r/MesaBoogie

Im huge prince fan. I want to buy a heart breaker to mimic some of his sound but I can’t find many people selling or talking about them

Does anyone have any recommendations on the STR 441 versus STR 445? I am currently reading that the STR 441 replaced the STR 440 but it also states that Mesa uses STR 445 on their dual rectifier series.
All info is welcomed

Currently own two boogies, a Fillmore 50 head and a Mark V 90 head. Can’t gig either of them right now. The Fillmore had an issue where it would seemingly drop to half power randomly, drove it 4 hours each way to a tech for him to find a missed solder joint. Not a cold or cracked solder joint, they simply missed it from the factory. Get it back home, all good, until the next gig when it died onstage. Now it’s losing power and distorting, and every time I think I’ve fixed it, it waits until mid-gig to happen again. New tubes, cleaned everything, the works - no luck. It’s failed on me more gigs than it’s made through this year.

So I bring the Mark V to rehearsal, and mid set start smelling something weird. Look in the back, a power tube is redplating. Fantastic. The amp did blow a fuse a month or so ago, and I was very careful to watch for anything weird after replacing it. Never caught anything but I bet whatever is causing this blew the fuse. Last boogie I had was a LSS, it did also had issues my tech at the time couldn’t figure out, and I sold it as a lemon. I know I need to take both of these back to the tech, but 4 hours each way is tough to do.

I’m kind of just venting here, and getting tired of having these wonderful amps and still having to borrow amps for a gig. I’ve always understood Mesa to be generally reliable, just hard to work on because they’re so complicated. But good lord either they’re a nightmare or I have the worst luck in the world. Any one want to chime in with their experience?

Have been looking for ages on ways to fix a Mesa Boogie Big Block 750. I am outside US and EU, so no Mesa boogie repair center. The issue its the common one many of BB750 tend to have, they go into prpotection mode and go silent when playing. Thanks to anyone that has valuable info and experience on this fix

I got a 90s reissue dual rec and am having some difficulty dialing it in. I tend to dial amps to resemble a 90s metal tone ala Metallica’s Black album and although I am close with the orange in modern with a boost I am having a hard time figuring a few things out or if the amp I received (open box) is defective.

First, the orange channel is really dark in vintage mode. further when I clone it to modern I have to turn the presence up to 3 o clock or more to hear any difference and from 0 to 10 to be honest I am hard pressed to hear much.

on the red channel in modern I have to have the presence dialed quite a bit down and the treble dialed back below noon as well or it gets fizzy to my ears. oddly the louder I crank the amp the more pronounced it is. When I check youtube videos and crank the presence and treble like they do on the red channel the amp sounds piercing and shrill to me. Also, the effects loop is engaged as I like delay and reverb and that level is set to noon. lastly, the amp isn’t rally a saturated gain like I get from a peavey style amp but it’s also not dry per se like a mark series.

I guess my questions are mainly around the noted presence behavior and the needing to dial the treble back. Every demo I watch these values on the red channel are cranked and I am not able to do that. Combined with the presence on the orange in modern not doing much of anything I wondered if the amp had issues. I am in bold mode and have diode tracking and am playing through a 8 ohm 2x12 mesa can with uk v30s.

So I have a Mesa Tremoverb which has a parallel effects loop.

I had the idea to get a boss ge7 or mxr ten band to run in the loop and blend with my main tone. The idea being to eq the loop to compliment and thicken the sound. A quasi dual amp effect would be what im trying to achieve.

I googled a little bit and saw phase cancelation can be issue if I try to boost frequencies.

Have any of yall tried this, or done something similar with rack mount processing? Or any interaction of this idea?

EDIT:

Replies so far have given good information. However, I want to clarify my question.

I have used parellel and series effects loops. I understand their purpose and differences, and am also aware of the design of my own amps effects loops.

I am also aware that this will not replicate a dual amp rig, nor am I asking about anything other than an using an eq in my amps parallel loop.

I have used dual and triple amp rigs in the past(including wet/dry and stereo), and even hybrid rigs with modelers.

Im just asking if anyone has tried doing this to achieve a complementary eg. For example, my main tone is very high mid focused with a good bit of presence. So if i run the eq in the loop with a cut high end and boosted low end, would it blend well or cause phase issues or anything else with like say the speaker, or negative feedback back loops.

With that out of the way, im asking about the use of an eq for this purpose because;

1. I dont have the amount of gear I used to, nor the means to buy it all again.

2. I do not currently own an eq to test this out with.

3. last but not least, I dont have disposable income where I can just spend $100 on a whim.

I am saving to buy an eq and do it myself anyways. Just want to see what experience people out there if any.

Just to practice I’m a total noob when it comes to tube amps.

I recently picked up a single rectifier combo, which I absolutely love. The only thing that I wish could be better is the spring reverb. It is kind of lacking compared to the reverb in my fender super reverb. I know that both have real spring Reverb tanks so is it possible to somehow get the Reverb in the Mesa boogie to sound closer to the fender?

My question is this: I played the brand-new ‘90s Dual Rectifier Reissue at Guitar Center the other day, and it sounded absolutely perfect. I’m an enthusiast when it comes to sound purity. I play about 80% of the time in a fairly decent-sized office/bedroom. I really appreciate uncompromised tone at louder volumes, but still at indoor-friendly levels, especially in the evenings. I like it loud enough that it doesn’t feel compromised, but nowhere near concert volume.
With that said, I’m curious whether I’d be just as happy—or even hear much of a difference at these kinds of volumes—between a full Dual Rectifier and a Mini Rectifier.
I currently have a Mesa 1x12 cabinet, and I’d be willing to upgrade to a 2x12 if that’s what it takes to achieve the sound I experienced. By the way, I played the Dual Rectifier through a Marshall cabinet.
The sound felt so good in Guitar Center. I was in their sound room and had the amp turned up to about the same levels I play in my own space—not cranked to concert levels, nowhere close. It was honestly one of the best playing experiences I’ve ever had, and I’d love to replicate that at home.
So my question is: do I need to spend $3,000 on a Dual Rectifier head and a 2x12 cabinet to get that experience, or would you recommend getting the Mesa Mini Rectifier and running it through my current 1x12? Or do you think the Mini would leave me yearning for more, even at these still-indoor volume levels?

As a dude with a history of mkiv, mkv and jp2c, someone tell me if I should get this mkiii red stripe hrg for 1600.

Just swapped out the tubes on my rev G Dual Rectifier and noticed a bit of hum coming through the cabinet. Hum is present with nothing in the input and volume all the way down. I turned standby back on and then noticed I can also hear the hum (albeit faintly) coming from the chasis near where the power chord plugs in.

Hum is most noticable on the red channel but you can hear it on the orange channel as well, but quieter.

Ive already put the old tubes back in, so its not the tubes. New tubes were a DR set from Eurotubes.

Is this normal? Ive been told its normal on a lot of higher wattage amps to hear electrical buzzing/humming come from the electronics but ive also been reading it could be a filter cap. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Its not an extremely loud hum or buzz. Its kind of like the sound you hear when you walk past a transformer on the street or something.

Any help would be appreciated.

I’m considering buying mesa badlander 50w however i wanted to buy w 1x12 mostly for solo practice at home that would be later replaced with a 2x12 or 4x12. I was considering buying the Hughes and kettner tubemeister 112, not looking for anything too fancy, since I will be replacing it in the future, but something that can handle badlander well enough. Do you have any suggestions?