ok all people are agree to mesa try to get a general triaxis for everybody but the trouble is that triaxis try to cover so many purposes since the blues to trash metal.
after 4 months working all time with the triaxis I get the conclusion that triaxis doesn´t needs to get any mods, but.....
I now that there is some people that really needs some mods, maybe because they don´t know how to get the 100% of the TA, maybe because when they were young they were hetfield fans and now they wants to be SRV, and so others maybes....
I think that any mod that needs more than 4 components replacement is a really waste of time, and maybe the amp will never cover the expectations of the user.
Really mods are needed to a fine tuning your amp, like " my amp is wonderfull but I need a bit more bass ", is a good mod, on the other hand there are so many people that wents to me with a jcm800 and saids " hey man I want a bogner " and I say marvelous so just buy it on a shop, because if I mod the jcm800 into a bogner it will costs more than a bogner new.
ok another matter to discuss is why some people are so purist with his sound??? if you are a punk guy playing gigs with a fat drummer that kick the bass drum like a quarterback why do you want NOS tubes, maybe you will be so drunk the people will be shouting the singer will be collapsing your ears and I think that you will not able to get some differences between regular tubes and NOS tubes.
On the other hand we have the classical guitar player that plays on his home with an amp, he is purist, he is looking for the best sound and he tries to mod his amp for the best tone. I ever asked is your amp a class A amp??? no??'? then don´t waste your money first of all get a class A amp and then back to me and talk about mods.
There is another great matter, is it really necesary to waist so much time looking for the holy grail sound???' If you are researching on mods for your amps you are maybe wasting time of your picking tecnique.
I remember once a time I see Steve Morse playing on a clinic with a peavey bandit, hey man believe me that picking and sounds becomes from his wrist. no mod amp no holy grail sound and no mod could achieve this perfect articulation notes that becomes from these ****** bandit.
I think that getting a great sound is a good matter, but if trying to get the holy grail sound becomes into a psicosis that makes you to feel unhappy so dude take the amp to ther river.
I still remember one of my first topics about the orange drop caps, there were some people that recap all the amp :shock: so man are you crazy???? do you want to waist your time???? are you a purist sound???? maybe a psicosis,¿??' are you trying to get a perfect sound due a lack on your tecnique???? my answer is q great no, I will not recap my amps, even as working as a tech I will never loose so such time on my amps, or on my customers amps because it will be so expensive for my clients and a bit nonsense, thinking that you can buy a TS9 and get into another dimension.
My conclusion is that maybe a 4 components replace is a good mod, more components replace is a waist of time, and I prefer to waist these time playing my guitar or ****** the girls
Ok jlagoon if you change the resistor´s array this will not produce that there appears the .5 on your display but you can get a custom values for your parameters.
Think that TA is an analog amp manage by a digital enviroment, so the resistors arrays tries to emulate the classical pots positions, with the help of the microprocesor and the multiplexer when you select a parameter value you will be emulating a hand that turns your pot into a determinate position. The uprocesor sends an order to the multiplexer and the multiplexer choose the correct value of the resistors array that emulate this classical por.
If you want to get more accurate on lower values I recomend to you to mod the lower values resistors, research for your custom values that makes you to feel good, and remember never more than 4 components, if you need more than 4 maybe TA is not your amp.
I think that this mod is not difficult, but think that I´ve been working on amps since 4 years ago and I don´t remember how difficult was my first steps.
Then only difficult matter is that the triaxis is a great complex circuit into 1 rack space and all the components are quite together, so be careful wit that matter.
P.D: I think that this mod is not really difficult, the most difficult thing is to get into the TA philosophy, when you understand that philosophy changing components is not so difficult.
