CRAB MARCUS III – The Mesa Boogie Mark Killer you’ve been looking for!
Today we check out the Marcus III amp from @crabguitareffects Which is based on the mesa boogie mkiii
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Check out these ToneX captures I made of this amp! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9qhov5z9nw373ngmxy7a1/AN-DnWUfpSq_XFneYHVxoSo?rlkey=e4xl9eihhyqnqz8wwy61rpc8d&st=loaq1ns7&dl=0
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I was given the Odeholm drum library however to showcase on the channel, but they also did not ask me to make this video or sponsor me.
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Originally posted by UCxWkBMbtp3knK3obvb9ORlw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xIm-2hJYq8
YOU BEAT ME TO IT, DANG! haha, it's cool. I'm entering Business with Crab Guitar Effects as Im an American in Ukraine. The Marcus is amazing. We also now have the Metalhead mod JCM800 being made
Yep. At the end of the day, it sounds great. And it feels great. Not sure about Mark killer, I'm considering it more like thing itself. Mark-based rather than "exact clone of Mark for 10% of its price" with expectations that it can do everything Mark can in exactly the same way. At the end of the road, almost every amp either Bassman-based or SLO-based.
I'm finding this Mark-style eq layout much better than "traditional" eq layout. Not sure why people find it hard to dial. It is not. I'm finding it pretty intuitive after half-day of messing around with controls and listening to what they do. In response, you get pretty wide range of good tones. Just take your time and listen first.
I can sculpt low-end frequency (well, not only low end, but I find it the most important) to exactly what I need/like: tight, fat, fuzzy, warm, etc. 2 low-end sliders, deep, pre-gain knob. On some "classic eq" amps it is pretty hard to dial to a taste just because eq knobs affecting wide range of frequencies and you get both "good" and "annoying" frequencies at the same time. And you ending with too boomy/too weak low-end or too harsh/too dark hi-end. Which leads to post-eqing, infinite IR matching to mask out "annoying" frequencies, finding boost pedal which cut "proper amount" of low-end, etc. As for me, few more controls to sculpt that right on amp is less complicated process and more open to the wide range of pedals each guitar player has.
No mention of the MKIII/C++ switch on the back?
Mine should be arriving any day now and I’m glad to see this video ????????
FOR THE RECORD>>>THE REASON ALL HIGH GAIN AMPS USE A SMILE CURVE TO MAKE THEM SOUND RIGHT IS COMPRESSION>>>>the more the gain rises…the more the signal compresses…the signal compresses towards the middle of the audible spectrum….so the mids become more dense…hence when the gain rises…the mids need to be CUT!!!!MAKE SENSE?
The thing with the Mark amps is not just their tone and graphic EQ, but the fact that it's a remarkably dynamic, tight, dry and raw amp for high gain standards. Any modern high gain amp can do the Metal "chug" and has more saturation than anyone would ever need, but none of them has that dynamic and transparent response, smooth compression and musical character of the Mark amps (other than Fryette's amps). The question is whether this thing here can replicate that.
CORRECTION: Metallica didnt use mk-3 on those albums. It was 2c+ and 2c++ slaved into marshall power sections with parametric EQ in use.
Difficult to dial in?. Yep, sounds like a mark series. Unless you already know. Which Mark III was it based on?.
there's something fizzy in the high end but sounds good. Not a Mark Killer though
You paid less than 500 with shipment and customs… I just got a 520€ + 80€ and no idea about customs for Italy. Idk.
Not sure how I feel about a toroidal output transformer.
Man i just a Mark VII and i should have just found this amp haha….slap a two notes on it down to boogie. A Mark III clone is pretty cool, the 3 series is better than what people account them for. Sadly the prices are starting to wake up on em.
Crab recently built me a Randall Satan clone, it's on its way to me now and I can't wait!
Badass. Can’t wait for mine to arrive.