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anyone seen one of these? weezer used one to record the blue album (even though the one they used had some funky pull things), and personally i think that that tone is just amazing, probable my favorite distorted guitar tone. however, i have never actually seen one for sale anywhere...

help?!?also, please no reissues....i'm looking for a real deal...

ebay....

there's a couple on there now....

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Actually, AFAIK Weezer used a quot;Mitchellquot; amp, which was designed by a Mesa tech based on the Mark I (probably with several changes).

While on weezers northern California quot;tourquot; in August '92, Rivers bought a curious Mesa Boogie amplifier (pictured inside the 'blue' album cover on the left side) at the Berkely Guitar Center. I have never ever seen an amp exactly like this one since. It was a very early issue Mesa Boogie, from approximately 1977 or 1978, and its face plate said quot;Mesa Engineeringquot;, which predates the addition of quot;Boogiequot; to Mesa-Boogies name. It was a 60-watt head which apparently didnt even have a model number (I remember looking for one several times). It sounded incredible, and its real bonus was still sounding rich and thick even at low volume, making it ideal for recording demos late at night in the Garage. Sadly, while on tour in '96 (by this time as a back up amp), the Boogie suffered a near fatal blow from an unknown source during shipping. At some point during the tour, the amp was fired up to check it, and it sounded terrible. It was supposed to have been taken in for repairs, but apparently was lost somewhere, either at weezers storage facility in LA or later, when Rivers was living in Boston. No one seems to remember where they saw it last, and it is gone. Several fans have written in with info on this amp, but most identify it from the reissues. I have checked the reissues but none are exactly the same. However, several people wrote in with the explanation that this was the 60 watt version of the Mark 1 head. The reason that the amp had no name on it is that it was not named until mesa boogie issued their next amp, the mark 2. A reissue version of the Mark 1 is available right now from Mesa Boogie in a 100 watt head or combo form with a switch to reduce the power to 60 watts, and it is that edition that some people were confusing the quot;vintagequot; amp with. Patrick Wilson today owns a Mark 1 reissue in fact, and can confirm that the old one had some pull out knobs that produced amazing sounds that the current reissues do not produce. Its entirely possible that the pull out knobs were a custom job. ...one person wrote in this facinating bit of info, leading us to speculate as to exactly what went down back in the day at the Mesa factory...

quot;...I have a little known, rare amp called a Mitchell Pro-100 that I am willing to bet is nearly identical to the one Rivers had. From what little I've heard about this company (not to be confused with the quot;Mitchellquot; that makes cheap acoustic guitars), the amps were hand built buy a guy who used to work for Mesa Boogie. I've never seen another one anywhere, and mine doesn't have a serial number. It says it is made in Riverside, California, and I found it used and beat up in the back of a music store for $500. I tell you all this because I have a very discerning ear (I am a budding engineer/producer as well as a musician/songwriter) and I played over 50 amps while in search of that quot;Weezer sound.quot; I know I shouldn't be trying to copy someone's sound per se, but I couldn't help it...I needed to rock. Anyway, this thing just blew me away...better than all the Boogies and Marshalls I tried, and I tried A LOT of them. It is so thick and crunchy and full of bass and sparkle, even at low volumes...yet the pick attack is so clear you can hear the sound of the strings themselves and the wood cut through even the most earth-shattering distortion. In this way it is so completely unlike a stomp box which takes all the character and dynamics out of your playing. The back of the amp looks almost identical to the picture of Rivers' amp, except mine has 4 power tubes (6L6s) instead of 2. It also has 5 preamp tubes, I believe, which are 12AX7s and is switchable from 60 to 100 watts. The overall shape is about the same as the Mesa, too...quot;

it quot;couldquot; have been a mitchel


Originally Posted by xerxesit quot;couldquot; have been a mitchel

I imagine that this quot;Mitchellquot; used Boogie parts to make his amps (which is probably why it has the Boogie badge), much like Randall Smith used Fender parts (until they found out ).


Originally Posted by mridI imagine that this quot;Mitchellquot; used Boogie parts to make his amps (which is probably why it has the Boogie badge), much like Randall Smith used Fender parts (until they found out ).

lol! They stopped him from using their parts??

Heh, the way I heard the story, the Mesa guys kept ordering Fender amplilfier parts and putting them together in a more hot-rodded style. After a few months of doing this, Fender supposedly got suspicioius of the fact that they were basically sending amp upon amp to this one address, and so they just stopping doing it altogether.

Yeah, the early mark series kicks booty. My Mark II is a little brighter than the Mitchell and Mark I series, but when you turn on the crunch channel and turn all the knobs up to 10, hot damn, I'M GOIN' SURFIN', I'M GOIN' SURFIN'!!

Most Mark II's without the graphic EQ sound awesome. They've also got pull-knobs (similar to the Mitchell everyone is raving about) to get the most out of this amplifer has got. HUGE array of tones, from a Vox AC30-like punch on the cleans, to the Weezer crunch, and even into old germanium-fuzz territory with the pull-knobs out. Awesome. All of these amps seem to go for 500-600. That's a KILLER deal, if you ask me.

If you get that Mark I, you won't be disappointed. With the pull-knobs, they're quite versitile. Mine's got a 'verb tank, though.

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