rabies said:why don't they just have 5 pots EQ per channel (bass, low mids, mids, hi mids, treble) and get rid of the GEQ and contour pots??? it would be so much less confusing. well, i guess having a footswitchable GEQ adds another "channel" to each channel...
rabies said:why don't they just have 5 pots EQ per channel (bass, low mids, mids, hi mids, treble) and get rid of the GEQ and contour pots??? it would be so much less confusing. well, i guess having a footswitchable GEQ adds another "channel" to each channel...
i've never seen an amp with 5 pots per channel (it's always 2 or 3). would that make the chassis too big or not technically feasible???
i think the mark V user interface is still potentially very confusing, even with the re-design (simplification?) from the mark IV.
good luck to the guinea pigs...
jdurso said:rabies said:why don't they just have 5 pots EQ per channel (bass, low mids, mids, hi mids, treble) and get rid of the GEQ and contour pots??? it would be so much less confusing. well, i guess having a footswitchable GEQ adds another "channel" to each channel...
i've never seen an amp with 5 pots per channel (it's always 2 or 3). would that make the chassis too big or not technically feasible???
i think the mark V user interface is still potentially very confusing, even with the re-design (simplification?) from the mark IV.
good luck to the guinea pigs...
Having the geq isnt so much about the the frequencies your adjusting, its more about where it is in the chain. The pots of each channel have a very complex chemistry and work together to adjust the overall tone and character of the preamp. The geq sits right before the power amp in the signal and is more there to pull in or out certain frequencies... think of it as the scalpal for dialing in very specific tones.
When i bought my Mark IV a few years back it was the first amp i ever had with a geq and i'll admit i had not clue what i was doing with it. Now that i udnerstand how the chain works it makes sense in the design, especially if you're very particular about tones. It also helps the amp achieve a lot more than 3 tones, making the amp extremely versitile. For that reason if they had gotten rid of it i would think it devistating... i wish the rectos had a geq in the design so that half of us could get rid of our eq pedals we put in the loop.
Maybe a design like that isnt for everyone but i think its worth it for people to understand what the certain design aspects are there for. I say that because its just awesome to understand what you like and dont like and why.... lots of contols may turn a lot of people but for others (like me) things like geq when built into the amp make things sound that more organic (as opposed to a eq in the loop).
rabies said:why don't they just have 5 pots EQ per channel (bass, low mids, mids, hi mids, treble) and get rid of the GEQ and contour pots??? it would be so much less confusing. well, i guess having a footswitchable GEQ adds another "channel" to each channel...
i've never seen an amp with 5 pots per channel (it's always 2 or 3). would that make the chassis too big or not technically feasible???
i think the mark V user interface is still potentially very confusing, even with the re-design (simplification?) from the mark IV.
good luck to the guinea pigs...
the biggest problem I have on the m4 is when I need to tweak the gain or tone knobs for r1 or r2. I always need to look at the markings. I don't see that happening on the m5, it's obvious where they all are on each channel.rabies said:i think the mark V user interface is still potentially very confusing, even with the re-design (simplification?) from the mark IV.
JAZZGEAR said:rabies said:why don't they just have 5 pots EQ per channel (bass, low mids, mids, hi mids, treble) and get rid of the GEQ and contour pots??? it would be so much less confusing. well, i guess having a footswitchable GEQ adds another "channel" to each channel...
i've never seen an amp with 5 pots per channel (it's always 2 or 3). would that make the chassis too big or not technically feasible???
i think the mark V user interface is still potentially very confusing, even with the re-design (simplification?) from the mark IV.
good luck to the guinea pigs...
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