Sold my Mesa Single Rectum halfstack

[Dirtyking]

After about 6 months with it I just couldn't hear it anymore. I could never find a tone I liked. It always sounded like someone else's tone. I'd tweek it at every practice and gig but to no end could I find a tone I could live with.

Maybe its tone was to polished for me. Hell I could play through my buddies Fender with an old Big Muff in front of it and find some sort of tonal bliss or even his 5150.

I went back to my old Randall tube half stack. It just sounds so much better to my ears. I don't know why I even left her.

 

[Dr.Mavashi]

Re: Sold my Mesa Single Rectum halfstack

Well .... at least you are not forcing yourself to own something. To be honest I think ther is only one way to make mesa sound great, to pair it up with something very marshally in a stereo set up. Nightwish "Once" tone was prolly his best tone yet and it's tripple rectums with Bogners XTC. Mesa has the 6L6 bottom end, the rectifier's sug, the wall of doom of gain on tap .... but lacks beef in the upper register for some reason.

 

[Surgeon]

Re: Sold my Mesa Single Rectum halfstack

Rectos do have a very generic sound to my ears... I'm not saying one can't squeeze out more out of them than the scooped metal sound but I does have a tendency to do that sound very well... just not very distinctive IMO.

 

[TimmyPage]

Re: Sold my Mesa Single Rectum halfstack

Well .... at least you are not forcing yourself to own something. To be honest I think ther is only one way to make mesa sound great, to pair it up with something very marshally in a stereo set up. Nightwish "Once" tone was prolly his best tone yet and it's tripple rectums with Bogners XTC. Mesa has the 6L6 bottom end, the rectifier's sug, the wall of doom of gain on tap .... but lacks beef in the upper register for some reason.

Ghost Love Score is absolutely epic. His tone sounds great on it, I didn't know it was rectos and XTC.

Another guy who's tone I really like and does something like that - Devin Townsend who combines a Recto for the low-end chunk, and a stilletto to round out the upper end. Listen to the beginning of this video, with the 7 string stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQaZQYxkW-s (he explains his amps right after)

 

[Dr.Mavashi]

Re: Sold my Mesa Single Rectum halfstack

Well thanks to the hip-hopped out american music industry I was lucky to see Nightwish at San Fran club. Once Tour. And I think live his tone is a bit muddy. Its a bit thin and muddy, not really bad, it does not have that thump you hear on the albums. Part of it I think is the emgs, the guy in youtube has a good tone but its still to my ears not enough creamy mids. To my ears the only 6L6 high gain that does not have that mids problem is Soldano SLO/Avenger but even there I hear the need for some of that EL34 mojo. I am thinking of 6L6 complement for my AOR and first option is another laney witch would be modded closer to avenger circuit or get a 6L6 power amp and feed from from AORs pre-amp with a chorus stereo sending one out to 6L6 power amp one back to AOR.

 

[BlueSky]

Re: Sold my Mesa Single Rectum halfstack

Ghost Love Score is absolutely epic. His tone sounds great on it, I didn't know it was rectos and XTC.

Another guy who's tone I really like and does something like that - Devin Townsend who combines a Recto for the low-end chunk, and a stilletto to round out the upper end. Listen to the beginning of this video, with the 7 string stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQaZQYxkW-s (he explains his amps right after)

I like devins tone well enough for certain things, but I'm sure most tone enthusiasts would hate it. It's got a very compressed sound to it. With all his equipment you can get pretty close to it with a gt-8 pedal due to how he goes for those compressed atmospheric spaced out sounds.