MESA/Boogie is excited to announce the addition of the California Tweed Series 6V6 4:40 guitar amplifier, 1x12 23 and 2x12 extension cabinets to its line of products built in the company’s
MESA/Boogie is excited to announce the addition of the California Tweed Series 6V6 4:40 guitar amplifier, 1x12 23 and 2x12 extension cabinets to its line of products built in the company’s Petaluma, California shop.
The all-tube California Tweed is powered by 4x6V6 power tubes and its preamp features 5x12AX7 and 1x12AT7 preamp tubes. A quick glance at the front panel reveals single channel simplicity that MESA claims delivers everything needed for golden tweed-based tone. The single channel features include Normal & Low (Cleaner) Inputs, Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Presence, Reverb and Master controls. MESA’s vintage, all-tube, long-tank spring reverb with external reverb switching jack is featured (reverb footswitch and cable sold separately), and a fully buffered, tube-driven series FX loop round out the core of the amp’s feature set, leading to the amps patented centerpiece feature — MESA’s Incremental Multi-Watt.
While staying true to a minimalist, vintage design in most every way, MESA draws on 50 years of R&D to bring the project forward with some of Randall Smith’s patented designs for a wide range of tone and power control. The California Tweed draws power from their newly-patented Incremental Multi-Watt Power Amp, featuring Duo-Class and Dyna-Watt technologies that provide five power, two operating-classes, and three wiring options via a single 5-Way Power Switch. As a result, players can choose from the following power options: 40 Watts - 4x6V6 Class A/B Pentode, 30 Watts - 2x6V6 Class A/B Triode + 2x6V6 Class A/B Pentode, 20 Watts - 2x6V6 Class A/B Pentode, 10 Watts - 2x6V6 Class A/B Triode and all the way down to 2 Watts - 1x6V6 Triode + 1x6V6 Pentode, Single-Ended Class A Parallel.
“What better way to kick off a celebration of 50 years here at MESA/Boogie," said Doug West, Director of Marketing at MESA/Boogie. "In the