efx
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Hi everyone,
So a while back I managed to score a new mark IV from a store here in Sweden. I didn't have a cab at that time so it wasn't until this weekend when I could get a recto 2x12 to go with it that I could try and see what was in store for me.
Well, something seems to be amiss because the sound is terrible. I started on channel 1 which sounded very flat, went over to channel 2 and it just sound thin and buzzy. Channel 3 I have heard so much about and it's flat out bad. It sounded more or less the same as channel 2 and there is no sustain at all. Almost gorilla-like in quality and there's no saturation of the gain regardless of what settings I use.
I know that this is a tweakers amp but I've tried approximately 30 different settings, making sure many of them were very different from each other to try out all possibilites and while the tone changed (more bassy to less bassy etc etc etc) the basic characteristics of the sound remains the same. There's simply a lack of decent tone.
As for volume I tried it with the output and bedroom level (1-1.5) and all the way up to 3 and it just got louder, not better or even changing.
What could this be? Because of a bad travel schedule for me it's back at the store (but it's still mine for the moment). I assume the store will check out what's wrong with it but if anyone has any opinions on this I'd love to hear them
So a while back I managed to score a new mark IV from a store here in Sweden. I didn't have a cab at that time so it wasn't until this weekend when I could get a recto 2x12 to go with it that I could try and see what was in store for me.
Well, something seems to be amiss because the sound is terrible. I started on channel 1 which sounded very flat, went over to channel 2 and it just sound thin and buzzy. Channel 3 I have heard so much about and it's flat out bad. It sounded more or less the same as channel 2 and there is no sustain at all. Almost gorilla-like in quality and there's no saturation of the gain regardless of what settings I use.
I know that this is a tweakers amp but I've tried approximately 30 different settings, making sure many of them were very different from each other to try out all possibilites and while the tone changed (more bassy to less bassy etc etc etc) the basic characteristics of the sound remains the same. There's simply a lack of decent tone.
As for volume I tried it with the output and bedroom level (1-1.5) and all the way up to 3 and it just got louder, not better or even changing.
What could this be? Because of a bad travel schedule for me it's back at the store (but it's still mine for the moment). I assume the store will check out what's wrong with it but if anyone has any opinions on this I'd love to hear them