Well last night I retubed my Mark III

[kmanick]

And I must say, this amp is the cats ass.
Now it sounds thunderous, tons more of gain, where I was running the
gain at 9 before now I have it down to 5-6, and it still sings except now
the gain is nice and clear.

Those Mesa tubes must've been on their last legs.
I put in ruby Winged C 6L6's in the inside pair and JJEl34's on the outside
and simulclass really sounds killer now.
all new pre amp tubes as well.

Sadly for my Rectoverb, as that will now be on it's way out as this is much
more in line with what I've been looking for out of an amp.
I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to get as heavy a tone out of
this as I do with the Rectoverb, but this morning I cranked that sucker up
with one of my 7 stringers in simul class and it sounded just as heavy, but
much sharper and clearer. I threw my modded Boss SD-1 in front of it
(level dimed ,gain off) to add a little more ooomph to it and a little
compression and ripped off some Nevermore riffs and it was shaking the house.

ya this one's a keeper.........................

[metalchurch79]

Thats awesome that your love was rekindled for your amp. Well maybe not awesome, more like romantic.
I had similar results when swapping out my Sovteks for TungSol's a few months ago, and it was a totally different animal. Almost like a different amp in some respects, and I never would have thought it would ever sound so good!

That's great that it turned out to be exactly what you were looking for.
It's cool that you are running less gain also, now you have a little more headroom to mess around with if needed.

[kmanick]

it's not rekindled, I just got the amp this past weekend.
looksy here:

http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85581

[metalchurch79]

oops! I apologize.

[Firebird V]

That is not to say that the Rectoverb is crap but that Mark is capable of kick ass gain.

[kmanick]

I really like the Rectoverb, but I can't keep all 3 amps, ones got to go, and my JSX
is a completely different sounding amp from a Mesa, so that one will stay.

[nhspike]

Sweet amp.
I've had a few, and will have another!


Still diggin your GMW btw

[kmanick]

Cool!
I'm sure that GMW would sound killer thru this amp.

[Firebird V]

I really like the Rectoverb, but I can't keep all 3 amps, ones got to go, and my JSX
is a completely different sounding amp from a Mesa, so that one will stay.

I would do the same!