My Mesa-Boogie 5:25 Express Plus has been shutting down in the middle of playing, just like it was turned off almost instantly and the lights on the amp dim until they're both totally out and it goes completely quiet. It usually coincides with a sound that's similar to when another appliance on...
All of the distortion channels - blues, crunch and burn - on my 5:25 are very noisy, especially at higher gain levels. They're much noisier than any pedal I've used. Is this normal?
The EQ is engaged on both channels, and set to the preset (not sliders). I'll see if turning the eq off affects it. The wattage is the same on both channels.
I've got a 5:25 Express Plus and there's a loud popping sound switching between channels, even when everything's turned to zero (so it's not because of a volume or gain difference). It happens on both the switch on the amp and with the footswitch. Thoughts/suggestions?
The build quality is something I expected to be some of the factor of the amp sounding so much louder - better components, better wiring and construction, etc. EQing and getting a good sound at a moderate stage volume is the next stage. I might start with just the clean and blues channels as...
I hadn't thought about the EQ preset/slider switchability. I suppose most amplifier Jedi masters could figure out how to mod that. But that might be option overload for me. This is my first Mesa amp and already has so many more parameters than any other amp I've had - there's definitely a...
I'd thought about that mleffler - that's a good point about still needing to adjust settings when you switch between clean/crunch and blues/burn.
So I assume you'd need at least one triple footswitch just to deal with the channel switching: one button to switch between clean/crunch (the "A"...
I just picked up a 5:25 Express Plus. One shortcoming of this otherwise dynamite amp is the fact that with the footswitch, you can only switch between two channels: either the Clean/Crunch, or the Blues/Burn. So you can't switch between Clean and Crunch, or Blues and Burn. I saw this video on...
I just got a Mesa Boogie 5:25 Express Plus - the 4-button footswitch is big and clunky and the mechanical footswitches are very loud, and I'm not sure if I have the need to change all 4 parameters with my feet. I could probably start with a single-button switch (probably as a channel changer)...