I know lots of blue stripers dial down the presence and this tightens up the low end, but i've dialed it up in R2 and moved the middle eq slider 3/4 up drop down to class A and get a real nice british sound imho.
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Don't dismiss it completely. This from the Franken Boogie Files.
http://homepage.mac.com/mesaboogie/FBMarkIII.html
Presence: This control sets up the basic brightness of the overall tone. But unlike a tone control, the Presence acts on the output and driver circuits, not the preamp. Season to your liking; recommended setting about 7.
Based on where it is positioned in the circuit it adds a unique coloring to the sound.
Hey Mesa couldn't possibly mess up a Mark LOL
http://homepage.mac.com/mesaboogie/FBMarkIII.html
Presence: This control sets up the basic brightness of the overall tone. But unlike a tone control, the Presence acts on the output and driver circuits, not the preamp. Season to your liking; recommended setting about 7.
Based on where it is positioned in the circuit it adds a unique coloring to the sound.
Hey Mesa couldn't possibly mess up a Mark LOL
I'm a little lost myself. What I'm saying is presence is wired after the preamp stage so the way it affects the sound is different than say the mid control in front. It all boils down to taste of course but with certain settings or guitars the flexability presence offers is cool.
how unbelieavbly awesome is that guitar with that unique pu combo! Phew I don't know where to start regarding settings since I'm constantly tweaking. I could go from playing early Stones time on my side then gimme shelter or can't you hear me then kick into ac/dc or grateful dead.
As a general rule I play r1 & lead with moderate settings throughout for high gain settings and higher volume & treble settings for lower gain settings. In r2 I run the middle fader up over center. But i never run any one setting. I will roll all the knobs to zero after turning the amp off just to force me to work out new settings. I will try and write down a few favorites and post them when i get home. The amp really responds well to the string action. Mind you I use heavy gauge strings 52-12.
NERF. You guys did Safety Dance. Great Song. Holy Crap. How Cool. How very Frickin cool. Welcome to the board.
As a general rule I play r1 & lead with moderate settings throughout for high gain settings and higher volume & treble settings for lower gain settings. In r2 I run the middle fader up over center. But i never run any one setting. I will roll all the knobs to zero after turning the amp off just to force me to work out new settings. I will try and write down a few favorites and post them when i get home. The amp really responds well to the string action. Mind you I use heavy gauge strings 52-12.
NERF. You guys did Safety Dance. Great Song. Holy Crap. How Cool. How very Frickin cool. Welcome to the board.
Wow! You must have hands like car crushers! LOL.
You're right about this guitar. I've owned over 200 and this one felt unbelievable as soon as I picked it up. It's like getting a missing limb reattached. It feels like a part of me. It's also beat to a snot so I don't worry too much about it getting a scratch!
Greasy Groove up in Canada made me a clear pickguard and I cut interesting pics out of Artforum and porn magazines to fit under it. Annoys the hell out of my wife. I volunteered to put nude pics of her on there, but she declined.
Bruce
You're right about this guitar. I've owned over 200 and this one felt unbelievable as soon as I picked it up. It's like getting a missing limb reattached. It feels like a part of me. It's also beat to a snot so I don't worry too much about it getting a scratch!
Greasy Groove up in Canada made me a clear pickguard and I cut interesting pics out of Artforum and porn magazines to fit under it. Annoys the hell out of my wife. I volunteered to put nude pics of her on there, but she declined.
Bruce
I've been blessed with Giant sized hands, but physically and mentally that's the extent of it, everything else is a struggle.
Nude Pics of hot Wives on hot Guitars, now that will sell.
This guitar with p90s and the lead channel driven is sick. The neck is perfect, I play it for hours. All my friends with some beautiful guitars of their own just rave about this TV Yellow.
Peace.
Nude Pics of hot Wives on hot Guitars, now that will sell.
This guitar with p90s and the lead channel driven is sick. The neck is perfect, I play it for hours. All my friends with some beautiful guitars of their own just rave about this TV Yellow.
Peace.
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NOOOOOOB here, been lurking for a while, noticed all this talk about tone, settings, speakers, etc, but see no one is experimenting with what really shapes the tone of any amplifier, quality tubes.
I'm sure some of you know what I'm talking about.
Tubes today are crap, sound like crap and perform like crap, thus possibly the accurate description of 'farty' sounding. Today's tubes are mostly manufacturered in some Chinese children's prison called a factory, or some other former Soviet gulag facility.
Groove tubes, Ruby Tubes, Mesa Tubes, they all sound like crap in most vintage Boogies because the boogie was developed from the older fender designs, which always used USA made tubes, and all this new crap is made in China. Why Mesa ships with and sells Chinese made crap is obvious, nobody makes vacuum tubes in the US anymore, and they're probably way cheap. My MkIII originally had Sylvania, USA made, power tubes. Okay, cat's out, so to speak.
I retube the pre-amp and power section with vintage USA stuff, some German, and the balance problem often associated between the ryth 1, 2, and lead channels on the MkIII, is now non-existant. That is cured in the pre-amp section. The highs sparkle, feel full and warm at the mids and the bottom is tight and huge. There's plenty of headroom, the distortion is far from 'ratty' sounding, but rich and full. All due to pre-amp and beam triode, (power tube) upgrades.
I see it this way, if the circuitry is the soul of the amp, the speakers are the lungs, then the tubes are definately the heart, and the Chinese and Russians are long overdue for quad-druple, by-pass, coronary surgery.
My sound is so much better than whatever anything else anyone plays, that I can always punch through any mix. I have zero microphonics, no crackles or hiss, and practically eliminated the 'pop' associated between switching from Ry 1 to Ry 2.
Try some and see what I mean, and lose the 'farty', shrieking, sound of the crap that wasn't meant to be put in these vintage beauts.
Here's the best site for what I'm talking about. www.audiotubes.com
As far as settings, I vary Treble, Mid and Bass according to the sound I am trying to achieve, like varying pickups. I like the Presence at about 5, Rev 6-7, and the EQ in the classic recommended upright, V position, it really does make most Marshall players freak out when they hear how much sound comes out of this little 'giant killer'.
Cheers and "Keep the Boogie Faith".
Mustang.
I'm sure some of you know what I'm talking about.
Tubes today are crap, sound like crap and perform like crap, thus possibly the accurate description of 'farty' sounding. Today's tubes are mostly manufacturered in some Chinese children's prison called a factory, or some other former Soviet gulag facility.
Groove tubes, Ruby Tubes, Mesa Tubes, they all sound like crap in most vintage Boogies because the boogie was developed from the older fender designs, which always used USA made tubes, and all this new crap is made in China. Why Mesa ships with and sells Chinese made crap is obvious, nobody makes vacuum tubes in the US anymore, and they're probably way cheap. My MkIII originally had Sylvania, USA made, power tubes. Okay, cat's out, so to speak.
I retube the pre-amp and power section with vintage USA stuff, some German, and the balance problem often associated between the ryth 1, 2, and lead channels on the MkIII, is now non-existant. That is cured in the pre-amp section. The highs sparkle, feel full and warm at the mids and the bottom is tight and huge. There's plenty of headroom, the distortion is far from 'ratty' sounding, but rich and full. All due to pre-amp and beam triode, (power tube) upgrades.
I see it this way, if the circuitry is the soul of the amp, the speakers are the lungs, then the tubes are definately the heart, and the Chinese and Russians are long overdue for quad-druple, by-pass, coronary surgery.
My sound is so much better than whatever anything else anyone plays, that I can always punch through any mix. I have zero microphonics, no crackles or hiss, and practically eliminated the 'pop' associated between switching from Ry 1 to Ry 2.
Try some and see what I mean, and lose the 'farty', shrieking, sound of the crap that wasn't meant to be put in these vintage beauts.
Here's the best site for what I'm talking about. www.audiotubes.com
As far as settings, I vary Treble, Mid and Bass according to the sound I am trying to achieve, like varying pickups. I like the Presence at about 5, Rev 6-7, and the EQ in the classic recommended upright, V position, it really does make most Marshall players freak out when they hear how much sound comes out of this little 'giant killer'.
Cheers and "Keep the Boogie Faith".
Mustang.
