SweetPickleSalad
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New to this forum and new to Mesa Boogies as well.
Traded in my Fender Blues Deluxe and my Marshall 1962 Bluesbreaker RI at the local dealer the other day and went home with a 1*12 Lonestar Special.
So far I am a happy hippie,the Mesa is to me a totally different animal than the amps I traded in. Don't get me wrong, the Blues Deluxe and the Bluesbreaker are fine amps and sweet sounding but somewhat one dimensional IMO.
The Lonestar on the other hand is way more versatile, and the reverb doesn't hurt either. Don't think I've ever heard a built in reverb circuit sound as sweet as the one in the Special. Maybe not up to par with the 63 Fender reverb unit, but to find this in a combo, wow!
I have been fiddling around with settings quite a bit, and so far I have found (quite obvious) a good clean setting but also really nice settings for Rockabilly and Blues. Today I'll try to dial in a good Rock n Roll sound, somewhere down the lines of the Black Crowes tone, Marc's, Rich's or Luther's it doesn't matter, I'll be happy if I find either one.
Tried to find nice basic settings for country and delta blues without any luck the other day, anyone have any good starting points?
I will keep this amp stock, I've been down the modding roads before, spent fortunes on tubes, speakers etc trying to find "The" tone. While modding is a lot of fun, it is (for me) also a neverending quest finding the tone I have been looking for anyway, I have never come across the result I was looking for, I have come across good and bad tones and overall improvements, but never what I was looking for exactly. And also, there are never any mods (or amps, speakers etc) that will satisfy us all, what sounds like a great tone to me may sound like crap to others. With the Lonestar though it feels it is possible to find great tones without spending money (that is if the initial acquisition cost is ignored
), just have to spend some/plenty of time fiddling with the tone controls and all the other parameters to consider.
Right now I run my Lonestar with a Fulltone Fulldrive II Custom Shop and an Analogman Sunlion in front of the amp and I use a Jam Delay LLama in the F/X loop.
The guitars I am playing are a Gibson Les Paul Standard and a Fender Esquire 60th Anniversary. .....and I am a happy amateur player, playing at home, learning stuff more or less every time I plug the guitar in, whether it be a new lick, technique or a new tone setting.
Anyhow, just figured I should stop by and say hi.
/Fredrik
Traded in my Fender Blues Deluxe and my Marshall 1962 Bluesbreaker RI at the local dealer the other day and went home with a 1*12 Lonestar Special.
So far I am a happy hippie,the Mesa is to me a totally different animal than the amps I traded in. Don't get me wrong, the Blues Deluxe and the Bluesbreaker are fine amps and sweet sounding but somewhat one dimensional IMO.
The Lonestar on the other hand is way more versatile, and the reverb doesn't hurt either. Don't think I've ever heard a built in reverb circuit sound as sweet as the one in the Special. Maybe not up to par with the 63 Fender reverb unit, but to find this in a combo, wow!
I have been fiddling around with settings quite a bit, and so far I have found (quite obvious) a good clean setting but also really nice settings for Rockabilly and Blues. Today I'll try to dial in a good Rock n Roll sound, somewhere down the lines of the Black Crowes tone, Marc's, Rich's or Luther's it doesn't matter, I'll be happy if I find either one.
Tried to find nice basic settings for country and delta blues without any luck the other day, anyone have any good starting points?
I will keep this amp stock, I've been down the modding roads before, spent fortunes on tubes, speakers etc trying to find "The" tone. While modding is a lot of fun, it is (for me) also a neverending quest finding the tone I have been looking for anyway, I have never come across the result I was looking for, I have come across good and bad tones and overall improvements, but never what I was looking for exactly. And also, there are never any mods (or amps, speakers etc) that will satisfy us all, what sounds like a great tone to me may sound like crap to others. With the Lonestar though it feels it is possible to find great tones without spending money (that is if the initial acquisition cost is ignored
), just have to spend some/plenty of time fiddling with the tone controls and all the other parameters to consider.Right now I run my Lonestar with a Fulltone Fulldrive II Custom Shop and an Analogman Sunlion in front of the amp and I use a Jam Delay LLama in the F/X loop.
The guitars I am playing are a Gibson Les Paul Standard and a Fender Esquire 60th Anniversary. .....and I am a happy amateur player, playing at home, learning stuff more or less every time I plug the guitar in, whether it be a new lick, technique or a new tone setting.
Anyhow, just figured I should stop by and say hi.
/Fredrik
