BostonRedSox said:
CoG said:
I own the first one in Canada, apparently. The thing with Mesa is it's probably more expensive for them to promote new amps than to design and build a few hundred, given how their line works.
LoG using RAs doesn't surprise me... you can cop a lot of current less extreme metal bands' tones with this amp, it would be an awesome fit for Mastodon or Baroness.
True, but Mesa did a lot of advertising for their Rectos in the '90s, BEFORE they were becoming mainstream. I really think they should apply those same ethos to this amp because of how successful I believe they would be. A good amp is a good amp. All the boutique snobs in the world can't argue that point.
I do like though having an amp that sounds good and is also unpopular. Adds some more interest in your sound and band at gigs when all is said and done and members begin talking gear.
the Rectos in the early 90s is not a good comparison... at the time there weren't many manufacturers in the amp market, and Mesa was known exclusively for the Mark series at the time. Now Mesa's got a whole sh!t-ton of amps at the "high end" and they are probably trying to get more of the vintage/corksniffer/classic crowd (who are not buying new Mesas lately) with the Atlantics and the ED... without cutting into their sales of any of their other lines.
Other thing is, every new "big" amp Mesa has put out lately has gone back for a major early revision-- the Road King I was not out very long before the II, the Roadster had some service issues in its first thousand or so, the ED had that level knob added... and the Mark V kinda got a big "meh" from a lot of people. They may not want, like, 5000 RAs out the door in the first year if either it turns out that the multisoak kills transformers, or if channel volume balance turns out to be a pain, or if reviews are not that good. Mesa doesn't want RAs on the used market for $1300 next year because a) it looks bad and b) at least some of those will get bought instead of new Mesas.