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Originally Posted by starjasmine
Originally Posted by starjasmine
Going into amps is at least within their feels of expertise
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01-09-2021 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by DRS
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
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My current Mesa amp is the Mark V 25 combo, a superb jazz guitar tube amp....
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I have read and heard that Fender Deluxe Reverb R.I. amps sound better with the BRIGHT CAP removed. Will someone please explain this to me and anyone else interested?
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Originally Posted by DRS
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I worked at a music store in Mt. Juliet Tenn. in the late eighties when Gibson allowed employees to buy"seconds" once a year and of course they could sell them. My boss in the music store allowed me to buy a Gibson 175 for 250$ as long as he could do a fret recrown which I was happy to do. The word second was stamped into the headstock,but the imperfection was so minor I could never tell what it was.I am glad Gibson used to allow that.
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I've posted Mesa love a few times, but I'll do it again. Bought a 'no mark' 100 watt version with the old Altec in '76. Had to phone Randy and send a money order to get in line. Received about 6 months later. Played and gigged that for 15 years in trad jazz, latin, fusion and 'art rock'. Never ever let me down. But man... talk about a boat anchor. Sold it in '92 and got the Studio 22+.
No gigging since then. Last 3 years or so I'm playing Quilter, but I still fire the 22 up from time to time:
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A chain just bought a popular chef-owned local restaurant.
Will the quality remain the same or improve? Maybe, but that's not the way you bet.
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Never bought one but always liked the Mesa amps. I use a Mesa Boogie EV Thiel cabinet if that counts
Hey just cause Gibson was bailed out by a venture capital firm, and are being run by those type folks, doesn’t mean that the acquisition of Mesa is going to go south. Of course not. (Thick, gooey sarcasm)))
CJ can say he loves guitars but when the investors knock at the door for payout time, the fun will start. I’ve seen a few guys like him in action close up, you’d be surprised how good they are at throwing entire companies under the bus to save their skins. The end will be cold and swift. Interesting that KKR doesn’t even list Gibson on their website lists of capital partners. I’m sure it’s just inadvertent.
Honestly, I kinda miss Henry J. Met him a couple of times and he came across honest, a bit lame, but honest.
Oh if you didn’t see it, guess who Gibsons newest endorser/signature issue is.... Gene Simmons.
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Gene Simmons!!?? That does it. I'm gonna buy Gibson again for the first time in 40 years. :)
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I'd fall off the wagon for this. I checked a couple of them out and they are quite delightful.
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does this mean my Mesa’s value will sky rocket??? I actually really like this old amp and Mesa tech support told me it started it’s life at the end of 79 and was finished in early 80 .
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In 1991 I checked out a MKIV/EV12L combo. Loved the amp, thought it was welded to the floor when I tried to lift it. My solution was a MKIV short head. For a cab I first tried the 12L Thiele, found it too boomy. Next tried the 12L open-back, found it too thin. Put them together and it was perfect; for the next 10 years that was my rock/pop rig. For jazz gigs I still used my Polytones, although I did occasionally use the Boogie head with one of the cabs. Also had a Studio 22+ that I liked quite a bit.
I stopped using tube amps in 2002 --not for the first time, which was in the early '70's, but this is the longest I've stayed on the wagon. Still tempted by the MK5 10" combo, but not so much I'd actually buy one; I have all the Boogie sound I need in my Fractal Audio Axe-Fx III.
As for Gibson & Mesa, I wish them well. Randy is 75 and says he still works every day. When I turn 75 I will have been retired for 22 years.
1992:
Something smaller for rehearsals and home use:
Danny W.
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The Boogie combo is hard to move, but when it stops, it really stays there.
I got mine with separate head and cab because the combo unit was ridiculous to lift.
The cab isn't too bad.
The head is so heavy that if you put a drink on it, the whole thing starts bending light around itself and you can't see it. Still sounds great, of course.
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Originally Posted by silvertonebetty
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Originally Posted by HeyNow
IMHO, it's not the Fractal Audio's that will take over market share. Suspect they have their own problems right now. I would predict it will be Line 6, pedal makers, and amp makers like Fender and Vox moving to modeling. As for it being asymptotic we're already at a point where many claim equivalency in a Fender Tonemaster. But putting that aside, I would see it more along the line of how the analog film camera was dead well before we had affordable 24mp sensors. Technology insertion doesn't require perfection. Just a compelling value proposition.
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Originally Posted by Alter
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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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Originally Posted by Spook410
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Originally Posted by silvertonebetty
Squier sells more guitars than any other brand on this planet
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
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Originally Posted by silvertonebetty
So what are you so sorely missing that Squier used to make .. Squier mandolins or Squier phonographs?
As I can tell most of Squiers business was as a supplier of strings and maybe parts to Fender, which was maintained after Fender bought them out, but just rebranded to the Fender name? Since then Fender starting 1982 made Squier the brand that sells the largest number of guitars worldwide.
I guess this is one of those ELI5 situation cause I just don't get the issue. Explain it to me Like I'm 5, how we as guitar players have suffered due to Fender buying out Squier?
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
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