It's not a Mark or Lone Star type amp..... It's based on the Fender Tweed amps from the 50's. Hotrod MESA style.
The Lone Star and Mark amps are tone controls before gain....Like blackface Fender. This amp is tone controls after gain like Tweed or Marshall....near as I can tell.
It's a completely new amp.... Not based on any previous amps MESA has sold. It is not replacing anything.
From what I have read and heard it does Tweed. Blackface type tones with the Clean mode with low gain.
The clean channel is very much designed to work with pedals.
The two gain channels are vintage English type overdrive from the 70's and early 80's. This means Hiwatt, Orange, Vox, Marshall, Park, etc to me...But with some MESA from that same era.
It's based vintage voiced amp...they have modern stuff covered with Mark and Rectifier. I'm sure you can do metal etc with pedals and this amp.
Supposedly Andy Timmons is working on a video for this amp for MESA.
I did have a conversation with Randy about this amp and a few others a few years ago. The TC series and now the Fillmore series. The concept has evolved since that conversation. Personally I'm very much looking forward to trying this amp. I love the vintage stuff and pretty much have the modern stuff more than covered.
My Heartbreaker can get in the Tweed range but I would say it's more Marshall JTM. Even does JCM 800 type stuff with the right settings. Similar....it does not exactly replace these amps. The other channel on the Heartbreaker does Fender Blackface and MESA Mark I sounds. If this amp can do Fender Tweed Deluxe and some versatility beyond that I'm more than interested.