Is it just me??

[Blueswede]

For some reason, my MkV sounds good with single coils, but sounds like crap with humbuckers. And I have a couple of nice HB guitars; a 59 LP Historic with Throbaks and a PRS 513. Just sounds really nasally and brash. Anyone else find this to be true? Is is the speaker? Really a bit frustrating. Any suggestions? Thanks. Steve

 

[Mark Fore]

Combo? If so, try hooking it up to extension cab (bigger than a 1x12) and disengaging the combo speaker. See if that helps. A lot of people have been complainging about the combo tones. Mine sounds fine with humbuckers.

What kind of tone are you looking for?

 

[Blueswede]

Yes, it is a combo. Tone similar to David Grissom, Gary Moore, Warren Haynes.....

 

[screamingdaisy]

Give it some time. Most speakers take around 20-40 hours of loud playing to really break in. It's the nature of the best.

Kinda makes me wonder how many combos have been bought and sold already that still have brand new, stiff as **** speakers in them :?:

 

[Uncle Muscles]

Adding the new 1x12 wide-body ported cab changed the tone dramatically for the better and I don't think I can even play the combo without the extension cab now. I've already posted about it several times - but you should at least know that the sound difference of just the combo amp by itself and the with both the open back combo speaker and the closed back ported are insane. it is not even in the same ballpark with just the combo speaker alone. There are frequencies that are just missing.

FWIW I would not have even looked at the closed back cabinet as an option had I not been pointed there by people on this board - danyeo and a few others. The results are quite astounding considering much of the advice came from New Jersey. :lol:

 

[Silverwulf]

I've heard a lot of people complaining about the combo and/or C90. I think they should give an option for a closed back V30 version. If I was getting a combo (I'm not, have a head coming), I would have tried to request that as an option instead for my personal taste.

 

[lesterpaul]

Yes, it is a combo. Tone similar to David Grissom, Gary Moore, Warren Haynes.....

...good to meet another DG fan!his tone,to me at least, is that cranked low watt MArshall-I do not have my V yet, but I would bet DG territory is found on channel two, or you may need a little Fulltone Fulldrive coupled with a low gain tone
-Warren and Gary should be easier to tune in-modern LP tones-on my MK C's, I can find them with low to mid gain settings and volume!!!

 

[screamingdaisy]

I've heard a lot of people complaining about the combo and/or C90. I think they should give an option for a closed back V30 version. If I was getting a combo (I'm not, have a head coming), I would have tried to request that as an option instead for my personal taste.

I don't know if they'd be able to due to cooling/ventilation reasons. Not without creating something that'd be similar to a head/1x12 screwed to each other, in which case you might as well separate them.

My belief is that the Mark V combo is actually intended for blues/roots/jazz/fusion type stuff... same as all the previous Boogie Mark amps. You get the nice, open back tone and the Boogie lead tone all in one little (yet heavy as f*ck) box.

My previous Boogie combos weren't any good for heavy stuff either... just didn't have the girth without plugging it into a 4x12 cab. Awesome for blues rock though. It's probably why the 1x12 combo on a 1x12 Thiele cab configuation was so popular (not to mention pretty cool looking).

 

[Silverwulf]

Oh, I agree. There's just nothing like plugging into to a closed back 4X12 when you want the grind. No 1X12 will ever give you the same effect, regardless of EQ's and tweaking, and I think that's what some people with combos were expecting.

 

[MarkIVwidebody]

when I had a Mark IV combo most people I talked with just switched out the C-90 for a better speaker and were blown away with the tone improvement....go figure, Mesa