New Amp Day

[knotts]

I could no longer fight the urge to buy a rectifier series amp. So I bit the bullet and got a Roadster through sweetwater. It just showed up at my office and I'm heading to practice after work today. It will be competing with my LSC as my #1. As much as I love my Lonestar, I don't think it stands a chance.

 

[bendo]

I would have to agree with you. Considering a Roadster is a LoneStar mixed with a Rectifier. :mrgreen:

I love my Roadster, but I never owner a LoneStar. But, as I understand it, Ch1 and 2 are lifted from the LoneStar along with the reverb circuit.

 

[YellowJacket]

Channels 1 and 2 are my personal favourite on the Roadster. I think someone is going to be having A LOT of fun tonight!!!

 

[knotts]

You're damn right Yellowjacket! It was far from my best performance. I wasn't used to the 6 foot long foot pedal and couldn't figure out where so solo button was...excuses, excuses. The tones were far from dialed in, but what I did get was glimmers of pure awesomeness (to borrow a word from a former drummer). There is nothing but great sound that comes out of that amp. The sound I've had in my head was coming to my ears. I liked every channel and I bonded with channel 3 in RAW mode with the gain and volume at 12:00. Great lead tones. It has only been one night but my Lonestar is now #2.

 

[YellowJacket]

See, this is why I don't have any pedals. I have trouble enough dealing with 2 buttons on the Electra Dyne pedal. I tried running a wah pedal but I'd always accidentally leave it on after solos. I'd love to expand my rig so I could the Electra Dyne and the Recto, and so I could also have a couple of effects and control the onboard reverb on the Electra Dyne. Unless I could have some sort of fancy pedalboard with presets, the logistics of this would render me entirely useless as a guitarist.

 

[thejay]

Awesome knotts, enjoy! There is a lot of gold in Chs 1 & 2 like YJ said.

 

[Third Age Amps]

See, this is why I don't have any pedals. I have trouble enough dealing with 2 buttons on the Electra Dyne pedal. I tried running a wah pedal but I'd always accidentally leave it on after solos. I'd love to expand my rig so I could the Electra Dyne and the Recto, and so I could also have a couple of effects and control the onboard reverb on the Electra Dyne. Unless I could have some sort of fancy pedalboard with presets, the logistics of this would render me entirely useless as a guitarist.

GCX Ground Control. Midi programmable with relays and loops for FX and switching. Works great for turning on 3 FX pedals plus changing channels.

 

[knotts]

See, this is why I don't have any pedals. I have trouble enough dealing with 2 buttons on the Electra Dyne pedal. I tried running a wah pedal but I'd always accidentally leave it on after solos. I'd love to expand my rig so I could the Electra Dyne and the Recto, and so I could also have a couple of effects and control the onboard reverb on the Electra Dyne. Unless I could have some sort of fancy pedalboard with presets, the logistics of this would render me entirely useless as a guitarist.

There's beauty in simplicity. I want to have my LSC and Roadster stacked up at a show just because it looks awesome, but I would sh!t the bed if I ever tried to switch between them in the middle of a song. I tend set my volume, pick a channel and roll with it through the song and use the solo boost to my thing. My other guitar player messes with his volume so either my solo volume is either super loud or can't be heard. That's why I have a booster pedal in reserve. Unfortunately I look like an idiot tap-dancing all over the place.

 

[YellowJacket]

See, this is why I don't have any pedals. I have trouble enough dealing with 2 buttons on the Electra Dyne pedal. I tried running a wah pedal but I'd always accidentally leave it on after solos. I'd love to expand my rig so I could the Electra Dyne and the Recto, and so I could also have a couple of effects and control the onboard reverb on the Electra Dyne. Unless I could have some sort of fancy pedalboard with presets, the logistics of this would render me entirely useless as a guitarist.

GCX Ground Control. Midi programmable with relays and loops for FX and switching. Works great for turning on 3 FX pedals plus changing channels.

Hmmm.

This is what I don't get. The Electra Dyne takes a TRS cable for a two button footswitch. One button controls Clean to Vintage Hi / Lo, and the other button switches vintage lo to vintage hi. So, you never really 'know' if you'll get vintage Hi or Vintage Lo when you switch from the clean mode. It's kind of confusing. I'd prefer one button for Clean, one for Vintage Lo, and one for Vintage Hi. The Reverb mute switch is a separate quarter inch cable.

My 2 Channel Dual Recto has one quarter inch input to switch between the Orange and the Red channel, and there is another quarter inch input to switch the FX loop on and off.

What I don't get is how I could have buttons 1 - 5 on a unit like the ground controller that select ED Clean, ED Vintage Lo, ED Vintage Hi, Recto Orange, Recto Red. That would be cool.
Additionally, it would be cool to be able to run the amps in stereo and select any combination of Clean, VLO, or VHi from the Electra Dyne with either Orange or Red on the Recto. Ideally, this would look like CLean on the 'Dyne with Orange to Clean on the Recto, Vintage Lo on the 'Dyne with Red on the Recto, and Vintage Hi on the 'Dyne with boosted Red on the recto. Just one example of how I'd hypothetically run stereo with both amps.

BUT, I'd really like having footswitcheable access to all 3 modes on the 'Dyne and the 2 channels of my recto from ground control unit. If I was to get an ABY Box, I'd have to tap dance between CLean - Crunch, Vintage Lo / Hi, Electra Dyne to Recto, and Orange to Modern. It makes my brain asplode.

I hope I'm making sense because I either don't get this or I do not think it is possible at all. Maybe I should talk to Mesa?

 

[elvis]

Once you go Ground Control, G System, or whatever, you can assign whatever you want.

On my GCP, I have banks of 4.

Bank 1:
1 = Dyne Clean + Compressor
2 = V Lo
3 = V Hi
4 = Clean + Tube Driver

Bank 2:
1 = Dyne Clean + Comp
2 = Clean + MT-2 (this could be Orange or Modern or whatever)

I also have a bunch of FX that can be toggled on and off using the GCP. You can set up a patch to do just about anything.

If you don't care about individual switching of FX, you can have banks of 10, and set up a different channel on each of 5 for what you want. It's sweet.

The G system will do the same thing. It has banks of 5, so you could get each of your channels into one bank.

 

[YellowJacket]

Geez, this sounds like a worthwhile future investment. I guess it can control channel switching for two amps too?