Members mymindsok Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Yesterday I was looking at the new 65 Reissue Princeton and got a solid discount price of $750 plus tax but then today, I was at an open-house industry show and saw the Mesa Lonestar, which is about twice the price. The Mesa is beautifully built and sounds great. Lots of features like three levels of power switching and great build quality. Is the Mesa worth twice the price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chevette Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 do you like it twice as much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dewees Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Depends on what you want. The Lonestar will give you lots of tone shaping and distortion shaping capabilities. The DRRI is simply classic Fender tone. I think the Lonestar is worth twice the price. But do you need or want its capabilities? I want one of each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tiltsta Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I'd get the mesa, but it kind of depends on what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frankiej Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 mesas are monster amps. Rectoverb, Lonestar. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tumbleweeed Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Do you want everything or just .....one thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bubbluz Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I dig my Studio.22:cool::wave: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kap'n Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I know enough not to want one. YMMV, IMHO, yadda, yadda, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beckman Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I played a 5:50 this week. I really liked it. I tried to for Fender a couple of times, it always loses head to head for me. I would go Mesa. More options and the lower watt setting is great for home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Exdeath Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Mesas are extremely well built, and I hear nothing but good things about their customer service, even if they don't have a support email address. They're also pretty damn versatile despite all the brutalz kids using them - my DC-5 gets awesome cleans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bloolight Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I owned a Mesa Rect-O-Verb 50 combo for about six years. It was my first professional quality tube amp, and I hadn't really settled on my sound at the time. It was impeccably built, and just felt as solid as a rock. (It was also incredibly heavy!) I fried my screen resistors during a tube-change and had to contact the Mesa people to find a certified technician...they were incredibly helpful and polite. In the end, I got rid of it because I stopped using nearly all of its features in favor of the clean channel and my pedalboard. Once I realized that the Mesa was never going to get a true Fender blackface clean, I went ahead and switched to a Deluxe Reverb Reissue. I don't miss the tone of the Mesa, but I do miss the build quality. I don't have nearly as much confidence in the durability of my DRRI, even though I've been gigging with it for about a year and haven't had any major problems. The LoneStar has a very good reputation, but it is also got a hefty price tag. If you have the scratch, the LoneStar sounds like a great amp. However, if you have your heart set on blackface cleans like I did, you might as well save money and go with a Fender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rummy Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I use a Mesa and a Fender. If I had to pick just one, it'd be the Mesa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timeforheroes Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 not mch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GarysBlues Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Nothing beats FENDER Clean. If the best possible clean tone is nOT your quest? Then there are MANY very good amp builders out here. And yes Mesa is one. The Lonestar is a NICE amp. The cleans just don't reach a Fender TR Tone. But their cleans are certainly usable. Try a VOX AC-30? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mymindsok Posted August 3, 2008 Author Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Try a VOX AC-30? As a matter of fact. I was runing some pedals through the Vox just yesterday. It was the first time I had used that amp and I was pretty impressed with it. Nce cleans ans it's a great sounding amp. Its definately on my list to try and I know that itgets some love around here. Thanks for reminding me about that. It's just that the build quality and the features of the Mesa sent my head spinning. I really like the 6V6s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shredtilurded Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Mesas are great amps.but it really depends on your style.what kind of music do you play?etc.Mesa makes some of the best amps for shredding however I go with marshall.It's a newer one but pretty good cleans and a classic crunch.plus my line 6 pedalboard can get me close to alot of different amp models.plus you wont have to mortgage your {censored}ing house to pay for it.WORKS FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 The Mesa is worth it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rog951 Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Buy both. Then buy a Marshall. That should hold you for a while! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whiteop Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Love my Stiletto Ace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kelly Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 The Mesa is worth it to me. Not me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric Blues Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I played a LoneStar Special in January when I bought my 52 HR Tele and thought it was an incredible amp...extremely versatile. I was seriously tempted to bring it home. The only reason I didn't was that I had just dropped a wad of cash on the Tele and although I had the cash, couldn't bring myself to spend another $2k that same day. I regretted it. I should have bought that amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mymindsok Posted August 3, 2008 Author Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Thanks guys... I guess that I'm just getting to the point where I"m tired of chasing tone and really want to concentrate on my playing, not on screw around with equipment. I have a classic Peavy artist but that thing is just to powerfull (100w) for home use, though it'd be a solid gigging amp and I have a a Pignose 60 watt with a bias circuit, a standby switch added, plus a complete retube and a ToneTubby speaker. The Pig is kinda neat (Especially for blusy stuff.) but neither one will give me a Fender clean. Not even close. I'm just thinking that one good amp would let me setle down and play guitar, while I accmulate more experience. At a quoted $750 "Regular customer insider price" the Fender Reissue is a good deal but the Mesa is just beautiful (But expensive.), while the Classic Thirty aint no slouch and has 6v6 power, which I like. Ho-hum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsupermanny14 Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I think Mesa Boogie is the definition of "{censored} yeah, rock on!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phyrexia Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 Mesas are great amps.but it really depends on your style.what kind of music do you play?etc.Mesa makes some of the best amps for shredding however I go with marshall.It's a newer one but pretty good cleans and a classic crunch.plus my line 6 pedalboard can get me close to alot of different amp models.plus you wont have to mortgage your {censored}ing house to pay for it.WORKS FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!! OP asks you about a {censored}ing Lonestar versus a Princeton and you start talking about shred amps and marshalls and line 6 pedals? Did you even read the post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phyrexia Posted August 3, 2008 Members Share Posted August 3, 2008 I like the PRRI a lot but for a little more money you could buy a SF princeton and blackface it. I am a boogie man though. Were you looking specifically at the LoneStar Classic or the LoneStar Special? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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