.
Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, Channel 4, Reverb, Loop 1, loop 2, Tuner, Solo

The Custom box I'm building is just 2 buttons.

1) Channel Switch
2) Boost for both channels. -putting some logic to have this button engage the boost for whichever channel is currently engaged

eliminate EQ engage
eliminate independent Solo Boost per channel.

 

[NegativeEase]

I'd like to have a Mesa footswitch that duplicates every control on the Road King. Treadles for the knobs, of course. Man, that thing would be noisy as hell unless you did it digitally and built it like a Spectral DMC-30 on the inside.

Mesa is probably the only major company that would ever do that tyope of thing -They are not afraid of adding "features"

 

[dave74]

I really like the 3+3 format on the multi-watts. The older wide styles must be a huge pita to find room for, and yeah especially the with the Road King.

 

[chadd]

I'd like to have a Mesa footswitch that duplicates every control on the Road King. Treadles for the knobs, of course. Man, that thing would be noisy as hell unless you did it digitally and built it like a Spectral DMC-30 on the inside.

I would love to have a Road King with Midi control like a Triaxis preamp. Being able to use every mode and channel would be incredible. Especially if they could include tube selection in that. Price would be $5k or more, but damn would that be an amazing amp.

 

[chadd]

I really like the 3+3 format on the multi-watts. The older wide styles must be a huge pita to find room for, and yeah especially the with the Road King.

My footswitch got lost at a gig and the replacement was 4 over 5. It would fit better on a board, but not in front of it and there wasn't room for my doc martens when I went to stomp on a switch.

 

[NegativeEase]

35 V Mark V murdered last night -no problems

 

[NegativeEase]

Do those things give you any hint of the Rectifier sound? I mean, as if their previously discussed capabilities were easily dismissed.

I haven't tried very hard for that... let me thry.

 

[beaubrummels]

Man, honestly I think that's most people.

Personally, I never play perfect when gigging, so compliments can seem disingenuous as you point out, and the simpler the tune the more likely I'll get bored and screw up for me -I can't do 3 chord songs without falling asleep - I need complexity to keep me interested and engaged.

I had this problem. I came to the conclusion that 2-chord songs are the hardest to play. If you blow one chord, you blew half the song. ;-) I just had to force the concentration and follow the story of the lyrics, whatever it takes, to stay interested. Even do odd math counting of the bars, matching lyric waypoints, to make it interesting.

The compliment thing, I have a hard time accepting any of them myself. They just serve to make me weak and relax, when I want to be ambitious, aggressive and improve. But I've come to realize that a compliment is the same as a gift. It's not en expression of how valuable you are in absolute terms, it's just an expression of how much the giver values you and what you are doing, which is a completely separate measurement. So now I just politely accept other's views on that and keep on trucking.

(Sorry, i can't contribute on-topic otherwise to this thread - haven't been able to afford or justify a Mesa yet. My only experience was playing through my other guitar players Tri-axis rig years ago. Does sound like it might replace all my amps, however. hmm...)

 

[Bogner]

Do those things give you any hint of the Rectifier sound? I mean, as if their previously discussed capabilities were easily dismissed.

Define hint. Both get heavy if you want them to be but a Mark gain and a Recto gain is not the same thing.