Anyone done a complete 180 in the gear they play?

[mniel8195]

i went from only 22 fret guitars with hard tails with no middle pickup . I also needed a tube screamer and all times. Now im into the 24 fret guitars with a middle pickup and a two point trem. I actually like the sound of an amp without a tube screamer.

 

[marshall_esp22]

i like so much different stuff its insane

 

[fretout]

I don't know if my history is as much a "180" as some others, but I used to play strats and super-strats through Mesa Rectifiers, and now I love my Les Pauls through my Mark IIIs and Mark IVs.

I found the strat's necks super thin, which made it really easy to fly across the neck, but after years of thin necks, I developed some type of arthritis or something, to the point where it was painful to play for more than an hour. I started playing some LP style guitars (like my Epi LP Special and my Gretsch Jet) and it felt a little better. When I stumbled across my '68 LPCs, their baseball-bat necks helped me play for hours and hours, and just about every guitar hero of mine plays not only a LP, but a Les Paul Custom, so that changed me for good.

With the amps, my Dual and Triple Rectifiers sounded great, but they didn't sound that great when I was playing fast rhythms, and some of the really complex leads I was playing. It was almost as if the amps couldn't keep up. I demoed some Mark-series amps and they kept up and "tracked" faster than the Rectos, and they would even sound great with the fastest thrash I could throw at them. I was Blessed enough to pick up a Coliseum accidentally, and it not only tracked fast, but it had the "low-mid girth" of the Rectos, more so than my standard Mark IIIs!

I still use the Rectos, but I switched over to very early Revisions because they're more raw, and track better than the later 2 channel and 3 channel amps I was using. They're still tough to beat for a thick, meaty, "3D-type-complexity" to the crunch that the Marks can't match, so I'll use them for when I feel like cranking out some Tool/Mastodon/Polyrhythmic type riffs, but the Mark III Coliseums are my absolute "go-to" amps.

 

[bonedarrell]

Just recently switched to combos vs. heads/4x12s. Purely for convenience.

 

[guitarman967]

180° isn't a complete circle...lol
Sorry, back to the topic, I used to not like mesa amps and they're my fav now

 

[bonedarrell]

180° isn't a complete circle...lol
Sorry, back to the topic, I used to not like mesa amps and they're my fav now

That would take you back to where you started

 

[thegame]

I don't know if my history is as much a "180" as some others, but I used to play strats and super-strats through Mesa Rectifiers, and now I love my Les Pauls through my Mark IIIs and Mark IVs.

I found the strat's necks super thin, which made it really easy to fly across the neck, but after years of thin necks, I developed some type of arthritis or something, to the point where it was painful to play for more than an hour. I started playing some LP style guitars (like my Epi LP Special and my Gretsch Jet) and it felt a little better. When I stumbled across my '68 LPCs, their baseball-bat necks helped me play for hours and hours, and just about every guitar hero of mine plays not only a LP, but a Les Paul Custom, so that changed me for good.

With the amps, my Dual and Triple Rectifiers sounded great, but they didn't sound that great when I was playing fast rhythms, and some of the really complex leads I was playing. It was almost as if the amps couldn't keep up. I demoed some Mark-series amps and they kept up and "tracked" faster than the Rectos, and they would even sound great with the fastest thrash I could throw at them. I was Blessed enough to pick up a Coliseum accidentally, and it not only tracked fast, but it had the "low-mid girth" of the Rectos, more so than my standard Mark IIIs!

I still use the Rectos, but I switched over to very early Revisions because they're more raw, and track better than the later 2 channel and 3 channel amps I was using. They're still tough to beat for a thick, meaty, "3D-type-complexity" to the crunch that the Marks can't match, so I'll use them for when I feel like cranking out some Tool/Mastodon/Polyrhythmic type riffs, but the Mark III Coliseums are my absolute "go-to" amps.

Cool story. No surprise that the fatter sounding LP guitars sound better through the thinner Mark amps and the thinner Strat style axes are better through the fatter Rectos.

I don't really care to do this nowadays but the absolute best dual amp setup I've ever tried was a Triple Recto and Mark IIC+ at the same time, particularly when the Mark went through a Recto wedge 2x12. Subbing a Mark 3 in lieu of the C+ was almost as good.

 

[Burt Reynolds]

I think my biggest switch up was going from hi-output pickups to low-output pickups. The sound is so much more transparent, especially with hi-gain amps.

 

[6string40]

Does a 540 count?

I went from Floyded Ibbys with high gain pickups to hardtail ESPs with active pickups to Floyded Charvels with high gain pickups and now I'm into hardtail semi-hollows with low/mod output pickups.

 

[fretout]

I don't know if my history is as much a "180" as some others, but I used to play strats and super-strats through Mesa Rectifiers, and now I love my Les Pauls through my Mark IIIs and Mark IVs.

I found the strat's necks super thin, which made it really easy to fly across the neck, but after years of thin necks, I developed some type of arthritis or something, to the point where it was painful to play for more than an hour. I started playing some LP style guitars (like my Epi LP Special and my Gretsch Jet) and it felt a little better. When I stumbled across my '68 LPCs, their baseball-bat necks helped me play for hours and hours, and just about every guitar hero of mine plays not only a LP, but a Les Paul Custom, so that changed me for good.

With the amps, my Dual and Triple Rectifiers sounded great, but they didn't sound that great when I was playing fast rhythms, and some of the really complex leads I was playing. It was almost as if the amps couldn't keep up. I demoed some Mark-series amps and they kept up and "tracked" faster than the Rectos, and they would even sound great with the fastest thrash I could throw at them. I was Blessed enough to pick up a Coliseum accidentally, and it not only tracked fast, but it had the "low-mid girth" of the Rectos, more so than my standard Mark IIIs!

I still use the Rectos, but I switched over to very early Revisions because they're more raw, and track better than the later 2 channel and 3 channel amps I was using. They're still tough to beat for a thick, meaty, "3D-type-complexity" to the crunch that the Marks can't match, so I'll use them for when I feel like cranking out some Tool/Mastodon/Polyrhythmic type riffs, but the Mark III Coliseums are my absolute "go-to" amps.

Cool story. No surprise that the fatter sounding LP guitars sound better through the thinner Mark amps and the thinner Strat style axes are better through the fatter Rectos.

I don't really care to do this nowadays but the absolute best dual amp setup I've ever tried was a Triple Recto and Mark IIC+ at the same time, particularly when the Mark went through a Recto wedge 2x12. Subbing a Mark 3 in lieu of the C+ was almost as good.

Thanks man! I haven't heard too many people that have run a similar rig, which surprised me! I used to have a Triple Recto and used to run my friend's Mark IIC+ in stereo with it. You're right, it's a killer setup! I went with Duals after I found my Revision D because it was more crunchy than my Triple was.

Yeah, I'm really happy I discovered these Mark amps. I really liked the C+, but as for right now, there's something about the low end in the Coliseums that gives me the low end and the fast-tracking that meshes really well with what I'm playing. There's a "feel" to the Mark III Coliseum that, IMHO makes it like a more aggressive Mark IIC+.

 

[sytharnia1560]

use to HATE floyds (for like 20yrs) now love them and want them on all my guitars. Was never a tube amp guy (use to run SS with distortion pedals ... sounded great ... honest ) now can't live without tubes

 

[rupe]

I went from medium to heavy picks

 

[Rayneman]

When playing in my cover band, I've given up using 1/2 stacks and use a little Fender HRD 1x12 on a stand with a big pedalboard. I got a rockenroller cart and I can load everything (amp, stand, 2 guitars, 2 guitar stands, pedaltrain in case, bag of cables and stuff) on that fucker and wheel it where I need to go. As volume is SO often an issue at places we play, using pedals for my gain and a smaller amp has been great, and so has the set up/tear down when not using racks and FX loops and whatever, especially on tiny stages. I have all the big amps and cabs at home, but they stay home unless I'm doing my 1 x year gig with the original band.

Not too long ago I would have laughed if someone suggested I use a little combo and pedals. Now, it seems like a no brainer.

 

[Steinmetzify]

Went from LPs and Strats into tube amps to going on a 7 string binge and using nothing but modelers to record with. Sold the tubes and bought 4 7s in the last 6 months.