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I had a Mark IV, which worked well enough for a few years, but I tried a Silver Face Deluxe Reverb and that was it. The Mark IV was sold, and never missed afterwards. The Deluxe got traded for a 67' BF Vibrolux which I still own and play to this day!
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My best friend was a Boogie nut for almost 30 years. At one point he owned 4. He now owns just one, a Mark V, but after picking up a Blackstar last year he's considering selling it. I honestly can't imagine him without a Boogie. He was always such a big fan of their amps and he got a really great tone out of them too.
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Ever experienced a change in gear for the worse?
I never have, but I probably have been lucky. What I experience is a new challenge: how to bring out the best in whatever this new gear has to offer. But I have also been careful to research what I buy beforehand, and I have not bought the cheapest possible stuff. - Glenn
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After I sold my Gibson GA-55RVT Ranger (the "Kalamazoo Super," a 4x10 combo pushed by 50 watts of 6L6s) back in 1979 to go into master volume world, I wasn't really satisfied until I got into modeling. "And now I am happy all the day." No, really. I was running the super, a low-medium gain amp, with a 2x12 custom cab and driving it flat out. The combination of the six speakers, an under-powered rectifier, and fairly low negative feedback made the Ranger sag beautifully. However, it irradiated me and everyone within a fifty-foot radius. It simply wasn't survivable. Now I've got the sound and can run it at sane SPLs!
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Mesa has so many amps. My "Last Amp I'll ever own" is a Mesa. A TA-15. The only tube amp that could possibly replace it is its bigger brother, the TA-30 because it's essentially the same amp but with an added effects loop. I'm fine without a loop, but every once in a while it wouldn't be the worst thing to have. The recent Fillmore and California Tweed would probably make a lot of folks who think they don't like Mesa very happy.
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just goes to show tho,, with a little bit of trial and error you can make anything work. |
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I used a Fender Twin for 15 years and decided I wanted something smaller because the Twin was a back breaker and we run everything into a PA anyway so I didn't need the power, with the exception of a few larger venue outdoor gigs. I fell in love with a Mesa 22. + so I picked it up. It's a great little amp, light as a feather, and plenty loud but I missed that Twin so I went back to it.
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Yes... back in the late 70's, I was totally enamored of that Larry Carlton tone on Steely Dan and Crusader records, and I wanted that sound!
I had been working in a band, playing a Gibson ES-345 through an absolutely cherry 1959 Fender Pro amp (1 15" speaker). Terrific amplifier, whisper quiet, in stellar shape (even though I'd hauled it through 5 states with that band... I didn't have the $$$$ to get a Mesa Boogie, but I found a Yamaha solid state amp that I thought would approximate the tone I wanted; traded that beautiful Fender Pro amp for the GL100-112 Yamaha. Of course, the Yamaha (great amp, by the way) didn't come close to the sound of a Boogie... I still have that Yamaha, it's terrific for clean sounds... But I have always regretted trading off that Fender Pro... more so as I've gotten older and more appreciative of that classic Fender sound. Sigh... we live and learn...
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