Mesa Boogie Express 5 50 2 X 12 – Vintage 30/greenback
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Up for auction is my Mesa Boogie Express 5 50 2 x 12. It’s in used, but almost like new cond. It has a couple white scratches on the back. This is a 5 or 50 watt 6L6 based tube amp. It has 1 Celestion Greenback and 1 Celestion Vintage 30 both from England. This speaker upgrade was done because I didn’t like the amp with the Black Shadow C-90s (they were lifeless). As soon as I got the new speakers in this amp opened up and growled. So many tones come out of this amp. You get Fender bubbly cleans. Fender/marshall blues bite. Marshall overdrive. Boogie all out metal. I’m willing to ship within US. No Int. shipping. Local pickup is preferred. I live in San Rafael, Ca.
5 watt is very useful for recording and bedroom jamming.
50 watt can play the Fillmore.
Thanks for bidding.
Please read the review from Guitar World:
JUST ABOUT EVERY great Mesa/Boogie tone (and thensome) lurks inside this compact powerhouse. Channel 1’s Clean mode combined with the luscious Accutronics spring reverb produces one of the best clean tones I’ve heard from a Mesa, with a fat roundness and three-dimensional clarity that rivals a vintage Twin Reverb. Switch over to Crunch mode for tight, gnarly overdrive with plenty of punchy low end, throaty midrange and razor-sharp presence. Channel 2’s Blues mode is loose, raw and raunchy, but cranking up the mids can produce singing, violin-like overdrive comparable to the classic Boogie Mark I. Burn mode is where modern metal tones lurk, and you can dial in brutal scooped mid rhythm tones with the Contour control and disengage it to boost midrange definition for in-your-face solos with all the volume you need. The tone controls interact significantly, and while that makes it tricky to dial in exactly the tone you have in mind, it ultimately provides a wider and more versatile range of tones. Although the 5:50 lacks a presence control, it’s really not necessary thanks to the expanded EQ range that the Contour control delivers. The ability to switch between the sweet, harmonically rich distortion of the five-watt Class A mode and the focused grit and growl of 50- watt Class A/B mode gives the 5:50 two very distinct tonal personalities. The Celestion C90 12-inch speaker and the combo’s open-back cabinet design deliver excellent performance for almost any variety of tones, but some metal players may find that the bass response isn’t always tight enough. Fortunately, the 5:50 features individual eight- and four-ohm speaker outputs for using a variety of external speaker options. When connected to a Mesa 4×12 Rectifier cabinet, the bass response of the 5:50’s Crunch and Burn tones became as tight as PVC underpants.
THE BOTTOM LINEIF YOU PLAY a variety of studio and performance gigs and need a compact amp that covers everything from pristineclean to the dirtiest metal tones, the Express 5:50 is the way to go. Its price is as small as its size, but its sound and versatility are about as big as it gets.
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