And one amp to rule them all...

[gooberizer]

Just got back from my first gig with my Trem-o-Verb. It was an outdoor festival with something like 10 bands. A few classic rock bands, a few blues bands, a couple pop bands, but only one METAL band- mine. Lots of Fenders and Marshalls out there. A few Hiwatts and Oranges, too. My band headlined, meaning we played last, and I had the only Mesa on the premises. By the end of our set most of the musicians from the other bands were side stage, and I got asked at least 20 times how I got such a great tone. I pointed at my Mesa, while thinking of the good advice I had gotten on this board, and just smiled! MESA RULES THEM ALL! :twisted:

 

[ToneAddictJon]

Very cool!!! I love when that happens :twisted:

 

[Lt_Core]

Very cool! I've had similar experiences like that and point to my little F-50 combo and Avatar cab, then I smile

 

[73h Nils]

That's so badass, man! :twisted:

I love Mesa amps. They not only sound amazing, they look sweet, too! 8)

 

[Elpelotero]

the best comment (and funniest) I heard came from a soundguy when he heard my #29 recto out on a lawn during soundcheck:

"That sounds like something out of guitar hero the video game!"

 

[stash49]

That happened to me too, and I never looked back.

 

[lyman]

i've gotten plenty of good feedback (literally and figuratively :wink: ) from gigging with my maverick head.

 

[Joel]

Very cool, man! Where did you play at? Let me know the name of your band so that I can check it out sometime.
Thanks!

 

[southernman]

Gotta luv it!!! Mesa Boogie is like an addiction, isn't it? :lol:

 

[gooberizer]

The name of the band WAS Stratus, but we just found out that name is already being used by several other bands, one of which actually legally owns it. So we're working on a new name. The festival was a community fund raiser in Sonora, CA. All just small local bands, but the turn out was great.
And since getting this T-Verb a few months back I don't even touch any of my other amps. Addiction?! And then some. My wife actually calls it the "other woman". 8)

 

[jdurso]

whats even better than being the only guy at a show with a boogie is playing a show with 4 other bands and every guitarist and most of the bass players playing through boogies... the best part was we all had different ones and all played differen flavors of music.... one guy that was in this prog band had a IIc+... he ripped and made us all look like little children who were playing toy guitars.... his tone could compete with the best of them..... there were a whole bunch of rectifiers... all different... no one sounded a like in tone or in the music we played.... thats the part i loved..... even with rectifiers you can do so much with them and sound completely different from the guy next to you... i will say how ever my triaxis/2:90 through a traditional 4x12 covered the most ground..... god remembering that night almost makes me not care about all the popping issues with the roadsters

 

[MesaENGR412]

I've had that experience several times playing with different people, and a lot of them in signed bands with really nice equipment. I've put my Triple up against Kranks, Oranges, Bogners, Hughes and Kettners, Splawns, Marshalls, Crates, Fenders and others, and I've not once heard tones that compete with my amp in the sound I can get out of it for the music style I play. I'm always complimented on how my tone just slays, and I just point to my amp with a grin on my face. It's also nice whenever my band does play with other bands that have Mesas, and all of them are usually Dual Recto owners, I stand out first of all because I have a Triple, and second because I am always the only one with a black faced/chromed chassis model. They always ask me where I got it and sulk, saying the should've done that because it looks so much better than theirs lol. I recently played with a band that had a guitarist with an early 2 channel Dual Rec with a small logo, i think the serial number was in the early 1000's, sounded good, but with the JJ's I have in mine, I could get my Triple close to his tone, but by having three channels, I had a lot more flexibility when it comes to having a true clean channel and two different distortions. That's really nice when you have two guitars with different voicing and require a little different eq-ing.

-AJH

 

[Grendeltone]

I've had that experience several times playing with different people, and a lot of them in signed bands with really nice equipment. I've put my Triple up against Kranks, Oranges, Bogners, Hughes and Kettners, Splawns, Marshalls, Crates, Fenders and others, and I've not once heard tones that compete with my amp in the sound I can get out of it for the music style I play. I'm always complimented on how my tone just slays, and I just point to my amp with a grin on my face. It's also nice whenever my band does play with other bands that have Mesas, and all of them are usually Dual Recto owners, I stand out first of all because I have a Triple, and second because I am always the only one with a black faced/chromed chassis model. They always ask me where I got it and sulk, saying the should've done that because it looks so much better than theirs lol. I recently played with a band that had a guitarist with an early 2 channel Dual Rec with a small logo, i think the serial number was in the early 1000's, sounded good, but with the JJ's I have in mine, I could get my Triple close to his tone, but by having three channels, I had a lot more flexibility when it comes to having a true clean channel and two different distortions. That's really nice when you have two guitars with different voicing and require a little different eq-ing.

-AJH

sorry for making you not stand out as much...

Triple Rect owner w/ Black faced and chromed chassis...

 

[VoodooChild24]

Just got back from my first gig with my Trem-o-Verb. It was an outdoor festival with something like 10 bands. A few classic rock bands, a few blues bands, a couple pop bands, but only one METAL band- mine. Lots of Fenders and Marshalls out there. A few Hiwatts and Oranges, too. My band headlined, meaning we played last, and I had the only Mesa on the premises. By the end of our set most of the musicians from the other bands were side stage, and I got asked at least 20 times how I got such a great tone. I pointed at my Mesa, while thinking of the good advice I had gotten on this board, and just smiled! MESA RULES THEM ALL! :twisted:

Did you guys perform in SF?

 

[MesaENGR412]

sorry for making you not stand out as much...

Triple Rect owner w/ Black faced and chromed chassis...

haha yeah, I know there are some out there, and your's is a 2 channel, which is awesome. I bet that thing sounds great! But, I still have never met anyone in a band that I've played with that has one.

-AJH