MESA/Boogie California Tweed™ 6V6 4:Forty Official Demo
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- The all-tube California Tweed™ 6V6 4:Forty combines the best of classic tweed and blackface circuits in a simple, single-channel, pedal-friendly format. Powered by four 6V6 power tubes, our patented Multi-Watt™ power amp provides wattage options to fit any application. From 40 watts of gig-able clean headroom with four 6V6s down to two watts with two 6V6s wired in Triode and Pentode/Single-Ended, the perfect power-to-clip ratio is just a switch. Stunning, all-tube reverb offers nuance or vintage depth and is also footswitchable while your favorite effects will integrate beautifully in the finely tuned input or the tube buffered FX Loop. All the essential features you need, none of the complexity you don’t, and delicious 6V6 Tone at any wattage.
Available as a 1x12 combo or medium (23”) head, the California Tweed Series also welcomes two vintage-tuned, matching 1x12 & 2x12 extension cabinets that deliver the classic resonance of the Cali-Tweed voice.
Playing by Kris Dilbeck of Mesa Customer Service and Doug West, Director of R & D. Recorded with various California Tweed 1x12 and 2x12 Cabinets with Jensen Black Bird speakers. Mic’d with a Shure SM57, Shure KSM313 and an Avatone CK-40 stereo room mic. Mixed 33% SM57, 33% KSM313, and 33% Avatone CK-40.
For more information on the California Tweed Amplifier:
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And the California Tweed Cabinet Series:
1x12
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2x12
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Thank you Tony Hawk
😂
There goes your thumb up kind sir, thankyou for the laugh.
Holy Cow! Now there's an amp that sounds crystal clear but still has some "oomph"!
This amp would be just what a one-man act could appreciate and use.
The Genius of Mesa, what a Sweet Tone, Articulate and nicely rounded note definition. This will be another Classic Mesa Amplifier!
I am Proud to own the Mesa Mini 25 Rec and a Mesa 4 X 12 V30 Cab, The sweetest and Nastiest Amp I have ever owned, I cannot speak highly enough of the High Quality and meticulous attention to detail. The same goes for Mesa's Pedals 👍👍👍.
Melbourne, Australia.
Thanks so much for the incredibly kind words, John! Glad the amp is serving well and thanks for checking out the latest and greatest! :)
I don’t understand the hate. For example I can’t think of a feature that is not included in an amp like the mark V:25, but makes people mental when missing from amps that cost almost as much. A tweed amp is a circuit, and fender wants a grand for their most faithful champ, 2000 for a 12 watt deluxe, and 3k for the 57 twin. That twin has great sound sure. But it has zero flexibility, no speaker outs, no effects loop, only a combo, and has no power level choices. Why do you hate flexibility in this, but celebrate spending 3 grand on an amp with zero features? Here you can also do a 2x12. You can’t do it with a 2k deluxe. So if you think it’s stupid because it’s not worth spending the money on a tweed circuit in a box that helps also with your other gear or with the sound guy at your gig, and you think it sucks cause they didn’t choose to dime the amp so you think you know what it truly sounds like, instead of playing one, then you pretty much should be happy with your blues jr. Don’t save until you can get one, just dime your ac4 in the guest bedroom and dial in the magic tones you get with that. I look forward to giving it a try myself.
I first used this amp on a session with Los Lobos guitarist David Hidalgo. He played a G&L and a Firebird through it, no pedals, and got so many insane tones from it that I ended up keeping the amp. This is a GREAT old-school flavored entry from Mesa; easy to carry and loud enough for gigs, quiet enough for home. Sounds fantastic at edge of breakup of course, but also amazing at full gain for those early Santana/Bluesbreakers tones. Absolutely overjoyed about the Tweed.
Everyone is making simple, single channel pedal amps and I love it! This sounds beautiful and look at the light blue tolex @6:33
fuck pedal amps...this is all u need son
That is one of the best sounding amps boogie has put out in decades.
Who would have thought the bloke who’s been so influential in designing some of the most renowned & versatile hi-gain amps for the best part of 20 years is a pretty darn handy blues player! Depth at MESA. Cheers, Doug!
No shit!!
What a great amp the tone didnt change at all when changing wattage. Great Job guys
Played one of these for the first time at the Gibson room at NAMM this year and it is now on my bucket list of amps I want 😭
Had the chance to try it out a year ago... Still dreaming about its sound.
Probably the best ive ever played in my entire life. Warm organic and powerful
I remember exactly when your first amps came out. The shop I hung out in received one. You change the world as far as amp design goes. Your amps did everything from day one. I remember it well. Because I couldn't afford it. LOL but we never complained they were worth every penny. So all the complainers save your money and buy a real amp. You could sell the first amp you put out there and it would still be better than the stuff on the market today.
I played this amp through both strat, and les Paul with p90’s…. Let me tell you that no matter what the settings where at, it always sounded good and that’s the difference between a good amp and a great amp, the great amp you plug straight in and it just sounds good snd as I played it sounded inspiring and that’s what a great amp is all about
The Jensen Blackbird speaker is amazing. I recently stuck one in my Mark IIb that I purchased new from you guys way back in the day, and man that totally changed the character of that amp, it's amazing! As always with the Mark IIb, a lot of care and patience (and research) is the ticket to dial in the sweet spot for both channels, but was definitely made easier with the Jensen. EV that came with it wasn't even close!
This video is what got me to stick a black bird in my twin, definitely an upgrade from what was in there
glad they chose a tele. same thing i was thinking immediately when hearing the amp
You guys should do a demo video with it taking a bunch of different pedals from pres to mods, delays & verbs
Just bought a head and 1x12. Been wanting this for 2 years
Congrats! Im soo in
I think it sounds GREAT! Nice job. Excited to try one
I like everything about this. I'm not as much into the Mark V, as it doesn't really suit my classic rock/country/blues/surf kind of music, so these early '60s Fender-inspired amps are right in my wheel house.
Sounds incredible (listening through ARCAM D/A converter, ARCAM FMJ and PMC speakers). I've had 4 Boogie amps, using LS Classic now, all brilliant sounding. Nick Guppy gave this a 10/10 Gold review in Guitarist magazine and he knows what he's talking about. I don't understand the negative comments, I also own H&K and Fender amps and have had Vox, Peavey, Selmer and Marshall over the years, all have their own merits.
Yet again, you guys come up with something so incredible, that I’m ready to sell my kidney to get my hands on one of these amps))) Bravo👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Im a long way from being able to do an amp like this justice but ... dayammm i enjoy listening to it in this clip !
That sound starting at 2:58 holy smokes... love it!
I agree with you there man,that tele sounds unreal,its the sound in a lot of guys heads
Mesa is going to design me into bankruptcy! I’ve been wishing for years they’d come up with something that was the best of Mesa architecture and build quality mixed with Fender clean. Suuuure looks like they’ve nailed it with this one. It’s settled. I will have the combo by month’s end. Just...WOW.
Finest amp Ive ever owned, wow, GET IT!
Thanks Mesa ! This is a beautiful instrument.Another gem that will make me wonder if I play the guitar or the amp.This is the case with my Boogie MK4b head and Recto 212 cab since I bought it.
This is also nice and portable.The wattage is perfect.
that yellow tele they use for all their demos never fails to delight me
Just got one. Best sounding amp ever. Holy grail sound yeeee haaaa
Hello.The clean sounds awesome?How do you like it?
alain rosso it is amazing
@@kents2908 Cool enjoy it..
what other tweed style amps have you owned? Just curious. I do like the sound of this thing but really wanted to hear it at full power with the master all the way up. Hard to tell how the power amp sounds if its not pushed at all
Totally up my alley. I'm a sucker for single channel 6v6 circuits and this has an awesome sound. Seriously thinking about getting one.
Btw, great playing, guys. The 335 and black strat segments were amazing.
Many thanks, Ricardo - appreciate the kind words and glad you're digging it.
MesaEngineering=Godly tones, it's incredible what Doug and the team have done refining these amps over the years, and the continuous improvement and usability.
I love it that the main dude uses zero reverb so you can actually tell that the amp is awesome with no fake effects.just that beautiful bouncy fender plus quality mesa boogie tube amp sound.no fakery.the second guy plays amazingly too,and I guess his job is to show how well the amp sounds with such effects like reverb/chorus/delay.beautiful amp.i have a mesa son of boogie.apparently the same circuitry as a mark 1.sounds beautiful.if I had more money I would get a Mexican strat or tele.but my Ibanez roadstar sounds warm and awesome,just different than the springy bouncy strat sound.I will get a second electric guitar someday with that sound I hope!
Thanks for the kind words, Jon - glad the demo is working for ya! :)
@@mesaboogie oh I am a kind person,but you don't need to be overly kind to love a boogie.the demo says it all.A musical fetish of mine is to get my friends or aquaintances to play my rig.I get desensitised to my own way of playing or EQ settings,so its cool to see good(or even not very good) players play through my mesa.They make average players break out into new territory,or old covers or chord progressions take on new life.thats why I got such a musical boner over the demo.very well put together demo too.no effects guitar player,then an effects guitar player.The reason why I bought my boogie was because when I plugged my crybaby through it,it sounded like the funk albums I was trying to emulate,or jimis burning of the midnight lamp.My previous transistor amp did not do my crybaby justice.i really got it just for that reason.But I now understand that they are the best for so many other reasons
@@mesaboogie could you please send me any links about son of boogies? they are hard to research
This dude dances like Forrest Gump when he plays. Can’t wait try this amp out though!
this is going to be a hit!
Appreciate the kind words, Benjamin! :)
Super cool amp. Love the simplicity. Now I need one to compliment my Mark V:25
The tele sounded awesome through this!
Lovely! I love my Road King v2 Head and RK Cab, and my 2x12 Electra Dyne, and my new TC-100 Head and 2x12 upright cab! I need more Mesa's! Lol. Don
Sounds absolutely gorgeous
Ok guys I bought this amp head and 2x12.u rant going to believe me but I ab,d it with granddad 63 vibrolux and in 40 watt mode louder but tone and game onset PRETTY DANG CLOSE.In fact it's more Brown face than tweed.Got vibroluxe wine in spades when pushed keely javaboost .
I dont care if it sounds like a fender or what (IT SHOULDNT BE ANYWAY), if it sounds good, it sounds good, and IT SOUNDS DAMN GOOD.
The ultimate compliment to Fender. I'll still take the Fender, but imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
Sounds beautiful! Man, I'd love to hear a Gretsch played through one of these.
I loved dual and triple rectifiers but I don't play metal so I never wanted one. This...on the other hand...I can't wait to see what a bunch of OD pedals sound like with this.
Basically the same look and price of a Victory V40 Deluxe. This Boogie just has it, though. Never played a Mesa/Boogie I didn't love!
Amp number 2 million that has a nice blues rock sound...just what we needed...
I love tweed amps and single channel amps. The power at 40 watts,etc,and tone controls offer what the vintage amps didnt-a midrange and presence control (presence was on some Fender amps). Love the tone,a MUST HAVE AMP.
Beautiful amp. Great blues sound
This looks great! Can’t wait to watch more later. 👍🏻
Yeah, Boogie’s always good for a little hyperbole. It makes their manuals that much more fun to read.
Mesa Tweed amp?!? Is Petrucci about to drop a blues album?
😅😅😅
😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣 you really don't know Mesa do you
That would be a funny possibility, let alone Joe Bonamassa trying them out.
As a Bay Area native, trained by a guitar teacher who personally knows Doug West and the Mesa boogie team , (along with previously owning a mark 2B and a mark three with a 2x12 cabinet and an 80s digital stereo rack rig from what I remember), and particularly reading in books let alone the videos; mesa boogie started out with Randall Smith repairing audio equipment that soon lead to contemporary fender amplifiers. The first two famous examples were jokingly fitting a fender Princeton amp with a fender baseman circuit and a 12 inch JBL speaker for the guitarist of country Joe and the Fish. The next major seal of approval comment was from Carlos Santana after trying out the early mark 1 amps, where he famously stated, “That amp really boogies!”
When Randall Smith finally branded the name of his business, the legend goes that his original address was on Mesa Avenue in Mill valley or the rural town of Lagunitas in Marin County where I grew up. Since the 80s from what I remember, they have stayed at that same Petaluma factory as they proudly cherish.
Every mesa boogie fan or curious Music fans should watch the three-part documentary series on the UA-cam channel of Mesa boogie‘s history.
Part one: the beginnings with Santana as explained.
Part two: the 1980s with the Mark 2C+ and Metallica.
Part three: the dual rectifiers in the modern era.
mesa started coping fender😅
this is nice but nothing beats the clean tone of a lonestar
Go play a Mesa California Tweed! I was extremely impressed, it's like a mix between a Fender Blues DeVille and a Marshall DSL40 it's super legit no joke, I want one bad! Or better yet don't try one, because once you do you'll be unhappy with you current amp.... 😂 I've never tried a Lonestar though so I can't compare the two but I sure do love the California Tweed... Have a good day and keep Jamming!
Naah i dont like lonestar , it doesnt focus only on clean tone like this one. It has all the metal music kinda stuff which i dont need, so no worth buying an amp with dirty controls if i dont want them
4:06 Perfect John Mayer tone!! The black strat sounds awesome.
Sounds gorgeous.
Sweet looking and sounding Amp
looks and sounds GREAT
Looks and sounds beautiful and classy. IF you ever feel the need to give an amp away dear Mesa (because you hit your head against a beam or got electricuted) please think of me.😉
Sounds great! Doug, you're so serious! LOL! 😊
Sweet!!! Well done guys!
Great job guys, sounds awesome.
Played one of these in Chicago and loved the tone so much I ordered one before I even got back to WV. It was bad out of the box with a constantly glassy harmonic sound out of the head (techs determined it wasn't the tubes). Got a warranty replacement which had the exact same issue right out of the box. Very sad! Things are all better now as my third replacement was a Morgan PR12. Love the amp but not sure what's happening with the QC over there. Hope it's just a bad batch of parts or some pandemic mistakes.
You’re not accustomed to Gibson QC are you? 1 in 5 are good, 1 in 20 are great. Just the way it goes.
@@tylermanharth9110 I've had to learn this the hard way lol
Tyler Manharth I was literally RIGHT about to buy one until you reminded me Mesas are gibson products now😭😭😭 Thanks a lot bro, sincerely. You may have just saved me thousands of bucks and months of headache
@@USSLIBERTYREMEMBERER what amp were you looking at getting?
I think that actually sounded better than a real tweed.
That blue one is Ace!
Same here just bought a mark v and now I want this one - they need a easy pay plan
Great AMP marvelous sound !!!
Those killer riffs with that Gibson...oh yes!
Trying to be funny cause that’s not a Gibson
I own this head... I love it... it also sounds great into a H&K 2x12 with the V30's.
A stunning sounding amp!!
Love the sound
sounds like the fat channel of my mark v. Ive always thought that channel was so nice it deserved its own amp.
Oh man.... There goes my savings account, Lol!
You really made sure to include all the cliche words used on music gear adds :p
To be perfectly honest the CaliTweed sounds better than what ever from fender....;)
Love Fender but this amp is a Fender on steroids!
fender makes the BEST boat anchors!!!!
Fantastic design.
god damn that sounds fucking great
This may be just be my happily ever after amp.
This is the closest to a perfect boogie amp for me
YES!! i can get on board with this
2:58 -- yowza. What a sound.
I have a feeling I'll never drop the hammer on a Mesa. First I wanted the Mark V 35, then the Fillmore came out.. and I hemmed and hawed about which of those to get.. just when I almost made my decision, along comes another nice offering. Maybe I could decide faster if there was JUST ONE Mesa dealer on all of Long Island.. but alas there does not appear to be..
this beats the fillmore
@@soofitnsexy have you played both? I've played neither and basing all judgements on youtube vids! I likes the dual channel of the Fillmore. I own a Swart Space Tone 45 that is a dedicated 6L6 , and wanted something different... was leaning towards el84's hence my interest in the MArk V 35.
So many damn choices.. which is good , but sucks when all the guitar stores around sell the same shit over and over.
@@DakTirCue was at Rudys in manhattan and liked the fillmore but was not blown away...This sounds more organic and versatile due to powerscaling Im a huge fender princeton blackface guy and I love carr amps...I enjoy great cleans with some gain! not a big pedal guy
@@DakTirCue I have played the Fillmore 50 combo and head and also the Fillmore 25 combo. I have a mark v 90 combo. I would get the Fillmore 50 in head version it sounded best through a Mesa 2x12 with v30s than the combos. I cant recommend the 25 combo it sounded small and body and a guy was playing a lonestar special next room over and that sounded better gain than the Fillmore 25.
If u want tight compressed tones the mark series is the way to go it's great for crunch and high gain but to me its sterile for cleans. I'm thinking of selling the mark v to get a Fillmore 50 because the cleans are so. much more dynamic and vintage fat plus I love the open, saggy sound of gain with a strat. The mark v cleans are sterile and anemic, especially with single coils.
@@soofitnsexy check the new Fender Princeton it sounds better than this I think its 1999 and ptp wiring if that's your thing.
I have played Fillmore 50 and 25 combos and the 50 head. The head is the way to go the combos are too body small sound. I think it's better than this tweed but different.
Low input full power sounds huge even at low volumes. Boogie amps are in a league of their own.
Ain't nothing like a Fender Tweed !
coming from a deaf man
Dayum! This is awesome! Love it! (:
Sounds great 🤟🏻
I like this beauty with single coils...
Hi Mesa thanks for this new amazing amp! Could you please tell me what are the pedals used with the strat?
Thanks, Bibish! Appreciate the kind words. The Overdrive pedal is the Mesa Gridslammer and the delay is the Jim Dunlop Carbon Copy
Would like to hear it with a Celestion instead of a Jensen
Jensens have a certain reedyness in tweeds that I also hear here
Low sounds nice
Beautiful!
It just sounds so compressed in all settings like it’s stuck under the duvet. It feels stifled, muffled. Would a speaker change be possible to open the sound up? Love everything else about it.
I said the same thing….
✌🏼
So you love everything except how this guitar amplifier sounds?
i don't know why anyone even bothers with other brands of amps.one thing i do know though is that they are very complex.the guitologist seems to have difficulty in repairing these amps.I have had a couple of issues with mine but not for a while.luckily it always blows a fuse before it blows the amp up,and i always have spares.happens at high volume.i actually need a bigger amp or another amp to run with it in stereo.I have Chinese tubes in it at the moment,they have lasted for a long long time.it came with fender tubes.they didn't last long....i think the second tubes i got were russian
Why oh why can I not find a demo of someone putting the amp on 40w and diming the master? You simply cannot make a judgement on whether it nails the tweed sound without doing this.
I do like what I am hearing, but I need to hear how it holds together and what the power amp sounds like when overdriven.
I agree, I hate it when all they do is play quiet and melodic. Dime that bitch!
where is the searing Tweed grind !??! This is cool and all but my old pro tube series pro reverb has all the power scaling switches and two channels with Tremolo and verb all switchable with the 4 button switch plus the ptpr had the overdrive CHANNEL that sounds just like a Bassman Tweed on 12 ! yeah the pro tube pro reverb is kinda heavy and bulky with its oversized cabinet but that's part of the Tweed sound but this Mesa JUST doesn't feel like Tweed or sounds like Tweed, out sound like a 40 watt Princeton reverb with a 12 inch speaker to me.
I am not trying to diss Mesa at all, actually on trying to justify buying a Mesa boogie but with the AMPS that I have i doing see the Mesa coming home with me any time soon. Good luck at Namm and I hope you secure many orders for your new endeavor into Tweed territory 😉
Hi Auntie J - the sounds are in there, just not captured for this particular demo at the moment. Fair point, probably shoulda... Classic sound that will be added to the list of things to do. BUT - as mentioned, the circuit is there, as are the sounds, just a matter of cranking it up and choosing the wattage and there's gold to be had. Particularly juicy and grinding at 2 watts or 10 watts. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching! :)
MAGNIFIQUE !!!!!
I’m a bit curious as to why Mesa hasn’t created it’s own version of Carl Martin Quattro...some of us just like the Simple Things....
GOTTA get one of these for a test drive !!!
Every iteration of your multi watt makes me wish the Mark 5 (and the babies) came out later than it did…
boogie does it again! i prefer the tcm-100 though..............
BRING BACK THE NOMAD!!!!!
Judging on the clips it's got some Dr Z vibe I like
Sounds more like top hat amps to me.
Maybe. But you can set Z to be super chimey
Amazing!
Played one , wanted to love it. It just didn't do the Fender thing well. Tried a Fillmore, same deal....They have a weird hi fi sound. Not Fender organic tone...Bought a Vintage Sound, Vintage 40 MVP....Fender tone for days!
Guy with the black guitar sounds amazing. What r his settings? 🤔