Recent content by blackie59

Yeah my Mark is making getting another amp really hard to do. Maybe my interest in the Maz is more due to internet hype than anything else. That's why I'm asking before coughing up the cash.

I have a Mark V that does everything really well and it's a great amp for the blues/rock stuff that I play. I've been saving my spare change to get a small head to use to jam with some friends around town and have considered picking up a Rectoverb 25, previous owner of one before I got the Mark...

Thanks for confirming my suspicion. Really appreciate it.

Not sure if this is the right forum but since I'm using a Mark V head I'll ask here. I have a used Recto 2x12 vertical cab that has V30's in it. I got the cab a few months ago and it was practically new so I know the speakers hadn't been broken in yet. Anyway, the top speaker has an annoying...

Got an answer from another post I made on TGP: http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/king-of-tone-and-a-mesa-mark-v.1607290/

I got on the waiting list for an Analogman King of Tone pedal last year and since then I bought a Mark V head that I really like. My name is about to come up on the list for the pedal and I wanted to know if anyone has used one with a Mark V? I know I can flip it if I don't like it but it seems...

I'm not an amp tech so does that just involve removing the four screws on the bottom of the head and then sliding it out? And yes I'm aware of the danger of all the caps underneath the tubes. T

I replaced a phase inverter tube in my Recto 25 and it was a tight fit getting my hand in and out of the head. I got it done but wanted to ask if there's a better way to do this in the future. I took the power tubes out to get to the other tubes and I replaced one tube at a time with a good one...

I've got a few of the tubes on the left but don't know specifics other than the date of manufacture and they're RCA's.

I picked up a used Marshall combo as a spare amp and it was very fizzy until I put the NOS tubes I had leftover from the Tweaker and they really took the fizz out of the amp and warmed it up a lot. Why they didn't have a dramatic change in my Mesa is a mystery to me. The Marshall sure likes them.

I put some NOS tubes in the DSL and it was an incredible improvement in cleaning up the fizziness of the amp. The FX loop really sucks and the Mesa is miles above the Marshall on that comparison. I did get the Marshall dialed in and useable now.

I had a Tweaker 15 head and that's when I first experimented in NOS tubes and it made a slight improvement in the sound but the Tweaker cab had a kind of flabby speaker so the NOS tubes didn't really change that much at all.

I've had an Express 5:25 1x12, my first Mesa amp, for about a year now and it took a while to dial in the amp to get the tones I wanted from it. Yes it was frustrating and I lived with it and learned to enjoy the amp too. The Mesa is my only amp and I'm only banging around on it in my house...

I got a bunch of NOS RCA's and tried them in different slots on the preamp and it really didn't make any noticeable change in the amp. I was surprised as everyone on the forums claims how much NOS tubes will do for tone. I think you'd be better off with swapping speakers myself.

I tried NOS tubes in my 5:25 and didn't notice much difference at all compared to the Mesa stock tubes.