Recent content by mesadude

Dug out this gem for a gig last night. Hadn't used it in over 5 years. Sounded pretty good. I had it on order 4 months or so before the Roadking series was introduced, back around 2001. MeZa 8)

In the studio...

I use a Mark V combo and do this regularly with a few other amps for bigger-venue live gigs. I'll run the Mark V Slave-out to the FX-in on the 2nd amp, and adjust the Slave level control accordingly. This allows me to run the power sections of both amps with the Mark V's preamp. I've done...

If you notice on the floor, I have two Ernie ball 6166 volume pedals which I run with one foot. One to the MkV and one to the Z-Wreck. That way I can balance things out as I play, or just scream with the MkV. Actually, the Z-Wreck straight up with the MkV in lead modes doesn't get in the way...

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Used the TA-30 at an outdoor gig Saturday. Sounded a little thin at times. Plus, I had the amp's volume maxed-out (ch1) w/top-boost, and it just kept up with the band. Definitely not an amp to use outdoors when you might need to crank things up. The tone was pretty nice though. Most likely it's...

Received the TA-30 yesterday. Very nice amp. Quite a bit more configurable than I was expecting. So far, I like it. MeZa 8)

Should be here a week from Monday. I live about 10 miles from Mesa Engineering, and have friends working there. There is no dealer in the area anymore, however, so I ordered from Humbucker Music back in GA. Have bought amps from them before. Nice folks. Anyway, was gigging with one of Mesa's...

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I'm gigging tomorrow night, and am going to use the Mark V instead of the Mark IV, to see if I really solved my problem. I'm counting on it to work! MeZa 8)

Where is your overall amp master set? I found, that once I raised the overall amp master to around noon (or more), my amp became very clean and articulate, and all of the fuzziness, etc. disappeared. I now have the channel 1's gain at around 3 o'clock and the channel master at around 10 o'clock...

Play with 90W settings. Don't use the thick switch for CH2. This made all the difference for me on stage. MeZa 8)

I have many, many guitars; Fenders, Gibsons, Ibanez, Rick, Gretsch, Burns, Hamer, Crook, Carvin, etc. The guitars which get daily use out of all of these are the Carvins. They're my workhorses. They just play and sound better than all of the 'major' brands for me, and they 'stay in tune'. So...

Before you go thinking about replacing a C90, you ought to try it out. I like the sound of the one in my Mark V combo. Sounds pretty good as a matter of fact. MeZadude 8)

18 and 25 year old speakers in my case. I don't recall the speakers really sounding any different when the amps were new than they do today. Can't say that the aging process has changed their sound. MeZa 8)