Considering all of the other Mark VII demos, the Tonewars one isn't actually that bad. He seems to quite like it and much prefers it to the Mark V, but you lose me when you have gain and treble maxed out on Channel 3 AND THEN add a boost. Just not my thing.
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When people who play PRS take swipes, just gotta hold your fire. Target is too easy.
It means he didn’t watch the demo...and I can't blame him lol. Basically all of Tone Wars demos are way over the top. To my surprise, he approached the VII differently and dialed in some tones with reasonable levels of saturation. I thought IIC+ and IV sounded decent...even good here. And FWIW I appreciated his glowing review of the amp's feel and tone compared to the Mark V 90w.
"As the two historic streams of Mesa Boogie's revolutionary amp design cross like angry mountain goats butting heads in a a snowstorm, listen in awe as the resultant sparks of tone leap from your fingertips and ignite yet another revolution in heavy music that will echo around the world forevermore"
I watched the demo. I was the one who posted it. On both iic+ and iv modes on the Mark VII, like on his demo of the Mark V, he cranks and, then, maxes the gain (on this one he also cranks/maxes the treble as well). Thats the principle tone he ends up on and is pretty much what he does on almost every demo. Then, he adds a boost like he, also, does on every demo. Its not a tone that im personally fond of at all, but I understand that everyone is different. For me, I never set the gain on Channel 3 on my V past 1 o'clock and would never add anything more than a clean boost to it. Regardless, some of the in-between tones that he spent a limited amount of time on sounded pretty good, although nothing was truly mind-blowing or game changing.
The manual would seem to indicate that the Mark IV and Crunch preamp circuits were taken directly from the Mark V (Im sure that there were some minor tweaks along the way). I would, also, suspect that the Mark IIC+ preamp circuit was taken from the Mark V as well. According to Mesa, these were all faithful/exact recreations and would make sense to recycle in some form. However, changes in the transformer, other internal parts, the EQ functionality, etc will give the amp its own very slightly different tonal quality. Its not going to be a night/day difference, though. As an example, the JP2C got a transformer change at some point in the production process and people made a big deal about it. The resultant change in tone, however, was subtle at best.
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Okay, so form what I know about transformers, the impedance reflected form the primary to secondary increases with the number of winds. So for a large transformers the multiplier is larger. My assumption is that the impedance matching at the tube is better for larger transformers thus the effect of the speaker load is actually minimized giving a tighter feeling. Larger transformers increases the primary inductance reducing the low cut off freq.
I accidenatlly posted that while I was wirting it before it was done. Edit to post 774 has been made. Sorry for confusion. Please read again. I'm not smart enough for what you're talking about though, haha. Electronics scramble my brain for the most part. What you're saying makes sense to me though. They provide better isolation too.
