This is the only video of this amp that matters, the only one that convinced me I should purchase it. Mesa could've just gotten Ola to demonstrate it, haha. Great job! The Swedish Chug maestro never disappoints!
Nah, it just seems all of you saying this are actively seeking out only one sound and particularly genre to go along with it. There have been plenty of diverse demos and straight ahead metal demos from Mesa themselves
I have to agree! It's so surreal to just have a brand fucking new Mark IIC+ in front of you! I was glad to purchase one as well! Hope you enjoy your amp too, and have a wonderful holiday with your family!~
Ola can calm down tons of argues on forums with just one tight chug. I wish it worked like that with everything bad on the planet. As always, a great video, detailed explanations, and it is worth noting the classy, stylish room, it fits the amplifier itself. And it also with matching color.
Thanks, Ola, that was very informative. I'm glad you got to check one of these out, and give us a response. I have one on back order from Sweet Water. I can't wait to check it out. I have the JP2C, and a Mark V, but this is the holy grail. Oh, and merry Christmas.
Very well done, Ola! Straight to the point. Mesa should have sent you the amp day 1 to do a proper launch demo. Merry Christmas man, and thanks again for joining the IIC+ Facebook group!
I've not owned a MK amp, but I have the Studio pre amp, and I have to say I was blown away by the manual they give with these amps and also what the amp can do for an '89 model! They even simplify the explanation for dummies like me and tell you to just use the treble knob as a gain knob 👍 Also, Merry Christmas Ola!
@@JonManProductions Have you seen what modern amps you can get for that money? Diezel, Bogner, Friedman, ENGL, other Mesas. Why waste money on a "vintage amp." It's not that good. People are blinded by some misplaced nostalgia for something that isn't what they think it is. It's not the metallica amp. They used a modified 2c++ into a different power amp anyway.
It took me 5 years and a older brother to teach me how to use this amp. He gave me this amp in 1998. I'm going to college gift/ nightmare for my dorm gift. I never could dial this amp in. Until 6 years later, he flew out to my house and saw the amp was out, plugged it in my cab, (I had a Uberschall I was running at the time) and i can hear him jamming in the house. I recognized that tone from years ago from him playing at home and when he played live. I wrote down the EQ settings and never touched them again. I kept the Uberschall blue but never really used it. What a great amp.
@trevorhirst5096 it's looking like terrible all the way, mids about noon, bass nearly to 0. Gain all the way, the Master turned a 3rd of the way. I use a boss T.A.E. the graphic eq is pretty much in a V with the two terrible nearly parallel. I don't think I bumbed anything, putting a side for my Framus cobra. I have an 8x4 amp selector, but sometimes I have employees that move around gear as well. Hopefully, they didn't change anything. Lol. I don't know where my notes are at the moment.
This is the real thing. That intro is the best you’ve ever sounded. I don’t care how much people use sims, they are not the same. And as much as people want to chug with it, it’s really lead where it is unbeatable. That’s what it was made for. The only question now is IIC+, Mark VII, or JP-2C? I know you have all three. An in-depth comparison would be really helpful for people who are trying to decide.
Who said anything about amp sims? Also, why does it have to be a competition? Amp sims are fantastic and many people prefer them, so maybe stop with the gatekeeping and just enjoy what you like best.
Such minor difference that can get EQ'd out pretty easily whether an actual EQ, boosting, etc. I'd go with the JP-2C if for no other reason than the separate EQs. I don't mean to diminish either the Mark 7 or reissue, you could make ANY of them work I'm sure.
Thanks for the explanation on how to dial the tone. I own an old Mesa 50 Caliber + since the 90s. Always had a hard time dialling in a proper tone. Your explanation will help a lot since the Mark II and 50 Cal seem to be configured the same way. Happy Christmas!
Best demo done on this amp. All the other demos are pretty bad at getting the tone we all want to hear. I was disappointed with the sound of the amp until now. Wow, you dialed things exactly how I would.
This one with a jc120 ....and you can die serenly ....the beast reborn .....the next decade will be very heavy i think....thanks for this video, great ( dark and sober ) studio....and merry xmas everybody ....may the trash metal be with you!🤘😎👍🎅
Have had my single rect for almost 20 years now. Still can remember the first time i hit a power chord on that thing. Mesa user for life here. Now with all the mark iic buzz i bought the vst and am on an absolute tone journey and loving every bit of it.
Right on, and I welcome more gain, the IIC+ really needed the ++ mod to get to perfection, which this'll be closer to, right on. Time to sell my Mark III/IV :D
Wow, great video! I hope that in the comparison video you compare the original and the JP2C. It would be great to hear all three together. I’m wondering which of the three you prefer? Especially the JP2C to the re-issue.
Making me miss my mark III simulclass… these mark amps are really special. To be able to get tight modern tones with no overdrive boost (pedal) in front of the amp is basically unheard of with any other amp.
@@snapascrew That's one of the top reasons I loved the Mark series heads. But when it comes to the older one's sometimes you an OD up front to get it 'just right' because the old one's don't all chug exactly the same. At least in my experience.
I have a question about the oscillation going on with the reissue ? What’s the cause ? Have you had this issue ? I haven’t seen you mention it. Any help would be great. Thank you. Troy
The problem with quick comparisons is that they're just a snapshot. All of those amps can be dialed in to sound extremely close to each other, as seen in his other comparison between the OG 2C+, JP2C and VII. That doesn't mean they're not completely different amps for different people or have different features that the others can't emulate.
I just got my hands on a Mark III Blue Stripe DRG, which has a pretty similar lead channel to the 2C+. I actually like the EQ off for the clean tone - does require adding back in some bass and mids though. Such a versatile sounding amp. I've been running a JHS NotaKlon in front of it, and the amp takes the pedal nicely. It sounds like a Klon and does Klon things to a clean tone, very lovely - and for the Mark III, can knock channel 2 into an alternate high gain tone with the boost, lmfao But yeah, even with the extra channel, both amps seem like they really could use a second set of the bass/mid/treble knobs if you're hoping for it to be a live performance multi-channel amp. I suppose that was the revisions for the Mark 4, 5, and 7, haha. Not to mention the unbelievably cursed footswitch situation for the Mark III where you need THREE pedals to alternate between your rhythm 1 and 2 sound, and the lead channel (think of it as like a 2 and a half channel amp), the reverb, and the 5 band EQ 😂 also the Mark III requires a mod if you'd like Rhythm 2 to have a separate volume control from Rhythm 1
Given component tolerances back in the 80s, I'd be willing to bet two Mark IIC+ amps from the 80s probably won't sound identical. Thanks for the demo, Ola, and Merry Christmas!!
@@nickx1754 you’re totally right Nick. I have 2 OG simuls that both definitely sound like a simul IIC+ but slightly different from each other. The reissue sounds incredible
Hey, will a Shure 57 instrument mic handle this kind of heavy distortion amp sound? Would be great to see you do a "Will it Chug" video on Instrument Microphones.
I have a theory that you can basically make a Mark sound more like a 5150 if you dial down the treble knob slightly and use more of that mid knob, and get a more rectifier sound if you crank that bass knob on top of it and use the deep too :D
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Merry Christmas guys!
Merry Christmas Ola !
Thanks hope
Hope you have a merry christmas too, with your family and love ones
God jul!!
Merry Christmas !!!!
rockers do NOT wear shoes like that!
Mark my words, this will leave a marked mark on the Mark market
🤣🤣. If only your name was 'Mark.'
remarkable comment
I’ve marked your words about the mark market with marker.
Times 2! See PLUS!
@@craiglizt8074 😂😂
This is the only video of this amp that matters, the only one that convinced me I should purchase it. Mesa could've just gotten Ola to demonstrate it, haha. Great job! The Swedish Chug maestro never disappoints!
They did get Ola to demonstrate this one!
Wish he would do a video on the best microphones to get the best "chugging" sound out of our amps
Finally someone who knows how to use this amp. Happy holidays everyone! 😊
Nah, it just seems all of you saying this are actively seeking out only one sound and particularly genre to go along with it. There have been plenty of diverse demos and straight ahead metal demos from Mesa themselves
@@Manley156 Coincidentally, the sound this amp is most famous for. Mesas demos were weak as hell.
Merry Christmas
@@Manley156 Gibson's {Mesa} demo's were rubbish, they couldn't have tried any harder to make it sound like sh1t....
I have to agree! It's so surreal to just have a brand fucking new Mark IIC+ in front of you! I was glad to purchase one as well! Hope you enjoy your amp too, and have a wonderful holiday with your family!~
Ola can calm down tons of argues on forums with just one tight chug. I wish it worked like that with everything bad on the planet. As always, a great video, detailed explanations, and it is worth noting the classy, stylish room, it fits the amplifier itself. And it also with matching color.
Thanks, Ola, that was very informative. I'm glad you got to check one of these out, and give us a response. I have one on back order from Sweet Water. I can't wait to check it out. I have the JP2C, and a Mark V, but this is the holy grail. Oh, and merry Christmas.
Why do you need this, if you already have the JP2C? JP2C does the same thing, and more.
Finally, the review most of the RUclips world has been waiting for..
That’s the problem. “We’ve” been waiting for someone else to make it sound good. Wait until it’s in your own hands.
That’s the problem. “We’ve” been waiting for someone else to make it sound good. Wait until it’s in your own hands.
Very well done, Ola! Straight to the point. Mesa should have sent you the amp day 1 to do a proper launch demo. Merry Christmas man, and thanks again for joining the IIC+ Facebook group!
Merry Christmas Ola and family.
I've not owned a MK amp, but I have the Studio pre amp, and I have to say I was blown away by the manual they give with these amps and also what the amp can do for an '89 model! They even simplify the explanation for dummies like me and tell you to just use the treble knob as a gain knob 👍
Also, Merry Christmas Ola!
That intro song was a blast.🔥 That amp sounds killer, but not 5000€-Killer :D
:/ So you wanna spend Unicorn money on a vintage one with vintage problems?
@@JonManProductionsI think he means there might be an alternative amp without the Mesa boogie name tax
Not even close when you can get software sounding just as good
@@JonManProductions Have you seen what modern amps you can get for that money? Diezel, Bogner, Friedman, ENGL, other Mesas. Why waste money on a "vintage amp." It's not that good. People are blinded by some misplaced nostalgia for something that isn't what they think it is. It's not the metallica amp. They used a modified 2c++ into a different power amp anyway.
That's the meanest that this intro-riff has ever sounded! Never heard it sound so brutal. IIC+ for the win!
Your understanding and patience with setting up an amp is inspiring!❤
Ola giving us the best gift! A proper llc+ demo! And a comparison coming soon!? You spoil us Ola!
That sounds freaking killer.
Gibson owes you 50% of the sales of this thing from your explanation of the pre-amp gain stage.....again
1frst Mark IIC+ real demo! Appreciate! Thanks bro! Merry christmas! cheers
Perfect demo! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Wonderful job Ola!!
Jävlar vilken skön rytm-ton du har, Ola!
Merry Christmas Ola from Idaho in the USA.
God jul og godt nytår.Keep it heavy
Been waiting for this.
Mesa owes you for these videos!
Ola endlessly pointing to an invisible link to a video that pertains the video he’s working on will never go old. 😂
Merry Christmas, Ola! That amplifier sounds amaze-balls. What's old is new again (with a little help from what we've learned along the way!).
Merry Christmas, Chug Doctor!!!
It took me 5 years and a older brother to teach me how to use this amp. He gave me this amp in 1998. I'm going to college gift/ nightmare for my dorm gift. I never could dial this amp in. Until 6 years later, he flew out to my house and saw the amp was out, plugged it in my cab, (I had a Uberschall I was running at the time) and i can hear him jamming in the house. I recognized that tone from years ago from him playing at home and when he played live. I wrote down the EQ settings and never touched them again. I kept the Uberschall blue but never really used it. What a great amp.
Sell me the uber
@@jrlee243 so what are the settings man
@trevorhirst5096 it's looking like terrible all the way, mids about noon, bass nearly to 0. Gain all the way, the Master turned a 3rd of the way. I use a boss T.A.E. the graphic eq is pretty much in a V with the two terrible nearly parallel. I don't think I bumbed anything, putting a side for my Framus cobra. I have an 8x4 amp selector, but sometimes I have employees that move around gear as well. Hopefully, they didn't change anything. Lol. I don't know where my notes are at the moment.
Great Review Ola.
Merry Christmas Ola! I can’t wait for new The Haunted!
This is the real thing. That intro is the best you’ve ever sounded. I don’t care how much people use sims, they are not the same. And as much as people want to chug with it, it’s really lead where it is unbeatable. That’s what it was made for. The only question now is IIC+, Mark VII, or JP-2C? I know you have all three. An in-depth comparison would be really helpful for people who are trying to decide.
Who said anything about amp sims? Also, why does it have to be a competition? Amp sims are fantastic and many people prefer them, so maybe stop with the gatekeeping and just enjoy what you like best.
@nebularain3338 I hear so much stuff with sims today that when I hear the real thing it really stands out.
@vaportrails7943 That's definitely a big decision. Those are all awesome (and pricy) amps. Hope you find the one you really like.
Such minor difference that can get EQ'd out pretty easily whether an actual EQ, boosting, etc. I'd go with the JP-2C if for no other reason than the separate EQs. I don't mean to diminish either the Mark 7 or reissue, you could make ANY of them work I'm sure.
I mean this thing costs a billion dollars. And the difference between it and a plugin is negligible. Amp Sims are amazing.
Ola Englund, HAPPY HOLIDAYS, the Boogie,CHUGS,man oh man!continuous success 🙌 🍰🍾🍸🎁
Merry Christmas Ola!!!
Holy moly. The tone is down right perfect
Best demo and this thing is a must have now because of you my guy 🤘🏼🎉
I see Mark IIC+, I like
JP-2C
Thanks for the explanation on how to dial the tone. I own an old Mesa 50 Caliber + since the 90s. Always had a hard time dialling in a proper tone. Your explanation will help a lot since the Mark II and 50 Cal seem to be configured the same way. Happy Christmas!
Merry Christmas to me! Just got my AB1.6 in metallic blue gloss delivered yesterday.
Awesome been waiting for this review after the chug episode, Merry Christmas Ola and family!! 🎄🙌🔥
Finally, the only review that matters when it comes to this amp.
Win Ola! Så jävla grymt 🎉
Love the guitar! Great job, Ola!
this should have been boogie’s first premier video. Awesome job!
Mele Kalikimaka from Oahu🎄🙏
Finally a proper Chug on this thing.
Finally.. after 3 days
You too Ola! Have a chuggy Christmas 🤘🤘🤘
Best demo done on this amp. All the other demos are pretty bad at getting the tone we all want to hear. I was disappointed with the sound of the amp until now. Wow, you dialed things exactly how I would.
Merry christmad Ola
Such a killer amp.
Merry christmas Ola ...
Sounds great! Can you include the JP-2C in your comparison between the OG and Reissue IIC+ ?
Might as well throw the Synergy Module in there too.
Cant wait for mine to show up!!🤘🤘🤘
This one with a jc120 ....and you can die serenly ....the beast reborn .....the next decade will be very heavy i think....thanks for this video, great ( dark and sober ) studio....and merry xmas everybody ....may the trash metal be with you!🤘😎👍🎅
Merry Christmas !
Have had my single rect for almost 20 years now. Still can remember the first time i hit a power chord on that thing. Mesa user for life here.
Now with all the mark iic buzz i bought the vst and am on an absolute tone journey and loving every bit of it.
A Chug Master into a Chug Monster, what a great Christmas Eve gift. 🤘
The tolerances on most parts in it are going to be +/-10%, including the pots. So there can actually be quite a bit of variance unit to unit
Sounds massive
this is a beast amp
Ola saves the day!
That lead tone is divine
Right on, and I welcome more gain, the IIC+ really needed the ++ mod to get to perfection, which this'll be closer to, right on. Time to sell my Mark III/IV :D
idk, those two amps have a slightly different vibe from the 2C+, I'd hold on to those if you can. Which stripe version of the III do you have?
Merry Christmas from Louisiana
Capture coming?!?!?!? It's Christmas Ola!!!!!
I always wanted to the get the tone of my favorite guitar player, Mark Tussipluss, and now I can!
Glorious!
But any mark series is, just buy whichever you can get at a decent price 😁
Really you plan on doing a video against the JP2C too, and then all 3 one after the other, perfect content 👌
All Hail Lord of the "CHUG"! All Hail Lord Ola!!!🤘🤘🤘
God Jul, Mr Swede! ✌️
One of my fav amp compares is your 7 vs 2c+ vs jp2c. Would be beat to throw this in too!
I want one now
Scoop De luxe! Merry X-Mass Ola
Wow, great video! I hope that in the comparison video you compare the original and the JP2C. It would be great to hear all three together. I’m wondering which of the three you prefer? Especially the JP2C to the re-issue.
We wanted some proper chugging, You delivered.
Amazing!
Making me miss my mark III simulclass… these mark amps are really special. To be able to get tight modern tones with no overdrive boost (pedal) in front of the amp is basically unheard of with any other amp.
@@snapascrew That's one of the top reasons I loved the Mark series heads. But when it comes to the older one's sometimes you an OD up front to get it 'just right' because the old one's don't all chug exactly the same. At least in my experience.
I love Mesa amps!!!!!
Now that's some proper 2c+ tones
I have a question about the oscillation going on with the reissue ? What’s the cause ? Have you had this issue ? I haven’t seen you mention it. Any help would be great. Thank you. Troy
A comparison between the original IIC+, the new IIC+, and the JP-2C would be interesting to hear
The problem with quick comparisons is that they're just a snapshot. All of those amps can be dialed in to sound extremely close to each other, as seen in his other comparison between the OG 2C+, JP2C and VII. That doesn't mean they're not completely different amps for different people or have different features that the others can't emulate.
My neighbors would love it when I buy this😈😂😂
Ola sells more amps than manufactures.
The EQ knobs can be set to be a boost pedal, which is why it chugs so hard. genius design, all metal amps should be built in this way
That amp sounds amazing and I fucking love that guitar what is it?
You are such a hopeless mesa fan, Ola!
Yeah, buddy!
*It's nice to have an amp that has "useable" range tone controls!*
Great sound
I just got my hands on a Mark III Blue Stripe DRG, which has a pretty similar lead channel to the 2C+. I actually like the EQ off for the clean tone - does require adding back in some bass and mids though. Such a versatile sounding amp. I've been running a JHS NotaKlon in front of it, and the amp takes the pedal nicely. It sounds like a Klon and does Klon things to a clean tone, very lovely - and for the Mark III, can knock channel 2 into an alternate high gain tone with the boost, lmfao
But yeah, even with the extra channel, both amps seem like they really could use a second set of the bass/mid/treble knobs if you're hoping for it to be a live performance multi-channel amp. I suppose that was the revisions for the Mark 4, 5, and 7, haha. Not to mention the unbelievably cursed footswitch situation for the Mark III where you need THREE pedals to alternate between your rhythm 1 and 2 sound, and the lead channel (think of it as like a 2 and a half channel amp), the reverb, and the 5 band EQ 😂 also the Mark III requires a mod if you'd like Rhythm 2 to have a separate volume control from Rhythm 1
Given component tolerances back in the 80s, I'd be willing to bet two Mark IIC+ amps from the 80s probably won't sound identical.
Thanks for the demo, Ola, and Merry Christmas!!
@@nickx1754 you’re totally right Nick. I have 2 OG simuls that both definitely sound like a simul IIC+ but slightly different from each other. The reissue sounds incredible
They were mostly made to order off of an options sheet too..
The amp sounds so good it knocked the audio and video of one camera out of sync (9:45).
just got neural dsp version, really love it. This looks cool also 👍
I'm sure we'll soon see relicing be the norm on guitar amps as well
Hey, will a Shure 57 instrument mic handle this kind of heavy distortion amp sound?
Would be great to see you do a "Will it Chug" video on Instrument Microphones.
Can someone remind me what is the riff at 4:12 ? I just can’t seem to remember. And of course ola’s been playing it a lot lately.
I have a theory that you can basically make a Mark sound more like a 5150 if you dial down the treble knob slightly and use more of that mid knob, and get a more rectifier sound if you crank that bass knob on top of it and use the deep too :D
Merry Christmas! Hotone ampero 2 stomp Just updated. Now with tone catch capabilities. Would be Nice to have this amp available.. How about that?
I love mine, it’s amazing
Really love those Beyerdynamic m160 mics for guitar!
Sounds very good here, the other video I watched the amp had a weird microphonic squealing issue.
I know its simple, but the A-F-D chords he hits at 2:47 hit my ear just right. Is that from a song of his or is he just noodling?