Mark 5:25 Combo

mcblink said:
I wanted the head for the longest time but alas, too steep a price for me. Maybe a used one sometime down the road.
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When the time comes I can't recommend them enough. The amp was a serious game-changer for me: small and light, tone that rivals its big brother (in some regards better IMO), power level right in the sweet-spot, built-in CabClone. It'd be hard to think of anything I would change with it, and when you consider how well made they are coupled with the quality of the tone you really do get a lot for the money, especially if you find one used.
 
Nope its a SOlid state Marshall LEAD 15 -- with 2 gains and real spring reverb -- stupid cheap--- STUPID FUN!


it started life as a "micro stack"


but the P.O. got a different head for his littel stack and traded me the Marshall one

sounds SUPER HUGE and MARSHALL CHUGALICIOUS through the Hartke bass cab below it---

it ALSO gets GROOVY LEMMY BASS TONES and GRIT ----with bass guitars--- double threat -- stupid cheap
 
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smitty_p said:
So...@gball, which do you prefer, the Mark 5:25 or the 25 Rectoverb?
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Personally, the Mark 5 is the amp for me. My desert-island amp. It's the Swiss Army knife of small amps, and will do just about anything you can ask. If I needed more horsepower under the hood I'd be looking at the 35 or big daddy 90, but it'd still be a Mark 5.

Mark and Recto are two really different beasts, and full disclosure: I just sold my Mini Recto head, which is the same amp as the Rectoverb (without reverb of course).
Recto is old-school metal amp and does that ripping, tearing kind of high gain sound really well but it's a lot more limited overall. Mark 5:25 has 6 modes that all sound great and each mode is really versatile - even the "clean" modes can dirty up, and the Crunch mode does a sinister Marshall impression.
 
The little 15 watt marshall is STUPID fun -- you can score them for around 100.00 (or less) used-- I was JUST cranking out to some awesome Hair band 80's type stuff like Aerosmith and Motley Crew -- AC/DC with my SG into the Marshall --

-- and I Can get great Marshall CHUG and crunch at HOME levels -- without melting my face with huge volume--
 
gball said:
Personally, the Mark 5 is the amp for me. My desert-island amp. It's the Swiss Army knife of small amps, and will do just about anything you can ask. If I needed more horsepower under the hood I'd be looking at the 35 or big daddy 90, but it'd still be a Mark 5.

Mark and Recto are two really different beasts, and full disclosure: I just sold my Mini Recto head, which is the same amp as the Rectoverb (without reverb of course).
Recto is old-school metal amp and does that ripping, tearing kind of high gain sound really well but it's a lot more limited overall. Mark 5:25 has 6 modes that all sound great and each mode is really versatile - even the "clean" modes can dirty up, and the Crunch mode does a sinister Marshall impression.
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This is probably a heretical question ... but how are the cleans on either one?
 
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