Beyond Black
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Mark IVB with footswitch. Scored this locally for $1000! Not quite mint, but a strong excellent condition.
Been watching a lot of YouTube videos and taking notes, so I’m semi familiar with how to set it up. Played it all day yesterday and got some MONSTER high gain tones. I’m blown away by this amp. Don’t know what took me so long to get one. I’m not a Recto guy, and never knew much about the old Marks, so I never paid too much attention to Mesa. Well, the recent Mark IV love and clips around here made me take notice, so I watched every YT vid I could find and did some research, and the GAS fire was lit. Man am I glad I bought this amp. It’s a palm muting, chugging, triplet picking players wet dream. I hate post AJFA Metallica, but still love the MOP and Justice tones, and they’re in there. It’s got amazing rhythm AND lead tone, feel, and it’s quiet! It came with a pair of Mesa 440’s and a pair of JJ E34L’s. Pre’s are a mix of JJ, Phillips and GT. I swapped out the E34L’s for JJ 6L6’s and JJ KT77’s to see which I prefer, and I like it best with a quad of 6L6’s. They definitely sound the biggest, baddest, and tightest, with the most low mid grunt. I think the E34L’s were too loose on the lows with more upper mids than I necessarily want with this amp. The KT77’s were better than the 34’s, but still not as focused and menacing sounding as the 6L6’s. This amp also sounds great through both my cabs with Greenbacks and G12-65’s. Both together are massive. Thanks to all the RT dudes for their clips and posts that have recently opened my eyes to this great amp. I haven’t been blown away buy an amp like this since my Monomyth in December, and years before that one.
Been watching a lot of YouTube videos and taking notes, so I’m semi familiar with how to set it up. Played it all day yesterday and got some MONSTER high gain tones. I’m blown away by this amp. Don’t know what took me so long to get one. I’m not a Recto guy, and never knew much about the old Marks, so I never paid too much attention to Mesa. Well, the recent Mark IV love and clips around here made me take notice, so I watched every YT vid I could find and did some research, and the GAS fire was lit. Man am I glad I bought this amp. It’s a palm muting, chugging, triplet picking players wet dream. I hate post AJFA Metallica, but still love the MOP and Justice tones, and they’re in there. It’s got amazing rhythm AND lead tone, feel, and it’s quiet! It came with a pair of Mesa 440’s and a pair of JJ E34L’s. Pre’s are a mix of JJ, Phillips and GT. I swapped out the E34L’s for JJ 6L6’s and JJ KT77’s to see which I prefer, and I like it best with a quad of 6L6’s. They definitely sound the biggest, baddest, and tightest, with the most low mid grunt. I think the E34L’s were too loose on the lows with more upper mids than I necessarily want with this amp. The KT77’s were better than the 34’s, but still not as focused and menacing sounding as the 6L6’s. This amp also sounds great through both my cabs with Greenbacks and G12-65’s. Both together are massive. Thanks to all the RT dudes for their clips and posts that have recently opened my eyes to this great amp. I haven’t been blown away buy an amp like this since my Monomyth in December, and years before that one.
I actually love that amp. I put KT77’s in it and changed a few pre amp tubes per Napalmdeath’s recommendation and it fuckin rips. Sounds huge with rippin mids. Probably 4 years ago I saw Havok using these live and their tone was positively sick. The next day I scored this one on Reverb for $425, and I’m glad I did.