Mesa/Boogie Half-Back cabs have returned

[Grindspine]

Boogie Cabinets | Mesa/Boogie

www.mesaboogie.com

I just saw this ad on FB... Gibson-era Mesa/Boogie is hitting the reissues hard between the Nineties Recto, the IIC+, and now Half-Back 2x12 vertical and 4x12 cabs.

I see a surprising absence of EVM12L speakers though. The 2x12 is just two MC-90 Black Shadows, but at least the bottom speaker is in a ported cab. The 4x12, with its combo of V30 and C90 speakers, seems a bit redundant with the Road King 4x12 having the same speaker compliment.

 

[Big Dumb Bitch]

$1700 for a 4x12 lmao Mesa are high as fuck. A Science 6x12 is like $50 more and way cooler and easier to move. Absolute clown behavior.

 

[tedtan]

I have a Road King cabinet, so no need for the current iteration of the half back cab, but I think Mesa has discontinued the Road King cabs (the heads were discontinued a while back), so this is probably the replacement.

Might be interesting with EVM12Ls in the bottom, though.

 

[Grindspine]

I currently run a Road King 2x12 with my 2:Ninety and a Recto 2x12 Vertical with my Mark 525. I had given up on trying to get a half-back cab since they are so rare on the used market. The idea of an EVM12L Thiele cabinet with a C90 on top is still cool.

Who knows, maybe I'll get a 2x12 half-back vertical and run it alongside my Recto 2x12 vertical. Really it'd just be like a Road King 4x12 split into two easier to move up stairs cabs though.

 

[Marked Man]

Awesome to see these back!

The full potential of those cabs is always reached with EVM12Ls in the sealed bottoms! C90s top and bottom is fine, but screw V30s!

A garden variety Soldano cab with 4 V30s costs $1500, so it would be a no brainer for me to get the Mark halfback for $200 more (knowing them like I do) and installing God's speakers in the bottom. Sell the V30s as fast as you can...

 

[budda]

412s in general are funny money new. Im greatful for whoever buys them given i went from owning 1 to 2 to a lot but i can buy 1980s jcm800’s for what a new mesa or marshall HW costs sticker.

Im sure some people will grab these for their reissue marks.

 

[Kagami]

412s in general are funny money new. Im greatful for whoever buys them given i went from owning 1 to 2 to a lot but i can buy 1980s jcm800’s for what a new mesa or marshall HW costs sticker.

Im sure some people will grab these for their reissue marks.

I can't recall seeing one for sale in my area so never had a chance to try one or buy one, mesa cabs here are usually rectifier oversized which sound terrible imo.

 

[budda]

I can't recall seeing one for sale in my area so never had a chance to try one or buy one, mesa cabs here are usually rectifier oversized which sound terrible imo.

Yeah its always OS though ive seen a metal grille and standard a couple times in the last year.

 

[Jon Pearson]

I saw that someone in a Mesa group reached out to Mesa about the lack of EVM12L speakers, apparently they are looking into it because of all the requests they have gotten for them. Keep in mind, that will push the price even higher. I think I'm priced out of new cabs, luckily I've got all the cabs I'm likely to ever need or want.