AlCapwn
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I haven't been able to find any definitive information on this so I thought I would pose the question here.
Many, many years ago (I want to say late 90's) my brother had an awesome Mesa Rectifier setup with an original Traditional 4x12 straight cab (closed back). It was definitely my most favorite sounding cab I've ever heard. He swears up and down that all 4 speakers had the 'Black Shadow' label.
I know there have been quite a few mesa speakers with the 'Black Shadow' label, MC-90's, EVM12L's, MS-12's etc.
Thanks for your time
Update: After a grueling search I think I may have FINALLY discovered what he had. I believe it was a special order 4CB cab. This one I stumbled across is almost exact.
https://reverb.com/item/2141109-mesa-engineering-4cb-black
The only thing not the same is that this one is a bizarre straight/angled instead of true straight, but there are lots of straight 4CB cabs with 4 MC90's, but they all appear to have open backs.
The only information my brother could remember is that he had a friend at GuitarCenter at the time and he told my brother he could special order a cab with 4 black shadows instead of V30s. But he had no idea what model of black shadows they were.
But after talking with a Mesa support tech they told me in the time frame he got his cab the only black shadow speakers being offered were the MC90s.
So I guess the Mesa 4x12 closed back cab loaded with 4 MC90s really did exist, just seems to be extremely rare. I wonder why they don't still offer it, I had a custom cab made a long time ago which I loaded with MC90's, and I had the guy make the cab so I can have it either closed, 1/4 or 1/2 open. And personally I think it sounds way better closed.
Many, many years ago (I want to say late 90's) my brother had an awesome Mesa Rectifier setup with an original Traditional 4x12 straight cab (closed back). It was definitely my most favorite sounding cab I've ever heard. He swears up and down that all 4 speakers had the 'Black Shadow' label.
I know there have been quite a few mesa speakers with the 'Black Shadow' label, MC-90's, EVM12L's, MS-12's etc.
Thanks for your time
Update: After a grueling search I think I may have FINALLY discovered what he had. I believe it was a special order 4CB cab. This one I stumbled across is almost exact.
https://reverb.com/item/2141109-mesa-engineering-4cb-black
The only thing not the same is that this one is a bizarre straight/angled instead of true straight, but there are lots of straight 4CB cabs with 4 MC90's, but they all appear to have open backs.
The only information my brother could remember is that he had a friend at GuitarCenter at the time and he told my brother he could special order a cab with 4 black shadows instead of V30s. But he had no idea what model of black shadows they were.
But after talking with a Mesa support tech they told me in the time frame he got his cab the only black shadow speakers being offered were the MC90s.
So I guess the Mesa 4x12 closed back cab loaded with 4 MC90s really did exist, just seems to be extremely rare. I wonder why they don't still offer it, I had a custom cab made a long time ago which I loaded with MC90's, and I had the guy make the cab so I can have it either closed, 1/4 or 1/2 open. And personally I think it sounds way better closed.