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spawnofthesith said:
IT LIVES!!!!


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Fuses arrived while I was at band practice. Got home and decided to get freaky. As I noted earlier in the thread I noticed one of the power tubes after the blowout was not properly seated.

I started slow, swapped fuse, went into 45 watt mode, powered up…. Tubes visually look good and glowy. Amp still has some ocean noises but rocking steady in 45 watts… get courageous…. Flip to 90 watt….. whoop there she goes. Fuse blows again. Swap out the outer pair pop in another fuse….


Smooooth sailing. Amp is the most quiet it’s ever been since I’ve owned it. Sounds amazing. Honestly a bit bummed it didn’t make the EP. As much as I love the cleans on the III and IV, that lonestar clean circuit on the V is just kind of in another league

And note to self…. Next time I start hearing even vague ocean noises new power tubes going in :LOL:


I’m trying to hold onto some possibly irrational hope that my other intermittent issue I was having is as somehow related to a power tube going out, but will have to explore that more another day. After midnight now and I’ve just been delightfully playing on the clean channel for the past 45 min lol
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WooHoo! Glad it's back!
 
I gotta say the more I play through this thing the more it amazes me. It responds SO well to rolling the guitar volume and tone down. It manages to maintain a fullness that a lot of amps don’t.

Could be combination of the guitar as well maybe but I’m digging having various tones without touching the amp sometimes. Just dialing via the guitar controls is a nice option.

I can see the appeal that old school players talk about.

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LCW said:
I gotta say the more I play through this thing the more it amazes me. It responds SO well to rolling the guitar volume and tone down. It manages to maintain a fullness that a lot of amps don’t.

Could be combination of the guitar as well maybe but I’m digging having various tones without touching the amp sometimes. Just dialing via the guitar controls is a nice option.

I can see the appeal that old school players talk about.

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Looks killer with the vertical 2x12 too.
 
deadpool_25 said:
How come when people talk about famous Mark users they bring up Metallica and Petrucci but very rarely John Sykes?

Dude was a legend. RIP homie! :rawk
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Maaaan. I’ve gone down this road before but all the folks butthurt about “not metal enough” demos of the RI… well wtf. I can think of significantly more “not metal” famous mark users than I can…. Well tallica and petrucci lol. People are weird man
 
I got my first Mk for three reasons:
Carlos Santana

My first guitar teacher in my home town got one.

I spent three hours in a friends shop playing his Mk IIb on the clean channel and couldn’t stop playing it. I started negotiating payments with him without ever hearing the distortion channel.
 
Genghis said:
I got my first Mk for three reasons:
Carlos Santana

My first guitar teacher in my home town got one.

I spent three hours in a friends shop playing his Mk IIb on the clean channel and couldn’t stop playing it. I started negotiating payments with him without ever hearing the distortion channel.
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iibs are such great amps even without the fussy dirt channel! they can do so many things- but i ALWAYS come back to setting up a beefy clean tone and adding to that. im with you- its just such a huge fat perfectly thick foundation to build off of!

that said, if you can let it stretch its legs, that dirt channel is really great too sitting on a thiele! frustrates me to no end most days if you're not above two on the .aster though :LOL:
 
I swear Buckley used the Trem-O-Verb Combos much like Michael Einziger from Incubus. :unsure:

Wasn't aware of Jeff using any Marks? :idk
 
spawnofthesith said:
Maaaan. I’ve gone down this road before but all the folks butthurt about “not metal enough” demos of the RI… well wtf. I can think of significantly more “not metal” famous mark users than I can…. Well tallica and petrucci lol. People are weird man
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I agree the IIC+ gets sort of objectified as a metal machine, it totally can do all kinds of amazing tones, as evident by it showing up in Prince’s touring rigs, and Springsteen using one for like 40 years. While those guys created memorable songs, they didn’t really do much for tonal innovation, so the amp association generally flies under the radar.

Metallica is just a massively popular band that is widely known to have created innovative heavy sounds with the IIC+. It seems like an obvious association to make. IIC+ does killer heavy tones.

I doubt 2 in 10 millennial guitarists could even name a Sykes song, not to discount his significant musical contributions.
 
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