First day with Mark

brisk

brisk

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So Mark arrived yesterday. It was raining yesterday and the package was quite wet when I got home. The label on the package said "weight: 120 lbs." It was heavy.

It helped that I read the manual throughly few days ago. I can see people getting frustrated with so many knobs, bottons and inputs. One of the outter power tube turned to blue so I replaced them with JJ EL34. Other than that, Mark was in a fine form.

I went to the 30 Watt tweed mode for obvious reasons. I am not too crazy about the lead channel for now, but two rhythm channels are things of beauty. I can believe why people get lost in the second rhythm channel (slightly dirty) and never be found. In the world of two channels (clean and dirty), the in-between channel is something to be heard. I ran a distortion and you can use that channel for hardrock. I didn't have enough time to play with the famed lead channel yet though.

Overall, fine amp with a very modest appearence. Here is the pic that I took with my cellphone this morning.


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Re: First day with Mark

looks very, very nice...i like that color combination alot!!! ;)

i always hear good stuff about them!!!

NEW STUFF ROCKS!!! :headbang: :headbang:
 
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Is this the amp that santana used in the supernatural cd? how much did u pay?
 
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SICK score!! I'm assuming that Mark is a IV? Those are beautiful sounding amps!!
 
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Once you dial in the lead channel you will love it. Most people say they don't use R2, but that is a great channel IMO, cause I don't like a lot of gain for my rhythm playing, I add a Bad Monkey OD with the gain set on zero if I need more sustain or a tighter bottom. I am on R2 about 90 percent of the time.

The lead channel totally rocks. The tone is amazing. Just takes a little dialing.

Not sure what you're doing but I run tweed power/triode....


brisk said:
So Mark arrived yesterday. It was raining yesterday and the package was quite wet when I got home. The label on the package said "weight: 120 lbs." It was heavy.

It helped that I read the manual throughly few days ago. I can see people getting frustrated with so many knobs, bottons and inputs. One of the outter power tube turned to blue so I replaced them with JJ EL34. Other than that, Mark was in a fine form.

I went to the 30 Watt tweed mode for obvious reasons. I am not too crazy about the lead channel for now, but two rhythm channels are things of beauty. I can believe why people get lost in the second rhythm channel (slightly dirty) and never be found. In the world of two channels (clean and dirty), the in-between channel is something to be heard. I ran a distortion and you can use that channel for hardrock. I didn't have enough time to play with the famed lead channel yet though.

Overall, fine amp with a very modest appearence. Here is the pic that I took with my cellphone this morning.


myampdp4.jpg
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After few days of playing it around, I kinda feel that the stock speaker is very middy. I am not sure if it needs to be broken-in or they intentionally desinged it that way to cut through the mixer better.
 
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