I love my tung sol in v1. Either your tung sol is crap, or you like or used to the sound of the Mesa/jj tube. In all the tube amps I've had, a tung sol in v1 always sounded pretty good.
My roadster sits great in the mix, but when micing more mids are needed on the PA. There are many factors to not mixing well. Pickups, cabinets, amp settings, guitar settings, bass player settings, pa settings, tubes, etc...
:lol: Calm down with the tube swapping. Every rectifier I've owned and played has popped when entering the high gain channels for the first one or two times. Perfectly normal. Cycle through the channels when on standby to help minimize the pop. Otherwise, jam it up!
the decimator is sufficient enough. No need to spend another $80-$100. Yes the decimator and gstring is the same noise reduction but gstring adds tracking to help with end trails. Not a big thing if you don't turn the threshold of the decimator up too much. Grab the decimator and enjoy it!
Yes, I run the Maxon and ISP Decimator in the front. Guitar -> Maxon -> ISP -> Input Roadster. I run my Maxon and ISP in a GCX loop, and always have those two on together and activate or deactivate the loop when I need the maxon. The amp itself does not create noise if maxon is off even on...
I run my MaxonOD808 and an ISP Decimator in a loop in my GCX. Works great to remove the trippy noises the maxon gives when boosted in the orange/red channels.
I had nothing but unsatisfactory results with a parallel loop and a delay pedal back when I had a dual rec. I'm assuming you have the pre-2010 dual/triple with a parallel loop?
thats crazy bro. I have one spare rectifier tube you can borrow. Look into those JJ gz34s. They're pretty cheap. How do you like the TV over ur old roadster. I played a bud's TV but didn't really dig it as much as my roadster.