50 cal plus

PRS24 · Apr 7, 2009

ok im about to buy a 50 caliber plus but i have a few questions first. ok for all you chevelle fans out there this ones for you, can it get a tone similar to that. also can i get a very chimey bright clean tone out of it and a good distortion out of it too. i've heard stuff that you couldn't. thank you

somethin like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOHEkt_v_g

jj2k123 · Apr 8, 2009

With some hot pickups and boost in front you should be able to get some heavy stuff out of it. try using a true bypass pedal with channel switching control so you can run an od pedal on the gain channel to get you into the heavy distortion without affecting the clean.

MrMarkIII · Apr 8, 2009

Sweet Mother Mary, if there's any Mesa that doesn't require a boost pedal, it's the 50+ Cal. !
IMHO.
What was difficult for me was getting that "pushed" semi-dirty clean sound. Because if you crank the gain for the clean channel, the lead is totally insane. Nice, but insane. Keeping the gain at about 2 - 3, the cleans are very good, almost as good as a Mark III, I think. Then the lead would smoke, and adding a decent pedal would kill.
The graphic is very useful as well. Reverb not so much.
Great amps, and cheap as hell.

scottcrud · Apr 8, 2009

Yes, the .50cal can get that tone easily and without a boost. If you click on my myspace pages you can hear my .50cal in action. Force Fed is me alone with my .50cal except the first song (deceit, thats a Engl Blackmore), and the PND stuff is me with my .50 cal and my other guitarist is using a MKIII... I'm still laughing about the boost remark...

jj2k123 · Apr 8, 2009

Haha I know what you mean but I've used one before to to keep my gain up on the dirty channel when I ran the gain at 3-4 to keep my cleans bright. I guess it depends on your music style and pickups.

scottcrud · Apr 9, 2009

Well, I missed the part where he asks about the squeeky clean...My clean sounds like Angus Youngs normal tone...I have no real clean tone cause I run my gain at 10.

PRS24 · Apr 10, 2009

so thats a yes in other words haha

scottcrud · Apr 10, 2009

I'm saying because of the two channels having shared control, I cannot get a squeaky clean tone from my clean channel cause I run the gain at 10 for my lead channel.

jj2k123 · Apr 10, 2009

scottcrud is right if you run the gain at 10 you won't have nice clean. setting the gain 6-7 will get you some good gain on the lead and if you roll back your volume knob on your guitar you should get a decent clean.