Thinking about selling the Stealth

[paisleywookiee]

Ahh there's some good sounds to had. I don't think you like gain as much as I do though It's certainly more than a bit generic high gain sounding to my ears but it is good for what it is. The 100 watter is supposed to sound massive but it's something I have zero GAS for. It's also massive sized for reasons I am not sure why on nor am a fan of.

I hate. HATE IT.

 

[Mikael Dez]

I don't think you like gain as much as I do though

It’s gotta sound like the soundtrack to the pits of hell for me - the heavier the better. My scowl better be despicable while I riff away

 

[JiveTurkey]

It’s gotta sound like the soundtrack to the pits of hell for me - the heavier the better. My scowl better be despicable while I riff away

I actually play with not enough gain most of the time. Till I don't

 

[paisleywookiee]

And if I had a dollar for every time someone said to me “oh I don’t use the red channel. Too much gain. I just use the green and blue.”

I’ve yet to meet a person IRL that actively uses the red, even on the regular 6L6 and EL34 amps.

 

[[Nathan]]

And if I had a dollar for every time someone said to me “oh I don’t use the red channel. Too much gain. I just use the green and blue.”

I’ve yet to meet a person IRL that actively uses the red, even on the regular 6L6 and EL34 amps.

When I'm playing it's 100% Red channel on the 50w Ivory and 100w Stealth here, no ragrets.

I'll only go Blue if Reamping for a recording, and even then I'm usually pairing it with a drive pedal. Recordings tend to need way less gain than my caveman day to day needs, but otherwise its Red all the way.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Ahh there's some good sounds to had. I don't think you like gain as much as I do though It's certainly more than a bit generic high gain sounding to my ears but it is good for what it is. The 100 watter is supposed to sound massive but it's something I have zero GAS for. It's also massive sized for reasons I am not sure why on nor am a fan of.

I desperately need to plug in and try my ikon and dunes as a boost. I started getting a little sick of the “same-Iris” sounds of the sd-1 as a boost but I have new toys to test

 

[CorrosiveMatter]

Red is the way. I also always have a gate front and loop. But I also have the 50 Stealth but it’s not noisy in my opinion.

 

[MTB1973]

I have been obsessing over a 100W Stealth.

 

[la szum]

I hate. HATE IT.

I feel like your ears will never recover.

 

[paisleywookiee]

I feel like your ears will never recover.

Hats off to @FractalAudio for the Stealth model though. When it first came to the FM9T, I was like

. Then when I played the real thing, I also went

. The exact same sound of Ew.

Contrast that to when I played the Fractal version of the Mark V channels:

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Hats off to @FractalAudio for the Stealth model though. When it first came to the

. The exact same sound of Ew.

Totally different feel, tho

 

[sleewell]

red channel, gain on 3 or 4, vol on 5.


thats where i wanna be right now.

 

[Orvillain]

What kind of loser sells a perfectly excellent amp!?!?

<looks at everyone on the forum including himself>

 

[paisleywookiee]

What kind of loser sells a perfectly excellent amp!?!?

<looks at everyone on the forum including himself>

The kind that has exquisite taste and realizes Mesa is the way.

 

[Mikael Dez]

The kind that has exquisite taste and realizes Mesa is the way.

After 20 years and a half dozen tube amps, countless plugins, etc etc. Mesa is the way.

 

[Orvillain]

You know the "why not both" girl?????

 

[paisleywookiee]

The 5150 and 6505 have always been those amps that I love when other people play through them, but I absolutely hate when I play through them. I’m the same way with most fuzz petals. It’s kind of disappointing, because I love the Soldano SLO, and always hoped it really was a rip off of that amp at a lower price.

 

[Desertdweller]

And if I had a dollar for every time someone said to me “oh I don’t use the red channel. Too much gain. I just use the green and blue.”

I’ve yet to meet a person IRL that actively uses the red, even on the regular 6L6 and EL34 amps.

If you put a 12au7 tube in the channel 3 driver (I think v3?) you can temper down the gain and make the whole knob usable. I have had two EVH 5150 IIIs and found the blue channel to be too generic and the red channel to be too much gain, but by changing a few of the preamp tubes out to different options the amp becomes wildly better IMO.

 

[Desertdweller]

The 5150 and 6505 have always been those amps that I love when other people play through them, but I absolutely hate when I play through them. I’m the same way with most fuzz petals. It’s kind of disappointing, because I love the Soldano SLO, and always hoped it really was a rip off of that amp at a lower price.

Jet City.

 

[spawnofthesith]

And if I had a dollar for every time someone said to me “oh I don’t use the red channel. Too much gain. I just use the green and blue.”

I’ve yet to meet a person IRL that actively uses the red, even on the regular 6L6 and EL34 amps.

I use the red channel on my 6l6 50 watt way more than the blue channel