Mesa boogie is teasing the mark VII

shredmechanic said:
That control layout looks so cramped I can't imagine turning one knob without accidentally adjusting another(big gecko fingers here)...
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Once you find your settings you never touch them anymore. This is the main difference between my head and the axe, where I always do a little tweak somewhere every time I power it up. The head never disappoint and always sound good. I ask myself many times about the why. Probably because once it’s filtered through an ir, the tone is more focus in a frequency.
a amp in the room it’s different. You don’t have a high harsh frequency or this or that you want to remove or that disturb you the day after
 
My name is mud said:
Once you find your settings you never touch them anymore. This is the main difference between my head and the axe, where I always do a little tweak somewhere every time I power it up. The head never disappoint and always sound good. I ask myself many times about the why. Probably because once it’s filtered through an ir, the tone is more focus in a frequency.
a amp in the room it’s different. You don’t have a high harsh frequency or this or that you want to remove or that disturb you the day after
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im guilty of this too. I have a little 3W blackstar fly bluetooth amp that I use for practice sometimes just because I dont go down tweaking rabbitholes. I love my FM9 dearly and use it the most, but sometimes i just end up tweaking. Often I will just change factory presets every day because my ears find a different type of voice or EQ refreshing. But live I stick to my main preset (s).
 
Jipps0525 said:
im guilty of this too. I have a little 3W blackstar fly bluetooth amp that I use for practice sometimes just because I dont go down tweaking rabbitholes. I love my FM9 dearly and use it the most, but sometimes i just end up tweaking. Often I will just change factory presets every day because my ears find a different type of voice or EQ refreshing. But live I stick to my main preset (s).
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I have one of those blackstar fly too, killer little amp hm? 😅
 
I have to admit that I like the channel layouts a fair bit here, but I'm not sure I'm impressed by the overall sound the way I was by some early Mark V demos. But historically Boogie has always been terrible at demoing their own sounds. I'm looking forward to seeing artist demos of the unit too.

Edit: Boogie also does themselves no favours by demoing the 1x12 version, and sending that out to folks like Sweetwater. One Youtube video I found got better cab sounds out of the CabClone feature than the 1x12 amp gets with its tiny enclosure.
 
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I go way back with the MK series, and this one sounds like it fits in perfectly based on a couple quick YT videos. At $3500 for the head it's kind of in that JCM800 category for me, will always like that sound but it's an Axe FX patch for me anymore. I have a Mesa MW dual and a fender HRD4 to scratch whatever real amp itch I get but that's about it.
 
Just listened to some demos. It really sounds so much different than anything else out there.

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I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this all day. I’d be much more interested in this if it were a group of new sounds. A real new Mark, for the first time since the IV. Same channel and EQ arrangement as the JP-2C.

Recycling the classics rather than creating a wholly new thing is, at least for me, disappointing. (Although I still want a JP-2C.)
 
nathan_393 said:
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this all day. I’d be much more interested in this if it were a group of new sounds. A real new Mark, for the first time since the IV. Same channel and EQ arrangement as the JP-2C.

Recycling the classics rather than creating a wholly new thing is, at least for me, disappointing. (Although I still want a JP-2C.)
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On the bright side, there’s about to be an influx of Mark series amps hitting the used market.
 
shredmechanic said:
That control layout looks so cramped I can't imagine turning one knob without accidentally adjusting another(big gecko fingers here)...
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On the FIVE the top row is cramped due to the enclosure, as are the eq preset knobs for the 3 channels. You adapt, but it is tight.
 
Yes, seems like living in past a bit. Not paving new sounds like the amps it's "modeling". Still sounds killer.
 
I got my MkV as soon as they came out in 2009. It doesn't have the Cab Clone feature.
I like the new additions on the MkVII. However, I'm wondering why they eliminated
the Preset/Auto EQ controls. They are really useful. We already had the 3 Ch Verb controls
on the back. Now they're on the front, replacing the EQ preset controls.

I haven't used my MkV live since getting the Ultra in 2011. It is a great amp though.
I still use the the MkV at home with a Captor X Load box.

I admit I was fighting the urge to get the VII, but I knew it would just sit around like the V.
Maybe I'll change my mind down the road, but I've already got a IIB, IIC+, III, IV, V and TA15.
Plus the Axe III & FM9, which do a good job of modelling the mark amps..
 
They skipped the mark 6 because the MB team thought it was a more than 1 version upgrade. There is also a rumor that Randall Smith is 77 this year and he liked 7?
 
Also saw Fluff mention something about Peavey already having a MkVI Series.
So maybe to avoid confusion or infringement?
 
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