PRS MT100, DSL40C, and a Mezzabarba Trinity 100W all in one week.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:22 pm
8 days technically.
Had a Friedman SS100 I got at a great price, traded it for the Trinity 100W. This amp insanely versatile with the negative feedback and depth controls. I'd easily pick this up over a SLO100 or the Friedmans I've owned (BE100 and SS100).
Sometime that week I picked up a DSL40C with an EVM Black Label in it, a Vintage 30 in a box, a pedalboard, extra loose pedals, an acoustic 4X10 Bass cab as a package deal. It was biased horribly, but @andrewsrea showed me how to bias it and sorted me out (he did all the work really but showed me how it was done). I bought a cab to put the EVM in put the Vintage 30 in the DSL40C. While the 40C is the worst amp I own, that's because I'm lucky to have better amps and not because it's objectively terrible.
PRS MT100 was really the revelation though. The clean channel I've heard people compare to their favorite blackface twin. The overdrive channel is based on Mark's favorite ODS, and the gain channel is no joke either. Most demos focus on the high gain tones out of this, but even setting the highest gain channel on it's lowest gain settings gives you an amazingly touch sensitive gain. The Trinity is far more versatile, but I sold it for more than 3X what I paid for the MT100 and it's not 3X better. The Mezza might cover the ground of 3 of your favorite amps though.
Had a Friedman SS100 I got at a great price, traded it for the Trinity 100W. This amp insanely versatile with the negative feedback and depth controls. I'd easily pick this up over a SLO100 or the Friedmans I've owned (BE100 and SS100).
Sometime that week I picked up a DSL40C with an EVM Black Label in it, a Vintage 30 in a box, a pedalboard, extra loose pedals, an acoustic 4X10 Bass cab as a package deal. It was biased horribly, but @andrewsrea showed me how to bias it and sorted me out (he did all the work really but showed me how it was done). I bought a cab to put the EVM in put the Vintage 30 in the DSL40C. While the 40C is the worst amp I own, that's because I'm lucky to have better amps and not because it's objectively terrible.
PRS MT100 was really the revelation though. The clean channel I've heard people compare to their favorite blackface twin. The overdrive channel is based on Mark's favorite ODS, and the gain channel is no joke either. Most demos focus on the high gain tones out of this, but even setting the highest gain channel on it's lowest gain settings gives you an amazingly touch sensitive gain. The Trinity is far more versatile, but I sold it for more than 3X what I paid for the MT100 and it's not 3X better. The Mezza might cover the ground of 3 of your favorite amps though.