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60/100 watt combo with 2x12 Celestion 90 speakers. Two channels "Love" and "Lust"!
Awesome sounding (Duh - it's a Boogie) and amazingly customizable for the sound you want.
* You can tube with 6L6s, 6V6s or EL34s (has a bias switch).
* Tube or solid state rectifier.
* Tweed or full Variac.
* 60 watts or 100 watts.
This is a very underappreciated amp that you can do a lot with if you like to fiddle.
Excellent condition, minor cosmetic wear. Most notably on the leather handgrip (can be replaced from Mesa for $15-20 if desired).
Pick up locally (Tallahassee, FL) or I will ship to continental USA if you pre-pay. You pay shipping, but please note: I do NOT profit from shipping charge. I charge ONLY what it costs me to ship to you. I don't upcharge for packing or "handling".
From the manual:
A Little History...Congratulations on your choice of the HEARTBREAKER as your amplifier! Its fine all-tube heritage is apparent in each soulful note you play, but you may not be aware that this amplifier was created as the 25th anniversary tribute to the amp that put Mesa/Boogie on the map and changed guitar amplification forever...the Boogie.
The Mark I Boogie burst on the scene in late 1970 as the first amplifier ever to contain a high gain pre-amplifier that could be overdriven at any output volume. By ingeniously using a cascading series of pre-amp stages, Randall Smith brought to life the (until then) latent potential of the 12AX7 and changed the sound of electric guitar. No longer would the saxophone be the most likely instrument to grab the solo spotlight...now guitar had a singing voice! With its liquid sustain and bold authority, the early Mark I immediately won the hearts of the worlds’ top players and was soon an international smash hit. Overwhelmed by orders for this compact, high performance 1x12 giant killer, Randall made plans to leave the store he had co-founded, (Prune Music,) where he had been modifying and repairing amps (for the stars of the Bay Area’s music scene) and move the operation into a converted shack behind his house.
In this shack in the mountains north of San Francisco, every part of these first Boogies were made by hand! The chassis was formed, circuit boards were etched, front panels were silk screened and the first exotic hardwood and rare snakeskin cabinets were made...all with relentless attention to detail. Mesa Engineering was now in full swing with world wide acclaim. High gain was born back then and seemed to be here to stay, as proven when the Mark II’s introduced the world to channel switching in late ’78. The next important development came in 1986 when Mesa pioneered the first Tri-Modal footswitchable amplifier, the Mark III. The rest of the amplifier world soon followed suit.
Now, the Mark IV’s offer fully expanded footswitchability...and high gain, multi mode, channel switching amps are everywhere. The many innovations (seen for the first time) included on these early Mark I’s have since become standard features on virtually all major brand amplifiers of today. All these modern amps have a common ancestor in the original Boogie...the missing link between vintage (one sound) and modern high gain, footswitching (multi sound) amplifiers.
The HEARTBREAKER assembles all these early innovations (along with many more recent ones) and showcases them in a 2 channel, 5 mode footswitching package that pays ultimate tribute to the soulful voice of these vintage Mark I Boogies. Enough history for now...we thought you might find your new HEARTBREAKERS’ lineage interesting - and possibly give you a sense of pride knowing that its bloodline figures prominently into amplifier history.
Full Owner's Manual [PDF]:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!At3_OLtJ5EX7gpMfje1wcQY19x7L4Q?e=wcd1Zu
Someone's Demo on Youtube: https://youtu.be/D9ifRX7KJiY [Barely BEGINS to show off the flexibility]
Another decent demo with lo-rez video: https://youtu.be/cZeQHaAMKyc
And one more: https://youtu.be/RhlPyljQMX0
Awesome sounding (Duh - it's a Boogie) and amazingly customizable for the sound you want.
* You can tube with 6L6s, 6V6s or EL34s (has a bias switch).
* Tube or solid state rectifier.
* Tweed or full Variac.
* 60 watts or 100 watts.
This is a very underappreciated amp that you can do a lot with if you like to fiddle.
Excellent condition, minor cosmetic wear. Most notably on the leather handgrip (can be replaced from Mesa for $15-20 if desired).
Pick up locally (Tallahassee, FL) or I will ship to continental USA if you pre-pay. You pay shipping, but please note: I do NOT profit from shipping charge. I charge ONLY what it costs me to ship to you. I don't upcharge for packing or "handling".
From the manual:
A Little History...Congratulations on your choice of the HEARTBREAKER as your amplifier! Its fine all-tube heritage is apparent in each soulful note you play, but you may not be aware that this amplifier was created as the 25th anniversary tribute to the amp that put Mesa/Boogie on the map and changed guitar amplification forever...the Boogie.
The Mark I Boogie burst on the scene in late 1970 as the first amplifier ever to contain a high gain pre-amplifier that could be overdriven at any output volume. By ingeniously using a cascading series of pre-amp stages, Randall Smith brought to life the (until then) latent potential of the 12AX7 and changed the sound of electric guitar. No longer would the saxophone be the most likely instrument to grab the solo spotlight...now guitar had a singing voice! With its liquid sustain and bold authority, the early Mark I immediately won the hearts of the worlds’ top players and was soon an international smash hit. Overwhelmed by orders for this compact, high performance 1x12 giant killer, Randall made plans to leave the store he had co-founded, (Prune Music,) where he had been modifying and repairing amps (for the stars of the Bay Area’s music scene) and move the operation into a converted shack behind his house.
In this shack in the mountains north of San Francisco, every part of these first Boogies were made by hand! The chassis was formed, circuit boards were etched, front panels were silk screened and the first exotic hardwood and rare snakeskin cabinets were made...all with relentless attention to detail. Mesa Engineering was now in full swing with world wide acclaim. High gain was born back then and seemed to be here to stay, as proven when the Mark II’s introduced the world to channel switching in late ’78. The next important development came in 1986 when Mesa pioneered the first Tri-Modal footswitchable amplifier, the Mark III. The rest of the amplifier world soon followed suit.
Now, the Mark IV’s offer fully expanded footswitchability...and high gain, multi mode, channel switching amps are everywhere. The many innovations (seen for the first time) included on these early Mark I’s have since become standard features on virtually all major brand amplifiers of today. All these modern amps have a common ancestor in the original Boogie...the missing link between vintage (one sound) and modern high gain, footswitching (multi sound) amplifiers.
The HEARTBREAKER assembles all these early innovations (along with many more recent ones) and showcases them in a 2 channel, 5 mode footswitching package that pays ultimate tribute to the soulful voice of these vintage Mark I Boogies. Enough history for now...we thought you might find your new HEARTBREAKERS’ lineage interesting - and possibly give you a sense of pride knowing that its bloodline figures prominently into amplifier history.
Full Owner's Manual [PDF]:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!At3_OLtJ5EX7gpMfje1wcQY19x7L4Q?e=wcd1Zu
Someone's Demo on Youtube: https://youtu.be/D9ifRX7KJiY [Barely BEGINS to show off the flexibility]
Another decent demo with lo-rez video: https://youtu.be/cZeQHaAMKyc
And one more: https://youtu.be/RhlPyljQMX0
