Relics have a cool vibe to me. Its heartbreaking when you get your first ding on a high end guitar. These kind of take that worry away before you even get it!
If you run the the amp as a single channel amp you should be ok with most effects. The only one I would be iffy on is the reverb. I tried to run a reverb pedal in front of my mini rectifier head and while it was ok on the clean channel it would go haywire on the dirty channel. Once I put it...
The country acts of today are hardly country. The guitarists they hire are dynamite! The wife and I saw Jason Aldean and his two guitarists came out and played flying Vs with a bridge only pick ups with floyd roses on them...and boy did they know how to use them!
I may be having some wicked Deja Vu, but I am pretty sure the same exact people who made the fat jokes in the last VH thread also made them in this thread, and the same people who came to Wolfgangs E rescue then are back now. :lol: :LOL:
While its not the Mark V:25, I own a Rectoverb 25 head and 1x12 mini rec cabinet and have jammed on a Mark V:25 at my local store and can vouch for the fact that the volume of these amps comes on hard and fast. I have to play my RV25 in vintage because Modern is much too loud for bedroom jamming.
I have a feeling they only ship high end gear to stores in high dollar parts of the country and leave the rest to fend for themselves. When my wife was shopping for my Custom 24 GC wanted almost 4k for one, when I pointed out that they go for 2700ish online the sales guy got all huffy and told...