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It's funny how a single, unexpected occurrence can lead to a chain of events that, once started, seems unstoppable, and must see itself through to its ultimate conclusion, whatever that may be.
A couple weeks ago, I was looking for a couch noodler and had my eyes on Mesa's smaller combo offerings, mainly a used 20W Cali Tweed and 25W Mark V, when I saw a gorgeous, grey bronco (thanks @paisleywookiee and @Life Eats Life) Mark V 90 combo available for a mere $200 more than the other two. The choice was obvious, which led to the V90 combo being at my house two days later, which led to the fiasco and thread described as an "emotional roller coaster" by @Alex Kenivel and delivering "peak stuff" by @EOengineer.
So.... one blown-up V90 combo later, I had a brand new 35W combo at my place, with which I briefly fell in love, seduced by its syrupy-sweet EL84 mids and spongy, butter-on-the-fingers 10W tone. Much like owning the HX One led to quickly getting the Helix Floor, however, I was soon dreaming of the VII combo or head (@la szum be damned), scouring the stock of my local Long & McQuade's, gorging on badly-recorded YouTube reviews, and eventually consulting TGF guru @JiveTurkey on the mount for VII wisdom ("don't do it" he surprisingly said), serendipitously selling my PRS 594 the same morning (there's a whole story there, too), and heading to L&M with a wad of cash and a horny, VII-induced gear hard-on making it hard to walk.
Ok, wordy, bad blog-journal writing aside, what the hell is going on here?
TL;DR: I bought a used Mark V combo > it blew up in 10 seconds > I liked the replacement 35W combo > I sold my PRS and bought a VII head + 1X12 cab.
And here it is! More thoughts to come later. So far, I'm having a blast with it and was able to quickly do what I had in mind re. pushed cleans, crunch, and high gain.
MIIB is
for pushed cleans, crunch is Dyne-level goodness, and VII high gain is 
.
A couple weeks ago, I was looking for a couch noodler and had my eyes on Mesa's smaller combo offerings, mainly a used 20W Cali Tweed and 25W Mark V, when I saw a gorgeous, grey bronco (thanks @paisleywookiee and @Life Eats Life) Mark V 90 combo available for a mere $200 more than the other two. The choice was obvious, which led to the V90 combo being at my house two days later, which led to the fiasco and thread described as an "emotional roller coaster" by @Alex Kenivel and delivering "peak stuff" by @EOengineer.
So.... one blown-up V90 combo later, I had a brand new 35W combo at my place, with which I briefly fell in love, seduced by its syrupy-sweet EL84 mids and spongy, butter-on-the-fingers 10W tone. Much like owning the HX One led to quickly getting the Helix Floor, however, I was soon dreaming of the VII combo or head (@la szum be damned), scouring the stock of my local Long & McQuade's, gorging on badly-recorded YouTube reviews, and eventually consulting TGF guru @JiveTurkey on the mount for VII wisdom ("don't do it" he surprisingly said), serendipitously selling my PRS 594 the same morning (there's a whole story there, too), and heading to L&M with a wad of cash and a horny, VII-induced gear hard-on making it hard to walk.
Ok, wordy, bad blog-journal writing aside, what the hell is going on here?
TL;DR: I bought a used Mark V combo > it blew up in 10 seconds > I liked the replacement 35W combo > I sold my PRS and bought a VII head + 1X12 cab.
And here it is! More thoughts to come later. So far, I'm having a blast with it and was able to quickly do what I had in mind re. pushed cleans, crunch, and high gain.
MIIB is
for pushed cleans, crunch is Dyne-level goodness, and VII high gain is .
