I'm home!! - Boogie MKIII Blue Stripe

[welshboogie]

My 2nd Boogie has reached me and wow, what an amp!!!

I have bought this non-Simul Blue Stripe (w/GEQ+Rev) as a Satellite for my IVb so I can run Stereo Delays etc off my TC G System.

However.....plugging this baby in, its apparent that it smokes the IV, I'm not a Metal Player by any means, I'm more in the Lukather/Schon/Carlton territory and this amp just has that Mesa Mark Sound that I have been after - think Schon's solo sound on Who's Crying Now....

I have read a lot about the Blue Stripe and its tendency to be bright/fizzy, but I can't see those statements being more wrong, this amp is just so creamy!!!!..

I have had numerous Boogies over the years - IIb, DC's, IVa, III Green, IVb and this one is the 1st amp where I have got "that" sound that I associate with Boogie Marks....

One Happy Man

 

[Whoopysnorp]

I had a blue stripe once that definitely had a tendency to be fizzy unless I darkened it up with JJ preamp tubes was careful to keep the presence very low. Now I have a loaded purple stripe long head that just kills. I think these amps probably differ a bit from one to the next. Congrats on getting one that speaks to you, and hang onto it!

 

[rvschulz]

tubes and speaker combinations mean a lot to these amps also. i found i like the MS-12 best with my purple stripe ... fwiw

 

[fretout]

I love both of my Blue Stripes. My Coli just kills. No fizziness that I've come across, and the Coli has such a right low end, I can set it to sound like my Triple Recto. I never expected to get that kind of depth on a Mark!

I tried one sellers Purple Stripe, and I loved the amp, but R2 had nowhere near the gain I was expecting (I wasn't expecting much at all actually). I wanted it to be a slightly broken-up clean sound (kinda like a driven Fender), but was much "creamier" than I ever expected. I ended up passing on the amp, but I wish I had picked it up then.

Back to the R2 on the Blue Stripe, it seems to have way more gain, like approaching boosted JMP/JCM territory. I really got to install the R2 Mod, but my blue doesn't have the same R130 and R131 locations that I've seen on some of the write-ups around here, but I digress. The Blue Stripe has been my "voice" for a few years now, and I've got tons of "you're playing a what?" comments. People seem very surprised at the modern tone I've been able to pull from this old "gramplifier". I think I'll always have a Blue Stripe in the studio.

On a sidebar, if anyone has some detailed pics of their Blue Stripes with the R2 mod performed my Mike, can you post them up? I want to see where the leads from the R2 mod connect...

 

[themisfit138]

The III is only fizzy if you don't dial it in correctly. There is loads of crunch and aggression in these amps. Congrats on the amps!