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So I've been jonesing for a Stileto for a while, and after spotting one on the local craigslist, I managed to snatch up a stage 1 Stiletto Duce. However, I'm thinking something's wrong with it. Everywhere on the Internet I read about the Stiletto, the consensus is that it's a very bright amp...

Hello fellow recto owners. I have acquired a Tremoverb for use in my band, and was wondering if anyone might be willing to share some tips on fitting into the mix. Some history: Previously I was using a Nomad 100 and that worked fine for me. The other guitarist in my band used a JCM 2000 TSL...

In my never-ending quest to further understand the Nomad's circuit, I find myself needing to take a look at the guts of various Nomads. I don't have mine to hand, and I'd like to see others as well. Can the various owners of Nomads here take and post some pictures of the Nomad's input tube, V1...

Forgive me, I need to vent. About an hour or so ago, I got a call from the other guitarist in my band, him stating he had bad news. Apparently he was at the rehearsal space, and due to tripping and falling, my Nomad 100 head was knocked off the 4x12 cabinet it sat upon. From what I understood...

So I just got back from playing my 2nd show ever. It was quite an experience and in many ways much more enjoyable than the 1st. When setting up I felt like I was holding the rest of the band back as while I was still setting up my pedals, the soundman was up on stage immedately with mics, and I...

I recently modified the bridge pickup on my main axe (a Seymour Duncan JB), and after trying it out at band practice on Thursday, I finally didn't have trouble fitting into the mix. Instead of having to dime the mids on my Nomad 100's red channel to not be drowned out by a Marshall JCM-2000, I...

So, I *was* going to do the regular structured practice with chords, scales, riffs, techniques, and the metronome tonight, but it quickly turned into just messing around for fun and seeing what kinds of sounds I'd not heard before I could create. For sh!ts and giggles, I started fooling around...

A couple months ago I auditioned for a couple bands locally. I came away from both auditions with a CD of songs I was to learn. After deciding which band I want to go with, I've spent several weeks practicing and trying to learn the song. I've been in touch with the band leader, and now that I'm...

Does anyone have any tips for getting a smooth, singing liquid lead tone out of a Nomad? I'm thinking something in kinda a Mark-ish vein. I've tried various knob positions in both channels and both channel modes, boosted or not. I've been able to get various crunchy and grindy sounds, but that's...

During practice Saturday, I spend some time tweaking the controls on my amplifier. I played with the EQ a bit and got the sound on my distortion channel more to my liking, then for sh!ts and giggles on a whim, decided to pull the preamp gain on my amp back to noon, throw my Boss SD-1 with the...

A question for you NOS gurus. How to tell similar Sylvania and RCA tubes apart. Recall the post I made in one of my other threads where I linked an eBay auction, thinking a set of Sylvania long blackplate 12AX7s were RCAs. I also compared my RCA 12AX7A grey shortplates with my Sylvania 12AX7A...

I auditioned for a couple bands today and was having a bit of trouble getting enough crunch from my red channel on my Nomad 100 head. When playing by myself, using the "Flat Out" factory setting from the manual, it sounds great to me, especially with a mild V shape set on the graphic EQ to scoop...

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I'm posting it here. What would happen if I were to take my Nomad, Valve King, or perhaps some other amplifier, and go through and replace all of the components with higher quality ones of the same value but tighter tolerances? For example replacing, all...

Greetings, tone gurus. I've been lurking here off and on for a while and have been reading various threads on use of different preamp tubes in different positions to tweak one's sound, especially the threads about NOS preamp tubes. I saw shredd6's advice of thinking of v1 v2 and v3 in a DR as...

I listened to Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence tonight, and it reminded me of why I picked up the guitar. So many beautiful and awesome sounds to be made from the instrument. Anyway I'm in the mood to try to cop a Petrucci kinda tone and try my hand at some of the riffs from that CD. Now, I...

(Edit: The rant was rude and unecessary, and I apologize to anyone it offended. Theres no need to drag Mesa through the mud when they've been rather helpful to me in the past. The rant has been removed.) So, after much lurking here and other places on the Internets, I'd got idea that some...

Greetings all, I've been playing with my Nomad 100 half-stack for a few months now, and overall I've been enjoying it. I've found decent clean, lead and grind tones in its three channels. Recently, I've been thinking about various famous tones, and the equipment used to get there, and I've...

Behold. Initial impressions: Well, I discovered why managed to pick it up for so cheap. At least one tone pot on each channel is damaged, and has either no effect or causes the channel to go mute when turned. So the tone stack on each channel isn't of much use in shaping the...

Having heard that tube amps sound better than solid state ones, being the nerd I am, I've been searching the interwebz for the how and why of it. While I've been learning quite a bit I still got many questions I've not been able to find the answers to with Google. I've read up on how a vacuum...

Warning: N00b rambling ahead. Greetings everyone. I've been lurking here off and on for a while now. As covered in this thread, I did follow the advice given and picked up a better axe than the Wa-Mart special I started playing with (which I've since sold). I've been fooling around with my...