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Wow! I'm very much looking forward to that! The contour needs some variability very badly IMO; it sort of love-it-or-leave-it in stock form. D7

That's it, yes. Think of the mix knob as setting the balance between two sounds -- the sound from the pedals and the sound from the amp prior to the pedals. The thing is, even when you set the mix knob at one extreme or the other, there is still some bleed from the other side into what you...

I think that the reason the manual recommends "high quality rack unit" for putting into the loop has to do with the loop being line level (as opposed to the instrument level input/output on a stompbox) and low impedance. However, a lot of stompboxes work just fine in the loop. Its one of those...

Series loops are better for "in-line" effects like compression and EQ where you want to process the entire signal. Parallel loops are better for effects where you want to mix the effected sound with the uneffected sound -- such as delay, reverb, chorus, etc. But there are other reasons that...

Easiest fix is to put an EQ in the FX and set the loop mix knob to 90% wet. Yep, 10% of the tone isn't being EQ'd but that's generally not a problem in practice. If it is, then convert the loop to serial; it looks like an incredibly easy mod for the F-series amps. I'm going to be doing it...

Once you get used to playing with power amp distortion, you'll never want to be without it. Its more dynamic (reactive to your guitar volume and picking dynamics) and less buzzy IMO. D7

Interesting post! ENJOYED: Mesa: Mark I, Mark IIC, Mark III, Dual Recitfier Solo and Tremoverb, Blue Angel, Maverick, F-Series, Lonestar, Lonestar Special, Stiletto ACE, 2:90 power amp Marshall: Any 4-hole, non-master volume Marshall head, JCM800 2204 and 2203, DLS heads, early '70s 20W...

Mark IVs are well-loved here, but for me, if I had to choose it would be the Tremoverb. I like the sounds better and its just a lot easier to work with IMO. The Mark IV drove me crazy trying to optimize the sound on all the channels at once. D7

Hmmm. Maybe its the player, or the sound quality of the video, or most likely the fact that he was hardly cracking open the volume at all, but the demo didn't do much for me. A variety of okay tones, but none that I would call great. And this surprises me because I own and love the F-series...

For me, this has happened with every tube amp I've owned and I've been playing them for over 20 years too. I haven't noticed it to be a Mesa thing. The most consistent amps I've owned have been solid-state or digital. Unfortunately, they were consistently good, but not great. There are lots...

Not all Fenders are the same!!! Champs are cathode-biased (i.e. self-biasing). Many of the classic dual 6L6 models are adjustable, fixed bias. (Like I said in a previous post, an amp can be "fixed bias" and still be adjustable.) And some of the newer models are non-adjustable fixed bias...

+1. That's a real common problems with Marshall 4x12s (and that's exactly how most folks fix it). I'd speculate that it only happens with the DR because those amps have a lot more low-end grunt than the Valvestate. D7

A technical point, but "fixed bias" means something a little different than the way you're using it. Fixed biasing means the tube is biased by a DC voltage applied to the tube grid and can be varied by changing the bias voltage. In Mesa's case, the bias voltage is "hard-wired" so that you...

Clever! If the switch for the overdrive pedal is a SPDT or a DPDT, you should be able to swap it for a switch with an additional pole (DPTDT or 3PDT, respectivly), wire the channel selection to the extra pole, and have everything on one switch. D7

The C-30 is definately a bright amp, which is part of its charm for me. You know with the Blue Angel, the more you turn it up, the darker/warmer it gets. With the C-30, turning it up brings on this shower of harmonics. I've heard it called a "blizzard of nails" and that's kind of right. It...

Nice! I wished I bought a Spitfire or Lightning when you could get them for (relatively) reasonable prices. Yep, that's exactly why I picked up the F-30. I have an Airbrake that I use to tame the Marshall, but it just turns it from "way too loud" to just "loud". A friend of mine has a...

A '76 Marshall JMP non-master or a '63 brownface Concert. I recently picked up an F-30 for cheap and I've been delighted with it. But I definately miss the Blue Angel from time to time. I personally think its one of the best amps that Mesa has ever made. D7

I'm not too crazy about the Nomad; the 55 version anyway. I agree with the poster who said that it has a strong mid-range. I spent some quality time with one and it always seemed kind of hard and harsh in the mid-range and I couldn't dial that out without compromising the rest of the tone...

That will sound killer -- it was my main amp for about 8 years.... D7

Hmm. Clean channel on the 5:25 can be made to sound somewhat similar by diming the master and controlling volume and overdrive from the channel gain control (effectively turning it into a non-master volume amp). But other than that, they're a lot different because of the 2nd channel and...