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YellowJacket, how's that Red Beer? :wink: Never played that amp, is that comparable to mesa?
 
kryho said:
YellowJacket, how's that Red Beer? :wink: Never played that amp, is that comparable to mesa?

The Red Bear is actually my brother's amp but I have used it so I can comment. If you find one on Ebay, you won't get a better value for $$$s for a tube head. It takes a special preamp tube which is higher gain and lower noise than a 12ax7. My brother swears by the proper preamp tubes and refuses to use 12ax7s. We had it biased and threw a pair of Mesa's matched and tested 6L6s and it sounds great.

Ok, I'll try and explain the sound. It is a very gritty and noisy amp. It isn't smooth and compressed like a dual rec. It is more like a cross between an orange and a Soldano. The amp tends to love any guitar pickup with an alnico II magnet in it. It absolutely hates alnico V magnets though. We haven't tried it with active pickups but it does do well with ceramic magnets. For a cab, it sounds the best with the Mesa Standard or Traditional rectocab. My brother plays a G&L ASAT with his rig and it sounds great. My Les Paul sounds like bunk through the amp (alnico V magnet in the pickup) but my Godin LG sounds absolutely incredible. (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro neck and Custom Custom bridge) For a sound clip, look up the 90s ska band Five Iron Frenzy. One of the guitarists plays through a Red Bear. The amp really has a very unique tone.
 
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My Rig:

Mesa stiletto deuce stage 1
Mesa standard rectifier cab
Marshall 1987x
Marshall 1960AX

Guitars:

Gibson les paul custom 1974
Gibson les paul standard 2004
Fender telecaster 1962 RI custom thin skin
 
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<br> eventides rule! They rule even their user!

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Roadking 1 (under repair) with a 2x12 rect cab.....Randall RM100 on top of a Mesa rectifier 4x12 cab slanted..(covered by a Chicago Bears blankie!)
 
I have only played it for about 2 hours at a good volume, but can hear the potential.

The guys at mesa were right. These Mark series amps are tweakers amps. I think it's going to take a while
to coax my tones from it but I know it is a killer rig.
 
MesaGod666 said:


Mesa Triple Rectifier 3 Channel (MOJO MOD) Selling it to pay for the Triaxis/2:90
Mesa Dual Rectifier Roadster
Roland Jazz Chorus Combo JC-120
Dual 4x12 Celestian V30 loaded Rectifier Straight Cabs
(2) A/B Amp Switchers
Boss Noise Suppressor

Here's some more pics of my rig...

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Here are a few pictures of my amps and racks I use for various things.

This is my current metal rack. It replaces the Triaxis and 2:90 I had in the rack previously. I use a DS-1 and NS-2 in front of the amp, and the G-Major in the loop and handling the switching. The rectifier was purchased from the Plano Texas Guitar Center for 400 dollars and shipped to my home. It had blown a bunch of resistors on the heater supply and a couple of other parts on the inside. I repaired it and it sounds awesome. It is a Revision F rectifier with the MKIII transformers.
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This is my MK III. I got it for 300 dollars from a local pawn shop because of the broken pot and someone had stolen all the tubes. It was being sold 'as is'. I spent ten minutes replacing the pot and put in some extra tubes I had. I run a NS-2 into the amp and a GE-10 in the loop. The amp includes reverb.
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These are my three other amps. A revision G triple rectifier, A trem-o-verb, and a 5150. The Tremoverb had an issue with one LDR but once that was replaced it works wonderfully.
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This is my previous Triaxis rack and my Industrial metal rack. The triaxis rack is waiting for me to buy a new Rack to place it in. The industrial rack from top to bottom has a GR-50 midi guitar interface for controlling the synths, an Akai Sampler, a Novation A-station analog synth, a MP-1 that gets the direct guitar signal, a mixer/effect, and a halfler power amp. There is a speaker sim attached to the MP-1 to prevent the hive of bee's sound due to using full range speakers for the synths.
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This is the racktifier with it's guts spewing out during repairs.
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And this is my amp room/computer room in it's natural state. Included in this pohto are my Vetta, A slo-100 clone I built, my PodXT and PodX3 amongst other things.
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