Neptical
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Hey All!
Well, after a wait of 2 months since I traded my last Boogie ( Single Rec Solo 50 ) in for a down payment on my Mark III...I finally have it!!! I just picked it up earlier today.
It's a fully loaded head version with cream tolex--- Simul-Class,GEQ, Reverb, footswitches...the whole works.... and purple stripe. Excellent condition to-boot.
After playing it for the first 10-20 minutes....WOW! This head sounds excellent! For years ( and I've been playing 23+ years), I've owned and been through numerous amplifiers of all brands and the Mark III HAS to be one of the best sounding amps--ever. This amp sounds HOT,literally--real tight definition, true clearity in notes, real thick and chunky in the ultimate 'V', crystal sharp cleans that I agree could rival with ANY Fender (even my own Fender combos)...tons of tonal options all over the place.
I play everything from hard jazz,metal,fusion,finger pickin' (love artists from Wes Montgomery to John Scofield to Chet Atkins right into artists like Candiria,Bad Brains to *some* newer material)--and I truly believe this amp can capture everything for me. I'm using an old JCM 800 1960 4x12 cab with the Mark III..and plug into my cream colored PRS Standard 24, which has 3-way toggle, push/pull tone control which also gives me a variety of tonal options...hot (and I mean HOT!) single coil goodness, to sweet smooth sustain of the neck pup.. right down into dirty low bottom chunky humbucker territory. Also...the Mark III will sustain for days by itself..it's **** sweet!
With all the reading I was doing being concerned with which STRIPE to be looking for, I decided to just throw down on the purple stripe and give it a shot. I'm glad I did..and now I truly know the true meaning of "...Don't let anyone pass on a bunch of bullshit about one being better than the other. They represent snapshots in time of the development of an amplifier line. If the amplifier gets you the tone you want, the jiffy marker is nothing more than a mark of its vintage".
The fella I bought it from is a local guitar/amp seller I know who's been doing it for years. He told me he thought the amp was the best Boogie tone to come through his shop since the IIC+ he sold a few years back. After playing this amp tonight, I have no problem believing that for sure. This is the Boogie tone I remember years back that made its initial impact on me in my early teen years (late 80s).
I was only able to get a small time to play it tonight because it was getting quite late..and since I live in a small residential neighborhood, this can be heard from blocks away even on 3. This amp is LOUD! I was surprised that even at a volume of about 1.5 that it can sound surprisingly good...but the true beast of tone will happen when I get it to my practice location out in the neck of the woods where I can really push it hard. I'm probably going to kill someone..
All the Best,
~Nep~
Well, after a wait of 2 months since I traded my last Boogie ( Single Rec Solo 50 ) in for a down payment on my Mark III...I finally have it!!! I just picked it up earlier today.
It's a fully loaded head version with cream tolex--- Simul-Class,GEQ, Reverb, footswitches...the whole works.... and purple stripe. Excellent condition to-boot.
After playing it for the first 10-20 minutes....WOW! This head sounds excellent! For years ( and I've been playing 23+ years), I've owned and been through numerous amplifiers of all brands and the Mark III HAS to be one of the best sounding amps--ever. This amp sounds HOT,literally--real tight definition, true clearity in notes, real thick and chunky in the ultimate 'V', crystal sharp cleans that I agree could rival with ANY Fender (even my own Fender combos)...tons of tonal options all over the place.
I play everything from hard jazz,metal,fusion,finger pickin' (love artists from Wes Montgomery to John Scofield to Chet Atkins right into artists like Candiria,Bad Brains to *some* newer material)--and I truly believe this amp can capture everything for me. I'm using an old JCM 800 1960 4x12 cab with the Mark III..and plug into my cream colored PRS Standard 24, which has 3-way toggle, push/pull tone control which also gives me a variety of tonal options...hot (and I mean HOT!) single coil goodness, to sweet smooth sustain of the neck pup.. right down into dirty low bottom chunky humbucker territory. Also...the Mark III will sustain for days by itself..it's **** sweet!
With all the reading I was doing being concerned with which STRIPE to be looking for, I decided to just throw down on the purple stripe and give it a shot. I'm glad I did..and now I truly know the true meaning of "...Don't let anyone pass on a bunch of bullshit about one being better than the other. They represent snapshots in time of the development of an amplifier line. If the amplifier gets you the tone you want, the jiffy marker is nothing more than a mark of its vintage".
The fella I bought it from is a local guitar/amp seller I know who's been doing it for years. He told me he thought the amp was the best Boogie tone to come through his shop since the IIC+ he sold a few years back. After playing this amp tonight, I have no problem believing that for sure. This is the Boogie tone I remember years back that made its initial impact on me in my early teen years (late 80s).
I was only able to get a small time to play it tonight because it was getting quite late..and since I live in a small residential neighborhood, this can be heard from blocks away even on 3. This amp is LOUD! I was surprised that even at a volume of about 1.5 that it can sound surprisingly good...but the true beast of tone will happen when I get it to my practice location out in the neck of the woods where I can really push it hard. I'm probably going to kill someone..
All the Best,
~Nep~
