Me and my friends saw you this week in cologne. We've never heard about you before but it took only a few bars to fall in love with your music. Absolutly blown away!!! You got three more fans, and you deserve so much more. And btw the plugin is nuts.
As a long time metallica fan, I’ve always known this amp for the legendary tones for James and Kirk on Master of Puppets and … And Justice for All. But I’m a blown away by the clean that you were able to bring out of that amp for the “prince tone preset” 🤘🏻
In 1983, I ordered a Mark II C from Mesa Engineering - waited 6 mos. to get it. Used it for gigging with a "clean" sound. Remarkable!!! The amp sang, but did not "break up." I was able to attain this sound and used it for prolly 20+ yrs., only occasionally using a "drive" sound. So, the "real" amp is/was very versatile, for both clean and overdrive sounds. I sold it about 10 yrs. ago for twice its cost!
Rewatching this again (as it was suggested in TH-cam) Great video - covered so much for me My only fault with this video... I find your playing so soothing and relaxing that I drift off 😴😜
All very nice. It is especially nice to hear someone finally high-lighting some of the lower-gain tones that the Neural modeler (and the real amp) are capable of. The high- gain stuff has its place but for me the lower-gain tones are where its at. Thank you so much for your review.
OMG! Where have you been? This demo has been an absolute pleasure to listen to. So smooth and effortless playing, I'm 100% impressed with your talents. I find your tones so impressive and hitting all the notes so perfectly in step just mind boggling.
It is amazing how with every plugin or amp you use you can still retain your sound and tone. I mean, I love your tone, damn, but I just can't replicate it ahah
Nice stuff. My daughter was at your gig in Cologne last night and got to meet the band and stuff. She met you in The Pool(my home town) last year I think. All the very best to you. I'll be listening in more now that I've discovered you! have fun mate!
Hi Jack. A fantastic "run-through" of the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Suite. I've owned every model of the Mark amps since the MK1 and until I started recording myself at home relatively recently I never owned a distortion pedal of any sort - the Boogies always gave me what I needed from sparkling clean to singing lead tones. Your playing is fabulous as always, and I'm curious to know if you’ve ever done a "breakdown" of your signature Ibanez guitar 🎸Wishing you lots of luck and good wishes from Ireland. ☘
Mr Gardiner, these demos are so well explained and executed as usual, so pleasant to listen to with your personal touch, thanks for such a huge job 🙏🏻. These tones all sound great and, for my part, I have a preference for the crystal clear sound of the "Prince Purple", especially with the pickups in split coil position, and also that of the "Low gain Lead", compressed and clean "John Mayer-like", very comforting and reassuring like a good old cuddly toy 🧸🤗. Well, the "Jack Gardiner Lead" isn't bad either 🤣!!!
Came for the Amps, stayed for the playing. Great job I think you gave a great overview. I own the Plini and Tim Hensons Archetype and think they are enough for me but you made me realise I need to practice my scales more lol
That Electric Gypsy tone is one of the closest I think I've ever heard. Sure wish I could see those settings on this damn laptop though.🥴And BTW - your playing is quite phenomenal. SUBSCRIBED.
I missed the mention of an "Electric Gypsy" tone-I'll have to replay (would appreciate a pointer). Assuming it's an allusion to "Elegant Gypsy," that would be interesting, since Al Di used a 50 watt Marshall Plexi for that album, though he was known to use Boogies later.
@@ksharpe10 he'll yea. I was outside smoking when Guthrie, Bryan and Marco walked up. Got to meet them quick. Guthrie stay outside for awhile too I was actually star struck or whatever you call it for b the first time ever lol. But he's the chillest dude.
@@krookiemonster2673 I always thought I might get star struck but of the 2 I have met I was not. I Met Allan Holdsworth in 82 after a show. And also Eric Johnson in 93, got autographs from Both. Now I would probably not even bother with Autographs. They are JUST people just like you and I. I still to this day have one of the weirdest dreams i ever had, All 4 65 ish Beatles at my old House in Ohio, I had one of the Bangles the same way. Silly Dreams.
It sounds great, but they already sort of covered this with the Petrucci plug-in. I’d like to see them come out with a nice AC 30 suite and then maybe a fender, classic suite that covers the Bassman, Tweed and Princeton style sounds for us low gain players. Also, it doesn’t look like they covered the combo cab in this plug-in, am I wrong? One of my favorite players is a guy nobody’s heard of Michael Gurley, and for years he used a Mark II combo with I think a 12” speaker. He got some of the best Strat tones I’ve ever heard.
Brad Gillis..Night Ranger..THAT tone..and I love the English pronunciation “Bew-gee” way better than us ‘Mericans..(no disrespect Carlos Santana)..Brilliant playing as usual..you, Tom Quayle and Andy Timmons..now that’s a tour!
You are right. They are an apple of a guitar world. Making a lot of money putting new preset in a new layout on the same algorhytms. They are masters of advertisment their products.
That's a GREAT video and an awesome way to show the power this plug-in has. Killer playing, as usual. P.S: The link to the presets is unavailable. Would you please update it, Maestro? Cheers!
Sounds like a plugin overall, but in amazingly marvelous way in hands of such player, so the actual plugin sound doesn't matter here, as it's 5-10% of the final tone :)
Great video and playing as always! 😁 Just out of curiosity could you explain you routing for this video? Im asking cause I've noticed that the plugin is configured in stereo. Are you doubling the guitar signal with the quad cortex? P. S. See you in Treviso on March the 17th!
A little late to the party on this one, but your presets are amazing. I'm pretty new to Neural plugins, and when I click on the link it just takes me to the product page. Is it still possible to download these presets, specifically that Dad Blues one??
Hi Jack, great demo, I bought the plugin as soon as I saw your video.. I am one of those Mesa Boogie fans and I fell in love with the sound of this plugin right away... is there a way that I can upload your presets, they sound amazing., thanks in advance.
Wow Dads Blues would work for a Hot Rodded Country sound. All those sounds are Golden to my ears. You most likely have alot of the same Tastes as me. I also like the Raw early Beatles AC 30 tones. The Mark II must have been one of the 1st of the Boutique amps? I know when Boogie came out people really liked them. NICE JOB.
Maybe I missed it, if I did I apologize. But the main the reason the IIC+ became mythical is Metallica and James Hetfield. Is there a preset, and a gain and GEQ setting for his tone on this? I don't really understand playing models of Mark Series amps and not dialing in Metallica
I have a lot of experience with these owned and still own a couple of these amps even the c++ and can say that from listening to you play these neural dsp sound really good but for a first impression a got they did sound a little bit scoopy and pointy on the high end unlike my amps which are mid heavy, bassy and easy to tame highs even without graphic eq.
I've been trying to dial in the Jack Gardiner tones on Petrucci and just can't get them the same. I just have to buy the Mesa plugin just for these few tones! :D
One thing I found out early in doing presets for a Vox Tonelab SE, I would imagine it would be like this for any player, after I did a few of different Amps/cabinets. I found that I ironically would dial them in and they started to all become like the Same Style sound, except a Tweed/Blk Face/Marshall still sounded like those Amps. But inveritably you dial them into almost same to your ears. Kind of Silly I guess. So realistically I am guessing one could do Gigs with maybe 15 to 20 Presets. So we are in a Smorgasborg of Tones these days.
I have been hoping for this for about 3 years after I got the Soldano plugin which I love and use. The Amplitude version takes a lot of work to sound open and clear.
It sounds great but I’m not sure I need it since I have the Cali, Nolly, etc. like I’m just not sure what it has that they don’t besides the transpose.
Andy Timmonish tone is brilliant! But original Andy's tone comes from the pedal into Mesa Lone Star. I wonder what would happen if I hook up JHS AT+ into audio interface with a clean preset on this plugin
I would buy this, but the intro wasn't technical enough...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I agree… 😅
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Me and my friends saw you this week in cologne. We've never heard about you before but it took only a few bars to fall in love with your music. Absolutly blown away!!! You got three more fans, and you deserve so much more.
And btw the plugin is nuts.
Awh man! Thank you so much! Honestly - this has made my day! Glad you enjoyed the show and the music! 🙏❤️
The Timmons tones are so spot on. Wow! I know what I’m trying out later.
As a long time metallica fan, I’ve always known this amp for the legendary tones for James and Kirk on Master of Puppets and … And Justice for All. But I’m a blown away by the clean that you were able to bring out of that amp for the “prince tone preset” 🤘🏻
It makes sense though. The clean channel on the boogies is based on a Fender amp. They're really good for cleans.
I think that the name of the preset is also a pun on the fact that Prince used this amp on Purple rain for his legendary clean tone.
Bradley used it in sublime for a good handful of his clean tones. The cleans are really nice
I'm going to enjoy your music tomorrow Jack in Tiburg (013) :) . Have a great gig!
INTRO: Ummm. That was amazing. 😵
Jack you're an incredible, impressive, killer player
In 1983, I ordered a Mark II C from Mesa Engineering - waited 6 mos. to get it. Used it for gigging with a "clean" sound. Remarkable!!! The amp sang, but did not "break up." I was able to attain this sound and used it for prolly 20+ yrs., only occasionally using a "drive" sound. So, the "real" amp is/was very versatile, for both clean and overdrive sounds. I sold it about 10 yrs. ago for twice its cost!
Damn it dude. Just when I think you’ve topped your licks. ❤❤❤
Currently using old ass presets on my Fractal AX8 and now this has me rethinking everything.
sweet sounds with impeccable feel and touch
Rewatching this again (as it was suggested in TH-cam)
Great video - covered so much for me
My only fault with this video...
I find your playing so soothing and relaxing that I drift off 😴😜
All very nice. It is especially nice to hear someone finally high-lighting some of the lower-gain tones that the Neural modeler (and the real amp) are capable of. The high- gain stuff has its place but for me the lower-gain tones are where its at. Thank you so much for your review.
OMG! Where have you been? This demo has been an absolute pleasure to listen to. So smooth and effortless playing, I'm 100% impressed with your talents. I find your tones so impressive and hitting all the notes so perfectly in step just mind boggling.
The Mesa is incredible!!! I love it!! I have Abasi, Henson, Mesa, and Rabea. Each has their own little nuances which make them awesome.
It is amazing how with every plugin or amp you use you can still retain your sound and tone. I mean, I love your tone, damn, but I just can't replicate it ahah
Very nice! Good for Andy Timmons tone and more!)
Jack's presets are always some of the best on the Neural plugins. Pulled a really good blues tone out of this which is hard to do with a plugin.
Love your style Jack, great tones / presets. You are very talented and so humble.
Incredible play-through, Jack. Your licks were fire
ive found you because of plini and i'm here to stay :D Can't wait to see you live in Poland - I hope to be in the front row ;)
There was some under a glass moon vibes in the opening number! Love it
This demo is gonna sell a lot of plugins. Great tones and incredible playing!
Finally someone showing how good these amps are for so many lead tones. Not just 80s metal.
Nice stuff. My daughter was at your gig in Cologne last night and got to meet the band and stuff. She met you in The Pool(my home town) last year I think.
All the very best to you. I'll be listening in more now that I've discovered you! have fun mate!
No way! That’s amazing! Thanks so much mate! ❤️🙏 It’s not Naomi is it??
BRO THAT INTRO WAS SOOOOOO GOOD
Always love your playing Jack, so inspiring!
Hi Jack. A fantastic "run-through" of the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Suite. I've owned every model of the Mark amps since the MK1 and until I started recording myself at home relatively recently I never owned a distortion pedal of any sort - the Boogies always gave me what I needed from sparkling clean to singing lead tones. Your playing is fabulous as always, and I'm curious to know if you’ve ever done a "breakdown" of your signature Ibanez guitar 🎸Wishing you lots of luck and good wishes from Ireland. ☘
Every time I listent to you I’m mind blowed by your technique! 🤯
Great licks & walkthrough, thanks for the presets. The "Dad Blues Innit" is what I love... sounds damn good 😎
Mr Gardiner, these demos are so well explained and executed as usual, so pleasant to listen to with your personal touch, thanks for such a huge job 🙏🏻. These tones all sound great and, for my part, I have a preference for the crystal clear sound of the "Prince Purple", especially with the pickups in split coil position, and also that of the "Low gain Lead", compressed and clean "John Mayer-like", very comforting and reassuring like a good old cuddly toy 🧸🤗. Well, the "Jack Gardiner Lead" isn't bad either 🤣!!!
I am a couple of days into my 14day trial with this ....I love it...This is golden!!!;Great playing! Cool Demo!
Wow! Blazing playing!
Arghhhh you are on tour with plini??? So Ill see you on tuesday - so exited! What a support act!
Saw you play yesterday in Tilburg, you absolutely killed it!
Thanks so much man! ❤️🙏 So glad you could come!
omg that prince preset!
Came for the Amps, stayed for the playing. Great job I think you gave a great overview. I own the Plini and Tim Hensons Archetype and think they are enough for me but you made me realise I need to practice my scales more lol
Astonishing playing Jack !!
bruh... your chops...HOLYSHEET!!! Also, I bought the plugin after this demo. :)
Insane playing, man! And great demo!
Great vid! When I try the Prince Purple preset on a bridge humbucker it gives me like a perfect Peter Frampton "Do You Feel Like We Do" tone
Sounds awesome! What great presets. Definitely a reason to try it out!
That Electric Gypsy tone is one of the closest I think I've ever heard. Sure wish I could see those settings on this damn laptop though.🥴And BTW - your playing is quite phenomenal. SUBSCRIBED.
I missed the mention of an "Electric Gypsy" tone-I'll have to replay (would appreciate a pointer). Assuming it's an allusion to "Elegant Gypsy," that would be interesting, since Al Di used a 50 watt Marshall Plexi for that album, though he was known to use Boogies later.
I was lucky to see the aristocrats live a few years ago. And Timmons opened for them. Awesome show
Wow, had to have been a GREAT show.
@@ksharpe10 he'll yea. I was outside smoking when Guthrie, Bryan and Marco walked up. Got to meet them quick. Guthrie stay outside for awhile too I was actually star struck or whatever you call it for b the first time ever lol. But he's the chillest dude.
@@krookiemonster2673 I always thought I might get star struck but of the 2 I have met I was not. I Met Allan Holdsworth in 82 after a show. And also Eric Johnson in 93, got autographs from Both. Now I would probably not even bother with Autographs. They are JUST people just like you and I. I still to this day have one of the weirdest dreams i ever had, All 4 65 ish Beatles at my old House in Ohio, I had one of the Bangles the same way. Silly Dreams.
you did it again bro
It sounds great, but they already sort of covered this with the Petrucci plug-in. I’d like to see them come out with a nice AC 30 suite and then maybe a fender, classic suite that covers the Bassman, Tweed and Princeton style sounds for us low gain players. Also, it doesn’t look like they covered the combo cab in this plug-in, am I wrong? One of my favorite players is a guy nobody’s heard of Michael Gurley, and for years he used a Mark II combo with I think a 12” speaker. He got some of the best Strat tones I’ve ever heard.
Love your presentations. Great demo.
Sound really awesome 🤘🤘
You nailed the Andy Timmons tone and feel! Overall this plugin seems like a no-brainer.
So creative the way you edited the screen.
very cool sounds--how important is the input from the guitar--would any other guitar produce similar results--what Ibanez are you playing--cheers
Great clean sounds, especially the Prince sound..
Brad Gillis..Night Ranger..THAT tone..and I love the English pronunciation “Bew-gee” way better than us ‘Mericans..(no disrespect Carlos Santana)..Brilliant playing as usual..you, Tom Quayle and Andy Timmons..now that’s a tour!
This AMP!!!! 🤤 (Sim) I found a IIC+ last year...but wasn't parting with the $8k asking price. 😳
dude ur so good.. tnx for the killer presets
You are right. They are an apple of a guitar world. Making a lot of money putting new preset in a new layout on the same algorhytms. They are masters of advertisment their products.
if you close your eyes, is the andy timmons plays Electric Gypsy :0, this tone is amazing.
That's a GREAT video and an awesome way to show the power this plug-in has. Killer playing, as usual.
P.S: The link to the presets is unavailable. Would you please update it, Maestro? Cheers!
Amazing playing 🤘🏽
Gran músico, el plugin resalta más con su Playing. Me encantó!
Hi~! I love your great sound and guitar skills. What audio interface are you using?
Sounds like a plugin overall, but in amazingly marvelous way in hands of such player, so the actual plugin sound doesn't matter here, as it's 5-10% of the final tone :)
I really enjoyed your playing :)
Coming to see you and Plini in Luxemburg on Monday :-).
You forgot about the 2 room mics also with the two cab mics. Excellent to fill out the ir’s.
Hi Jack, really great playing, could I ask what plugin did you use for drums? Thank you.
Great video and playing as always! 😁
Just out of curiosity could you explain you routing for this video?
Im asking cause I've noticed that the plugin is configured in stereo. Are you doubling the guitar signal with the quad cortex?
P. S. See you in Treviso on March the 17th!
A little late to the party on this one, but your presets are amazing. I'm pretty new to Neural plugins, and when I click on the link it just takes me to the product page. Is it still possible to download these presets, specifically that Dad Blues one??
Hi Jack, great demo, I bought the plugin as soon as I saw your video.. I am one of those Mesa Boogie fans and I fell in love with the sound of this plugin right away... is there a way that I can upload your presets, they sound amazing., thanks in advance.
Wow Dads Blues would work for a Hot Rodded Country sound. All those sounds are Golden to my ears. You most likely have alot of the same Tastes as me. I also like the Raw early Beatles AC 30 tones. The Mark II must have been one of the 1st of the Boutique amps? I know when Boogie came out people really liked them. NICE JOB.
Awesome playing. Amp sounds great too lol
As magical as your playing is, I'm gonna need you to read something for me to sleep to. lol I'm not saying your voice is boring, it's soothing lol
Duuuuude you SHRED dude 🔥
Love this guitar! Was this a custom or can you order it stock like that ?
But what about the clean tones?
Any chance of getting really nice sparky cleans for country or funk?
Wow this is madness intro! He got alien fingers 👍🏻🤟🏻🎸
Hi Jack, what gauge of strings do you use there? by the way excellent material, thanks man
Maybe I missed it, if I did I apologize. But the main the reason the IIC+ became mythical is Metallica and James Hetfield. Is there a preset, and a gain and GEQ setting for his tone on this? I don't really understand playing models of Mark Series amps and not dialing in Metallica
I have a lot of experience with these owned and still own a couple of these amps even the c++ and can say that from listening to you play these neural dsp sound really good but for a first impression a got they did sound a little bit scoopy and pointy on the high end unlike my amps which are mid heavy, bassy and easy to tame highs even without graphic eq.
I've been trying to dial in the Jack Gardiner tones on Petrucci and just can't get them the same. I just have to buy the Mesa plugin just for these few tones! :D
Great... now put it in the QC!
So shreddy! Love it
great intro!
your timmons preset sound pretty cool with my strat
Waiting for Archetype Jack Gardiner
I bought it - it's fantastic!
Honestly, I thought they were going to release an Archetype:Gardiner. 😮
One thing I found out early in doing presets for a Vox Tonelab SE, I would imagine it would be like this for any player, after I did a few of different Amps/cabinets. I found that I ironically would dial them in and they started to all become like the Same Style sound, except a Tweed/Blk Face/Marshall still sounded like those Amps. But inveritably you dial them into almost same to your ears. Kind of Silly I guess. So realistically I am guessing one could do Gigs with maybe 15 to 20 Presets. So we are in a Smorgasborg of Tones these days.
I know what to get myself for Christmas this year. Looking forward to a %50 discount
That was fast😂
Amazing !!!
What was that song you were playing when you started demoing the Andy Timmons preset? So much beautiful stuff in this video. Very inspiring!
Elegant Gypsy, by Mr. Timmons himself.
Electric gypsy*
I have been hoping for this for about 3 years after I got the Soldano plugin which I love and use. The Amplitude version takes a lot of work to sound open and clear.
Did you end up getting the Neural Mesa? I'm torn between the Mesa and Soldano and wondering which you prefer.
Sorry for the silly question but where can I download the presets?
That’s amazing
It sounds great but I’m not sure I need it since I have the Cali, Nolly, etc. like I’m just not sure what it has that they don’t besides the transpose.
@14:30 Is the guitar volume maxed out?
Dad's Blues actually sounds very much like the DR.Z amps sound, that Brittle crunch sound.
Andy Timmonish tone is brilliant! But original Andy's tone comes from the pedal into Mesa Lone Star. I wonder what would happen if I hook up JHS AT+ into audio interface with a clean preset on this plugin
Why did you leave headless guitar?