Mesa/Boogie Rectifier Badlander 50-watt Tube Combo Reviews
Mesa/Boogie Rectifiers are renowned for their tight, muscular lows, hard-hitting mids, and sweet, singing highs. Mesa’s newest Recto, the Badlander, includes a streamlined feature set, baked-in cutting-edge technology, and — most importantly — 50 watts of fire-breathing Rectifier tone. This guitar combo amplifier comes loaded with a 12-inch Celestion Creamback 65 speaker, which yields brawny low-end grunt, warm lower mids, crunchy upper mids, and sweet highs. Three selectable modes enable you to configure each channel for an array of sounds, while a 2-way power reduction switch makes achieving cranked-up tones at bedroom levels easy. This Recto supplies you with the usual EQ controls, plus a Bold/Variac switch for further fine-tuning your sound. You also get a built-in CabClone IR, a serial effects loop, a headphone output, and a 1-button footswitch. So what are you waiting for? Plug into the Mesa Rectifier Badlander and experience its pure legendary power!
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Highest Rated Reviews
Badboy
It's all in the dialing, and this Badboy can be dialed up from whisper quiet to power stage and crystal clean to heavy metal. Maximum tonal control. Running BigSky, Timeline, H9, and Thorpy Camoflange in the effects loop. Very quiet and they never sounded better. Add to that the DI, headphone out, and Cabclone IRs-which, when dialed up, sound very good for digital. Day or night, jamming or recording, this Badboy is willing and able. Very satisfied and, as always, my satisfaction starts with friendly, helpful, and superior customer service from Mark Johnson at Sweetwater!
It's BAD!!
ok .So this is my first mesa amp. It cranks!! I don't even need my guitar effects board yet! It's got low crunch and screaming highs. emgs sound good ,hum buckers are good. my Strat sounds good! I haven't tried my 64 tele yet. Still crunching my drop d's Very happy!
Rocks
So I'm still learning about this amp, but it ROCKS. I play metal ,hard rock mostly. Just set the controls to the 12 o'clock position and get the party started! Easy transaction, fast shipping. Looking forward to more purchases!
MOST CERTAINLY PLAYS METAL
Whoever said this amp doesn't play metal is incorrect. It does. And does it well. New metal? Not exactly, but everything else is covered. From clean to metal, it's there. If you want super high gain for new metal, get a pedal. This is a killer amp that gets overlooked. For a Boogie that's attempting to go after the Marshall tone, this puppy still has that beautiful Boogie bark and low end! American metal tone by Boogie. Buy one, you deserve it.
