Good blues setting for Mark III

[Seanboy]

Can someone please give me a good bluesy setting for a mark III. Looking for something with a little breakup, something in a SRV type of sound. Including the EQ settings. Oh, and I'm playing a strat with single coils.

Thanks,
Sean

 

[MrMarkIII]

I use this live gig setting with an American Std. Strat w/ Texas Specials, but for overdrive I've been using mostly a Blue Boy Deluxe, a Tube Screamer variant. Either a Mk III head with a EVM 12L Thiele or a 1 x 12 combo fitted with a Jensen Mod 12-110 or an Eminence Texas Heat. Try plugging the 8 ohm speaker into the 4 ohm jack for a more compressed sound.
The sound leans toward fat and cleanish.
YMMV.
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[Seanboy]

Still haven't been able to nail that tone I'm looking for. Here's the tone.... SRV's Texas Flood. Can anyone help me out.

Thanks,
Sean

 

[Heady Jam Fan]

Still haven't been able to nail that tone I'm looking for. Here's the tone.... SRV's Texas Flood. Can anyone help me out.

Thanks,
Sean

Hmm, maybe try the setting Mesa describes in their manual that is supposed to sound similar to a Twin Reverb?
Strat>TS9 ought to get close.

 

[Promethean]

I get the best SRV tone by overdriving the R1 channel hard. I find that the R2 and the Lead channel are too dark/compressed and can't do the 'hot fender' tone as well.

As the previous poster said, look at the fender settings in the manual and just drive it harder.

For hot blues with my MK111 I use:

Volume: 9/10 (in)
Treble: 9/10 (in)
Bass: 0-2 (in)
Mid: 0-2 (in)
Master: 1-5 (in)

If your go for a lot of master volume, you may need to dial down the treble/presence a bit.

The main thing that makes this all work is to use a boost pedal too. A single coil will not do enough alone but you should still get a nice blues / rhythm tone. I use an MXR MicroAmp clean boost at around 75% max boost. SRV used a tubescreamer I believe. Kick that it and I think you will be in the zone!

After that:

Middle pickup often sounds the best for SRV sound
Heavy Strings (e.g. 10's or 11's in E-flat tuning)
Attack the notes...

Had my MK111 for 28 years since new - still impresses

 

[dlpasco]

I like the dirt I've been able to get from the lead channel on my blue stripe mark iii:

The volume and treble are very low, which keeps the rhythm clean, and calms the beast that lives on the lead channel enough so it's just a good dirty sound with some grind to it.

This is usually running in Class A, and was inspired by the Atlantic Blues setting listed in the Road King II/Roadster manual:

Volume: 4/10 (in)
Treble: 5/10 (in)
Bass: 5/10 (in)
Mid: 5/10 (in)
Master: about 1.5 (out)
Lead drive: 7/10 (out)
Lead master: about 1.5 (out)

Presence: about 6

EQ on or off. This low gain I don't really notice any flub from the higher bass setting.

-Daniel

 

[Seanboy]

Still haven't been able to nail that tone I'm looking for. Here's the tone.... SRV's Texas Flood. Can anyone help me out.

Thanks,
Sean

Hmm, maybe try the setting Mesa describes in their manual that is supposed to sound similar to a Twin Reverb?
Strat>TS9 ought to get close.

Which setting in the manual would be the closest for a twin reverb? I tried the "Jazz" setting, I really liked the tone from that setting.