Mesa boogie fillmore

NelsonP

Even in a youtube clip this sounds amazing...

Jackobean

Tempting. Nice feature set, and reasonably priced over the pond. Certain to be egregiously overpriced with the 50% UK mark up though.

nick79

Yep. Will be hugely expensive over here. 

timmysoft

£2200 combo, £1900 head

polotska

It does sound good in the demo. I’ve often wondered why there weren’t more multichannel amps with identical channels, so this feature set—with less complexity than most other Mesas, but still flexible—is quite appealing to me. Since the Mesa webpage denotes the “Fillmore Series,” presumably we can expect other power configurations (maybe a 2xEL84, since this seems to occupy the space left by the discontinuation of the Express line?) in the future. And amusingly, the Fillmore amp doesn’t include one of Mesa’s Fillmore speakers—the combo and cabinets have C90s.

It will be interesting to learn more about the circuit. The manual (Mesa puffery at its best) says that "[w]hile the architecture of the Fillmore’s preamp leans toward the more throaty voice and easier to clip ‘Tweed’ circuits of the 1950s, we’ve managed to get the lower half of the CLEAN Mode to behave more like a 1960s circuit associated with the Blackface side of California’s long-adored amplifier heritage”; that “DRIVE picks up where the CLEAN Mode tops out (actually a little before) and goes almost up to ‘high gain’ as can be found in the middle region of the HI Mode,” and of HI that “Its whole purpose and sonic signature pays homage to the very best of the late 70s/early 80s Crunch Rhythm and Lead sounds used on so many records. It rides the line beautifully between those created by us at MESA/Boogie back in the day and those produced by the classic Brit amps popular in that era. Circuit-wise HI is all American, remaining closer to the wonderful tweed covered amps hailing from California in the 50s.”

MikeB

Love this new demo by Andy Timmons.

PolarityMan

So it doesnt djent?

MikeB

PolarityMan said:

So it doesnt djent?

I'm sure with a Boss HM2 in the front it would get you there.. .....

NelsonP

PolarityMan said:

So it doesnt djent?

Try this forum for that question
https://www.metalguitarist.org/

Or try one of these

telehack

This amp looks great on the surface, flexible but with not too many options, relatively light weight. Shame the many of the clips are drenched in delay.

Anderz

Mesa/Boogie does always sound great at least the few I have experienced and I still love my Quad preamp. Talking about a tube monster classic with tons of tones to find. From clean to old Metallca it's there in spades.

simonk

Well I bought one yesterday, and so far I think it sounds absolutely superb!

NelsonP

Wow. You lucky git!

How does it compare to the Helix? ;-)

Lebarque

So much for the amp clearout, @simonk !

lincolnblue

Very nice!

timmysoft

simonk said:

Well I bought one yesterday, and so far I think it sounds absolutely superb!

Looks great mate! 

simonk

Cheers chaps. My only minor bugbear is the less than plush nature of the supplied slip cover... the plump padded covers of the glory days seem to be over.

Edit: actually, that comes across as a little ungrateful... good on MB for supplying a cover with their amps when so many don’t.

Lebarque

@simonk What does this amp sound like on the clean/drive/high settings? Is it tweedy?

simonk

@Lebarque  spent most of my time on the ‘clean’ so far... gain low, mids low: blackface, gain up, mids up: tweedy. There’s plenty of gain to be had in the clean setting alone... observe at the 2 minute mark:

https://youtu.be/s3mPpdsTnks

SimpleSimon

simonk said:

Well I bought one yesterday, and so far I think it sounds absolutely superb!

Was it part of the plan selling the Lazy J to fund the Fillmore? Just interested as looking to move from a King Snake to a Lazy J......

Jonathanthomas83

Anyone else tried these to comment. I'm gassing. Does it do the Santana lead sound thingy?