Should note that I run my amp dead clean. The dirt pedals I use have active 12db HF cut at a pot-controlable frequency, so I can have a fat, sparkly clean tone, then kick in a high gain overdrive pedal that has a sharp cutoff at X.Xkhz so there is exactly as much high end as I want for clean and for high gain.
I think the stock tone stack is probably nice if you drive the amp for marshall crunch, in that you get some of that 1k-2k boost with the stock tone stack past noon, and the marshall-based (esp JCM800 and hot rodded versions of those) circuits really get a lot of benefit from RC networks that are voiced to accent these frequencies.
Pot sweep on the knobs on the V series is odd--knobs are anti-log, I think. You'll get a lot of play on the opposite end you might expect. Pots set at noon/flat is a voltage divider set closer to 100k/900k than 500k/500k.
I think the stock tone stack is probably nice if you drive the amp for marshall crunch, in that you get some of that 1k-2k boost with the stock tone stack past noon, and the marshall-based (esp JCM800 and hot rodded versions of those) circuits really get a lot of benefit from RC networks that are voiced to accent these frequencies.
Pot sweep on the knobs on the V series is odd--knobs are anti-log, I think. You'll get a lot of play on the opposite end you might expect. Pots set at noon/flat is a voltage divider set closer to 100k/900k than 500k/500k.