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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
@guitars4you had one as his shop demo amp (I don't know if he still does) - it sounded very good with a wide variety of different guitars.
Price-wise they seem to go for very little money, given their origins and price when they were new.
Anyway thank you all for your replies.
Mesa prices don't seem to hold up well - particularly with older/less desirable models.
You do need the crib sheets from the manual (still downloadable) for basic setup, and blanks to record your preferred settings.
You can get teh brutalz sounds - but you have to set the controls & voicing (to modern) - there's a crib sheet in the manual. Never used it myself.
Sounded bloody great to me.
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The 55 is back to 2x6L6's and sounded better.
The 100 is 4x6L6's and graphic EQ and is amazing IMHO
All are totally underrated, but they replaced the DC series, which are slightly darker, but I think better amps - still gig with a DC5.
And yes the knobs are shit, as noted above. £650 is pretty steep for the 45, I'd hold out for a either a 55 or a revision B DC5 which will be ~£500 or, if you need more volume, a DC10 which will not really be that much more.
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I went to buy the 55 when they first came out - on paper it looked like the perfect amp for me - but came away with the last DC-5 in the shop, which sounded better to me. The 55 was just a bit characterless somehow.
The 45 was surprisingly different - but I found it very shouty and grating.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The Koch Twintone II I had at the same time had a similar valve and channel layout and was better in pretty much every way.
I'd personally recommend trying one of those instead for less money.
That said, I bought it from Music Ground so who knows who actually built it ...
It is - and sounds totally different from all their other 4-EL84 amps. In fact totally different from all their other amps. It's the 'anti-Mesa'… no channel switching, no MV, and specifically designed so there is no preamp overdrive. I wish I'd never sold mine - but to be accurate, I never ran it in the 4-EL84 mode either! Only in 2-6V6 or Simul.
Boogie, not Mesa . It's very much a small Mark series. I find them very hard to get what I want out of, even the + version with the GEQ and the Lead Master - which are both essential, I wouldn't advise anyone to buy the earlier version without.
It is at least extremely light for a Mesa/Boogie though.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein