great sounding strat.extra credit for guitar faces. the bird gets rid of the sterile sound. I'm surprised there are not more views. He makes the point very well. right from go this is so much better than my first amp. Mark you really know your gear. There's some good sound in gear often called junk. Doing the best with what you have. That's the idea. it's also cool that the character of the strat is always there. win.😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

any examples with P90's? (scouring internet) ;-)

Man… sounds amazing… but what nearly made me cry was that huge beautiful clean of the Bloomfield Drive.

This is the EXACT content I needed this evening. Mark Hopkins ALWAYS brings it home.

Brothers playing is off tap on this one 🔥🔥🔥

Nice! Sounds fantastic! Great demo!

Dead on with your thoughts on Aaron and his amazing work! Sounds fantastic!

Another great episode…👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 At the end, Mark, you ask about new(ish) albums that are good to experience as a whole. I don’t know if you like progressive rock… if so “the raven that refused to sing and other stories” and “hand. cannot. erase.” by Steven Wilson are solid choices , with great guitar playing by Guthrie Govan on both those records. Cheers

Hi, these are actually the mid level models. Theres an entry level, a standard (the one you have) and a pro-level. I'm surprised you didn't demo the 2 and 4 positions as this is a 5 position switch like a Strat, even though there's only 2 pickups, it does an out of phase quack in those...

If I could give more thumbs up, Your show would get them all day long bro.

My favorite production guitars to date. I have the black finish version and its incredible. Definitely hits way above its class.

Great demo. Mine comes in tomorrow. You just got a new subscriber too.

I had the mid tier model in blue with the racing stripe. Sold it. Worst decision I ever made.

Lovely video but next time please do a stereo recording. It makes a TON of difference especially for the organs!

Amazing!! Do you have a Guitar Tab? 😮

To my ears the Custom Shop is miles above. It's like it has a built-in compressor that smooths everything out, makes your playing sound more legato compared to the other guitar, and it has a lot of body and character. Nothing wrong with the gold strat, it's just like a good wine vs a special bottle of a prized grand cru classé.

I prefer your Fender. I had a similar experience. In December 2023 I bought a Fender Artist Series Jeff Beck strat (NOT custom shop). I love it and it has become my favourite guitar, except that it lacks sustain terribly at some frets (typically fret XIV, string 3). I was disappointed about that, plus some minor tech issues, and phoned the store and was even considering swapping it for a Suhr Classic S in s s s config. So I went back to the store, checked in my strat for a setup, also to get the trem adjusted softer and a faulty saddle replaced (lowers itself for no good reason), and tried the Suhr and oh surprise, the sustain at the same fret was slightly worse on the Suhr than on my Fender even though the Suhr costs a grand more. Another example of the JB strat had similar sustain to mine. I guess as a regular Ibanez player I am used to very luxurious almost endless sustain all over the neck. The Ibanez are also better made, they don't have saddles that change height just from string tension and Ibanez trems are marvels of engineering but still... these days the tone of the strat is my thing. I also prefer the neck on the Fender. The Suhr neck feels closer to the neck on my Ibanez JS1200 (which is not a typical Ibanez neck, it's thicker than Ibanez shredder necks. That said, I tend to prefer the neck that I played the most recently as I get attuned ot its feel but I think the Fender feels slightly better for me. I say keep your strat man. It's good to have several guitars to choose from, to suit different tracks and situations. The sentimental value counts for something too.

Great demo! How would you compare this to the two rock studio signature? Would you be happy with just the SSS as your main amp or is it too much of the “clean lead tones” thing? Do their sounds overlap much? I’m thinking of purchasing either.

Great review, man. Subbed.

Mark, another suggestion for the Lightning round............Springsteen or Melloncamp. For the right person of course.

Does this amp have the rectifier preamp tubes?

Me gusta más la fender

Sweet!!!

Way ta rip that Grass !! Killer Guitar man.

What speaker is this ran through?

Excellent!!

I already have different overdrive pedals, a clone of the king of tone, a gladio, a protein, the duellist, and the Jan Ray (in this order) But where do you think I should place the Jan Ray ? I don’t think the last one is the best …

2 channel amps are an Abomination - it's like changing clothes in the middle of something ?? - I'm looking for a Single channel amp where you can roll the volume down and clean up the sound and then roll up for breakup / lead - a tone stack on off is cool but the tone changes - - If Two rock mod and perfect a bloomfield Drive single channel amp I'll but it without even trying it

Mike let me throw that bass over my shoulder one night after a gig and I was so jealous at the weight.... It played awesome too. Thanks for the rundown!

Check out Stillwater's track "Mindbender" off their 1977 LP about a talking guitar in a pawn shop.

Gosh damned that’s a good fuzz

Nice dude, very nice 🤘

Wow a very flexible Fuzz/Overdrive. Nice work with this one Mark

I love mine, it's an awesome pedal. Great addition to any FUZZ collection. Thanks for sharing Mark, great to see MMK Electrics getting some well deserved PR. Great company, wonderful people!

Do you still have this guitar? If so, how do you feel about it?

Awesome video!

This is a great demo that accurately represents what I hear from mine -- do you still have yours?

Nice, smoky in-between position on that guitar. Kind of pickups are those?

Just received this pedal and it is great! But I had a problem at first. I was trying the pedal through my board and several other pedals, without any noise coming from the UAFX Orion. My power supply is a t-rex fuel tank junior.. But after i didn't had any sound coming from the UAFX I switched the power supply with a Palmer Pwt 08, and first then the pedal worked.. So I'm confused and curious? Does the t-rex not have enough power to handle the UAFX, or what could be the problem?

What would life be like without fuzz? Fuckin boring that's what 🤣🤣

Sounds great! WHAT fuzz are you using- that sounds spectacular! Thank you.

This definitely does the “horn” thing really well. At times it sounds like an Octafuzz a bit.

Thank you for a great video! Which would you prefer for a home studio (no stage), a "Two Rock Classic Reverb Signature 50 Head" or Two Rock Studio Signature 35 Head"?? Thank You Very Much!!!

Frampton does Talk Box, but Aerosmith Joe Perry (Sweet Emotion) & Joe Walsh (Rocky Mountain Way) are definitely my favorite Talk Box songs that are not Frampton.

Where's the Browne amps.Protein drive?

whole rig sounds killer dude. Great playing too!

Best pedal ever...... !

Reba!

👍🏽 nicely done my friend !!! it is a stella pedal & great colab with Andy ✌🏽

What a great jam brother! I really dig your inventiveness. Killer tones as you walk through all the settings.