Magic amps are great no doubt, but there are lots of great boutique amp makers all trying to do endless variants of the same 5 things. There is something else out there that will get you where you need to be. And in the meantime your tastes will probably change after a while anywhere.
My two...
I can sort of help here...I have a Avatar Forte 1x12 and a Vboutique Vumble 2x12". If I had to choose just one, it would be the Avatar/Forte, no questions. The Vumble looks cooler and is bigger sounding, and it gets brought where stage footprint/look is important, but in terms of...
I was very late to this game. It's trial and error for sure, but when you get the right combo, you get a much larger bigger change to your tone than any pickup swap will ever accomplish.
I have the V:35 and can concur that the Crunch/clean thing not being footswitchable is an unfortunate limitation. But it's an excellent amp otherwise. I couldn't imagine needing a 90w version.
EQ pedal in the loop worked wonders on this for the F series. To some extent, I've found this to be a characteristic of just about every Mesa/Boogie I've ever played.
I think it's about 10% the digital modeler thing, 10% economic concerns, 80% survivor bias/unrealistic pricing. This whole concept of "it's worth more to me so I'll hold onto it" is completely arbitrary. In my view, stuff that is priced right moves quickly and always has. Those ads come in and...
So I haven't had a chance to swap a different speaker into that cab yet, or record a clip! But I have run the head through a different combo cab (2X12" Eminence RWB) and it was vastly different (in a good way). At my gig last night, I ran a different head (Quilter 201) through the same cab...
I should also mention that the speaker is more or less brand new. I've used it onstage for about 2hours. At home playing another 2hours and run the Ipad through it for 5-6hrs...perhaps some of this will mellow out as break in happens?
Don't have the amp at my disposal at the moment, but pretty similar to doublescale1 a couple posts down on Channel 1 with less presence, less bass, more master. Big difference in the GEQ tho. I had the V going (figuring that you know, cutting the mids would bring the mids down!) but that...
The manual gives me settings similar to what I used and similar to what people are posting here, and I get an amount of honk that is beyond what normally works just fine in a band mix and what my ears are used to. But I appreciate your thoughts, thank you!
Oh yeah, long time tele player...well aware of that "tone secret" thanks. In this case rolling back the tone knob doesn't really do anything to alleviate my issue though.
Thanks guys! My settings weren't that different from what is being posted here, except I had the GEQ in a V (which is even more bizarre I was getting honk). I'll go back to the drawing board.
Anyone have any suggestions for dialing out some of the honk on this amp with a telecaster?
I am using mine with a recently acquired Avatar Forte 3D 1x12" with a 75W Creamback in it. The honk is overwhelming, no matter how I eq it. It was so pronounced at my last gig that I had to move...