foo
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Gentlemen, re: Mesa Boogie amps.
To whoever said he would like to hear one before making any judgement, just turn on the radio. Their user list is like a who's who of the music world, and has been since I started using their amps in 1979.
It seems like we're comparing elephants and ants here.
On the one hand we're talking about a ratt or dod distortion pedal and then a top-of-the-line Boogie.
I bought my first Boogie unseen - I had played a friends, with a different configuration and speaker, but no real exposure to the model I was looking to get.
When mine came, I hated it for the first three days. Once I realized (by trial and error) that all the controls were interactive, things got better real fast. (They're not any more).
I have used nothing else since 1979 (except for blackface Fender's for specialty gigs) and would not use anything else.
I have used them on every type of gig from the Calgary Hockey stadium to a small intimate jazz gig, to a big-band dinner dance to a hard-rock 'where's-my-ear-protectors-this-is-gonna-be-loud' and for every gig it produces the perfect sound.
Buy a Boogie, live happily ever after. It's the last amp you'll ever have to buy.
foo
To whoever said he would like to hear one before making any judgement, just turn on the radio. Their user list is like a who's who of the music world, and has been since I started using their amps in 1979.
It seems like we're comparing elephants and ants here.
On the one hand we're talking about a ratt or dod distortion pedal and then a top-of-the-line Boogie.
I bought my first Boogie unseen - I had played a friends, with a different configuration and speaker, but no real exposure to the model I was looking to get.
When mine came, I hated it for the first three days. Once I realized (by trial and error) that all the controls were interactive, things got better real fast. (They're not any more).
I have used nothing else since 1979 (except for blackface Fender's for specialty gigs) and would not use anything else.
I have used them on every type of gig from the Calgary Hockey stadium to a small intimate jazz gig, to a big-band dinner dance to a hard-rock 'where's-my-ear-protectors-this-is-gonna-be-loud' and for every gig it produces the perfect sound.
Buy a Boogie, live happily ever after. It's the last amp you'll ever have to buy.
foo