Blue Angel

[RocksOff]

Man, I just got a old Mesa Blue Angel. This is one sweet amp!

[urizen]

Originally Posted by RocksOff

Man, I just got a old Mesa Blue Angel. This is one sweet amp!

Yes, it is, it's a wonderful amp--- years ago I played a Tom Anderson Tele through one loaded w/ 4 speakers and was blown away enough to go on a "tone quest" to replicate the sweetness of that combo (but with fewer speakers), albeit the "quest" periphally shifted*. I really liked the 3 modes switchable architecture, and was surprised when Mesa discontinued them.





* That bus turned onto an oddly lateral route: I got a Tom Anderson and a Top Hat; the original TA thru BA tone combo was so good it haunted me, but it was complicated by the fact that , in the meantime, I discovered soapbars, so I sprang (!) for a classic contour Tele loaded w/ P-90s (which IS different from the SEEMINGLY similar Cobra, scale-wise----he doesn't do many of the Ts w/ P-90s, and at the time I ordered it, there wasn't a lot of call for such a thing from his customers---one of his guys who played it through a Mesa when I dropped by w/ a question said, "Hmmm, like a Tele, but not"), and the Blue Angel hipped me to the sound of a Tele through an el84 amp (I already had one of the original DRs, so I knew from classic 6V6 "Tele amps"), which caused me to go through the Vox-to-Matchless search that finally culminated in a TH Vibrotrem (and, later, a Club Royale). Top Hats (el84 or 6V6 models) and Teles are another match made in Heaven.

[stantheman]

I've played through the 4X10 Combo and it's a real nice Tone.
...so many Amplifiers so little cash!!!

[Volitan]

I haven't tried this amp, but I wanna try one, do they gots a Master Volume???

[Murphy Slaw]

Hi. First post, new here.

I play a Blue Angel 1;12 combo with a 91 3 Burst Tele (with a black guard) and have been gigging it for about 7 months. It's an great amp. My previous was a Fender Prosonic which will also do class A, but it has 6L6's and just isn't the same as 4;El84's.

The 2;6V6 mode is very usefull too, as this pulls the power down to about 15 watts.

The Blue Angel set at 4;EL84s is so close to the stuff Dr. Z is building now its weird that Mesa discontinued it. I think Mesa buyers don't want an amp without a gain/master, and people looking for a non master single channel amp simply don't think about Mesa.

Having said that, it's truly one of the finest tone machines out there if you take the time to get to know it (like most Mesa amps), and gig it 40/50 weekends a year like I do. I like it so much I paid $300.00 for a flight case for it after just a few weekends with it.

Best of luck.

Murph.

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A 4x10 Blue Angel I played through about 8 years ago still stands as the best amp I've every plugged into.