Makes for some super cool volume swells too, done after the preamp instead of having to be before the amp, and thus you can even swell your overdrive and distortion signals without losing any gain. In this way, you can dial in both channels’ volumes and gains, their master controls, and you’ll still have one more volume control after that to tailor to taste. In other words, you have the ultimate Master Control, the master of all other master controls. This way, you have one last volume control before the power section sends your signal to the speaker. Then out of the volume pedal, you plug back into the amp over here: What do you do with this preamped signal? Plug it into a volume pedal. That’s right, even the Master Volumes for the Clean and Lead gain stages, the boost, the treble on, you name it, it’s before it. This preamped signal contains everything the Mesa has to offer short of the power section. On my Mark IIA, it’s the jack circled right here: It let you take the signal out, right after the pre-amp and right before the power amp. But what both of these amps did have was a junction jack. I believe the IIB had a tube buffered effects loop as well, but the IIA had none. The Mark IIA and IIB series of Mesa Boogie amps contain a strange but fortuitous function, available only on these early Mark amps, since the IIC killed it off when they implemented a very nice effects loop.
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