Desertdweller
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Perfect. That’s the detail I was missing. Thanks!
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@Desertdweller have you tried it with EL34s yet?
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You guys all need to try this thing. It's been nearly 5 months I've had it now and I'm truly amazed they put a Marshall and a 5150 in a lunchbox and made it this loud.
The switching with the multiple footswitches is a chore and the presence knob adds presence in a weird frequency. The amp has a bit more noise than I'm used to so I did some tube rolling with the preamp tubes. One interesting thing I found is that throwing a 12au7 in V3 really brings down the volume of the amp. This is sometimes a good thing. I think the amp sounds better in 50w mode, but it's LOUD, and I am used to 100w and 150w heads. It keeps bass definition at loud volumes too since it has the big bottle tubes and the big PTs.
I do like keeping the presence knob off and sometimes just for kicks just adding presence with the button on the back. Though that does at a signficant amount of fizz - has to be the right song for it. I'm finding I get a heavy saturated sound out of the lead channel without needing a TS in front. Running a TS or SD1 in front of the crunch channel is the most glorious Marshall sound, even with just keeping the 6L6s in there, I have not tried it yet with EL34s.
I've had a lot of full size amps, and a bunch of the lunchbox amps too. This amp is the king of lunchbox amps and IDK why more people aren't buying it and trying it. It's awesome. It's a full-size 50w angry screaming munchkin of metal and I love it.
The switching with the multiple footswitches is a chore and the presence knob adds presence in a weird frequency. The amp has a bit more noise than I'm used to so I did some tube rolling with the preamp tubes. One interesting thing I found is that throwing a 12au7 in V3 really brings down the volume of the amp. This is sometimes a good thing. I think the amp sounds better in 50w mode, but it's LOUD, and I am used to 100w and 150w heads. It keeps bass definition at loud volumes too since it has the big bottle tubes and the big PTs.
I do like keeping the presence knob off and sometimes just for kicks just adding presence with the button on the back. Though that does at a signficant amount of fizz - has to be the right song for it. I'm finding I get a heavy saturated sound out of the lead channel without needing a TS in front. Running a TS or SD1 in front of the crunch channel is the most glorious Marshall sound, even with just keeping the 6L6s in there, I have not tried it yet with EL34s.
I've had a lot of full size amps, and a bunch of the lunchbox amps too. This amp is the king of lunchbox amps and IDK why more people aren't buying it and trying it. It's awesome. It's a full-size 50w angry screaming munchkin of metal and I love it.
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You're really making me want one, gah! Clean and Marshall and Mesa, all in one!?
This and a 2x12 just isn't going to work so well in a 15'x16' room with my stepdaughter in the room above.
Must ponder. And I was a desert dweller for 6 years. Lived in Maricopa and worked in Tempe and Phoenix.
This and a 2x12 just isn't going to work so well in a 15'x16' room with my stepdaughter in the room above.
Must ponder. And I was a desert dweller for 6 years. Lived in Maricopa and worked in Tempe and Phoenix.
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It's not quite Mesa on the 3rd channel. It's more 5150, but yes it does sound really good.
