Jaxcharvel
Well-Known Member
I owned and abused a Boogie Mark IV for about 12 years, and I loved every minute of it. I had other amps during this period but they were all of lower quality so they didn't get a lot of play time.
In 2010 I bought a brand new custom ordered Mark V. It was everything I wanted it to be. The lead channel is (at least) as good as on my IV and the clean and crunch channels blow it out of the water. So much to my dismay I sold my beloved MIV.
Well, in my main band my other guitarist uses a 3 ch Dual Rec, and my MV has a terrible habit of obliterating any other amps that try to share mix space,so I leave the Mark at home and i bought a block letter 5150. Sounded ....ing brutal but I could not coax a passable clean or lead sound out of it so I sold it......and bought a brand new Splawn Nitro. Probably the nastiest heavy rhythm sound I've ever heard from an amp. But even though it was more versatile than the Peavey it was still lacking a certain something, so I sold it.
Then I bought a FJM modded 2 ch Triple Rec. This is the amp that that I still have now, and it sounds marvelous and I dig the hell out of it, but every time I play my Mark the Recto just sounds stale by comparison. So I think i'm just gonna trade my Recto for an old Mark IV and leave my Mark V at home for studio use.
tl;dr If you have an amp that you cant find fault in never think that a different amp will work just as well.
In 2010 I bought a brand new custom ordered Mark V. It was everything I wanted it to be. The lead channel is (at least) as good as on my IV and the clean and crunch channels blow it out of the water. So much to my dismay I sold my beloved MIV.
Well, in my main band my other guitarist uses a 3 ch Dual Rec, and my MV has a terrible habit of obliterating any other amps that try to share mix space,so I leave the Mark at home and i bought a block letter 5150. Sounded ....ing brutal but I could not coax a passable clean or lead sound out of it so I sold it......and bought a brand new Splawn Nitro. Probably the nastiest heavy rhythm sound I've ever heard from an amp. But even though it was more versatile than the Peavey it was still lacking a certain something, so I sold it.
Then I bought a FJM modded 2 ch Triple Rec. This is the amp that that I still have now, and it sounds marvelous and I dig the hell out of it, but every time I play my Mark the Recto just sounds stale by comparison. So I think i'm just gonna trade my Recto for an old Mark IV and leave my Mark V at home for studio use.
tl;dr If you have an amp that you cant find fault in never think that a different amp will work just as well.