Long-time Titan user here. If Mesa released a Class D version of the Titan, I would buy one. My requests would be to include a HPF, and tame the extreme low-end when the distortion is engaged.
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What cab to match a Mesa V12?
- Thread starter BassDaddySky
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I'd like to have a blend with the overdrive and clean. The od sounds quite dark (atleast in my amp) compared to clean so switching it on/off doesn't do it for me. Solution -> always on. Perhaps the loop could be before master volume so it would be more usable or even better - separate loops for ch 1+2.
You must be really cranking the drive circuit. Some sort of a clean blend would be better.
I'll be surprised if we ever get a Subway Titan variant as I don't think it was all that popular of a model. If we do get a revival, I wouldn't argue against an HPF, but my Titan does not seem to play super low like a Carbine. Also, I find the OD circuit to have it's own baked in voicing. To my ears engaging the OD bumps the lower mids and knocks the lows and highs back a bit.
I have the Titan set up so channel 1 is clean and channel 2 uses the OD circuit for a more tubey quality. I run the OD circuit just below the threshold where it transitions to drive, which makes the sound a bit more squishy and bloomy. In order to get similar tonal balance across channels, I bump the lows and high mids on channel 2. A more significant boost is required for the treble.
Same here. Not quite as touch sensitive as I would like either, I.E. it transitions a bit to abruptly for my taste.
I've been playing my titan thru a ph810 for 15 years and it truly is great! Highly recommended - but I wanted something different for a change. I got this 50 years old german Stramp 412 cab with eminems (bp122). It's like a marshall B-cab, but with better handles and besser everything actually. It even had some pretty decent wheels on it but I bought bigger ones and attached them to a plywood traffic sign I "found". On top of it is a diy ply box with a couple of 10" jensen gtr speakers to bring out the note and thrash. Tit slave out -> hpf -> pedal size cheapo power amp (forgot brand, ehx?) -> 210 box. Believe it or not this rig that looks like a pile of lost n found crap sounds killer! I really need a gtr-like distortion for our music + it really helps the singing part I gotta do while playing.
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Scored an Omega 4x10-2×12 cab off of FBMrktplc for 400!
This thing is built nice, all birch with dovetail and threaded inserts. No wood screws.
It has two sealed 2x10s and a 2x12 with polyfill. Eminence Legend speakers.
Mesa style tilt and roll with skids.
Sounds almost too clean with the settings I was using with the stacked peavy 4x10s
Can't wait to get her dialed in!
This thing is built nice, all birch with dovetail and threaded inserts. No wood screws.
It has two sealed 2x10s and a 2x12 with polyfill. Eminence Legend speakers.
Mesa style tilt and roll with skids.
Sounds almost too clean with the settings I was using with the stacked peavy 4x10s
Can't wait to get her dialed in!
