Sling Blade
Well-known member
Greetings Everyone,
Just Brought home my first and only Mesa the 5:50 Express last night. This is an upgade from my starter amp a 65w crate. I am a huge Metallica fan boy and I am in the process of learning all of their most popular albums (Kill em All, Ride the Lightning Master of Puppets ...and Justice for All and of course The Black Album). I have been trying to capture their tone now for close to three years. I have used pedals and zooms and could never it get it just right. It always seemed A bit off. It has been driving me insane. Last year I bought James Hetfields signiture guitar The ESP Truckster and with that I felt it was time to get an amp to match its greatness.
The Mesa 5:50 Express has incridible cleans! I have always used a chorus pedal and I can truely say I no longer feel the need to anymore. I can not say enough about the cleans. I turned on some of Metallicas Live stuff to play along with to try to match the tone and gain levels and soon I was giggling with delight. The Mesa has that deep throated growl I have been looking for and trying to duplicate all this time. Wether I played on the Crunh channel or the burn channal it was there. While playing Lepper Messiah at times I could not tell wether it was their guitars or mine. I couldn't be happier. Now all I need to do is match the tone and I will be good to go.
When I bought this amp I had full-intentions on returning it to Lang-Music If I was not satisfied with it. At $1200 thats a no brainer. But with that said I think I will hang on to it for awhile.
Just Brought home my first and only Mesa the 5:50 Express last night. This is an upgade from my starter amp a 65w crate. I am a huge Metallica fan boy and I am in the process of learning all of their most popular albums (Kill em All, Ride the Lightning Master of Puppets ...and Justice for All and of course The Black Album). I have been trying to capture their tone now for close to three years. I have used pedals and zooms and could never it get it just right. It always seemed A bit off. It has been driving me insane. Last year I bought James Hetfields signiture guitar The ESP Truckster and with that I felt it was time to get an amp to match its greatness.
The Mesa 5:50 Express has incridible cleans! I have always used a chorus pedal and I can truely say I no longer feel the need to anymore. I can not say enough about the cleans. I turned on some of Metallicas Live stuff to play along with to try to match the tone and gain levels and soon I was giggling with delight. The Mesa has that deep throated growl I have been looking for and trying to duplicate all this time. Wether I played on the Crunh channel or the burn channal it was there. While playing Lepper Messiah at times I could not tell wether it was their guitars or mine. I couldn't be happier. Now all I need to do is match the tone and I will be good to go.
When I bought this amp I had full-intentions on returning it to Lang-Music If I was not satisfied with it. At $1200 thats a no brainer. But with that said I think I will hang on to it for awhile.