Mesa!
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loudriver23
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Re: Mesa!
+1,000,000,000:yourock:
OlinMusic said:
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BigDreamer
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I usually use the orange channel on my t-verb set to vintage hi gain. but i find it little too dark when i tune to Db or lower. thats when the modern mode comes in handy (makes the notes "pop" a little more), though i find it too fizzy in Eb or standard.i'm not using 7's though so it might be different for you. but i think i have an idea on what you dislike about it, yes very difficuilt to describe. o well, good luck with the Peavey.
I would like to get either a preamp like the triaxis or a bogner fish (in my dreams lol) to run through the fx loop of the t-verb or mark or something for a better overall lead tone. though the lead tone is miles from bad (on the t-verb), i'd like a little something else to supplement it in that area.
DeadSkinSlayer3 said:
I usually use the orange channel on my t-verb set to vintage hi gain. but i find it little too dark when i tune to Db or lower. thats when the modern mode comes in handy (makes the notes "pop" a little more), though i find it too fizzy in Eb or standard.i'm not using 7's though so it might be different for you. but i think i have an idea on what you dislike about it, yes very difficuilt to describe. o well, good luck with the Peavey.
I would like to get either a preamp like the triaxis or a bogner fish (in my dreams lol) to run through the fx loop of the t-verb or mark or something for a better overall lead tone. though the lead tone is miles from bad (on the t-verb), i'd like a little something else to supplement it in that area.
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DeadSkinSlayer3
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I will eventually (hopefully in the next 2 years or so) be running a rack rig with the 5150's preamp and either a Mark III or IV, with a G-Major or Force and a switching system to switch between the two preamps, run through the Mark's poweramp.
Only problem is making a rackmount preamp out of the 5150, as the preamp is spread out all over the amp. Jerry at FJA mods is going to be making some rack preamps, and one is supposed to be a 5150, so that might work out. Hell, I might have to pick up a Quad, and just run it through the 5150.
BigDreamer said:
I will eventually (hopefully in the next 2 years or so) be running a rack rig with the 5150's preamp and either a Mark III or IV, with a G-Major or Force and a switching system to switch between the two preamps, run through the Mark's poweramp.
Only problem is making a rackmount preamp out of the 5150, as the preamp is spread out all over the amp. Jerry at FJA mods is going to be making some rack preamps, and one is supposed to be a 5150, so that might work out. Hell, I might have to pick up a Quad, and just run it through the 5150.
Re: Mesa!
uhhhhhhhh If you have a Bogner Fish - which is an AMAZING pre - you don't waste it thru an FX Loop of any old amp. You get an amazing power amp and build your rig around it!
Uh, yeah and I am gonna get a Shelby Cobra so I can take the kids to school and pick up groceries.
C'mon now!
Oh yeah, and GO LAKERS!
uhhhhhhhh If you have a Bogner Fish - which is an AMAZING pre - you don't waste it thru an FX Loop of any old amp. You get an amazing power amp and build your rig around it!
Uh, yeah and I am gonna get a Shelby Cobra so I can take the kids to school and pick up groceries.
C'mon now!
Oh yeah, and GO LAKERS!
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some_dude
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The Mark series has the smoothest cleans (never tried a Lone Star). The MkIIs don't have much of a crunch as their two channel design lacks that mid-gain sound going strait from clean to high gain. The MkIII and MkIV both have a third mid-gain crunch channel.
The Marks have a very smooth, fat sounding high gain thump, whereas the Rectifiers have a very aggressive, lean, and (particularily on the modern channel) percussive sounding high gain.
In my experience Mesa's only go muddy/flabby on the bottom end if you're using pickups that don't compliment the amp, and/or you don't know how to work the EQ. That said, they aren't tight tracking amps. They're designed to sag and give a greasy tone where all the notes in a fast lick run together. You can hear all the notes individually, but you won't hear a staccatto-ish separation between them like you would in a tighter, faster tracking amplifier.
Dave_Mcpherson said:Well, i'd like to have a nice beefy crunch whilst distorted...Without going all muddy and flabby on the low-end. And for the cleans to be very smooth, does that help at all? I'm not too experienced when it comes to amps, only with pickups. Thank you
Alex
The Mark series has the smoothest cleans (never tried a Lone Star). The MkIIs don't have much of a crunch as their two channel design lacks that mid-gain sound going strait from clean to high gain. The MkIII and MkIV both have a third mid-gain crunch channel.
The Marks have a very smooth, fat sounding high gain thump, whereas the Rectifiers have a very aggressive, lean, and (particularily on the modern channel) percussive sounding high gain.
In my experience Mesa's only go muddy/flabby on the bottom end if you're using pickups that don't compliment the amp, and/or you don't know how to work the EQ. That said, they aren't tight tracking amps. They're designed to sag and give a greasy tone where all the notes in a fast lick run together. You can hear all the notes individually, but you won't hear a staccatto-ish separation between them like you would in a tighter, faster tracking amplifier.
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