Lets talk about ALL Mesa Boogies. Come in and brag about you're please!!!

[dave74]

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I've used some nice sounding Single and Dual Recs, tried a Triple Rec once and didn't like it, just way too much, might as well be using Solid State at that point, you're not going to get a Triple to break a sweat at decent jet engine volume levels.

And with the older triples you can't pull a pair of tubes and stay balanced. The multi-watts are another story altogether since you can set each channel individually for all the options.

One of the most overlooked aspects of the rectifier series is vintage-gain mode. People will switch to it from modern and instantly think it's not for them without taking the time to work with it.
The presence knob is the key. It works very softly through most of the range then really opens-up near the top. The whole stack needs adjusted for raw and vintage when coming from modern.

 

[80's_Metal]

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Just traded for my 1st Mesa. A 50 Cal plus.
It needed some love and deoxit and (preamp) tubes badly.
Still Needs a couple new valves, (power) but here are some tones that I am pretty happy with.

 

[rainsong86]

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Bought a new Mesa Roadster head for just a hair under 2k about a decade ago. I don't buy many things full retail (and you can't haggle on Mesa products) but it was worth it because 2 weeks after my 5 year warranty expired a cap or resister blew and resulted in some tubes failing also. Mesa did the whole repair for free and retubed the whole thing! That's a lot of tubes and they weren't obligated to.

I remember A/Bing the amp with a 90s 2 channel dual rectifer. Vintage and modern mode sounded the same. Plus the roadster has all the sounds you can get from a Lone Star.

2 major quirks: you had to press channel 3 or 4 on footswitch in standby mode or else you get a loud pop the first time you switch into those channels.. not too bad.
Due to amp circuitry the reverb would 'wash in' a second after channel switch.. bad

 

[eclecticsynergy]

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I still have my first Boogie: one of the early Mk II heads, which Randy made for me back in the 70s when he was still building them at home in his shed. Amazing little monster. I ran it through Marshall 4x12 cabs (loaded with G12-65s) through the Eighties and into the early 90s. When I finally retired it from active duty, we had played more than three thousand sets & sessions together.

In '95 I switched my gig rig to a rack system, using the Triaxis preamp with a 50/50 power amp. Twenty-five years later, the Tri still gives me everything I need - it's eight different all-tube preamp circuits in a single rack space. I've cut back on wattage and cabs in the intervening decades. With modern stage volumes being much lower, I'm now running a 20:20 and a 1936 2x12 cab wired for stereo, and various effects have come & gone over the years. But Triaxis remains the heart of my tone. It's a whole universe unto itself. Mine's an early one, when they still had the second piggyback board inside with a whole separate rectifier preamp on it. But my most often-used mode is still the one that duplicates the Mk II. It's based on the Mk IIC+ so a tad more civilized than my old head, but it has the same basic personality and dynamic response.

Also have a Son Of Boogie combo from the 90s. Basically a stripped-down version of the old Mk I amps, with an EVM 12L. It has fantastic cleans and mostly serves as my rehearsal amp, using drive pedals to approximate a handful of favorite tone characters from the Triaxis. I've got a couple of vintage blackface Fenders that I run once in a while too. But the SOB is sturdier than the Fenders, a good solid knockaround amp.

 

[PS412]

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Well I guess Mesa is o.k I suppose.

 

[Repoman]

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Well I guess Mesa is o.k I suppose.

Yeah Mesa's are alright. I mean for a tube amp. Lol
https://s124.photobucket.com/user/drinkingdeath01/media/20191201_213954_zpshztoey3q.jpg.html

 

[PS412]

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Yeah Mesa's are alright. I mean for a tube amp. Lol
https://s124.photobucket.com/user/drinkingdeath01/media/20191201_213954_zpshztoey3q.jpg.html

Nice collection indeed.