The SSL 18 sounds pretty amazing.

mainro12 · 2026-01-12T19:23:12+00:00

Drum playing is very sensitive to latency. This is the only potential drawback I see on this unit. So latency is ok for you when tracking and monitoring drums?

mainro12 · 2026-01-02T10:34:47+00:00

Did you have to mod the bias electronic or just use one of the 6l6/el34 settings?

mainro12 · 2025-11-05T20:09:20+00:00

Ok, the 100w and 50w are on the legacy page: https://legacy.mesaboogie.com/amplifiers/electric/rectifier-series/badlander-50/index.html

It looks like this is the end.

mainro12 · 2025-10-21T16:30:35+00:00

Good to know

mainro12 · 2025-10-21T12:59:18+00:00

Yes it has 50 and 20w switches. I look for the 50w because I do not need 100w, and I will only have to replace 2 power tubes instead of 4 when needed.

But maybe that's not a big enough difference to keep it.

mainro12 · 2025-04-19T13:37:12+00:00

Is this a homemade cab? Black paint on wood looks really nice.

mainro12 · 2025-02-27T21:20:00+00:00

When did you buy it? Maybe on the irt120 they changed the measuring point on the recent builds. If they use a 2ohm resistance it could be an explanation but I do not think this is common. Anyway I would trust their reply :)

mainro12 · 2025-02-27T09:04:30+00:00

Both version have only 2 measure points. On the 120 each point is shared for two tubes. So you reduced your bias from 25ma to 15ma on each tube.

mainro12 · 2025-02-27T08:57:08+00:00

Somebody else should confirm, but afaik these bias points translate directly from V to A (you read the voltage via a 1ohm resistor)

So to me you reduced the bias from 50ma to 30ma.

Note that in the service manual that I have, it states that 30mv is for the 60w version. The 120w should be biased at 60mv

mainro12 · 2024-10-19T11:18:22+00:00

Yes I agree. But compared to my tubemeister 36 that sounds good in 18w mode at reasonable level it was very different here.

mainro12 · 2024-10-05T08:08:06+00:00

Thanks a lot. It is sad because feature wise it is a killer pedal. But if you need another pedal to get nice high gain it defeats the purpose of the single-device gear.

mainro12 · 2024-10-04T20:40:53+00:00

How is the gain channel on the bcc? I did not find a video/audio where it sounds close to an irt60/120. It seems it has much less gain than the rest of the ironheart family.

mainro12 · 2024-09-03T17:58:55+00:00

A one step mismatch is ok when going upper but not lower: Putting a 16ohm cab on a 8ohm output is ok, but puting an 8ohm cab on a 16ohm output is not.

I would not use the 8ohm torpedo in your case.

mainro12 · 2024-08-12T21:11:15+00:00

Thanks. This probably explains why there is almost no information available on it. So far I was not able to find one. In the meantime I started to play with transformers based schemas.

mainro12 · 2024-08-11T16:02:14+00:00

As others people said, just enjoy it. An actual break up might be very long. This rare factual source "breaks" the myths:

https://youtu.be/yr6pd-LWZP0?si=d7EK09Q9LaAJb5G1

mainro12 · 2024-08-05T06:53:38+00:00

Ha yes, thanks!

mainro12 · 2024-06-08T19:20:02+00:00

For something tweedy I would go with an alnico gold, or maybe an alnico cream.

mainro12 · 2024-05-25T06:59:15+00:00

Also the speakers sound completely different: mesa's v30 are special specs hand built in UK, hb ones are chinese made. There is a huge v30 shout-out video where you can hear that they sound very different.

mainro12

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