Mesa Boogie Mark V Vs. Mesa Boogie Express
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Here is our comparison of the Mesa Boogie Mark V Vs Mesa Boogie Express 5:50+. Hope you enjoy the side by side shoot out between these two great amplifiers!
Don is now our customer service representative for Suhr guitars. Johnny, Don's understudy, is our new expert for MesaBoogie. After finishing his guitar degree at LAMA, Johnny trained at the Mesa factory. Please feel free to contact Johnny by phone 605-348-6737 or email Johnny@haggertysmusic.com.
**We had some technical issues with the last video and replaced it with the updated correct version. Hope you enjoy!
I own an Express 5:50 and the answer is yes. The tone is there, it just doesnt have the modern gain built in, so push the gain a bit with an od and you have a very tight ballsy modern distortion sound
Really great demo. Competent playing and doing the same to each. I've just a few A/B box comparisons, but haven't seen it done quite like this before. I'm very impressed. Regarding one of the comments about EQ, I think he meant on the amp, not the recording. Just add some highs on the 5:50 and you're there. On an ever so slightly critical note......even though I appreciate that the user of these types of amps might lean towards the rock spectrum it is a shame that there wasn't more clean bluesy riffs as well.
Thank you so much. Your format for comparisons is the best on RUclips, This video made me decide to buy a 5:50. If you'd have had one in stock, I would've got it from you.
Thanks again. Keep up the good work.
Some of the best review/comparisons I’ve ever found online. Great work!
Don mate, I'd just like to say that you're a bloody champ. Love your work, keep it up!
Playing any of these amps with a band....you really couldnt tell them apart!
the 550 did it for me. thanks!
Good video. I own the Mark v, having owned the express. The video here flatters the express, but does not address the overwhelming diversity of the Mark V. Its almost as if the Mark V in this clip was teaked to the voicings of the express. Both are good amps, but the Mark V is chock full of so many more tones than you could imagine!
Very, very similar sounding amps. I actually think I like the Express+ better, which I did not expect. As always, great video!
This guy is doing the comparison right. Thanks, very informative.
Great demo! Enjoyed the deep purple. The cleans were a touch more chimney on the mark v. It seems like the mark has a more chimey sound on all these.
u could make the express sound identical if he just equed it a little different.
Steve Anger or threw a tube screamer in front of it...
Thanks for the feedback, Jason.
MESA ROADSTER VS ROAD KING II COMPARISION PLEASE!!!
I feel like the Express 5:50 is warmer. And I like the Express cleans better than the Mark cleans. But in career clarity I think the Mark beats the Express outs both GREAT amps though.
I heard Foo Fighters "This is a Call." Nice.
i liked the clean of the 5:50 better, but the distortion from the mark v better.
same. i liked the marks though.
yeah for sure. but ide probably be fine with this thing. both sweet amps.
Great demo, I have a question, you think that with a OD (Maxon OD 808) in front of the Mesa Boogie Express 5:50 plus, I can get high gain tones?
in the first two clips the 550plus sounded boomier while the mark V had more chimey yet percussive response. Clip 3 sounded the same to me. In the last clip the 550 plus sounded tighter and focused while the V had a slightly looser grit. Both excellent amps and if you cant afford a Mark V the 550 plus sounds like a great alternative.
Don, could you do a comparison video of a Reborn Recto vs Road King and a Mark V vs Road King?
The mark 4 is more lively on here at least. I have an Express and i love it but those two compared, the Mark 4 sounds just a little better.
I am high Mesa Boogie Rigs 550 plus Holds up to all of them. Some of the best clean sounds out of any and I do add an OD pedal For a fat modern drive absolutely love this and it seems like it's very versatile I bought as a backup but I find myself using it more times in not
There's more detail and harmonics in the Mark, but I really like the body and smoothness coming out of the 5:50+ here. I'm sure the Mark can go places the Express can't hope to, though.
congratulations for the IMPECABLE review!!! YOu brought A very hard thing to find: in depth content!! I was pleased!!
Thanks for the comparison. I have the older version of the 25:5 express 1X25 combo and love the first channel but not so much the second. Although I've changed the tubes (super easy to do) which made it sound better. The only difference I can hear in these amps you've demo'd, in terms or sound, is the string definition is better on the mark V but maybe that's not all that critical in some styles and the price difference is so vast depending on what you're using the amp for makes the Express a better deal. Unless you want three channels. I am actually thinking about getting the new Mark V 25 as a better gigging head and use other people's cabs thing - less weight. Anyway I'd love to see a demo and comparison on the Mark V 25 and the 25 express.
If he boosted the express he'd gotten more or less on the ballpark of the V. The V is a higher gain, "colder" amp but a boost in front of the express could've brought them to sound really close. You can hear the relationship. The express is a more raw circuit.
We had some issues with the first video showing the same amp in a certain section. Though it was the correct audio we wanted an accurate depiction.
clean channel upgrade utilizes Mesa's famous Lonestar amp circuit. No wonder it rocks!
the mids seem lower giving a bigger fuller tone on the express. Would dial in a little more highs. Great demo though showing the express is not a toy, it's very capable, stripped down mark style amp. I use the solo funtion for solo's due to mixing my own band when we play. It and the eq are tempting me to add to my rectoverb. Can't bring my self to sell the rectoverb though
I NEED MORE DON
Would have got a thumbs up if it was a more I depth review, why just rhythm playing? Would love to hear how it sounds set up for a lead or something other than scooped playing.
The answer is Yes!)
as always your comparisons RAWK!
I'd like to see the Mark V vs. the 5:25
What cabinet is that? Mesa oversized or traditional?
Seriously considering this amp.
May be silly but here's what's holding me back: For the last 20 or so years I've been gun-shy about anything south of 100 Watts, not wanting to be overpowered by the occasional hard-hitting drummer.
I'd like to hear from anyone who actually owns this amp and plays it regularly in a band situation. Not necessarily a C-tuned, hyper-gain, shred-fest thing, but, say, a classic hard-rock type environment.
Are all the wattages (50,25,5) truly useful in that kind of situation? Would this amp allow me to fit in comfortably with a drummer in the Bonham/Moon/Aldrich/Carmassi vein?
Hey,
I own the mesa express plus 5:50, and I play in a band with a loud drummer, and to be honest, if there is one thing not to worry about, it's the volume of the amp. I mean, even in the 25 watts configuration, this thing is just LOUD AS HELL, so don't be afraid :p
+Leathan Lund once you're past 15 or 20 watts, it's not about how loud the drummer is - but rather how big the room, and how your amp reacts to various speaker load.
Well, 5 watts isn't, but 50 watts definitely is. Dude, most venues are going to tell you to turn down with a 50 or 100 watt amp, period. These are Mesa Boogies, they are incredibly loud. Remember, you are likely to be running it through a PA. I say this as a guy who has been in bands with hard-hitting, very loud drummers.
Now, if you are going straight through with no PA, then 100 watts is going to be your friend for *Very loud* hard rock, or for metal. But how often does that really happen these days? And even then, I used a 50 watt JCM800 for years, and my band never even let me get it past, like, two or three o'clock. Either of these Mesas will have similar cut, honestly. Mesas are really fucking loud cranked.
Edit: Just realized how old this comment is. Sorry. haha
What is the name of the first song he plays please? (Clean channel)
That was She's Wating by Eric Clapton off the August album
+Jason Maltz thank you!
+Jason Maltz Not August. I think it's from Behind the sun.
+Stefan Price it was on the August album. Google it and see.
+Jason Maltz She's Waiting was played in 85. August didn't come out until 86.
I have an Express 50 Plus and can you give my the settings of the 3rd tone on the Express 2:59?
Thank you, check my channel there you can watch me playing with it.
the second sound is exactly the same
ok i will buy both and then i think every day about who is the better one. hehehehe. really so ridic
The 5:50 sounds to have more "body" than the Mark V... interesting
mark v sound kinda more bright than the express
Mark V is like a blanket being lifted off the other. Mark V hands-down.
Mark V ftw
Foo Fighters This Is a Call 3:10!!!!!
Do you think the different tubes (Express EL34 - Mark 6L6) are doing a difference?
The Express is 6l6.
Stefan Price ah,ok
Conclusion: Nothing else palm mutes like a Mark
ok. Why did MB make the express ?
Cleans-It's very close.Dirty-mark v wins
almost one sound :D
These demos are great but when you eq two very different Fenders, matchless and boogies for instance, among others, the dynamic response and presence are kind of lost. At least on my iPhone. perhaps if I listened on a computer with an excellent and powerful speaker system hook up. Then it may be a meaningful comparison. The demos cannot possibly recreate the effect of a practice room or studio going head to head. The character and nuances that you feel in your fingers that pulsate through your body on an amp
made for you is how a demo is really done andl that's impossible in a RUclips demo but those indiscernible qualities are what inspire experienced players to prefer one. The amp inspires the player who learns how to tweak it which takes a long time. If you had two Great players doing their thing on one amp and another bad ass doing it on the other, then you hear the amps capability. On RUclips. The same guy playing the different yet similar amp
Is a true testimony to the cliche that tone is all in the fingers. this has never been more obvious
+TR P Please, Sir, go outside my head right now ! ;-)
Career* I give up.
I really like pie Don. Do you like pie? Thanks for the video. Nothing was learned though... you are going to have a little variation even going from one amp to another exact same version of the same amp.
Back to practicing my stabbin'...
mesa cabs have too much bass
Overall* not carrier. Stupid iPhone.