New Cab Day

[MirrorProfiles]

Found this low serial number Mesa Oversized come up for a good price.

Speakers are from early 1992. Has the early Mesa cab trademarks: Velcro grille, push in castors (rather than track lock), flat logo badge, 3 jacks on the jackplate), smooth (non-elephant) tolex.

 

[James Freeman]

Early 90s V30's, very cool!

Tell us how they sound compared to other eras of V30's you have.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

That's very cool. What's the red snakeskin covered Marshall sitting beside it?

 

[Iron1]

Nice score! I had a Mesa OS last year briefly, wish I'd kept it too. It was a monster.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Early 90s V30's, very cool!

Tell us how they sound compared to other eras of V30's you have.

In the room, very much like any other 8 ohm V30 loaded Mesa cab to me, its pretty hard to gauge the nuances until they're under the mic. Not sure when V30's became available to other manufacturers to use (they were originally an OEM for Marshall), but I imagine these must have been quite early V30 (as in with the label/non-Marshall) speakers. Definitely conjures up the magic when paired with a Rectifier. I'm imagining they'll have that kind of airy top end rather than the pointy kind that I associate with ones from mid 2000's onwards. Will post some clips soon.

That's very cool. What's the red snakeskin covered Marshall sitting beside it?

Its a 1978 JMP2150, previous owner had it re-tolexed by Marshall at some point. Its a sort of experimental oddity from Marshall; I believe only around 500 were made and they were mail order only. Plate driven EQ (rather than cathode follower), post phase inverter master volume, 1x12, 100W. There's a Park amp (Rock head 1210) that is quite a similar circuit, guessing they shared the same PCB and components.

 

[-BOOGIEMAN-]

Nice score!!!

 

[Whizzinby]

What’s the cab with the ripped grill behind it?

 

[MirrorProfiles]

What’s the cab with the ripped grill behind it?

Early 90’s 1960TV (1991 or 1992) with G12m25 6402 cone Greenbacks. Got it at the same time as my JMP2203 years ago.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

OS1992 Demo 1.wav

A 1 track player

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made a quick demo using the cab, just threw a mic up (didnt spend any time finding the best speaker or adjusting settings or mic position or anything). Amp is a Dual Rectifier Rev G boosted with a Maxon OD808

 

[MirrorProfiles]

OS1992

Listen to audio losslessly with Samply.app

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First clip is TL speaker, the other two (A&B) are TR. One is pedal+amp+cab+mic, the other is Helix+IR of the cab+mic set up.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

if anyone fancies picking their favourite sounding 57 with this cab, I did a video showing 5 mics in the same spot here:

 

[spawnofthesith]

Hell yeah!