Classic Rack Gear Alert

[Achilles]

All three pieces look to be in great shape and the rack case is really cool.
Current price is awful high though.

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[MirrorProfiles]

are V Twin's really any good? doesn't strike me as a Mesa I'd go out of my way for, same with the 20/20 EL84 poweramp. And that leaves the Marshall, which is worth about £300 over here, and even then, I think "can I be arsed with this?"

 

[sleewell]

i always heard the 20/20 kinda sucked but never got to play one so yanno... grain of salt and all

 

[mk5]

Fun little rig. I always liked the V Twin rack. It had a cool clean/dirty channel blend feature.

 

[JiveTurkey]

The V-Twin we need is the modded circuit in Ola's

 

[Achilles]

i always heard the 20/20 kinda sucked but never got to play one so yanno... grain of salt and all

Weird, cause Boogie made EL84's work so killer in the old Studio 22 combos.

 

[gearJunkie]

i always heard the 20/20 kinda sucked but never got to play one so yanno... grain of salt and all

A buddy if mine back in college has a quad pre into a 20/20. It sounded ok, but he was quick to buy my 50/50 from me when I upgraded my Triaxis to use a 2:90. We both greatly improved our tones that day.

 

[Snave]

Weird, cause Boogie made EL84's work so killer in the old Studio 22 combos.

The 20/20 power amp is really midrangey. Mesa EL84 amps tend to cook themselves because of overly high plate voltages as well.

 

[FuzzyAce]

are V Twin's really any good?

For cleans they're .
I never got along with the higher gain in that circuit -- just very finicky.
But as @JiveTurkey mentioned, the mod in Ola's sounds totally different and much, much sweeter.

 

[jazzarian]

All three pieces look to be in great shape and the rack case is really cool.
Current price is awful high though.

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[jazzarian]

I've got a Mesa Formula Pre I should sell, along with a Dumble style preamp from the infamous Shad Damron.

I should unload my Ethos and Zendrive too.

Alas I seem to be missing ambition.

 

[Achilles]

a Dumble style preamp from the infamous Shad Damron.

Got any pictures of this?

 

[DrewJD82]

Here’s some high priced classic rack gear that popped up-

 

[JiveTurkey]

Here’s some high priced classic rack gear that popped up-

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why is the 1u Behringer grabbing my attention in all of this?

 

[ballhawk]

A buddy if mine back in college has a quad pre into a 20/20. It sounded ok, but he was quick to buy my 50/50 from me when I upgraded my Triaxis to use a 2:90. We both greatly improved our tones that day.

The 20/20 power amp is really midrangey. Mesa EL84 amps tend to cook themselves because of overly high plate voltages as well.

I had one for a bit. I could never get the volume loud enough to maintain headroom. We had a cover band so versatility was important.
I wound up using a Rocktron Velocity 100 with my Tonlab SE.

I thought about a 50/50 but never could find a used one at a price I liked.

 

[la szum]

why is the 1u Behringer grabbing my attention in all of this?

Haha! They've actually cloned some decent pieces of kit over the years.

 

[jazzarian]

Got any pictures of this?

Only if you don't mind the dust. Why do cellphone pics make dust look so much worse??? Both are in excellent shape.

 

[jazzarian]

I had one for a bit. I could never get the volume loud enough to maintain headroom. We had a cover band so versatility was important.
I wound up using a Rocktron Velocity 100 with my Tonlab SE.

I thought about a 50/50 but never could find a used one at a price I liked.

The 50/50 would have done the trick. Big tubes are better tubes.

 

[Frodebro]

I have a Mesa 20/20 in the rack with my Axe FX 3, every once in a while I’ll take that rig to band rehearsal instead of the FM9. I have a pair of Mesa 1x12s that I keep at the other guitar player’s house where we rehearse, so it’s not a huge pain to deal with. For that application it is plenty loud with the Fractal output around noon and the Mesa outputs between 10:00-2:00. We play in his underground basement, so it doesn’t take much power at all to get uncomfortably loud.

 

[AFKAEjay]

I like the 20/20. If I’m correct there’s a lowcut (or shelf, not sure) in the design to get a little more volume out of the 20watts. I assume high gain peeps consider that “less sounding”.
It’s easily removed by the so called “deep mod”…which is clipping 1 cap per channel. Some put push/pulls at the presence spot to switch it in/out…basically…adding a deep switch.

I don’t use it much, but when I did…for my use the low end was fine (no chugga chugga).