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Hahaha! Yeah, you can't tell in my pic because the power tubes were pulled when the pic was taken, but the tranny is at least 3 times bigger on the Coli than my normal "100 watt" Blue Stripe. It's the same tranny Mesa used in any Coliseum ever made, and it's the same tranny as the Bass 400+, and...

Yeah, that's the biggest tranny I've seen on a 100 watt amplifier. Compare that to the tranny on one of my Coliseums. The Coli's tranny is really, really close to contacting the reverb tank...

Lots of love here for the 57 Classics! I'll add that I see to HATE these pickups and tore them (carefully of course) out of all my 68RIs up until the last RI I bought. I plugged it into my all the day I got it, and it was one of those days when you're incapable of playing a bad note. I figures...

Of you're painting a Gibson Les Paul, do NOT use modern automotive paints! Most modern automotive paints are some sort of polyurethane. This is the type of paint that is normally used on Asian-made guitars including Epiphones. The benefit to using poly is that it is extremely tough-wearing...

There's a few different Mesa-branded Russian 12AX7s. There's the ones labeled "Russian" in white, and there's two different "Russian 2s", one with white labeling and one with black labeling. I personally prefer the Mesa-branded Chinese 12AX7s and the black label Russian 2s... Mix of White/Black...

I've never been a big fan of having multi-FX units. I think their value is found in the fact that you can run banks of FX, so that you don't have to tap dance, but the drawback is the quality of the FX. I've never really liked the sound I've got out of the multi-FX units. It's hard to describe...

This depends on your definition of a "Black Beauty". The term used to mean the very early LPCs from 1957 and older. Some peoples definition of Black Beauty means the guitar MUST be black and must have 3 humbuckers pickups, while others consider any Ebony LPC of any era and any construction a...

I've owned quite a few BBs, and I would narrow them down based on their era. If you're talking about no weight relief, long neck tennons, or ABR-1 bridges, those are only offered on some "reissue" LPCs. The "standard" LPCs have "Swiss-cheese" weight relief, short tennons, and Nashville bridges...

I have a couple of Mark IVs and I love them. I like the tones I get out of the Mark IIIs better, but for the versatility of the Mark IV, I usually experiment on the Mark IV. Feature-wise, the Mesa is the way to go. I can get a nice Marshally tone on channel 2 while running Simul-Class. Also...

Congrats on finding the guitar you wanted! Regarding your comment about the headstock, that is really strange. I've only ever seen the logo and flowerpot (that's what the logo that looks like a crown is called) in mother of pearl. It's also a little suspicious that they are raised that high off...

Really? Soldano says in the video that the GTO is the preamp of the SLO-100 in a pedal. I have no experience with the GTO pedal, but I think it would be a great idea if amp manufacturers started making their preamps in pedal enclosures, along with the 12ax7s.

IIRC, Randy's '74 LPC sported 6230 fretwire (listed as "22 medium jumbo" on the Gibson Reissues). This comes out to A: 0.078, B: 0.043, C: 0.035. Maniac, would you be able to measure your fretwire and verify if it has the same fretwire? Just to be able to inform myself and others if the...

Uhhhhhh...cuz it says LTD on the headstock and not KDKH on the headstock. I'm not going to pretend or speculate on what the conversations were that went into determining the price of the guitar. Either way, one entity determined the price and the other approved it. You pick whichever you want...

That looks great man! Congrats on a killer guitar!

I think the graphic is pretty terrible IMHO. I mean, the graphic is basically letters that follow a design that doesn't match the shape of the guitar at all. It would have made more sense to put the design on a guitar with a rounded profile...but it would still just be letters. Maybe it's how...

Gary Holt's tube amp + James Hetfield's old white Flying V = soft rock?

See, and I was pretty sure Mesa was using JJs, and that was after they used Ruby, and after they used some Chinese 12ax7s... Edit: as of about a year ago, Mesa was getting their 12ax7s from JJ...and this is confirmed by Mesa themselves.

It's validating to hear your reviews of the VH4 and the Friedman. I posted my findings of the VH4 back during the days of the HCAF, and I felt like I had to double up on my flamesuit too! I went to GC that happened to have a VH4 in (this was back when Hetfield first started using one), and I...

The very best value for a Les Paul style guitar under $1K is to go pickup a used Gibson Les Paul Studio. You can find them anywhere from $500 to $700 in great condition (usually), and you'll have have a couple hundred bucks left over to swap out pickups, swap out hardware, or even repaint it...

Nice! For a solid state amp, it's really the only high gain, solid state amp I could listen to, but I never see them around! Was this the same Warhead as the one Dime used on RTS? For some reason I remember Dimes had a different front panel and the GEQ said "DIME" across it... Edit: does it...