Mesa Engineering Fillmore 50 1x12 combo

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november 2018 Guitarist
M
esa Engineering introduced the
world to the treadplate-covered
Dual and Triple Rectifier
heads, which have dominated metal and
rock since the early 1990s. However, it’s
worth remembering that these giants were
actually Mesa’s second game-changers.
Two decades earlier, Randall Smith created
the original high-gain stack killer, the amp
simply known as the Boogie.
The original Boogie amp was the first to
use cascaded gain controls, and arguably
the first amp built from the ground up as a
true musical instrument in its own right,
with a unique tone and ability to sustain
almost indefinitely. Compared with later
Mark amps and Rectifiers, early Boogies
had a sweeter, rounder tone, but were just
as gained-out and expressive. On a few
previous occasions, Mesa revisited the
original format; now there’s a new amp
Words Nick Guppy Photography Olly Curtis
History repeats as Mesa returns to the original
bone tone in a package that recalls yesteryear
but remains thoroughly up to date
Top Of
The Bill
first play
MESA ENGINEERING
FILLMORE 50 1X12 COMBO
£2,175
WHAT IS IT? Superb dual-channel
combo designed to exploit
the low-to-medium (by Mesa
standards) gain range, focusing
on classic Boogie tones from the
Mk I and early Mk II designs
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