Recent content by Wyzard

Not round here it doesn't: using it is an invitation to a banging of heads. Hence my concern.

"Blue stripe is the best or green. Purple stripe isn't worth owning". An ...ah, interesting viewpoint.

It's a MkIIA. However..... the loop mod done by MB is valuable to some people (folk like me, for example), and as a result the lack of reverb can be a non-issue in terms of setting the value.

Ah, well that would explain it - the Celestion I was talking about (Black Shadow) is a circa 90W speaker - and I was under the impression when he said "Celestion Black Shadow" that it was a Celestion Black Shadow..... And "pal"........?

Er, no....... I've thrashed both of mine separately with amps closer to 100w output, and I haven't managed to blow either of them up yet: it's a 90w speaker afaik. It came as standard in some MkIVs, and pretty much every ED 1x12 too IIRC (my MkIV and ED both had them in).

Got to love Steve Kimock's thoughts on the subject with the C+, this being a continuation of DW's pushing for ever-higher gain, all the way back to the transition from IIA to IIB: "Ok, if I had shown my hand up front on this one I would have guessed set-neck, dual humbucking, and...

I enjoy the variety of the "+" signs: I think I like the "upside-down" ones best..... They sound pretty good too! As a further aside, and speaking as a non-high-gain user, IME the MkV doesn't do it.

I'm using Celestion Black Shadows on most things at the moment, so I guess the MC-90 gets my vote. I use both of the ones I have for the Coli IIB, or split them into one each for the IIA and/or MkIV. I run them with Two Rocks as well. Meanwhile my EVs, Creamback 75, Fane Crescendo etc are...

MkIIA, Electra-Dyne and Lone Star Classic all have a place. I've owned pretty much everything that Mesa made up until the early 2000s (last amp I bought was a Road King I) and these are the ones whose cleans have kept on working for me. The LSC was a loaner, an exceptional amp that I could...

I'd put the bottom price for a properly serviced, structurally sound but maybe a bit tatty-looking 60 at around $3.5k: after that, you'd have to figure for yourself how much more a really clean and well-cared-for example means to you personally. I have one DRGX now, after a succession of other...

My main amps are still MkIIA, Coliseum IIB, IIC+, MK IV and King Snake. I've sold a few rackmount amps and peripherals, but I've still got the Studio/395 - that'll probably go some time this year as well. The MkIIs (A to C+) all get used, though not as much as in former decades. My main amp...

As far as I'm aware John Kelly passed some time ago.

After a couple of weeks with the Ethos pedal, I've swapped over to a KOT V4. I'm also running the amp into my Cornell/Fane Crescendo cab, instead of the onboard Celestion Black Shadow: it just keeps on getting better as I re-learn the various ways to set it up.

I just got my ED out for the first time since the whole pandemic thing started too: so at the moment, I've got a fair number of different Boogies around to play with and compare. Pedal in front is an Ethos Clean-Fusion, and there's a Free-The-Tone Ambi-Space in the loop. Up against my MkIIA...

If you want to view the IIA as a disaster, have at it. Talk it down all you can, and I'll keep buying them - I have four atm, but wouldn't mind a few more :lol: