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I really can’t understand (and can’t stand) when people referring to a metal tone simply scoop a mid control ALL THE WAY DOWN and believe that’s it! If you own a Mark amp, you know (or should know) that the magic tones happen with the 750 slider above the bottom line, or around there. And that...

The 90W Mark V sounds extremely well at bedroom levels when you take advantage of the master output volume control. I believe this is a crucial point in its favor if you’re willing to buy an amp to play mostly or a considerable amount of time at home. Giulio

Volume controls are often criticized by purists. However they’re not necessarily a bad thing, if well implemented. I never tried running the output master volume at max and setting the channel volumes low in my Mark V, so I can’t speak from direct experience. However, not only you would lose...

Same here!

Nice insight, I agree the core of electric guitar tone is in the mids. Once I read somewhere that if you listen to the isolated tracks of some apparently great sounding guitar tones, you’d be surprised how awkward they actually are, because equalization favored the mix and not the isolated...

As you can read above, I already mentioned the AC fluctuations in my post… and yes, I meant that’s a problem we have with any tube amp, not Mark-specific. I really believe air humidity levels also have an impact, though. 😅 Thanks for joining in this conversation. Giulio

Hello everyone, this post is to give you my comment on Mark amps lead tone comparisons and to hear the same from you. I recently acquired a Mark V 90W head. In the past I tried a Mark V:35 combo, a JP2C, a red stripe Mark III combo and I also had a Triaxis for some years. I have both read and...

Exactly. I’ve come up with the same conclusions: in the Mark V, the best tone is achieved by having the 2200 and 6600 sliders just a little above the middle line and not in a full V pattern. You can find a lot of pictures of previous models, or also videos, where those sliders are set way higher...

Volume pots are not necessarily a bad thing. There are countless circuits where you can see a voltage divider (which is what a volume pot is, albeit fixed) in between gain stages. The designer “decided for you” where to set those gain/volume pots. When you set a 1 Mohm volume pot very low (ex...

I hope this worked for you! I’m still experimenting with the other channels, but I can suggest for the Edge mode of channel 2: - gain at max or nearly at max (there’s no bright cap on this control, so this helps to keep the right “Marshall” bite) - presence at around 10 o’clock - treble almost...

For channel 3: - set gain to 2-3 o’clock, presence to 10 o’clock, treble to 2 o’clock, mids to 10 o’clock and bass to 9.30 o’clock, then forget about them. - now equalize your amp with the graphic eq sliders. This is the real tone stack for you. Treble, mids and bass are preamp gain shaping...

Very interesting, as my low voltage diodes are probably failing too, as I get some random “reboots”. I just ordered the new 1N5392 diodes, I will post again if the “all channels in 10W mode pop” disappears from my amp after the mod. Ah, I forgot to mention that my amp also pops when I put it on...

Hi, as I wrote, the loud pop happens while all channels are in 10W mode, not on different power modes. Giulio

Hi everyone, I don’t know if this might be helpful to anyone to identify the problem, but my Mesa Mark V does the loud pop when all channels are in 10W mode only when going to channel 2. I can switch between channel 1 and 3 without pops, and I can switch between all three channels in 45W mode...