Mesa Boogie Road King2 Head
Mesa Boogie Road King II Head Valve Amplifier, Black Mesh - Improved Channel 1 & 2 now features CLEAN and FAT from Mesa's acclaimed LoneStar® and best clean ever. Along with incredible TWEED and BRIT modes. These two channels alone make a mighty amplifier.
Mesa Boogie Road King II offers four discreet channels that each house an incredible three modes of hyper-tuned pre-amp expression. The Road King goes on to revolutionize amplifier design by offering a unique dimension in channel switching: Progressive Linkage™.
This simple yet powerful concept allows you to assign different power amplifiers to each pre-amp channel …and footswitch between them. You can match any power amp to each channel and create your own fleet of dedicated, all-tube amplifiers from input jack to speaker, from 30 watts to 120. The Road King even lets you assign a choice of speaker cabs per channel.
Colored LEDs on the front panel keep you informed of your channel selection and power combinations. But there’s more to power than wattage and tube types alone. It’s all about the feel. And part of providing a perfect power response is selecting the proper rectifier. This is the device that converts high voltage AC into Direct Current for the power tubes. And two of the Road King’s eight patents cover the rectifier choices available and the way they track.
Now footswitch to the threshold-clean Brit voice on Channel 2, driving a pair of EL-34's for a chiming power clip. Or, if you need alternate clean sounds, set Channel 1 to Tweed and Channel 2 to Fat, choosing power amps for each that best suit your style.
Channels 3 and 4 each include Raw, Vintage and Modern modes, just like the fabled Dual and Triple Rectos. But with the Road King you can combine each mode with any of five different power sections. For example, try strapping Raw to a pairing of EL’s and 6L’s for a snarling harmonic spread with British attitude. Or run Vintage, through four 6L6s, to cop the Dual Rec Solo Head exactly. And if you can stand more, hit Modern through all six power tubes, diode rectified, for a new frontier in crushing gain.
Mesa Boogie Road King II Head Main Features:
- Handbuilt in Petaluma, California
- Multi-watt, channel-assignable power amp with Progressive Linkage
- Tube complement: 4 x 6L6, 2 x EL34, 6 x 12AX7, 2 x 5U4
- Select among 2 x 6L6, 2 x EL34, 2 x 6L6 + 2 x EL34, 4 x 6L6 or 4 x 6L6 + 2 x EL34
- Power rating: 50, 100, or 120 watts, selectable
- Fixed bias for consistent, maintenance-free performance
- Four fully Independent channels with 12 Modes: Channel 1 - Clean, Fat or Tweed; Channel 2 - Clean, Fat or Brit; channels 3 and 4 - Raw, Vintage High Gain or Modern High Gain
- Each channel features independent gain, treble, mid, bass, presence, all-tube long spring reverb, 5-position Progressive Linkage Power Tube Select, channel-assignable Dual Rectification with Recto Tracking (Diode or Tube Tracking), Speaker Output Select (Speaker Out A, B or A+B), FX Loop 1 and 2 Select (2-series loop On/Off switches per channel or footswitch assignable)
- Output Level Control (over all channels when activated)
- Footswitchable Solo Level Control (over all channels when activated)
- Bold/Spongy "Variac" switch
- True "Hard" Bypass switch that removes effects loop, Output Level and Solo Level Controls from signal path
- Tuner output with footswitchable mute
- Slave Out w/level control
- Fan-cooled
- External switching jacks for channels 1, 2, 3, 4, Solo, Reverb, Loop 1, Loop 2, and Tuner Mute
- 9-button footswitch (Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, Channel 4, Tuner Mute, Reverb, Loop 1, Loop 2, and Solo)
- Slip cover included
