Tataaaa. Mesa Mark V is here !

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tone4days said:
i am curious how the C90 will sound in it ... of course, the preferred answer is gonna be an EVM 12-L ... but then you'd need like 3 guys to carry it instead of 2 :D
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I had an EVM-12L with my Mark III. I never understood the hype... it was a great speaker for cleans and high gain blues, particularily with a Stratocaster. But it was pretty sterile for overdrive, and brutally sterile for high gain chugga chugga I wanna be like James Hetfield type stuff.
 
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some_dude said:
A Mark series amp would give a seriously good sludge/doom tone. It's not as loose as something like a GT-120... but it does have a very, very big bottom end and the low midrange emphasis.

FWIW.... I sold my Mark III when I went Orange. Though I occasionally miss it.
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Thanks for the insight !!!
Will still look into this amp ! What i do like a bout it thus far is all the options you have with all the knobs ;)
I find it sillt when some says, "ohhh, look at all those knobs, it scares me".
Man the kids of today get scared sooo easilly these days !
They probably think that the X Files was a Sh!!tt-in-you-pants horror series :eyecrazy:


James
 
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:headache:

That is just out of control. (In a bad way)
 
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B Bent said:
:headache:

That is just out of control. (In a bad way)
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Hey now, who let a vintage, single-channel, fender amp user in here?

Shoo! Shoo! :D

It definitely looks like a step-up from the old Mark IV.

Hell, at the very least it looks like it would be easier to set than the mark IV! All those push-pull pots? sheesh!

I might trade up eventually...who knows, something like this might be able to replace the roadster as my main gigging amp ;).
 
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krankguitarist said:
Hey now, who let a vintage, single-channel, fender amp user in here?

Shoo! Shoo! :D

It definitely looks like a step-up from the old Mark IV.

Hell, at the very least it looks like it would be easier to set than the mark IV! All those push-pull pots? sheesh!

I might trade up eventually...who knows, something like this might be able to replace the roadster as my main gigging amp ;).
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:nana:

:beerchug:
 
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mmm... wimps.... ever see how many knobs and switches are on the Carvin V3, or 5150 III?
 
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Don't you guys get it? More knobs = more Awesome! Who doesn't want a more Awesome in their tone? Same thing with those switches, they add awesome too.
 
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PVFan said:
anti-versatilitarians
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+1

I've never understood why people hate an amp solely for the fact that it has a lot of knobs.

All those pots and what not are tone suckers.... Yeah, yeah. Whatever. I think it is a load of bull, but if it is what you believe, go for it.

But to be turned off from an amp because it has too many knobs, and therefore is too complicated? Its not rocket science. If you can't handle the rigors of a multi-channel amp because it is a little too cerebrally daunting, you shouldn't be allowed to drive a car or operate any powertools... :laugh2:


On a slightly more serious, albeit unrelated, note... for those guys who can't handle the technical wizardry that is operating a two, or *gasp* three channel amp, how many pedals (which add an inordinate amount of new knobs into the mix) do you think they have?
 
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Question is, what can this amp do, that a guitar-volume-knob sensitive, single channel amp, with proper pedal board in front of it, can't do?
 
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I would love to know what pedal or pedals can get you the various lead and crunch sounds that the Mark series has produced over the years.
 
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3'scompany said:
+1

I've never understood why people hate an amp solely for the fact that it has a lot of knobs.

All those pots and what not are tone suckers.... Yeah, yeah. Whatever. I think it is a load of bull, but if it is what you believe, go for it.

But to be turned off from an amp because it has too many knobs, and therefore is too complicated? Its not rocket science. If you can't handle the rigors of a multi-channel amp because it is a little too cerebrally daunting, you shouldn't be allowed to drive a car or operate any powertools... :laugh2:


On a slightly more serious, albeit unrelated, note... for those guys who can't handle the technical wizardry that is operating a two, or *gasp* three channel amp, how many pedals (which add an inordinate amount of new knobs into the mix) do you think they have?
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+1
If anything, more knobs is kinda cool:beerchug:
 
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Dr.Mavashi said:
Question is, what can this amp do, that a guitar-volume-knob sensitive, single channel amp, with proper pedal board in front of it, can't do?
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It can do what 6 single channel amps can do! And with a proper pedalboard ,you can make it 12!
 
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3'scompany said:
+1

I've never understood why people hate an amp solely for the fact that it has a lot of knobs.

All those pots and what not are tone suckers.... Yeah, yeah. Whatever. I think it is a load of bull, but if it is what you believe, go for it.

But to be turned off from an amp because it has too many knobs, and therefore is too complicated? Its not rocket science. If you can't handle the rigors of a multi-channel amp because it is a little too cerebrally daunting, you shouldn't be allowed to drive a car or operate any powertools... :laugh2:

On a slightly more serious, albeit unrelated, note... for those guys who can't handle the technical wizardry that is operating a two, or *gasp* three channel amp, how many pedals (which add an inordinate amount of new knobs into the mix) do you think they have?
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If these guys, as they say in their own words, "scare them",then i wonder what they would do if you sit them down in the cockpit of the new Airbus A380 ?
Get an orgasm, cream them selfs, and die ???

http://gadgetmaniac.mail2web.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/airbus-a380-cockpit.jpg

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/A380large.jpg


Now i LOVE the simplicity of the old 70's Orange OD120's, and the newer Green Electrics, but at the same time, i would love to have a ROAD KING too.
More knobs = more options - plain and simple.


My 2cents
James
 
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