Mesa-Boogie Mark V

[jhale667]

Jay could have his mk3 amp voiced to sound sweeter in the clean range, but he can't have it both ways as that would sacrifice other things going inside which would ruin the whole point of running that amp since it wasn't made to sound decent clean.

My clean sounds are fine, thanks.
Actually, my preamp is the "red-stripe" final and supposedly most coveted of the Mk III series...but it has all the tweaks to the clean and dirty channels they made over the course of its lineage included.
As I mentioned here before, my buddy had a green-stripe Mk III and sent his back to Mike Bendeneilli at Boogie with my serial number to have it converted to my amp's specs.
John Sykes used a red-stripe Colosseum Mk III to record the Whitesnake album...'nuff said.

[GAR]

So if the mk5 has greater clean range, we'll see an upgrade here for you?

Nice carfax on the amp, but that's a lot of benchracing terminology I don't understand because I don't follow Boogie gear.

I like amps that clean up glassy chimey clean when you roll off the vol knob on the guitar, but then spit melted lead when you merely roll full up: that's an amp for me, and I could never get that with the amps I've seen in the Boogie store.

Another thing about Boogie is they stuff most of their cabs with Vintage 30s which although I have some cabs with them, I'm not fond of it since it's a pretty dark speaker.

I can understand why since the V30 is a 175 dollar speaker, versus the Heritage G12H-30 at $245 (street prices) but even if Boogie gives their shoppers option to purchase a cab factory stuffed with the best Celestion of all time, they do not give the shopper option to try the real-deal 30 while there in the store which is quite a shame.