Does the MB factory still do that 50 caliber mod?

[Dickeye]

Hey guys,

I own a Mesa Boogie 50 caliber plus and I love it. The problem is like the shared lead master and so as a result, you really can get only one good channel. So what I resorted to a lot of times is to cranked the clean channel in till it started breaking up and then running a Catalinbread SCOD in front. Or, if I wanted to just get a good distortion channel, I would just fiddle around on the lead channel. Anyway, I read that some people on here did some mod that put a seperate lead master on these heads. Does anyone know more about this and did it change the tone of the amp at all?

 

[scottcrud]

You're in Austin? Me too. I've got two and you're right, with the gain on 10, the clean sounds like Angus Young...Good thing I don't use my clean channel. Talk to Andy/Monstatone. He can help.

 

[MrMarkIII]

If you do not have a separate Lead Master, you do not have a "Plus".
That's what "Plus" means.

 

[Dickeye]

scottcrud, yeah it certainly does and when I slam that Catalinbread SCOD in front of it, it gets this good fuzzyish tone that I love. No it is a '+' model, I just meant like many people who own it, I can't get a good clean and lead channel without sacrificing one for the other. Just like a single channel amp lol.

 

[scottcrud]

Yep, I just dime the gain and that's it. Plenty of gain for me.