New Toy: Old Boogie
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Wana_make_a_guitar
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Lucky you.
dNA said:
I'd call it a one and a half channel amp. The lead channel sits on top of the clean so the clean master affects the lead. I was confused abut the weakish distortion until I figured that out (and that the preamp tubes were distributed at random and one of the power tubes was cracked).
The clean tone is very pretty and is what I've mostly fooled with so far (lead is a bit noisy yet). Can dial in some breakup nicely.
I'll show if off with some clips when I get it right. One of these days I'll be playnig a Warmoth through it, but of course I bought this instead of the hardware I needed to finish one. Doh!
DAMN! That looks A LOT like my 60w Mark IIb! I recently (within the last two years) replaced all the tubes and got it almost 100% back into shape. I think I need to replace the original Black Shadow speaker with a Celestion Vintage 30...but other things are more important.
I got mine by trading (everyone brace yourself) a 1987 Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 straight up for the Mesa/Boogie Mark IIb 60w combo with Anvil road case (with casters!) I still have the amp of course, but am sick at how much that PRS would be worth today! Too bad the pickups were microphonic and the bridge tarnished within a year of my owning (and playing) it. Great for recording, shitty for playing live. Kim Keller has it now...
I got mine by trading (everyone brace yourself) a 1987 Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 straight up for the Mesa/Boogie Mark IIb 60w combo with Anvil road case (with casters!) I still have the amp of course, but am sick at how much that PRS would be worth today! Too bad the pickups were microphonic and the bridge tarnished within a year of my owning (and playing) it. Great for recording, shitty for playing live. Kim Keller has it now...
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=CB= said:
That would be an EVM 12L............the good stuff !
Bass cabs came with a 15L. L series (original) paper cones have ribs ..... helps with higher freq's .
richship said:
20 lbs of speaker
A Celestion Vintage 30 would last about one split second in that amp, they're called "30" for a reason... 
You might get by with one of the newer Gold series Celestions that's designed to sound like a dying 30 but with a little higher capacity. However, the classic Boogie tone is all amp and no speaker distortion, Santana & Garcia used JBL PA speakers. Peavey Black Widows are really good clean high power speakers too - I just bought a Eminence Delta 12 that I'm really happy with. Celestion 30's need to be paired for a 50 watt amp, or at least one 4 X 12 for a 100 watt head.
Addendum: If I recall correctly, older amps are often under-estimated in power. "100w" Marshalls used to push 120 with good tubes and a clean power source, those old Boogies are more like 75w... unlike nowadays, where people are advertising 18 watt amps that you "can" use to play with a full band. :laughing3:
You might get by with one of the newer Gold series Celestions that's designed to sound like a dying 30 but with a little higher capacity. However, the classic Boogie tone is all amp and no speaker distortion, Santana & Garcia used JBL PA speakers. Peavey Black Widows are really good clean high power speakers too - I just bought a Eminence Delta 12 that I'm really happy with. Celestion 30's need to be paired for a 50 watt amp, or at least one 4 X 12 for a 100 watt head.Addendum: If I recall correctly, older amps are often under-estimated in power. "100w" Marshalls used to push 120 with good tubes and a clean power source, those old Boogies are more like 75w... unlike nowadays, where people are advertising 18 watt amps that you "can" use to play with a full band. :laughing3:
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stubhead said:
Actually, the Celestion Golds are of the same "tone family" as the 15W Alnico Blues... in essence a higher wattage (50W) Blue.
