It's 1992 all over again with the Mesa Boogie 90s Dual Rectifier! Throwing back to one of the staples of early '90s high gain guitar, this Mesa creation was fashioned in tribute to the bravado and excitement generated by such '90s models. There's a world of high-gain tonality to get into with this head, care to take the plunge?
The Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo Head first broke ground in 1992 with a formidable wall of tube distortion dense enough to make any hard rock fan's head spin. This amp head, designed with a new voice from Mesa Engineering, featured a scooped midrange, ominous low end, and a blistering, harmonic-packed top end that all added up to one massively heated deluge of tube gain. For players seeking out the absolute cutting edge in high-gain amplified tonality, the Dual Rectifier Solo Head was everything one could ask for and more as it ushered in a new era of crushing amp sounds. Among the amp's accolades were its statuses as among the most recorded, imitated, and modeled amplifiers ever.
Today's 90s Dual Rectifier is a revelation for those after the authentic and original '90s sound. The 90s Dual Rectifier is a faithful recreation of the 1992 original with a number of modern tweaks to make it compatible with today's playing sensibilities. Starting out, the 90s Dual Rectifier features a dual channel design that swaps between "Vintage" and "Modern" gain modes along with dedicated gain, treble, mid, bass, presence, and master control parameters. Between these two modes, players will have a smorgasbord of delectable tube tones to play with, recreating classic '90s sounds or blazing their own trail.
This amp continues to make itself known with channel style and cloning capability that allows for "cloning" of the mode voicings of either channel to keep the channel switching experience lush and robust. The switching experience of the 90s Dual Rectifier expands even further from there with tube or silicon diode rectification that opens up the palette of this amp even wider for deeper tuning of the sound, character, and feel. All of this amp's experience is powered by one hundred Watts of Class A/B tube power that works through a bias select switch that swaps between stock 6L6 and EL34 tubes. Finally, this amp offers up a reduced voltage setting on the Bold/Spongy "Variac" switch that alters the overall feel of the amp to a more elastic disposition with increased harmonic response.
As one of the modern marvels of amplification, the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo Head made its mark. With this follow-up to such a legendary amp, players of today have access to the unmistakable tones and playing experience used to craft worlds of high-gain amp tonality like those found across the '90s.
High gain Mesa amp crunch? So 1992.
