Well, I have mixed emotions from the weekends two wedding gigs.
First off, the tone from this rig is nothing short of astounding. The only word I can think of to describe how the bass felt is 'SOLID'. Every note is as clear as crystal regardless of whether it's high up on the neck or down in the depths of the low B string. I have the 'clean' channel set up with mid and treble cut (about 11 o clock) and the bass flat. Having two footswitchable channels is a godsend. I have one set up really clean with a nice 'roundness' for normal rock and also the fretless tunes, and the other set up with a bit more bite on the gain and treble for Punkier numbers (yes, we get requests for Anarchy in the Uk at weddings!). The two venues couldn't have been more different, one was a working mans club, low roof with the room much wider than it was long, and the other a full size hotel ballroom. needless to say the rig filled both halls with power to spare and my guitarists said we had the best sound we've had for ages.
Now the downer. The early silver faced Titan had a known problem; when running a 2 ohm speaker load the thermal cutout would occasionally shut the amp down for 10 seconds - I experienced this with my EBS/GK cab combination but wasn't too worried at the time as I knew I was changing cabs to a 4 ohm load. However, at both gigs into the 3rd set when the music gets pretty lively the amp cut out. Only once on saturday but three times on sunday - pretty embarrasing but also very annoying.
Spoke to the UK distributor about it this morning and they contacted Mesa who have asked to have the amp sent to Petaluma for repair, all under warranty which is pretty impressive for a 5 year old second owner amp. All I have to do is get the thing to Glasgow some time this week. Means I'll be without the amp for at least 3 or 4 weeks but at least I still have my fender pre / QSC power set up I can use at next months gigs.
Oh, sunday just wasn't my night - snapped an E string (right on the bridge saddle)on my MK just into the second set so I ended up having to play around 40 minutes on my fretless rogue - I love playing it but a lot of the tunes require definite bass notes e.g. Stuck in the middle / Brown eyed girl so I had finish the set off watching my fingers.
Graeme
