Mesa Boogie is an American mark of amplifying of Guitare installed with Petaluma in California.

History

The history of the firm begins towards 1967, at the moment when Randall Smith (founder of the mark) arranges amplifiers Fender Princeton to add profit and power to them.

Several guitarists will be époustouflés by the sound of these amplifiers, in particular celebrates it Carlos Santana, which exclaimed by testing one of the amplifiers of Randall Man, that little thing really Boogies! and thus baptized these amplifiers, which start to be a certain success, since it will be sold more two hundreds Princeton Boogies of 1967 with 1970.

But the garage in which Randall trifle starts to be done small, and Fender start to become suspicieux, and refuse to sell the transformers necessary to him to the manufacture of its amplifiers.

It thus settles in a workshop which it even manufactures him, and begins the production of the Mark I which meets a great success.

It is at this time there that Gibson proposes to buy its services, but the latter refuses to differently make its trade than for the research of the sound, and refuses to give up manufacture with the hand of its amplifiers; this is why it declines the offer.

Since 1980, the factory of Mesa Boogie settled with Petaluma and the firm since continued to develop, by creating new models and by diversifying its production (in particular with the series Rectifier), while continuing to manufacture the amplifiers according to raised quality standards, and delocalizing their production.

External bonds

• Official site

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