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Agree with what woodbutcher65 said, it sounds like you may actually want a Marshall. Personally, I think the mark series overdrive tone is already great, but a few pedals can add some variety. I use an Xotic EP booster right before the preamp, it adds a little color to the sound and pushes the 1st gain stages into overdrive. I also have an Xotic RC booster before the EP booster. The RC is actually a low gain overdrive as well as a boost.I manage to mimic a marshall sound with EQ. The mesa EQs cannot fine tune to that degree, so I use an EQ pedal in the fx loop. One big difference to my ears between Mesas and Marshalls, or between Marshalls and most other amps is the upper-mid range bump. I boost 2kHz a decent bit. I also bump up 4kHz a little. It took some tweaking to get that sound and it is very dependent on all the other eq you're already using.On my Mark V:35, channel 2 preamp on the Mk IV mode, no amp GEQ, eq pedal in the fx loop, I can get close to a classic rock marshall tone. When that's pushed with the EP booster, it even gets a little "brown"-ish. The EP is based on the preamp in the echoplex which was used by EVH and many others to push the front end of the older marshalls.
Agree with what woodbutcher65 said, it sounds like you may actually want a Marshall. Personally, I think the mark series overdrive tone is already great, but a few pedals can add some variety. I use an Xotic EP booster right before the preamp, it adds a little color to the sound and pushes the 1st gain stages into overdrive. I also have an Xotic RC booster before the EP booster. The RC is actually a low gain overdrive as well as a boost.
I manage to mimic a marshall sound with EQ. The mesa EQs cannot fine tune to that degree, so I use an EQ pedal in the fx loop. One big difference to my ears between Mesas and Marshalls, or between Marshalls and most other amps is the upper-mid range bump. I boost 2kHz a decent bit. I also bump up 4kHz a little. It took some tweaking to get that sound and it is very dependent on all the other eq you're already using.
On my Mark V:35, channel 2 preamp on the Mk IV mode, no amp GEQ, eq pedal in the fx loop, I can get close to a classic rock marshall tone. When that's pushed with the EP booster, it even gets a little "brown"-ish. The EP is based on the preamp in the echoplex which was used by EVH and many others to push the front end of the older marshalls.
