ctravis595
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I seriously cannot stand the people who say they don't like the Nomad
In my experience, these people threw on a stereotypical Eq structure, gain setting and volume and didn't like what they hear and walked away...
With a tubescreamer, I was able to achieve a thick, full and MUSICAL rythmn distortion channel from channel 2. Channel three is great for gainy leads and solos. Channel one does it's job...
The thing is with this amp, the treble knob doesn't act like a treble knob, the mid knob doesn't act like a mid knob, and the bass certainly doesn't act like a traditional bass knob.
If you read the owners manual, you'll see these pots were designed in a way that instead of getting a black and white difference with each knob to set, you can find a multitude of "sweet spots" and in-betweens. They tend to "shape" the treble rather than actually increasing trouble. The presence control is also very unothordox, you just have to get used to it
Another thing that really got this amp to sound good for me, was some good JJ 6l6 tubes from dougs tubes. I tried el34's in this amp and idk what that's all about....not my cup of tea...
My only real drawback with the nomad design is the lack of reverb. The reverb tends to saturate the tone instead of actually reverbing it. Nothing a holy grail can't fix...
Once I got extremely familiar with modding my amps, and the nomad in particular. I decided to do the popular "mudmod", the "fx loop capacitor mod", the "xtreme switch mod", and also the "fx loop to series mod"...and HOLY CRAP did this transform this amp into a semi-impressive amp. Into a complete and total tone MONSTER. This thing RIPS...I don't even need a tubescreamer anymore...I gave it to my other guitarist...I get compliments on my tone everywhere I go...I'm using an EMG 85 in my bridge so it's not like I'm using a crazy nice guitar either
Again, channel three sounds like a great lead to cut through the mix on demand (i don't switch between channels at all). Channel 2 is SWEET. everything i could want from a crunch channel. so full sounding that sometimes i wonder if i even need a reverb in my fx loop...and only after these mods (fx capicator mod in particular) did this amp really start to sing on the clean channel...very beautiful sounding
Still have some experimenting to do with the reverb mods...
Another huge thing, the mesa 6l6's sound like crap in these amps...we A/B'd in the studio and all I got was unwanted amp noise with the mesa tubes....too scratchy and gainy sounding. Make sure you get some JJ's and a tubescreamer if you dont' want to mod it
Lastly, check out the tone I was able to get for my bands album. I write everything and play rythmn/sing. The rythmn tone is my Mesa Nomad 100 with the fx series mod, xtreme switch mod, mud mod but NOT the fx capicator mod. I also used a tubescreamer
my guitar is a ESP viper 1000 deluxe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8i1eT994k
In my experience, these people threw on a stereotypical Eq structure, gain setting and volume and didn't like what they hear and walked away...
With a tubescreamer, I was able to achieve a thick, full and MUSICAL rythmn distortion channel from channel 2. Channel three is great for gainy leads and solos. Channel one does it's job...
The thing is with this amp, the treble knob doesn't act like a treble knob, the mid knob doesn't act like a mid knob, and the bass certainly doesn't act like a traditional bass knob.
If you read the owners manual, you'll see these pots were designed in a way that instead of getting a black and white difference with each knob to set, you can find a multitude of "sweet spots" and in-betweens. They tend to "shape" the treble rather than actually increasing trouble. The presence control is also very unothordox, you just have to get used to it
Another thing that really got this amp to sound good for me, was some good JJ 6l6 tubes from dougs tubes. I tried el34's in this amp and idk what that's all about....not my cup of tea...
My only real drawback with the nomad design is the lack of reverb. The reverb tends to saturate the tone instead of actually reverbing it. Nothing a holy grail can't fix...
Once I got extremely familiar with modding my amps, and the nomad in particular. I decided to do the popular "mudmod", the "fx loop capacitor mod", the "xtreme switch mod", and also the "fx loop to series mod"...and HOLY CRAP did this transform this amp into a semi-impressive amp. Into a complete and total tone MONSTER. This thing RIPS...I don't even need a tubescreamer anymore...I gave it to my other guitarist...I get compliments on my tone everywhere I go...I'm using an EMG 85 in my bridge so it's not like I'm using a crazy nice guitar either
Again, channel three sounds like a great lead to cut through the mix on demand (i don't switch between channels at all). Channel 2 is SWEET. everything i could want from a crunch channel. so full sounding that sometimes i wonder if i even need a reverb in my fx loop...and only after these mods (fx capicator mod in particular) did this amp really start to sing on the clean channel...very beautiful sounding
Still have some experimenting to do with the reverb mods...
Another huge thing, the mesa 6l6's sound like crap in these amps...we A/B'd in the studio and all I got was unwanted amp noise with the mesa tubes....too scratchy and gainy sounding. Make sure you get some JJ's and a tubescreamer if you dont' want to mod it
Lastly, check out the tone I was able to get for my bands album. I write everything and play rythmn/sing. The rythmn tone is my Mesa Nomad 100 with the fx series mod, xtreme switch mod, mud mod but NOT the fx capicator mod. I also used a tubescreamer
my guitar is a ESP viper 1000 deluxe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8i1eT994k