well got 'er sittin here beside me plugged into a mesa roadster 2x12 side by side with my road king swappin between the cabinet.
initial thoughts....
VERY nice layout and most usable boogie imo opionion made to date. every channel and voicing is completely usable, though oddly the extreme setting on chnl 3 is my least fav so far.
channel 1 is killer, the tweed setting is amazing, had my strat in it rockin out some blues and sounded very nice, can get shimmery to dirty very and actually responds to touch very well unlike a lot of boogies.
channel 2 is the oddball. mark i does not belong on this channel. the first 2 voicings edge and crunch sound very midrangey, bit of saturated tones, then the mark voicing is scooped, WAY lower in volume. and can get flat out heavy. i also say this that the mark i voicing sounds GREAT, just does not match the other 2 voicings.
channel 3 kicks a$% , the mark IIc+ sounds very...alive i guess you could say. have a lot of range with this channel. the mark IV is exactly as expected. keep hearing it is less gain than the actual IV but has not been much an issue to a lot of people. i like it a lot!!! the extreme was just a bit much it seemed. could not find a tone i liked out of it. sure it will take some time and experimenting, it is a boogie.
side by side with a rectifier was interesting. the mark is WAY tighter and more focused than the rec. did not have no wheres near the amount of low end of the rec either, but the rec is always has more than enough to spare. the mark has quite a bit less saturation than the rec as well. still feels WAAY heavy if need be. the rec feels more powerful overall but the mark is just more pleasurable to listen to and easier on the ears.
very happy so far. obviously need to give it a bit more time to dig in it more.
will try to get some stuff posted fairly soon. will be using a royer 121, sm57, api pre's>vintech x73i eq's> api a2d converters. so a fairly nice chain
