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I have a bit of experience on both your issues! The TT and the Thiele (actually every ported cab I've tried) are pieces of gear I wanted to like but couldn't keep lol. The thing with the Thiele is that it's really meant to be an extension cab for a Mark series combo and it really is the best...

The best way to describe it is that you won't find any more bass than you're giving it, and almost everybody will tell you its sounds better below 2 anyway. On a Mark, if you need to compress someone's ribcage that's what the 5-band is for. If I'm plugging my Jackson with EMGs straight in, the...

Only OD/dist I use on my Mark is a Friedman BE-OD that I just use on top of the clean channel for a different crunch sound. On my RA100 and my JCM800 I use a Metropolous Supa-Boost. Yeah, it's a little on the corksniffer end of things but it's really great if you are looking to hit the front...

Sorry, wish I'd seen this earlier. I asked Mike B. about the loop when I had a purple stripe in back about 10 or 12 years ago. I don't want to say this is word for word but he said the loop kind of is what it is, it was meant as a pro feature to work with the big stereo rack setups and fx units...

Another big one, which would be a "take my money!" thing for me, is JCM800 faceplates, mainly front faceplates, for people who've flipped a combo into a headshell. I would drop a hundred for a new metal front faceplate.

Yup there is something about those pre-JCM900 Marshalls. Took me a good 20 years to figure out too. My RA100 blue channel can make any sound that my JCM800 can make, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference on tape, but the feel of playing the Marshall and how it sounds in the room are...

I want something I can play Swedish melodeath on and there's a couple floating around locally for good prices... looking for a non-Recto modern tone, I've had a couple of Rectos and I always fall out of love with them real fast. Youtube videos sound good, like a slightly thicker, middier 5150...

depends if you just want to rock out in your basement at a lower volume or if you have a DAW recording setup and you're trying to go to headphone/monitor levels. If the latter you can get very, very nice older Palmer PDI and ADIG units for a few hundred bones used since the two notes stuff...

I've had my RA100 for almost eight years now, and it wasn't until the past few months that I realized how shamefully I had been neglecting the blue channel. I think mostly it's because on every other modern Mesa I've had, turning a Gain knob past about 1:00 is usually not a great idea. So I...

woooooo scary thread necro, but I know Nitrobattery is still around, so... That was a fantastic demo video, man. Great tone examples, useful commentary, and kickass playing.

I wouldn't worry too much about one show if the other ones have been fine, man - room, mix of stage volume vs. PA, if the room was small enough that stage volume mattered in the mix, amp placement on the stage becomes a thing, if it's all coming from the PA then maybe the mic placement on the...

A Jackson Soloist can change your life, it did mine :lol:

That's a pretty specific setup, those road king cabinets are rare - not because they're special, I think they're just not very popular. Make a new back panel for your Orange cab that's about 1/4 open, it'll take you an afternoon, save you $400, and you can test whether a part-open 2x12 is...

Mark and Willie both use passive pickups that aren't screaming hot by modern standards and they're both fast, light players who aren't shoving gain through their pick. they need a fair bit of gain on tap but it's a lot easier to control and gives you more options if you have several places to...

There was a guy locally who really wanted me to buy his VH4 several years ago. I went over to his jam space to try it out and spent like an hour with it. It had that crazy evil-sounding super tight low end for sure, the cleans were amazing by any standard, and everything coming out of the cab...

best results I've had in a basement budget recording situation was recording two tracks at once, a direct signal from the preamp out on the bass amp and a beta 52 on his cab. neither track will sound good on its own but when you play around with mixing them you'll probably find a good tone. if...

Ha, I also went with 6CA7s on my last retube like a month ago! I am very satisfied. They do exactly what they say on the tin - expanded high and low range and more detail, at the cost of a little bit of focus. There's a sort of "grain" on the red channel with the master at noon and the gain...

Yep. I find the reverb to be a tone-wrecker on the RA. I can dial around it if Multi-Soak is off, but otherwise it's just too much trouble. I don't find the fx loop very useful for the same reason - basically I have to sit down and dial in the amp to use either reverb or the loop. I don't mind...

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I don't use OD/boosts on my Mark III green for the same reason I don't bother tube rolling in it - it just doesn't make that much of a difference, and no difference that you'll hear in a mix. Marks gonna Mark. Part of this is because my main axe is an old Yamaha SG1500, which has very bright...