andross182
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I finally was able to get my roadster combo out of my house and into a large room to play with some friends, and frankly I was quite frustrated with it. I knew going in that there would be some sound differences with the acoustics of the room changing but it was much more extreme than I had thought. It sounded like a blanket was thrown over the amp and the bass was wayyyyy too high.
Just to try to get the thing under control, I went from 50w on each channel to 100w, put all settings to noon and began tweaking from there. Right off the bat I cut bass and gain. Channel 1 set on clean was breaking up much earlier than expected and majorly lacked clarity at higher volumes. I ended up going to "tweed" which seemed to help a bit.
Channel 3 on vintage seemed to develop the "recto fizz" at higher volume that wasn't there at a lower volume, I cut my gain down to around 9 o'clock and
This lead to my next problem...I now know why people say people spend more time tweaking knobs than playing their amps when it comes to Mesas! I tried to get a clean channel (channel 1) and my vintage channel (channel 3) set with a decent volume level but kept struggling with volume normalization and tone to the point where I just used the clean channel with pedals instead. Mesas EQ style can be quite a chore to dial in.
Anyone got any tips for me? I would really prefer not to disable the loop, as I use my DL4, Corona Chorus and Ditto Looper in it, but am willing to if its necessary.
Just to try to get the thing under control, I went from 50w on each channel to 100w, put all settings to noon and began tweaking from there. Right off the bat I cut bass and gain. Channel 1 set on clean was breaking up much earlier than expected and majorly lacked clarity at higher volumes. I ended up going to "tweed" which seemed to help a bit.
Channel 3 on vintage seemed to develop the "recto fizz" at higher volume that wasn't there at a lower volume, I cut my gain down to around 9 o'clock and
This lead to my next problem...I now know why people say people spend more time tweaking knobs than playing their amps when it comes to Mesas! I tried to get a clean channel (channel 1) and my vintage channel (channel 3) set with a decent volume level but kept struggling with volume normalization and tone to the point where I just used the clean channel with pedals instead. Mesas EQ style can be quite a chore to dial in.
Anyone got any tips for me? I would really prefer not to disable the loop, as I use my DL4, Corona Chorus and Ditto Looper in it, but am willing to if its necessary.