NEW Mesa Boogie 90's Dual Rectifier

spawnofthesith said:
It will be the only one in production, but I do assume that soon enough there will be a refreshed modern recto line. It’s about time anyways, the MW has far outlasted any of its predecessors for a product cycle refresh
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Yeah I’m kind of excited to see what they might have cooked up. That series was trending upwards in terms of their execution.
 
EOengineer said:
I guess it didn’t initially occur to me, but will the only current production Dual Rectifier be a reissue of a 90s amp?

I do wonder if there is yet another updated line coming that’s revoiced or whatever. Are the MW sales that dismal or is this just Gibson manufacturing scarcity in a high demand market?

Anyone heavily involved in the gear market a decade ago would go blind from the eye roll the current rectifier market induces. $2k+ is absurd for a revision F/G.
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The current DR will be discontinued.

The 90s recto will come first.
Updated and revoiced multiwatt will come later.
 
What’s weird to me about the revision F is that there isn’t really the incentive to buy.

The original 2C+ in the configuration Mesa reissued are going for ~$10k at this point, so the reissue is “kind of” a deal. If the revision F reissue is ~$3.5k, you can just buy an original for that or often less.

Why wouldn’t someone willing to throw $4k at a rectifier amp just buy an original?
 
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LCW said:
Ola delivers…

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I only truly like the tone when he turns on the Tube Screamer. Otherwise it's kind of too dark for my tastes. Which is kind of my experience with Rectos and why I don't really care for them.

On the Mesa demo they get more variety out of it, but just makes me feel that I like Rectos when they do that one tone Ola demonstrates, and for everything else there's just better amps out there.

I see a couple of used Rev E Rectos for sale for around 1000 € and that's about as much I'd pay for one.
 
laxu said:
I only truly like the tone when he turns on the Tube Screamer. Otherwise it's kind of too dark for my tastes.
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This is the truth of a rectifier. The amp goes from woofy and grainy to immediately the greatest sound you’ve ever heard in your life just by putting a clean boost in front of it. If you’re not keen on running a boost out front, this is not the amp for you.
 
It seems cool and I'm sure it sounds great.

In that last official video with Doug there were a couple decent sounds around 11:45 I think it was where it definitely reminded me of some of the late 90s and early 2000s stuff I liked.

Ola made it sound pretty good. Definitely did the thing with the TS in front.

The clean sounds pretty good too.

The first time I saw a DR was in about '97 I was on base in the FL panhandle and I heard this monstrous sound coming out of the base theater. Walked in and a band was in there practicing. It was a three piece and the singer/guitarist was on stage with a DR half stack. I fell in love with that amp right then and there.

It took may years for me to get one after that and I got the tremoverb combo which was awesome. Later I tried a multiwatt and a tremoverb head. Of the two, the ToVs were my favorite.

Anyway, nostalgia aside, this amp isn't drawing me like I thought it would. Partially that's due to having downsized but maybe I'm just not as into them as I was.

Still though...it's a sick amp.
 
Desertdweller said:
This is the truth of a rectifier. The amp goes from woofy and grainy to immediately the greatest sound you’ve ever heard in your life just by putting a clean boost in front of it. If you’re not keen on running a boost out front, this is not the amp for you.
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I am a boost guy myself but I did a test with @MirrorProfiles di with unboosted amps. This is very different from the clips.

 
deadpool_25 said:
The first time I saw a DR was in about '97 I was on base in the FL panhandle and I heard this monstrous sound coming out of the base theater. Walked in and a band was in there practicing. It was a three piece and the singer/guitarist was on stage with a DR half stack. I fell in love with that amp right then and there.

It took may years for me to get one after that and I got the tremoverb combo which was awesome. Later I tried a multiwatt and a tremoverb head. Of the two, the ToVs were my favorite.

Anyway, nostalgia aside, this amp isn't drawing me like I thought it would. Partially that's due to having downsized but maybe I'm just not as into them as I was.

Still though...it's a sick amp.
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I echo your sentiments from the perspective of someone who gigged a 2 ch Recto for a decade and then stepped away to other amps for 15 years, getting a revision G back into the ranks last year required reacclimation. The modern sounds I loved in the late 90s and early 2000s don't appeal to me as much anymore or at least don't get used as much, so I rarely use the modern mode. I spend much more time on the red channel cloned to vintage and find that covers a ton of ground in the high gain arena. It's also worth noting that many of the recorded tones that made rectos famous we're actually the vintage mode anyway (Superunknown, Tool, Blink 182, etc).
 
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EOengineer said:
You could easily find a revision F or G for a lot less than $3600. I don't really get the pricing on this model.
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Rev G, yes, about $2k. Rev F, no, they almost never go for less thank $3500 from what I’ve seen and there are a few 30 year old rectos on reverb right now at ridiculous prices.
 
Desertdweller said:
Rev F, no, they almost never go for less thank $3500 from what I’ve seen and there are a few 30 year old rectos on reverb right now at ridiculous prices.
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Yeah but they’ve been sitting there for a year and if I were a betting man I’d wager they will still be sitting there next year too.

There’s some merit to the 2C+ bubble - I’m not sure I can say the same for the Revision F.
 
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