Mesa Triple Crown tone suck test - new video

[marcelomazzuco]

For tone suck conclusions at Mesa Triple Crown 100w fx loop, check my recently released experiment here:

https://youtu.be/8MUHK17Mc60?si=aV8FWK80_tWhxaDm

100% self-explanatory video

Hope you enjoy,

cheers from Brazil

 

[mace]

Hi,

The Link doesn’t seem to work.

 

[marcelomazzuco]

Hi,

The Link doesn’t seem to work.

I'm sorry. Try this one and let me know what you think about it.

 

[bandit2013]

You will get high end losses with longer runs. That is a well known fact due to lumped impedances.
If your buffer only supports the typical guitar cable, you will still get losses. What would improve the signal integrity would be to have a buffer that takes that unbalanced signal from the amp, and convert it to a balanced signal to be run on a standard XLR cable. That will also add some noise immunity over a longer run as well. Obviously, you need a buffer at the other end to convert back to the unbalanced two wire connection. Probably the concept behind the Mesa clear link stuff. You would need to have two of each the send and return to make that work. That will get expensive.

Radial Engineering has a unit that takes the unbalanced signals, buffers it to a balanced XLR so you can run a pair of XLR cables for longer runs. It has both send and return covered. To extend the FX loop you would need two of them.

https://www.radialeng.com/product/sgi-44

I never tried the buffer stuff, but the XLR balanced method would be much better solution than standard cables. In theory.