4Eyes
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people don't know what they want.
all the changes that have been made to mesa amps are lot of compromises between the playability, features, price and design simplicity.
the truth is that mesa gave up on push pull knobs because of money - they are not reliable and expensive - toggle switches deliver more options at far lower price with better reliability. that is simple. but it's more complicated when you look at what people want and when you try to fulfill all the customer needs and requirements. all you see is that people want to have one box that makes everything. one amp that makes excellent cleans, crunch and lead tones - i.e. all Singles, 3 or 4ch DR/TR/RK/Roadster. that makes at least 2 or more different signal paths in the amp, lot of additional parts, signal switching etc.. it all affects tone - usually in worse way, opposed to the old 2ch DR/TR which in nutshell is single channel amp, one signal path with two sets of controls and some switching.
general rule is - the less parts/switching is in the amp, the better it will sound. every additional feature is trade off between functionality and sound/feel/amp mojo
Mesa tried to bring in simple amp to the market - Electradyne - how long it was in their production line? 2 or 3 years? Mark 1 is gone, they make only snake skin combo which is more collectors item, than amp for real gigging. Same thing would happen to Mark IIC+, Recto 2ch reissues - few people would buy them because of their "legendary status", but most of the people would remain to use their brothers with more options available. with that much amps/modellers available on the market, there is no place for reissues.
all the changes that have been made to mesa amps are lot of compromises between the playability, features, price and design simplicity.
the truth is that mesa gave up on push pull knobs because of money - they are not reliable and expensive - toggle switches deliver more options at far lower price with better reliability. that is simple. but it's more complicated when you look at what people want and when you try to fulfill all the customer needs and requirements. all you see is that people want to have one box that makes everything. one amp that makes excellent cleans, crunch and lead tones - i.e. all Singles, 3 or 4ch DR/TR/RK/Roadster. that makes at least 2 or more different signal paths in the amp, lot of additional parts, signal switching etc.. it all affects tone - usually in worse way, opposed to the old 2ch DR/TR which in nutshell is single channel amp, one signal path with two sets of controls and some switching.
general rule is - the less parts/switching is in the amp, the better it will sound. every additional feature is trade off between functionality and sound/feel/amp mojo
Mesa tried to bring in simple amp to the market - Electradyne - how long it was in their production line? 2 or 3 years? Mark 1 is gone, they make only snake skin combo which is more collectors item, than amp for real gigging. Same thing would happen to Mark IIC+, Recto 2ch reissues - few people would buy them because of their "legendary status", but most of the people would remain to use their brothers with more options available. with that much amps/modellers available on the market, there is no place for reissues.
