Recent content by stevehollx

I grew up playing Mark series amps into a halfback EVM12l + MC90s 4x12. MkIII red stripe with that cab was almost perfect, sold it for the MkIV so that I had less compromise on cleans in my band live. Sold the IV when I went all in on the AxeFX. Went back around and snagged a Mk V:35 and Thiele...

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Looking to buy a 290. Message me if you have one up for grabs.

Hey everyone. I've got a 2:90 on order, and am looking to get a separate road case for it so that I can split the weight. Can anyone confirm the depth of the unit from the rack ears to the back of the chassis?? Will it fit in a 14" deep rack, or if I need to go with a 18" deep rack. I'd like...

I'm looking for an amp that will be more versatile than my MkIV for live playing. Looking for something with a lead channel that sounds/feels like that smooth MkIV lead tone, but has better clean & mid-gain channels. It would be nice to split my lead and heavy rhythm sounds to different...

Pretty sure there wasn't IIC+ on SFAM, and that it was mostly a rectifier and triaxis at that point. Almost positive a MIV was not on that album. He didn't start playing MIVs until the full g3 tour, although he had one for 'Evening with Jordan Rudess' I think. Not sure about LTE2, but I think...

We're about to start tracking guitars on my band's new album, and I'm going to be splitting signal between a Mark IV and an SLO via my radial switchbone. Bandmate has a JVM so we'll probably split the JVM with the boogie, too. Figure the marshall and the SLO are voiced too much like each other...

Looks like Boogie has some things brewing lately... http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/gear-equipment/60041-boogie-trademarks-mark-5-a.html

I don't understand why there is all this talk about the TriAxis being revved. If that was the case, they would have pulled the TriAxis from production along with the Mk I and IV.

I'm getting impatient on this, now! I would have figured that they'd unveil it at summer NAMM 08. I read somewhere that Mesa wasn't going to summer NAMM, though. Does anyone have a vendor list to verify? I'd find it hard to believe the product is that far out of hitting shelves, since the...

Four 8 ohm jacks, I'd assume that means stereo, then?

I don't know how you guys cut through in a band settingm with presence below like 6. It does get more gritty and less smooth past 7, but also adds a lot of chunk for palm mutes, so its a trade off.

I wouldn't be surprised if they brought the lead preamp back to IIC+ spec, and tweaked the plate voltages to get them back to IIC+ voltages, to tap into the big $ in the IIC+ vintage market. Then again, I can also see Mesa not looking backwards. If the Mark V comes with a blackface-ish clean...

Oh yeah, Im talkin' output master. I have to say I hate the way all of the volumes are designed on this amp. I have the clean volume nearly at 10, and the lead volume at under two to balance the two channels volume out, and then the master volume stays below 2 most of the time.

Oh another question. The MV always seems to be at 1.8 or 2 on these amps. As a result, it's super touchy. I know that this is common in practically all Mark series amps, but while I have her open, I'm willing to fix it. Has anyone ever tried throwing a 220k resistor across the wiper and leg...