ampage Tube Amps / Music Electronics	For current discussions, please visit Music Electronics Forum.

ampage archive

Vintage threads from the first ten years

previous: Ethan I like certain Mesa's: Mark 3's, so... -- 3/9/2000 2:11 PM

Re: marshall 2203 brown sound/Mesa

3/9/2000 3:48 PM

Trace

Re: marshall 2203 brown sound/Mesa quote: "Oddly enough, I know guys that crank the mids+bass on these to get their sound, I don't get it."     This has puzzled me as well! It's sort of like the pyramids, how did they build those so perfectly and how were they able to perform brain operations? I guess we'll never know.     quote: "I think if you want a ton of gain at controllable levels, you gotta get a Mesa. If they only made a Marshall with the correct sound and construction and that much gain, that would be an amp!"     There's amps out there that offer this. Typically speaking this is why I mod Marshalls. People want the extra gain but they also want what the Marshall offers rather then going to a Boogie.     On the other side of the coin I mod Boogies (not that it's much fun because mostly it's a pain in the rump) because most guys want to get rid of the heavy bottem-end and want a nice punchy tone with out all the fartyness (is that a word?) Mostly you have restructure the way the amp structures it's frequencies as well as it's gain. It's a vicious cycle this amp-tone-thing     It's a nice spring day here in upstate NY so I'm a bit giddy. (ha, ha) too much snow will break a man as we all know!       Trace