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Potential Mesa Reissues? IIC+ and Dual Rec
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AI is great at regurgitating nonsense it collects on internet forums. Marks' compression and gain structure makes it the opposite of "hard to play". Liquidity is a word commonly thrown around... meaning smooth, easy. Try playing Petrucci licks on a 2203.
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Nothing is hard to play if you practice the instrument. There’s a difference between the feel of a Fender / Mark style amp vs a SLO/Recto style amp, but really one is just tighter and more immediate while the other has a bit more sag to it. Neither is hard to play, I’ve always found the “non-forgiving” quality of an amp to be a bit of internet fluff that doesn’t really translate to reality.
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The only amps I've played that I would truly characterize as unforgiving are Fryettes. Really puts your playing under a microscope, no gain smear or saturation to hide behind
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It's just a matter of how much the amp, or even the way it's dialed in, masks imperfections in one's technique, mostly wrt the dynamics of individual notes.
For example, if you play a series of hammer-on/pull-off licks using a clean tone with no compression, and certain notes are weak, then play that through a distorted/compressed tone, in which they now all sound even, yes, the clean amp is harder to play. But clean up your technique and it won't matter what amp you play through.
That's why, if you're serious about good technique, you should compare how you sound through various amps/settings.
Clean will show dynamics flaws; dirty will show accuracy flaws.
Lots of reverb and delay hides it all!
For example, if you play a series of hammer-on/pull-off licks using a clean tone with no compression, and certain notes are weak, then play that through a distorted/compressed tone, in which they now all sound even, yes, the clean amp is harder to play. But clean up your technique and it won't matter what amp you play through.
That's why, if you're serious about good technique, you should compare how you sound through various amps/settings.
Clean will show dynamics flaws; dirty will show accuracy flaws.
Lots of reverb and delay hides it all!
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Exactly.
You use delay and reverb to mask your mistakes, I use delay and reverb to hear my errors twice.Lots of reverb and delay hides it all!
