Mesa Boogie Express
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2012
- www.nstuffmusic.com/p-18430-me...
ard-winning MARK FIVE. Here's what makes the new Express an Express Plus:
1. Improved CLEAN Mode that has more sparkle in the highs and warm,breathing lows - Plus a significantly better signal to noise ratio.
2. Patented Multi-Watt Channel Assignable Power! Both Express Plusmodels allow you to run the output tubes in your choice of three different wattage ratings per Channel (5:50 2x6L6 = 5/25/50), with it's own tone-spawning Operating Class and Wiring Configuration!
3. Legendary 5-Band Graphic Equalizer! Sliders are added alongside the original PRESET Contour Controls allowing you to footswitch or auto-assign the 5 Band SLIDERS or the PRESET Control in each Channel.
4. Performance Enhancing SOLO Control. Provides an additional footswitchable Master Output control that allows you to preset the perfect amount of volume boost to showcase featured parts and trigger it on the fly.
5. 4-Button Footswitch - Instant access to Channels, Reverb, EQ & Solo
Mesa Boogie Express 5:50 Plus Features:
Custom Designed AND Handcrafted Exclusively in Petaluma, California
All Tube Amplifier: 2xEL-84 Power Tubes & 5x12AX7 Preamp Tubes
Fixed Bias for consistent, maintenance free performance
Patented Multi-Watt, Channel Assignable Power Amp featuring Duo-Class & Dyna-Watt technologies providing three power and two operating class options that are channel assignable via independent Multi-Watt Power Switches:
Choose from:
1 power tube operating in pure Class A Single-Ended, producing 5 Watts in the 5:50 or;
2 tubes operating in pure Class A Push-Pull, producing 25-Watts in the 5:50, or;
2 tubes operating in Mesa's proprietary Dyna-Watt Class A/B power, producing 25-Watts in the 5:50
2 Fully Independent Channels with 4 Style Modes: Ch 1: Clean or Crunch - Ch 2: Blues or Burn Modes
Each Channel Features: Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Footswitchable Reverb, Master, Footswitchable or Assignable Preset Contour Control & Multi-Watt Power Switch
Selectable 5-Band Graphic EQ or Preset "V-Curve" Contour Controls -- Footswitchable or Channel Assignable
All-Tube, Long Spring Reverb with Independent Channel Controls
Fully Buffered FX Loop
Footswitchable Solo Level Control (Patent 6,724,897) -- Over all channels when activated
External Switching Jacks for Channel 1/2, Reverb, EQ & Solo
All Aluminum Chassis
4 Button Footswitch (Channel1/2, Reverb, EQ & Solo)
Slip Cover
Available as 1x12 Combo, Head, and Rackmount Head .
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I've got an older Express 5:50 combo that I love. Really great tones, highly functional, and built like a freaking tank.
Still got it?
This demo sold me. Best demo and playing for this amp.
Great Demo! Bought this amp a few months ago and I can only say wonderful things about it! I am extremely impressed with the versatility of this amplifier, it really can cover any tone I could possibly imagine! My favorite sounds come from Channel 1 set on Crunch with a light overdrive which can be cleaned up rolling back the guitar's volume, and Channel 2 set on Burn with the gain in its lower region to get those sweet singing Robben Ford/Larry Carlton style lead tones! Totally recommend it to anyone who like myself wants a great value extremely versatile amplifier! Well done Mesa/Boogie!
How does this do in terms of Marshall blues breaker or plexi style tones? Sounds like it's capable of doing lots of tones!
Christopher Miller Do you still love this amp?
Mark- Thanks so much for this demo. Best I've heard yet. Splendid licks my friend.
Great job on the demo! Your playing was tasteful and your tone was great!
Fantastic demo
This demo sounds way better than the Mesa demo. I was unimpressed until I saw this video. I just may have to go check this amp out. Although I have some serious gas for a RA-100 or an Electradyne. Great video!!
When Josie comes home, so good, she's the pride of the neighborhood, she's a raw flame, a live wire, she plays like a roman with her eyes on fire!
Geez lol I wish I would have seen this video before I went through the trouble to do my demo on the Express 5:50 plus this is extremely informative and well done!
you're a bad ass!! I'm digging the playing as much as the amp. more more
Got one, love it!
Just purchased one on the strength of this demo
It's a Vox. It's a cool guitar because the pickups can be run as a humbucker, P-90 or a single coil like a Fender. Very versatile.
This guy Mark Lucas is a great player.
No it only takes 6L6 Power Tubes. The amp is built really well and is super versatile. They really improved the clean channel and the overdrive channel was always great.
Yeah, you almost never hear power chords or cowboy chords in professionally produced demos. And it's even rarer to hear the gear demonstrated in a band context. The gear sounds great with a player like Mark noodling around, but how it sounds playing rhythm guitar with a band is the #1 most important thing for me.
Nice demo and playing. I have the 5:50+ head and play it through an Avatar 2x12 cab...this amp is downright amazing to me. It can do practically anything you need it to do with the 4 modes (2-channels) and EQ. For those out there on the fence about buying this amp: I've compared it to many other high-end amps, including my Marshall JVM 210H, various Dr. Z combos, hand-wired Marshall and Fender copies, the Fender twin/deluxe reverb amps, Divided by 13, etc., none of them are as good as this one, IMO. I sold my Marshall JVM 100W head and 4x12 Marshall cab to get this Mesa.
Have the head version thru a lonestar cab pretty cool
nice steely dan
can you guys do a review on the new marshall dsl series? especially the 40c!
Mark Lucas is a phenomenal player, but i can never tell if any of the gear he demos would fit me well. The obscure jazz runs, though super impressive sound nothing like what i would play or use this amp for. I find that to be true for all his demos. I will always watch for his talent, but i feel just a bit unsure of if i like the gear or not come the end of the video.
Very good review. Covered it all. Appreciated it.
I need a new gigging amp after selling my Fender Supersonic Twin and this sounds very good and very versatile. Lots of good clean and overdriven sounds.
Why are you selling the super sonic if you don't mind me asking? I have a supersonic 22 and always feel like I'm on the cusp of looking for something new as well.
The main reason I sold the Supersonic Twin was because it weighed 84 pounds and I no longer felt able to lift it down the stairs in my house, in and out of the back of my car and to wherever I was playing. The reverb was also quite noisy at lower volume levels although this wasn't an issue when playing out of doors with the amp switched to the arena setting and turned up. Apart from that I've been playing in an acoustic duo lately so have less need for an amp like the Supersonic Twin which was very good for playing outdoor events but not suitable for studio use. I think your Supersonic 22 is in a different league from the Supersonic Twin and more suited to home use.
How is the versatility of your new mesa 5:50+?
Good points on the SS twin. The SS22 is heavy enough in itself, so I can't imagine adding more bulk.
The main reason I'm frustrated with the SS22 is that at lower volumes, it really doesn't open up very well. This may just be the speaker, but it sounds very bassy and muddy unless you crank the treble and the bass and mids are at 3' or so.
The Express 5:50 appears to be very versatile, hopefully allowing you to find the sound you want from each guitar and for each song. You can choose between clean/crunch and blues/burn channels. Sliders provide the means to adjust the parameters of the tone in addition to bass, middle and treble etc. This amp also appears to free of background noise so it should be great for playing at home and for recording at low volume levels. so far I have just used it on the 50 watt setting. But in the end we're all different and you should try one for yourself at your local Mesa dealer.
thanks , I enjoyed the demo . The amp is great of course , it's a mesa Boogie . what guitar are you using for this demo ?
David Scott The Guitar is a Vox SDC-55 model..
How would the Head sound with 2 Celestion V30 speakers?
I have been keeping my eyes on this amp for quite some time now. My issue is the fixed bias. Can you swap the 6l6's for EL34's?
Hey, Mark. Do you happen to remember what mode you were in for the intro? I tried watching in HQ full-screen, but still couldn't see the LED.
Thanks!
Can You please make a video of the Lonestar classic 1x12? Thank You.
The 5 band EQ part of the Power section or Preamp section?
True!
What is this guitar? How would this compare to a Fender clean sound?
How high was the gain set for this video?
Have you ever had a chance to try Express 5:25 with 10" speaker? How is your opinion if so? Thanks!
A question: what mic is this that you are using in front of the amp? Thanks.
Tks, man!
Is there a control on the amp that will function as a MASTER VOLUME that will govern both channels?
No. There is none.
Both channels have seperate eq, gain, volume, reverb and power setting.
The central volume control should come from your guitar or vol pedal. You could mount a volume pedal in the fx loop, that would work. If you have a eq, boost or volume pedal lying around somewhere, that would work. Imo any clean pedal having a volume option would work.
The Boost works on both channels. So if you look for a central vilume boost, thst wiil help a bit.
Steely Dan at the beginning! FUCKING AWESOME
So he should just play Smoke on the Water over and over, or Stariway to Heaven. - I don't understand what you are asking for- I love it that he doesn't just crank the gain, add 7 pedals and try to knock the speaker out.
Big Ron
how much for the head version in 25 watts ?
whay mic are you using?
Yeahhhh steely dan
Is the riff from 3:38 from anything in particular? Sounds very familiar
James Freeman
Lagrange
Nice demo Mark.. Somebody knows the scales?
+Allan Ardon
heres a little friendly and very helpful advice.
i didn't have the resource known as youtube or the internet when i started so your at an advantage
the time you invest in this will make you a better and more competent guitar player able to sit in with any musicians and play well.this can further your progression towards excelling at guitar.
learn and memorize the 5 basic pentatonic scale in all patterns(and keys in A to G)
from the first fret up to the end of the neck.
(this is absolutely necessary to understand soloing over all styles
of music and will give you an awesome guitar vocabulary.)
now that you've mastered this ,research modes and after learning and memorizing them
you will now know aeolian,dorian,mixolydian,phygirian,locrean modes and anything else
and solo over ANYTHING
josie :D
At least the guy can play. 95% of reviewers are not this talented.
$1149.00 for the head. Any questions let us know or give us a call at 412-828-1003
Each amp has it's own voice and timbre combined with a specific guitar. I'm not trying to over simplify this, but if you truly want a Fender clean, buy one. You can actually purchase a Fender Twin cheaper than a Boogie and have that "Bell" like Fender tone!
5:33
Then he isn't doing his job. The only reason Lucas demos these is so that NStuff can sell the gear. I love watching him play, but I have to agree with you.
Love the playing. However, I wished you had used a guitar that's a little more of a "known quantity" than that Vox.
We sell it all, so we like to video it all... Thanks for checking out the video!
Great playing, but would it hurt for demo players to play some less..."sophisticated" stuff? I like the lead tones and the cleans that I'm hearing, but unsure if I like the overdriven rhythm sounds. I didn't hear any...not with any intense attack, anyway. It's all done with so much finesse. Many players don't have such feel, and many don't wish to play in such a context. Just a tip for better demos in the future!
nice amp..too bad its too expensive.
Why don't they make this in 212 anymore? This design just screams for 212 imho.
Buy the top and a 212 Mesa cab to your liking ...
This guy is too sophisticated to play blues, lol
Why you're demoing an amp with a guitar no one's familiar with?
Demo with a Les Paul, SG, Strat, Tele or a 335 for god's sake