Recent content by rainsong86

I'm downsizing my Mesa Boogie gear. This should make the people of my apartment complex very happy. For sale is a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Roadster in mint condition with 1 year left on the warranty (2006 model I believe). The amp has only had light home use. About a year ago one of the...

..... basically I just some opinions on the best settings for OUTPUT/VOLUME/GAIN.. for optimal vintage and modern high gain I tend to turn the channel volume to 11 o clock, the gain to 2 o clock, and the output somewhere around noon to 1 o clock .. also would like some tips on where to set the...

if I could play at balls-to-the-wall levels all the time (and I would) I could use the "loop hard bypass" feature of my Roadster for a more pure tone.. but most of us, including myself, don't have the opportunity to play at concert/rehearsal level at all times (I even live in an isolated house...

I've A/Bed an early 2 channel DR (but not pre 500 by any means) with my Roadster (which is basically a Road King Series 2 without the EL34's) and got very, very close to my favorite DR heavy gain setting.. I've done the same with a Fender 1959 Bassman Reissue and got a comparable tone with the...

sorry to hijack the thread.. but I switch from the 50 and 100 watt modes of my dual rectifier roadster while the amp is still on (without changing cabs of course).. do these types of amps have some sort of function which corrects for impedance whenever it kicks out two of the power tubes and...

ok let's talk headroom here.. basically if you want crystal cleans even with humbucking pickups and multiple effects it's not necessary to have 100 watts tube with silicon diodes in order to match levels with at least the acoustic volume of the drums (assuming it's a rock band.. I only have...

well Rich Duvall really came through with that patented Mesa customer service.. he said that the repair station wasn't necessarily hassling me because the repair station considered the tube out of warranty since I brought the unit in two weeks past the 6 month tube expiration date.. and when a...

I just want to know this: so even if a tube that is out of warranty blows and takes the screen resistor out should the amp owner have to pay for labor to put the parts he bought back into amp?.. I mean there's still a 5 year labor warranty.. also the 37.50 an hour is what mesa pays repair...

thank you all for the replies.. I KNEW that it was the repair station that was trying to hose me.. and I'm sure that my call to mesa as soon as their offices open will confirm this.. thank you boogiebabies for the insight.. with your information I realize that the repair station is trying to...

well murphy I haven't gotten any BS from Mesa.. I just got the call from the store earlier today that the repair is not under warranty.. I think that's BS because I thought labor was under 5 year warranty even IF the tube had blown after the 6 months parts warranty was up.. I'm pretty sure that...

good.. I'm thinking that the store I went to is full of a bunch of jackasses.. it's CV Lloyde's of Champaign, IL.. I never liked the people there.. I bought a Mesa cab from there which sounded great at store volume but when I played it with my band I knew it wasn't gonna work for me.. I went the...

so one of the output tubes in my Roadster blew at just about the end of my 6 month tube warranty.. I replaced it with a new Mesa tube and had good results for about a week at low volumes.. after a week I cranked the amp up for band practice for the first time in a while and noticed that the...

don't buy them from mesa if you like the blue one.. the blue one on mesa isn't your typical 'pilot light' in that it's rounded like a dome on the top.. this results in a dark line across the center of the bulb.. I know it's finnicky but we are getting rather picky about aesthetics in this...

I play a Boss GT-8 with a Roadster in 4 cable method... I'm using Pedalsnake G2 cables for all of the connections, including a connection to the Axess CFX-4 midi box I use to control the 4 channels (this unit also solved my channel switching-lag problem too)... there is little to no noise...

yea this is the idea.. it's just that I'm already stuck with the mesa traditional 412.. everything was perfect about the oversized cab but it didn't have the chunk I needed for palm mutes (I couldn't FEEL them).. so I had to trade it out for the traditional.. in retrospect it would have been...