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I bought my rectoverb 25 shortly after they were released (and before the price increase). I considered selling it about six months ago but decided against it because I remembered how much I hate using Reverb and ebay. Now I can't part with it because if I wanted to go back to it some day it would likely cost me.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:If Gibson changes one minor thing about any Mesa amp they will, tubes and all, immediately evaporate into a milky cloud of vaporized Red Bull. I don’t think they can afford to do things differently from an engineering and QA standpoint. gonna hazard a guess they'll leave the existing products alone though i question their ability to get their corksniffing bluesdentist customer base on board with more modern high gain amps e: lol
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Jan 12, 2021 01:37
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i really like my triple crown. but if they kill that line it'll be even cooler
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Jan 12, 2021 03:21
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The other thing is Gibson has made rad amps both way long ago and more recently with the Goldtone amps. 
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it’d be cool if we get mesa-quality reissues of the ga-35 and the ga-40
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Declan MacManus posted:it’d be cool if we get mesa-quality reissues of the ga-35 and the ga-40 That’d be awesome. I just checked and Paul Stevens was head of engineering at Trace Elliot when Gibson bought them. He designed the awesome Goldtone above before moving on to Peavey and then Blackstar. Gibson seems to have an example of utilizing newly-acquired talent for good ends sometimes, if only before they bury the brand.
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Jan 13, 2021 02:37
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:If Gibson changes one minor thing about any Mesa amp they will, tubes and all, immediately evaporate into a milky cloud of vaporized Red Bull. I don’t think they can afford to do things differently from an engineering and QA standpoint. they're somehow going to alter a single support inside the cab that will introduce a catastrophic point of failure, bringing manna from heaven to struggling amp techs.
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Jan 15, 2021 02:51
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creamcorn posted:they're somehow going to alter a single support inside the cab that will introduce a catastrophic point of failure, bringing manna from heaven to struggling amp techs. As a current amp tech apprentice I cant wait for all the business fixing Mesas when Gibson inevitably fucks em up
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Jan 17, 2021 18:40
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Declan MacManus posted:it’d be cool if we get mesa-quality reissues of the ga-35 and the ga-40 Yeah the press release also at least talked about becoming a Gibson Amplifier custom shop so you can expect some, at least in the short term, cool (but very expensive) re-issues of older Gibson amps
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Jan 17, 2021 18:49
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Kvlt! posted:As a current amp tech apprentice I cant wait for all the business fixing Mesas when Gibson inevitably fucks em up Aren't Mesas basically the worst thing to fix? I seem to remember amp techs refusing to touch then because they're crammed full of a billion components in way too little space.
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Jan 17, 2021 18:53
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BonHair posted:Aren't Mesas basically the worst thing to fix? I seem to remember amp techs refusing to touch then because they're crammed full of a billion components in way too little space. I havent worked on a Mesa yet since I only started recently, but in the shop I apprentice at we straight up refuse to fix certain Peavey's because the chassis are set up in such a bizzare way no amount of $$$ is worth the time and frustration to fix them. Ill ask the boss man on Tuesday which models they are since I forget and report back.
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Jan 17, 2021 22:04
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Yes because of Mesa’s product development approach of including everything imaginable, usually from previous versions of the same line, inside one amp. Complex switching and countless interconnected circuit boards are all sandwiched tightly together making fault-finding brutal.
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Jan 18, 2021 07:34
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I've never seen a tube tester built INTO an amp before. Anyone know whats going on here? The one we have at work is HUGE I cant imagine one fitting into a chassis with an amp. But then again that one is analog. 
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Jan 18, 2021 13:24
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Yes because of Mesa’s product development approach of including everything imaginable, usually from previous versions of the same line, inside one amp. Complex switching and countless interconnected circuit boards are all sandwiched tightly together making fault-finding brutal. Now take that, have it reverse engineered and assembled by the lowest bidder by the manufacturer of the amp in the post above, add some weird poo poo like built in tube testers, and you'll appreciate why most of the music stores in my city stopped carrying them about a year after Behringer introduced them to the market. Nightmare fuel.
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Mesas do have soooo much switching. Surprised they dont add a vape somewhere in them like that Keeley pedal lol
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Don Dongington posted:Now take that, have it reverse engineered and assembled by the lowest bidder by the manufacturer of the amp in the post above, add some weird poo poo like built in tube testers, and you'll appreciate why most of the music stores in my city stopped carrying them about a year after Behringer introduced them to the market. It’s telling that the most famous band to make Mesa amps the core of their sound, Metallica, never toured with them during the time they made them super famous. Hell, the Marshalls modified by Jose Arredondo went on tour/were more reliable/easier to service.
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Jan 18, 2021 16:54
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lol yeah they just used triaxis preamps instead
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Hey everyone I have a little bit of an amp mystery. I have an old family photo from what I believe is either the 30s or 40s, and I'm trying to figure out what amp is in it: It looks like its being used to amplify the lady playing guitar in her lap, as thats the only instrument with pots on it. Unfortunately I have no way of identifying that lady so I cant ask her or her descendants about the amp.
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Jan 22, 2021 14:37
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Do you know approximately where this photograph was taken?
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Jan 22, 2021 22:50
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in the upside down world, obviously
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Jan 22, 2021 22:52
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My best guess before diving deeper is that it is an Oahu/Valco student lap steel amplifier from the 1940s. It is undoubtedly a Fender Champ-style circuit.
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Jan 22, 2021 23:02
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Do you know approximately where this photograph was taken? Yes. It was taken in the suburbs of Buffalo NY, around Williamsville, NY I believe. Thank you so much for the help, gonna go check out those leads! I think you are correct.
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Jan 22, 2021 23:14
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Don Dongington posted:Now take that, have it reverse engineered and assembled by the lowest bidder by the manufacturer of the amp in the post above, add some weird poo poo like built in tube testers, and you'll appreciate why most of the music stores in my city stopped carrying them about a year after Behringer introduced them to the market. they also liked to combust lol, one of my most memorable open mic experiences is watching a guy's bugera combust mid e minor blues.
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had this nasty ground hum/RF interference in my setup all of a sudden, looks like my Weber Load Dump (lol) may have just poo poo the bed for no reason?
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I'm in the market for a smallish tube amp for my office/basement. I already have a modeling practice amp, and a tube amp seemed like the next logical step. I'm currently looking at this: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Rocker15--orange-rocker-15-15-watt-1x10-inch-tube-combo Or I was also intrigued by the Hughes and Kettner Vintage Nano paired with some small speaker. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SpiritNVint--hughes-and-kettner-spirit-of-vintage-25-watt-nano-amp https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TM10Cab--hughes-and-kettner-tubemeister-110-30-watt-1x10-inch-extension-cabinet Alternatively, I've heard good things about Blackstar tube amps, like this one which is much more reasonably priced. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/HT1RMKII--blackstar-ht1r-mkii-1-watt-1x8-inch-tube-combo-amp-with-reverb Thoughts?
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SnatchRabbit posted:Alternatively, I've heard good things about Blackstar tube amps, like this one which is much more reasonably priced. I don’t have that blackstar, but I do have one of their smaller tube amps and it’s great. I still mostly play through my Marshall stack but the blackstar is a great mobile solution. I like that mine has volume control for each channel but then a master volume so I can get the cranked tune sound without killing my ears. I just keep the master volume around 2 and everything else all the way up.
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SnatchRabbit posted:I'm in the market for a smallish tube amp for my office/basement. I already have a modeling practice amp, and a tube amp seemed like the next logical step. I'm currently looking at this: Make sure you try an OR15 if you're considering a rocker15. Maybe it's my taste, but I listened to the back to back and the OR is just otherworldly, whereas I thought the rocker sounded a bit brittle to my ears.
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SnatchRabbit posted:Alternatively, I've heard good things about Blackstar tube amps, like this one which is much more reasonably priced. I have this (the mk1), picked it up used for like $90, and it's great. Covers pretty much the entire gamut of gain ranges, the reverb is good, if you can get it up off the floor the speaker delivers a surprisingly large dynamic range for an 8 inch. Weakest part is probably the EQ, I picked up a Boss EQ pedal for times I want to tweak that stuff, but it's a very minor niggle, the tone ranges you get from the ISF control are all entirely usable. It weighs next to nothing and will do good tones at very comfortable volumes. The emulated output works really well too. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat for twice what I payed for it.
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Don Dongington posted:Make sure you try an OR15 if you're considering a rocker15. Maybe it's my taste, but I listened to the back to back and the OR is just otherworldly, whereas I thought the rocker sounded a bit brittle to my ears. Thanks, but isn’t the or15 a head that requires a cabinet as well? Might be out of my price range since the or15 is $700 alone unless I’m misunderstanding.
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1 watt tube amps generally speaking have zero headroom, which is okay as long as you're not planning on playing squeaky clean or don't plan on being able to stack a ton of pedals as far as low wattage stuff goes, i like the bugera v5 infinium (the non-infinium version tends to eat tubes) and the kustom defender 5h (which is pretty much just a champ circuit in head form)
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Yes because of Mesa’s product development approach of including everything imaginable, usually from previous versions of the same line, inside one amp. Complex switching and countless interconnected circuit boards are all sandwiched tightly together making fault-finding brutal. I think it'd be pretty easy to spot what went wrong inside of my amp 
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Thoughts on throwing a pair of Greenbacks into a Mesa 4x12 so that I've got an X Pattern of V30s and Greenbacks?
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Thoughts on the Mesa Transatlantic series? Saw one for cheap and was wondering if it'd be worth pulling for the purchase. According to peeps, it's more "British"-sounding than most Mesas and doesn't have an FX-Loop.
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I never got to try the head version but for years the combo was a white whale for me. Great cleans and distortion. Never pulled the trigger because I didn’t have the funds for it.
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Kind of a weird question, but does anyone make boutique solid state amps?
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That's an oxymoron  But to answer your question, you need to be more specific. What sound are you looking for? How do you define boutique?
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May 5, 2021 14:23
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Quilter Labs. You're thinking about Quilter Labs Amplification.
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If Quilter's too big for your definition of "boutique", there's Award-Session
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Kvlt! posted:That's an oxymoron Kind of, but maybe not? Boutique tube amps are an exercise in refining the application of obsolete technologies, judged in purely aesthetic terms. The equivalent for solid state would be over-engineering and the application of (perhaps) unnecessarily advanced technologies. I feel like that would just require a very different and less common skill set. I have wondered this myself. Something about the Quilters bugs me, I think it's probably just their appearance. I really just wish NwAvGuy would return from under the mountain and build guitar amps.
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