NAD - 25 year flashback
Yall prob saw my posts trying to date parts… well I grabbed it… had a 1996 rev g dual recto with the extended slant v30 marching cab in the 90’s… sold it when I had my first kid in 2000, quit playing…. Started playing again a few months ago, tried a ton of different amps, bought some… but never felt inspiring…. Got my hands on some older Les Paul’s, had to get a boogie again!
The cabinet dates 2002 with late 90’s v30 speaker cone batch! This cabinet sounds so damn smooth. Makes the mt15 I have sound like a different amp!
The head is 2018 dual recto multi watt. Seems like it’s in great condition. I didn’t use the modern metal setting back in the day. I lived on the vintage setting with the gain about 3 (recoding would cut it back to about 1).. I have a lot to learn about this head.. lots more controls and switches lol.. we didn’t have proper effects loops on the old rev g.
I will say with all the hype about the rev g, vintage on this sounds damn close to my old rev g! Biggest difference was my rev g had el34’s, but I’m not gonna change the 6L6’s out of this until the tubes die. I’m only playing at home, I’ll never push the power tubes to break up.
The modern metal channel, that’s where the big difference is in the rev g. While I didn’t use it much, I would play around with some early deftones back in the day. This multi watt dual has way more scooped mids, I have to dime the mids to get it sounding half decent on modern and it’s still not really the same….
But vintage with the gain cranked? Yeah it’s not much different than my old rev g. The cab and speakers prob help too. Vintage on this multi watt is giving me early foo’s tones without much work. I’m still trying to get the treble and presence dailed correctly / to my liking.
Does Mesa still use those str 12ax7s? I don’t recall my rev g having shields over the pre amp tubes, so I can’t see what pres are in this since it has shields, I haven’t opened it, I’m just playing away…. The power tubes and recrifer tubes are still the stock mess that came with it. Being 10 years old (it supposedly sat for the past 5) I’m prob gonna have to atleast do power tubes at some point. Prob just tune the entire thing…
What I’ve found I like is the main switch using the recrifer tubes, not the diodes, but each Channel also has a recrifer switch lol… so does the main switch bit matter much?? I have the effects loop off, door switch on’fornthe second dial setting…
Anyway - $1300 for the head and cab!
To the Mesa players, what tips can you give me running this multi watt? I will want to add some chorus, reverb and delay to the loop at some point. Any tricks to dial these in? The rev g was very easy to dial in. I’m using Les Paul’s with 498’s and 57+
Yall prob saw my posts trying to date parts… well I grabbed it… had a 1996 rev g dual recto with the extended slant v30 marching cab in the 90’s… sold it when I had my first kid in 2000, quit playing…. Started playing again a few months ago, tried a ton of different amps, bought some… but never felt inspiring…. Got my hands on some older Les Paul’s, had to get a boogie again!
The cabinet dates 2002 with late 90’s v30 speaker cone batch! This cabinet sounds so damn smooth. Makes the mt15 I have sound like a different amp!
The head is 2018 dual recto multi watt. Seems like it’s in great condition. I didn’t use the modern metal setting back in the day. I lived on the vintage setting with the gain about 3 (recoding would cut it back to about 1).. I have a lot to learn about this head.. lots more controls and switches lol.. we didn’t have proper effects loops on the old rev g.
I will say with all the hype about the rev g, vintage on this sounds damn close to my old rev g! Biggest difference was my rev g had el34’s, but I’m not gonna change the 6L6’s out of this until the tubes die. I’m only playing at home, I’ll never push the power tubes to break up.
The modern metal channel, that’s where the big difference is in the rev g. While I didn’t use it much, I would play around with some early deftones back in the day. This multi watt dual has way more scooped mids, I have to dime the mids to get it sounding half decent on modern and it’s still not really the same….
But vintage with the gain cranked? Yeah it’s not much different than my old rev g. The cab and speakers prob help too. Vintage on this multi watt is giving me early foo’s tones without much work. I’m still trying to get the treble and presence dailed correctly / to my liking.
Does Mesa still use those str 12ax7s? I don’t recall my rev g having shields over the pre amp tubes, so I can’t see what pres are in this since it has shields, I haven’t opened it, I’m just playing away…. The power tubes and recrifer tubes are still the stock mess that came with it. Being 10 years old (it supposedly sat for the past 5) I’m prob gonna have to atleast do power tubes at some point. Prob just tune the entire thing…
What I’ve found I like is the main switch using the recrifer tubes, not the diodes, but each Channel also has a recrifer switch lol… so does the main switch bit matter much?? I have the effects loop off, door switch on’fornthe second dial setting…
Anyway - $1300 for the head and cab!
To the Mesa players, what tips can you give me running this multi watt? I will want to add some chorus, reverb and delay to the loop at some point. Any tricks to dial these in? The rev g was very easy to dial in. I’m using Les Paul’s with 498’s and 57+