Dear Mesa Boogie,

I just wanted to drop you a note thanking you for all the help you've given me over the past two weeks. I just got the head cabinet, and it looks absolutely perfect. Hopefully, in a couple of months, I'll be able to get my hands on a matching 4X10 cabinet for it. Many, many thanks for coming up with a workable, affordable solution to my portability problem. It's comforting to know that, despite the company's growing size and customer base, Mesa Boogie's staff still takes the time to support the requirements of working musicians like myself.

Enclosed is a picture taken at New York's Bitter End - the Maverick is right up front for all to see and hear. And believe me, did they EVER hear it! I mentioned to you that, unless you're a hardcore/thrash player, an old blackface Fender is the only game in town for NYC guitar players these days. The guys who can't cop an original BF are using silverfaces, and the less well-heeled players are using blackface reissues.

The other guys on the bill that night didn't believe that my tone was coming out of a Boogie, The soundman - in front of a full-house crowd - came over the stage monitors and asked me, "that guitar sounds f*#&ing amazing - what the hell are you playing through?" We played a couple of more places in the past two weeks, and the reaction from most of the guitar players in the audience was the same. Our producer came to the show last night, and after he heard the tone, said he was seriously thinking about getting one for his studio.

I mentioned to you before that I've been a Boogie player for the past 15 years. But the Maverick is the first Mesa amp that I played that sounds completely different from all the Boogies I've ever used, which, I suspect, is the reason for the reactions I'm getting from other musicians who hear it.

And the feature set suits the tone of the amp perfectly. The parallel effects loop allows me to run my digital time domain effects processor completely wet, which allows most of the tone to be unaffected by it. It seems that no matter how I set the dials, I just can't get bad tone from either channel of the amp. And the Maverick is just so damn responsive to the pickup that's driving it! By just changing my pickup selector or slightly reducing the volume, the tone changes dramatically. Without changing a setting on the amp, I could go from a chimey, REM-type of tune up to a singing, Robben Ford-type of lead tone. It's gotten to the point where, with the exception of a compressor, I don't even use any kind of boost/distortion device in the signal chain...the Maverick does it all for me.

Thanks again for a great amp, and for the great support.
Joe B.
Kings Park, New York