r/MesaBoogie

I’m loving this thing (Mark Vii). Big step up from my previous Marshall Dsl20. If you’ve got any tips, tricks, or cool tone settings drop them please

Nice color and sounds and wood cabinet. But very poor handle.
Boogie always is a deluxe brand to me. This handle errrrrrr…….

Have wanted a Mesa since I was 15 years old. 26 years later it finally happened 😃

hello everybody I have a new reissue of a dual rectifier with series fx loop, I was wondering if this was normal

in hearing a low hum buzz noise even with 2 noise gates in my pedal board I only have 3 pedals connected to see if it’s any of my other pedals but it’s not

my settings are

in o clock

gain 1:30

treble 2

presence 1

bass 12

mid 9 o’clock

my fx loop is engaged

and im using my emg humbucker pickups

What’s your favorite Mesa Boogie you own currently? Mine is my Mark IV with Svetlana’s.

Traded in my 5150 Iconic for this beast!

It absolutely rips!

I was confident that the “hard to dial in” reputation was overstated and my immense amp wisdom would have perfect tones in seconds. I was wrong. But boy is this a beast of an amp and I’m probably set for life with these two!

The rule is one mesa per half/stack… no exceptions….

Got my first Mesa, a Badlander 50, and I’m honestly blown away by how good this thing sounds. Absolutely love it so far.

But I’ve been having a weird issue when switching from Variac to Bold. A few days ago a fuse blew for the first time, but after replacing it the next day, the amp worked completely fine again as long as I stayed in Bold mode.

Today, I dared to switch to Variac Mode again (after playing in Bold for around 2 hours) and the same thing happened when I switched back to Bold. I've waited around 10 minutes, before switching it back on - another fuse blown.
I wasn’t even able to normally switch it from OFF to Bold mode. Another two fuses blew, before I finally was able to use it in bold mode.
I’m 4 fuses deep at this point 😅

Has anyone else experienced this with a Badlander? Starting to feel like this amp just hates Variac mode for some reason.

I bought a brand new Dual Rectifier as my first tube amp back around 2005 and had it for a few years. I played tons of shows, toured with it and spilled blood, tears and beers on it. I made lifelong friends sitting next to it, cool people played through it.. Eventually I ended up moving to a studio apartment and needed to downsize my gear (attenuation wasn’t really a thing back then) and ended up selling it to a good friend. I bought an Orange Dark Terror and matching 1x12 with the money.
In later years I realized that this was the one piece of gear that I created the most sentimental value with and missed having it around.
Every few years I would ask my friend if he was interested in selling the amp back to me but the answer was always the same. “Not really trying to get rid of it right now” or something along those lines. This time however, the answer unexpectedly changed and after figuring out funding I was able be reunited with her for not much more than I sold it to him for. I’m elated to have an old friend by my side again.

My old vocalist from that first band is still a great friend and we currently have plans to do a 20th anniversary release of some of the tunes that we made back in the day using as much of the gear that we had back then. This amp will be one of the featured stars of that project and I can’t wait.

Been looking to get into the Mesa club for some time. I honed in on a Mark 5 and this thing is sweet. I’m in a 90s-2000s alternate rock/grunge cover band and can’t wait to start using this beast.

Went to GC center today and tested the Marshall SC212 cab and loved how compact it is. Anyone else running this setup?

I came across this cab used. It’s a closed back Widebody C90. I’ve only ever seen the C90 in an Open Back. Looking to see if this would suit my needs for versatility from cleans, classic rock, metal, alternative, indie at low volumes. To use with a Mark V and Orange Amp

Is this how is supposed to sounds? Kinda fizzy and almost too clean sounding. I've got an eq in the loop and a TS style up front but it sounds off. Any advice?