Here's a cool set of new profiles I've been working on in the lab. Mesa Boogie Quad Preamp. 4 All Tube channels of awesome Boogie. Channel one is a Mark IIC, Channel two is a Mark III preamp. Within each Channel is a lead and rhythm setting. The Preamp also has a 5 band graphic EQ, two of them actually. A Quad was like having two Mesa Mark series amps stacked on each other. FOUR channels! In the 80s, how could you use them all?
I did these profiles with the direct outs - so you get the exact sound of the preamp. No microphones, no cabs, just direct outs. For you guys running a poweramp and a guitar cab, you're welcome. If you are going direct, you can select your favorite cabs and use them with these profiles, also can use these profiles 'as is' direct to a mixer for a great sounding tube DI, or for bass, or piezo equipped instruments. This works best with clean tones, start gaining up and it gets fuzzy in a wooly way. Like old 60s overdrive recorded tones? You might dig these. I don't, but they are 100% tube generated and even without a cab and power section they have an interesting charm.
The settings I used were taken from the Mesa Quad documentation - they had 5 sample settings for all four channels each time, so that's 20. I profiled those 20 without the Graphic EQ. Then I profiled each with the Graphic EQ mids cut sharply and lows and highs boosted, and then with the mids centered and highs and lows slightly boosted. This gives 60 total different profiles.
Documentation includes pictures of all settings, description of each setting from Mesa along with knob positions, my description of each profile and how they are named. And a very colorful description by mesa of the Quad and each channel.
Here's the link: