I could really use a Mark V rack pre-amp

[binnerscot]

I love my Mark combo. I would love to stuff those tones into my rack with the Fish! That's all, just wishing.....

 

[mejoshee]

I love my Mark combo. I would love to stuff those tones into my rack with the Fish! That's all, just wishing.....

+1!!!

 

[hazbin]

I use the pre amp from my Mark IV and V with the Mesa switcher though either the power section of each amp or to a 2:90, works great

 

[ryjan]

I love my Mark combo. I would love to stuff those tones into my rack with the Fish! That's all, just wishing.....

They have them. It's the Triaxis!

 

[binnerscot]

I love my Mark combo. I would love to stuff those tones into my rack with the Fish! That's all, just wishing.....

They have them. It's the Triaxis!

This might sound odd, but I really don't want a MIDI preamp, the rack is currently a Recto Pre and a Fish. They both sound great, but I would probably trade out the Recto Pre for a Mark V pre if one was to exist (I would keep the Recto Pre in a rack just for recording though).

 

[mejoshee]

I love my Mark combo. I would love to stuff those tones into my rack with the Fish! That's all, just wishing.....

They have them. It's the Triaxis!

This might sound odd, but I really don't want a MIDI preamp, the rack is currently a Recto Pre and a Fish. They both sound great, but I would probably trade out the Recto Pre for a Mark V pre if one was to exist (I would keep the Recto Pre in a rack just for recording though).

yeah, you don't need midi to make a preamp. it's convenient in some cases, but you could also get a gcx or rjm amp gizmo and control it that way. it's still nice to have physical knobs to tweak.

either way, i think it's within mesa's ability to make a rack pre with the mark v, but layout would have to be different by virtue of the current chassis width. i think there are a bunch of things that could be put on the back, like set and forget items, or maybe they would have to midi-fy things just to make it work right. i mean, the individual channel controls are virtually identical except for the mode switches. anyway, it's doable, but probably not that soon. i bet they'd come out with the mark v revision before they did a preamp version.

 

[tlester]

Don't mean to hijack, but can the triaxis nail the Mark V tones?

 

[eudaimonia02912]

I would love a Mark V pre-amp, too. It would be awesome if I could have more than 3 channels set up, ready to go, on the fly. Generally, I stick with fat, crunch, and Mark IV, but I'd love to have a 4th channel for tweed and a 5th for Mark I.

 

[binnerscot]

Don't mean to hijack, but can the triaxis nail the Mark V tones?

I don't know, but I like the way you think.

Most people are on some mission to get a brand new amp like the V to sound, feel, and smell just like the 20 to 30 year old designs.....doesn't make sense to me, the amp rocks the way it is.

 

[mejoshee]

Don't mean to hijack, but can the triaxis nail the Mark V tones?

I don't know, but I like the way you think.

Most people are on some mission to get a brand new amp like the V to sound, feel, and smell just like the 20 to 30 year old designs.....doesn't make sense to me, the amp rocks the way it is.

well, maybe you could just have both :twisted:

but seriously, i think there's some times when you just want to kick it back and forth between modes and (currently) you can't do that with the v. so, maybe you lug 2 amps to the gig. for some that's just too much. if you already have a rack and it costs a comparable amount to have a rackable v, then maybe you can have one for classic rock sounds (tweed, crunch, lighter settings on iic+) and one for full bore metal (hyper-clean with geq, mark i, extreme) or something like that. the amp admittedly is already so versatile, but you know, if mesa builds it, someone will buy it cause we're always looking for more, more, more.

i'd buy it and switch between that and a regular mark v head to keep the same power section, or maybe throw in a simul 2:90 and put el34's in the mark v. possibilities are out there. of course, having a triaxis means you can rely on that to do stuff in between, so maybe you could still combine one of those with a mark v and get pretty much all of mesa's tones (except recto or el84 based).

 

[binnerscot]

Don't mean to hijack, but can the triaxis nail the Mark V tones?

I don't know, but I like the way you think.

Most people are on some mission to get a brand new amp like the V to sound, feel, and smell just like the 20 to 30 year old designs.....doesn't make sense to me, the amp rocks the way it is.

well, maybe you could just have both :twisted:

but seriously, i think there's some times when you just want to kick it back and forth between modes and (currently) you can't do that with the v. so, maybe you lug 2 amps to the gig. for some that's just too much. if you already have a rack and it costs a comparable amount to have a rackable v, then maybe you can have one for classic rock sounds (tweed, crunch, lighter settings on iic+) and one for full bore metal (hyper-clean with geq, mark i, extreme) or something like that. the amp admittedly is already so versatile, but you know, if mesa builds it, someone will buy it cause we're always looking for more, more, more.

i'd buy it and switch between that and a regular mark v head to keep the same power section, or maybe throw in a simul 2:90 and put el34's in the mark v. possibilities are out there. of course, having a triaxis means you can rely on that to do stuff in between, so maybe you could still combine one of those with a mark v and get pretty much all of mesa's tones (except recto or el84 based).

I could see using two Mark V rack pres, six channels of way too much fun.....