LSD-Studio
HCAF crusher
never liked the MKIII
really dig the MKIV
would be interested in MKV
but would never pay that much for it.
really dig the MKIV
would be interested in MKV
but would never pay that much for it.
Mark 5!!!
- Thread starter Notuern
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i immediately felt GAS coming on, but after reading the website i`m less enthused. I guess mesa is known for being able to have a great sounding amp that has everything but the kitchen sink. im skeptical that an amp could "faithfully" recreate previous amp models. I will not judge till i have heard clips, but I would bet that a mark iv would probably still sound better.
I think a krank rev jr would be higher on my list at this moment.
Word, I've never been a fan of jack-of-all-trades amps (though the Roadster is a BIG exception
)road king is... king haha
thats why i wont say too much for now, cause mesa is known for piling loads of features into a great sounding amp. wouldnt want to end up with my foot in my mouth lol
thats why i wont say too much for now, cause mesa is known for piling loads of features into a great sounding amp. wouldnt want to end up with my foot in my mouth lol
Well I'd much rather have a Roadster than a Road King, but that's simply because of feature overload on the RK IMO - but yeah, otherwise they're pretty much the same as I understand it, the Roadster is like a Road King lite
Jaymz
Stymphalian Productions
I don't see many Roadsters around, I was under the impression they weren't up to much? I must be mistaken 
i agree that it is overload in any practical situation unless your john petrucci or something lol but my old guitarist had one, and it the sound definitely did not suffer from the extra features that i could tell. i still preferred my dual rec though haha
Hopefully it has better low end than the typical hollow mark iv tone, which i find good for leads and mid gain tones but not great for chunky rhythms.
Plus i gotta say, most over engineered amps with that many knobs and switches rarely beat out the old standby rectos, 5150s, ubers and marshalls that are amazing simple and and amazingly great.
I'll check it out though. But im almost sure it wont be the solution many think it will.
Plus i gotta say, most over engineered amps with that many knobs and switches rarely beat out the old standby rectos, 5150s, ubers and marshalls that are amazing simple and and amazingly great.
I'll check it out though. But im almost sure it wont be the solution many think it will.
cyborg
Jetpack Enthusiast
The amp looks great! Making the Rhythm 1 and 2 channels more versatile seems like a fantastic decision as the shared controls on the Mark IV usually mean some sort of compromise when only using one head. The new control layout DOES seem to be a bit overwhelming looking though 
The juiciest live tone that I've ever heard came from a mark IV (not the most brutal aggressive tone, but the most musically pleasing to me). This makes me skeptical about the Mark V. I'll definitely wait to try one before getting TOO excited about it.
Slightly OT:
What I would love to see is something that models the Graphic EQ of the Mark IV that could be placed in the effects loop so that you can have different EQ settings for different patches. Probably not possible, but would be awesome.
The juiciest live tone that I've ever heard came from a mark IV (not the most brutal aggressive tone, but the most musically pleasing to me). This makes me skeptical about the Mark V. I'll definitely wait to try one before getting TOO excited about it.
Slightly OT:
What I would love to see is something that models the Graphic EQ of the Mark IV that could be placed in the effects loop so that you can have different EQ settings for different patches. Probably not possible, but would be awesome.
Not really a jack of all trades amp. Ive heard it played a few times, by the dude in the amp room at mesa a year or so ago when they were about 2/3rds of the way through developing it. The dude was playing a jackson RR USA with the stock SD's in it, laying down some king diamond riffs. Just heaing him laying down Abigale blew me away... That made me walk in there just to watch, then we noticed the amp that he was plugged into was just the circuit board, no head casing at all.
It seemed a little more crunchy then the Mark V, a little tighter sounding. Hard to say if thats the way it sounds now, those dudes are always fucking with shit. It sounded fucking killer to say the least, it just wasn't that much different then the mark IV at the time.
All my buddies that are endorsed by them have been drooling over this amp for the past two years, myself included.
It seemed a little more crunchy then the Mark V, a little tighter sounding. Hard to say if thats the way it sounds now, those dudes are always fucking with shit. It sounded fucking killer to say the least, it just wasn't that much different then the mark IV at the time.
All my buddies that are endorsed by them have been drooling over this amp for the past two years, myself included.
aramism
Member
i dunno man when you really push the mark iv with the master output past 5 and play around with the push/pull knobs on presence and lead drive you can really get a killer crunchy tone IMO to rival any DR or 5150. it's easy to get it sounding good for leads and mid gain but its hard to get it sounding good for brutal stuff but once you do... watch out.
Ermz
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I thought we all used tube screamers here. Or are they convenient to omit in this case because we exclusively seem to use them on amps that don't need them, rather than those that do? You want sick-ass rhythm tone... plug one into the Mark IV. It's easily one of the most versatile amps I know of. All of its tones are consistently good, whereas most others only have 1 or 2 modes max where they shine. I mean shit, the recto despite all its switching only does the one sound. You're still gonna get the grind and the fizzy tops and the sterility, just in different spectral proportions, with a slight different feel when playing. The 5150 only ever did the one sound. The Mark IV seems to combine the tonality of both into something inherently pleasing sounding and very easy to mic up.
As 006 and I were saying... if they were to have taken this chance to mix up some of the recto's architecture with the Mark series in this amp, it'd probably be the best amp ever created.
As 006 and I were saying... if they were to have taken this chance to mix up some of the recto's architecture with the Mark series in this amp, it'd probably be the best amp ever created.
Let it burn...
Orgasm Donor
cobhc
Amiga Enthusiast
Jaymz
Stymphalian Productions
wishtheend
clip the apex
midget donkeys
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No dude that Ballbuster Mesa is totally real. I like to use it with a 375 band graphic eq in one of its 19 the effects loops.
Ermz
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On a more serious note, I'd love the Mark V to have a more surgical graphic EQ. Sometimes there are some frequencies in between bands that you need to target, and just can't make it work. they could've ditched one of the many 'in-between gain' channels, given us a recto mode and then used the rest of the space to get a larger EQ.
midget donkeys
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I hear you with more eq Moonlapse. If they would have used a parametric eq instead of a band eq you could effect any freq you wanted. To my knowledge nobody makes an amp like that.
