1750 ... for a vintage rockman ... thats cheap dfegad grggt
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ive tried the pod , the mesa formula , sansamp , jmp1 , ada
i like the jmp1 the best , even its producing wrong tones ( can sound out of tune

even if the guitar is in tune )
the mesa rack stuff was never pretty good . the combination of a mesa pre and poweramp was always kinda weak . its been a while when i owned a strategy 400 and tried with some pres against the good old marshalls . it worked pretty well till the drums and bass started . i was like , damn 2*200W is still not enough . switching on a 50w marshall showed that no matter which pre i tried is still the best . a mesa dealer in my area had the luck to buy one of the thousand guitar racks from mr. van halen . well it sounded pretty good , till i decided to ask if we can hear the pre and poweramp without the pcm70 , h3000 and tc 2290 . well , after this , it sounded like " **** " .
same some years later , i was going to a rehearsal of one of those numetal bands . already heard about the mesa rectifiers and saw em a thousand times on mtv . i can remember the drummers counted in " 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 " ... i was waiting for the devil himslef coming out of those " holy " amps . the only thing that came out of em was a piece of ****
next thing ive heard was a mesa combo , which was sounding like a little box without any tone . then again i heard some vox ac 30s , some plexi marshalls and " holy lord " it sounded great .
the roland jazzchorus was the next thing which was turned on and made my ears more than happy . the hiwatt was ok , still not much to do with the pink floyd tone i expected . the fender tonemaster top . everybody told me " how great " this thing is ...
if was realy exicted in front having one in my hands now , and ...
not even 50% of what i expected again . after this , a gallien krueger custom build tube amp for bass , never saw it somewhere else again ( damn ) sounded just awesome with anything you plugged in . i remember a band playing engl savage amps . didnt like the " tone " that much but it is flexible and agressive and has a vibe like a marshall . a good amp . an old bandmaster top sounded very good as well ( just a clean sound but great ) .
the marshall speaker emulator is great too . the palmer are ok but you still need to have a cabinet to run it . the unit i am going to buy cause i liked it a lot was a hughes&kettner tubeman 1 .
( cool for bass as well )
i hope this guitar tone nightmare ends one day
oh i saw robben ford some weeks ago , 2 fender combos doing the clean sounds a dumble top and a dumbulator for the distorted ones . a tc 2290 for delays . what a player and what a sound . not loud and agressive , but a lovely tone .
opinions on dumble & orange amps please !!!
( could never get a hand on those units )