Review: Mesa/Boogie Mini Rectifier

1 Review:

Review by	Ultimate Guitar
Submitted on	2011-12-16 15:18:53
Rating	9
This is a great match for any style of play, in my case for example, I listen and try to play anything that is progressively interesting from Rush to Mastodon. Being in a high school band with angst and vengeance, to a maturity of sound and song structure and knowledge of riff construction, there are too many small things about a great number of bands and artists that attract a curious mind of what a true hobbyist would love about the guitar and its potential. So even being out of practice and trained in blues at an early age, when is good enough really good enough? No one true musician ends up putting down an instrument with a strong arrogant statement of "Ok, learnt!" Before purchasing this unit, I did not go to my local music store for this particular amp. I went for a replacement of my Blackstar HT-5 being too light on the gain, and the clean sounding not clean enough. I tried a variety of setups after months of shopping around different pawn shops, boutique amps, music super stores and music store chain shops and so on. I settled on the Mesa Mini for 1 reason, versatility. Of my price range, the Bugera 333XL 212 combo did not sound as nice on the clean channel, the Vox AC30CC had a great crunch sound, but not enough gain for my heavier needs. The Hughes And Kettner Tubemeister18 was a box of plastic made of lego tubes that sound like a cat in heat eating a still live semi-frozen fish... I can go on.