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Damn that MarkIV sounds good. :rock:

That's what I thought - just swap the amps around. You use the JCM 800, and your singer/guitarist uses the Thunderverb.

That's quite close to what my Mesa/Boogie MarkIV sounds like. I run it on Mid Gain & Pentode, with two 6L6s and two EL34s in SimulClass power mode.

Check all of your cable connection/s to the amp and from the amp to the speaker cab. And the socket in your electric guitar. If the signal seems weak, try another cable. Also, turning up the Treble on a Mesa/Boogie amp will let through a much hotter signal, thus causing more distortion.

Ha that ad is pretty cool! But like most ads, I don't buy it. Like Instagram with all of the wannabe celebrities aka "influence marketers/social media influencers" keen for a free meal if you like their food pic or staged swimsuit shot, while they live in their mother's living room. It's just...

I'd love to get this someday. I have (new) vinyl records of Kill 'em All and Ride the Lightning but am still yet to play them, as I don't have a turntable.

I have not heard of them before.

Midrange, simple as that. You need mids to "cut live" because otherwise, those midrange frequencies are absorbed by all the people that make up the audience. So you boost the mids so you can hear more of the actual notes being made on your guitar, bass etc. The EQ is basically a volume control...

I'll have to chase down that book. How does the amount of windings used in the output transfer affect the sound? Does it sound more saturated? I've tried all sorts of speaker wirings, but my memory is vague about it because there was too much room reflection interference at the time, I...

I tried searching the forums but nothing seemed to show up... Anyway, I feel like I should know this already but I don't. Is there any major discernable difference between running a particular guitar amplifier at 8 ohms or 16 ohms? Is it a larger factor when using the amp into a 4x12 cab...

Nice! Needs a lot more chorus though. Doesn't swirl and swoosh enough. Hear this for an example: sKAsTpGUOQo

Are there any particular bands or albums that have used these amps? When it comes to Mesa/Boogie, its either the Mark series, the Rectifiers, the Studio Preamp or Quad, or the later models like the Stiletto (and even that is rare). Somehow these F-series amps seem really obscure.

I use two EL34s and two 6L6s in my Mesa/Boogie MarkIV, running on Simulclass.

Same with me. Once I had bought pretty much what I wanted, and also couldn't afford to buy music equipment anymore so I sold off equipment that was not necessary, my interest in forums like these has waned. I have the occasional burst where I'll lurk across the forums and maybe make a few posts...

I only have two guitars, but I bought them new. The amplifiers and cabs on the other hand are secondhand.

The foam won't do much, except for tapering off some of the high end. The shape of the room itself, its dimensions, the floor surface, the ceiling surface, where the speaker is situated and where YOU are situated in the room will all affect how you hear your guitar tone. This might sound...

This is really cool to hear and see.

I've been sketching all sorts of crazy ideas for a rotating speaker cab. But I am hesitant to go through with such a project. I think I might be better off buying a 2ndhand empty 2x12 cab and loading the WTGS ET-65 speakers and the stereo jackplate into it.

Could you run it all off a laptop computer hooked up to the PA?

I love Alex Lifeson's guitar sound from 1981. Good work!