Beery Swine
Member
I've been set to buy a used Mark V for awhile, just waiting till I found a good deal, but now I see the prices of Mark IVs and I'm thinking "why not save another 500 bucks if I can?" I mean there's a TON of cool options on the V but at the end of the day, I'll probably just dial in my tones for each channel and leave it, and they ARE both just 3 channels. idk
The tone I'll be going for mainly is Metallica, black album. That's my holy grail tone. If I can get Enter Sandman and Through the Never tone, I'll call it a life then. I've heard back to back to back comparisons of a Mark IIC+, III, and IV all with the same basic settings to sound like Lamb of God, and they all did a great job, tho obviously the IV was the most accurate bc that's what LoG actually use, so I figure if I'm going for the Hetfield sound how different can a IV be from a IIC+, ya feel me?
So what do you guys think? Worth the extra money for a V combo? Also, general discussion, if this hasn't already been brought up before: does the IV come closer to Hetfield than the V?
Update:
I decided to go for the IV shortbody combo, and I am SO glad I did! All the push/pull knobs seem to not be on the V, and they DRASTICALLY change things up. After just a few minutes fiddling with it it was easy to hear how pushing or pulling knob X would get you a more Master of Puppets sound or TBA sound. Plus it was nice to save some money.
The tone I'll be going for mainly is Metallica, black album. That's my holy grail tone. If I can get Enter Sandman and Through the Never tone, I'll call it a life then. I've heard back to back to back comparisons of a Mark IIC+, III, and IV all with the same basic settings to sound like Lamb of God, and they all did a great job, tho obviously the IV was the most accurate bc that's what LoG actually use, so I figure if I'm going for the Hetfield sound how different can a IV be from a IIC+, ya feel me?
So what do you guys think? Worth the extra money for a V combo? Also, general discussion, if this hasn't already been brought up before: does the IV come closer to Hetfield than the V?
Update:
I decided to go for the IV shortbody combo, and I am SO glad I did! All the push/pull knobs seem to not be on the V, and they DRASTICALLY change things up. After just a few minutes fiddling with it it was easy to hear how pushing or pulling knob X would get you a more Master of Puppets sound or TBA sound. Plus it was nice to save some money.