Mesa V-Twin

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These were such cool Preamp pedals, I had the opportunity to buy one 10 years ago, but as I was limited by my amp at the time to how It would have been useful, I passed.

Do any of you guys use/have this pedal and is it worth tracking one down?
 
I had one from about nine years through eight years ago...be honest with you, I couldn't get much happening with it, but at that time I really didn't "get" tube amps, so could be great, or could be as crappy as I thought. I CAN tell you it was built pretty rock solid; I'd feel really comfortable putting it on a pedal board and not being too gentle with it.
 
I had one for a few years. It was s warm tune powered overdrive and that's about it. Not worth the price tag IMO.
 
fluff191":2eh2tgsv said:
I had one for a few years. It was s warm tune powered overdrive and that's about it. Not worth the price tag IMO.
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I've always been interested in trying out one of these but this is what I've always heard as well.
 
I remember the guy at the store told me "yeah, this is THE mesa sound in a pedal" and I was psyched to get it. SO that pedal finally came in, I rushed to buy it and what a piece of shit it turned out to be, I swear I knew it was ghastly when I tried it in the store, but I bought it anyway. It looked ultra cool, but tone-wise it was just a dark, muddy mess unless you were after an unpunchy, dark overdrive/fuzz type tone. I had it for awhile, I tried I really did, but it was not worth it.
 
Borrowed one from a friend a few years back to use at a gig. Highly under-impressed.. move on to much nicer pedals like a bbpreamp or something. They just don't sound very good IMO.
 
I had the rack preamp for a summer.... horrible for any high gain sounds. Passable for cleans...
 
This pedal, IMO, was intended to be plugged straight into a power amp. Using the amplifier output, I'll agree with most others here, but if you used the power amp output, it's like a totally different pedal. It's not really an overdrive/distortion box. It is a preamp, and when run that way, sounds much better. Not 100%, but it is tighter and more defined.

$.02
 
Had one for a while. Ran it in front of Blackface Fender. Didn't sound good at all in that application.
 
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