Mark III sound clips

I thought it'd be cool if we all posted sound clips of the Mark III. I think it's an amp many people are curious about

Here's a very ROUGH recording of mine, I'm no sound engineer so don't expect anything awesome. I'll try and get better recordings up later

http://soundcloud.com/val666-1/mesa-boogie-mark-iii-simul

I'm using EMG James Hetfield signature pickups and I'm playing through a Mark III green stripe. I used some of the settings I found from Flemming Rasmussen's AJFA notes.

I just finished my tracks for my band's six song EP this past weekend. My tones are all Mark III (set to Class A mode for my leads), my co-guitarist's tones are all his Fryette 100/CL. The combination of the two is amazing: he has that big chunky low end, and that super dry VHT crunch, while I bring some additional mids, juiciness, and saturation to the table.

I'll post a track or two once they're mixed down. Rhythm tracks are panned fairly hard left and right, so you can isolate the Mark III tones pretty easily!

It'd be great if you could. Sound clips of the Mark III are really hard to come by. It's like everyone's ashamed of it or something hahahaha

The clip I shared is rough, there's no fancy gimmicks. I was just trying to get some kind of ball rolling, so I'll get some better clips up too.

that sounded great, can you share the exact settings with us? including the EQ.

Thanks,
Seanboy

settings would be cool

Cheers guys, I'll make some better sound clips in the future to make up for the one above hahahahaha

Basically, I took Flemming Rasmussen's official amp settings (from the And Justice For All album) and dialled them into my Mark III

Then I tweaked them a little bit.

Volume 9
Treble (pulled out) 8
Bass 1.9
Middle 4
Master (up to you)
Lead Drive: (pulled out) 8
Lead Master: (pulled out) 4.5
Presence: 4

The graphic EQ is in a classic V setting but it's pushed closer to the top. The mids are scooped almost completely. I'll try and get pictures up next time because they make things easier

This amp nails many classic Metallica tones perfectly, especially the AJFA and Black Album ones. The clip I uploaded really doesn't do the amp any justice, I promise to get better clips up

Pictures of the EQ settings would be so great, I've had my Mark III no stripe for a few months now and I'm still having problems dialing it in to the desired sound.

Thanks,
Sean

Here guys, use this MkIII settings tool that a Boogie Bro setup for us long ago.

Seanboy said:

Pictures of the EQ settings would be so great, I've had my Mark III no stripe for a few months now and I'm still having problems dialing it in to the desired sound.

Thanks,
Sean

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I'll get some stuff up for ya (including pics) over the weekend.

I have a Mark III green stripe simul class. I think it was made in 1990 but I'm not sure if it sounds the same as the other stripe versions out there. Obviously, metal sounds better through a 2x12 or 4x12 cabinet so that's an added factor too

It'd be really cool if there was a variety of clips from each stripe, I'd like to know what they sound like and I'm sure a bunch of other people would too

Here's a little different style for the average MkIII player. :wink: This is just a lick clip but shows how P-90s thru a ground-out MkIII really rocks. I push the power stage pretty hard and out thru one or two old school Boogie 2x12 half-back cabs. Classic rock stuff goes thru one with WGS speakers and the more modern stuff thru a pair of C90s. Ch1 is used with pedals (TS-9), as is ch2 and ch3. EQ Is only used on ch3 sometimes.

If the clip sharing should have any value, info of microphone, cabinet and speaker would be necessary as well.
Val666, great sound though.

This was recorded with a Roland VS880, with the Master Volume of the amp on 1, at bedroom levels. The system was a W/D/W through a rack of stuff and the wet signal powered with a Mesa Simul 395 Power amp. Processors were TC Electronic 2290, Lexicon PCM-80, Rocktron Intellifex, and an MXR Dyna Comp on the clean tones. The Crunch tone was a '79 Gibson Les Paul Standard (Stock), the Clean tone was a Tyler Strat with Kinman AVN '59's

http://tonefinder.com/files/14-whitesnake_Mark_III.mp3



WD/D/WD Rig w/ Boogie MKIII Blue Stripe Combo for the middle dry. (Just the video camera mic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw2C8rrWLXc

BIG Custom Audio Electronics built Multi-Amp (4), WD/D/WD rig, live (MKIII Coliseum Simul-Class, Cameron High Gain Jose Marshall SLP, Marshall 6100, Fender Super Reverb, Marshall Power amp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJfKjEhkyco

Hey VAL666, I would still love to see some pics of the EQ settings, that's where I still struggle the, most as far as dialing in a tone that I love.

Here's some more for the pile, I'm jamming so the playing's not perfect but who cares! It's just for fun. Links to amp/EQ settings are in the video links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIr4LB1kBLY&feature=context-cha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYq-Q7_DHjU&feature=relmfu

Seanboy said:

Hey VAL666, I would still love to see some pics of the EQ settings, that's where I still struggle the, most as far as dialing in a tone that I love.

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Hey man, I just used numerous settings from this website.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061214024121/http://www.sweetsilence.com/GearSlutzNotes.htm

Still working on mixdown for the EP, but here's a live video clip from two weeks ago. I'm on the left, with the Les Paul Custom and the Mark III. My co-guitarist is on the right with his Dethklok Explorer and Fryette 100/CL. Let me know if there are any questions!

Salt Lake Spitfires - "Mountain" (live)

If you'd like to hear an entire album recorded with a MkIII Blue Stripe, search Youtube for the band Dare, album Out of the Silence. Vinny Burns is an amazing guitarist, has recorded and toured with Asia, Ultravox, Dare, Ten, Burns Blue, etc. Vinny has many amps, but loves his blue stripe!!

Kris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsCXS85tsF4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DYfyfkk4_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjXbkenSXMo

Here are a couple of tracks from my band's recently released EP. If you want to isolate the Mark III, I'm panned pretty hard right and my co-guitarist's Fryette 100/CL is in the left.

Mountain

Shiny Things

I recorded this yesterday on a blue stripe Mark III simulclass head: http://soundcloud.com/dlpasco/chugga

I'm in love.

Signal chain:
Guitar->OD808 (volume boost only)->Mark III->Rectifier 2x12 vertical cabinet->Blue Yeti Pro microphone->Logic Pro.

Compression and slight high and low pass filters on guitar parts in Logic, but that's it.

Guitar is a 67' SG standard with a Seymour Duncan Distortion bridge pickup, volume turned all the way up, tone turned all the way down.

Here is a clip form a demo I recorded. Only my Mark III red stripe (EQ + rev + simul class + US transformer) has been used to record this song.
Les Paul straight to the amp for distortion rhythm and lead.
Strat thru a george dennis phaser to the mark III for the clean bits.

I used an old 70-s 4x12 Sound City cab loaded with very old 30W fanes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpG65Z6-Fds&feature=plcp