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Finally some non-Ibanez related news this week I hear you cry! Yeah, whatever.

I spotted this on a forum but then Premier Guitar reminded me about the release of the new Mesa/Boogie Dual and Triple Rectifiers. This news actually comes via Haggerty’s Music who have blogged about the new amps from Mesa Engineering. Mesa Engineering on a roll at the moment with their amazing Mark V and Electra Dyne so it makes sense that these amps get an upgrade.

We’ve painstakingly poured over this new design for more than a year and a half, comparing and play-testing it against original 2 and 3 Channel Rectifiers to ensure that we not only preserved every nuance that made the originals legendary icons, but that any change made maintained or exceeded the original standards… Not a small or simple task, as our competition can attest to, but one that we think you’ll agree was well worth the effort.

New Improvements / Features:

Patented Multi-Watt Channel Assignable Power – Allows you to assign either 2 or 4 Power Tubes to each Channel for Power Ratings of 50 or 100 Watts of Class A/B Power via independent 50/100 Watt Power Select Switches. The Triple Rectifier allows you to do the same however with either 2 or all 6 Power Tubes for Power Ratings of 50 or 150 Watts per channel via independent 50/150 Watt Power Select Switches.

Patented Channel Assignable Dual Rectification with Recto Tracking – Allows you to assign either Tube Rectification or Silicon Diode Rectification to each Channel to fine tune the feel and character of each Channel.

New Footswitchable, Tube-Driven SERIES FX Loop – Vastly improved performance and tone with Multi-Effects than Parallel Loop - Exceptionally transparent in preserving your tone while being easier to use with any type of effects. The original Rectifiers featured a Series Loop.

New Tuner Output with Footswitchable Tuner Mute

New Compact Footswitch - New 3x3 Stacked, 6 Button Footswitch – Top Row = Mute, FX Loop & Solo, Bottom Row = Channel 1, 2 & 3

Improved Clean & Pushed Modes (Channel 1):

Clean Mode features improved headroom for amazing clarity and the most sparkling bell-tone cleans ever from a Recto, even with hotter humbuckers.

Pushed Mode features tighter, more focused and percussive low end with an amazing range of gain from Overdrive textures to full-on ripping Crunch.

Improved Channel Cloning on Channels 2 & 3 - Raw, Vintage and Modern modes have been further optimized for more similar performance on either channels

Improved Presence Control on Vintage Mode - Provides better high-end balance and control between Vintage and Modern Modes

No Price Increase - All this for the same price as the current 3 Channel version

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