Amp Demo Mesa Boogie King Snake.

This signed limited edition amplifier recreates Carlos Santana's own amp and is signed by Carlos and Randall Smith. It uses combinations of the 4 available valves in the output section to provide 100 Watts with all 4, 60 Watts with inner 2 and 10 Watts with just one outer valve. It also has a cascading input section, so with guitar plugged into input 2, you get a super saturated cascading gain from 1 into 2.

Apparently, it is based on a Boogie Mk1 and is essentially the first Boogie style - a modified Fender amp with additional valves stuffed in to a small chassis. It's small. It has 4 6L6GC valves. It has a small fan! It has to have it.

It has the potential to be a super saturated high gain amp but I generally like it into input 1 and leaving the gain a bit lower. The controls are all extremely wide ranging and it is unique in my experience for an amp to have such a precision control set. Every millimetre of travel on every pot makes a difference.

To me it sounds like a Fender with the mid control about 1-2 and higher than 5 actually boosts the mids to create that Santana tone. Hardly surprising as it is his amp recreated.

I'm using a Les Paul custom and demo the different levels of saturation from ultra clean to massively saturated.

00:00 Clean with a touch of reverb in 100 Watt mode
03:37 Overdrive input 2 (set at 9) in 100 Watt mode
06:46 Cascaded channels 2 (set at 9) into 1 (set at 7) in 100 Watt mode. Mid set at 5.
10:29 10 Watt mode with Master at 10 and channel 2 volume at 9
14:50 10 Watt mode with Master at 10, Channel 2 set to 9 and channel 1 set to 7. Mid at 4.
17:11 As before but bass up to 5

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