Recent content by CoolRails

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I seriously doubt anyone would trade ANY Mesa for ANY Line 6. Line 6 is crap.

Just was at the Mesa booth at NAMM, talking up a really friendly Mesa Rep there (Thanks Trent!) about the Mark V. I asked him if it could REALLY pull off the Mark 2C+ sound. He says "Why don't you find out". Hands me a Tom Anderson and plugs it in. It nails it. I LOVE the Tweed as well, sounds...

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I think you could get pretty close to it with this: Gain at 11:00 Treble at 10:00 Mids at 2:00 Bass at 12-1 Presence at 10 Master at 11 Sounds like the clean tone I'm getting. Man that guy can play.

Depends how cheap "cheap" actually is. I have a setup that costs me about $800 that I get great results out of. DigiDesign Mbox (comes with ProTools & plugins), SM57 (I went with an Audix I-5), and some decent monitors and headphones. It doesn't hurt to have a processor or POD-like device of...

So I got the amp in to a tech in my area, he took a look at it today and said the amp has significant damage due to 2 blown power tubes. He also said the other tubes looked quite used as well. He didn't have a definitive theory, but said that he thought it looked like I played the amp really...

Yes, it is one year old. One more thing: right before the "pop" I heard and a bit of smoke, the amp made a sound like a motorcycle accelerating, started from a low pitch up to a high one but still had a throatiness to it. I'm bummed about going home today.... No Mesa to Play :cry: Guess...

Thanks for the advice guys. I could see if the 5 watt and the 15 watt weren't working it should clearly be the Rectifier tube, but in this case it is just the 5 watt that isn't working. I called a local tech and he proposed his theories which were pretty much similar, I just hope whatever it...

All right guys, I need a bit of help diagnosing a problem I'm having with my Lone Star Special that is about a year old. I took it out yesterday to play, and I brought it back upstairs and am playing it today. I've been playing it for about 2 hours driving it pretty hard and all of a sudden I...

I have thought about putting NOS tubes in my LSS, even priced it out a bit. But I keep thinking: those things cost quite a bit. If I blew a tube I would be PISSED. How much did you spend on the re-tube?

Man I completely agree with the stuff getting trashed. Especially the guitars. They are just ugly. I was in the F Valley store today and went to play a PRS SE Custom... I plugged in before I noticed the Pickup toggle switch was missing. Awesome. They had a F30 in there that I swear has been...

That would suck if They lost Mesa.... I just don't know of a good Mesa Dealer close besides them. I guess I could truck it up to Mesa in Hollywood... It's only a 40 minute drive but parking sucks in L.A. and I have a feeling that store might be a bit more pretentious than my neighborhood G.C. I...

I played the LSS in the store when I bought it through the stock speaker simultaneously with a 2x12 LoneStar Cab that sounded Great. I'm going to get a cab too, I'm thinking of going with a 2x12 but I've heard that closed back Recto cabs sound amazing with the Special. I think I'm going to go...

That is a RARE amp. I've never seen one and I live close to 4 Guitar Centers and several music stores. I would be VERY interested to hear what it would sound like overdriven, I'm usually not a fan of the "10 inch overdrive" sound.

It's a very subtle buzz, but it is there. Funny thing is I can never remember it buzzing before, but I have had it for about 5 years. And it is much easier to run it through this alternate out (The Slave), it's just one less stop along the tone sucking line of pedals that I have to stop at. It...