New mesa amp announcing tomorrow

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BABMusic said:
Never played a VII, but I'm surprised that people are still very actively buying the IV on Reverb. I own a IV and sometimes wonder if I should upgrade, but then I see a lot of people buying these 30 year old IV's and I think maybe I should just leave well enough alone. As long as my IV still works (it's been repaired once), I'll keep using it.
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SonVolt said:
The IV is the true King of Marks IMO. The moment I plugged into the lead channel my V was up on FB Marketplace.
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Would like to try the Mark VII and have heard a lot of good things, but man... I love my Mark IV. A few minutes into trying the lead channel for the first time and I had this stupid smile on my face and was like "Yeah, I'm never selling this thing." My only wish is I would prefer a higher gain rhythm channel or even just 2 lead channels. I'm curious... I know they don't really do mods of the Mark IV, but I saw a comment on another thread where someone mentioned after they got their Mark IV back from Mesa for maintenance it had a lot more gain on the rhythm channel.
 
Does everyone remember that for years Randall Smith kept saying they could NEVER replicate the parts, transformers and 5 band EQ's to even come close to replicating the MKIIC+?????????????:dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno:

I do................
 
Mark VII’s are truly great amps. I compared one to my Mark IVb in my studio and there’s not a lot of difference in the Lead channels. I’d be happy with either.

I do miss the Mark IV’s Pull Shift Presence which is missing from the VII but I have to imagine a good tech could just turn a Reverb knob into a NFB control to replicate it.
 
JDs Couch said:
I'm gonna be "that guy" who defends Kirk. The leads on the first 4 albums are overall fucking iconic.
When millions of kids can sing your leads by heart, note for note, you don't suck.
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Kirk’s solos in AJFA were incredible. He wrote some truly ferocious and unique stuff back then. Same with MoP. Hell he even wrote some truly musically inspired (even if much less technical) solos in the Load era.

Since then though he’s allowed himself to get lazy and he just kinda heavy blues improvs everything, and most of it is pretty boring and uninspired. Because of that, he kinda deserves some of the flak he gets these days, but you’re absolutely right about giving credit where it’s due. At one point in time, dude was a monster.
 
TheGreatGreen said:
Kirk’s solos in AJFA were incredible. He wrote some truly ferocious and unique stuff back then. Same with MoP. Hell he even wrote some truly musically inspired (even if much less technical) solos in the Load era.

Since then though he’s allowed himself to get lazy and he just kinda heavy blues improvs everything, and most of it is pretty boring and uninspired. Because of that, he kinda deserves some of the flak he gets these days, but you’re absolutely right about giving credit where it’s due. At one point in time, dude was a monster.
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100% agree. But hey, after 10 years of iconic albums, he earned the right to get lazy. And, he would be my #1 pick of "which dude in Metallica would you hang with for a weekend".
 
JDs Couch said:
I'm gonna be "that guy" who defends Kirk. The leads on the first 4 albums are overall fucking iconic.
When millions of kids can sing your leads by heart, note for note, you don't suck.
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Yes, he was great on the first four albums. He's always had a good sense of melody in his leads, even if he wasn't the most technically talented (I don't mind some slop or imperfectness, actually). I just wish he laid off the wah sometimes, like I wish Zakk Wylde used less pinch harmonics. But that's their thing.

Probably my favorite solo of his was in Disposable Heroes. That's like an entire song within a song.
 
BABMusic said:
Yes, he was great on the first four albums. He's always had a good sense of melody in his leads, even if he wasn't the most technically talented (I don't mind some slop or imperfectness, actually). I just wish he laid off the wah sometimes, like I wish Zakk Wylde used less pinch harmonics. But that's their thing.

Probably my favorite solo of his was in Disposable Heroes. That's like an entire song within a song.
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Yeah man. His solos throughout MoP are epic. Sanitarium has great leads too..
 
harddriver said:
Does everyone remember that for years Randall Smith kept saying they could NEVER replicate the parts, transformers and 5 band EQ's to even come close to replicating the MKIIC+?????????????:dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno:

I do................
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Yeah… but then Gibson bought them. Expect a lot more of this. They’ll get more and more authentic too.
 
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