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It definitely has plenty of gain..

I am not a huge metal player....more skate punk/melodic hardcore with some thrash roots. But I have always loved my Ecstasy for metal tones....and those are the old mid 90's versions where the red channel is more and extension of blue, voicing and feel wise. Plenty of gain on tap in the red...

How about a Bogner cab? I have an old rear loaded Uber cab and last year bought a Helios cab with a quartet of greenbacks. Both are super well made and sound killer.

Absolutely. I will let you know when I compare/contrast with my MCII.

That would be a question for @WizardSouth-JP as I know he has owned the older RS when Rick started making them. I wanna say, from playing around with one on a VC, it varies the bright cap + gain and I think it is similar on the older RS and w800....both of which did away with the 3 way switch.

100%. The RS has upper mid kerrang more like the w800. The cool thing though, is you can use the "sweep" control to go from Marshall mids to more lower mid focus, kinda like a Bogner.

Quite different. The VC is a super well built, Wizard version of a plexi. The RS is definitely in the modded Plexi category: high plate voltage like a plexi, extra gain stage + boost/bright, effects loop and many ways to sculpt the tone via the MTL controls.

Hmm....good question. I am actually bringing my MCII out of storage into my amp rotation again, so I will be able to compare them. I will let you know! Just off the top of my head: the leaner and cleaner gain you can get on a newer MCII rythm channel can definitely cop the w800 well, but the...

Good question!! Tonewise, you can dial the VHX pretty close to the mk3. Two things I noticed though: 1) At volume, any Herbert has much more headroom than the VHX. This is most noticeable if you do alot of downtuned stuff: the Herbert (any Mark) will just stay together better in the low end. I...

Beat me to it, but you are 100% right! When I bought my Herbert mk3, I initially wanted the Diezel FL 4x12 to pair with it. I ended up the V30 2x12 as a stop-gap....but was super worried about using it with the Herbert's 180+ watts! Anyway, Peter Stapfer told me himself the 2x12 could handle...

Uber Rev Blue is underrated. I liked it more than the old Rev Green I had and Uber Ultra I had recently. Wish I still had it.

My basement. Old house, rural property. Good jam room. :)

Got my JVM 210 for a song and it has stuck around, because it is a great amp! Like @DanTravis62 said, it is absolutely a "modern Marshall" and it can absolutely do that type of sound, but with some tweaking it is pretty versatile!

1) Wizard MCII KT150: Really love all my Wizards, but if I had to keep one, this would be probably better it. Clear, percussive, punchy and can get absolutely pummeling with that KT88 power section. The almost acoustic-ish response to picking works well with my playing. 2) Bogner ecstasy 101b...

FullShred is essentially a Duncan Custom, with an A5 magnet and two rows of short Allen head screws. Both the Full Shred and Custom 5 have been called scooped before. The Custom (ceramic magnet) is not as scooped as either of those, although like I said, it definitely doesn't have hyped mids.