After selling my Line 6 412 with "Custom Line 6" V30s, getting my new Mills Acoustics 212, pickup swapping to BKP Nailbombs, and moving from Hawaii to Washington DC, I feel like I'm losing love for my Mark V.
I've swapped the preamp tubes from the normal mesa ones to dougs tube cocktail from dougstubes.com with a Tungsol in V1 and High Gain JJ in V2 etc. I only have my one electric, my LTD EC-1000 with changed pickups. Before I used to play a lot of metal, and I still do occasionally, but I've been more into alternative rock/ hard rock / Muse / chili pepper / Tool kind of stuff. I'm mostly confused with the graphics EQ now and channel 3. I've been liking channel 2 crunch more than any modes on channel 3 also. I find channel 3 very trebly compared to channel 2 but thats expected, its high gain. My ear for tone is constantly on the move because just 4months ago I used to keep the presence at around 1:30 all the time, now its more 10:00-12:00.
I'm thinking this might have something to do with V30 speaker break in, bad EQing on my part, maybe the room im playing in (a garage with hard walls).
Any suggestions to renew my love for my Mark V? I don't think I want to take the leap to EL34s as I love the cleans I have already but who knows, maybe I'll try some eventually. How are Mesa 6L6s compared to other power tubes such as SED Winged Cs? I really don't want to go out on the prowl for another amp but if I don't rediscover this bad boy I may. Any tips or tricks are appreciated. I'll probably read the manual again today.
I've swapped the preamp tubes from the normal mesa ones to dougs tube cocktail from dougstubes.com with a Tungsol in V1 and High Gain JJ in V2 etc. I only have my one electric, my LTD EC-1000 with changed pickups. Before I used to play a lot of metal, and I still do occasionally, but I've been more into alternative rock/ hard rock / Muse / chili pepper / Tool kind of stuff. I'm mostly confused with the graphics EQ now and channel 3. I've been liking channel 2 crunch more than any modes on channel 3 also. I find channel 3 very trebly compared to channel 2 but thats expected, its high gain. My ear for tone is constantly on the move because just 4months ago I used to keep the presence at around 1:30 all the time, now its more 10:00-12:00.
I'm thinking this might have something to do with V30 speaker break in, bad EQing on my part, maybe the room im playing in (a garage with hard walls).
Any suggestions to renew my love for my Mark V? I don't think I want to take the leap to EL34s as I love the cleans I have already but who knows, maybe I'll try some eventually. How are Mesa 6L6s compared to other power tubes such as SED Winged Cs? I really don't want to go out on the prowl for another amp but if I don't rediscover this bad boy I may. Any tips or tricks are appreciated. I'll probably read the manual again today.