NAD :-)

[PacoCasanovasOld]

After 17yrs - finally back on Boogie MkIII (blue stripe) 60/EQ+Reverb - found at the local sunday garage sale out from a big swiss backline rental service for under 500 bucks! No hum, no crackling, no noise - what an awesome tone machine! Tubes, speaker, all fine......what a bargain!

 

[Rick]

That IS a steal. My first Boogie was a Mark III and it was one of the best amps I ever owned. Congrats on the great deal!

 

[warlockII]

Wow...did you at least kiss them afterward

 

[ElectricPhase]

Damn, that's a kickass deal. I have that one's twin in my basement. It's the only 'real' amp I'm holding on to....for sentimental reasons.

 

[PacoCasanovasOld]

soo much in love.......finally together after all these years!
!

 

[maxdown]

That's the one amp I regretted letting go ..... but wanted to go to a Marshall JMP1 and a Mesa 50/50 .... so had to sell.

Has it the EV speaker?

 

[RushOvGY]

What an awesome find! Congrats man

 

[PacoCasanovasOld]

Has it the EV speaker?

Celestion C90 inside - I still have an old EVM12L in my workshop, maybe it's worth to put it in, I like the C90 pretty much I have to say....

 

[soheil]

Congratulations on the new amp purchase. I have a Mark IV and I love it. Great amps for sure. I am sure this one delivers the tone as well as any mark series amp.

 

[Deaj]

Wow - what a find!!! Congratulations!

 

[maxdown]

Celestion C90 inside - I still have an old EVM12L in my workshop, maybe it's worth to put it in, I like the C90 pretty much I have to say....

Were the 'Black Shadow' EVM12's in those Mesas supposedly 'specially voiced for Mesa Boogie' or was that just hype and they are just the old style EVM12M? I liked the 'Black Shadow' in mine but it did need pushed I felt to come alive - at the cost of being 'quite loud' at times. The Celestion sounds like it could be a good alternative ... I was too scared to modify my Mk3 .... it was the most expensive piece of gear I'd ever bought back then. I did however have to take the thing apart because the FX loop quit working one night - and I found the the biggest dirtiest 'hand wired in California' dry solder joint on the FX return socket!

 

[PacoCasanovasOld]

Hehe......
As far as I know I had a pretty normal EVM12L in my SimulClass Mk3 (I needed to sell this amp 17yrs ago, due of financial troubles back then - a Mk3 SimulClass was approx 4000 bucks back in the days, I got it used for 2200 bucks back then). The "Black Shadow" attribute was given to Celestion Classic Lead 80 and C90s as far I can remember. These are great speaker, I was very much suprised how superb they also working with my "Wooly Note Casanoverdrive" prototype amp. I still got an old EVM12L out of a very special fender twin reverb from the 70s (not original, due the EVM12Ls were introduced in the early 80s) - red painted back.....I'll compare this against the C90 in the Mesa 112 Thiele Cab at my workshop.....