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Published on 07/07/03 at 07:12
The mesa V-Twin Harley Davidson with her look more like a gimmick than a conventional preamp. It is far from the sobriety of studio preamp or quad, but should not be relied upon (in any case is not the same thing!)
The one I have is very handy in hard pedal and totally indestructible, 12v plug transformer.
This is a small tube preamp (2 ECC83) has the sole purpose in life that provide a nice distortion and that's all.
2 switch (bypass / distortion), a switch (hard to reach unless you play barefoot) that controls the passage clear / blues (nothing to do with Clearblue, testing)
6 classic knobs: gain, treble, bass, mid, presence, master.
At the rear, 6 inputs / outputs, an output amplifier guitar, power amp out, headphone jack (not terrible ),...
UTILIZATION
Not need a degree to use it.
The distal selector controls the flow of clear and little distortion switch turns the clear blues. That's it. Small brightly colored diodes (Red = disto, green = light blue = blues =) prevent any confusion
SOUNDS
It is complicated.
The gain equalizer and background for my config (on old gibson marshall lamps), fat distortion sounds, there is nothing to dire.Le sound is warm, round, not too dirty or too clean and especially do not alter the characteristics of amp and guitar. Personally, I played different styles without problem (the big blues to metal).
The light brings even more fullness and warmth that I had but the problem is the difference between the two equalization stages: between light and distortion, change the settings because too much power for the light ( a difference sound very unpleasant), more gain saturation causes a slight unwelcome. In short, we can not use both on the same piece so I use the bypass and defer to other alternatives to clear. it's a shame.
As the passage clear blues, the problem is the same.
OVERALL OPINION
I have this little metal box for 7 years and I never ever separates. It was good to have flaws, I love the sound it produces distortion on my hardware: it recognizes the characteristics of the gibson and once you push a little marshall (y no master above, it was not) The sound is really burning.
But with other equipment, I guarantee nothing.
The sudden changes in levels between channels is really unpleasant, at best, play the volume with a volume pedal but it does not prevent early saturation crachouieuse and if we lower the gain was more the big disto ...
In short, I only use the distortion.
The handy format and indestructible, I carry around everywhere, never a failure, it is like new.
I absolutely regret it but I'd like to move to other things in the same spirit of her but I will not sell, good material for beginners looking to have a sound identity (and not a sound academic and sanitized).
At the time I got it new for 3500fr, which was already expensive, but it has almost doubled now!
On occasion, she turns to 400 €, but it is shock resistant nuclear (at worst you change the lamps)
Now, besides me, I've seen anyone else use it but it still makes (8 years) is proof that it works.
LATEST NEWS
it seems that mesa solved the problem of gain change between clean and distortion with a small adjustment stashed beneath a trap door behind the pedal (admit it's vicious). So my advice j'remonte.
The one I have is very handy in hard pedal and totally indestructible, 12v plug transformer.
This is a small tube preamp (2 ECC83) has the sole purpose in life that provide a nice distortion and that's all.
2 switch (bypass / distortion), a switch (hard to reach unless you play barefoot) that controls the passage clear / blues (nothing to do with Clearblue, testing)
6 classic knobs: gain, treble, bass, mid, presence, master.
At the rear, 6 inputs / outputs, an output amplifier guitar, power amp out, headphone jack (not terrible ),...
UTILIZATION
Not need a degree to use it.
The distal selector controls the flow of clear and little distortion switch turns the clear blues. That's it. Small brightly colored diodes (Red = disto, green = light blue = blues =) prevent any confusion
SOUNDS
It is complicated.
The gain equalizer and background for my config (on old gibson marshall lamps), fat distortion sounds, there is nothing to dire.Le sound is warm, round, not too dirty or too clean and especially do not alter the characteristics of amp and guitar. Personally, I played different styles without problem (the big blues to metal).
The light brings even more fullness and warmth that I had but the problem is the difference between the two equalization stages: between light and distortion, change the settings because too much power for the light ( a difference sound very unpleasant), more gain saturation causes a slight unwelcome. In short, we can not use both on the same piece so I use the bypass and defer to other alternatives to clear. it's a shame.
As the passage clear blues, the problem is the same.
OVERALL OPINION
I have this little metal box for 7 years and I never ever separates. It was good to have flaws, I love the sound it produces distortion on my hardware: it recognizes the characteristics of the gibson and once you push a little marshall (y no master above, it was not) The sound is really burning.
But with other equipment, I guarantee nothing.
The sudden changes in levels between channels is really unpleasant, at best, play the volume with a volume pedal but it does not prevent early saturation crachouieuse and if we lower the gain was more the big disto ...
In short, I only use the distortion.
The handy format and indestructible, I carry around everywhere, never a failure, it is like new.
I absolutely regret it but I'd like to move to other things in the same spirit of her but I will not sell, good material for beginners looking to have a sound identity (and not a sound academic and sanitized).
At the time I got it new for 3500fr, which was already expensive, but it has almost doubled now!
On occasion, she turns to 400 €, but it is shock resistant nuclear (at worst you change the lamps)
Now, besides me, I've seen anyone else use it but it still makes (8 years) is proof that it works.
LATEST NEWS
it seems that mesa solved the problem of gain change between clean and distortion with a small adjustment stashed beneath a trap door behind the pedal (admit it's vicious). So my advice j'remonte.