I've had both the MM and the in-house. If you want the Mercury output tranformer, they're offering it now. It's their Marshall 2668 clone for the 101b.
I use the effects loop on my Dual for the Master Volume thing. It sounds a lot better to me. Mine has Philips 7581A power tubes and GE and RCA preamp tubes. I never liked the 440s. The 430s were a little thicker sounding which are the Sovtek 6L6WXT+ or EH 6L6GC (that's what they are today)...
Lastly, I remember some rumblings about Taylor swapping over to PCBs, so the newer ones are probably PCB. That wouldn't bother me one way or the other.
Yeah, it's a version of Howard's Bassman mod on one channel and a Plexi tone on the other channel. RJ Ronquillo (hope I'm spelling that right) has a good demo of it on YouTube. If I got one, I would get that one and whatever his equivalent is to Santana's amp. I'm not a Dumble nerd, so I...
I pretty much run a Way Huge Conspiracy Theory in front of mine, and I leave it on all the time. It makes the cleans sound better, and it does what I like to the OD channels.
If I’m not using that, I have a Maxon OD808 and a JHS Bonsai. I also like the amp by itself.
They have been talking about that for years. It may reawaken one day or could stay dormant forever. If the ground starts shaking, just cover your arse!
$200 is cheap for what you get with Logic in comparison to other DAWs. You will have more control, and all of your Garageband sessions will import into Logic with no problems. I like Garageband too. If you don't truly need Logic right now, don't worry about picking it up until you outgrow GB.
This is what Alan from Carol-Ann had to say about it:
First and foremost, I'm an Engineer and don't do mojo BS. The fact this Industry has become a marketing nightmare of BS and lies not only misleads people, but attempts to fill knowledge blanks with marketing instead of fact. Add to that a...
I hope everything will settle out with time on these new ones for all of you. Get the juices flowing hard and heavy through them!
I'm looking forward to all of the videos/clips you guys are going to do, and big thanks to you guys that have already made some.