MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) 4-Ch 12-Mode Multi-Watt™ 50/100w Valve Head ★ USED | EXCELLENT CONDITION ★ FREE FREIGHT | 1YR WARRANTY | LIMITLESS LAY-BY | MULTIPLE PAYMENT OPTIONS
SKU:
NTM-000242
A$5,999.00
A$2,795.00
A$2,795.00
On Sale
per item
MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) 4-Channel 12-Mode Multi-Watt™ 50/100watt All Valve Guitar Amplifier Head w/- Selectable Power Tube Complement, Switchable Rectifier®, Voltage Control, Dual Effects Loops, & 8-Button Footswitch (Made in U.S.A.) 240volts Australian Power.
LITTLE USED | EXCELLENT-TO-MINT CONDITION
FREE FREIGHT | 1-YEAR WARRANTY | Balance of 5-Year Manufacturers FACTORY WARRANTY | LIMITLESS LAYBY | MULTIPLE PAYMENT OPTIONS | NO INTEREST EVER Finance available.
● The world's most amazing 3 completely separate guitar amplifiers in one.
● Shhhh! . . . We are Australia's Cheapest DEMO | MINT PRICE - ONLY AU$2,795.00
● Regular New Price is: AU$5,999.00 RRP ! ! ! ! ! !
The MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) is one of the greatest guitar amplifiers ever built by MESA/Engineering®. It produces a ton of great Boogie tones, from crystalline to massive ! ! !
____________________________________________________________________________
INCREDIBLE!
4 Independent Channels that each houses an incredible 3 Modes of hyper-tuned pre-amp expression
12 Modes across 4 Channels (Channel 1 = Clean, Fat or Tweed™, Channel 2 = Clean, Fat or Brit, Channels 3 & 4 = Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain)
3-Position Style Mode Switch, 50/100 Multi-Watt™
____________________________________________________________________________
The Home of Tone®
Over 20 years have passed, two generations of guitarists and several musical trend-cycles since the Dual Rectifier® first unleashed its crushing wall of gain on radio. In that time many have mimicked, modelled, dissected and plagiarized it, but it remains firmly planted at the centre of hard-core… a rock icon. Still leaving the widest, deepest footprint in heavy music and now a long list of chart topping devotees outside the world of heavy, the Rectifier series has grown to include several now famous heavies like the Triple Rectifer®, Road King®, Roadster®, Mini Rectifier®, and Recto®-Verb 25. Welcome to the Rectifier® Series, a line of MESA/Boogie® amplifiers that have shaped modern guitar tone, forever glorified in recording history, influencing guitar amplification technology from the day they were launched on the scene to this very day.
____________________________________________________________________________
Incredible Multi-Watt™ Channel Assignable Power Amp (Patent Pending). Allows you to assign either 2, or ALL 4 Power Tubes to each Channel for Power Ratings of 50 or 100-watts of Class A/B Power via independent 50/100-watt Power Switches / 4x6L6, 6x12AX7, 2x5U4
____________________________________________________________________________
INCREDIBLE 4-CHANNEL TUBE AMP HEAD
The MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) head amplifier puts four independent channels of stunning tube tone at your command! If you love the flexibility of a multi-channel amp but prefer to dial in your tones quickly and intuitively, then this amp's for you. The Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) head gives you crystalline clean tones, authentic grit, authoritative crunch, and even liquid-sustain-type lead tones - and you can use its four channels (plus multiple modes for each channel) to obtain your favourite sounds and switch among them with ease. A great-sounding long-spring reverb, a switchable Dual Rectifier® function on each channel, variable voltage, and 50- or 100-watt operation are also featured on the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) head.
____________________________________________________________________________
MESA/Boogie® DUAL RECTIFIER® (ROADSTER™) HEAD
AT A GLANCE:
• Plenty of tonal options from an easy-to-use format
• Dial in your favourite clean tones or choose big, bombastic Boogie® sounds
• Choose between 50-watt or 100-watt power
• Dial in the amp response that suits you
• Add some air to any or all of these great tones
PLENTY OF TONAL OPTIONS FROM AN EASY-TO-USE FORMAT
Mesa amps are renowned by touring pros and enthusiasts alike for their range of features, and the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) is no exception. This all-tube thoroughbred shares a class with only one other amplifier - its brother, the mighty Dual Rectifier® (Road King™). In fact, the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) Roadster IS a Dual Rectifier® (Road King™) without Progressive Linkage™ selectable power tube section and other rear-panel features. While those features are outstanding and useful, some players prefer a more streamlined approach. The Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) now offers the plug-and-play-minded guitarist a way to enjoy a myriad of footswitchable pre-amp choices without having to deal with a complex power section.
DIAL IN YOUR FAVOURITE CLEAN TONES OR CHOOSE BIG, BOMBASTIC Boogie® SOUNDS
While navigating the lower-gain territory of channels one and two, you'll enjoy an array of classic and contemporary clean tones. Clean and fat modes add even more options. Once you've dialled in your ultimate clean sound, you can duplicate it in the other channel and modify it for single note applications, a more pushed version, or decide to switch to another mode for a radically different sound. Meanwhile, dedicated American blues and English rock sounds reside in the easily clipable mid-gain realms of Tweed and Brit. These dynamic and incredibly expressive modes would make an amazing amplifier all by themselves, giving you a palette of tones that run from clean to crunchy. Channels three and four contain all the mind-altering iconic sounds of the legendary Dual Rectifier Solo Head and hand you the keys to the world of high gain - both retro and future. The raw, vintage, and modern modes cover the entire range of gain from a sweet clip to a liquid voice up to a crushing wall of tight grind and are duplicated in both channels. This functionality allows you to either find a favourite sound and dedicate the channels to slight differences or configure them for wildly different styles. The channels' duplicated modes are a powerful feature, making the Roadster not just an amp for your current style or band, but a true lifelong companion to your music. This amp offers limitless configurations, keeping pace with your growth as your playing evolves.
CHOOSE BETWEEN 50-WATT OR 100-WATT POWER
The Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) also features MESA®'s Multi-Watt™ channel-assignable power feature, allowing you to choose either 50- or 100-watt power for each channel. This simple-to-use feature expands the potential of each channel mode exponentially by enabling you to lower the power-clip threshold or tighten things up as needed. The two power choices also offer different personalities: 50-watts gives you brighter, elastic bounce; 100-watts means tight-tracking low-end girth and mid punch authority.
DIAL IN THE AMP RESPONSE THAT SUITS YOU
This amp doesn't just stop with a huge array of tweakable tones, however. MESA® applied the same attention to detail to the Roadster's response and dynamics. A switchable rectifier feature allows you to tune the power supply for the feeling that best suits your style - tube for a vintage-inspired sag, or silicone diodes for tight tracking punch and authority. Bold/spongy power located on the main AC power switch provides a reduced line voltage setting for additional power sag and enhanced top end harmonic content. Its front panel location allows for on-the-fly selection of incoming line voltage with the full 240 volts for headroom and authority, or a reduced voltage setting (like a built-in Variac™) for a vintage-inspired brown vibe.
ADD SOME AIR TO ANY OR ALL OF THESE GREAT TONES
Reverb is paramount in an amplifier this versatile, and the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) gets the best! MESA® used the all-tube circuit from their acclaimed Lone Star amp, giving the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) a lush, ambient reverb that blooms with added dimension. And because the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™)'s modes offer such a wide range of gain levels and sound styles, each channel is fitted with a dedicated reverb mix control located on the rear panel so reverb can be optimized for each sound.
MESA/Boogie®'s WARRANTY - THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS!
Every new MESA/Boogie® amp is protected by their transferable warranty: 5-Years on the electronics, 3-Years for speakers, and 6-Months for tubes.
____________________________________________________________________________
MESA/Boogie® DUAL RECTIFIER® (ROADSTER™) HEAD
Question: If you could make your own dream spec guitar amp, what it would look like?
- Handbuilt in the USA, using only point to point wiring?
- 4 all tube channels doing everything from crystal clean to super saturated overdrive?
- An all tube power amp that can be set to either a 50 watt mode or a 100 watt mode?
- A feature that allows you to set the overdrive channels to work at 50 watts (for maximum power amp drive) & set the clean channels to work at 100 watt (for maximum clean headroom)?
- A solo footswitch so that regardless of what channel you're on you can boost it for a solo?
- A heap of other features that make this amp incredibly versatile & reliable?
Well stop dreaming!!! Check out the MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) Head ! ! !
____________________________________________________________________________
Here's what MESA® say about the Roadster™
Picture this: Top down, radio pumping, flying down a back-country road in a high performance ragtop. Responsibilities Behind, miles of S-curves ahead, fully in the moment and feeling the rush as you confidently snake your way through shadowed canyons that give way to sunny ridge tops . . . Freedom, Flow, Exhilaration!
The MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™); the most fun a guitarist can have on four wheels - well alright, casters. This all-tube thoroughbred shares a class with only one other amplifier - and that position is held by its brother, the mighty MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Road King™). Now, while everyone that plugs into the Road King™ is blown away by the tone, some players were just not interested in attributes such as Progressive Linkage™ and other rear panel features. They simply wanted the tonal DNA of the Road King™ in a plug and play format with some foot switchable pre-amp choices. Randall Smith and his Team answered the call and the MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) was born.
Throughout the two lower gain Channels, 1 & 2, you'll discover every classic clean sound in the pairs of CLEAN and FAT modes. Once you've dialled in your ultimate clean sound, you can duplicate it in the other Channel and modify it for single note applications, a more pushed version or decide to switch to another mode for a radically different sound. Meanwhile dedicated American Blues and English Rock sounds reside in the easily clippable mid-gain realms of TWEED and BRIT. These dynamic and incredibly expressive modes would make an amazing amplifier all by themselves as they roam the zone between clean and clipped with authentic finesse.
Channels 3 & 4 contain all the mind-altering iconic sounds of the legendary original early MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® Solo Head and hand you the keys to the world of high gain, both retro and future. The RAW, VINTAGE and MODERN modes cover the entire range of gain from a sweet clip, through liquid voice up to a crushing wall of tight grind and are duplicated in both Channels. This again allows you to either find a favourite sound and dedicate the channels to slight differences or, configure them for wildly different styles.
The Channels duplicated modes are a powerful feature - making the Roadster™ not just an amp for your current style or band but rather, a lifelong companion to your music, offering limitless configurations, keeping pace with your growth as your playing evolves.
The Roadster™ also features our Multi-Watt™ Channel Assignable Power feature allowing you to choose either 50 or 100 watt power for each pre-amp Channel. This simple to use feature expands the potential of each Channel mode exponentially by enabling you to lower the power-clip threshold or, tighten things up as needed. The two power choices also offer different personalities; 50 watts with its brighter, elastic bounce or 100 watts of tight-tracking low-end girth and mid punch authority.
Add to this power shaping magic our patented Tube Rectifier Tracking™ feature. Each channel features the ability to choose between the saggy bounce of the 5U4 Rectifier Tubes or the tight, bold authority of the Silicon Diodes. Selecting Tube Rectifier Tracking® brings on-line one 5U4 when in 50 watts and two 5U4s when 100 watts is selected.
Reverb is paramount in an amplifier this versatile and the Roadster™ gets the best! We've taken our all-tube circuit from the widely acclaimed Lone Star and the result is lush, ambient Reverb that blooms with sweetness as it bathes each note in old school glory. And because the Roadster™’s modes offer such a wide range of gain levels and sound styles, each Channel is fitted with a dedicated Reverb mix control located on the Rear Panel so Reverb can be optimized for each sound.
The Roadster™ is available in both Head and Combo formats. The highly portable 1x12 is rear ported for stunning power to weight performance, while the 2x12 Combo features our amazing closed back design. These cabinets produce low-end spread reminiscent of a 4x12 for crunch and gain sounds while retaining the top-end sparkle and ambience of an open back enclosure. Either way you cruise there's no way to lose.
So when you're looking for an exciting new ride that's easy to drive, has power to burn but can handle the turns, check out the Roadster™. It's the perfect addition to any guitar garage.
____________________________________________________________________________
Channels 1 & 2 each offer 3 Mode choices - two of which are repeated for added flexibility when configuring your footswitching map. CLEAN and FAT modes appear in both Channels so you can set-up two very different Cleans or, clone your favourite sound and alter it slightly for clean or pushed soloing. From there, Channel 1 is home to the soulful mid gain voice of American Blues in TWEED, while Channel 2 crosses the Atlantic to crusade for classic English Rock sounds in the urgent mid gain BRIT mode.
Channels 3 & 4 contain all the high-gain glory of the iconic MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® Solo Head. These time-tested, hit-making sounds appear in the entire Rectifier family of amplifiers and in the Roadster, they’re duplicated in Channels 3 and 4. RAW covers the ground between where TWEED and BRIT top out and VINTAGE begins with smooth, purring warmth. VINTAGE takes it up a notch and sings with smouldering, liquid gain for single note solo work and then there's MODERN. This is the original crushing, tight high-gain Recto sound that changed guitar amplification forever.
Each of the four Channels has a corresponding Channel strip on the Rear Panel for controlling the REVERB, RECTIFICATION, POWER and the status of the EFFECTS LOOP. Here you can blend in the rich all-tube Reverb, choose between tight punchy Diode or vintage sagging Tube Rectification, switch your Power between the bold headroom of 100 watts or the bright bounce of 50 watts and dedicate the Effects Loop to the channels you need processing on. All these choices are channel specific making the Roadster an ultimate footswitching live rig!
Series Effects Loop features a Hard Bypass that removes two tubes and all associated Loop Circuitry from the signal path including the SEND LEVEL, OUTPUT and SOLO controls plus the TUNER OUT for the shortest, most direct signal path. BIAS SELECT reconfigures the bias circuit and allows you to swap the stock compliment of 6L6's for a quartet of EL 34 type power tubes creating a brighter, Euro-style power character and classic Brit clipability
External Switch Jacks provide the interface to control the Channels, LOOP, REVERB and SOLO via an external master switching system. Standard latching tip-to-ground logic triggers the Roadster’s channels and features and lets you build one-button programs from your master switcher that control your amp and processing. TUNER OUT JACK provides a silent tuning feature for live applications when the Foot Controller is connected.
____________________________________________________________________________
FEATURES
• Handbuilt in Petaluma, California
• Multi-Watt, Channel Assignable Power Amp (Patent Pending) allows you to assign either 2 or all 4 Power Tubes to each Channel for Power Ratings of 50 or 100 Watts of Class A/B Power via independent 50/100 Watt Power Switches / 4x6L6, 6x12AX7, 2x5U4
• Multi-Watt channel-assignable power amp
• 50 or 100 watts
• Class A/B operation
• 4 x 6L6, 6 x 12AX7, and 2 x 5U4 tube complements
• Bias Select Switch (6L6/EL34)
• Fixed Bias for Consistent, Maintenance Free Performance
• 4 Fully Independent Channels with 12 Modes (Channel 1 = Clean, Fat or Tweed™, Channel 2 = Clean, Fat or Brit, Channels 3 & 4 = Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain)
• Each Channel features Independent Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble, Presence, All-Tube, Long Spring Reverb, Channel Assignable Dual Rectification (Diode or Tube Tracking – Patent Pending), All-Tube FX Loop with Send Level Control (over all channels when activated)
• Output Level Control (over all channels when activated)
• Footswitchable Solo Level Control – Patent 6,724,897 (over all channels when activated)
• Bold/Spongy “Variac™” Switch
• True “Hard” Bypass Switch that removes FX Loops, Output Level & Solo Level Controls from signal path
• Tuner Output w/- Footswitchable Mute
• Slave Out w/Level Control
• External Switching Jacks for Channels 1, 2, 3, 4, Solo, Reverb, Tuner Mute, FX Loop
• 8-Button Footswitch (Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, Channel 4, Reverb, Tuner Mute, FX Loop & Solo)
• Slip Cover Included
____________________________________________________________________________
Weight & Dimensions:
Weight: 48 Lbs (21½kg)
Height: 9⅞ Inches (23cm)
Width: 25⅝ Inches (64cm)
Depth: 11¾ Inches (29½cm)
____________________________________________________________________________
MESA/Boogie® DUAL RECTIFIER® (ROADSTER™) HEAD
- SPECIFICATION DETAIL
o Amp Type: Tube
o Chassis Material: Aluminium
o Rectifier Type: Selectable and Channel Assignable Dual Rectification (Tube or Silicon Diodes) with Patented Recto Tracking™
o Recto Tracking: Recto Tracking™ auto-matches the correct Rectifier® compliment for the number of Power Tubes in use
o Rectifier Tubes: 2 x MESA® 5U4 Rectifier® Tubes
o Variac™ Power Switch: Bold / Spongy Power Switch
o Preamp Tubes: 6 x MESA® 12AX7 Preamp Tubes
o Power Amp Tubes: 4 x matched Mesa 6L6 (or EL34)
o Bias Switch for Alternate Power Tubes Types: Yes – Bias Select for 6L6 or EL34
o Maintenance Free Fixed Bias: Yes
o Wattage(s) Quick Reference: 50 or 100 Watts – Channel Assignable
o Power Amp Details (Class & Wattage): Class A/B Power with MEAS®’s patented Multi-Watt™ Channel Assignable Power Amp (Patent 7,602,927) – Provides two power options that are channel assignable via four 50/100 Watt Power Switches: Choose 2 power tubes, producing 50 Watt of small block-power or all 4 power tubes producing 100 Watts of big-block horsepower and authority.
o Convection or Fan Cooling: Convection
o Number of Footswitchable Channels: Four Channels
o Number of Style Modes in Total: Twelve
o Number of Style Modes Per Channel: Three
o Style Modes for Channel ONE: Clean, Fat or Tweed
o Style Modes for Channel TWO: Clean, Fat or Brit
o Style Modes for Channel THREE: Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain
o Style Modes for Channel FOUR: Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain
o Channel Controls: Each Channel features Independent 3-Position Style Mode Switch, 50/100 Multi-Watt™ Switch, Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Presence, Master, Footswitchable Reverb, Assignable Dual Rectification with Recto Tracking™ (Diode or Tube – Patent 7,193,458), FX Loop Assignment Switch (allows you to auto-assign FX Loop to either come on or off when the channel is activated or be controlled via the footswitch)
o Reverb / Effects & Bypass Options: Footswitchable, All-Tube, Long Spring Reverb with Independent Channel Controls (back panel)
o Effects Loop & Bypass Options: Fully Buffered Series FX Loop with one Send Level Control – Footswitchable, Channel Assignable per Channel or True Bypassable
o Global Output Level Control: Yes (Over all channels when activated)
o Global Solo Level Control & Bypassable Options: Yes (over each channel when activated)
o True-Bypass Options: True-Bypass Switch removes FX Loop, Output & Solo Level Controls
o Tuner Output: Yes (back panel) with Footswitchable Mute
o External Switching Jack Options: External Switching Jacks for Channels 1, 2, 3, 4, Reverb, Tuner Mute, FX Loop & Solo
o Speaker Outputs: One 16 Ohm, One 8 Ohm & Two 4 Ohm
o Slave Output: Yes with Level Control
o Footswitch: Included – 8-Button Footswitch (Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Reverb, Tuner Mute, FX Loop & Solo)
o Amp Cover: Included – Fitted Slip Cover
o Original Manufacturer’s Warranty: Five Years
____________________________________________________________________________
MESA/Engineering® HISTORY
MESA/Boogie® (also known as MESA/Engineering®) is an American company in Petaluma, California USA, that manufactures music instrument amplifiers for guitars and basses. It has been in operation since 1969.
MESA was started by Randall Smith as a small repair shop which modified Fender® amplifiers, particularly the diminutive Fender® Princeton. Smith's modifications gave the small amps much more input gain, making them much louder as well as creating a high-gain, distorted guitar tone. Prominent early customers included Carlos Santana, and Ron Wood and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. Exposure from these top players helped to establish Mesa/Boogie's position on the market, and it is frequently referred to as the first manufacturer of the boutique amplifiers.
Founder, Randall Smith Early Life
Randall Smith was born into a musical family in Berkeley, California in 1946. His mother and sister played piano and his father was the first-chair clarinet with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, played tenor sax, had a radio show and led a hotel dance band. Smith believes all of his early musical experiences taught him how to hear tone.
As a young Boy Scout, Smith was interested in earning a merit badge in woodcarving. Stan Stillson, the Boy Scout leader became a mentor. Smith and Stan’s son, Dave, were close in age. They became great friends and built ham radios together. Smith’s father had a good friend, Ernie, who built hi-fi turntables and gave him a couple to experiment on until he was 11 or 12.
He attended Miramonte High in Orinda, CA and graduated in 1964. His freshman year he attended UC Santa Barbara, as his parents wanted him removed from the influences of Berkeley (20 minutes from Orinda). However, he would hop freight trains nearly every weekend from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area to see friends and return to the Beat coffee houses and bookstores of Berkeley. The next four years he attended UC Berkeley studying humanities, English Literature and "invitation only" creative writing courses where he mostly wrote accounts of riding the rails with various hobos, but never quite graduated. Most interesting is that he never once took an electronics course in high school or university. His first major electronics was scratch-building Ham Radio transmitter using 6146 power tube. At only around 60 watts, the signal reached Alaska and most of the US.
Prune Music Store
Smith wanted to participate in the burgeoning San Francisco music scene, having been taught clarinet and a little sax by his father, but he took up drums, as it was the easiest to learn quickly. He played with a local blues and jam band and co-founded the band Martha's Laundry, which later morphed into Prune Music store, with keyboardist Dave Kessner. They opened the store in 1967 inside a building that had been a Chinese grocery store. He worked as a repair tech in the back while Dave ran the front of the store. Offshoots of Prune Music continue in Berkeley to this day with Subway Guitars, Sam Cohen (aka Fat Dog) and Guitar Resurrection in Austin, TX with former Martha's Laundry guitarist, Jim Lehman (aka Lizard Slim). They were partners until 1975. Their store never generated a huge profit, but it became best alternative music store in the hippie scene.
"This Thing Boogies"
Mesa/Boogie began with a practical joke: he borrowed a Fender® Princeton (a small 12-watt amplifier) from his friend, Barry Melton of Country Joe & The Fish, and hot-rodded it by replacing the amplifier section with that of a Fender® Bassman and installing a 12-inch speaker instead of the original 10-inch. The resulting amplifier proved to be loud and successful, and Smith made more than 200 of these Princeton "Boogies"—a name allegedly provided by Carlos Santana, who is to have exclaimed "This thing boogies!"
MESA/Engineering®
The MESA name came about through Smith's other job, rebuilding Mercedes engines. Smith decided to set up MESA/Engineering® so he could purchase wholesale parts for amps and engines. He needed an official sounding name through which to buy Mercedes parts and building supplies, and chose MESA/Engineering®. As the demand for his amps grew, Randall decided it would be best to move his workshop out of the storefront to get away from the distractions. He relocated to what was formerly a plywood dog kennel, then, eventually, to his home.
____________________________________________________________________________
THE MESA/Engineering® MESA/Boogie® STORY
Excellence - Living The Code
The story of MESA/Boogie® is an American story. It’s a musical story and a human-interest story, roots to world-renown. It’s based on simple, basic principles that never change or go out of style. It’s a story of doing the right thing, of not taking shortcuts and of never giving up until you achieve, in earnest, what you set out to do. It involves vision, passion, drive, honesty, wisdom, perseverance, trust and the ever-empirical approach of less talk and more action. Undersell and exceed expectations.
It’s a story of treating people with respect, even when it’s not profitable. It’s the story of one man’s vision inspiring two generations of contributors who have both followed and guided their mentor to a place that eclipsed where any could have taken it alone. It’s the tale of a small business owner that never sold out, despite many enticing offers, in favour of keeping it real and continuing to innovate. It’s the story of a worldwide family of fiercely proud devotees with unwavering loyalty.
The story of MESA/Boogie® represents different things to different people; many sounds for many styles, many solutions for many needs, many roads to what we all seek . . . inspiration. Yet perhaps one phrase–one concept more than any other–best captures the essence of MESA/Boogie®; The Relentless Pursuit Of Excellence.
As sunset fell on the ‘60s, the San Francisco music scene was literally exploding. Great musicians from all styles were mixing it up in this counter-culture epicentre where fans of all ages were ripe for the picking and young musical explorers were becoming pop icons overnight.
At the centre of all this new music was electric guitar. As a vehicle for expression, no other instrument offered the versatility, sonic power, and of course sex appeal, of the electric guitar. And while it was recognized as both a rhythm and lead instrument, a twist of fate found drummer and saxophonist Randall Smith preoccupied with the solo potential of the Bay Area’s six-string darling.
While a musical revolution was raging across the Golden Gate, simultaneously in Marin’s Rock Star-studded hamlet of Mill Valley and redwood-thick haven of Lagunitas, young Randall Smith was doing some serious sonic pioneering. With a rich musical background and a love for tube-based electronics, Smith was working diligently toward a high gain revolution of his own in guitar amplifiers.
Even as he was working for the Bay Area’s biggest stars doing amp repairs, behind the scenes Smith was developing a totally new “cascading” tube preamp circuit squeezed into in a compact high power combo amplifier that would change the way guitarists would sound–and play–forever more.
Often using his noteworthy clients as test pilots, one day he had a breakthrough while helping Country Joe & The Fish guitarist Barry Melton. He quickly went home, perfected the idea, and called upon local hero Carlos Santana to plug in and give it a spin. After riding a wave of inspiration for long enough to gather a substantial crowd that afternoon in Mill Valley outside Prune Music’s front window where they met for the maiden voyage, Carlos stopped playing and proclaimed, “Man, this thing really Boogies”! It was a defining moment for the future of electric guitar sounds.
The game-changing little high gain Boogie® would go on to have a huge impact on the music of the ‘70s as guitarists finally had the ability to hold notes indefinitely with their newfound sustain. At the dawn of a new decade, another landmark feature in guitar amplification came out of the Lagunitas shop with the introduction of the world’s first channel switching amplifier in 1980, the MARK II®.
Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s a score of additional innovative and patented improvements saw MESA/Engineering® emerge as the leader in tube amplifier technology. But none of these vital, now-commonplace improvements sparked the kind of attention MESA received in 1991, when high gain was re-defined once more with the birth of the MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® Solo Head, which commanded the Rock airwaves for the next 15 years.
NOW...
Forty-five years and thousands of satisfied customers later, MESA/Boogie® Ltd hand-builds the fifth generational offspring of that pivotal amplifier (and many more) now known around the globe as the MARK I Boogie®; the world’s first high gain, high power, compact 1x12 amplifier. That revolutionary little combo is the “missing link” in amp design... the pivotal nexus between Vintage and Modern guitar amplifiers. When it comes to amplified guitar, there’s really just two epochs… before Boogie®, and after Boogie®.
Today, 30 miles from the mountain shack where those first “Snakeskin” Boogies were born, we still hold true to the simple but increasingly rare principles Randy used to catapult MESA/Boogie® onto the world stage. Hand-building the very best instruments we can and treating each and every customer as we ourselves would wish to be treated has kept us there.
We are still privately owned–one of the last American music companies to be so–and have no profit-hungry investors cutting corners between you and your Tone. Every product we make is hand-built in our one and only shop in Petaluma, California and our artisans are tenured with an average of 15 years at their post, many for MUCH longer. We answer to no one except you and our own uncompromising ethical standards.
We are proud of our place in history as the original “Boutique” amplifier company, but recognize that we must still earn daily, our reputation as one of the most respected and prestigious brands in the musical instrument industry. So as you discover our historically important contributions to the art of amplifier design and journey through our vast product line, rest assured we continue to pioneer and improve–as we have from the start – the possibilities for your expression and our unparalleled Customer Service.
We‘d be honoured to be your amplifier company and welcome you to the worldwide family of MESA® players who have found inspiration and the confidence to reach new musical frontiers through our instruments. We have one goal and it’s deeply rewarding to us; to help you sound your very best and be a catalyst for you to achieve your musical dreams.
____________________________________________________________________________
We are the NSW Mid-North Coast Franchise Dealer for these (and more) quality musical instruments & equipment plus loads more guitar, drum, keyboard, recording, and live brands.
____________________________________________________________________________
ContactUs:
∎ N E W T O N E M U S I C ∎ GUITAR TRAINING CENTRE
58 COMMERCE STREET | TAREE NSW 2430
(PH) 0 2 6 5 5 2 1 4 4 4 | (PH) 0 4 0 7 1 1 4 1 1 2
(E) groundy @ tsn.cc
____________________________________________________________________________
★For more than 25 years at NEWTONEMUSIC we provide★
✓ FREE SHIPPING depot-to-depot to all states (except WA & NT).
✓ BALANCE of Full 5 YEAR NEW Manufacturers WARRANTY.
✓ 1 YEAR back to base (excluding valves).
✓ LAYBY without time limits & receipts showing remaining balance.
✓ PAYPAL Safe & Secure Payment.
✓ CREDIT CARD phone MOTO & BPOINT payments accepted.
✓ NO INTERESTED EVER Finance available.
✓ BANK DEPOSIT to:
Groundwater's Guitar School Inc
58 Commerce Street, Taree NSW 2430
( BSB: 0 6 2 6 0 3 / ACC: 1 0 1 7 1 0 9 2 )
✓ PHONE SUPPORT (Long Hours) 02 6552 1444 / 0407 114 112
____________________________________________________________________________
STOCK SUPPLY NOTES
A note on our rare, classic, vintage, collectable, and used musical instrument amplifier & musical instrument equipment items. While we offer a warranty on your purchase, because we run on very tight profit margins (meaning cheaper gear - which is good for you, the buyer), it also means that you need to make sure you actually want the items for their incredible tone, durability, and lasting quality rather than perfect looks. Any returns or refunds will incur a re-stock fee of around a third the value of your (already) low purchase price so please remember that while most of our gear is excellent for the age, these items (especially our valve amplifier) are indeed rare and represent the sound of an unrepeatable era. Even though we meticulously service, test, clean, polish and warrant all our gear, there may occasionally be some residual scuffs underneath or on the sides, or perhaps a tiny tolex rip on the rear. So, while our gear will be in EXCELLENT CONDITION (for the age), we will always advise you if the gear is in MINT CONDITION or if we feel that the item is perhaps of only AVERAGE CONDITION.
____________________________________________________________________________
* Footswitches, Cables, etc available if originally supplied to us by the donor
____________________________________________________________________________
LITTLE USED | EXCELLENT-TO-MINT CONDITION
FREE FREIGHT | 1-YEAR WARRANTY | Balance of 5-Year Manufacturers FACTORY WARRANTY | LIMITLESS LAYBY | MULTIPLE PAYMENT OPTIONS | NO INTEREST EVER Finance available.
● The world's most amazing 3 completely separate guitar amplifiers in one.
● Shhhh! . . . We are Australia's Cheapest DEMO | MINT PRICE - ONLY AU$2,795.00
● Regular New Price is: AU$5,999.00 RRP ! ! ! ! ! !
The MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) is one of the greatest guitar amplifiers ever built by MESA/Engineering®. It produces a ton of great Boogie tones, from crystalline to massive ! ! !
____________________________________________________________________________
INCREDIBLE!
4 Independent Channels that each houses an incredible 3 Modes of hyper-tuned pre-amp expression
12 Modes across 4 Channels (Channel 1 = Clean, Fat or Tweed™, Channel 2 = Clean, Fat or Brit, Channels 3 & 4 = Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain)
3-Position Style Mode Switch, 50/100 Multi-Watt™
____________________________________________________________________________
The Home of Tone®
Over 20 years have passed, two generations of guitarists and several musical trend-cycles since the Dual Rectifier® first unleashed its crushing wall of gain on radio. In that time many have mimicked, modelled, dissected and plagiarized it, but it remains firmly planted at the centre of hard-core… a rock icon. Still leaving the widest, deepest footprint in heavy music and now a long list of chart topping devotees outside the world of heavy, the Rectifier series has grown to include several now famous heavies like the Triple Rectifer®, Road King®, Roadster®, Mini Rectifier®, and Recto®-Verb 25. Welcome to the Rectifier® Series, a line of MESA/Boogie® amplifiers that have shaped modern guitar tone, forever glorified in recording history, influencing guitar amplification technology from the day they were launched on the scene to this very day.
____________________________________________________________________________
Incredible Multi-Watt™ Channel Assignable Power Amp (Patent Pending). Allows you to assign either 2, or ALL 4 Power Tubes to each Channel for Power Ratings of 50 or 100-watts of Class A/B Power via independent 50/100-watt Power Switches / 4x6L6, 6x12AX7, 2x5U4
____________________________________________________________________________
INCREDIBLE 4-CHANNEL TUBE AMP HEAD
The MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) head amplifier puts four independent channels of stunning tube tone at your command! If you love the flexibility of a multi-channel amp but prefer to dial in your tones quickly and intuitively, then this amp's for you. The Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) head gives you crystalline clean tones, authentic grit, authoritative crunch, and even liquid-sustain-type lead tones - and you can use its four channels (plus multiple modes for each channel) to obtain your favourite sounds and switch among them with ease. A great-sounding long-spring reverb, a switchable Dual Rectifier® function on each channel, variable voltage, and 50- or 100-watt operation are also featured on the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) head.
____________________________________________________________________________
MESA/Boogie® DUAL RECTIFIER® (ROADSTER™) HEAD
AT A GLANCE:
• Plenty of tonal options from an easy-to-use format
• Dial in your favourite clean tones or choose big, bombastic Boogie® sounds
• Choose between 50-watt or 100-watt power
• Dial in the amp response that suits you
• Add some air to any or all of these great tones
PLENTY OF TONAL OPTIONS FROM AN EASY-TO-USE FORMAT
Mesa amps are renowned by touring pros and enthusiasts alike for their range of features, and the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) is no exception. This all-tube thoroughbred shares a class with only one other amplifier - its brother, the mighty Dual Rectifier® (Road King™). In fact, the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) Roadster IS a Dual Rectifier® (Road King™) without Progressive Linkage™ selectable power tube section and other rear-panel features. While those features are outstanding and useful, some players prefer a more streamlined approach. The Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) now offers the plug-and-play-minded guitarist a way to enjoy a myriad of footswitchable pre-amp choices without having to deal with a complex power section.
DIAL IN YOUR FAVOURITE CLEAN TONES OR CHOOSE BIG, BOMBASTIC Boogie® SOUNDS
While navigating the lower-gain territory of channels one and two, you'll enjoy an array of classic and contemporary clean tones. Clean and fat modes add even more options. Once you've dialled in your ultimate clean sound, you can duplicate it in the other channel and modify it for single note applications, a more pushed version, or decide to switch to another mode for a radically different sound. Meanwhile, dedicated American blues and English rock sounds reside in the easily clipable mid-gain realms of Tweed and Brit. These dynamic and incredibly expressive modes would make an amazing amplifier all by themselves, giving you a palette of tones that run from clean to crunchy. Channels three and four contain all the mind-altering iconic sounds of the legendary Dual Rectifier Solo Head and hand you the keys to the world of high gain - both retro and future. The raw, vintage, and modern modes cover the entire range of gain from a sweet clip to a liquid voice up to a crushing wall of tight grind and are duplicated in both channels. This functionality allows you to either find a favourite sound and dedicate the channels to slight differences or configure them for wildly different styles. The channels' duplicated modes are a powerful feature, making the Roadster not just an amp for your current style or band, but a true lifelong companion to your music. This amp offers limitless configurations, keeping pace with your growth as your playing evolves.
CHOOSE BETWEEN 50-WATT OR 100-WATT POWER
The Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) also features MESA®'s Multi-Watt™ channel-assignable power feature, allowing you to choose either 50- or 100-watt power for each channel. This simple-to-use feature expands the potential of each channel mode exponentially by enabling you to lower the power-clip threshold or tighten things up as needed. The two power choices also offer different personalities: 50-watts gives you brighter, elastic bounce; 100-watts means tight-tracking low-end girth and mid punch authority.
DIAL IN THE AMP RESPONSE THAT SUITS YOU
This amp doesn't just stop with a huge array of tweakable tones, however. MESA® applied the same attention to detail to the Roadster's response and dynamics. A switchable rectifier feature allows you to tune the power supply for the feeling that best suits your style - tube for a vintage-inspired sag, or silicone diodes for tight tracking punch and authority. Bold/spongy power located on the main AC power switch provides a reduced line voltage setting for additional power sag and enhanced top end harmonic content. Its front panel location allows for on-the-fly selection of incoming line voltage with the full 240 volts for headroom and authority, or a reduced voltage setting (like a built-in Variac™) for a vintage-inspired brown vibe.
ADD SOME AIR TO ANY OR ALL OF THESE GREAT TONES
Reverb is paramount in an amplifier this versatile, and the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) gets the best! MESA® used the all-tube circuit from their acclaimed Lone Star amp, giving the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) a lush, ambient reverb that blooms with added dimension. And because the Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™)'s modes offer such a wide range of gain levels and sound styles, each channel is fitted with a dedicated reverb mix control located on the rear panel so reverb can be optimized for each sound.
MESA/Boogie®'s WARRANTY - THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS!
Every new MESA/Boogie® amp is protected by their transferable warranty: 5-Years on the electronics, 3-Years for speakers, and 6-Months for tubes.
____________________________________________________________________________
MESA/Boogie® DUAL RECTIFIER® (ROADSTER™) HEAD
Question: If you could make your own dream spec guitar amp, what it would look like?
- Handbuilt in the USA, using only point to point wiring?
- 4 all tube channels doing everything from crystal clean to super saturated overdrive?
- An all tube power amp that can be set to either a 50 watt mode or a 100 watt mode?
- A feature that allows you to set the overdrive channels to work at 50 watts (for maximum power amp drive) & set the clean channels to work at 100 watt (for maximum clean headroom)?
- A solo footswitch so that regardless of what channel you're on you can boost it for a solo?
- A heap of other features that make this amp incredibly versatile & reliable?
Well stop dreaming!!! Check out the MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) Head ! ! !
____________________________________________________________________________
Here's what MESA® say about the Roadster™
Picture this: Top down, radio pumping, flying down a back-country road in a high performance ragtop. Responsibilities Behind, miles of S-curves ahead, fully in the moment and feeling the rush as you confidently snake your way through shadowed canyons that give way to sunny ridge tops . . . Freedom, Flow, Exhilaration!
The MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™); the most fun a guitarist can have on four wheels - well alright, casters. This all-tube thoroughbred shares a class with only one other amplifier - and that position is held by its brother, the mighty MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Road King™). Now, while everyone that plugs into the Road King™ is blown away by the tone, some players were just not interested in attributes such as Progressive Linkage™ and other rear panel features. They simply wanted the tonal DNA of the Road King™ in a plug and play format with some foot switchable pre-amp choices. Randall Smith and his Team answered the call and the MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® (Roadster™) was born.
Throughout the two lower gain Channels, 1 & 2, you'll discover every classic clean sound in the pairs of CLEAN and FAT modes. Once you've dialled in your ultimate clean sound, you can duplicate it in the other Channel and modify it for single note applications, a more pushed version or decide to switch to another mode for a radically different sound. Meanwhile dedicated American Blues and English Rock sounds reside in the easily clippable mid-gain realms of TWEED and BRIT. These dynamic and incredibly expressive modes would make an amazing amplifier all by themselves as they roam the zone between clean and clipped with authentic finesse.
Channels 3 & 4 contain all the mind-altering iconic sounds of the legendary original early MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® Solo Head and hand you the keys to the world of high gain, both retro and future. The RAW, VINTAGE and MODERN modes cover the entire range of gain from a sweet clip, through liquid voice up to a crushing wall of tight grind and are duplicated in both Channels. This again allows you to either find a favourite sound and dedicate the channels to slight differences or, configure them for wildly different styles.
The Channels duplicated modes are a powerful feature - making the Roadster™ not just an amp for your current style or band but rather, a lifelong companion to your music, offering limitless configurations, keeping pace with your growth as your playing evolves.
The Roadster™ also features our Multi-Watt™ Channel Assignable Power feature allowing you to choose either 50 or 100 watt power for each pre-amp Channel. This simple to use feature expands the potential of each Channel mode exponentially by enabling you to lower the power-clip threshold or, tighten things up as needed. The two power choices also offer different personalities; 50 watts with its brighter, elastic bounce or 100 watts of tight-tracking low-end girth and mid punch authority.
Add to this power shaping magic our patented Tube Rectifier Tracking™ feature. Each channel features the ability to choose between the saggy bounce of the 5U4 Rectifier Tubes or the tight, bold authority of the Silicon Diodes. Selecting Tube Rectifier Tracking® brings on-line one 5U4 when in 50 watts and two 5U4s when 100 watts is selected.
Reverb is paramount in an amplifier this versatile and the Roadster™ gets the best! We've taken our all-tube circuit from the widely acclaimed Lone Star and the result is lush, ambient Reverb that blooms with sweetness as it bathes each note in old school glory. And because the Roadster™’s modes offer such a wide range of gain levels and sound styles, each Channel is fitted with a dedicated Reverb mix control located on the Rear Panel so Reverb can be optimized for each sound.
The Roadster™ is available in both Head and Combo formats. The highly portable 1x12 is rear ported for stunning power to weight performance, while the 2x12 Combo features our amazing closed back design. These cabinets produce low-end spread reminiscent of a 4x12 for crunch and gain sounds while retaining the top-end sparkle and ambience of an open back enclosure. Either way you cruise there's no way to lose.
So when you're looking for an exciting new ride that's easy to drive, has power to burn but can handle the turns, check out the Roadster™. It's the perfect addition to any guitar garage.
____________________________________________________________________________
Channels 1 & 2 each offer 3 Mode choices - two of which are repeated for added flexibility when configuring your footswitching map. CLEAN and FAT modes appear in both Channels so you can set-up two very different Cleans or, clone your favourite sound and alter it slightly for clean or pushed soloing. From there, Channel 1 is home to the soulful mid gain voice of American Blues in TWEED, while Channel 2 crosses the Atlantic to crusade for classic English Rock sounds in the urgent mid gain BRIT mode.
Channels 3 & 4 contain all the high-gain glory of the iconic MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® Solo Head. These time-tested, hit-making sounds appear in the entire Rectifier family of amplifiers and in the Roadster, they’re duplicated in Channels 3 and 4. RAW covers the ground between where TWEED and BRIT top out and VINTAGE begins with smooth, purring warmth. VINTAGE takes it up a notch and sings with smouldering, liquid gain for single note solo work and then there's MODERN. This is the original crushing, tight high-gain Recto sound that changed guitar amplification forever.
Each of the four Channels has a corresponding Channel strip on the Rear Panel for controlling the REVERB, RECTIFICATION, POWER and the status of the EFFECTS LOOP. Here you can blend in the rich all-tube Reverb, choose between tight punchy Diode or vintage sagging Tube Rectification, switch your Power between the bold headroom of 100 watts or the bright bounce of 50 watts and dedicate the Effects Loop to the channels you need processing on. All these choices are channel specific making the Roadster an ultimate footswitching live rig!
Series Effects Loop features a Hard Bypass that removes two tubes and all associated Loop Circuitry from the signal path including the SEND LEVEL, OUTPUT and SOLO controls plus the TUNER OUT for the shortest, most direct signal path. BIAS SELECT reconfigures the bias circuit and allows you to swap the stock compliment of 6L6's for a quartet of EL 34 type power tubes creating a brighter, Euro-style power character and classic Brit clipability
External Switch Jacks provide the interface to control the Channels, LOOP, REVERB and SOLO via an external master switching system. Standard latching tip-to-ground logic triggers the Roadster’s channels and features and lets you build one-button programs from your master switcher that control your amp and processing. TUNER OUT JACK provides a silent tuning feature for live applications when the Foot Controller is connected.
____________________________________________________________________________
FEATURES
• Handbuilt in Petaluma, California
• Multi-Watt, Channel Assignable Power Amp (Patent Pending) allows you to assign either 2 or all 4 Power Tubes to each Channel for Power Ratings of 50 or 100 Watts of Class A/B Power via independent 50/100 Watt Power Switches / 4x6L6, 6x12AX7, 2x5U4
• Multi-Watt channel-assignable power amp
• 50 or 100 watts
• Class A/B operation
• 4 x 6L6, 6 x 12AX7, and 2 x 5U4 tube complements
• Bias Select Switch (6L6/EL34)
• Fixed Bias for Consistent, Maintenance Free Performance
• 4 Fully Independent Channels with 12 Modes (Channel 1 = Clean, Fat or Tweed™, Channel 2 = Clean, Fat or Brit, Channels 3 & 4 = Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain)
• Each Channel features Independent Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble, Presence, All-Tube, Long Spring Reverb, Channel Assignable Dual Rectification (Diode or Tube Tracking – Patent Pending), All-Tube FX Loop with Send Level Control (over all channels when activated)
• Output Level Control (over all channels when activated)
• Footswitchable Solo Level Control – Patent 6,724,897 (over all channels when activated)
• Bold/Spongy “Variac™” Switch
• True “Hard” Bypass Switch that removes FX Loops, Output Level & Solo Level Controls from signal path
• Tuner Output w/- Footswitchable Mute
• Slave Out w/Level Control
• External Switching Jacks for Channels 1, 2, 3, 4, Solo, Reverb, Tuner Mute, FX Loop
• 8-Button Footswitch (Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, Channel 4, Reverb, Tuner Mute, FX Loop & Solo)
• Slip Cover Included
____________________________________________________________________________
Weight & Dimensions:
Weight: 48 Lbs (21½kg)
Height: 9⅞ Inches (23cm)
Width: 25⅝ Inches (64cm)
Depth: 11¾ Inches (29½cm)
____________________________________________________________________________
MESA/Boogie® DUAL RECTIFIER® (ROADSTER™) HEAD
- SPECIFICATION DETAIL
o Amp Type: Tube
o Chassis Material: Aluminium
o Rectifier Type: Selectable and Channel Assignable Dual Rectification (Tube or Silicon Diodes) with Patented Recto Tracking™
o Recto Tracking: Recto Tracking™ auto-matches the correct Rectifier® compliment for the number of Power Tubes in use
o Rectifier Tubes: 2 x MESA® 5U4 Rectifier® Tubes
o Variac™ Power Switch: Bold / Spongy Power Switch
o Preamp Tubes: 6 x MESA® 12AX7 Preamp Tubes
o Power Amp Tubes: 4 x matched Mesa 6L6 (or EL34)
o Bias Switch for Alternate Power Tubes Types: Yes – Bias Select for 6L6 or EL34
o Maintenance Free Fixed Bias: Yes
o Wattage(s) Quick Reference: 50 or 100 Watts – Channel Assignable
o Power Amp Details (Class & Wattage): Class A/B Power with MEAS®’s patented Multi-Watt™ Channel Assignable Power Amp (Patent 7,602,927) – Provides two power options that are channel assignable via four 50/100 Watt Power Switches: Choose 2 power tubes, producing 50 Watt of small block-power or all 4 power tubes producing 100 Watts of big-block horsepower and authority.
o Convection or Fan Cooling: Convection
o Number of Footswitchable Channels: Four Channels
o Number of Style Modes in Total: Twelve
o Number of Style Modes Per Channel: Three
o Style Modes for Channel ONE: Clean, Fat or Tweed
o Style Modes for Channel TWO: Clean, Fat or Brit
o Style Modes for Channel THREE: Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain
o Style Modes for Channel FOUR: Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain
o Channel Controls: Each Channel features Independent 3-Position Style Mode Switch, 50/100 Multi-Watt™ Switch, Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Presence, Master, Footswitchable Reverb, Assignable Dual Rectification with Recto Tracking™ (Diode or Tube – Patent 7,193,458), FX Loop Assignment Switch (allows you to auto-assign FX Loop to either come on or off when the channel is activated or be controlled via the footswitch)
o Reverb / Effects & Bypass Options: Footswitchable, All-Tube, Long Spring Reverb with Independent Channel Controls (back panel)
o Effects Loop & Bypass Options: Fully Buffered Series FX Loop with one Send Level Control – Footswitchable, Channel Assignable per Channel or True Bypassable
o Global Output Level Control: Yes (Over all channels when activated)
o Global Solo Level Control & Bypassable Options: Yes (over each channel when activated)
o True-Bypass Options: True-Bypass Switch removes FX Loop, Output & Solo Level Controls
o Tuner Output: Yes (back panel) with Footswitchable Mute
o External Switching Jack Options: External Switching Jacks for Channels 1, 2, 3, 4, Reverb, Tuner Mute, FX Loop & Solo
o Speaker Outputs: One 16 Ohm, One 8 Ohm & Two 4 Ohm
o Slave Output: Yes with Level Control
o Footswitch: Included – 8-Button Footswitch (Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Reverb, Tuner Mute, FX Loop & Solo)
o Amp Cover: Included – Fitted Slip Cover
o Original Manufacturer’s Warranty: Five Years
____________________________________________________________________________
MESA/Engineering® HISTORY
MESA/Boogie® (also known as MESA/Engineering®) is an American company in Petaluma, California USA, that manufactures music instrument amplifiers for guitars and basses. It has been in operation since 1969.
MESA was started by Randall Smith as a small repair shop which modified Fender® amplifiers, particularly the diminutive Fender® Princeton. Smith's modifications gave the small amps much more input gain, making them much louder as well as creating a high-gain, distorted guitar tone. Prominent early customers included Carlos Santana, and Ron Wood and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. Exposure from these top players helped to establish Mesa/Boogie's position on the market, and it is frequently referred to as the first manufacturer of the boutique amplifiers.
Founder, Randall Smith Early Life
Randall Smith was born into a musical family in Berkeley, California in 1946. His mother and sister played piano and his father was the first-chair clarinet with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, played tenor sax, had a radio show and led a hotel dance band. Smith believes all of his early musical experiences taught him how to hear tone.
As a young Boy Scout, Smith was interested in earning a merit badge in woodcarving. Stan Stillson, the Boy Scout leader became a mentor. Smith and Stan’s son, Dave, were close in age. They became great friends and built ham radios together. Smith’s father had a good friend, Ernie, who built hi-fi turntables and gave him a couple to experiment on until he was 11 or 12.
He attended Miramonte High in Orinda, CA and graduated in 1964. His freshman year he attended UC Santa Barbara, as his parents wanted him removed from the influences of Berkeley (20 minutes from Orinda). However, he would hop freight trains nearly every weekend from Santa Barbara to the Bay Area to see friends and return to the Beat coffee houses and bookstores of Berkeley. The next four years he attended UC Berkeley studying humanities, English Literature and "invitation only" creative writing courses where he mostly wrote accounts of riding the rails with various hobos, but never quite graduated. Most interesting is that he never once took an electronics course in high school or university. His first major electronics was scratch-building Ham Radio transmitter using 6146 power tube. At only around 60 watts, the signal reached Alaska and most of the US.
Prune Music Store
Smith wanted to participate in the burgeoning San Francisco music scene, having been taught clarinet and a little sax by his father, but he took up drums, as it was the easiest to learn quickly. He played with a local blues and jam band and co-founded the band Martha's Laundry, which later morphed into Prune Music store, with keyboardist Dave Kessner. They opened the store in 1967 inside a building that had been a Chinese grocery store. He worked as a repair tech in the back while Dave ran the front of the store. Offshoots of Prune Music continue in Berkeley to this day with Subway Guitars, Sam Cohen (aka Fat Dog) and Guitar Resurrection in Austin, TX with former Martha's Laundry guitarist, Jim Lehman (aka Lizard Slim). They were partners until 1975. Their store never generated a huge profit, but it became best alternative music store in the hippie scene.
"This Thing Boogies"
Mesa/Boogie began with a practical joke: he borrowed a Fender® Princeton (a small 12-watt amplifier) from his friend, Barry Melton of Country Joe & The Fish, and hot-rodded it by replacing the amplifier section with that of a Fender® Bassman and installing a 12-inch speaker instead of the original 10-inch. The resulting amplifier proved to be loud and successful, and Smith made more than 200 of these Princeton "Boogies"—a name allegedly provided by Carlos Santana, who is to have exclaimed "This thing boogies!"
MESA/Engineering®
The MESA name came about through Smith's other job, rebuilding Mercedes engines. Smith decided to set up MESA/Engineering® so he could purchase wholesale parts for amps and engines. He needed an official sounding name through which to buy Mercedes parts and building supplies, and chose MESA/Engineering®. As the demand for his amps grew, Randall decided it would be best to move his workshop out of the storefront to get away from the distractions. He relocated to what was formerly a plywood dog kennel, then, eventually, to his home.
____________________________________________________________________________
THE MESA/Engineering® MESA/Boogie® STORY
Excellence - Living The Code
The story of MESA/Boogie® is an American story. It’s a musical story and a human-interest story, roots to world-renown. It’s based on simple, basic principles that never change or go out of style. It’s a story of doing the right thing, of not taking shortcuts and of never giving up until you achieve, in earnest, what you set out to do. It involves vision, passion, drive, honesty, wisdom, perseverance, trust and the ever-empirical approach of less talk and more action. Undersell and exceed expectations.
It’s a story of treating people with respect, even when it’s not profitable. It’s the story of one man’s vision inspiring two generations of contributors who have both followed and guided their mentor to a place that eclipsed where any could have taken it alone. It’s the tale of a small business owner that never sold out, despite many enticing offers, in favour of keeping it real and continuing to innovate. It’s the story of a worldwide family of fiercely proud devotees with unwavering loyalty.
The story of MESA/Boogie® represents different things to different people; many sounds for many styles, many solutions for many needs, many roads to what we all seek . . . inspiration. Yet perhaps one phrase–one concept more than any other–best captures the essence of MESA/Boogie®; The Relentless Pursuit Of Excellence.
As sunset fell on the ‘60s, the San Francisco music scene was literally exploding. Great musicians from all styles were mixing it up in this counter-culture epicentre where fans of all ages were ripe for the picking and young musical explorers were becoming pop icons overnight.
At the centre of all this new music was electric guitar. As a vehicle for expression, no other instrument offered the versatility, sonic power, and of course sex appeal, of the electric guitar. And while it was recognized as both a rhythm and lead instrument, a twist of fate found drummer and saxophonist Randall Smith preoccupied with the solo potential of the Bay Area’s six-string darling.
While a musical revolution was raging across the Golden Gate, simultaneously in Marin’s Rock Star-studded hamlet of Mill Valley and redwood-thick haven of Lagunitas, young Randall Smith was doing some serious sonic pioneering. With a rich musical background and a love for tube-based electronics, Smith was working diligently toward a high gain revolution of his own in guitar amplifiers.
Even as he was working for the Bay Area’s biggest stars doing amp repairs, behind the scenes Smith was developing a totally new “cascading” tube preamp circuit squeezed into in a compact high power combo amplifier that would change the way guitarists would sound–and play–forever more.
Often using his noteworthy clients as test pilots, one day he had a breakthrough while helping Country Joe & The Fish guitarist Barry Melton. He quickly went home, perfected the idea, and called upon local hero Carlos Santana to plug in and give it a spin. After riding a wave of inspiration for long enough to gather a substantial crowd that afternoon in Mill Valley outside Prune Music’s front window where they met for the maiden voyage, Carlos stopped playing and proclaimed, “Man, this thing really Boogies”! It was a defining moment for the future of electric guitar sounds.
The game-changing little high gain Boogie® would go on to have a huge impact on the music of the ‘70s as guitarists finally had the ability to hold notes indefinitely with their newfound sustain. At the dawn of a new decade, another landmark feature in guitar amplification came out of the Lagunitas shop with the introduction of the world’s first channel switching amplifier in 1980, the MARK II®.
Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s a score of additional innovative and patented improvements saw MESA/Engineering® emerge as the leader in tube amplifier technology. But none of these vital, now-commonplace improvements sparked the kind of attention MESA received in 1991, when high gain was re-defined once more with the birth of the MESA/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® Solo Head, which commanded the Rock airwaves for the next 15 years.
NOW...
Forty-five years and thousands of satisfied customers later, MESA/Boogie® Ltd hand-builds the fifth generational offspring of that pivotal amplifier (and many more) now known around the globe as the MARK I Boogie®; the world’s first high gain, high power, compact 1x12 amplifier. That revolutionary little combo is the “missing link” in amp design... the pivotal nexus between Vintage and Modern guitar amplifiers. When it comes to amplified guitar, there’s really just two epochs… before Boogie®, and after Boogie®.
Today, 30 miles from the mountain shack where those first “Snakeskin” Boogies were born, we still hold true to the simple but increasingly rare principles Randy used to catapult MESA/Boogie® onto the world stage. Hand-building the very best instruments we can and treating each and every customer as we ourselves would wish to be treated has kept us there.
We are still privately owned–one of the last American music companies to be so–and have no profit-hungry investors cutting corners between you and your Tone. Every product we make is hand-built in our one and only shop in Petaluma, California and our artisans are tenured with an average of 15 years at their post, many for MUCH longer. We answer to no one except you and our own uncompromising ethical standards.
We are proud of our place in history as the original “Boutique” amplifier company, but recognize that we must still earn daily, our reputation as one of the most respected and prestigious brands in the musical instrument industry. So as you discover our historically important contributions to the art of amplifier design and journey through our vast product line, rest assured we continue to pioneer and improve–as we have from the start – the possibilities for your expression and our unparalleled Customer Service.
We‘d be honoured to be your amplifier company and welcome you to the worldwide family of MESA® players who have found inspiration and the confidence to reach new musical frontiers through our instruments. We have one goal and it’s deeply rewarding to us; to help you sound your very best and be a catalyst for you to achieve your musical dreams.
____________________________________________________________________________
We are the NSW Mid-North Coast Franchise Dealer for these (and more) quality musical instruments & equipment plus loads more guitar, drum, keyboard, recording, and live brands.
____________________________________________________________________________
ContactUs:
∎ N E W T O N E M U S I C ∎ GUITAR TRAINING CENTRE
58 COMMERCE STREET | TAREE NSW 2430
(PH) 0 2 6 5 5 2 1 4 4 4 | (PH) 0 4 0 7 1 1 4 1 1 2
(E) groundy @ tsn.cc
____________________________________________________________________________
★For more than 25 years at NEWTONEMUSIC we provide★
✓ FREE SHIPPING depot-to-depot to all states (except WA & NT).
✓ BALANCE of Full 5 YEAR NEW Manufacturers WARRANTY.
✓ 1 YEAR back to base (excluding valves).
✓ LAYBY without time limits & receipts showing remaining balance.
✓ PAYPAL Safe & Secure Payment.
✓ CREDIT CARD phone MOTO & BPOINT payments accepted.
✓ NO INTERESTED EVER Finance available.
✓ BANK DEPOSIT to:
Groundwater's Guitar School Inc
58 Commerce Street, Taree NSW 2430
( BSB: 0 6 2 6 0 3 / ACC: 1 0 1 7 1 0 9 2 )
✓ PHONE SUPPORT (Long Hours) 02 6552 1444 / 0407 114 112
____________________________________________________________________________
STOCK SUPPLY NOTES
A note on our rare, classic, vintage, collectable, and used musical instrument amplifier & musical instrument equipment items. While we offer a warranty on your purchase, because we run on very tight profit margins (meaning cheaper gear - which is good for you, the buyer), it also means that you need to make sure you actually want the items for their incredible tone, durability, and lasting quality rather than perfect looks. Any returns or refunds will incur a re-stock fee of around a third the value of your (already) low purchase price so please remember that while most of our gear is excellent for the age, these items (especially our valve amplifier) are indeed rare and represent the sound of an unrepeatable era. Even though we meticulously service, test, clean, polish and warrant all our gear, there may occasionally be some residual scuffs underneath or on the sides, or perhaps a tiny tolex rip on the rear. So, while our gear will be in EXCELLENT CONDITION (for the age), we will always advise you if the gear is in MINT CONDITION or if we feel that the item is perhaps of only AVERAGE CONDITION.
____________________________________________________________________________
* Footswitches, Cables, etc available if originally supplied to us by the donor
____________________________________________________________________________
Sold out
