Mark IV questions ... clean headroom, pedals

[no.mop]

How much clean headroom does the Mark IV have? Also, how well does it take pedals? I hope to be using R1 and R2 for some post-rock...

Sorry for the very informal questioning...

 

[aaronlyon]

I read "headroom" as, how loud can you play before you push the tubes into distortion. On the Mark IV, if you keep R1 gain in the 2 to 4 range, you can crank the channel and master volume up and play RFL* with a spanky, clean tone. Painfully, glass breakingly loud.

Takes pedals fine, whether pre-input, or in the FX loops.

* RFL = really, f-ing loud

 

[no.mop]

I read "headroom" as, how loud can you play before you push the tubes into distortion. On the Mark IV, if you keep R1 gain in the 2 to 4 range, you can crank the channel and master volume up and play RFL* with a spanky, clean tone. Painfully, glass breakingly loud.

Takes pedals fine, whether pre-input, or in the FX loops.

* RFL = really, f-ing loud

Great, sounds perfect for the headroom!

Any experience with fuzz, other crazier pedals? Stuff outside the normal delay, boost, etc.

 

[zebpedersen]

RH1 takes fuzz pedals nicely, if you switch over to RHY2 with a fuzzbox you get all sorts of cool compression effects, kinda sounds like its really bottomy and toppy at the same time. Good stuff!