okey I thought it was me the 1st few days with a new TA-30 amp. Lots of knobs and switches. Lots of great sound..Ohh was this a new Mesa sound that doesnt make any sound? huh?...hmmmmm....
Well seems that my TA-30 and yours too will have the same problem no doubt in my mind. If I can create a problem twice then its not my problem anymore, its built into the amp.
I have the amp on 15w with the master volume at 1/3rd and the cut/master pulled out and about 1/3rd volume.Little dirty crunchy bottom/clean top sound. In the FX loops is a memory man looper with 30 sec. record time. Now after a few loops of recording over several minutes the sound started to decay in quality. As it should with 4 takes or more its going to suffer some. Understandable. Now the amp starts to sound thin dull and then emits no sound. Looking at the back of the amp the V9 tube, which is the 2nd power tube used in the 15w mode is cherry Red all the way to the top. No red ring no blue ring but cherry freeking red. Soon the amp shuts down ,in some kind of protective internal thermal overloading.
whats happening? heres my idea and you can slap me. The FX loop, the Preamp, and the Reverb are all TUBE driven. The FX loop has no volume but is set as you recorded the patch so the amplitude is constant across the loop. When you choke the post side down limiting the output, you back up the electrons on the pre side..ala the tube getting cherry red before shutting down is the excess electron flow heating up from the cut/master switch throttling the amps volume.
You guys arent going nuts the TA has some built in issues that make it unfreindly. The FX loop/Reverb switch is said not to upset the tone. Didnt mention any word of increasing the output of White noise across it by 10 fold. I took back my 2nd TA today.. I dont know what to do? You got patches to fix this? I dont thinks so...
Well seems that my TA-30 and yours too will have the same problem no doubt in my mind. If I can create a problem twice then its not my problem anymore, its built into the amp.
I have the amp on 15w with the master volume at 1/3rd and the cut/master pulled out and about 1/3rd volume.Little dirty crunchy bottom/clean top sound. In the FX loops is a memory man looper with 30 sec. record time. Now after a few loops of recording over several minutes the sound started to decay in quality. As it should with 4 takes or more its going to suffer some. Understandable. Now the amp starts to sound thin dull and then emits no sound. Looking at the back of the amp the V9 tube, which is the 2nd power tube used in the 15w mode is cherry Red all the way to the top. No red ring no blue ring but cherry freeking red. Soon the amp shuts down ,in some kind of protective internal thermal overloading.
whats happening? heres my idea and you can slap me. The FX loop, the Preamp, and the Reverb are all TUBE driven. The FX loop has no volume but is set as you recorded the patch so the amplitude is constant across the loop. When you choke the post side down limiting the output, you back up the electrons on the pre side..ala the tube getting cherry red before shutting down is the excess electron flow heating up from the cut/master switch throttling the amps volume.
You guys arent going nuts the TA has some built in issues that make it unfreindly. The FX loop/Reverb switch is said not to upset the tone. Didnt mention any word of increasing the output of White noise across it by 10 fold. I took back my 2nd TA today.. I dont know what to do? You got patches to fix this? I dont thinks so...