MesaBoogie Lone Star 2 x 12 Combo

The Lone Star’s front and rear control panels are extremely player friendly and are in themselves an expressive art form through the beauty, logic and simplicity of their design. Its simple, two channel layout provides a platform for ultimate expression with a minimal learning curve. Within these two channels you will find the entire range of gain, from sparkling clean to totally saturated and anywhere in between.

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Channel 1 is based on a traditional vintage/boutique gain structure to produce angelic and warm clean sounds in its low to medium gain ranges. Like most great tube amps, this channel can be driven to clip and produces incredible solo possibilities for blues or roots chording styles.

Channel 2 has a split personality (see right) that can either be set to achieve a slightly “gainier” clone of Channel 1, or with the flick of it’s Drive Switch, it becomes a fully evolved high gain preamp. Switching in the Drive control adds 2 more triode stages and an additional gain control to meter in the exact blend of smooth singing saturation. The bipolar nature of Channel 2 allows the Lone Star to roam effortlessly through both vintage and modern territory with full channel switching accuracy and an emphasis on soul and simplicity. It also provides an amazing amount of added control and flexibility to further tailor the sonic character and feel of the Lone Star to best match the musical style you are playing. There are many cool combinations, imagine having two low gain channels, one for sparkling clean and the other driven into an old school breakup, or one for low gain clean and the other for high gain singing sustain