Road King Manual - Mesa Boogie

Operating InstructionsOVERVIEW:Congratulations on choosing the Mesa Dual Rectifier Road King as your amplifier and welcome to the Mesa/Boogie Family! Bychoosing this all-tube hand-built instrument you have taken a step into the future of guitar amplification, for as you can see at a glance,the Road King is more than just an amp. It’s a collection of amps housed in one chassis that we refer to as an Advanced AmplifierArray. This arsenal of sounds is so powerful that with them at your command, inspiration will take over and propel your playing toplaces you have only dreamed. Let’s take a moment and review the features that make up this house of tone.First and foremost it will help you to digest this dictionary of amazing guitar sounds by realizing that, as daunting as it looks, it is reallyjust four separate amps. If you view it as such and learn them individually and then combine and dedicate them, you will find theprocess easier. Each Preamp Channel on the Front Panel has a corresponding Power Amp/Effects Loop Control Panel on the RearPanel (we call them Channel Strips). Once you have chosen a Channel/Mode combination for a sound, you simply go to the RearPanel and select that Channels’ power amp choice (any 1 of 5 selections), choose your Rectifier Style and program your Effects Loopchoices. There you go, one channel done…repeat this scheme three more times and you are ready to explore your first palate ofsounds in the Road King. Rest assured, many more combinations are lurking in there and you can look forward to years of discoveryas you go deeper. In case that was too simple sounding, here is a more expanded way of understanding the KingFour independent preamp channels make up the front end of the Road King and though they may each be used for any sound, theyare grouped as two sets of lower gain Rhythm Channels (1 & 2) and two sets of high gain Lead Channels (3 & 4). The two sets arestacked with the lower gain rhythm channels following the Input jack. Each of these channels house 3 different modes, which arevoiced differently and in certain cases have different gain structures. You’ll notice the modes are duplicated in the two types ofchannels (excepting one in each Rhythm Channel) which makes it possible to use the them for different settings of the same sound.OVERVIEW: (Continued) This allows the Road King to be many amps to many players and roam confidently between extremelydifferent musical styles while retaining the ability to focus in on any one and offer a multitude of great sounds for a specific genre. Forexample, a Blues player might dial up 1 & 2 for different clean sounds using the same mode for both chording and solo fills, while 3 &FRONT VIEW : COMBO Road KingFATCLEANCH1CH3RAWVINTAGEOUTPUTSOLOHI VOLTSONAC MAINSONFATTWEEDCLEANGAIN TREBLE MID BASS PRESENCE MASTERFXLOOPSMODERNGAIN TREBLE MID BASS PRESENCE MASTERRAWVINTAGE2x6L62xEL342x6L65U4DIODES5U4BRITMODERNPROGRESSIVE LINKAGERECTIFIER TRACKINGREAR VIEW : COMBO Road KingBOLDSPONGYPOWER FUSE120 V~60 Hz4 AFUSE4 ASLOBLOCH 2CH1CH 3FTSWCHANNELFOOTCONTROLLERROADKINGCH4 CH3WARNING: To reduce risk of fire orelectric shock, replace fuse withsame type and rating only. Do notexpose this unit to rain or moisture.EXT.SWITCHCH2 CH1SOLO REVERB LOOP 1 LOOP 2LOOP SYSTEMACTIVEBYPASSLOOPS, SOLO& MASTERCONTROLSSEND 1RETURN 1WARNING: To reduce risk of fire or electricshock, Do not remove cover. No userserviceableparts inside. Referservicing to qualified personnel.NORMALNORMAL10% 90%SEND LEVEL FTSW MIXSEND 2HANDBUILTIN PETALUMACALIFORNIA, USARETURN 2 EXT. TRIGGERSLATCHINGPULSE2xEL342x6L62x6L62xEL34 4x6L62xEL+4x6L6PROGRESSIVELINKAGEDIODEATUBE-TRACKING BRECTO SPKRCH 4A +BNORMAL10% 90%LOOP 2MIXONOFFLOOP 1ONOFFLOOP 22xEL342x6L62x6L62xEL34 4x6L62xEL+4x6L6PROGRESSIVELINKAGEDIODEATUBE-TRACKING BRECTO SPKRCH 3A +BNORMAL10% 90%LOOP 2MIXONOFFLOOP 1ONOFFLOOP 22xEL342x6L62x6L62xEL34 4x6L62xEL+4x6L6PROGRESSIVELINKAGEDIODEATUBE-TRACKING BRECTO SPKRCH 2A +BNORMAL10% 90%LOOP 2MIXONOFFLOOP 1ONOFFLOOP 22xEL342x6L62x6L62xEL34 4x6L62xEL+4x6L6PROGRESSIVELINKAGEDIODEATUBE-TRACKING BRECTO SPKRCH 1A +BNORMAL10% 90%LOOP 2MIXONOFFLOOP 1ONOFFLOOP 2MESACH 3 CH 1CH 4BOOGIEREVERBCH 28 OHMCOMBOSPEAKERS4 OHM 4 OHMUSE WITH TWO 8 OHM CABSABCAUTION: USE SHORTING PLUG IF NO SPKRS IN BLEVELSLAVEOUTPAGE 1