TheGreatGreen
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FWIW I've been through a tremendous number of amps, cabs & guitars, looking for combinations that excel. While most of them are good, some setups are duds and a few of them are amazing. I get a kick out off guys who listen to a finished tone and try & say that one component of that signal chain must be why, or likewise people who write off a piece of gear from a complex chain. IMO it's a much more complex system to create an amazing tone than any one part of the kit. And that's not even talking about the player- I can set up a heavy AF sound, hand the guitar to my brother & he makes it sound like Pink Floyd with only a volume knob roll & his fingers.
This is a lot like when the Mark VII came out. 18 pages of shit talking by people who have never played one! Not that it's not fun to BS, but let's keep it real. I'm sure the amp will be great as long as they got the FEELS right, and I'm sure the corporations will still suck at close mic recording.
Fuckin preach, man. Right on.
Seeing people hear the amp dialed with a frown EQ and the Bass knob turned up to 6, into an open back 1x12 and played by the biggest "hello, fellow kids" corporate douche ever, who has no chops for the kind of stuff you’d play through a Mark at all, and instantly they’re like "welp that means it must suck in every situation. CONFIRMED!" and it’s equal parts funny and frustrating. The amp is one ingredient in a chain, and every link matters.
Also I swear most guitar players must have memories worse than goldfish. Mesa/Gibson followed this EXACT same pattern with the Mark VII as recently as last year and nobody seems to remember it.
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