Mesa Maverick/The Poor man's Dumble

I have always understood that Randall Smith came up with the idea for the Boogie long before HAD's amps were popular. He patented the Mk II, for example. I could be wrong...

 

i was under the same assumption. either way, there are some really nice boogies out there!!!!

 

Agreed on the feel in some ways. The "clean" channel (which dirties up nicely) is one of my favorites.

Absolutely one of the used bargains that can be found IMO.

Evan.

 

Funny you mention that, because I was recently tweaking an early Boogie and totally nailed that cool kinda Frisell/Carlton/Scofield touch-sensitive clean light/dirty hard pick attack without even touching the volumes, and messing with the volumes/tone pots just gets even more cool tones.

 

D*mble did it in the late 60's, a few years before Randy. Randy was just got better known as a result of being more business oriented. More than a few people speculated that parts of the original Mesa design were inspired by Dumbles.
Gil Ayan once ran the whole thing down on a thread, but I forget the ending. Gil ?

 

Well, Carlton was a Boogie user before he got Dumbled.

Srini

 

I loved my Maverick head! It was such a great piece of gear. I loved flipping the bright switch and cranking channel one...GORGEOUS.


oh man oh man. I miss it.

 

I have been saying for a while now that untill I get my Dumble my MKIIC+ will have to do. Oh don't feel bad for me.

 

Yep! Just ask Terry Hyatt.

 

Matte,

I have had three Mav's. Two 1X12 combos and a head. I have been tempted by the 2X12 and 4X10 combos. The best Mesa made IMHO. Great amp indeed. I want another. For $600 you can't do much better. My Uber arrives Monday BTW. Carvin By Friday.

Re: The Maverick vs my Current Two Rock- No Comparison. My Two Rock kills it in every way, but it costs a bunch more too.

 

I was in a band w/ a guy who ran a Maverick head thru a Matchless 4x10 cab. Ran a P90 Les Paul with it -- sounded great.

Also saw a guy here in town doing jazz with a Guild Artist Award thru a Maverick 2x12 combo, and got to play it. Gorgeous, as I remember it.

Last year a guy I was jamming with asked what I thought of Mavericks and I said I thought they were stellar for the dough, so he bought a 1x12 combo and brought it over.

It was a little noisy, but flat sounding as compared to the other amps I have around here, including older Two-Rocks. Like lots of things, it wasn't how I'd remembered it....

Could have been the 1x12 combo, but I don't think so.

Mike

 

Interesting thread, Matte.
This is now out-of-production, right?

 

I have a Mav. head and the clean channel is pretty darn good, but needs more head room. Thinking of messing around with an 12AT7 in the V1 to see if that helps. I don't care for the gain channel but I did end up using it for slide on this record I am producing and playing on. I just could not find what I was looking for in other amps and tried it for the heck of it. Man, it kills for slide. I am going to post some of those tracks soon.
The clean channel sounds really good with my Maxon 808. Not even remotely a match for my Two Rock, but I carry the head often for a spare, it's small and really light.

Peace,
Duffy

 

I've had a Mav 1X12 and 2X12, and now have a LSS. I think the LSS nails all the tones of the Mav, and then some. You might want ot check one out. Definately not as good a bargain as a used Mav.

 

Architectually, the Maverick is nothing like a Dumble. The closest Mesa is a Mark II. The neat thing about the Mav is the 'fat' switch, which changes one stage (before the tone stack) to a cathode follower.

Isn't it interesting that people rever Dumble so much they are afraid to write his name? It did't happen so much in this thread, but too frequently I see D*mble, Humble, Rumbel, etc. It reminds me of Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" where you get stoned if you say "Jehoveh"!


Jehoveh, Jehoveh...! er, Dumble, Dumble, Dumble!



BK