"It's clean, it's full, with enough bass -- and sounds like a VOX! A great amp that sounds soooo musical! I think that the way to make someone hear this is to A/B it. I would be surprised if people didn’t buy these things all day long. That thing sounds as good as anything on the planet.

"Amazing! You guys hear that, right? Whoa! Man, I can't stop playin’ it.

“The Mercury Upgrade doesn’t give me option anxiety. This is more than a student amp. I don’t think even a beginning student would get what’s going on here. This is definitely a real amp; a good professional amp; and a recording amp.

[While running Mercury Upgraded AC4tv through a Marshall 4x12” cab.] "Oh my gawd! That's unbelievable!! Listen to the overtones. I love the way it comes on.

"It sounds really VOXY, too. Like an AC30. It's amazing, it thrills me."

-- Steve Trovato

Meet STEVE TROVATO

Steve is a multi-stylist guitar wizard who maintains a full-time position in the Studio Jazz Guitar Department at the University of Southern California (USC) and was also a long-time teacher at the Guitar Institute of Technology (G.I.T.).

With extensive recording experience he can be heard on countless television and motion picture scores, including composing and producing music for First International Pictures and National Lampoon.

Steve has received the Gibson award for outstanding musical achievement from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, where he graduated with top honors. Other awards include induction into the Tune-up Magazine's Hall of Fame for his outstanding contributions to the promotion and performance of guitar music.

Steve has authored over twenty instructional books and dozens of video/DVD sets published for Warner Brothers, Hal Leonard and others.

He has toured extensively in North America, Asia and Europe and performed in concert with Robben Ford, Scott Henderson, Albert Lee, Albert Collins, Jerry Donahue, Norman Brown and Jeff Berlin.

In addition to his full time position at USC, Steve Trovato is an artist/clinician for Fender Music amplifiers, G&L Guitars, Roland Corporation, Thomastik-Infeld strings, and Breedlove Guitars.

A true guitarist's guitarist Steve rounds out his schedule with clinics and master classes conducted around the world. His students have achieved major success and include Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Norman Brown, and a very long list of other notable musicians.

To learn more about Steve Trovato, please visit www.SteveTrovato.com.

Check Out This New Video We Got With Carl: Click Here or on the picture below.

(Video demo by Carl of Mercury's AC4tv Upgrade coming soon!)

"Mercury has upgraded this amplifier so that instead of sounding scratchy and somewhat nasty right out of the box, when you turn it up it actually sounds nice. Really mellow and really responsive. And yet when I crank it up I get a little bit of hair on it. I see this being a jazz amp, a practice amp – then turn it up, put a good pedal in front of it and it'd be a good rock 'n roll amp too. It sounds good for the blues -- it's got a vibe! The amp is pretty pedal-friendly. It sounds better and better the more I play it. I've got to own one."

-- Carl Verheyen

Meet CARL VERHEYEN

In his 40-plus years as a guitarist, Carl has created a wildly successful, multi-faceted career. He is a critically-acclaimed musician regarded as a guitar virtuoso capable of playing any style with remarkable mastery and conviction. He has been one of LA’s elite "first call" session players for the past 25 years, playing on hundreds of records, movie soundtracks and television shows. Carl has graced the pages of countless industry publications and been the subject of numerous articles. And has won numerous polls and musical honors in the US, Germany, France, Italy and the UK.

"One of the Top 10 Guitar Players in the World"
-- Guitar Magazine

A member of Supertramp since 1985, and as the creative force behind The Carl Verheyen Band, he has released an impressive and eclectic discography that showcases his talents across a wide array of musical genres.

Carl has recorded and played with a virtual Who’s Who of the music industry. His contributions include a vast collection of movie soundtrack and television credits including being the featured soloist at the 2009 Academy Awards. He will also be heavily featured in the forthcoming film documentary about the electric guitar, Turn It Up!

On the educational front, Carl has produced two instructional videos called Intervallic Rock Guitar and Forward Motion as well as various on-line lessons. He also has a book/CD detailing his unique “intervallic” style called Improvising Without Scales. Another book entitled Studio City is a compilation of all the columns Carl wrote for Guitar Magazine between 1996 and 1999. He has written a monthly column for Chitarre, Italy’s #1 guitar publication as well as Guitar World and Guitar Jam Daily, a website devoted to serious guitarists. Carl also lectures and teaches at clinics regularly when not on the road.

• "Best Guitarist 1998" LA Music Awards

  Chosen as one of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time" Classic Rock Magazine

  "Best Studio Guitarist" Guitar Player Readers’ Choice Awards

• 2005 release Rumor Mill nominated for four DVD Entertainment Awards ("Best Musical Performance," "Best Audio Presentation,"  "Best Dual Disc," "Best Authoring Design"). Win for "Best Dual Disc"

• "Best Additional Features" Surround Sound Award for Rumor Mill

• Featured in dozens of magazines: Guitar Player, Guitar World, Rhythm, Vintage Guitar, Gig, Guitar Shop, Musician, Premier Guitar, 20th Century Guitar, Jazztimes, Chitarre, Jazziz. Cover of 1998 Guitar Techniques with his long time idol B. B. King. Cover of Axe Magazine twice.

• Motion Pictures: Star Trek, UP, Land of the Lost, The Crow, The Negotiator, Strange Days, LA Story, Gladiator, Blow, Walking Tall, Titan AD, True Lies, The Usual Suspects, Collateral Damage, Scrooged, The Big Hit, Forces of Nature, Mad Love, Idle Hands, Race the Sun, Ratatouille, Speed Racer and numerous more.

• Television Shows: Cheers, Scrubs, Samantha Who, Frasier, Married… with Children, Larry Sanders Show, Seinfeld, Happy Days, Murphy Brown, The Tonight Show, The Gary Shandling Show, The Martin Short Show and many more.

• Performed/Recorded with: Christina Aguilera, Bee Gees, Cher, Belinda Carlisle, Melissa Manchester, Little Richard, Dolly Parton, Glenn Frey, John Fogerty, B. B. King, Shelby Lynne, Jose Feliciano, Leanne Rimes, Gordon Goodwin Band, Miley Cyrus and countless more.

To learn more about Carl Verheyen, please visit www.CarlVerheyen.com.