Santana & Mesa?

[TremoJem]

What year did Carlos start playing Mesa?

What was the amp?

TNX

 

[screamingdaisy]

1973. An original Mark 1. 100w. It has a graphic EQ but he never uses it. Runs through a 1x12 loaded with an Altec 417-8A. Still uses the same amp as his primary sound. His backup is a non-EQ Mark I that dates from '77 or '78 if I remember correctly.

He played (and named) the original Princeton Boogie back in 1969, but I've never seen anything that said he actually bought one.

 

[igfraso]

What are the settings he wrote on the black Dymo label?
I can only guess that the first one is 6.75 but I cannot read the rest of them.

Thank you in advance.

 

[screamingdaisy]

Looking at the amp, it looks like it's dialled in to:

Vol 1 - 6.5
Vol 2 - 6
Master - 6
Treble - 6.5
Bass - 4
Mids - 5.75

I also found a picture of his backup amp in his live rack and it had this dialled in,

Vol 1 - 9 (just a hair below)
Vol 2 - 9 (just a hair above)
Master - 4.5
Treble - 6.5
Bass - 3.5
Mids - 5.7

 

[mark2boogie]

Carlos added more recently some Dumble (Overdrive Reverb) amps to his equipment. But all of his great albums were recorded on MKI, AFAIK.

A+!

 

[TremoJem]

That is awesome, thanks.