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AceLeppard « It ('sa Monster) »
Published on 01/16/12 at 09:20Combo Amp any lamp. <br>2 6L6 power, 5 12AX7 preamp + in loop I guess. <br>A speaker 12 "Black Shadow Electro Voice. <br>One of the first loop effects. <br>Two channels that share the same EQ. <br><br>An input jack, a footswitch jack. <br><br>Controls: <br>Volume 1 / Pull Bright <br>Treble / Pull Shift <br>Bass <br>Middle <br>Master 1 / Pull Gain Boost <br>Lead Drive / Pull Lead <br>Master Lead / Pull Bright <br><br>5-band graphic eq <br>3 Switches: EQ in / out; and Standby Power. <br><br>Three settings behind the amp: reverb, presence, and "slave out". <br><br>Mine was done with a black vinyl. There's no words, all of a total quality, a real tank. <br>Almost 30 kilos, unthinkable for such a "small" amp, the fault of the speaker.
UTILIZATION
The architectural configuration is complex. If at the time Mesa had cleverly found a way to put as many settings in so little space, this amp is really not for everyone's hands.
The lead channel is superimposed on a channel, like a big pedal Fuzz / distortion integrated. So you have to go a lot of time on set to find the right balance of sound on each channel.
In addition, a notch of knob to another, everything changes. A real headache ...
The équalo graphic is great for sculpting its sound in detail against!
SOUNDS
... But the end justifies the means, because the sound is to go, at least for the use that I did!
Clean channel on 10, it manages to master and you end up with a crunch 70's to die for. A Boss OD-1 and also any time of the Rock / Hard / Metal 80's out of my hands.
I used it with my Flying V and my Start on the end with the same happiness.
I've never been a fan of the channel "lead" on the other hand ... ok sound Santana was there completely, but it was not accurate enough for any rhythm. And still I speak of the lead channel with a Clean channel 1!
Channel lead on a 1 = big crunch boiled or infamous explosive Fuzz is to taste. I've never been a fan of Fuzz, then you will guess or bent my heart!
The effects loop is a brand new technology at the time, the use of that color the sound paradoxical to death, and throw a veil over the upper register. Maybe the settings are bright to compensate, ca never really bothered personally.
OVERALL OPINION
I used it for about two years. The father of my friend lent me guitar until I can buy him (a huge thank you to him!).
Yet I did not buy for two reasons.
1) The weight. 30 pounds and my room and the 3rd floor of a house. Hello test the stairs. All our roadies improvised there are broken teeth: "Here take the Marshall Stack on the wheels down!-Uh, I'm going to have breakfast, then ..."
2) a power unusable today. 1 to the Master, and sound engineers Lighthouse and Bikini in Toulouse me announced that I was too strong. Imagine my room. The volume was fine ZERO (sound out anyway).
I had a Fender Blues Junior, transportable, usable and practical.
On the comparison is difficult or impossible. But what is the most beautiful sound in the world when it is virtually unusable?
UTILIZATION
The architectural configuration is complex. If at the time Mesa had cleverly found a way to put as many settings in so little space, this amp is really not for everyone's hands.
The lead channel is superimposed on a channel, like a big pedal Fuzz / distortion integrated. So you have to go a lot of time on set to find the right balance of sound on each channel.
In addition, a notch of knob to another, everything changes. A real headache ...
The équalo graphic is great for sculpting its sound in detail against!
SOUNDS
... But the end justifies the means, because the sound is to go, at least for the use that I did!
Clean channel on 10, it manages to master and you end up with a crunch 70's to die for. A Boss OD-1 and also any time of the Rock / Hard / Metal 80's out of my hands.
I used it with my Flying V and my Start on the end with the same happiness.
I've never been a fan of the channel "lead" on the other hand ... ok sound Santana was there completely, but it was not accurate enough for any rhythm. And still I speak of the lead channel with a Clean channel 1!
Channel lead on a 1 = big crunch boiled or infamous explosive Fuzz is to taste. I've never been a fan of Fuzz, then you will guess or bent my heart!
The effects loop is a brand new technology at the time, the use of that color the sound paradoxical to death, and throw a veil over the upper register. Maybe the settings are bright to compensate, ca never really bothered personally.
OVERALL OPINION
I used it for about two years. The father of my friend lent me guitar until I can buy him (a huge thank you to him!).
Yet I did not buy for two reasons.
1) The weight. 30 pounds and my room and the 3rd floor of a house. Hello test the stairs. All our roadies improvised there are broken teeth: "Here take the Marshall Stack on the wheels down!-Uh, I'm going to have breakfast, then ..."
2) a power unusable today. 1 to the Master, and sound engineers Lighthouse and Bikini in Toulouse me announced that I was too strong. Imagine my room. The volume was fine ZERO (sound out anyway).
I had a Fender Blues Junior, transportable, usable and practical.
On the comparison is difficult or impossible. But what is the most beautiful sound in the world when it is virtually unusable?