Mesa Boogie Rocket 44

Hi folks -

First post. I just purchased my first Mesa Boogie - a Rocket 44. It seems solid and sounds like a pretty decent combo amp.

It has the original Black Shadow MC90 speaker and the three-button foot pedal and is in excellent shape.

I can't seem to find out much about it, though. Search engines are full of pieces and parts of info, but nothing really firm. I did cruise around this forum but didn't find the kind of stuff I'm looking for.

For instance -

Is this a 40W amp? When were these manufactured? Is it worth it to buy the EQ pedal (was recommended by friends)?

Thanks very much for your help.

Congrats! It's a killer combo! Definitely can hold it's hold against a loud drummer and quite a versatile amp. Shimmering cleans to sizzling distortion.

It's rate 44 watts. Not sure when the year it was made but it's around 2000 and up. I don't use an eq for my amp, the eq on the amp works great!

Thanks very much for the answers. I appreciate it.

I don't see an EQ anywhere on the amp. I saw that the 22 had an EQ of some sort, I think.

Anyway, thanks again.

You can find the manual here, hopefully that can answer some of your questions.

http://www.mesaboogie.com/support/user-manuals.html?page=2

And here is Mesa's page on it and it was considered part of the subway series.
http://www.mesaboogie.com/support/out-of-production/subway-series.html

Not much out there on the Net about the 44. It's a little known gem.