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Published on 01/06/04 at 15:00Picked up this amp head with a matching cab with vintage 30's i guess i can't stand vintage anything but that's what the half stack they recommended was so i went along with it.
I wanted a marshall jcm2000 triple lead
but they pushed me on the mesa.
i paid like $1500 for the thing i guess i don't know they said it was the same price as the marshall and i didn't check that very carefully so.. yea. I got it at guitar center in burbank IL.
It was close to closing when i came back for it and they were kinda pushy, they sold me a flanger without even showing me it first, and they didn't even give me a reciept.
It has good crunch and the chiks will dig it. it has a lot of sound options.
And is very high quality professional and all. I mean what can you say about it.
Of course it's an awesome it head i mean it's one of the best heads in the world some would argue the best if you want a more killer amp system than this you are gonna need a rack period. But that's not my opinion that's just the truth it's the most gnarly wicked head money can buy. The road king is a tiny bit better but not by much it's just a little fancier.
it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of modelers like line 6 or any stereo heads but if you want effects and modelers your best bet is a nice effects loop on a solid all tube head or a rack with a effects loop. the slave output is a beautiful thing too. you can run a powered sub a stereo combo a slew of other amps or whatever and all that. I couldn't be without that. The effects loop is nice with wet/dry levels and true bypass.
The attack is nice and the crunch is ready to start bordering on dull it's so smooth!
And that's about enough i guess.
They forgot to sell me the foot switch!
It's a pain to operate without the footswitch.
No headroom! you have to switch to el34's and take 50 watts off the head for it to be compatible with the cab they sell it with! it's 150w head and a 150w cab!
I don't wanna give up my precious wattage! I guess i'll just have to get another cab! huh ya don't think they planned that do ya?
very rugged of course, I hear you could drop this head off stage and it would be ok! leather coverings, very pretty.
nice logo design and metal at that.
chromeplated steel head grill.
Man, tubes are just sexy looking! is that wierd? i love this amp!
Seriously i'll never buy another solidstate amp ever maybe a preamp for this but with my crate glx120 in the slave output i don't think i'll be needing one anytime soon.
Well this is the best head you can get but there is the road king if ya have a few hundred extra and nothing else to spend it on. I would get that i guess but it has the same tube and controls just a different interface.
But i recomend a fullstack with enough headroom to open up the wattage on this bad boy!
And also it has a lil bit of harshness in the tone with 6l6's if you are a new player it could be destructive to you're development to try learning on this i wouldn't say learning on a solidstate would be better but definately for a newbie a marshall jcm 2000 tsl would give you a more 'easy listening' sound if you can dig what i mean. like the way you hear the tones and pitches and get to know your guitars abilities and learn what directions you want to expand you're own in. the truth be told i play hardcore and listen to scarling, lacuna coil, and type o but know how to play bluegrass, spanish styles, and blues, even r & b you can't know what you know til you know what you don't know!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
I wanted a marshall jcm2000 triple lead
but they pushed me on the mesa.
i paid like $1500 for the thing i guess i don't know they said it was the same price as the marshall and i didn't check that very carefully so.. yea. I got it at guitar center in burbank IL.
It was close to closing when i came back for it and they were kinda pushy, they sold me a flanger without even showing me it first, and they didn't even give me a reciept.
It has good crunch and the chiks will dig it. it has a lot of sound options.
And is very high quality professional and all. I mean what can you say about it.
Of course it's an awesome it head i mean it's one of the best heads in the world some would argue the best if you want a more killer amp system than this you are gonna need a rack period. But that's not my opinion that's just the truth it's the most gnarly wicked head money can buy. The road king is a tiny bit better but not by much it's just a little fancier.
it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of modelers like line 6 or any stereo heads but if you want effects and modelers your best bet is a nice effects loop on a solid all tube head or a rack with a effects loop. the slave output is a beautiful thing too. you can run a powered sub a stereo combo a slew of other amps or whatever and all that. I couldn't be without that. The effects loop is nice with wet/dry levels and true bypass.
The attack is nice and the crunch is ready to start bordering on dull it's so smooth!
And that's about enough i guess.
They forgot to sell me the foot switch!
It's a pain to operate without the footswitch.
No headroom! you have to switch to el34's and take 50 watts off the head for it to be compatible with the cab they sell it with! it's 150w head and a 150w cab!
I don't wanna give up my precious wattage! I guess i'll just have to get another cab! huh ya don't think they planned that do ya?
very rugged of course, I hear you could drop this head off stage and it would be ok! leather coverings, very pretty.
nice logo design and metal at that.
chromeplated steel head grill.
Man, tubes are just sexy looking! is that wierd? i love this amp!
Seriously i'll never buy another solidstate amp ever maybe a preamp for this but with my crate glx120 in the slave output i don't think i'll be needing one anytime soon.
Well this is the best head you can get but there is the road king if ya have a few hundred extra and nothing else to spend it on. I would get that i guess but it has the same tube and controls just a different interface.
But i recomend a fullstack with enough headroom to open up the wattage on this bad boy!
And also it has a lil bit of harshness in the tone with 6l6's if you are a new player it could be destructive to you're development to try learning on this i wouldn't say learning on a solidstate would be better but definately for a newbie a marshall jcm 2000 tsl would give you a more 'easy listening' sound if you can dig what i mean. like the way you hear the tones and pitches and get to know your guitars abilities and learn what directions you want to expand you're own in. the truth be told i play hardcore and listen to scarling, lacuna coil, and type o but know how to play bluegrass, spanish styles, and blues, even r & b you can't know what you know til you know what you don't know!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com