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The Mesa/Boogie Mark V ushers in a new era of tone combined with technology. From Spanking Cleans to thick, syrupy leads, the Mark Five delivers tone on a platter!

It took 40 years of Randall Smith’s experience designing high-performance tube amps to get this much TONE under one roof and keep it easy to dial. More than a collection of amplifiers, the Mark Five™ is a living history of Mesa’s® contributions and a tribute to the evolution of electric guitar tone.

They're all here: the Mark I®, the Mark IIC+®, the Mark IV®… all these are faithful recreations that benefit from our decades of refinement and leave many saying they’re better than the original! More than our Greatest Hits, you’ll also find some new Brit-inspired circuits here that rival these classic Boogie sounds and are destined to become iconic on their own merit.

The Mark V is loaded with a slew of sonic possibilities. Channel 1 contains the lowest gain sounds of the three channels and can be thought of as the rhythm or clean channel. The other two channels contain modes that work better for soft clip, medium crunch and high gain rhythm work. There is a tight, skinny Clean (toggle up), a warm, rich Fat clean sound with added lower fundamental (toggle center) and a higher gain pushed version of this architecture found in Tweed (toggle down). A channel-global Bold voicing switch adds punch and cut starting in the high mids to help you stand out in a dense mix and give you an increase in headroom.

Channel 2 is the transitional channel between the low gain sounds of Channel 1 and the high gain fury of Channel 3. This channel contains the biggest differences between modes and there is definitely dialing required as you toggle through the voicing modes. A stripped, British-inspired Edge (switch up) unleashes low to mid gain aggression.

Low mids are added for a thicker, throatier "Crunch" sound that travels up the gain scale while retaining a tight attack. And finally, Mark I flips the architecture to arrive at the iconic high gain voice that put Mesa on the map back in 1970 with the little Boogie amp. This creamy voice is infused with thick bottom end and works great for fattening up single note solo sounds. You may want to run the BASS control very low (off to 10:00) when the gain is high in this mode to retain the best attack characteristic and avoid flabbiness. There is also a Normal/Thick switch that affects the Mark I Mode only to add extra gain in the mids for added single note focus.

Channel 3 goes on from there to encompass the best of the Mark Series overdrive sounds. Beginning with the MK II C+ (switch up) the sound is pure, blistering focus and this is the classic Boogie voice of the 80's that became the foundation for players like John Petrucci, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, as well as a staple for L.A.'s first call session players of the day Steve Lukather, Mike Landau, Dean Parks, and many more.

The new Mesa Mark V features a Simul-Class™ Power Amp featuring Multi-Watt™ (Patent Pending) and Duo-Class™ technologies which provide three power and three operating class options that are channel assignable via 10/45/90 Watt Power Switches: Choose 2 power tubes operating in pure vintage Class A (single-ended), producing 10 Watts; 2 tubes running in time-honored Class A/B producing 45 Watts or 4 tubes running in Mesa’s legendary, patented Simul-Class Power that blends the best of Class A and Class A/B simultaneously to produce 90 Watts of pure tonal magic. The amplifier is outfitted with 4x6L6 (or 4xEL-34), 7x12AX7, 1x5U4 tubes.
 
Specifications:
    * 3 Fully Independent Channels with 9 Modes (Channel 1 = Clean, Fat or Tweed™; Channel 2 = Edge, Crunch or Mark I™; Channel 3 = Mark IIC+™, Mark IV™ or Extreme)
    * Fixed Bias for Consistent, Maintenance Free Performance
    * Full Power/Variac Power™ Switch
    * Simul-Class, Multi-Watt, and Duo-Class power stage
    * Normal/Bold Switch on Channel 1, Normal/Thick Switch on Channel 2 (Mark I mode only), Normal/Bright Switch & Pentode/Triode Switch on Channel 3
    * Each Channel features: Independent Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Presence, Master, Footswitchable or Auto-Assignable Contour Depth Control, Footswitchable All-Tube, Long Spring Reverb Control, Rectifier Tracking™
    * spring reverb
    * 5 Band Graphic EQ is Footswitchable, Channel Assignable and Selectable between 1 group of 5-Band Sliders or 3 channel specific, variable depth Contour Controls
    * Footswitchable, Channel Assignable or True Bypassable All-Tube FX Loop with Send Level Control (over all channels when activated)
    * Output Level Control (over all channels when activated)
    * Footswitchable Solo Level Control – Patent 6,724,897 (over all channels when activated)
    * True "Hard" Bypass Switch removes FX Loops, Output Level & Solo Level Controls from signal path
    * Tuner Output w/Footswitchable Mute
    * Slave Out w/Level Control
    * Fan Cooled with On/Off Switch
    * External Switching Jacks for Channels 2, 3 (channel 1 is default), EQ & Solo
    * Aluminum Chassis • New 4x4 - 8 Button Footswitch (Bottom Row: Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, Solo – Top Row: Reverb, FX Loop, EQ & Tuner Mute)
    * Slip Cover


 
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