Mesa MKIV or EVH 50wt?

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I'd go Mark IV over EVH 50w. IF you want EVH get the 100w head.

Boogies can hell on tweakers but use your ears and not your eyes you can get some great stuff out of them
 
People that say either amp sound like a distortion pedal are either just biased or do not know tone. Yes both amps have a lot of distortion but there is a huge difference between distortion from tubes and distortion from clipping diodes or transisters.

With that being said thd EVH has a lot of gain and a lot of compression on the red channel I can put the gain up very little, say around 1/4 or what some might consider 9 oclock on the dial, at that level it is about the same as my Recto on 1 oclock. So if you want to use the red channel keep the gain down, but like other people have said the gem of this amp is the blue channel.

I also have the EVH 4x12, 2x12 and 1x12 and like everyone has said, this amp shines through the 4x12 which has the EVH speakers where the other two have the 30th anniversary. I do also like head through my Mesa Vertical 2x12 with V30's but not too crazy with it going into my oversized recto cab.
 
srommes":2aq9fvov said:
Love the Mark IV, great amp. Love my little 5153 50 watt also. The secret to me is boosting the blue channel. Just a fatter, less compressed sound than the red channel. I also feel the matching EVH cabs really sound best with the 5153 50 watt. I have a bunch of Boogie 1x12's and 2x12's as well as two EVH 2x12's. It's just a different beast matched with the EVH cabs, which are tuned for the head specifically.
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What are you using as a boost for channel 2?
 
nevusofota":1dtrwi88 said:
Newbies to the 5150III spend too much time on channel 3, for that instant gain gratification. The magic is channel 2, especially boosted if you want higher gain. Channel 1 and 2 are basically a different amp than channel 3. Different gain sequence. Listen to the recent live vids fellow member Victim5150 recently posted. You can't call that distortion pedal tone.
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I've played it several times and spent time tweaking it, never liked it and it sounds fake to me. Tons of gain all at the expense of tone IMHO.
 
I have a Salvation Mark IV MTS preamp and a 5153 50. The EVH will do 80's rock all day and night and has a useable clean channel. Its a set it and forget it type amp. It needs to be paired with the right speaker cabI find it too tight V30's and a little honky with the EVH Celestion's. The Mark is a different beast all together and has a much better feel than the EVH. The best part of the EVH is channel two. Pair that with a Duncan JB and a little delay and its pretty sweet.
 
Depends. If you are a "Marshall" guy, you will eventually miss the simplicity of "set-it-and-forget-it" of Marshall style amps. I owned a Mark IV for about five years and then I picked up an old JCM 800 -- it was so much easier to dial in and nothing sounded flubby or overly-compressed.

Sure, the Mark IV can give you a swiss-army knife arsenal of tones, but you have to decide if those tones are all good enough for you vs. one good core sound.

If I have to pick one, I'd pick the 5153. But you might like something like Boogie's Electra Dyne or the current equivalent better. Definitely expand your options.
 
marvcus":38kp1zhf said:
Depends. If you are a "Marshall" guy, you will eventually miss the simplicity of "set-it-and-forget-it" of Marshall style amps. I owned a Mark IV for about five years and then I picked up an old JCM 800 -- it was so much easier to dial in and nothing sounded flubby or overly-compressed.

Sure, the Mark IV can give you a swiss-army knife arsenal of tones, but you have to decide if those tones are all good enough for you vs. one good core sound.

If I have to pick one, I'd pick the 5153. But you might like something like Boogie's Electra Dyne or the current equivalent better. Definitely expand your options.
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Both great amps, but I agree with this statement.
 
Both great amps. I'm more of a marshall guy, but I'd probably still opt for the mesa. It's a bit more versatile and can still do the high gain thing.
 
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