MESA Triaxis with TC Electronic G System?

[rafterman1969]

I just purchased a new Ltd Edition TC G System, and a MESA Triaxis (Rectifier pcb - no phat mod). Anyone have any experience with the G System, and or the MESA Triaxis? Apparently there's like a hundred different ways to configure the G System.

 

[steve_k]

Get ready for lots of experimentation and make yourself a lot of cables! I have a Triaxis and not only will you have several ways to wire up the G-System, the Triaxis has several options of its own. I only used an Eventide with mine and it was pretty straight forward. Did you get a Triaxis manual? Quite a few good tips in there and you might head over to the Boogie board for some advice too.

Steve

 

[rsm]

Go to the TC Electronic user forum for the G-System. There's a sticky for Laird's white paper, get that and read, read, read....and read some more. I think if you search in the forum, there are a few threads IIRC about 4CM, amps, preamps or maybe the triaxis specifically?

Laird's white paper is the missing manual, very good, detailed but it is still a complex subject but he covers how to avoid and diagnose noise and signal issues, which are usually due to the set-up not the G-System. The TC manual is barely providing any info beyond the basics. I have mine set-up as a direct rig, with an original Tonelab (blue table top) in the insert (preamp) loop, and I have an EBTEch hum eliminator which makes a good passive DI to, for the outputs; keep note of the discussions on the types (TSR) and lengths of cables where it matters to avoid noise.

I have Lava pedal board kit cables, but I haven't wired it up yet, as I still need to get a pedal board and case which are on the "to do" list.

 

[rafterman1969]

Good info... Thanks!

 

[rafterman1969]

Get ready for lots of experimentation and make yourself a lot of cables! I have a Triaxis and not only will you have several ways to wire up the G-System, the Triaxis has several options of its own. I only used an Eventide with mine and it was pretty straight forward. Did you get a Triaxis manual? Quite a few good tips in there and you might head over to the Boogie board for some advice too.

Steve

My Triaxis and TC won't get here until Tuesday, so I don't know what it comes with. I think I'm going to run the Rocktron Intellifex into my Mesa Mark IIC+, and then run my TC G System with my Triaxis?

I also purchased a 2010 Fender American Deluxe Strat. The 2010 models are now fitted with the San Dimas Charvel necks. Same compound radius fret-boards! I played one last week at GC and was f-ing blown-away! As soon as I picked it up, it was obvious that I wasn't playing my dads old Strat...

 

[steve_k]

Get ready for lots of experimentation and make yourself a lot of cables! I have a Triaxis and not only will you have several ways to wire up the G-System, the Triaxis has several options of its own. I only used an Eventide with mine and it was pretty straight forward. Did you get a Triaxis manual? Quite a few good tips in there and you might head over to the Boogie board for some advice too.

Steve

My Triaxis and TC won't get here until Tuesday, so I don't know what it comes with. I think I'm going to run the Rocktron Intellifex into my Mesa Mark IIC+, and then run my TC G System with my Triaxis?

I also purchased a 2010 Fender American Deluxe Strat. The 2010 models are now fitted with the San Dimas Charvel necks. Same compound radius fret-boards! I played one last week at GC and was f-ing blown-away! As soon as I picked it up, it was obvious that I wasn't playing my dads old Strat...

Go to the Mesa Boogie website and download a Triaxis manual and start studying on it now. Get everything hooked up and your Midi going using the existing presets, before you start messing around with your own. To really make the Triaxis shine, you need to grab a Mesa 2:90 power amp. It will let you take advantage of the Simulclass switching options and the Triaxis will switch the tube assignments around for you. Pretty slick and versatile. And, if you need a 2:90, let me know. I got one that needs to go.

Steve

 

[rafterman1969]

Get ready for lots of experimentation and make yourself a lot of cables! I have a Triaxis and not only will you have several ways to wire up the G-System, the Triaxis has several options of its own. I only used an Eventide with mine and it was pretty straight forward. Did you get a Triaxis manual? Quite a few good tips in there and you might head over to the Boogie board for some advice too.

Steve

My Triaxis and TC won't get here until Tuesday, so I don't know what it comes with. I think I'm going to run the Rocktron Intellifex into my Mesa Mark IIC+, and then run my TC G System with my Triaxis?

I also purchased a 2010 Fender American Deluxe Strat. The 2010 models are now fitted with the San Dimas Charvel necks. Same compound radius fret-boards! I played one last week at GC and was f-ing blown-away! As soon as I picked it up, it was obvious that I wasn't playing my dads old Strat...

Go to the Mesa Boogie website and download a Triaxis manual and start studying on it now. Get everything hooked up and your Midi going using the existing presets, before you start messing around with your own. To really make the Triaxis shine, you need to grab a Mesa 2:90 power amp. It will let you take advantage of the Simulclass switching options and the Triaxis will switch the tube assignments around for you. Pretty slick and versatile. And, if you need a 2:90, let me know. I got one that needs to go.

Steve

Thanks for the advice on the MIDI...

UPS delivered the Triaxis and Rocktron Velocity 300 today. I have it running into my Cornford pine 412 cab - but no effects yet. This Velocity 300 sounds like a f-ing tube amp! WAY better than any solid-state I've ever used. The low-end "punch" is incredible!

Yes - I do want to get a 2:90. Is yours here in the States? Price? I looked at the Randall RT2/50 and the MESA 2:90.... It looks like one channel can take EL34's and the other takes 6L6's? I would want to blend the EL34's and 6L6's in both channels - not one side or the other. Just doesn't make any sense...

The UPS tracking for the TC G System reads that it won't arrive until Nov. 29th. WTF? It takes 11 f-ing days to go from Oregon to Florida? By the time it gets here I'll be ready to sell it for an Eventide!

 

[Jack Luminous]

You can blend EL34 and 6L6 in the 2:90 without any mod (the old one, the new version I don't know). Just stick the EL34 on the 4 outer slots of the 2:90 and fire it up ! I did that for a few months and it sounded great and grindy, slightly more upper mids. I went back to 6L6s in the end because I preferred the extended highs and lows it gave.

 

[rafterman1969]

You can blend EL34 and 6L6 in the 2:90 without any mod (the old one, the new version I don't know). Just stick the EL34 on the 4 outer slots of the 2:90 and fire it up ! I did that for a few months and it sounded great and grindy, slightly more upper mids. I went back to 6L6s in the end because I preferred the extended highs and lows it gave.

Thanks! I was just on the phone with Marcus... I could have asked him about the newer models.