
MetalHeadMike
Well-known member
I had never played a Mesa amp until walking into my local mom/pop guitar store Friday. There sat a dead mint 2014 Multiwatt Dual Recto and after plugging in and wanking off for a bit I decided I needed a Mesa.
So my initial impression is that the tone fits what I always thought the Recto tone would sound like in person: Relatively raw with a bit of a grainy texture, and not the most upper mid focused nor super articulate sound. It's a big, bold, nasty tone, and I'm liking it
Clean boosted on either the red ch or orange ch and with the eq in the loop, it's a pretty grinding brutal tone. I brought it home Saturday night and got about an hour on it, and then got up this morning plugged in with a migraine and recorded these short little chug a chug riffs on both the Red ch and orange ch. Can't believe I waited so long to try a Mesa
Signal chain: Migraine headache>Carvin St300c w/ BK Painkiller bridge>Ts9>Amp>MXR in loop>ZoomH2n on top of empty pickup boxes>on top of beer coolers.
Red Ch:
https://soundcloud.com/user-549632051/r ... -1/s-Vd3Cd
Orange Ch:
https://soundcloud.com/user-549632051/r ... av/s-vsQwI
***Sorry about the ambient noise, the beer cooler handles must have been rattling

So my initial impression is that the tone fits what I always thought the Recto tone would sound like in person: Relatively raw with a bit of a grainy texture, and not the most upper mid focused nor super articulate sound. It's a big, bold, nasty tone, and I'm liking it


Signal chain: Migraine headache>Carvin St300c w/ BK Painkiller bridge>Ts9>Amp>MXR in loop>ZoomH2n on top of empty pickup boxes>on top of beer coolers.
Red Ch:
https://soundcloud.com/user-549632051/r ... -1/s-Vd3Cd
Orange Ch:
https://soundcloud.com/user-549632051/r ... av/s-vsQwI
***Sorry about the ambient noise, the beer cooler handles must have been rattling
