FWIW, I can make the VII and IIC+ RI sound pretty much identical, but yeah, there is a lot more tweaking to be done on the RI than the VII within the bounds of the IIC+ sound profile. If you want to get the classic IIC+ thrash sound, you can get it on the VII. If you want some of the more...
Welp, I meant to buy an acoustic guitar, and I almost did, but theeeeeen I played this again and, well: When you find a good one, it's wrong to just leave it there, right? .... Right?
I've got a few interesting trade offers for my Mark VII: 1. Redseven Duality 100RS - this is a very cool offer but I hesitate because there simply are NO clips or any that I could try, so I'm trying a relative unknown. Also, offer would require some cash on my end, which is never fun. 2...
I saw that someone in a Mesa group reached out to Mesa about the lack of EVM12L speakers, apparently they are looking into it because of all the requests they have gotten for them. Keep in mind, that will push the price even higher. I think I'm priced out of new cabs, luckily I've got all the...
I have had similar issues with basically every noise gate of this style (input-triggered+loop). It is as you say, it comes and goes. Very frustrating. I've resigned myself to just use two gates.
Now it is sounding more like Lamb of God, which is never a bad thing. I think you have stumbled into a modern classic Mark sound through your experiments so well done. I'll admit, I was not sure how this thread was going to turn out but I'm thoroughly entertained. Bravo.
My old bandmate had a IIXL and I had the III at the same time. I did notice a certain something different between them when playing the same models, but like... I don't know, they both sounded great. I'm sure tweaking could have evened it out, but also why even bother if you can make them both...