Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

[krimson]

I just picked up a triple rectifier that I am trying to tweak but so far its just mud.

I have read the manual and understand how all the different knobs interact with each other, but I am interested as to what your favorite settings are in the Vintage and Modern modes.

[DonP]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

Just turn all the knobs to 10.

Oops - that's for a Marshall LOL!

I could never live without the handouts Mesa would give of sample settings back in the old (Mark series) days. Easy to get shit sounds.

[khabibissell]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

Gain = to taste
Bass = Dimed
Mids = Dimed
Treble = zero
Presence = zero
Channel vol = keeping it lower (9 - 11 oclock) gives a tighter sound to my ears.
Output = to taste
Voicing = both modern and vintage

These are what I use on my single, with either EL34 or 6L6 power tubes.

[krimson]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

No sure if I understand what you mean by dimed, is that 10?

You know the thing that really trips me out on Mesa is how raising a knob can sometimes have an opposite effect. It seems to me that raising the treble past nine usually drops the treble and raises the mids.

[khabibissell]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

Yep, all the way open.

[Dreamland_Rebel]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

the treble off IS the secret weapon.

[DSS3]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

volume to taste

Pres: 11:00
Bass: 11:00
Mids: 10:30
Treb: 11:00
Gain: 12:30 with an OD and EMG's infront

[ChrisRocksUSA]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

I am buying a 3 channel dual recto at the end of the month

can't wait

[eaeolian]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

Rhythm: (Red Channel)

Bass 8:00
Mid 9:30
Treble 2:00
Presence 10:30
Gain 1:00
Volume 10:30

Lead: (Orange) (Yellow? I can never remember which they call it.)

Bass 9:00
Mid 10:30
Treble 1:00
Presence 12:00
Gain 1:30
Volume 10:30 (The extra mid makes the channel a bit louder.)

Cleans (Green)

Uh, I'm still messing with it:

Gain 10:30
Bass 10:00
Mid 11:30
Treble 2:00
Presence 12:00
Volume matching rhythm volume.

I found that by changing to the STR440 6L6s and swapping around various Russian preamp tubes, I was able to get a nice midrange focus out of it without getting too much high end shrillness or low end boom.

[Boxcar Willie 84]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

My main distortion setting goes like this:
Channel Two (orange), Vintage mode
Gain: 1:00
Bass: 10-11:00
Mid: 10-11:00
Treble: 1:00
Presence: barely over 12:00
Volume about halfway up
I can't remember how I set the other two...red channel is a barely distorted sound on Raw, the green one is clean. I put the JJ 12AX7s in the preamp section. Might switch out the power tubes to STR440s or Mesa EL34s sometime too.

[sworn_enemy]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

Here are the metal rhythm settings I'm using right now. I set the loop and output/solo controls on bypass. And I also boost the front end with a Maxon OD808.

Ch.2 - modern mode/tube rec/spongy
Pres - 9:30
Master - 2:00-3:00 (very loud with output controls bypassed)
Gain - 12:30
Bass - 9:00
Mid - 11:00
Treb - 1:00

Ch.3 - modern mode/tube rec/spongy
Pres - 9:00
Master - 2:00-3:00
Gain - 12:30
Bass - 10:00
Mid - 12:00
Treb - 12:00

Maxon OD808
Drive - 7:00
Tone - 11:00
Balance - 1:00

I'm using the 440STR's and a mix of tung-sol, EH, and JJ preamp tubes.

[Deneb]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

I disagree with the treble off...I just think that the treble control on the amp is so reactive, and can really change the dynamics of the sound.

Then again, if the treble off is your sound, then yeah it works. For me, no good.

[Boxcar Willie 84]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

I was wrong about my Presence...it was more in between 1:00 and 2:00.

[Dreamland_Rebel]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

the treble off lets the treble that is in the midrange shine bright.

[sworn_enemy]

Re: Share your Mesa Rectifier Settings

[ QUOTE ]
Here are the metal rhythm settings I'm using right now. I set the loop and output/solo controls on bypass. And I also boost the front end with a Maxon OD808.

Ch.2 - modern mode/tube rec/spongy
Pres - 9:30
Master - 2:00-3:00 (very loud with output controls bypassed)
Gain - 12:30
Bass - 9:00
Mid - 11:00
Treb - 1:00

Ch.3 - modern mode/tube rec/spongy
Pres - 9:00
Master - 2:00-3:00
Gain - 12:30
Bass - 10:00
Mid - 12:00
Treb - 12:00

Maxon OD808
Drive - 7:00
Tone - 11:00
Balance - 1:00

I'm using the 440STR's and a mix of tung-sol, EH, and JJ preamp tubes.

[/ QUOTE ]

Oops....master should be 8:00-9:00, not 2:00-3:00. That would kill people at that volume!