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Multiple guitars playing multiple riffs (not the same damn riff oner and over), a comprehensive series of amp settings, great recording quality and playing and NO TALKING, this is what all amp demoes should be about.
Excellent job as always. This has to be the most complicated amp I have ever owned. Some days I love it, and then some days I wonder why I loved it a few days ago. It really takes time to understand and its safe to say the controls are not your conventional/normal controls as any other amp. For instance, the Gain and Treble controls work together, should have been labeled Gain1 and Gain2. Treble is controlled more by the Presents control and EQ.
16.7k now...it takes time to build a base. Clearly not all that long when your content is this good if it really has gone from 15-16.7k in a matter of hours, but it's exponential anyway. Come back in a year and I'd eat your choice of hat if there weren't more 0's after that number :D
I put him in my last weeks video of 10 YT channels to binge watch on my channel. I agree - he’s great! It takes forever to get a lot of subs in a very crowded field. Make sure you tell all of your guitar buddies about channels you like. That’s the best way to help get the word out
I dont mean to be off topic but does any of you know a tool to get back into an instagram account? I was dumb lost the login password. I would love any tricks you can give me!
I love the fact that you state the guitars you use and the pickups and the irs, because the tone is not only the amp and this makes us know more about the tone. The only smallish problem is the youtube compression, so maybe you could upload the wav files too in the description, but that´s a bit too much. Love your channel!
the single pup clean tones are tight and dense. Not hollow chimey like fender amps. Which is good as its not trying to emulated something else. Love my mkV35s cleans. Distorted tones? No need to even mention it - Fantastic to my ears.
As someone that’s been having a love-hate relationship with dialing in a Mark V:25 for over a year now, this really helped me get some useful tones out of that amp.
I think the mark series is absolute perfection. It seems endless the types of tones you can get from these amps and every single one of those tones is above anything other amps are doing.
Just upgraded from the boss katana 50 mk ll to a katana artist mkll so I can practice and experiment with all the different styles you can set it up with .One day... when I deem myself worthy that is! I'll buy the mesa boogie mark v:35 with a 2x12 mesa cab. I just love how versatile it is and how it sounds. This demo just proves why everyone should own this amazing amp!!!
Best demo of this amp so far! You have a colossal amount of guitars and killer shops to demonstrate what this beast can do! Such quality work definitely deserves more subscribers! To help with that, I just subscribed! Keep that great work, good things will come to you. Cheers!
Definitely getting this amp now. Clean is impressive, gain is even more, and even has a headphone out for when my parents get annoyed. Great demo, earned a sub.
Whelp I have been watching all your demos on many, and I mean darn near all the amps you have on your channel and I am 100% sold on the Mark V. Been on the hunt for the perfect tone for my ears and this amp very well nails it
Great demo. Fantastic playing. Amazing recording quality. I've been watching this all week... for the MUSIC part... these riffs are great and are great background while I'm working :D
Rightfully spent more time on the Crunch voicing than anything else. That is the only thing that I am really missing from the couple of years that I owned the 90 watt Mark V. The rest of the tones in the Mark V amps, irrespective of the wattage, are fabulous; I just have the rest of the tones covered in my Axe Fx III. But I miss this damn Crunch voicing so much that I keep finding myself watching videos like this in hopes that I might eventually find a way to get the same tone out of my Axe III eventually. Stellar demo by the way! Easily one of the best, if not the best, I have seen so far!
Damn, man, fantastic demos. So well done. Really interesting bits, excellent playing, perfect miking. And that Mark V is killer. This is how it's done.
Thank you for this video, I just got a mark v (partially because of your demos) and I am constantly referencing it for settings. Great playing as well.
Great demo! But I suggest to try Channel 2 modes with low gain settings. You can achieve very useful crunch sounds. I prefer, for example, Xterme mode with gain at 10:30 o'clock, treble 13:00, mid at noon, bass at noon, presence 14:00, EQ on with mid little bit lowered.
My Friend, you're the reason I bought this amp!! It has become my favorite amp of the amps I've owned. It has so many flavors, it amazing, and v30's are far this amps favorite speaker from what I've tried,,,, ymmv😊
One of the best demos of this amp I've ever seen! One question for you - I got my Mark V 25 and 1x12 standard recto V30 cab about 6 months ago and I need to push my GEQ low and high sliders way more than you do here to get a full tone that sounds like it has enough punch to it. Does upping the master increase those frequencies a lot? That's the only difference I can see, I'm not able to push it up to 3 or 4 like you do here because I'm in an apartment.
I had the Recto 1x12 for a little while and I wasn't a fan to be honest. I did sound very small imho and a little bit too bright at lower levels. Could have just been me, my room or my setup though. I just prefer the sound of bigger cabs.
Rewatching this during the mark7 release, and honestly wish they just got you to do the official demos instead of the dadrock extravaganza that is everything posted so far.
Who the hell would down vote this video?! Do these tone deaf people not understand how much effort is put into making something like this? Anyway great vid as always, and I can say with 100 percent certainty that this is my favorite amp I will ever own.
I used to play a Triaxis in the 90s. I loved that sound but had a lot of issues and eventually had to go to something more reliable. Went to a MkIV about ten years later and it was DOA. Went to Engl and other amps. Being able to switch something on and instantly getting great tone even with knobs at noon is awesome. I picked up a MkV 25 5 years ago or so trying to recapture that tone and spent way too many hours trying to figure out Mesa's unintuitive controls. I commend you on wrangling some good tones out of it.
Great demo! Do you use the amp live? I can't help but think it's missing a third channel to give you options for 1) clean 2) rhythm 3) lead or how do you solve this? Do you keep the Green Channel for clean and just boost / EQ / use a pedal on the red channel to change the rhythm sound to a lead?
I haven't used it live but I imagine there would be ways to solve your potential 'issues'. You could use the boost master volumes for solo's of course. 4 cable method with a good multi-effects unit would be great.
Always love your demos! Do you by any chance have an album out or are all these just ~30s demos? Your riffs are my favorite part of all the demos you do.
For the Mark 5:25 and 5:35 amps for lead tone, back the gain down and drive the power section. Instead of trying to compress the tone with the preamp (gain all the way up), let the tone breathe by dialing the preamp back to about 1 o'clock and crank the volume. With the 35 watt amp you may want to knock it down to 25 watt mode, with uses the two outer tubes rather than all four but getting the compression on the power stage pretty much also gives you a free noise gate. Drive the volume past 2 o'clock and there's a wonderful compression that makes even the deadest of guitars sing but the extra drive in this stage has a hard time dealing with superfluous noise like slight hand movements so you get the notes without the background guff when soloing. If you hit the strings harder in the next video I might even click the subscribe button! ;)
That s a good advice, and it is completely true ! But man the master at 2 o'clock is almost impossible to sustain with a 4x12 ! because it is extremely loud, even on stage, the sound ingeeners always asks me to lower the volume... (so I have to set it at 8 or max 9 o'clock) I think that's the only way to play with these settings is to get an attenuator...
great....you made me buy that Rocker 15 when I was playing with the classic rock band. Now I got a gig as a lead player for a Metallica tribute so I come to check this out and you're playing the same guitar (kh602) I got for the gig...and now I have to get this amp too...
I had one of these and like a fool i sold it because i didnt think i could justify ever owning such an expensive amp. I finally just got another head, cab is on order...I searched for a very long time to find a one and done amp that could do it all, the Mark Five 35 head and 2x12 cab is it for me, only use a optical compressor pedal with mine
@Sonic Drive Studio this is exactly what I have been looking for as far as a demo of this amp. I was curious if it could do Fender-esque cleans, and it appears it can. Do you think it is capable of a "plexi" type crunch with, say, a Les Paul or SG a la AC/DC for example?
@@SonicDriveStudio The ballpark would be all I need. I wish my Marshall were a bit clearer but still had the crunch. Sounds like the Mesa does the Crunch and the Clarity. Thanks for the video!
i feel with this amp, i'd like two identical channel one's in an amp. really love the crunch tone, but would miss the clean or fat to switch between in songs. crunch with volume rolled off for cleans might work. then third channel for the mk series drives.
Now I just feel bad for not having explored mine enough. I've just found the sound were the amp does Skynyrd great with my Duesenberg 49er and then left it there.
Your videos are the highest of quality and your playing is fantastic. Do you think the Mark 35 high gain channel can sound good at really low volumes at home in an apartment? Do you think the Tubemeister deluxe 40 would be a better option for high gain at home? I also want to be able to crank it when jamming at a rehearsal space which these amps can do. Thanks
@@SonicDriveStudio. I know you use I.R’s but do you think the Grandmeister gets flubby or muffled on the highest gain settings when just plugged straight into the amp and straight to the cab without I.R’s?
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Multiple guitars playing multiple riffs (not the same damn riff oner and over), a comprehensive series of amp settings, great recording quality and playing and NO TALKING, this is what all amp demoes should be about.
One amp to rule them all !
This guy wipes the floor with Ola Englund, better reviews and player....no talking gets straight down to business! Superb video!
I do talk sometimes but definitely not often :)
@Malcolm Reynolds Just my opinion Malcolm. Too much yapping and chugging for me, this guy has more variety in his playing. Yes I like leon todd.
The passive Baritone riff sections had no business being that damn good. Loved that
Always click for the amp demo, then love all the different guitars and riffs
Excellent job as always. This has to be the most complicated amp I have ever owned. Some days I love it, and then some days I wonder why I loved it a few days ago. It really takes time to understand and its safe to say the controls are not your conventional/normal controls as any other amp. For instance, the Gain and Treble controls work together, should have been labeled Gain1 and Gain2. Treble is controlled more by the Presents control and EQ.
Totally agree! Making this demo has really helped me to understand this amp better though
You have to think of it like the Gain & EQ is a Built in Boost/OD. And the Drive + GEQ as the actual amp controls. Except they're active.
Boogie should use this video to promote how awesome this amp is. It can cover everything.
The heavy Tele rock sound at 8:03 it's just perfect ! Tele are the best sounding guitars !
By far the coolest demo of a Mark 5 I’ve seen. Thanks for doing this... I’m still learning my way around this thing!
Best amp demos in the universe! What the f•ck is wrong with people? Why only 15k subscribers?
16.7k now...it takes time to build a base. Clearly not all that long when your content is this good if it really has gone from 15-16.7k in a matter of hours, but it's exponential anyway. Come back in a year and I'd eat your choice of hat if there weren't more 0's after that number :D
I put him in my last weeks video of 10 YT channels to binge watch on my channel. I agree - he’s great! It takes forever to get a lot of subs in a very crowded field. Make sure you tell all of your guitar buddies about channels you like. That’s the best way to help get the word out
I dont mean to be off topic but does any of you know a tool to get back into an instagram account?
I was dumb lost the login password. I would love any tricks you can give me!
@Myles Edwin instablaster ;)
@@paxtonkobe6720 Hi I saw a post that possibly you can help to get my Instagram back please let me know if that is true thanks .
I love the fact that you state the guitars you use and the pickups and the irs, because the tone is not only the amp and this makes us know more about the tone. The only smallish problem is the youtube compression, so maybe you could upload the wav files too in the description, but that´s a bit too much. Love your channel!
The amp sounds incredible and also DAMN you have a huge style vocabulary in your playing. Awesome listening to this demo.
the single pup clean tones are tight and dense. Not hollow chimey like fender amps. Which is good as its not trying to emulated something else. Love my mkV35s cleans. Distorted tones? No need to even mention it - Fantastic to my ears.
This is one of the best videos of the Mesa 35 V on TH-cam!
Had a Mark V 90w head... recently sold it ...this MKV 35 just might be a great replacement....awesome review
Great demo!! This amp handles the heavy riffs very well. Nice skills my friend.
As someone that’s been having a love-hate relationship with dialing in a Mark V:25 for over a year now, this really helped me get some useful tones out of that amp.
After seeing this, I am fully convinced that I need to get one of these amps!!! Awesome demo and face-melting riffs!!!
I think the mark series is absolute perfection. It seems endless the types of tones you can get from these amps and every single one of those tones is above anything other amps are doing.
I love my Mark Five: 35. It's amazing how versatile it is!
Just upgraded from the boss katana 50 mk ll to a katana artist mkll so I can practice and experiment with all the different styles you can set it up with .One day... when I deem myself worthy that is! I'll buy the mesa boogie mark v:35 with a 2x12 mesa cab. I just love how versatile it is and how it sounds. This demo just proves why everyone should own this amazing amp!!!
Best demo of this amp so far! You have a colossal amount of guitars and killer shops to demonstrate what this beast can do! Such quality work definitely deserves more subscribers! To help with that, I just subscribed! Keep that great work, good things will come to you. Cheers!
Definitely getting this amp now. Clean is impressive, gain is even more, and even has a headphone out for when my parents get annoyed. Great demo, earned a sub.
Whelp I have been watching all your demos on many, and I mean darn near all the amps you have on your channel and I am 100% sold on the Mark V. Been on the hunt for the perfect tone for my ears and this amp very well nails it
Not only are the tones fantastic, your playing and songwriting is awesome!
Sounds great. Great videos. Keep em coming. Just got my Mark V35. Love it.
That was as thorough a demo/playthrough as I’ve ever seen, or more importantly, heard. Thank you!
Great demo. Fantastic playing. Amazing recording quality. I've been watching this all week... for the MUSIC part... these riffs are great and are great background while I'm working :D
Rightfully spent more time on the Crunch voicing than anything else. That is the only thing that I am really missing from the couple of years that I owned the 90 watt Mark V. The rest of the tones in the Mark V amps, irrespective of the wattage, are fabulous; I just have the rest of the tones covered in my Axe Fx III. But I miss this damn Crunch voicing so much that I keep finding myself watching videos like this in hopes that I might eventually find a way to get the same tone out of my Axe III eventually.
Stellar demo by the way! Easily one of the best, if not the best, I have seen so far!
Dude! You are killing me here with these tones. Awesome job.
Greeting from Russia! Your videos awesome, such a balanced sound always.
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Greetings! Thank you!
Damn, man, fantastic demos. So well done. Really interesting bits, excellent playing, perfect miking. And that Mark V is killer.
This is how it's done.
Thank you for this video, I just got a mark v (partially because of your demos) and I am constantly referencing it for settings. Great playing as well.
Yo I loved this video. Im obsessed with this amp. Thanks for throwing more fuel on my GAS fire.
Very nice! I have the 25 and did a First Look video but need to do an in depth on it. Nice playing as always brother!
I just bought this amp today. This video, and videos like it, are super helpful. Now, I have even more settings to try out!
Absolutely fantastic! Love your demos and your playing. I just got my V:35 in the other day. Only scratching the surface.
Great demo! But I suggest to try Channel 2 modes with low gain settings. You can achieve very useful crunch sounds. I prefer, for example, Xterme mode with gain at 10:30 o'clock, treble 13:00, mid at noon, bass at noon, presence 14:00, EQ on with mid little bit lowered.
extremely high quality demo, probably the best demo I've heard full stop! Awesome work pal! Subbed!
great demo. no frills, plays plenty of styles, simple riffs not trying to show off.
Awesome demo ! I came here as Mesa Boogie recommended this vid on their facebook !
Great playing and great tones, as usual!
I'd recommend trying out the 90W version. It's less compressed and has even more depth.
Love your demos!
This Boogie can actually sound very close to the Mark 1 and 3...They had the real Mesa tone. (we had both and the Studio Preamp)
My Friend, you're the reason I bought this amp!! It has become my favorite amp of the amps I've owned. It has so many flavors, it amazing, and v30's are far this amps favorite speaker from what I've tried,,,, ymmv😊
Make that bay area thrash into a full song, it is amazing!
One of the best demos of this amp I've ever seen!
One question for you - I got my Mark V 25 and 1x12 standard recto V30 cab about 6 months ago and I need to push my GEQ low and high sliders way more than you do here to get a full tone that sounds like it has enough punch to it. Does upping the master increase those frequencies a lot? That's the only difference I can see, I'm not able to push it up to 3 or 4 like you do here because I'm in an apartment.
I had the Recto 1x12 for a little while and I wasn't a fan to be honest. I did sound very small imho and a little bit too bright at lower levels. Could have just been me, my room or my setup though. I just prefer the sound of bigger cabs.
@Eagleeye Jones sorry I know this is an older thread, but what speakers do you have in your 2x12?
Rewatching this during the mark7 release, and honestly wish they just got you to do the official demos instead of the dadrock extravaganza that is everything posted so far.
You do such a good job with these. Everything is so clean and polished. Keep it up! Cheers
So nice to see a demo that isn't 2 minutes of uninspired clean then all chunk chunk chunk. Nice job.
Great demo the best I’ve ever seen and heard .
@ Passive Baritone Riffs - awesomely great riff!!
You have tons of beautiful toys and awesome talent. Thanks for sharing.
He is just showing off his guitar collection guys😜
Who the hell would down vote this video?! Do these tone deaf people not understand how much effort is put into making something like this? Anyway great vid as always, and I can say with 100 percent certainty that this is my favorite amp I will ever own.
Sick riffs brother
The riff you played with the SE 277 inspired me to get an SE 277. Should be here Saturday! LOL!
What a great amp man, well done
outstanding play and control .ROCK ON!
Excellent Video! As always! I would also like isolated segment. Thanks!
I used to play a Triaxis in the 90s. I loved that sound but had a lot of issues and eventually had to go to something more reliable. Went to a MkIV about ten years later and it was DOA. Went to Engl and other amps. Being able to switch something on and instantly getting great tone even with knobs at noon is awesome. I picked up a MkV 25 5 years ago or so trying to recapture that tone and spent way too many hours trying to figure out Mesa's unintuitive controls. I commend you on wrangling some good tones out of it.
Best amp demo I've seen!
My favorite amp! Great demo, thanks for sharing \m/
Fantastic demo man. Good job
Great demo! Do you use the amp live? I can't help but think it's missing a third channel to give you options for 1) clean 2) rhythm 3) lead or how do you solve this? Do you keep the Green Channel for clean and just boost / EQ / use a pedal on the red channel to change the rhythm sound to a lead?
I haven't used it live but I imagine there would be ways to solve your potential 'issues'. You could use the boost master volumes for solo's of course. 4 cable method with a good multi-effects unit would be great.
Impressive collection and tones.
Always love your demos! Do you by any chance have an album out or are all these just ~30s demos? Your riffs are my favorite part of all the demos you do.
Great Demo - Awesome sound - Top & Thanks
Thanks for this I’m going to try out some of your settings 🤘
This amp can do everything.
Sounds monstrous !
Such a great video
Great job!
Request for a Demo: peavey Tripple X
Thanks 🙏
Yesssss
If he can find one of the dammed things
3120 is the same amp
For the Mark 5:25 and 5:35 amps for lead tone, back the gain down and drive the power section.
Instead of trying to compress the tone with the preamp (gain all the way up), let the tone breathe by dialing the preamp back to about 1 o'clock and crank the volume. With the 35 watt amp you may want to knock it down to 25 watt mode, with uses the two outer tubes rather than all four but getting the compression on the power stage pretty much also gives you a free noise gate. Drive the volume past 2 o'clock and there's a wonderful compression that makes even the deadest of guitars sing but the extra drive in this stage has a hard time dealing with superfluous noise like slight hand movements so you get the notes without the background guff when soloing.
If you hit the strings harder in the next video I might even click the subscribe button! ;)
That s a good advice, and it is completely true ! But man the master at 2 o'clock is almost impossible to sustain with a 4x12 ! because it is extremely loud, even on stage, the sound ingeeners always asks me to lower the volume... (so I have to set it at 8 or max 9 o'clock) I think that's the only way to play with these settings is to get an attenuator...
Nothing else chugs like a Mark
Awesome I just ordered this amp awesome tones you got there
13:25 riff. Inspiratie vanuit Nevermore's - We Disintegrate? Goede video overigens! Keep it up :)
Ik ken niks van hun.... Maar thanks! :)
@@SonicDriveStudio Zeker even checken! Jeff Loomis is een held. Groovende riffs en smaakvol leadwerk. :)
great....you made me buy that Rocker 15 when I was playing with the classic rock band. Now I got a gig as a lead player for a Metallica tribute so I come to check this out and you're playing the same guitar (kh602) I got for the gig...and now I have to get this amp too...
So badass dude🤘🏻
I have to check out all these RED channel dial settings, everything so dialed down (treb, mid, bass).
I know I am late to the show, but how FUCKING COOL is this!?!?!?!? If I missed in previous comments forgive me but are these all original riffs?
Who's stompin those balls drum tracs?
I had one of these and like a fool i sold it because i didnt think i could justify ever owning such an expensive amp. I finally just got another head, cab is on order...I searched for a very long time to find a one and done amp that could do it all, the Mark Five 35 head and 2x12 cab is it for me, only use a optical compressor pedal with mine
Nice playings. Nice sounds.
Any post eq, comp etc on IRs?
Nope! No post eq or compression on the guitars
Great job men,thanks for the video.
This truly tickled my taint in the best way!
Best Demo´s !! THX !
Are you using an attenuator with loaded ir’s. What are using? Sounds great
@Sonic Drive Studio this is exactly what I have been looking for as far as a demo of this amp. I was curious if it could do Fender-esque cleans, and it appears it can. Do you think it is capable of a "plexi" type crunch with, say, a Les Paul or SG a la AC/DC for example?
Sure! It won't sound exactly the same but you can get in the ballpark
@@SonicDriveStudio The ballpark would be all I need. I wish my Marshall were a bit clearer but still had the crunch. Sounds like the Mesa does the Crunch and the Clarity. Thanks for the video!
i feel with this amp, i'd like two identical channel one's in an amp. really love the crunch tone, but would miss the clean or fat to switch between in songs. crunch with volume rolled off for cleans might work. then third channel for the mk series drives.
What cab are you using for this demo? Looking for a different cab...(Small gigs....not into 4x12's....) open back?
That is really awesome amp. Thank you for your video 🤟🤟🤟🤟
I have the TC 50 good amp also but a mark 5..
Did you use the DI to record all these? Or a mic? Thanks.
Love Mesa Boogie
ordered a 90 watt head just gotta wait for it now :D
Now I just feel bad for not having explored mine enough. I've just found the sound were the amp does Skynyrd great with my Duesenberg 49er and then left it there.
Your videos are the highest of quality and your playing is fantastic. Do you think the Mark 35 high gain channel can sound good at really low volumes at home in an apartment? Do you think the Tubemeister deluxe 40 would be a better option for high gain at home? I also want to be able to crank it when jamming at a rehearsal space which these amps can do. Thanks
It's excellent for low levels as is the H&K. I think with this wattage you should be able to crank it up pretty loud too.
@@SonicDriveStudio. I know you use I.R’s but do you think the Grandmeister gets flubby or muffled on the highest gain settings when just plugged straight into the amp and straight to the cab without I.R’s?
You should be a household name bud.
Nice review - I have a question. Do you get pinch harmonics on the lower strings or do you think one would need to add a tube screamer ?
Hello...great vid, sounds great! How are you using IRs with the amp, is the speaker cab not connected and you’re simply going direct? Thx
The amp is going into a loadbox and that is going into the IR loader