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  • Mesa Boogie Simul 395 Amp Porn

    Nothin much to say but sexy beast of an amp.
    Handmade in California, Late 80's, or early 90's

    Living in an apt plus not even playin for years, she has sat sealed in a rack for too long.
    Broke her out today just to admire the beauty of Mesa Engineering and to prepare to send her off for new tubes/tune up.
    The time has come to try to find my groove again.

    • SIMUL CLASS™ POWER.
    • 95 WATTS PER CHANNEL: 4 X 6L6 PER CHANNEL.
    • 2 "LEVEL", 2 "PRESENCE" CONTROLS PER CHANNEL.
    • "DEEP EXTEND/NORMAL" VOICING SWITCH PER CHANNEL.
    • "HALF DRIVE/FULL POWER VOICING/POWER REDUCTION” SWITCH PER CHANNEL.
    • INDIVIDUAL "STANDBY" SWITCH FOR EACH CHANNEL.
    • ACTIVE COOLING FROM 2 FANS.
    • COLOR CODED POWER INDICATING LEDS FOR EACH CHANNEL.
    • SIMUL-CLASS/CLASS A SWITCH (OPERATES WITH SWITCHING LOGIC).
    • PARALLELED 1/4” INPUT FOR "MONO" OPERATION.
    • "SWITCHTRACK" LOGIC PORT (1/4” JACK).
    • (2) 8ohm and (2) 4ohm SPEAKER OUTPUTS PER CHANNEL.
    • 3 RACK SPACES

    It itches to drive (4) 4x12s for a wall of tone.
    Bummer, I have only (2) 1960b 4x12s

    Each side has two channels, which you can program by using the full/half power, normal/deep extend,
    Class A/Simul Class (Class A + Class A/B), volume and presence switches and knobs.

    So much flexibility.

    Mates with a Soldano SP-77 or Mesa Studio Preamp, which I'll save for another post when I break them out for tuneups.

    However, I've been seduced by Uberschall tone, which includes the simplicity of being just a head.

    The last pic is to ask opinions, because I just don't remember and can't think straight. :think:
    Each side has dual inputs for 4 and 8 ohms.
    Parallel/Series I've been outta the loop for a while.
    It looks parallel, which means I can plug two 16 ohm cabs into the dual 8 inputs (for a combined total of 8) or two 8 ohm cabs into the dual 4 inputs for a total of 4. Right? lol

    I believe I'd set my two 1960s at 4ohms mono, and plug a single line to a single 4 ohm input on each side. Damn, it's been awhile.

    Well, on to the eye candy. New camera too (Nikon D90)





















  • #2
    nice design. i like amps with lots of knobs. that's why i have always enjoyed my old rivera products. bet that mesa sounds like a beast!!!
    GEAR:

    some guitars...WITH STRINGS!!!! most of them have those sticks like on guitar hero....AWESOME!!!!

    some amps...they have some glowing bottle like things in them...i think my amps do that modelling thing....COOL, huh?!?!?!

    and finally....

    i have those little plastic "chips" used to hit the strings...WHOA!!!!

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    • #3
      Damn why can't I find one of those?Great score.
      Really? well screw Mark Twain.

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      • #4
        gigity...damn.
        what a beast.

        for simplicity sake, it looks like you can just run channel A in stereo 4 ohm outs to each 4 ohm mono cab, and not have to divide your ohms ect.
        i think the 'both channels must be used warning' is just for the parallel mono input.
        otherwise you have input A/B and can just use one side, which would be in stereo - that thing is like dual stereo, lol.
        if you wanted to break it up, then you start having to calculate ohms -

        cross check that or wait for another opinion, cause i never owned one, but that's what i would do, or have my cabs wired in stereo each and just use output to output matched ohms.
        but you should send it to me, i'll like try it out and let you know
        Last edited by Trem; 09-19-2009, 01:57 AM.

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        • #5
          Hey Guys,

          I have one of these in my rack......





          I'm in Australia though so the thing runs on 240v 50ohms....... I'm thinking of selling it because I no longer use it..... hate to see it go though.....

          Mick

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          • #6
            by the way, what's the dealio with photo's?? I had to link mine to a dropbox folder..... I see yours seem to be hosted on the site?

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            • #7
              You have to be a paying member here to host photos locally.

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              • #8
                Nice, I had the 295 for a while...
                Gear https://images.imgbox.com/e4/00/IxQywXkV_o.jpg

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                • #9
                  Great amp, brah. You're a lucky man!

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