NAMM 2019: MESA/Boogie California Tweed 6V6 4:40
Classic Californian Tweed tones from MESA
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The new聽MESA/Boogie California Tweed 6V6 4:40 is an amp based on classic American Tweed amps of the ’50s. The model was designed using the company’s rich history in servicing and modding original examples over the years.
MESA/Boogie California Tweed 6V6 4:40
Back in the day, Randall Smith serviced a lot of old ’50s Fender Tweed amplifiers and he eventually wound up starting MESA/Boogie. The whole amp company pretty much started up because of o these old classic amps.
Now they have just introduced the new聽聽MESA/Boogie California Tweed 6V6 4:40聽and it looks like a bit of a beauty. After 50 years of amp building, they know what they are doing and so expect something special with this one.
MESA/Boogie California-Tweed head-with matching 2×12 cab 路 Source: MESA/Boogie
Single Channel
The California Tweed has four 6V6聽power tubes in the main output and the preamp section contains five 12AX7 and a single 12AT7 preamp tube. It is a single-channel amp and you can run it at various output powers including –
- 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
- 2 Watts – 1x6V6 Triode + 1x6V6 Pentode, Single-Ended Class A Parallel
You access these via聽a single five-way rotary switch, so this amp can handle many different scenarios with all these power options. You should also get a few variations on tone depending on which one you choose, which is always useful.
Controls
The amp has a super simple control interface consisting of聽Normal聽and聽Low聽inputs, with聽Low padded for more headroom. Then there are knobs for聽Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Presence, Reverb and Master.
There is a vintage all-tube, long-tank spring reverb with an external reverb switching and a聽fully buffered, tube-driven series effects loop.
The speaker chosen is a new聽Jensen BLACKBIRD ALNICO聽model and picked for its sweet, smooth vintage tone and power handling. You can buy the amp as either head or combo formats, plus MESA and making matching 2×12 cabs to go with it.
RRP 聽– TBC
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