Another electradyne thread

[la szum]

Near eastern Canadian border. If the references to alewives went over your head, you're in for a long haul.

We have them here in The Great Lakes where they often die in droves and wash up on the shores. Makes
for a nice romantic walk on the beach reciting poetry.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

We have them in The Great Lakes where they often die in droves and wash up on the shores. Makes
for a nice romantic walk on the beach reciting poetry.

Yeah, aren't they crazy invasive up there? Made it via some canal or something to habitat where they never belonged. The father of one of my wife's pre-school students is a lobsterman and they'd been out harvesting alewives for bait over a weekend. The kid really wanted to bring some in to share with his friends. After letting them play with dead fish for a little bit, wife pivoted and brought out paint/roll of paper to let them make art. Had a bit of a scratch-n-sniff quality to it, so better for the outdoor art gallery than indoor:

 

[la szum]

That's cool. Getting all tactile and those hands dirty, touching life (and death) directly!

The Great Lakes as a fishery are so (mis)managed that it is almost laughable what they
determine invasive versus native. Salmon? Non-native, but not labeled as invasive,.. because
they stock (and restock) the Great Lakes all the time with a variety of Salmon species to support
the high $$$ sport fishery industry.

Meanwhile, other species do not get thrown into the sport fishery money machine and
are considered invasive---even if they are essential bait/food for species like the variety
of Salmon they stock here.

The real losers are the Whitefish, Lake Trout, and other freshwater fish that often cling
by a thread, caught between managed sport fish like Salmon and the invasive species
like Alewives. None of the fisheries are anything close to self-sustaining these days. Sad,
but true.

 

[Life Eats Life]

Electrodyne’s are rad amps.

 

[Life Eats Life]

Electrodyne’s are rad amps.

When I hear Electrodyne,
I also think of the last diner in town that’s somehow open after a hurricane..
”We have power”..
So they renamed the greasy spoon:
“The Electrodyne”.
Some weirdo that works in the kitchen came up with the name, btw.
F’n WORD.
LMAO.

 

[Achilles]

Windy?

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Damn…nice.
Windy?
#wingfoilfanatichere

It can be -- was just on an inflatable paddle board that morning headed out to the lighthouse island at the head of the harbor, so waited for a dead calm day. I don't get much into the wind-powered stuff, but we are up in a bay with lots of islands, so pretty big sailing destination. I've seen lots of folks ice skating in winter holding sails.

 

[Achilles]

a dead calm day

What % of early mornings is like that?

Buddy had a camp on Newfound Lake up north and no matter how hungover we were a few of us would get up early to ski cause the water was just like your picture pretty much every day at that time - no wind or traffic that early. But that's an inland freshwater lake.

You're in a bay, right?

 

[spawnofthesith]

I'm just going to stream of conscious in this thread since its still on the first page.....

Really thinking hard about snagging this ED head... its been listed for almost a month at $800. I really don't need another amp (especially since I'm basically at 100% tone satisfaction with my marks) but I also just recently sold my ENGL thunder so the other part of my brain is telling me that 1 out = 1 in

For the owners, is it truly "marshall like" or is that just nonsense like every other amp thats supposedly "like a marshall" but not really? Is there much tonal overlap with Mark series amps at all?

Really seems like a highly regarded amp, like an unusually high level of praise. Don't think I've really been able to find a bad review. Its very tempting...

 

[DrewJD82]

I'm just going to stream of conscious in this thread since its still on the first page.....

Really thinking hard about snagging this ED head... its been listed for almost a month at $800. I really don't need another amp (especially since I'm basically at 100% tone satisfaction with my marks) but I also just recently sold my ENGL thunder so the other part of my brain is telling me that 1 out = 1 in

For the owners, is it truly "marshall like" or is that just nonsense like every other amp thats supposedly "like a marshall" but not really? Is there much tonal overlap with Mark series amps at all?

Really seems like a highly regarded amp, like an unusually high level of praise. Don't think I've really been able to find a bad review. Its very tempting...

I'd say it's truly a mix of both the Mesa and Marshall world. It'd be easy to say 'Marshall preamp, Mesa power section', but it's getting a brunt of it's distortion from the power section like a Marshall would. Maybe 'Plexi with a Mark's low end' would be simpler but that's really there only place I'd put any tonal overlap, the low end, outside of that it sounds nothing like a Mark or even a Mesa I've ever played through.

I recorded this using it, I think in the chorus and the solo I boosted it with a Zendrive, but it wasn't adding a ton of dirt, just a pinch while hitting the input harder.


I doubt I'll get rid of mine. It definitely hits my "I want an old Marshall" itch with more versatility than an old Marshall, it's killer with any pedal I've put in front of it and I really can't wait to crank the thing up at somepoint. These things can definitely peel some paint.

 

[spawnofthesith]

I'd say it's truly a mix of both the Mesa and Marshall world. It'd be easy to say 'Marshall preamp, Mesa power section', but it's getting a brunt of it's distortion from the power section like a Marshall would. Maybe 'Plexi with a Mark's low end' would be simpler but that's really there only place I'd put any tonal overlap, the low end, outside of that it sounds nothing like a Mark or even a Mesa I've ever played through.

I recorded this using it, I think in the chorus and the solo I boosted it with a Zendrive, but it wasn't adding a ton of dirt, just a pinch while hitting the input harder.


I doubt I'll get rid of mine. It definitely hits my "I want an old Marshall" itch with more versatility than an old Marshall, it's killer with any pedal I've put in front of it and I really can't wait to crank the thing up at somepoint. These things can definitely peel some paint.

That sounds killer!!

And this response hasn't reduced any gas lol. I've always had a half hearted interest in a Marshall but I'm all in for mesa (obviously) and everything about this amp seems awesome

Does the gain trim feature work well? I try and put a limiter on myself when buying gear these days "could I happily gig this with my band" and I'm good to go live as long as I have a clean clean and a nice higher gain sound. Obviously both those parts can mean different things to different people, but I've found enough unboosted clips that lead me to believe that I could probably get to where I need to be going on one of these. With the shared controls the gain trim seems like a neat feature to keep the cleans pristine while still squeezing the most from the gain channels.

I typically don't really like boosting, but I have the technology to do so at my disposable. On any amp I play the input is almost slightly goosed regardless because I never turn off my keeley compressor plus

 

[DrewJD82]

That sounds killer!!

And this response hasn't reduced any gas lol. I've always had a half hearted interest in a Marshall but I'm all in for mesa (obviously) and everything about this amp seems awesome

Does the gain trim feature work well? I try and put a limiter on myself when buying gear these days "could I happily gig this with my band" and I'm good to go live as long as I have a clean clean and a nice higher gain sound. Obviously both those parts can mean different things to different people, but I've found enough unboosted clips that lead me to believe that I could probably get to where I need to be going on one of these. With the shared controls the gain trim seems like a neat feature to keep the cleans pristine while still squeezing the most from the gain channels.

I typically don't really like boosting, but I have the technology to do so at my disposable. On any amp I play the input is almost slightly goosed regardless because I never turn off my keeley compressor plus

I really haven't played with that knob much, I'm always on the Blue and Red channels and either rolling the volume knob back for cleans or hitting it with a dirt pedal for more is more. I'd probably do the same thing in a gigging situation if I were to use it in a band. The clean sounds great, I just love this amp in the edge of breakup area.

I think @TubeStack gigs his, he might be able to comment on that more.

 

[TubeStack]

Yes, I use the trim to take a bit of dirt off the clean so I can have it set how I like it on the crunch. It works really well.

Lately, however - because the Helix has a huge ground loop when trying to use the amp switching function, unfortunately - I’ve been using a clean Mark preamp from the Helix for cleans, which actually sounds really good.

But I plan to snip the ground on my TRS cable, which is how I got rid of the same ground hum with my HXFX, because the Electra Dyne really does have an incredible clean channel and I want to use it.

Also as a side point, the hi gain is still pretty low gain, especially for a Mesa. Would still need a boost to get gain levels like a Mark or whatever.

 

[EOengineer]

Here’s the thing - if you pick it up for $800 and you aren’t into it, you can probably make a quick sale for $1k and throw the profit into a pedal or tubes or whatever.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Electradyne is perfect as is or perfect having the living fuck boosted out of it. Great amp \m/

 

[spawnofthesith]

Also as a side point, the hi gain is still pretty low gain, especially for a Mesa. Would still need a boost to get gain levels like a Mark or whatever.

This is of slight concern to me, calling myself a metal player would be a big stretch but definitely get a bit chuggy like 15-20% of the time lol. I suppose I could always rig up some more complex switching to one tap channel changing and a boost at the same time though. At the same time I've found some clips that seem to demonstrate enough gain/bottom end/sizzle that I -think- might do the trick for my needs. Always hard to tell with YT videos tho lol

 

[la szum]

Mesa Mids are not Marshall mids. And those iconic Marshall upper mids are
not very evident in the Dyne, in my experience. That makes it great for people who
don't like Marshalls.

I don't think there is much Marshall in the Dyne, to be honest. It is British inspired,
and I feel like Mesa has tried to hit that Americanized Marshall thing a few times
over the years. Brightest and most cutting of those being the Stilettos. Darkest
and most full bodied being the Dyne. The Royal Atlantic is somewhere in the
middle of those two. To my ears.

Also, and a big deal for me would be running EL34sa in the Dyne to lop off
a touch of the low-end and bring in a bit more Mids if someone is wanting more
of the Brit-flavour and less of that scooped American thing with 6L6s.

$800 is a great deal. I sold my Dyne a few years ago for $850. I don't really miss
it, though, as the amp was both too big (sonically) and too dark for my ears.
In a trio that big-bodied vibe can be a godsend. For me, in a bigger group with
competing instruments I am not into having a massive/full spectrum amp that
gobbles up too much room.

 

[la szum]

My gut feeling is the Badlander would be a great next step for a Brit-inspired Mesa,
but where you going to find a Badlander for under a grand??

At $800 the Dyne is a no-brainer.

 

[spawnofthesith]

This morning I had mostly talked myself out of it. Marks are pretty much perfect for me and I have two of them


But I just now received word that I got a small raise that I guess is going to be retroactively applied for the last two months onto my next check. So wondering if thats a sign

 

[la szum]

If that's not a sign then I am sure you can find one somewhere else.

Congrats on the raise!