9ball
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And i gotta say - i preferred the dsl. Was in the area so i stopped by and went into the loud room, picked up a deam mustaine V and plugged into the roadster first. I couldn't figure out how to switch channels lol, it was on the channel that has the controls on the bottom left of the faceplate, and was plugged into a mesa 4x12 with vintage 30's. I did figure out how to switch between the modes of the channel, messed around with the settings, it didn't seem to have the range of presence that my tsl has, or the range of cleaning up by rolling the guitar volume back, but like i said, i only played the one channel. Overall i liked it. It had a more "squishy" sounding low end than my tsl.
Then i played the mark V hooked up to another mesa 4x12 with i think V30's. It seemed complicated, and i did get some pretty good tones, but nothing really "wow'd" me. I only played the clean and middle channel and only played it for about 10 minutes. I messed with it a little and didn't really have anything that jumped out at me, and didn't really feel like sitting there figuring it out for half an hour lol
Then i plugged into the dsl, it was sitting on a marshall 4x12 with g12t75's, and i was really surprised how similar it sounded to my tsl(which is fja modded) - the dsl didn't seem to have quite the range of presence or gain that my tsl has, and my tsl has just a little more ass to put behind it's low end, but they were very similar. One thing that stood out to me was that neither the roadster or the dsl seemed to be able to clean up as much and cop lower gain bluesiness as well/as much as my tsl does by just rolling the guitar volume back. Kind of interesting. I'd really be interested to hear an fja modded dsl now.
Also i guess i should add that i dunno if it just needed new strings or what but that dean mustaine V didn't feel anywhere near as comfortable to play to me as my ltd mustaines. Maybe it's just because i've had them so long i dunno lol.
Then i played the mark V hooked up to another mesa 4x12 with i think V30's. It seemed complicated, and i did get some pretty good tones, but nothing really "wow'd" me. I only played the clean and middle channel and only played it for about 10 minutes. I messed with it a little and didn't really have anything that jumped out at me, and didn't really feel like sitting there figuring it out for half an hour lol
Then i plugged into the dsl, it was sitting on a marshall 4x12 with g12t75's, and i was really surprised how similar it sounded to my tsl(which is fja modded) - the dsl didn't seem to have quite the range of presence or gain that my tsl has, and my tsl has just a little more ass to put behind it's low end, but they were very similar. One thing that stood out to me was that neither the roadster or the dsl seemed to be able to clean up as much and cop lower gain bluesiness as well/as much as my tsl does by just rolling the guitar volume back. Kind of interesting. I'd really be interested to hear an fja modded dsl now.
Also i guess i should add that i dunno if it just needed new strings or what but that dean mustaine V didn't feel anywhere near as comfortable to play to me as my ltd mustaines. Maybe it's just because i've had them so long i dunno lol.
