anomaly
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I don't know if this has been posted before but to me it sounds nothing like a real amp - maybe a plugin or sth
Sounds recorded direct, the first part anyways.
I don't know if this has been posted before but to me it sounds nothing like a real amp - maybe a plugin or sth
IME it depends on the room, the guitar & the cab. My gig setup is fairly static so going from rehearsal to a show just the room changes, and I find that I only tweak 80hz and 6600 for the room. I can see setting your presence based on if you want the top end more smooth or more raw though, then balancing to suit with 6600. I've always liked more raw (high pres) for thrashy stuff, but I can see a guy wanting it low (more smooth) for a brown sound.even though i run my III differently, i can totally appreciate where you like your presence set on the marks for your style of music. my best bud Zach ran his III Coli and subsequent IIIs lively in the top end similar to your settings except he kept presence at 3. in his hard rock bands it sliced and diced live.
i always ran my presence 3-4 and started with 2200 and 6600 on the GEQ very low, raising until the tone cut properly in the mix to my ear.
what i’d really like someone to demo on the C+ reissue is footswitching from the cleanest clean setting they can dial in while preserving the proper high gain tones.
Apparently they liked the extreme mode on the V and used it in the studio, they said they liked the low end from it. Personally, i've never played a five. Sounds good on the album though.Man there’s no way in hell anyone with ears puts a mark v next to any recto and tells me it’s anywhere near the recto in terms of “crushing.” Also CC probably had the rectos on that album too
I think the Coli's and the IV can touch the recto's for gigantic crushing tones. I know the IV's actually take a boost well with the treble dropped a bit so you can dial in a kinda loose tone, then tighten it up with a boost and do a recto style tone with it. With the presence pushed they've got that low end punch to them as well.Hey I never said Marks can't get heavy. They definitely can. And for stuff where you need the tightest, most controlled kind of gain you can get, like say for Thrash, I don't know if I can think of a series of amp more suited to that.
But a Mark can't touch a properly boosted Recto for gigantic crushing heavy tones. Lots of amps are better for that kind of tone than Marks. But Marks have their own unique thing that other amps don't really do either.
Yes.Running your Marks into a 16ohm 100w cab is not going to hurt anything - especially in the short run. They are overbuilt and can handle that mismatch as noted earlier in the thread. From the manual. Right?
This seems correct to me.
I personally don't think I'm a Mark guy, so all of this MK talk is nothing but entertainment for me. Tone porn.
Clips are getting closer too. Looking up.
Apparently they liked the extreme mode on the V and used it in the studio, they said they liked the low end from it. Personally, i've never played a five. Sounds good on the album though.
The first rants are comming
That's because Extreme on the V has no negative feedback, like Modern on the Rectos and the IIB Colis. The trade off is that it makes it a bit more loose, which you can gather back in with a boost.Extreme mode on the V is pretty crushing. You can't scoop it as much as a IV, but the low end is tighter and has a thump to it.
Agreed - The crunch is really raw and open unlike the other modesThat's because Extreme on the V has no negative feedback, like Modern on the Rectos and the IIB Colis. The trade off is that it makes it a bit more loose, which you can gather back in with a boost.
The C+ tone on the V is pretty meh for high gain, most guys agree the IV tone is better although neither are as lively as an OG. That said I do really like the Mark I tone on the big V, and REALLY like the Crunch tone on the baby Vs.
Yeah. I think a reason I personally prefer the OG IIs and IIIs is because of that raw, open, 3D character they have. To me the IV still has some of this and moves a lot of air but it is transitioning towards the modern compression.Agreed - The crunch is really raw and open unlike the other modes
I also prefer the III and IV over the IIC+. Currently have a IV.While I do like C++ in the bedroom and on the mic, in the live band I tend to prefer C+ boosted when I want it as tight & precise as possible. Sounds legit here.
That said, between the IIB, IIC+, III and IV, the C+ is my least favorite live because the happy 750 range is SO narrow, and it's just too polite compared to the others for thrashy stuff.
C+ vs Mark Five 35, which is my favorite tonally of all the Fives.
I don't know if this has been posted before but to me it sounds nothing like a real amp - maybe a plugin or sth
It's the real deal, going through my friend's cab with some eminence speaker. I'll be borrowing it and running it through my v30 and greenback cabs soon.
WIth all the modern Marks with the Pull Deep hardwired it's really hard to get rid of that weird mid hump. That said, with the baby Fives at least my Treble Dump trick REALLY wakes them up. May work on other modern Marks, not sure. Give it a try. Standard 0:50, treble dump 1:50.I wonder if you crank the presence knob and the 80Hz slider a bit more on the V:35 and lower the 750Hz, if you'd get closer to the C+.
I mostly hear a change in low-end and middyness.
Almost the same with your VII to 2C+ comparison videos; the VII sounds less aggressive and a tad more honky/middy, but I wonder if you can dial it out a tad more.
FWIW; I think the 2C+ mode on my V:25 is too middy (more Santana than Metallica basically), the IV mode is better, but still thinnish, and I get the most mileage out of the Xtreme mode, but it's definitely not that MOP/AJFA tone.
That's because Extreme on the V has no negative feedback, like Modern on the Rectos and the IIB Colis. The trade off is that it makes it a bit more loose, which you can gather back in with a boost.
The C+ tone on the V is pretty meh for high gain, most guys agree the IV tone is better although neither are as lively as an OG. That said I do really like the Mark I tone on the big V, and REALLY like the Crunch tone on the baby Vs.
Yeah, it’s blended. Mostly recto like every corpse album though… except the real old stuff that’s crate. I know Rutan has added in other amps on a few albums. His Marshall a few times etc. Rutan usually (like most people) runs his main guitar track pretty high and the other at least 12 db underneath it.Apparently they liked the extreme mode on the V and used it in the studio, they said they liked the low end from it. Personally, i've never played a five. Sounds good on the album though.