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Ok, so tonight (just now!) I ran my Mark III in stereo with my Marshall Vintage modern. The chain looked like this: SKB Stage 5 pedal board (mono->stereo split) -> Mark III -> 4x12 + 2x12 -> Marshall VM 2x12 combo + homemade 112...

Adding to my growing collection of Marshalls! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFmbEGqz1vY&feature=youtu.be A new stack for my brilliant vintage modern...just not as big... :lol:

So, we're all Mesa players here and sometimes it's hard (i'm sure) for us to keep it a secret that the Mesa is the secret to our tones, but what are the pedals you guys have found are the "secret sound" pedals? Ones that really do the trick either live or behind the mic? Just curious because...

Here are 2 songs i've decided to release without remaster that I did from a 6 song EP in college right after I returned from Chicago back to Alabama. No rock and roll, no Mesa, just acoustic. Thought i'd throw them up here for a changeup and see what you guys thought... Track 1...

Got this great Gibson Les Paul Classic from a friend who mainly plays teles and Dr. Z's for a super great price. I had played it many many times and just couldn't resist its absolute perfection for my hands and taste for honeyburst. It's been calmly sitting on his wall absorbing more than a...

So...I'm used to the fact that my 60 watt monster eats preamp tubes for lunch. I've finally settled on using chinese stuff for its high gain capabilities and reasonable cleans so I can keep piles of them around for quick swaps. I'm also lucky enough to have 2 pairs of phenomenal sounding...

So i'm working at Guitar Center back in sales now, and last night I had this dream that I had brought my Mesa to work and left it out and some dude bought it accidentally. I was literally crying like a little ***** pleading with him trying to get him to switch it out for something else since it...

So I feel like i've really improved recording the Slave Out tones from my Mark III. I've also entered my first guitar contest: http://youtu.be/eA5CcfmSZes I'd love some feedback from you guys (tone wise at least lol). I know I missed a couple notes in there, but I felt like I should leave them...

So guys, i've been rolling the Hiwatt tone around in my head for awhile now. Particularly the DR103. But it's kinda like a VOX AC30 imho. It seems to do one thing and one thing very very well. Amazing unique cleans that can break up. So my question is to you guys who have any kind of Hiwatt...

So my Mark III is pretty much an ugly mess of flux. Matter of fact sometimes I call it the "Rusty Dragon"... That aside, is all the extra flux hurting the amps tone? Most days I can't get it dialed in on the lead for a super sweet liquid sound, and it's more recto-ish. Sometimes I think it may...

So, I took some time today to try out the Slave out on my Mark III to get some pure Direct Out recording tones. The only other time I had done it was to a board before I realized I needed a cab impulse and obviously it sounded like crap. So here's the first tone: with a V30/Mesa impulse going...

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Festivus! Hope everyone has a good holiday, and be safe!

In lieu of posting rig pics, I made a new rig video now that my Mark III is racked back up. I do need some better cabs though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljI2f3PKmmY Note: Noodling and not playing my bands music to be coy as usual. I figure we hear enough metal.

So a couple weeks ago my Mark III lost power suddenly across all the channels and I replaced V4 with a known good tube. Turned out to be the culprit then. Today I fired it up and it sounded the same way - on normal (pretty loud) volumes, it was whisper quiet like a preamp tube was dead, but...

Fresh from my bands new album! Been working on it awhile! My Mesa is on the left channel, my bandmates Peavey on the right. I'm using my Ibanez PGM301 with EVOII and PAF pro pickups. Drums are real and live. Bass was DI. All done in Reaper...

So, I'm a minimalist on pedals...always have been, but lately I hadn't been using pedals pretty much at all, but a friend gifted me a SKB Stage Five pedalboard and I threw almost all my pedals on there and all afternoon I feel like i've been painting with sound again! Thing is, I feel like I...

So yesterday, I fired up the trusty Mark III after a week of vacation with my fiance, and I got some volume/channel dropouts. Of course I immediately freak out thinking it's a power cap or the grid resistors again or something, but I calm down and diagnosed it as the PI tube. But instead of...

Today I sat down and recorded an impromtu (very mediocre at best :lol: ) shootout of the Sylvania vs. Ruby MSTR vs. Mesa branded 5881 for anyone interested. Since I wasn't at our studio, all I had was my AD/DA (which is awful) and a crappy cab that isn't mine but you can hear the differences...

Mesa just posted this on their facebook. Dunno if it's somewhere else on the forum, but thought i'd throw it here: http://russomusic.com/t-mesa-boogie-factory.aspx Pretty awesome, with a cool video from Randall and a very cool photo set at the bottom!

After a whole year of trying to wrangle in the IIC+ sound I've been chasing (and this recording project kinda turning into our Abbey Road, urgh) I'm tracking our bands new album with my Mark III and a 2x12 (sounds pretty choice) instead of a PRS and a 4x12+2x12 slaved from a Mosvalve and Mark...