Mesa/Boogie II - Manual (Page 5)

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Overview:
Congratulations on your choice of the Lone Star Special as your amplifi er and Welcome to the Mesa/Boogie
Family! This hand-built instrument was crafted with the fi nest quality components and designed to provide you with years of musical
inspiration and toneful satisfaction.
From a glance you can see the Lone Star Special is laid out simply and logically. Its clean, two channel layout provides a platform
for ultimate expression with a minimal learning curve. Though you have probably experienced the magic of its character already, this
guide will help you to understand the interaction of the controls and features…allowing you to fi nd your sound more quickly and devi-
ate from there easily in new musical environments.
The two channels provide the entire range of gain, from sparkling clean to totally saturated, and anywhere in between. Channel 1
(top) is based on a traditional gain structure to produce angelic and warm clean sounds in its low to medium gain ranges. Like most
great 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 and can either be set to achieve a slightly gainier clone of Channel 1 or, with the fl ick of a switch
become a 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 Special to roam effortlessly through
both vintage and modern territory with full channel switching accuracy and an emphasis on soul and simplicity. You can set up the
amp for two low gain channels, one for sparkling clean and the other driven into an old school clip or, one for low gain clean and the
other for high gain singing sustain.
The Lone Star Special takes channel switching further and allows you to choose the amount of power and type of rectifi cation you
want to combine with each preamp channel. The EL84 powered Special takes this concept to a new dimension and provides three
choices for power that feature two different types of power tube confi guration within the realm of its pure Class A design!
Instruction Manual
REAR VIEW : Lone Star Special
INPUT
FT.SW
FRONT VIEW : Lone Star Special
DRIVE
CH 1
FT SW
CH 2
THICK
THICKER
CLEAN
MAL
GAIN TREBLE MID BASS PRESENCE MASTER
STANDBY
ON
POWER
NOR ON
WARNING:
Unplug power
before replacing
fuse or removing
bolts mounting
chassis
SLAVE POWER FUSE
2 A
SLO
BLO 120 V~
60 Hz
2 A
WER FUSE
FUSE
FUSE
First set sound with
LOOP bypassed. Then
set SEND & OUTPUT
to 50% for unity gain.
With LOOP IN, adjust
SEND to match FX.
Use OUTPUT for
RETURN level and
live volume control.
SEND RETURN NORMAL
MIN
SEND LEVEL
LOOP
IN
HARD BYPASS
OOGIE
B M
ESA LONE STAR
CH 2 REVERB CH 1
REVERB
BRIGHT
REV WARM
ALL - TUBE
AMPLIFIER
CHANNEL SOLO
EXT
SW
SPEAKERS
OPTIONAL
FOR 35 WATTS
MAIN OUT
FOR 30-15-5 WATTS TUBES: see owner's
manual 1 x 5Y3
ONLY 4 x EL-84
FAN ON
FAN OFF
HAND BUILT IN PETALUMA CA.
30 WATTS
5 WATTS
15
30 WATTS
5 WATTS
15
P U R E C L A S S A P O W E R
OUTPUT LOOP ON SOLO