I'm a 6L6 guy, I always have been. Specifically, a Boogie devotee.
I use my Rectoverb most of the time for the channel switching, but it's a compromise. I forget how much I love my Mark IIA until I have the chance to sit down with it, crank it up, and go through all of its tones. It's not the version, the Mark IIC+ version is generally a much better amp, it's this particular amp.
It was made made in '79. It has noisey channel switching and the reverb is spotty, at best. Even with that, the amp just screams with harmonically rich tones in the gain channel like no other amp that I've ever owned. I've searched for something that will outdo it, but I haven't found it yet. I've played through a ton of different stuff, but I haven't found one that can compete with this amp.
I tell you this to encourage you to make an amp purchase more like a guitar purchase. If you assume that all the amps made in the same year, the same series, from the same manufacturer, etc., are just alike, think again. Play through more than one, as many as you can, to find the one that you like the best. To my ears, there are some that are just head-and-shoulders better than the others that seem to be just like it.
I use my Rectoverb most of the time for the channel switching, but it's a compromise. I forget how much I love my Mark IIA until I have the chance to sit down with it, crank it up, and go through all of its tones. It's not the version, the Mark IIC+ version is generally a much better amp, it's this particular amp.
It was made made in '79. It has noisey channel switching and the reverb is spotty, at best. Even with that, the amp just screams with harmonically rich tones in the gain channel like no other amp that I've ever owned. I've searched for something that will outdo it, but I haven't found it yet. I've played through a ton of different stuff, but I haven't found one that can compete with this amp.
I tell you this to encourage you to make an amp purchase more like a guitar purchase. If you assume that all the amps made in the same year, the same series, from the same manufacturer, etc., are just alike, think again. Play through more than one, as many as you can, to find the one that you like the best. To my ears, there are some that are just head-and-shoulders better than the others that seem to be just like it.
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