Question about the Mesa Rectoverb/Tremoverb combos

[rlord1974]

You could bring in 8 cases of beer on that thing!

That does good!

 

[TP Parter]

Honestly i believe it is a mix of two things. One is demand, the second is weight. I waited about a year for an early model T-verb head to pop up - wanted one for years but they are getting very hard to find - let alone tremoverb heads in general which is why they are fetching more.

Nothing wrong with the tremoverb combo's and i have seen a few of them that if you know what details to look for, the amplifiers themselves are as good and also in better shape than an equivalent 120W early model T-verb. I just prefer the head cabinet design for a guitar amplifier. Nothing wrong with head-mounting a tremoverb combo either - but people are picky and this is a buyers market.

I just converted to a head from a combo, and couldn't be happier. It looks both unique and sexy, weighs about 40 lb less, and is not half as awkward.

I took it from the 3/4 stack here with a bunch of pedals, foot switches and cable everywhere.

To this...

... and this...

...and still with a bunch a cables running everywhere. I'm going to make a snake for them soon, and run it up to the back of the pedal board.

I also run a second amp on the right sometimes, which is slaved to the Mesa's preamp via the Loop 8 and my stereo trem/panner.

The Lopo 4x12 has two Fane AXA12's and two Celestion Heritage G12H30's. The combo has a WGS ET65 & Vet 30 combo. I figure that if I ever sell it, then I can sell it as either a combo or a head.

I'm eventually going to order some black mesa style taurus vinyl so I can make panels to seal the hole from the chassis and the back of the combo, so it's an over-sized 2x12. I might order some cane jute grill and white piping too, so the 2x12 matches the head.

 

[TP Parter]

I have one of the first year run Tverbs. It was a combo at one time. I think they only made combos the first production year? Too damn heavy so it was made into a head. It is far and away the best mesa, let alone dual rec, I've ever heard and owned.

Im not sure why tverbs wont sell unless its just that new players dont know what they are. Great amps.

They were available as combos for their entire run. Mine was made in '96.