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I've been playing around endlessly with the Mk1 Boost channel since I started trying to find that elusive but famous Mk1 "Liquid Lead" violin tone. (The Express 5:50 Plus in Class A 20W mode gets it rather easily, BTW) What I found along the way was a great set of country 'chicken pickin'...

I mostly use the Brit channel on the Heartbreaker, and I've got it dialed in so that it rocks. The Fender low gain channel is easy to dial in for a crisp clean tone (classic country lead tones with gain about 4:00 and treble at 2:30! Awesome with tele's). Recently a friend of mine bought an...

The Heartbreaker started sounding good the day I tossed the 6L6's and moved into EL34's. To get authentic brit tone, I got a greenback voiced speaker, and the Heartbreaker Lust channel cranked out rock and hard rock tones with a great deal of authority. However - curious that the Bogner...

Anybody know what manufacturer and brand that mesa is getting their new STR 448 series from ? SED Winged C ? Tungsol EL34Bs ?

Does the blues mode pass the signal through the 680k/0.001uf or the 2.2Meg/120pf filter (just prior to the gain pot) ? Schematic here: http://tubefreak.com/tremvrb2.gif Does anyone have the full switching diagram for this amp? That would answer the question for me. The switching diagram on...

A lot of love out there for Tremoverbs. Why? What channels and settings is your go-to drug for your tone addiction with these? Also, how would you characterize the tone of the different channels and switch settings? For instance, is Red Modern a Rectifier tone? How good is it? More...

Looking at some of the Mesa amp schematics, there is the 'feature' of a slave output and a variable pot to control it's level. Some amps (eg. Nomad), the Slave comes off an internal winding of the output transformer, and is not part of the NFB loop, so this would not apply to those amps. On...

Mesa EL34's don't quite have the "cut" and mids required to get forward in a full band mix. I love their breakup and they suit the heartbreaker very well. With Greenback-ish speaker, things sound just like the pro's. To get the cut that I need, I run a Boss eq. This said, I've been curious...

I'm getting pretty close or have just crossed the line where the Heartbreaker Lust Channel is into that tonal bliss zone where it makes you want to rock out like a teenager with his hair on fire. I want to share what I've discovered for a preliminary blueprint: Guitar...

Mesa opines in their user Manual that it is recommended that the amp be used in "Tweed" voltage setting when using EL34's due to the "less sturdy" EL34's available 'today'. 'Today' was 15 years ago. I just bought a single pair of "Yellow" (earlier breakup) Mesa STR 447 EL34's. Can I shoot...

I've been GAS-ing for a Maverick for some time. Not that I need another amp.... I need input on direct personal experience with different speakers, or, your best guess about what I will find with each speaker. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be running the Maverick on the "Fat" setting of the...

GEAR My Heartbreaker is setup with stock Mesa 430 6L6's, running 60W (half power mode), into a Lonestar 1x12 Extension Cab with 8 ohms on the speaker, 4 ohms on the amp output (which is recommended when you go to the halfpower mode). My guitars include a 1996 Anniversary Yamaha SG (set neck...

I think we're all trying to get to the bottom of tone issues on a couple of Mesa amps (Nomad and Heartbreaker, for me). Most all Mesa's have a very comparably voiced clean channel and have at least one channel with a signature Boogie lead tone of some vintage. So, bottom line, I'm interested...

No guarantees on this one, but .... With the Nomad Efx out through an outboard speaker emulator through HEADPHONES (eg. kids sleeping... :( ) : The Fulltone OCD v4 (Low Peak setting) through my favorite Nomad channel 1 clean setting is within peeing distance of Nomad Channel 2 (Modern) set...

I've been studying the Nomad Schematic in some detail over the past few days and here are some thoughts: There is a concept called "insertion loss" in amplifiers, which (I think) refers to the current draw that an set of components puts on the circuit after a tube stage, and the degrading of...

I'd guess anyone who's played around with the "Pushed" Setting on Ch1 will agree that its a rawer, less processed tone than either of the two lead channels. It is, however, maybe a little bit too pushed, considering its on the clean channel, and I would prefer to switch between clean and pushed...

Best (semi) clean tones I've found for that transition zone between clean and rock or clipping country leads on my Nomad is: Gain: 1-2 o'clock Master Volume: 11:00 Presence, Treble, Mid, Bass : wide open. Note that wide open tone controls essentially remove the tone stack from the circuit...

I've been using a NR Tungsol in V1 for quite some time, after it beat out a number of newpro tubes in a tube shootout for v1, including Sovtek LPS, Jan-Phillips 5751, EH, JJ's, Sovtek A's and WA's, and perhaps a few other random samples. Based on the theory that any vintage old stock beats all...

Well, I scored 4 Ratheon 12ax7a blackplates, 4 sylvania 12ax7 long grey plates, and one near perfect RCA shortplate that tested NOS and balanced. Where should I put what, and why. What's the tonality of each of these tubes? Do some work better than others in clean vs. dirty, in cathode...

I need some sophisticated tube conniseur descriptions comparing the following 3 tubes: JJ ECC803S Tungsol RI 12AX7 Sovtek LP or LPS I need pretty descriptive language on the clean and overdriven character of these tubes, and what freq ranges they seem to accentuate.