The Mesa/Boogie Mark Five will take you on a tonal journey through the company's illustrious history — with an impressive cache of new capabilities thrown in. Whether you're craving the sound of the Mark I's high-gain cascading preamp or the fat, wide tone of the Mark IV, the Mark Five delivers.
This tube amp head dials up anything from tweed-like tones to British crunch to the highly-coveted trademark Boogie overdrive. Featuring a 5-band EQ, Multi-Watt and Simul-Class power, and three channels of sonic mayhem, the Mesa/Boogie Mark Five will give you all of the clarity, crispness, and punch that you can handle.
The Mark Five provides you with three channels of sonic possibilities. Channel one gives you a range of clean tones that blend vintage tube characteristics with a shimmery high end, resulting in a crystal-clear, boutique-like tone. Channel two is the right choice for when you're looking for a thick, throaty crunch with tight attack. Channel three gives you the iconic high-gain sound that became associated with players like John Petrucci, James Hetfield, and Kirk Hammett in the 1980s and 1990s.
In addition to the Mesa/Boogie Mark Five's three channels, you also get three distinct voicings for each channel that are controlled by a simple mini-toggle switch. In some cases these voicings are related by style and give you important musical differences within a gain structure and sonic theme. In other cases, both gain and EQ are radically altered to achieve drastically different sounds. Make no mistake, you'll spend hours upon hours experimenting with different gain and tone control treatments while sifting through the Mark Five's voicings, recreating some recognizable tones from Mesa/Boogie's past (and inventing some new ones of your own).
While the Mark Five gives you standard tone controls, you also get a 5-band graphic EQ for even more sound-shaping. Slap that graphic EQ on the high gain channel, and you'll be able to recreate that iconic scoop that became a staple of heavy metal guitar tone in the 1980s. Each channel is fitted with a mini-toggle to turn the graphic EQ on or off. You can also make the EQ footswitchable.
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