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Hey guys, this is somewhat of a double-post... I've made a post over at the Rigs & Tones forum detailing some of my thoughts and experiments with boosting a rectifier. I just wanted to post it here as well since not a lot of people go there and this is the rectifier forum, after all! So if...

Hey guys, a while ago I decided to come up with some kind of tune using all three of the MKIV's channels and my Les Paul. I can't remember how I mic'd it up, it was a while ago, but I think I used 2xSM57s in a 3-to-1 mic position on my Recto 4x12. So, the tune itself is in two halves, in terms...

Hey guys, yesterday I was fiddling around with a favourite microphone setup of mine (middle-side pair) on my 4x12. I had the 4x12 split between my MKIV and RKII, where the MKIV was the master amp and I was running an FX loop out to the RKII. Just running straight in with my Les Paul. When I...

Hey guys, I did a bit of recording today. One of my favourite tracks off Opeth's classic album Still Life, called Moonlapse Vertigo. Recorded it with my Les Paul into the MKIV, running a Soldano 2x12 and my Mesa 4x12. Mic'd up the Soldano with my Sennheiser e609 and the 4x12 with my AT4050. Also...

Hey guys... I started work on a new tune tonight, blending distorted tones from both my RKII and MKIV amps... I've still got some work to do on it, so I can't post it all up yet but here's a quick clip... lemme know how you like it! If you have any questions about settings, gear, how I recorded...

If you don't like Mesa why do you still hang around here? Your threads have been getting worse and worse lately. If ya got nothing good to contribute, then be gone.

Hey guys, got bored today and decided to try out some sounds on R2 with my MKIV. Came up with a real bouncy elastic sound, was great to play with. Started playing along with some drums and I came up with this really ugly flatted fifth riff, so I worked from it and came up with a few more simple...

Hey guys... I've been seeing a lot of threads lately regarding the MKIV and its tone. Some love it, some are having trouble with it. Today I had the idea of doing a few simple "tone tests" with the MKIV to see how different settings can produce different sounds. Maybe it will help illuminate to...

Hey guys, recently I've been experimenting with recording my MarkIV straight in with no pedals or other stuff out front to see how the change translates through the mics. I got some pretty killer results, I think. Yesterday at work one of my bosses pissed me off immensely so the first thing I...

With all the talk about pedals and effects around here these days, I got to wondering... does anyone play their MarkIV straight in, with nothing in front but a good ol' guitar? A little while ago, I decided to undo all my **** out front (TS-8, 7-band EQ, Boss noise gate) and just plug my guitar...

Hey guys... I know you're probably sick of hearing this song over and over, but I've been spending a lot of time lately trying to nail down a killer MarkIV tone. This is what I came up with today... let me know how you like it! TIA http://members.shaw.ca/greg.schofield/tank_dec19.mp3 - 7.7MB...

Hey guys, I put together a weird little track tonight using my RKII, I thought I'd share it with you. If you have any questions about anything in it, whether it's my playing, tones, gear used, whatever... feel free to ask me. I was using ch.3 vintage for all the tracks in this 8) ps - the...

Hi guys, someone near me is selling a Mark I re-issue head, serial H001363 in cream tolex. He wants $875CAD for it. Is it just me or does this seem too low? Maybe it's just a good deal heh... ideas? I might go grab it if it sounds good and everything looks good on it.

Hey guys, recently I've been fiddling with creating some nice rhythm tones with the R1 channel, this is a little improv jam thing that I came up with. Triple tracked the rhythm channels, lead playing was done on the lead channel. Let me know how you like it! TIA...

Hey guys, recently I've been experimenting with using a compressor directly after my TS-8 boost pedal to see what kind of tones I can get. When I first got my boost, I never thought to use them together, and since I liked the tone of the boost better than the compressor, I haven't been using the...

I know this has been done before, but for whatever stupid reason, I can't figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong when slaving 2 amps together. I just spent the last 10 minute searching for something and I couldn't really find much... I'm trying to run my MKIV's preamp into my RoadKing's...

Hey guys, I think I already posted this song a while back, but I've made a re-recording of it and it's turned out much better than the last one. I also threw in some ad-lib bass so it sounds a bit more thumpin'. Played my KH-602 through a TS8 into the Mark IV running a 4x12 and a 2x12. EQ was...

I just picked up a Tiny Terror yesterday, been messing with it all day today. It sounds pretty killer. Run my guitar through a boost, into Tiny Terror with output on max and gain on 12-1 oclock, through the attenuator at max, into a mesa 2x12. So much gain it's actually ridiculous. But its...

Hey everyone, I recorded one of my songs this morning with my MKIV. I've had this amp for about 3 months and I'm still learning how to tweak it for the best results. This is quite an old song of mine, still a demo though. The drums are (for the most part) a repeating loop that is just there to...

Hey guys, not sure if this is the right forum so feel free to move it if need be... I slaved my RKII into my MKIV earlier today for the first time. Everything worked fine, but I noticed that the tone is quite... brittle. I have the lead running into into return#1 on the RK. I'm not really sure...