Mesa Boogie Road King Head

Would you rather play a cyber mock-up? Or a fleet of real, hand-made, all-tube amps? The Mesa Boogie Road King is the new frontier in authentic tube tone.

The seriously over-the-top Mesa Boogie Roadking Recto offers four discreet channels that each house an incredible three modes of hyper-tuned pre-amp expression. Yet as if all this shaping power wasn't enough, the Mesa Road King goes on to revolutionize amplifier design by offering a unique dimension in channel switching: Progressive Linkage.

Progressive Linage offers these five power tube choices: 2x6L6, 2xEL-34, 2x6L6 plus 2xEL-34, 4x6L6 and 4x6L6 plus 2xEL-34 which you can harness in any combination to the Mesa Road King's four, fully independent preamp channels to create the real, authentic circuits found in classic amplifiers. This simple yet powerful concept allows you to assign different all-tube power amplifiers to each all-tube pre-amp channel, and footswitch between them. By matching any power amp to each channel you actually 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 your 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.

Choosing Rectifier-Tracking in any channel matches the power harness you have selected to the perfect amount of juicy rectifier sag for the number of output tubes in use. Here's how it works: When you select one pair of output tubes, either 6L6s or EL-34s, Recto Tracking brings up one 5U4 rectifier tube for enhanced low power bounce. When selecting two pairs of output tubes, both 5U4 rectifier tubes are engaged to support the increased power and retain the dynamic feel. And finally, selecting all six power tubes triggers the tighter sounding, more efficient silicon diode rectifiers to produce an authoritative 120 watts of headroom. And just like the famed Dual and Triple Rectifier amplifiers, you can over-ride Recto-Tracking anytime by merely selecting the Silicon Diodes.

Imagine a bubbly Clean sound, using the incredible dynamics of a 50 watt pair of tube-rectified 6L6s. 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.

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