I have one almost 15 years now, I knew its EQ was weird and you must learn how to get it work but watching how it actually behaves, makes it even more weird!!
the tone treble bass middle is before the distortion tube,acts like a treble booster,so keep the bass low to get more cruncher tone.the more low ends goes into the clipping tube,the more mud and buzz you'll hear.and the g eq is tone traditional stack on marshall amps,acts as a active tone stack high mid low.mesa mark amps still uses the fender amp mod method,adding 2 12ax7 stages after a normall clean fender amp preamp or more like add one tube in the effect loop,and add a eq aftermath,so these eq is trcky to dial
How does volume 1 work does it just boost the whole raw signal before the prefilters? When I use the nueral DSP IIC+ most of the distortion comes from turning that up and I wanna know what it actually does.
Volume is after the 1st gain stage and after the TMB tonestack (the potentiometer placement in the front panel is deceiving), so it does indeed set the amount of distortion of the next gain stages, and the tonestack controls before everything set the character of the distortion (e.g. more bass for more fuzz). When lead is engaged, Volume sets the level of the pre-filtered signal going into the additional lead gain stages, and then into the output section, with the optional graph eq, making "volume" control act like what most modern amps label as "gain" of a distorted channel. The MkII follows the same order of controls.
@@freakkyt thank you this video actually helped me get closer to a Metallica tone with my katana I used the mark iib amp model and boosted about 600hz in the front end and then also used parametric eqs to do the 5 band sliders and some extra scooping the mids and it sounds really close.
I have one almost 15 years now, I knew its EQ was weird and you must learn how to get it work but watching how it actually behaves, makes it even more weird!!
Dialling in your tone is like cracking a safe with this thing. Anyone touches my controls I'm crying
So true, the combinations of tonestack and graphic eq are endless and give radically different tones, so much fun!
I'm used to a Mesa Quad, so just double everything and keep crying until you find a match between the volumes of the two amps... 😂
the tone treble bass middle is before the distortion tube,acts like a treble booster,so keep the bass low to get more cruncher tone.the more low ends goes into the clipping tube,the more mud and buzz you'll hear.and the g eq is tone traditional stack on marshall amps,acts as a active tone stack high mid low.mesa mark amps still uses the fender amp mod method,adding 2 12ax7 stages after a normall clean fender amp preamp or more like add one tube in the effect loop,and add a eq aftermath,so these eq is trcky to dial
Thank you so much!
Hi. Great! I don't hear any sound. Do you play while you check the freqs and you just mute the sound for the video or you do this with another way?
Hi! The video was only made to compare freq response curves. The freq analyzer (Bertom) sends a test signal and traces the plot.
How does volume 1 work does it just boost the whole raw signal before the prefilters? When I use the nueral DSP IIC+ most of the distortion comes from turning that up and I wanna know what it actually does.
Volume is after the 1st gain stage and after the TMB tonestack (the potentiometer placement in the front panel is deceiving), so it does indeed set the amount of distortion of the next gain stages, and the tonestack controls before everything set the character of the distortion (e.g. more bass for more fuzz).
When lead is engaged, Volume sets the level of the pre-filtered signal going into the additional lead gain stages, and then into the output section, with the optional graph eq, making "volume" control act like what most modern amps label as "gain" of a distorted channel.
The MkII follows the same order of controls.
@@freakkyt thank you this video actually helped me get closer to a Metallica tone with my katana I used the mark iib amp model and boosted about 600hz in the front end and then also used parametric eqs to do the 5 band sliders and some extra scooping the mids and it sounds really close.