This Mesa Badlander demo sounds promising!

[espquade]

Crunch and then the higher gain sounds starts around the 5 min mark

 

[RaceU4her]

terrible if you ask me. that flying V at 7:45 sounds like a cardboard box. i havent heard one demo of this amp that sounds any good

 

[espquade]

I guess we all have different ideas of tone as I thought it sounded pretty good.

 

[Tone Monster]

Man that does sound like an AM Radio. Why would they put that out? FFS just run it direct with a decent IR and whalla!

 

[RaceU4her]

I guess we all have different ideas of tone as I thought it sounded pretty good.

i love plenty of shitty tones myself but every clip of these ive heard just has this dry middy kind of "bark" that is just not pleasing to my ears.

 

[espquade]

I thought this sounded good and was what initially got me listening to clips. I prefer the drier sound of the low end compared to the sub sonic boomy low end of the original rectifier, but then again I have never been a fan of the original Rectifier anyway.

To skip to the playing it's a 2:58 mark I believe, although the whole clip is really good if your a Sykes fan and Ben Eller did a fantastic job with this.

 

[Devin]

I thought it sounded fine; especially the crunch tones. Which is surprising to me because official Mesa videos pretty much always sound terrible IMO

 

[espquade]

If this clip above is what the amp is capable of then I will take it...

 

[NewWorldMan]

The Badlander is a cool amp, but I don’t consider it the next version of the Rectifier. I think it was a marketing mistake to label it that way. It’s something entirely different IMO.

 

[espquade]

The Badlander is a cool amp, but I don’t consider it the next version of the Rectifier. I think it was a marketing mistake to label it that way. It’s something entirely different IMO.

I can see that as it really doesn't sound like any Rectifier I have ever heard.

 

[RaceU4her]

I thought this sounded good and was what initially got me listening to clips. I prefer the drier sound of the low end compared to the sub sonic boomy low end of the original rectifier, but then again I have never been a fan of the original Rectifier anyway.

To skip to the playing it's a 2:58 mark I believe, although the whole clip is really good if your a Sykes fan and Ben Eller did a fantastic job with this.

this sounds a million times better than any other vid or clip ive heard for sure

 

[LP Freak]

The second clip is pretty true to what it really sounds like. The first, not so much. The amp is really underrated and flew under the radar

 

[VESmedic]

That’s exactly what that amp or many amps sound like…. Mic’d up through a 1x12 openback cabinet…. The end of the video is better through a closed back cab, but I still can’t stand this amp. Terrible marketing all the way around on what it is.

 

[HarryCooter]

I have yet to find a demo of the Badlander that sounds good to me. Even in some of the better demos, it's still lacking some of the "thickness" that I have come to expect of a Recto. I'm glad I didn't buy one.

 

[LP Freak]

I have yet to find a demo of the Badlander that sounds good to me. Even in some of the better demos, it's still lacking some of the "thickness" that I have come to expect of a Recto. I'm glad I didn't buy one.

They made it clear that they weren’t going for that tone when they designed it.

 

[RaceU4her]

The second clip is pretty true to what it really sounds like. The first, not so much. The amp is really underrated and flew under the radar

I don’t think they flew under the radar, that amp was talked about here and everywhere and hyped up a ton during the lockdown, problem is most videos sound like the first one, had they released something like the second one first maybe things would be different.

 

[SpiderWars]

I was going to post that Ben Eller video. I thought Kyle @Bad.Seed made good demo too. He sold/selling a shit ton of amps but I noticed he kept the Badlander 50.

 

[Spaceboy]

I have a Badlander and it's a great amp... but that demo is AWFUL.

 

[Beyond Black]

The BL is a ripping amp. It’s tight, has a liquid/bouncy feel, wicked mids, and a ton of growl. It just doesn’t have the massive lows of a typical Recto. I think a resonance control would would have done wonders for it. It’s got it’s own thing going on, and Mesa fucked up by calling it a Rectifier.

 

[Candiria]

Badlander is a cool amp. It has the Recto style grainy gain structure, but it's way tighter. You run the bass at like 3:00 instead of 9:00. It's also drier, especially the crunch. The crunch mode is most similar to a Stiletto.

I think it's funny that people say it shouldn't have been labeled a Rectifier. It's more similar to a Dual Rec than the Blue Angel, Maverick, or Stiletto.