Mesa Boogie Dual Caliber DC-10

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I'd appreciate feedback from anyone that has direct experience with a Mesa Boogie Dual Caliber DC-10 guitar amp. Sound pallate? Reliability? etc....

They stopped manufacturing this 100/60 watt, 2 X 12" speaker all tube model in the mid to late 90's.

I've located one locally and will have a chance to demo it tomorrow night.

My intended use would be for heavier natural distortion sounds.

Bart
 
I've got the dc-3 which is probably a little different beast, but as far as durability and sound it's an amazing amp. I can get any sound I want out of it. In fact this week I recorded an Emo band, Punk band, and a Bluesy band all with the head, and they all picked it over their own amps. Like I said it's built solid as a rock and I'd pick it up if I were you, you can definately tell the Mesa quality is there.
 
jonnyc said:
I've got the dc-3 which is probably a little different beast, but as far as durability and sound it's an amazing amp. I can get any sound I want out of it. In fact this week I recorded an Emo band, Punk band, and a Bluesy band all with the head, and they all picked it over their own amps. Like I said it's built solid as a rock and I'd pick it up if I were you, you can definately tell the Mesa quality is there.
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Thanks man. Your feedback is appreciated.

Do you have any clips you recorded with the Boogie? I play an American Strat, American Tele and a PRS Tremonti so anything you or anyone else might have with those amp/guitar combos would be very cool.

Bart
 
I have a DC-3 as well and love it. The amp has mojo. I've had it 8 years and never had a problem with it.

HOWEVER, my guitar tech believes the DC series has a serious design flaw - they are full of LDRs which are expensive to replace if they overheat. He says Mesa stopped making the DC series because of this LDR issue. Again, I've never had a problem with mine, but this guy knows what he's talking about and he showed me two in his shop that had failed because of overheated LDRs.

As far as sound, the amp has a great clean and beautiful distortion. I get lots of compliments on my tone.
 
i used one of these to do all of my rhythm parts on the first record i ever did when my first band, bayside, got signed...

i spent a long time trying to find one for a good price, and never did...
ive since forgotten about it...until now...damn.
 
orksnork said:
i used one of these to do all of my rhythm parts on the first record i ever did when my first band, bayside, got signed...

i spent a long time trying to find one for a good price, and never did...
ive since forgotten about it...until now...damn.
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Scored mine off Tim Reynold's( of Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds fame) nephew for 200 bucks. I'll try to get some clips up.
 
I have two dc-5 heads. Which is the same as the dc-10 but with 50 watts. I have used these heads for years, because they sound great and are fairly cheap. You have a solo and clean channels with isolated eq / reverb / presence/ gain. The clean channels gain knob is also a pull swith for a boost (for more classic rock type tones). The solo channel (or high gain) is unbelievably heavy as piss. Very low endish. There is also a master volume and master 5 band eq. The master eq is footswitchable, which is great for song intro's and such. I;ve tried dual rectifiers and jcm 2000/900 and i've always went back to the dc-5. I have a road case that fits two of them. I have thought about have one of them modded to bring out the boost switch to a foot switch. This would only make the amp perfect. These amps are the little brother of the mark IV. The mark IV has all three channels and simu class. Metallica used these I believe on the and justice album and the black album.
 
Great feedback

Thanks all for the feedback and for the link to the clips.

Sounds like I should give this amp a serious look over and buy it if all seems well.

Bart
 
Orksnork you were in bayside?? It always suprises me on who hangs out on these forums :D
 
I got a DC-5 combo, always wanted to hace the DC-10. Great amp, hope you like it.
 
DC-10 was class A in my book, great sounding amp. hook a 4x12 up to it and SHAAZZZAAAAMMMM. Only precaution, if a tube goes out for some reason it will start to fry resistors. I had this happen on one. This crazy tube guy said it was the way the newer tube models were built. If a tube ends up blowing due to bad biasing it ends up frying other parts in the circuit. I had two fryed resistors, bad tubes, and a biasing. Cost $150 and never had problems since then.
 
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