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Here's what I can tell you given my experience with visual sound products. I have used a J and H but own a Route 66 which is essentially the Jekyll (tube screamer) side plus a compressor. Review after messing with the thing for a long time: I didn't like it stock at all and maybe the issue is...

Here's what I can tell you given my experience with visual sound products. I have used a J and H but own a Route 66 which is essentially the Jekyll (tube screamer) side plus a compressor. Review: After messing with the thing for a long time I concluded that I didn't like it stock at all. Maybe...

I don't know. I own a classic 212 and have played the newer ones. Maybe it would different at a gig, but the 10 watt mode didn't knock me over enough to change. It's not perfect but as others have said, I do fine for practices and smaller gigs at 50 watts on the tweed power setting. Mark Mark

I have owned Fenders (siverface and blackface) and agree. The Lonestar Classic has the headroom that the twin has but--way more flexibilty and touch response that I never had with a fender--even cranked (and who the hell could do that and live to hear again when it was a cranked twin). Channel...

Amazing stuff. What does he charge? Is it less then the cabs from Mesa? Mark

I like the Visual sound stuff as well. I own a Route 66 (first generation) that I had modified a bit by a guy in CA. Did you actually get to meet Johnny Hiland. He seems like a great guy and he is an awesome player. Mark

Framus makes good stuff. I saw a band recently where one of the guy was playing through a Framus rig. The way he had it set up, it sounded like a Boogie. Mark

Actually I think lots of people have the same issue with combo amps. I had brand new JJ tubes and it seemed worse so I called Eurotubes. They have a paper on their web site about "tube torture" in combo amps. He says it just happens and is not necessily a reflection on the health of the tube...

Actually I would recommend Avatar cabinets. They have a pretty complete line and lots of options and from what I've seen they have great prices compared to other options. I don't own one by a friend of mind owns several and speaks really hightly of them. They were reviewed pretty positively as...

It is interesting how things have changed or me as well. I used to be a neck and middle pickup player exclusively, then I did a pickup swap with a Rio Grande bridge I started using the bridge maybe 20% of the time. However, with my LS I tend to play 80-90% of the time on the bridge. It is just...

You know, I actually never tried this until I read this thread. I just did a gig Sat. night and liked how my amp sounded, but decided to experiment anyway. I took the drive up to about 2:00 and brought the gain down to 10:00 and...wow! It changes things considerably and as others have said, it...

You mentiod George...does he make cabinets? Anyone else know of other options (i.e. people who specialize in cabinets that fit a Lonestar head, etc.? Mark

Any ideas on how much a "ton" might be? It might be worth it. Mark

I have read some posts where people have pulled the head, put it into a seperate head cab and either modified the remaining combo cab somehow or used another external. Man...after hauling the blue pig up and down countless stairs and onto stages, etc. etc. I am tempted. Does Mesa sell seperate...

I haven't seen a problem as far as reliability either. I use JJ E34Ls in my LSC and love what it did for me. As others have said, channel 2 seems cleaned up a bit and I seem to have a tighter bottom in and a glassier midrange. Mark

You get the picture after lugging one of these thangs up and down a basement stairs or up a back staircase of a club a few times. Playing through a Mesa combo builds strong bodies in many ways! The tone is so worth it though. Mark

None actually. Although I do have a modified first geneation Visual sound rt. 66 that I use occasionally. I do really, really like that straight honk from the amp though. Mark

Well said, Matt. That's exactly what I found. I love the way channel 2 sounds. There is a bit more midrange and it took a bit of dinking around to come up with a nice mid level and voice setting. I have my mids at about 10 o' clock now and I actually like the thicker setting for the stage. The...

I love it. I use JJ E34Ls. They seem to help solidify the low end a bit. As far as cleans, you won't notice that difference. It's not like the amp suddenly becomes a heavy metal machine on all channels or something--That kinda sound is not really what this amp does. On the other hand I love the...

That tends to be what I do as well. I tend towards Les Pauls and LP style guitars. A bit more treble helps, especially to mix in the neck pickup. What kind of tubes/guitars are you using? Mark