1981 Mesa Boogie Mark II B Vintage 1x12 Tube Amp Blonde & 1x12 Extension Cabinet
$3,799.99
$3,799.99
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Up for sale, a 1981 Mesa Boogie Mark II B 1x12” combo and extension cabinet in excellent condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original footswitch. An early example of this pioneering Mesa Boogie circuit, this Mark II B is the 60 watt iteration.
The combo is with a Mesa/Celestion Black Shadow MC-90 speaker (dating to 1985), while the extension cabinet retains the original Electro-Voice EVM12L, dating to the 41st week of '81. This Mark II B delivers quintessential Mesa cleans and rich, focused overdrive, with a wide range of versatile, vital tones easily accessed via the deceptively simple control configuration. There’s a natural fatness and punch to the sound, engineered to complement just about any pickup you throw at it, and dialing up the higher gain settings yields a harmonically-complex, unrelenting distortion. The clean/gain channels can be toggled back and forth with an external footswitch (included), a feature introduced via Mesa's Mark series and now widely considered industry standard. Controls include Volume 1, Master 1, Lead Drive, and Lead Master knobs, with Pull Bright, Pull Shift, Gain Boost, Pull Lead, and Pull Bright (Lead) push/pull controls, as well as a three-band EQ. The Presence control is on the back panel, along with the Slave Level knob, and Effects Loop Send/Return.
The circuit retains the original transformers manufactured by Schumacher, with a fairly wide date span from late 1977 to 1981. The CTS pots have visible date codes from 1978 and 1980, and the chassis is hand-dated 10/23/81. The power supply has been professionally recapped with Spragues, and the preamp retains the original Sprague Orange Drop capacitors and carbon comp resistors. The tube complement comprises a pair of Tung Sol small bottle 5881 (6L6GC) power tubes, and a combination of Mesa and Tung Sol-branded valves in the preamp.
The original blonde tolex is well-kept on both the combo and extension cabinet, with light wear on the enclosure edges, and the original grillcloth is also present and similarly preserved. The faceplate graphics are quite clean, and all of the original knobs are present.
The original channel switching one-button footswitch is included.
The combo is with a Mesa/Celestion Black Shadow MC-90 speaker (dating to 1985), while the extension cabinet retains the original Electro-Voice EVM12L, dating to the 41st week of '81. This Mark II B delivers quintessential Mesa cleans and rich, focused overdrive, with a wide range of versatile, vital tones easily accessed via the deceptively simple control configuration. There’s a natural fatness and punch to the sound, engineered to complement just about any pickup you throw at it, and dialing up the higher gain settings yields a harmonically-complex, unrelenting distortion. The clean/gain channels can be toggled back and forth with an external footswitch (included), a feature introduced via Mesa's Mark series and now widely considered industry standard. Controls include Volume 1, Master 1, Lead Drive, and Lead Master knobs, with Pull Bright, Pull Shift, Gain Boost, Pull Lead, and Pull Bright (Lead) push/pull controls, as well as a three-band EQ. The Presence control is on the back panel, along with the Slave Level knob, and Effects Loop Send/Return.
The circuit retains the original transformers manufactured by Schumacher, with a fairly wide date span from late 1977 to 1981. The CTS pots have visible date codes from 1978 and 1980, and the chassis is hand-dated 10/23/81. The power supply has been professionally recapped with Spragues, and the preamp retains the original Sprague Orange Drop capacitors and carbon comp resistors. The tube complement comprises a pair of Tung Sol small bottle 5881 (6L6GC) power tubes, and a combination of Mesa and Tung Sol-branded valves in the preamp.
The original blonde tolex is well-kept on both the combo and extension cabinet, with light wear on the enclosure edges, and the original grillcloth is also present and similarly preserved. The faceplate graphics are quite clean, and all of the original knobs are present.
The original channel switching one-button footswitch is included.
