Number 30~! Lol Hi all

Woah awesome forum~!!

And I feel kinda special being the 30th member to join lol.

Anyways, I haven't been playing guitar for a long time and I'm not a great guitar player YET either :lol: but I love Mesa Boogie stuff.

Currently I'm running:
1) Epiphone Les Paul Custom (Duncan Jazz neck and custom bridge pickups), re-finished frets
2) Ernie Ball Music Man John Petrucci Model (piezo, pearl redburst)

3) Mesa Recto solo 50, through 2x12 cab (celestian 90's)
4) GT-6 going through the fx loop of Recto through "4cable method"

I know my rig is probably nothing compared to some of you guys, but I'm in the process of saving up my goal of 5,000 dollars which will get me a nice rack system (triaxis, g-major, power amp of some sort, and midi stuff).

Anyways, hope to see more people here soon~

Great.
Let me be the first to say welcome to the forum!

So are you planning on a 50/50 or a 2:90 for your poweramp?

ndc31 said:

I know my rig is probably nothing compared to some of you guys,

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Hey man, it sure looks like a badass rig to me.

Grandor said:

Great.
Let me be the first to say welcome to the forum!

So are you planning on a 50/50 or a 2:90 for your poweramp?

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Well, to be honest I was thinking about the 20/20 just because it takes up less space and I'm not into really CRAZY wattage (the same reason i went with a solo 50).

But it seems like a lot of people using the Triaxis (what I want) prefers the 2:90/Triaxis combo. So that's something I'll just have to experiment and see what works^^.

I'll look to all you people here for help when I get closer to upgrading.

ROCK ON~!

screamingdaisy said:

ndc31 said:

I know my rig is probably nothing compared to some of you guys,

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Hey man, it sure looks like a badass rig to me.

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Thanks a lot screamingdaisy!

ndc31 said:

Grandor said:

Great.
Let me be the first to say welcome to the forum!

So are you planning on a 50/50 or a 2:90 for your poweramp?

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Well, to be honest I was thinking about the 20/20 just because it takes up less space and I'm not into really CRAZY wattage (the same reason i went with a solo 50).

But it seems like a lot of people using the Triaxis (what I want) prefers the 2:90/Triaxis combo. So that's something I'll just have to experiment and see what works^^.

I'll look to all you people here for help when I get closer to upgrading.

ROCK ON~!

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Np, have fun.
You should stick around, theres already some interesting convo's jumping up that we're all learning from each other from.

Why not just get a mark IV head???
Beats the hell out of the lame Triaxis which doesnt really sound like the mark series amps anyway.

It goes down to 15 watts in class A mode, up to 85 watts in full power A/B.
Hell you could even get the mark IV and a mark III for less money than the triaxis plus power amp rig, and sound way better.

BOOGIE666 said:

Why not just get a mark IV head???
Beats the hell out of the lame Triaxis which doesnt really sound like the mark series amps anyway.

It goes down to 15 watts in class A mode, up to 85 watts in full power A/B.
Hell you could even get the mark IV and a mark III for less money than the triaxis plus power amp rig, and sound way better.

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Some people need versitilaty that rack gear provides, midi switching and CC commands and such.
If Mark IV's are better than triaxis/2:90's why do so many pro's use them?
They are different beasts, rack and head - you can't really compare them.

BOOGIE666 said:

Why not just get a mark IV head???
Beats the hell out of the lame Triaxis which doesnt really sound like the mark series amps anyway.

It goes down to 15 watts in class A mode, up to 85 watts in full power A/B.
Hell you could even get the mark IV and a mark III for less money than the triaxis plus power amp rig, and sound way better.

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Hmm,, interesting, I never received an email for your reply Boogie666. I wasn't ignoring you or anything LOL.

In anycase, like Grandor said, versatility is very important to me and that's why I've had a rack gear in my mind for a very long time. Of course the Mark series heads are awesome, but from what I've heard and what I've tried, I believe that the Triaxis set-up gives me more of what I need.

Also, you said that i could get a markIV and a MarkIII for the amp rig, but then again, in order for me to use the two mark series amps, i would have to get into more specific midi or amp selecting/switching stuff. In my opinion, everything has it's plus and minus, one thing for sure is that guitar gear always costs ALOT of money :lol:

And also just for your info, my final rig should look something like this:
Solo-50
Triaxis
G-major
poweramp (not yet decided)
and misc. midi stuff. (no board yet in mind, any suggestions?)

Call me crazy but I might even add a Tubescreamer in the mix somewhere since I LOVE using those for some solo sounds.

Thanks for your input anyways.