Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier 100-Watt Tube Head
It’s been more than 25 years, two generations of guitarists and several musical trend-cycles since the Dual Rectifier® first unleashed its crushing wall of gain on radio. In that time many have mimicked, modeled, dissected and plagiarized it, but ... read more
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier 100-Watt Tube Head
Dave Grohl uses the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier mainly for creating dirty sounds. This is by contrast where “Dave insists upon using the V... more
According to Metallica's 2010 tour gear list, Kirk Hammett plays through Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier amp heads. more
Chris used a Mesa boogie blended with a Marshall JMP50 and most of his songs on superunkown. As shown in the article. more
Used for the recording of “Dirt”. These amps were released after 1992 so this was probably a prototype. more
Luke uses this amp head for almost the whole concert at Rock In Rio 2017. This amplifier can be seen at 29:11 more
Reviews
Trusted musician and artist reviews for Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier 100-Watt Tube Head
Based on 11 Reviews
Only amp i have had 2 times
My dual rectifier is a reborn model from 2011. The reborn is the best model rectifier i have had/tried. Nothing more to say than if you dont know this amp then try it
This is the 3ch solo head, and should be identified as such.
Many many pros use this one. Great 3 channel head. Green, orange and red L.E.D.'s. Thick round spongy tube tone.
I used it on some tracks
The sound is very good, but to be honest not for me.. But I would like to use it for some more tracks, but definitely not all the time.
ugh
this is like a triple rectifier with less output section options... see my review of the triple if you want to know how I feel about this over-featured, over-gainy paper-weight....
You could use a dual rec to amplify your guitar if you didn't have an amp that actually sounds good. I will say this though, if you are the indecisive sort and you don't have a strong idea what you want your guitar to sound like, mesa's dual and triple rectifier amps give you about a million knobs and switches to dicker with instead of actually playing guitar. That's kinda my feeling about most mesa stuff after the MK III...
Worth the price of admission!
Download the owners manual. It’s pretty helpful on dialing in the right tone. This amp does ALOT....wish all of the buttons and switches were on the face of the amp. Some rear buttons are fun to play with. You can 50 watt this thing with rearranging and moving some tubes (again, download the manual). I went to great lengths to get a “rev-G” model, great sound......not sure how it compares to other models, this is my first Mesa.
Best metal sounds known to man.
Nice playing with tube driven overdrive, heavy, face melting tones.
Awesome!
Just got the multiwatt Dual Rec. Amazing amp but I would replace the stock valves as they are quite brittle sounding. Replacing mine with Harma 12ax7 preamp valves and Harma 6L6GC Mesa Select power stage valves.