Hello.
Yesterday acquired (again) the fabled Mesa Studio preamp in pretty good condition this is the second one as I had to sell the first one years ago.
There’s been major gear overhaul in last years and with current amps (diezel d-moll and Electra dyne) I was not able to get THE Mark sound (so surprised :lol: ), I did not also have money for a new head.
As a wrap up decided to buy the SP as I had fond memories about the tones (also best ever live recorded tone from my gigs was using the SP)
This thing is such a preamp I had forgotten how truly great is the lead channel. Last time I despised the reverb but it’s actually really good in clean channel (not so usable in lead but works there if used sparingly.)
The issue would be shared controls but that’ll be non-issue for my use as I’ll use my amps’ clean channels for clean tones
If encountered on “in the wild” please buy it as these are serious tone machines
Yesterday acquired (again) the fabled Mesa Studio preamp in pretty good condition this is the second one as I had to sell the first one years ago.
There’s been major gear overhaul in last years and with current amps (diezel d-moll and Electra dyne) I was not able to get THE Mark sound (so surprised :lol: ), I did not also have money for a new head.
As a wrap up decided to buy the SP as I had fond memories about the tones (also best ever live recorded tone from my gigs was using the SP)
This thing is such a preamp I had forgotten how truly great is the lead channel. Last time I despised the reverb but it’s actually really good in clean channel (not so usable in lead but works there if used sparingly.)
The issue would be shared controls but that’ll be non-issue for my use as I’ll use my amps’ clean channels for clean tones
If encountered on “in the wild” please buy it as these are serious tone machines