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holy smokes I remember you putting this all together way back in the day. if I was buying any more tube amps I'd be all over this. and that sweet GTS oxblood! My Mark III's wearing the same! seriously, someone grab this, Monsta-Tone knows his stuff and put tons of thought into this amp.

I'm gonna jump back in for this because Dom is right as usual. Biggest difference for me 'artistically' is that Rectos, especially the big ones, don't fight you. My Tremoverb makes me feel like I'm cheating at guitar. Marks, at least up to IV... you gotta bring it to sound good but when you do...

yeah it's a very different amp, they couldn't have less in common. my bandmate has been using a roadster as his main ride for like fifteen years, I love it. recto eq is extremely versatile, there really isn't a core sound you have to work around, more a 'feel' thing. big thing is that esp. for...

My condolences, man. Weird feeling when an old brother goes like that. bandit2013 knows his power tubes for sure but STR416s from Mesa's back room are a pretty expensive choice and it's the kind of thing that you might notice in the room, for the first five minutes you're playing, if you have...

I really like Mark IIIs and I came around to liking V30s, but I could never get them to play nice together in the room (recording, sure, you can do anything and these days I am 95 per cent IRs anyway.) Too many mid spikes in one place. I have an oversized 2x12 with a Mesa V30 and a Swamp Thang...

I liked the one I had but it moved on when I got its big brother Tremo. It's really, really good at a wide variety of clean to mid-gain tones, especially once you realize those knobs can go ANYWHERE, not just between 10 and 2 Also +1 on what Nep said, you won't need to go down an OD rabbit...

you can tell it's Reeves Gabrels' rig if you look on top of the amp. TIL Reeves Gabrels has been in The Cure for over a decade

I mean, if you have the money to drop on a PS2 do it, it's an incredibly cool box that doesn't really have an equivalent product anywhere. But how quiet are you hoping to get? You can only attenuate so low and still have a guitar cab sound good, once you get down to "loud TV" or less, or...

this is the best question

As an investment I have a hard time seeing Mark IIIs appreciating much more (as a collectible I mean) than they're at right now unless the amp has a player connection and/or is minty minty showroom mint. Prices are already down a little from a year and a half ago. It's been probably 30 years...

Ceriatone doesn't sell kits anymore.

Vintage Lo on the RA100 at 80s loud (the Multi-Soak changes it too much) is a real Marshall vibe to play. It feels and acts like something between a 50W plexi and an 800, there's a lot more gain there than you think but it's very responsive. It's stiff but it's not fighting you. Your picking...

I mean that once you get into TV/loud conversation volume, speakers meant for 'normal' performance volume aren't giving their best either no matter what you're playing into them. I love Marks :)

and with a Mark you're still gonna have that flat, dead, 'not moving the speaker cone' thing. What he said, even more so. I only ever had a MW plugged into my rig, which has a load box and IRs, so I can't say how it does at actual low volume. But these days there are a bunch of better...

There's absolutely no way it's coming back round, though. The tipping point has been reached, you don't have to make meaningful tonal compromises anymore when going digital and digital QoL is just so much better. (Also, anybody on this board under 40? Anybody?) Pandemic was the final straw...

Hey there - I've owned all the real Rectos and the post-2013 MultiWatt DRs are the best Rectos hands down. Basically they do everything tonally, while all the older Rectos all involve fairly major tradeoffs somewhere. Start there. If you can't bond with a Multiwatt you just don't actually like...

If what you really want is an HRM sound, you could sell your III, buy a Splawn or something, and have money left over. Or take the money you'd be spending on shipping and the mod and buy a preamp you can run into the III's power section. Mark IIIs in decent shape have become pretty...

I don't think sales going flat has anything to do with the amp itself or even its features. The tube amp market has gone flat since the pandemic except for vintage collectibles, and high gain even more so - there's just so many more options now from modelers to preamp pedals, everybody knows...

I've never had a Big Foot controller. They don't take a 9V, do they? Just looking for obvious stuff here...

Do you know if it's the right footswitch for the amp? I don't think the switching for the Multi-Watt DRs works the same as the older 3-channels.