Recent content by mikebat

My Roadster has a weird issue. With the reverb/fx loop settings set identically, and the reverb selected on the footswitch, there is barely and reverb on channels 3 and 4, even if the channels reverb control is dimed. In channel one, it is present, channel two present, put to a lesser degree...

I got a Roadster head about 6 months ago. At first, I was really happy, coming from a single channel Marshall. The cleans on the Roadster blew me away, and I figured I could find a dirty tone somehow. For dirty tones, I initially tried the Spongy/variac mode. I could not find a setting that...

Since then, I found a green marker that I use to lablel B M T, bass middle treble, and the thin tape stripe on the knob. It makes it easy on stage to reach back and change settings in the heat of moment. It wipes off and leaves no residue! StageTrix Setting Saver $4.99...

There are no absolutes. When you think in those terms, you are always missing something. My dream was to never have a drive pedal ever again. I thought they closed the open sound of a raw amp. I dreamt of enough gain and compression to sustain those screaming notes and pinch harmonics... Then...

Besides the amps I own, A Roadster and a first gen JCM800 with metal toggles (these are most like the JMP's that preceded them) the best three tones I have heard/played of late were: - Orange OR15 into an Orange 2x12 cab, it was thick and bouncy, not muddy or fuzzy at all. It sounded huge. The...

Btw, I found the knobs impossible to read from more than an inch away on stage. As well, with a 2x12 cab, the amp is low tothe ground, for a 6'2" hombre like me I added a stripe on green masking tape across the front panel, indicating each knob with one letter. (I.e. B for bass)..I addede a...

Played live this weekend and my tones were great. Other guitar player went thru an Orange Rockerverb, and we complimented each other well. I lent my amp to an openning act, he changed my ch1 from Fat to Clean. While changing over back to my signal chain, I forgot to flip back to Fat, and...it...

Well, I tried, I liked, I bought. I played on it for 1 1/2 hours while the owners gf sat in the waiting room. Love the clean tones, as predicted. The Brit voicing works for semi dirt. BB+ on it sounded pretty good too. Channels 3 and 4 were more of a challenge. I had it set in spongy...

Gotcha. I saw plenty of Road King Youtube videos with tones I liked, but none, accept the original Mesa demo video, with Roadsters that I liked. I will be trying A Roadster in a few hours with my trusty old strat, and I will bring my own ears.

dang! Any other opinions, experiences?

Hello all, I am a real newbie to the Mesa world, I always admired from afar, but kept my JCM800 rig. I need much more flexibility, and I am thinking about a Roadster. It has the flexibility I need, but I am wondering about the drives tones. I LOVED the Lonestar clean tones, but the driven...