Experience innovative full-throttle guitar tones from MESA/Boogie on your computer
Plug into a Mesa/Boogie® amplifier and it will change your ideas about tone and playing forever. Seriously, it really will. From the moment you plug it into a MESA, you will experience a new level of response in feeling and sound nuances and you will quickly understand why MESA always refers to its amplifiers as “instruments”... because they really are!
Once you experience your guitar coupled with ease and powerful playability, a new freedom to express emotions through attack and sustain characteristics that seem to read your mind... for most, there is no going back to “an amp”.
It's hard to put into words the feeling of reward you get when so many hours of practice are suddenly reinforced and embellished and your playing leaps to a new level. But it really is AWESOME, and once you plug it in, you'll get there. The instant attack transforms stylishly under your command, the harmonic-laden layers create dimensions, and the newfound energy-filled sustain gives you access to the next level in your own development as a musician.
The MESA experience will leave a permanent mark on the musical region of your brain and you will find yourself smiling… muttering between breaths, “damn, that sounds really good.” This is the sound you heard in your head and looked for all your playing life and until now hadn't found it. That's Boogie®. And now you can have the essence of Boogie on your laptop.
If you are an adventurous tone explorer, IK Multimedia is pleased and honored to bring you the officially co-developed Mesa/Boogie Amplifier Suite for laptop, desktop and DAW.
Nobody talks about high-gain guitar like MESA/Boogie. Since the late 60's with Randal Smith, and from the 80's onwards with Dan Van Riezen, Doug West and James Aschow, MESA/Boogie has been pushing the boundaries of heavy guitar with a myriad of innovations, instruments made hand and speakers. Four decades later, AmpliTube MESA/Boogie gives you easy access to 5 amplifiers and speakers featuring his best and most popular tones, allowing you to explore the rich, dense sound that so long ago made Carlos Santana his own. brand and famously said, “Man, this thing really has boogie!”
AmpliTube MESA/Boogie is the most complete collection of officially licensed MESA/Boogie guitar amplifiers and speakers on the market. Now you can plug in and experience legendary tones wherever your computer takes you: You've got everything from the violin sustain of the Mark series to the huge, aggressive crunch and searing gain of the Rectifier series.
And, as with all AmpliTube gear, we meticulously crafted these models to sound, look and behave exactly like their real counterparts. Each virtual model has been repeatedly and meticulously examined, tested and approved by our devoted team of talented engineers and the same guys who created these tones at Mesa Engineering, to ensure they behave exactly like the real thing. And we hit the target.
With the addition of MESA/Boogie to the AmpliTube Custom Shop, the world's largest official virtual gear collection has just become infinitely more versatile, and certainly more noble.
MESA/Boogie amplifiers have provided their signature tones to a wide variety of musicians throughout the world. This includes pioneering icons such as Carlos Santana, Pete Townshend, Keith Richards, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Al Di Meola as well as modern heroes such as Mettalica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet, Dream Theater's John Petrucci, Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Mark Morton from Lamb of God and Will Adler, Johnny A, Andy Timmons... the list of great guitarists who use MESA with remarkable tones grows every day.
Of course there is a good reason for this impressive cast of musicians. MESA/Boogie has pioneered the biggest advances in amplifier technology over the last 40 years. Its innovative cascade tube preamp offers multiple gain stages that introduce guitarists to a world of near-infinite sustain and aggressive crunch separated from volume that simply didn't exist before.
The creation of the world's first dual-mode footswitch amplifier in 1980, the MARK II, marked the beginning of a new perspective on live guitar performance. Later, the MARK II, III and IV amplifiers revealed practically all of the now common features expected by professional musicians. From switchable power reduction to the effects loop, from switchable Rectifiers to switchable speakers, from switchable voices to the built-in graphic equalizer, from simultaneous tube connection modes to channel-assignable power range and operating classes, everything was seen first in a Boogie. All of MESA Engineering's designs helped set the stage for a whole new wave of epoch-making sounds and the music those sounds inspired, like the MESA Dual and Triple Rectifier, which gave the world the searing mid-range crunch and the immense, percussive bass that has dominated hard rock and metal since its introduction 24 years ago.
The AmpliTube MESA/Boogie gives you a full range of equipment that represents the size and versatility of many facets of the MESA/Boogie. The line-up includes 5 amplifiers with their respective boxes: The Boogie Mark III, MESA and Boogie Mark IV, MESA Dual Rectifier, MESA Triple Rectifier and the master of British gain, from medium to classic, the TransAtlantic TA-30.
The AmpliTube MESA/Boogie includes officially certified models of:
