Recent content by DrTeng

The powerful capacities of the Boogies give them a two-faced character. Utterly gorgeous tones versus ear crushing volume. For the last 10 years I played only 20W tube-amps. The Subway Rocket Reverb I own now, is very powerful. I never had the problem of not hearing myself. Mostly on stage I use...

The Subway Rocket series has a dual function on the gain knob. The higher the setting, the more presence. So it is a presence control as well. This works fine with a lot of settings, but it spinned my head when I was looking for a proper clean sound. The more difficult it became, when I didn't...

I have experienced that with several tube-amps. It's nothing to worry about, indeed as Cradlefish puts out: if there's smoke, there's trouble. Update: after rehearsing several nights with the 10" Greenback, I am sure this is not going to leave the combo. Cause of the total amount of power...

Guys 'n girlz, the 10" Greenback is a blast! Very powerful and articulate live, lots of midrange, without getting annoying. You can imagine I was pretty happy when connectin' the 2.12" Greenback underneath. Medium size gig and master was on 3.... lots, lots of power with the combo. If you want...

Yes I will, sir! Today is Kingsday in The Netherlands, gotta gig... the venue is for about 500 people. I'll write my findings tomorrow!

Here's my first impression of the 10" Greenback in the Rocket Reverb! For me, a great upgrade! The lows are controllable in the combo, midrange is sweet, particularly the higher mids and the highs are very, very pleasing to my ears. Noticeably the overall sound gets way more vintage than it's...

Time for an update: I just ordered a Celestion Greenback 10" to replace the stock Black Shadow 10". The latter made it sound a little boxy and for my taste a bit too modern/punchy. With 2.12" Greenbacks it sounds great and I took out the 10" BS already (no bullshit.. ;) ). Probably in the...

@ cradle: with mids on 8 or 9 you made me a believer again. What an amp. Thanks. Sweet clean with a slight edge of overdrive of the tubes, lead burning rock with lots of clarity and puch. It was addictive tonight!

What speaker and what guitar are you using wild porc? (I know what Schwein means :P ) Tonepot open or closed on the guitar?

I will. I have three different guitars and I'm trying to find one good setting for all of them. That may sound as utopia but I'm feeling I'm getting there. From single coil to humbuckers. I'm already so much further forward, thanks again.

As a bassplayer I was always fond of mids. It gives you cut-through. I'm going to try your 9. ;)

No it wasn't. But it was. ;) I just came back from the band rehearsal. Funny thing is... with my formerly posted setting I totally missed cut-through in the mix and also too less presence. So I dialled the gain in a little (thus presence too), pushed the mids towards 5 and bang... there was a...

It is a lot of money. Do you live in the US? Keep in mind that because of much a higher taxrate (importing taxes, VAT, aside from the transporting cost from US to Europe) products are a lot more expensive. I am truly convinced that if the amps were priced the same, Mesa would even be more...

Yeah, Mesa was looking forward in time with this line of combo's. Compact, powerful and versatile. I read somewhere the 10" combo came out with a pricetag around 1200 USD. I got mine for 350 euro's, but had to service it for another 150 (twice: got a different guy / better tech the second time...

Thanks a lot! I've come down to this setting right now. Lead channel rocky enough and the contour is usable too. I play with a Palmer 2.12" Greenback cab instead of the stock 10" speaker. But that was before I found the better settings. Perhaps I'll combine the three, kind of a two-way...