MESA/Boogie RECTIFIER® BADLANDER™ - Overview & Tone Examples 

With each passing day, Doug looks and sounds more and more like Clint Eastwood!

Whoever did the tone/amp settings and mic setup on this one deserves a raise; one of the best rectifier sounds I have ever heard

Okay I wonder how many other people feel like this amp was made for them. Thank you Mesa, this is excellent!

This right here. This is the Mesa amp we've been wanting for awhile. Excellent form factor, stripped down for modern rock. You get the Recto heavy sound without the need of an overdrive pedal out in front. This greatly simplifies routing for live use. More of this, Mesa!

You guys build your amps so well that im still addicted to my 2004 Mesa Single Rectifier 50 watt Solo Head & Recto 2x12 cab. But, im loving the way these new Recto Badlanders sound! Keep up the great work!

I preordered mine. You guys just need to hurry and start shipping these bad boys out!!!

Hey! it’s “Tone Boy” 🎸Doug West👍.......always nice to see this cat make an appearance. 🎼. Loving the sounds and features from the Badlander❤️.

I got my preorder in for the first batch!! I can’t wait to shred on this thing \m/

Ordered today from Manchester Music Mill in Manchester NH. Can’t wait for it to arrive! Perfect compliment to my JP2C and Mark IV.

I WILL definitely get one of these! Rectifier player since 96. I have the old two channel recto. This feels like home to me

I'm a bass player, and use (and really love) Mesa amps and cabs. This amp makes me want to take up guitar also...

Man this is one delicious sounding amp! I was about to order an invective but I think I'm gonna get this instead, rack version. This thing sounds so good, clean is nice and chimey and crystal clear, great tight high gain on the crush channel, that crunch though is really awesome. It's like a modernized cleaned up 800 or something. So good!

I just bought one, mainly for the clean sounds. However, this thing is insane!

As a classic 70's style crunch lover, I actually love this amp. I could put these clean and crunch sounds to good use. First time I have loved a Rectifier.

That crunch mode is so nice. Tight and articulate.

Oh yes!!! Ordered mine last Friday! Long n Mcquade told me I should get it before Christmas! Can’t wait to unleash that beast 😈 Thanks Mesa for creating the dream Rectifier 👍

The Badlander amp is really amazing and that cab clone upgrade is so damn awesome. Y’all need to update the JP2C with that new cab clone technology!

That pushed clean tone gave me goosebumps, I think I may have found my next amp!

They finally added negative feedback to the power amp like every other amp out there. That’s what tightens it up. Sounds great

Sounds great! Am I the only one that hears some Marshall spongeyness? Love it

Finally. For the first time in my life, I feel like I could be a Recto-ist! EL34, Multi-Watt™ Power Switch, USB and CabClone™ IR, you guys at Petaluma are kickin’ some serious butts with that one! And I’m so happy to see the glorious return of the 100 watters tube amps this year, I was already bored of that Lunchboxes or Profiling amps. Thanks Mesa! "Sadly" I love my wife too much to get that Badlander in a close future, but I still beat the shit out of my Triaxis rig on a regular basis : the last time I smiled at my rig was yesterday...

Mesa kicks ass. I love my Triaxis and my Rectifier pre. Huge sounds! The lockdown haircut though.....

I've recently purchased the Badlander 100 and I can honestly say this is the best amplifier I own and the versatility is crazy as well. Chugs like a locomotive and does not need a boost.

Hands down my favorite Mesa I’ve ever heard.

Love these new Rectos, but my old trusty Electra Dyne still puts a smile on my face every time I plug in.

The fact that is has Cabclone IRs built into it makes this amp very versatile. By itself with a Mesa 2x12 cab it is perfect for modern metal tones and has perfect clean sound... when the middle isn't to high anyways.

Absolute beast. Great demo guys. One of these days I'll save up enough money to get one then I'll rock this world . Lol

I'm more into the Mark series but this thing is a step up in the Rectifier range. Identical channels with different modes it's the way to go, all amps should be like this. Good job guys.

Dear Santa. I've been good all year. I kept my kids free of Covid-19. Since 2020 was so crap, I think it's only fair that one of these is waiting under my christmas tree this year... Thanks.

Wow, this seems like a cool amp.

The Dual and Triple Rects are 30+ years old. I remember them, Traxis pre-amp, MK1 Reissue, MK4, Subway Blues, Maverkick, Blue Angel, etc.

really exciting development, Doug!

That’s pretty sick fellas. I am still hoping to even try like a Filmore 25..but apparently I need this too lol!

Very nice demo. Fine playing .

It's just everything you can hope for from your amp!!! Bad ass🤟🤟🤟 MESA!!!

Sounds great.

Lol still rocking the Mark V35 and it’s your fault that I’m not replacing it soon! I do like the knobs on the BADLANDER!

I wish this had three channels and midi

Have you seen? The ears move to the first movement of the measure!😂 00:58 but...good sound!

Sounds good!

Finally, a Rectifier that doesn’t need a boost!

You should put the cabclone IR in the Triple Crown...

Would love to have heard Doug playing

god damn that sounds amazing!

If I weren't a bass player hooked to his Mesa Bass Strategy 8:88, undecidedly alternating with a Titan V12, I'd immediately jump onto the Badlander.

I have one ordered. It will more than likely show up 2 days before my next gig, so not a lot of time to dial it in. Any chance you could post the amp settings for the Metal settings to give me a starting point?

Dear Mesa - I wish you’d fitted the power soak from the tc100 - the whole multi-watt thing means uneven power wear on the output tubes

Cab IR Example Timestamps ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4:53 - Cab Preset 1 - 4x12 Recto Standard 5:08 - Cab Preset 2 - 4x12 Recto Traditional 5:22 - Cab Preset 3 - 2x12 Recto Horizontal 5:36 - Cab Preset 4 - 1x12 Recto 5:50 - Cab Preset 5 - 1x12 Thiele 6:03 - Cab Preset 6 - 2x12 Lone Star 6:16 - Cab Preset 7 - 1x12 Lone Star 23 6:31 - Cab Preset 8 - 1x12 California Tweed 23 ------------------------------------------------------------------

AWESOME amp! 👌

It's like a rectifier that's already boosted with a fortin grind pedal.

I like Mesa boogie, that’s my favorite amp,I have mark V and dual rectifier,but not enough now I think.

I REALLY appreciate that the guitar the demo guy is playing appears to be a 6 point trem Highway One Strat and not some near unattainable 10 grand PRS or something like that. Of course Mesa Boogie being Mesa Boogie there is near ZERO that they do not knock out of the park. My dream amp is a Mesa Boogie that does sparkling cleans as well as it does heavy gain. Mesa's are STILL the closest to that dream I know of. Oh AND do all this in a bite sized smaller footprint 15-25W package. Not all of us have the room for a half stack etc.

epic new amp! great video demo of it! WANT.

That is one serious tone machine

I miss Doug doing the demos like he did with the Mark V

That pushed clean mode is about as much gain as I use maximum haha

When using the cab clone to go to front of house, does the cab clone signal get any effects out into the loop as well?

Cool -- 70's electronics store style knobs!

cant wait for the plug in!

IRs 3 and 4 sounded the same: 2*12 and 1*12 . Was there an error in the video? Or are the results really that close?

I really Like the sound . 🤘

By pushed, does that mean that it's a particularly hot pickup, or boosted or? I guess I'm just a bit confused since the other rectos have a 'pushed' mode in the clean channels

I wonder why Mesa didnt provide a Reverb tank to these Badlanders?? I know they’re not meant for clean so much but even a little reverb complements a good gain sound.

Hopefully they make a mini badlander soon!!!

Hey Mesa, when are you going to make a Mark V 25 or 35-ish that has channel 1 and 2 of the Big Mark V?

THIS. IS. BADASS. Not really sure what else to say.

Boogie! End of! Mk1 Triaxis Simul395 2X2x12 Half Backs! 2 C90’s Right C90+EV12L Left! Killer!

Jeremy gettin' it done!!

am I hearing it right? it sounded like you dont need a tube screamer pedal on front of it to tighthen up the tone because it sounded tight already.

I bought a multi-watt and a used Trem-o-Verb in the last two months. I have pretty poor timing!

Great amp, Mesa! But wait, why no MIDI?

I really enjoy this sound. Crush n🎸 it..Cool

Me, dreaming: Ola Englund joining the MESA/Boogie Team and making the videos for them MESA and Ola: STONKS

If I could afford to replace my dual recto with one of these I would - all sound arguments aside, just the smaller size of it would be a massive help for touring.

good choice of demo players, amp settings, and sound engineer.

Another amp id love to have. If i only had $3k laying around.....

Jeremy is a fuckin BADASS!!!

I want to see how long this amp last before gets discontinued in typical Mesa boogie fashion lol the only amp company I know that builds great amps but yet discontinues them every other year if you got a good thing keep it going

Is that a Rectifier or Traditional 4x12?

I want a Badlander 50 so bad!

Who is the guitarist in this?

How tight is it compared to the TC?

If you told me these tones were from a rectifier I would have never guessed. Honestly, I wouldn't have even guessed this sound was from a Mesa. Not that it's a bad thing. Just totally different. It's tighter, but it seems to be missing ferocity and character? Seems like a heavy rock/british metal amp to me.

The coolest thing about this amp is that it'll make the Mark4 or EVH 50S easier to grab used.

Great amp!

Is there a way of bypassing the processing of the IR so a person could do it externally or post FX?

Actually not totally convinced by the two channels being fully identical. Some of the original Recto's magic was around the channel cloning combined with the differences in presence and negative feedback circuitry in the two channes. I think they missed a chance of some Mesa-style flexibility and love for details by not having built in some subtle difference into the channes that would result in ech two different flavours of the sound modes. Making them completely identical just feels a tad blunt…

If they put the cab clone IR in the JP2C I'd have no choice but to buy it.

I wanna buy a Mark V but this sounds killer and has more of that saturated gain wich mark kinda lacks

I like it better than my JP2c+

I need this amp

I wish I had the cash. But this amp is badass.

Greatest sounding amp. Ever

Is the name a swipe at Harrison Ford?

3:38 at 1.25x speed sounds fucking badass

Ola Englund did this test before mesa themselves, thats odd.

Holy fuckin 80s, crunch mode😍😍😍😍

Hmm an EL34 EVH sounds more killer though and also a lot cheaper. I think the coolest amp of the year is still the EVH stealth and the 50w is definitely enough for me

I really hate to admit: this might be the first „Rectifier“ I consider to purchase...sound very nice and chunky...not that mushy and fizzy like all rectos I‘ve heard before

The modes on each channel should be footswitchable