MK V Extreme Less Gain Than IV Setting?

[Bullen]

Perhaps with your amps things sound similar.

Wonder how it would sound using the slave out to drive the other amp. Can it be done?

Well, again... sorta similar. In the ballpark at least. Overall, I feel that the IV is darker and more midrange "grindy" and the V is brighter and slightly thinner, "cleaner" in the mids. I feel that the IV´s graphic eq is a bit more powerful as well. Or at least it seems to focus on slightly different frequencies. The V´s eq seems tamer to me.

No, it doesn´t matter to me. Is´s all good. I have a red stripe Mark III as well and it´s also different. I can make these amps sound the way I want to and that´s all that matters. I just love Mark series amps.

I do use the same cabs with my amps. I have a 2x12" recto for home use, a Traditional recto 4x12" and a Diezel frontloaded v30 4x12" with my band and I use all Mesa tubes, russian 2 (EH) in the IV and Mesa labelled jj´s in the V (except for V1 on both amps which are Ruby labelled jj 12ax7aczHG+). I use Mesa 6L6 str440 in both.

And yes, you can slave one amp in to the other. I´ve never tried it though. It would be interesting to try the V into the IV poweramp. I´ve read of someone doing that and loved what it did to the V´s tone. Have to try it one of these days.

 

[bandit2013]

I used to slave the Mark IV into the Mark III (blue) when I had it. Sounded okay but did not do it often.
I would have to give a try. The Mark V slave out is driven from the output transformer. I believe the slave out on the Mark IV is pulled from the effects return. Possible to do the same using the effect send from the V as long as there is a dummy plug inserted into the return in order to bypass the V6B and the phase inverter of the V.