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[Genghis]

Why would you not with that ability to do so? You sound like my wife!

We have almost the same setup, Mark V, JP2C, Stealth and a Rectro currently, Dragon on order as well.

Have you used an attenuator in the loop of the head switcher? That was something I didn’t know the switcher did until I got it and read the manual. Kind of curious how that part works.

 

[CorrosiveMatter]

I have not since all of them have good volume control. I have a two notes but just lazy mostly.

 

[Genghis]

I have not since all of them have good volume control. I have a two notes but just lazy mostly.

I set mine pretty loud for recording, and just use output 4 knob on the Axe-FX to turn down to a reasonable level when I band rehearsal or if I’m just practicing out in the studio. Was thinking a load box to tap into for using IRs could be handy, but my neighbors love to listen and I can crank my cabs up to over 100db when I record. And yes, I use in-ears with industrial ear muffs over that to keep from going deaf. Lol

So, yeah, I don’t need an attenuator for my setup. Just always curious about that type of thing.

 

[deadpool_25]

This little Mark 525 is great

Why the hell would you Porn Star all the inputs and orifices on a precious amp like that.

Poor thing.

Orifices are made to be porn starred

 

[newholland]

heya all.. here's me, an 81 iib which has seen a parade of speakers (the original evm is back nowadays) it took me forever to bond with the dirt on it, but truly love it these days! i'm generally kinda a simpler dumb eq amp user, but needed something a little more controllable for a band and no practice space.. this suited, and even if it took me a jillion years to really get there with the preamp, i really love this duder- especially when i can
stretch its legs a bit volume wise.

 

[JiveTurkey]

heya all.. here's me, an 81 iib which has seen a parade of speakers (the original evm is back nowadays) it took me forever to bond with the dirt on it, but truly love it these days! i'm generally kinda a simpler dumb eq amp user, but needed something a little more controllable for a band and no practice space.. this suited, and even if it took me a jillion years to really get there with the preamp, i really love this duder- especially when i can
stretch its legs a bit volume wise.

Hey man good to see you!

 

[newholland]

Hey man good to see you!

hey jt! likewise sir!

 

[LCW]

Simple. Effective. Ola.

 

[EOengineer]

heya all.. here's me, an 81 iib which has seen a parade of speakers (the original evm is back nowadays) it took me forever to bond with the dirt on it, but truly love it these days! i'm generally kinda a simpler dumb eq amp user, but needed something a little more controllable for a band and no practice space.. this suited, and even if it took me a jillion years to really get there with the preamp, i really love this duder- especially when i can
stretch its legs a bit volume wise.

Thanks for sharing! Love seeing these old timer boogies in here! We have a number of IIC+ and newer floating around here but you don’t see a ton of IIB amps represented.

 

[newholland]

Thanks for sharing! Love seeing these old timer boogies in here! We have a number of IIC+ and newer floating around here but you don’t see a ton of IIB amps represented.

TBH i bought it as a clean amp with little to no wish to even mess with the dirt! it absolutely crushed in that regard as a little pocket twin ive had mesas on and off (mostly on) for gads... thirty years.. and thats how i always used em. i couldnt ever get there with the lead sound though with calibers. the iib was tricky, but got there eventually!

 

[Genghis]

heya all.. here's me, an 81 iib which has seen a parade of speakers (the original evm is back nowadays) it took me forever to bond with the dirt on it, but truly love it these days! i'm generally kinda a simpler dumb eq amp user, but needed something a little more controllable for a band and no practice space.. this suited, and even if it took me a jillion years to really get there with the preamp, i really love this duder- especially when i can
stretch its legs a bit volume wise.

My first Mesa was a Mk IIb. I used it in the clubs in SoCal in the late 80s and early 90s when every big hair band was playing through Marshalls. Got a lot of compliments on the sounds, but truthfully I had no clue about how to really set up the tone stack to really get the most out of it. Sold it in the early 2000s because I wasn’t playing out and was only recording in an apartment. Sort of wish I had kept it now that I’m in a house with a studio out back.

 

[newholland]

My first Mesa was a Mk IIb. I used it in the clubs in SoCal in the late 80s and early 90s when every big hair band was playing through Marshalls. Got a lot of compliments on the sounds, but truthfully I had no clue about how to really set up the tone stack to really get the most out of it. Sold it in the early 2000s because I wasn’t playing out and was only recording in an apartment. Sort of wish I had kept it now that I’m in a house with a studio out back.

gads, yknow, the thing utterly defeated me forever- and i mean i bought it in 2018 to replace a 15 watter with two knobs (so colossal culture shock!). i could usually get it just okay but never GREAT, so i'd run a drive pedal into a great big clean sound. no big. sounded great that way, so just let it be.

but this summer, i got curious and had some time, and ran through seriously every single tonal possibility to figure out how the friggin thing REALLY worked. it took like three months of daily kicking it to figure out how the gain stages interacted- and that was the clincher for me. the tone stack i kinda got theoretically (though not really i found) via mesa lore- but NOT the volume 1 vs volume 2 until i finally just tried it all in front of mics on the daily. now i get it.

seems like people always say iibs are somehow lesser versions of later mesas, and i kinda get it cause theyre pretty fussy before you figure em out, but i think theyre great amps in their own right!

 

[spawnofthesith]

Biweekly mark update headlines:

Tracked cleans with III a couple weeks ago

V still broken, need fuses to further sus out issue

Since coming back home been more IV focused

IV fucks

Still needs volume even with attenuator

Tracked some stuff direct with load box/IR

Still going to real amp for real mics Monday

80hz slider goes DOWN when the tracking lol

Jammed III tonight extensively , still possibly the most brutal of all


Crab marcus name should be getting called up in the next 2-3 weeks allegedly

 

[spawnofthesith]

Did some reamping today for our upcoming EP

Mark IV and Badlander were the two in play. Both me and my bass player failed to bring monitors on site so we were running kind of blind. Checks of the mark IV tracks o with some crummy overears in particular sounded… well just bad. Tweaking and tweaking to get the tone “right” without much success. Feeling much better after getting home and listening though, think shit sounds solid and once things are actually mixed/mastered not too worried anymore

 

[LCW]

Latest rumor… Spotted at NAMM ‘25… couple FB groups posted this…

IIC++ !!!

 

[spawnofthesith]

LOL

 

[LCW]

 

[la szum]

I have one of those Mesa Garage Built DIY Vertical 2 x 12s with the Razor Wire Grill cover.

 

[EOengineer]

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What’s up with the rectifier here? Prototype or something? It’s missing the rectifier logo.

Edit: oh man honestly if they start doing periodic limited runs of IIC++ and Revision A-G reissues I have to say that would would be pretty cool.

 

[LCW]

What’s up with the rectifier here? Prototype or something? It’s missing the rectifier logo.

I think it’s just the chrome chassis reflecting a bunch of black.