ltwrecordings's Reviews

Really doesn't cut it.

When I saw the advertising and videos for this amp series, I thought it was exactly what I wanted for recording and even live use. I liked the ability to have Vox, Marshall, Fender, and Mesa voiced amp sounds in a lunchbox head.

Well, it does a decent sound of each, but that's just it, they're only decent. The channel switching is very limiting too. It's okay if you just want to switch between your American/Marshall sound to the Vox sound, but if you like the Marshall sound and the Mesa sound, you can only "switch" to those in the studio.

I'm sure it has something to do with keeping the Fender voicing "clean", but the "Tweed" setting for a Fender voice is GOD AWFUL QUIET compared to either the Hi-1 or Hi-2 (Marshall/Mesa) channels. There's NOOOOOOO going from a good sounding Hi-1 or 2 to the Tweed without redoing the master and pre-amp volumes.

You can get a decent switch from Hi-1 to Hi-2 but you'll still have to adjust knobs from to the other for clean/dirt amount and volume.

Over all it's a great amp, it gives you the options it says it does. But if you're at an actual studio, they'll probably have a Marshall head, a Fender combo, and a Vox AC15 or 30 in the studio already. So at that point your Mesa Transatlantic is good for a... Mesa sound.. and let me tell you, not a very good "Mesa" sound at that...

There's a reason they only lasted one year in production, they sold horribly because they're just not a great amp.