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Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2025 10:35 am**

Build quality is 10x better than that engl I posted the other day

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:22 pm**

Do you find those types of transformers noisier, as in can you be close to the amp when playing? I have an amp with toroidal transformer and have to stay 6+' way or it's buzz city.

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2025 6:41 pm**

CONGRATS AND HNAD!!! WOOO HOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad it arrived in good shape - that traveled a long way!!!

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2025 9:49 pm**

Ok here’s Marcus compared to 3 other Marks same track from my looper and same IR. Just some drop D power chord stuff. I’m honestly kinda over IRs or least my captor as a load box. Guess I’m willing to give the Suhr RL a shot

I wasn’t trying to make all of them sound identical or anything, just dialed in as I have them

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:00 pm**

JSutter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:22 pm Do you find those types of transformers noisier, as in can you be close to the amp when playing? I have an amp with toroidal transformer and have to stay 6+' way or it's buzz city.

I’m not noticing any noise issues so far, it’s quieter than my Mark III or IV lol. Taking it to band practice on Wednesday will report back if I notice any issues in that environment

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:54 pm**

spawnofthesith wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 9:49 pm Ok here’s Marcus compared to 3 other Marks same track from my looper and same IR. Just some drop D power chord stuff. I’m honestly kinda over IRs or least my captor as a load box. Guess I’m willing to give the Suhr RL a shot

I wasn’t trying to make all of them sound identical or anything, just dialed in as I have them

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link

They're very close!!! I think the Mesa are a bit smoother overall, but the Crab sounds excellent. They will probably sound identical in a mix.

Posted: **Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:56 pm**

JSutter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:22 pm Do you find those types of transformers noisier, as in can you be close to the amp when playing? I have an amp with toroidal transformer and have to stay 6+' way or it's buzz city.

The torroidal transformers shouldn't be noisier. My Laney has a torroidal power transformer and it's as quiet as my other amps.

What amp is it?

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:16 am**

Guitarbilly wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:54 pm
spawnofthesith wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 9:49 pm Ok here’s Marcus compared to 3 other Marks same track from my looper and same IR. Just some drop D power chord stuff. I’m honestly kinda over IRs or least my captor as a load box. Guess I’m willing to give the Suhr RL a shot

I wasn’t trying to make all of them sound identical or anything, just dialed in as I have them

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link
They're very close!!! I think the Mesa are a bit smoother overall, but the Crab sounds excellent. They will probably sound identical in a mix.

Yeah for sure, I do think the captor is coloring things a bit in a weird way lol

I need to grab a Suhr reactive Load lol

Interestingly enough, my preferences of how these sound favorite to least is V, Marcus, IV, III (although I think merely based on these clips IV would cut hardest in mix)

Which doesn’t necessarily reflect my IRL viewpoints

But I tried to give some sort of comparison haha. The crab definitely can hang if anyone’s looking for a Mark on a budget

Biggest things: GEQ is a bigger sweep and more sensitive, so kinda trickier to dial in, and I also kinda feel like the clean and R2 channels are a bit further off than real deals… but the lead channel sounds Mark through and through

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:53 am**

Guitarbilly wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:56 pm
JSutter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:22 pm Do you find those types of transformers noisier, as in can you be close to the amp when playing? I have an amp with toroidal transformer and have to stay 6+' way or it's buzz city.
The torroidal transformers shouldn't be noisier. My Laney has a torroidal power transformer and it's as quiet as my other amps.

What amp is it?

Randall RG3003. It's the only toroidal equipped amp I've had so I don't know jack about them.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2025 1:25 am**

spawnofthesith wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:16 am
Guitarbilly wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:54 pm
spawnofthesith wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 9:49 pm Ok here’s Marcus compared to 3 other Marks same track from my looper and same IR. Just some drop D power chord stuff. I’m honestly kinda over IRs or least my captor as a load box. Guess I’m willing to give the Suhr RL a shot

I wasn’t trying to make all of them sound identical or anything, just dialed in as I have them

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link
They're very close!!! I think the Mesa are a bit smoother overall, but the Crab sounds excellent. They will probably sound identical in a mix.

Yeah for sure, I do think the captor is coloring things a bit in a weird way lol

I need to grab a Suhr reactive Load lol

Interestingly enough, my preferences of how these sound favorite to least is V, Marcus, IV, III (although I think merely based on these clips IV would cut hardest in mix)

Which doesn’t necessarily reflect my IRL viewpoints

But I tried to give some sort of comparison haha. The crab definitely can hang if anyone’s looking for a Mark on a budget

Biggest things: GEQ is a bigger sweep and more sensitive, so kinda trickier to dial in, and I also kinda feel like the clean and R2 channels are a bit further off than real deals… but the lead channel sounds Mark through and through

I couldn't gel with the Captor for anything with a good amount of gain. For clean to edge of break up tone the Captor works well, but for mid to high gain I'm not a fan. The Suhr is a much better load for that.

That said, I think I'll buy this amp. I want to have a Mesa tone but I don't use it enough to justify the cost of the real thing, so this seems like a great option.

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