NMVD !!

[Orvillain]

So many ways to use it, too. Big and bold? Check. More narrow and compressed? Got that.
Tweedy and EOB with all that biting glassiness. Oh yeah!

Can I ask what Cab/Speakers you are using, Orv?

My Egnater Tourmaster 4x12, with mid 2010's Chinese V30's.

It is my favourite cab!

 

[EOengineer]

With all the brutality that amp offers, it’s easy to forget that the Mark series has blackface fender roots. In some ways Mesa out-Fenders Fender - particularly if you are into blackface cleans that break up or don’t feel super soft.

Best amps ever.

 

[Frodebro]

Yup. Options are options, and it is nice to have them.... even if some people think the
entire world ought to have outgrown some of those options by now.

It’s a fucking TUBE AMP. That alone tells you that there’s some old school shit at play.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Clean channel on this amp is fittttttt asssss fucccckkkkk!!

The best

 

[texhex]

 

[Orvillain]

This amp has killed my modeller and amp GAS.

 

[Rock Chalk]

Until it doesn't............

 

[EOengineer]

Awesome tones, weakest version of master of puppets I’ve ever heard.

 

[Orvillain]

Practice tonight.

The Mark V went down a storm. Everyone loved it. The bassist (who is also an audio engineer and rents the studio we are rehearsing in) was quite conflicted by the end of it. He's got a bunch of amps, but doesn't own any Mesa stuff. He has two Verellen amps, and they're honestly not a patch on the Dual Recto or Mark V - IMHO. I think he was thinking that too, because he was talking about selling his Skyhammer at the end of the night!!

Axe3 in 4-cable-method worked really well too. I just had one preset, with three scenes, and 9 effects all with scene ignore turned on. So the scenes were clean, rhythm, high-gain, and I was adding the effects as and when I needed them. It was really class.

The setup and stacking of the amps.... I feel a bit OCD about that. I think I'd prefer having the FM9, purely from a pragmatics point of view. But then again, I had my laptop connected (and sat on top of the stack) and it was super super easy to tweak a few things and then save the preset.

I can honestly say, I've not been this happy with my tone for a number of years. The Mark V truly is now my main amp, and I'm contemplating getting another for home, so I can leave one at the rehearsal space, and then just cart either the Axe3 or FM9 across London for weekly rehearsals. We shall see!

The cab is an Orange PPC412HP8 - Celestion K100's. Sounded fucking killer. Very similar to my Marshall Mode Four cab.

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

Practice tonight.

The Mark V went down a storm. Everyone loved it. The bassist (who is also an audio engineer and rents the studio we are rehearsing in) was quite conflicted by the end of it. He's got a bunch of amps, but doesn't own any Mesa stuff. He has two Verellen amps, and they're honestly not a patch on the Dual Recto or Mark V - IMHO. I think he was thinking that too, because he was talking about selling his Skyhammer at the end of the night!!

Axe3 in 4-cable-method worked really well too. I just had one preset, with three scenes, and 9 effects all with scene ignore turned on. So the scenes were clean, rhythm, high-gain, and I was adding the effects as and when I needed them. It was really class.

The setup and stacking of the amps.... I feel a bit OCD about that. I think I'd prefer having the FM9, purely from a pragmatics point of view. But then again, I had my laptop connected (and sat on top of the stack) and it was super super easy to tweak a few things and then save the preset.

I can honestly say, I've not been this happy with my tone for a number of years. The Mark V truly is now my main amp, and I'm contemplating getting another for home, so I can leave one at the rehearsal space, and then just cart either the Axe3 or FM9 across London for weekly rehearsals. We shall see!

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The cab is an Orange PPC412HP8 - Celestion K100's. Sounded fucking killer. Very similar to my Marshall Mode Four cab.

Looks like fun to me bud!!!

Is that an old head shell as a rack....that's a great idea...imma steal that!!!

 

[spawnofthesith]

Mark V is truly a legendary amp. Still gets some dumb internet gooferu bashing but imo I have enough experience with plenty of other Marks to classify it as a GOAT (just like all the rest)

 

[Orvillain]

Mark V is truly a legendary amp. Still gets some dumb internet gooferu bashing but imo I have enough experience with plenty of other Marks to classify it as a GOAT (just like all the rest)

Anyone bashing the Mark V needs to bash their own brains out with a claw hammer!

 

[Orvillain]

So my mate who bought the Pitbull when I bought the Mark V ... he's considering driving back up there to buy the Triple Rectifier.

They also have a Road King....

Road King is £2000.
Triple Recto is £1134.

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

 

[la szum]

God damn it is so nice to have some more company in the Brotherhood. I am tellin' ya!!

 

[Orvillain]

Soooo... that's twice I've used the Mark V with the new band now, and oh. my. word.

It really, absolutely, and utterly, blows my socks off. I love it. I love the cleans. I love the crunches. I love the rhythms. I love the leads.

Mark V is very quickly becoming my favourite amp. Yes I have others, and yes I love my Dual Recto.... but the Mark V is the daddy!

 

[spawnofthesith]

 

[spawnofthesith]

Also looking forward to w hearing what you might be cooking up with the new band!!!!

 

[EOengineer]

Soooo... that's twice I've used the Mark V with the new band now, and oh. my. word.

It really, absolutely, and utterly, blows my socks off. I love it. I love the cleans. I love the crunches. I love the rhythms. I love the leads.

Mark V is very quickly becoming my favourite amp. Yes I have others, and yes I love my Dual Recto.... but the Mark V is the daddy!

I’ve begrudgingly admitted over the last couple years that, had I bought my Mark III first, I’m not sure I would have ever cared to pursue a Dual Rectifier. There’s just so much magic there that you can’t get anywhere else.