Tell me about the Mesa Mark III

[thiswaythatway]

I had no idea that the first Blue Murder disk was recorded with a
MarkIII....If you don't have this disk,go get it- It has a HUGE guitar
sound that I could've sworn were Marshalls....

The Slide It In album sounds like Marshalls but the 1987 and Blue Murder albums really have a different tone. You can hear the Marshall/Boogie difference.

This is taken from his website.

For much of the Whitesnake '87 album and first Blue Murder album John used 2 Mesa Boogie Coliseum heads. These amps have a Mark III pre-amp section but use six 6L6 power tubes--giving the amps180 watts each! John also owns several Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+'s, Mark III's and some rack mounted Mesa Dual Recto heads. Other Mesa Boogie equipment includes a Tri-Axis preamp and a Strategy 500 Power Amp.

For speaker cabinets, John uses Marshall 4x12 cabinets, Mesa Boogie metal grill "Half Back" 4x12 cabinets, Mesa Boogie 4x12 Recto cabinets and some custom made 4x12 cabinets.

http://www.johnsykes.com/gear.html

 

[mentoneman]

i had a standard one and it was great.

zachman has the best boogie i've heard and it's a mesa mark III simul-coli. gainfreak has one too.

and yes they sound radically different from amp to amp.

i played a combo that was awful. the guy wanted $400 at the time, and i passed.

 

[philb]

I had one for close to a year. Great amp. It was my introduction to mark series amps.
It sounds like a boogie, it can be agressive. I now have a Mark IV and I'm really happy.

The reverb is not that good. The loop works well.