I have really been enjoying your content all week: have watched all of the videos you mention at the end of this one, and they have all been totally interesting (also you, yourself, are a fabulous guitarist).
Wow I really love the fact that both channels are identical. I'm looking forward to trying one of these babies out. Great demo John! Some tasty playing and a tasty guitar selection too. Thanks for the demo.
Dang cool Tele! Lots of built-in vibe... and bounces off the floor well too! Pete Townsend's going to be calling you soon! Great sounding Boogie with some sure twang!
I owned an original Mark I, Serial No. A279, but like a fool sold it. It has the labels like you mentioned. I took out the Altec and replaced it with an EV12L, so it was crunchy and I used an original MXR Dyna Comp with the volume all the way up and sustain at noon. I regret it every day! This was back in the 70s.
Mooooove awaaaaaay from the waaallll hahaha!!! I was having a panic attack watching you get within two inches of smacking that headstock into your wall lol!!! Other than that... awesome video John!!!
My local music store has one of these. Sounds good in person. Not super high gain, but for blues, classic rock, it's great. Metal guys stay with the Recto.
If you were using this amp at home can you actually get it to distort I noticed that you have the master volume dimed out but what if you wanted at low volumes is this the wrong amplifier
Nice vid. I like how you demo multiple pickup “flavors” with singles, p90, and filtertrons. I tried the amp out at a local dealer and it was ok. Just ok. I prefer the clean channel on my 5:50 Express + though. Tighter bottom and having a graphic eq for that last little tone tweak. I was hoping for a lighter weight Heartbreaker. Oh well....
My favorite amp was the Boogie Mark 3, but I traded it years ago and kicking myself since. This Filmore has a lot of the same characteristics of the earlier Mark series but simplified without all the push/pull knobs and 5 band EQ. I absolutely have to get this amp now and ditch my Fender. Great demo John!
Mesa products are all such Swiss army knives that it's difficult to really get excited by a new one because their old ones pretty much already do everything, and they are always just a single switch or quarter knob turn away from sounding terrible. Still, this one does seem like it actually has a defined niche that it really excels at, so that is a really nice change.
EXACTLY on them being a quarter turn from terrible. I have never been able to get anything out of one in a GC because you have to have a picture in hand of where the knobs should be to get a good tone out of one. Some of the rivera amps are like that, too. When I turned 40, I ditched all of the complicated amps and got a cheap tube amp with reverb and 1x12. I like it better. It doesn't do everything, but it's good at being a basic amp and it's easy to dial in. Nothing worse than sitting down to play and getting sucked into 45 minutes of screwing around with the knobs and still thinking "not quite right", and then having 15 minutes left to play. Petrucci had a video of the settings he liked on one of the older mesas. When he dialed them in, you could certainly get that "oh yeah, that's definitely petrucci sound". But what if you want something slightly different? Change a settiing and fall off of a cliff.
Couldn't me more true. I think it's time for me to sell my Mark V:25 because when it sounds good, it sounds great. When it doesn't, it sounds awful. Might look at Hughes & Kettner.
I was able to play one of these today and man it sounded fantastic, used it with a 50’s Original Telecaster (the new Fender series not an old Tele) had the Joe Walsh vibe going straight with the Tele except of course it sounded a lot bigger of course cause it’s not a Champ.
This is probably one of my favorite amps right now. Great cleans and drive sounds for country or rock. The drive sounds remind me of Friedman, in that overdriven chords hold their definition. The circuit is awesome. You are actually boosting or cutting tones with the EQ, I mean, you can cut out all of the mids or treble or bass . . . if you turned them all the tone knobs to zero you would have no sound, so you are actually boosting an overdrive for different frequencies in cranking them up. It is an awesome amp. I do wish they added a few bells and whistles though. The one-button footswitch that you buy separate could have been like a three-button that came with the amp. It would have been great if they had given it a few more of the features of the Express. Great playing and sounds.
John's video shows off the Filmore nicely. After seeing several other videos of the Filmore I'm struck by how much it sounds like earlier Mark Series amps but with a simplified layout that is easier to dial in. I have an early MkII and let's just say it's a pain to set up but it seems that Mesa has been able to capture some of the sounds of the older Mark Series in a more user friendly package so I say good going Mesa.
Its something about a56 LP with them p90's. I grew up playing a 56 LP JR. One pop. I was The Great Leslie West on steroids. J used to play everything from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Van Halen with that one guitar with 1 pop. That thing rocked, and I played it through a tweed of some sort. It was close to same model my grandad bought all of it at the same day. I got a strat when I was 16 and then I got a Budda18 watt and went back to the Jr and was a rock machine with just 1 tuner pedal and one boost pedal. I played many shows with that.
I just picked up a Gibson Les Paul 50s Tribute with the P90s as kind of an afterthought. Its from 2016, so it was before they switched to maple necks. Its the same thing with that guitar like you're saying. Biggest surprise of my musical life. That guitar is a straight assassin. One of the best guitars I've ever played to my surprise and there is no doubt that the P90s play a huge part in that.
I was recently roaming the mean streets of Bend, Oregon when a bearded young man wearing tight fitting trousers approached me and said “Brah! Have you heard the Fillmore has two identical channels? Its fantastic”. I looked at him, smiled reassuringly and said “Little man, I have no idea what any of that means but thank you for your passion.” And went about with my day.
I had a mark v 35 boogie and after only owning it for 2 years red plating 5 sets of boogie tubes a trip to my amp tech and then back to boogie to have them just replace tubes without looking into what was causing the red plating. I finally have sold and given up on Mesa and it sucks to admit that being I was a big big fan.
I bought a brand new Triple Rectifier many years ago from my local dealer. Had intermittent issues in the first few weeks. Dealer sent it back and they literally did nothing. Messaged them and they laughed even though I was able to produce the issue right in front of the dealer. I'm sure they put it on the work bench for a hot minute, said it was fine and shipped it back. Hope they read this.
Never really get stuff to "CHUG" do you. Guys just want to know it has the chord harmonics and single note clarity while moving overdrive air. Learn a Black Label Society riff, or Pantera rhythm, or first album Metallica song, just so we know that the amp can go there as well as give us nice cleans and vintage crunch.
@@premierguitar Good for you. All these RUclips channels where they get free trips to the factory in China or get free phones or other great stuff creates a credibility problem.
@@johnbohlinger John, you answered this 2 months ago using the exact same words. It was a cool amp 2 months ago and it's a cool amp now. The name Fillmore reminds me of my youth spent at the Fillmore East. People plugged in and played in those days.
Way over priced, I know Mesa are very good amps, but so are Fender/Peavey/Marshall/ and the sound you can get from a 100 watt Boss Katana just blows me away - always it is the player and how they choose to access the potential of the amp which makes them sound great. I am not romantic about brands at all, maybe when I was 17 I had strong affinity, today it is about getting a sound and using it.
Errik Wong - Just what I need, to try yet another mesa. Bought my first before they had stores...had to wait for them to build it. Like I said, we need another circuit board nightmare from them like we need another comet to hit earth. Amps sound like amps pretty much...unless you are marketing or selling them, then they sound like pixy dust and angel hairs. YAWN.
TheDogpa I get that you might have amp fatigue, and perhaps justifiably so. I’d encourage you to maybe give it an audition, and let that experience dictate your musings?
I dunno it doesn't do it for me. In the effort to be super versatile Boogies always sound too generic IMO. I've owned a couple and played though a lot but I always end up preferring more straight ahead amps with more individual character... if less versatility.
@@premierguitar you guys still gotta hand Bohlinger an ESP EC1000 and something nuts like a Randall Satan or a Sunn Model T with a revv g3 in front, and see what he makes happen. Or a Korg Miku....
When I heard JB say that’s not my thing a light 💡 went on. “Premier Guitar Band Survivors “. A reality show where premier guitar personalities are put into bands that are not their thing and they have to adapt and play in the band. You see rehearsals of course drama and confessions and then gigs with the different personalities playing in these bands. Of course John is gonna be my favorite to watch👍🏼
@@rafaelpretto292 actually, she jumped ship to Pro Guitar Shop (which has since closed and its remnants are now on Reverb) a few years ago, and hasn't been seen on RUclips since taking maternity leave.
I like the idea of these... but i hate that the channel and the reverb switching use two separate cables... one to the front and one to the back. So you gota have 3 damn cables running to the amp. Dipshits. I have no idea what they were thinking. They shoulda used a TRS cable for channel and reverb and sent the damn thing to the back of the amp. I won't buy one for this stupid-ass reason alone.
I would like to hear the freaking amp by itself and you keep talking about it but you don't do it. Is it because you have to have all that shiot to sound halfway descent because if that's why you're doing it, it's not doing ya any good. Let's hear the amp. That's what you're reviewing right. By the way, all Amps have rectifiers. Some are dual, some are tube, some are solid state, but they all have some kind of rectifier, J.S.
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amazing review as always
Many thanks from WIndsor, Ontario, Canada! You’re the best John!
Lol JB is such a guitar player, I love it! Mesa amp, shoes held together with tape.
Now I want to play one! It reminds me a lot of the things I love about my old Mark I.
I have really been enjoying your content all week: have watched all of the videos you mention at the end of this one, and they have all been totally interesting (also you, yourself, are a fabulous guitarist).
And by the way....nice work John! You were in the rock n roll zone...and smiling.
How about a rig rundown for John one of these days? See what kind of amps/guitars/gear he uses at home and professionally.
Hey! I wuz just gonna comment the very same sentiment...
There was one on one of his sideman gigs - I forget for whom - but yeah, it’d be nice to see like a “studio tour,” I think!
He just did it.
Simon Pires link?
Wow I really love the fact that both channels are identical. I'm looking forward to trying one of these babies out. Great demo John! Some tasty playing and a tasty guitar selection too. Thanks for the demo.
Dang cool Tele!
Lots of built-in vibe... and bounces off the floor well too!
Pete Townsend's going to be calling you soon!
Great sounding Boogie with some sure twang!
Always enjoy watching these. John also has the premier job!
Great demo, great playing, great guy, pretty cool shirt! :)
DRUM MACHIIIIIINE
I owned an original Mark I, Serial No. A279, but like a fool sold it. It has the labels like you mentioned. I took out the Altec and replaced it with an EV12L, so it was crunchy and I used an original MXR Dyna Comp with the volume all the way up and sustain at noon. I regret it every day! This was back in the 70s.
:-( . I hope to find an early low serial number Mark I some day. I just love Mark Is. :-)
Mooooove awaaaaaay from the waaallll hahaha!!! I was having a panic attack watching you get within two inches of smacking that headstock into your wall lol!!! Other than that... awesome video John!!!
Diggin' the higher quality audio on this one! I wanna take a trip to Humbucker Land!
Very creative freshin playin .. nice nice nice
i need one SO bad
My local music store has one of these. Sounds good in person. Not super high gain, but for blues, classic rock, it's great. Metal guys stay with the Recto.
The DGT and this amp sound awesome.
Haha those taped Chucks! - i do the same hahaha
Nice to see you let your Ya Ya's out John! Had to feel good.
If you were using this amp at home can you actually get it to distort I noticed that you have the master volume dimed out but what if you wanted at low volumes is this the wrong amplifier
i've been looking at the fillmore 25, it may be the first boogie i own (fender guy here) this review was useful and fun
Nice vid. I like how you demo multiple pickup “flavors” with singles, p90, and filtertrons. I tried the amp out at a local dealer and it was ok. Just ok. I prefer the clean channel on my 5:50 Express + though. Tighter bottom and having a graphic eq for that last little tone tweak. I was hoping for a lighter weight Heartbreaker. Oh well....
My favorite amp was the Boogie Mark 3, but I traded it years ago and kicking myself since. This Filmore has a lot of the same characteristics of the earlier Mark series but simplified without all the push/pull knobs and 5 band EQ. I absolutely have to get this amp now and ditch my Fender. Great demo John!
Welcome to today's episode of "johns jam", where we take a look at what JB is digging this week
Mesa products are all such Swiss army knives that it's difficult to really get excited by a new one because their old ones pretty much already do everything, and they are always just a single switch or quarter knob turn away from sounding terrible. Still, this one does seem like it actually has a defined niche that it really excels at, so that is a really nice change.
EXACTLY on them being a quarter turn from terrible. I have never been able to get anything out of one in a GC because you have to have a picture in hand of where the knobs should be to get a good tone out of one.
Some of the rivera amps are like that, too. When I turned 40, I ditched all of the complicated amps and got a cheap tube amp with reverb and 1x12. I like it better. It doesn't do everything, but it's good at being a basic amp and it's easy to dial in.
Nothing worse than sitting down to play and getting sucked into 45 minutes of screwing around with the knobs and still thinking "not quite right", and then having 15 minutes left to play.
Petrucci had a video of the settings he liked on one of the older mesas. When he dialed them in, you could certainly get that "oh yeah, that's definitely petrucci sound". But what if you want something slightly different? Change a settiing and fall off of a cliff.
Couldn't me more true. I think it's time for me to sell my Mark V:25 because when it sounds good, it sounds great. When it doesn't, it sounds awful. Might look at Hughes & Kettner.
I have not had that experience at all. I find it quite difficult to get a bad tone out of my Mesa.
Mesa have really come up with the goods recently. This and a Triple Crown would be all I need.
I was able to play one of these today and man it sounded fantastic, used it with a 50’s Original Telecaster (the new Fender series not an old Tele) had the Joe Walsh vibe going straight with the Tele except of course it sounded a lot bigger of course cause it’s not a Champ.
Nice guitar!!!!
First Mesa that's genuinely given me G.A.S. in years. Maybe my old Studio .22+ will get a younger sibling eventually...
Sweet looking Tele style. What kind of neck profile does it have?
Hi How close to the Fender 68 SRV tone can this come ?
that tone .. my brain keeps screaming playing misty mountain hop on that PRS
yeiiii a Mic!
Rock star living room !!!!
This is probably one of my favorite amps right now. Great cleans and drive sounds for country or rock. The drive sounds remind me of Friedman, in that overdriven chords hold their definition. The circuit is awesome. You are actually boosting or cutting tones with the EQ, I mean, you can cut out all of the mids or treble or bass . . . if you turned them all the tone knobs to zero you would have no sound, so you are actually boosting an overdrive for different frequencies in cranking them up. It is an awesome amp. I do wish they added a few bells and whistles though. The one-button footswitch that you buy separate could have been like a three-button that came with the amp. It would have been great if they had given it a few more of the features of the Express. Great playing and sounds.
Definitely, like a footswitch function to change from clean to crunch to drive.
John's video shows off the Filmore nicely. After seeing several other videos of the Filmore I'm struck by how much it sounds like earlier Mark Series amps but with a simplified layout that is easier to dial in. I have an early MkII and let's just say it's a pain to set up but it seems that Mesa has been able to capture some of the sounds of the older Mark Series in a more user friendly package so I say good going Mesa.
Does it do lone star cleans?
Its something about a56 LP with them p90's. I grew up playing a 56 LP JR. One pop. I was The Great Leslie West on steroids. J used to play everything from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Van Halen with that one guitar with 1 pop. That thing rocked, and I played it through a tweed of some sort. It was close to same model my grandad bought all of it at the same day. I got a strat when I was 16 and then I got a Budda18 watt and went back to the Jr and was a rock machine with just 1 tuner pedal and one boost pedal. I played many shows with that.
I just picked up a Gibson Les Paul 50s Tribute with the P90s as kind of an afterthought. Its from 2016, so it was before they switched to maple necks. Its the same thing with that guitar like you're saying. Biggest surprise of my musical life. That guitar is a straight assassin. One of the best guitars I've ever played to my surprise and there is no doubt that the P90s play a huge part in that.
To heck with the amp, I want the Les Paul...
hey PG when are you going to give John an increase in pay? So he can get a pair of gym shoes where he doesn't have to tape them together.
It's a mesa boogie heart breaker reborn
TrailerHawk! My buddy’s band and some good folks to boot!
Sounds good man...think I'll keep my Marshall Master Lead Combos I got for a hunnit bux apiece
you're not just a pretty face, are you? Great demo, awesome playing.
Thanks for posting.
I was recently roaming the mean streets of Bend, Oregon when a bearded young man wearing tight fitting trousers approached me and said “Brah! Have you heard the Fillmore has two identical channels? Its fantastic”. I looked at him, smiled reassuringly and said “Little man, I have no idea what any of that means but thank you for your passion.” And went about with my day.
The Fillmore is legit. I have a moratorium on new gear for a year, and I’m about to violate it I think.
John what is your compressor settings? Thanks!
Rig rundown for John !!
damn that tele
Another 2 chanel amp with + gain and more gain with a Guitarist playing through it with more Over drive and Effects pedals?
cool...cool...WoW
Bolinger has a pretty nice looking house
😎 Awesome
Yeah man thank you for this! My Lonestar Classic sounds great but weighs 73lbs 😵
What is that Gretsch you are playing John?
So basically a MK 1 reissue ?
It's the rig video guy!
Gotta bit of Leonardo’s unfinished Adoration of the Magi going on on the front of that Tele. Thought it was knurled grain at first.
Amazed you got that. Welcome to the nerd herd. Thanks
Chiaroscuro. Beautiful.
John- what’s the count ok b-benders.. 20?
don't know. many, and more comming
isn't this basically the lone star?
Remember that Kiesel...
Those strap locks tho
That's a Dutch thing. They're the rings of the Grolsch swing caps.
I had a mark v 35 boogie and after only owning it for 2 years red plating 5 sets of boogie tubes a trip to my amp tech and then back to boogie to have them just replace tubes without looking into what was causing the red plating. I finally have sold and given up on Mesa and it sucks to admit that being I was a big big fan.
Saw a lot of people having that issue with the 35. Nothing but good things about the 25 or 90
Yep, the 35 had issues. Good sounding amp but it’s design was off.
I bought a brand new Triple Rectifier many years ago from my local dealer. Had intermittent issues in the first few weeks. Dealer sent it back and they literally did nothing. Messaged them and they laughed even though I was able to produce the issue right in front of the dealer. I'm sure they put it on the work bench for a hot minute, said it was fine and shipped it back. Hope they read this.
I haven't had that issue with my MkV:35... but now I'm concerned. Maybe the fan I always have blowing on me helps just enough?
What did you end up with? Give us your rig rundown!! :) I've never owned a Mesa/Boogie but always wanted one.
No Strat??????
Reminders me of my fender prosonic except a lot more complicated
Never really get stuff to "CHUG" do you. Guys just want to know it has the chord harmonics and single note clarity while moving overdrive air. Learn a Black Label Society riff, or Pantera rhythm, or first album Metallica song, just so we know that the amp can go there as well as give us nice cleans and vintage crunch.
Sold all of my mesa boogies. Too long to dial to get the sound you want.
So much different than the Andy Timmons review
Do you get to keep the stuff you test?
Nope - we either send it back or do a giveaway with it (depends on the mfg's wish).
regrettably, I do not. This would be a great one to keep.
@@premierguitar Good for you. All these RUclips channels where they get free trips to the factory in China or get free phones or other great stuff creates a credibility problem.
regrettably , no.
@@johnbohlinger John, you answered this 2 months ago using the exact same words. It was a cool amp 2 months ago and it's a cool amp now. The name Fillmore reminds me of my youth spent at the Fillmore East. People plugged in and played in those days.
Chris, buy your friend a new pair of shoes!
Way over priced, I know Mesa are very good amps, but so are Fender/Peavey/Marshall/ and the sound you can get from a 100 watt Boss Katana just blows me away - always it is the player and how they choose to access the potential of the amp which makes them sound great. I am not romantic about brands at all, maybe when I was 17 I had strong affinity, today it is about getting a sound and using it.
It was always about getting a sound that works and using it.
John deserves a way better amp
Just what the world needed...another mesa circuit board nightmare.
Lol.
Have you tried it?
Errik Wong - Just what I need, to try yet another mesa. Bought my first before they had stores...had to wait for them to build it. Like I said, we need another circuit board nightmare from them like we need another comet to hit earth. Amps sound like amps pretty much...unless you are marketing or selling them, then they sound like pixy dust and angel hairs. YAWN.
TheDogpa I get that you might have amp fatigue, and perhaps justifiably so. I’d encourage you to maybe give it an audition, and let that experience dictate your musings?
I hope this was not the highlight of your day.
I dunno it doesn't do it for me. In the effort to be super versatile Boogies always sound too generic IMO. I've owned a couple and played though a lot but I always end up preferring more straight ahead amps with more individual character... if less versatility.
I have this amp. Great tone, but no clean haedroom. Very disappointed.
But does it djent?
The amp or Bohlinger? ;)
@@premierguitar you guys still gotta hand Bohlinger an ESP EC1000 and something nuts like a Randall Satan or a Sunn Model T with a revv g3 in front, and see what he makes happen.
Or a Korg Miku....
When I heard JB say that’s not my thing a light 💡 went on. “Premier Guitar Band Survivors “. A reality show where premier guitar personalities are put into bands that are not their thing and they have to adapt and play in the band. You see rehearsals of course drama and confessions and then gigs with the different personalities playing in these bands. Of course John is gonna be my favorite to watch👍🏼
SMSuperstrat
AND also bring back Rebecca Dirks, to participate😏
@@rafaelpretto292 actually, she jumped ship to Pro Guitar Shop (which has since closed and its remnants are now on Reverb) a few years ago, and hasn't been seen on RUclips since taking maternity leave.
Negatory ,no likee !
When are we gonna realize chicken pickin is the worn out cliche of today like legato runs were for the 80’s
It's way overdone, Becoming so monotonous it's comical. Walk into guitar shops from Pennsylvania to Texas and you can hear this shit being force fed.
Nicely done. Lay off the whammy though. Too much.
I like the idea of these... but i hate that the channel and the reverb switching use two separate cables... one to the front and one to the back. So you gota have 3 damn cables running to the amp. Dipshits. I have no idea what they were thinking. They shoulda used a TRS cable for channel and reverb and sent the damn thing to the back of the amp. I won't buy one for this stupid-ass reason alone.
WHat the heck happened...sounds like crap and I like John and Mesa...
Typical guitar player. The guitar's too loud! Can't hear the drum machine. LOL!
What a tool this guy is! lol
gosh these are the worst.
Stick to interviewing the real guitar pickers....mmkay!
I would like to hear the freaking amp by itself and you keep talking about it but you don't do it. Is it because you have to have all that shiot to sound halfway descent because if that's why you're doing it, it's not doing ya any good. Let's hear the amp. That's what you're reviewing right. By the way, all Amps have rectifiers. Some are dual, some are tube, some are solid state, but they all have some kind of rectifier, J.S.