Sound Pure's Take
If you only know Mesa as a high-gain amp builder, the Fillmore is much closer sonically to what Mesa built in the early years. Wonderful clean tones with an old school voicing, rich and warm with plenty of clarity, you can run this amp as a pedal platform through the clean settings on either channel. Easy to configure but incredibly versatile, you have 2 identical channels to adjust and both have the same settings. This allows you to either have 2 similar voicings at different volumes/eq, or you can have one cleaner channel and one dirtier channel.
The Fillmore really shines for Mesa in that they haven't built an amp with this much flexibility on a very simple control platform. Throw in that you can switch from 25 to 50 watts and this amp finds a home for the house and studio or being the main amp on stage. If you have found Mesa Amps just a bit to difficult to dial in, but you want the Mesa Sound, you have found your amp in the Fillmore.
From Mesa Boogie
Amp Type: Tube
Chassis Material: Aluminum
Rectifier Type: Silicon Diodes
Rectifier Tubes: n/a
Variac Power Switch: n/a
Preamp Tubes: 5x Mesa 12AX7
Power Amp Tubes: 2x Mesa 6L6
Bias Switch for Alternate Power Tubes Types: n/a
Maintenance Free Fixed Bias: Yes
Wattage(s) Quick Reference: 50 or 25 Watts via single, global 50/25 Watt Power Switch - See Power Amp Details for more information
Built-In Power Amp Attenuation: n/a
Power Amp Details (Class & Wattage):
Class A/B Power with a single, global 50/25 Power Switch, each setting featuring a different wiring configurations (Pentode or Triode respectively). Choose from 2 power tubes operating in Class A/B Triode for lush harmonics and a sweet, liquid feel at lower volumes, producing 25 Watts or; 2 tubes operating in Class A/B Pentode for maximum power, punch and clarity, producing 50 Watts
Convection or Fan Cooling: Convection
Number of Footswitchable Channels (or Modes): Two Channels
Number of Style Modes: Three
Number of Style Modes Per Channel: Three (Channel Cloning™)
Types of Style Modes Per Channel:
Ch. 1 = Clean, Drive or HI (Channel Cloning™)
Ch. 2 = Clean, Drive or HI (Channel Cloning™)
Channel Controls: Each Channel features Independent 3-Position Channel Cloning™ Mode Switch, Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Presence, Reverb and Master
Graphic EQ and/or Contour: n/a
Reverb / Effects & Bypass Options: All-Tube, Spring Reverb with Independent Channel Controls
Effects Loop & Bypass Options: Fully Buffered Series FX Loop
Global Output Level Control: n/a
Global Solo Level Control & Bypassable Options: n/a
True-Bypass Options: n/a
Tuner Output: n/a
External Switching Jack Options and/or MidiExternal Switching Jack for Reverb On/Off (Reverb Footswitch and Cable sold seperately)
Speaker Outputs: One 8 Ohm and Two 4 Ohm
Cabinet Simulation - Direct Live/Recording Output: n/a
Headphone Output: n/a
Slave Output: n/a
Weight: 26 Lbs.
Dimensions: 9 3/4" H x 22 3/4" W x 9 1/2" D
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