Recent content by werdna

The ED was marketed by Mesa as American cleans, British dirty. British means Marshall. Fail. Shame that noone has figured out how to put a plexi and a twin in the same head - unless you buy a huge Randall rack. It would take a creative company like Mesa to pull this off, but they have been...

I compared my ED to the following amps: Mark V, Marshall plexi with brown eye mod and the Marshall AFD 100. Both the Marshalls had way better standard rock tone, especially the plexi. The ED sounded woolly and too bassy, with none of the bite of the Marshalls. The difference was massive and...

Actually awesome playing. Well done.

This wasn't a bedroom experiment. I changed the tubes to EL34s then immediately went to band practice. You could immediately hear the difference. The guys told me not to use my clean channel because it sounded so flat. I ended up using the blue channel and turning the guitar volume down. Also, I...

The EL34s are just some matched JJs that cost me less than $100 from the Tubestore. The difference is very noticeable - channel one sounds pretty bad all of a sudden, and channels two and three sound much more toneful.

Hi, The second channel on the Road King sucks. I would like to replace it with a JCM800 style preamp channel as per an Electra Dyne. This would involve removing the older channel preamp circuitry and putting in new circuitry. This will depend on how physically separate the channels are. The...

Prompted by another forum member, I put EL34s into my ED. The result is a tone much more like a Marshall: more mid-range, less booming bass, less fizz, and sleazier and meaner. This is the way channels two and three were meant to sound, I think. All in all, the EL34s are a major improvement on...

The reason why the ED has so much bass on the blue and red overdrive modes is because of circuits in the power amp. These circuits made the clean channel sound great on regular EQ. When I change to the overdrive modes, the sound is EQ'd way too bassy. According to an amp tech, you could modify...

Looking at the schematic, the preamp of the third mode of the ED is very much a JCM 800. Am trying to work out why the sound of the ED is dark and muddy, and not clangy like a Marshall.

Is there anyone out there who has modded their ED please?

Hi, I want to mod my ED so that mode 3 sounds like EVH's brown tone. I want the amp to have a huge Marshall sound, like a plexi with the brown eye mod. Has anyone got any experience with this?

The Bogner Ecstasy 101B looks like a very versatile amp. Is this a better option for that elusive Fender/Marshall combination in one amp? I am concerned that my ED is too muddy and boomy, and doesn't have the Marshall crunch. I like the Ed Van H brown sound but it is not there on my ED. Are my...

Guys, As you will know, the ED's sound is very bassy and dark. I want to get a Marshall sound, that crunchy, singing overdrive. The sound Slash gets. OK, maybe I should buy a Marshall. Maybe I will. But right now, I have the ED. My ED sounds muddy in comparison. Have any of you figured out how...

Does anyone know if a solo boost mod can be put on Mavericks please?

So I have run out of headroom. Would I have the same problem if I fitted a solo boost, like on Stilettos, Mark Vs etc?