AmpliTube MESA/Boogie

The boutique company that invented high-gain

The innovative full-throttle tones of MESA/Boogie®

AmpliTube MESA/Boogie is the most comprehensive collection of officially licensed MESA/Boogie virtual guitar amps and cabinets out there. You get everything from the violin-like sustain of the Mark series to the aggressive, huge crunch and searing gain of the Rectifier series. You'll quickly understand why MESA has always referred to their amplifiers as “Instruments”… because they are.

Heavy metal shop talk

No one speaks high-gain guitar like MESA/Boogie. We've meticulously crafted these models to sound, look and perform just like their hardware counterparts. Each virtual model has been painstakingly and meticulously scrutinized, tested and approved by our devoted team of talented engineers and by the guys who created these sounds at MESA Engineering to ensure they perform like the real thing. Hear for yourself.

Gear available in AmpliTube MESA/Boogie

AmpliTube MESA/Boogie gives you instant access to five amps and matching cabs from their most toneful and popular lines. Each amplifier and cabinet has been rendered with the same degree of integrity and attention-to-detail that goes into the company’s physical products — both the front and the back panel controls have been replicated to provide performance and function with astounding realism.

5 Amplifiers

• Mark III™ Combo
• Mark IV™ Combo
• Dual Rectifier® Head
• Triple Rectifier® Head
• TransAtlantic® TA-30 Combo

5 Cabinets

• 1x12 Mark III™ Combo
• 1x12 Mark IV™ Combo
• 2x12 Rectifier® Horizontal
• 4x12 Recto® Traditional Slant
• 2x12 TransAtlantic® TA-30 Com

Sound like a rock god

MESA/Boogie amplifiers have provided their signature tone to a wide variety of players from around the world. This includes iconic pioneers like Carlos Santana, Pete Townshend, Keith Richards, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Al Di Meola and also modern heroes like Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, Dream Theater’s John Petrucci, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Lamb of God’s Mark Morton and Will Adler, Johnny A, Andy Timmons… the MESA list of guitar greats with noteworthy tone goes on and on.

Cascading waves of tone

And there’s a good reason for its impressive roster of players. MESA/Boogie has pioneered the biggest advances in amplifier technology of the past 40 years. Its innovative “cascading” tube preamp offered multiple stages of gain that introduced guitarists to a world of near infinite sustain and aggressive crunch separate from volume that simply didn't exist before.

Their creation of the world’s first Dual Mode footswitching amp in 1980, the MARK II, ushered in a new bottom-line for live-performance guitar. Later II, III and IV MARK amplifiers unveiled nearly all of the now-common pro features players have come to expect.

From Switchable Power Reduction to Effects Loops, Switchable Rectifiers to Switchable Speaker Cabs, Voicing Switches to on-board Graphic EQ, Simultaneous Modes of Tube Wiring to Channel Assignable Power Ranges and Classes of Operation, it was all seen first on a Boogie.

All of MESA Engineering’s designs have helped to set the stage for entirely new and successive waves of era-defining sounds and the music those sounds inspire, like the MESA Dual and Triple Rectifiers, which gave the world a searing mid-range crunch and HUGE, percussive low end that's dominated hard rock and metal since its introduction 24 years ago.

Give MESA a try and you'll tap into the thick, rich sound that so long ago prompted Carlos Santana to make his ”mark” on the brand by famously saying, "Man, this thing really boogies!"

Features

• Gear collection for AmpliTube Custom Shop
• 5 officially certified MESA/Boogie amps and matching cabs
• Powered by IK's award-winning DSM™ technology
• Sound-certified and approved by MESA/Boogie
• No previous version of AmpliTube required
• Works seamlessly with the new Custom Shop updates

System Requirements

Mac®

• Minimal: Apple M1 or Intel® Core i5 Processor, 8 GB of RAM, macOS® 10.15 or newer (macOS 11 or newer required for Apple Silicon Processors). 3 GB of hard drive space.
• Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter.
• Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): Audio Units, VST 3, AAX.

Windows®

• Minimal: Intel® Core i5 Processor or equivalent, 8 GB of RAM, Windows 10 (64 bit) or newer. 3 GB of hard drive space.
• Requires an ASIO compatible sound card.
• Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter.
• Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): VST 3, AAX.

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