Octavarius
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I just recently bought a fantastic new Lonestar Classic 1x12 combo and I'm absolutely in love with it! It's really a sweet sounding amp, and I'm finally feeling that I'm close to finding -my- signature lead tone. It's also a great addition/"sort-of-contrast" to the Mark voicing I'm accustomed to.
Anyhow, I've seen a few threads about this issue before, but I couldn't manage to relocate them. There seems to be a loud, pretty noticable pop when switching either to or from the 10 watt Class A setting. It happens when I switch the wattage manually on a channel, as well as when one channel is set at, say 50W and another to 10W and I switch between them. It also happens each time I put the amp off standby to a channel in the 10 watt setting. The pop doesn't increase in volume as the output/master is increased, but it's pretty loud in the first place and could very well be heard in a quieter live setting.
I talked to the guys at Mesa about this and they say it's completely normal and that it's because the amp is switching between two classes/tube configurations. However, I do recall that there were some that didn't experience any of these problems.
It doesn't really bother me that much (yet), but I'm just checking to see if anyone else here is experiencing the same things in their Lonestars and perhaps have had any issues with the popping when playing live, and so forth.
Anyone?
Anyhow, I've seen a few threads about this issue before, but I couldn't manage to relocate them. There seems to be a loud, pretty noticable pop when switching either to or from the 10 watt Class A setting. It happens when I switch the wattage manually on a channel, as well as when one channel is set at, say 50W and another to 10W and I switch between them. It also happens each time I put the amp off standby to a channel in the 10 watt setting. The pop doesn't increase in volume as the output/master is increased, but it's pretty loud in the first place and could very well be heard in a quieter live setting.
I talked to the guys at Mesa about this and they say it's completely normal and that it's because the amp is switching between two classes/tube configurations. However, I do recall that there were some that didn't experience any of these problems.
It doesn't really bother me that much (yet), but I'm just checking to see if anyone else here is experiencing the same things in their Lonestars and perhaps have had any issues with the popping when playing live, and so forth.
Anyone?