mesa in a box ??

[VanStone]

+1 on the MI Tube Zone.

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[jlagrassa]

Another vote for the Tube Zone...but you can dial it out if you get tired of that tone very versatile box!

[bluesjuke]

Originally Posted by LavaMan

+1 again (just did this on another thread...) Owned one of these for 5 years. Killer pedal!

Had the Mesa V Twin for about 5 years myself.
Posted two threads about it over the last year on the LPF.
Some like it some don't as said.

I don't use it as often as I used to but I still like it as much.
I use mine mostly on the Clean Channel & also for the best headphone amplifier I ever had the pleasure to plug into.

The Clean & the Blues Channels (moreso the Clean) sound very Fendery- not like a Mesa. After all where do you think Mesa first got their preamp stage?
The Gain Channel uses I belive 5? diodes for its distortion.
I know the Clean is tube & I think the Blues Channel is too.
The Gain Channel can be set to low gain to MASSIVE!
It's good for letting the teenager in you out every once in a while.

Works really well on the Clean Channel when I plug my Martin in even though it doesn't need a preamp.

I also do not find it dark at all.

[bluesjuke]

I forgot to ask-

I tried the Bottle Rocket before I got the V Twin but it didn't do it for me.
However the one I see on the site now is called the V1 & seems bigger than I remember- did they revamp this?

[Gibsonchild]

I've had the best luck w/ a Gallien Krueger Diesel Dawg. It's actually a bass distortion, but it's perfect for guitar. I can nail my Mesa's sound pretty much dead on. A little closer than my old VTwin could, imo. I never cared for the Vtwin, though, sounded like a POD to my ears.

[Dave Simpson]

MI Audio Tube Zone. I have a Boogie Rectifier and get the TZ pretty close to the same tone.

[bluesjuke]

Funny I've got the V Twin as I don't find Mesa to my tastes.
But I do like this.

Gibsonchild- I don't think that about the pod thing but I can see where you get it from on the Gain Channel.
The V Twin excells on Clean.

[stereotypy]

i have updated my first post now...

[Lucidology]

The Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Classic is a nice cross between a Chandler Tube Drive & a V-Twin (as I've had both,,,) Not only duel tubes, but dual stages... you might like it!

[Mullet Kingdom]

You should also checkout the Tonebone stuff. http://www.tonebone.com/index.htm

[dupedd]

The tube zone looks cool. Can anyone tell me how the original 3-knob differs from the new 6 knob?

[Dave Simpson]

Three of the knobs are internal trim pots.

[JohnLutz]

Has anyone tried the new Krank pedal?

[dupedd]

So no tonal differences with the new tube zone? The additional eq can be fixed with the inside trims?

[fritzreiser]

The 2 that I tried that came closest to sounding like a Dual Recto with the modern switch engaged are:

G2D Morpheus
AMT Electronics Extreme III