{"id":2841,"date":"2010-12-10T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/musicgearreviews\/?p=31"},"modified":"2022-06-24T23:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T23:07:53","slug":"mesa-ta-15-amp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-classic-blogs\/music-gear-reviews\/mesa-ta-15-amp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa TA 15 Amp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Music Gear Review - Mesa Trans Atlantic Amp Review\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iyOhysJK7h8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nJack covers some of the long history of Mesa Engineering (also known as Boogie).Randall Smith started Boogie hotrodding Fender amps. He would upgrade the transformers and the speakers of small Fender amps so that, it was said, they would \u201cboogie.\u201d With the TA-15 (a.k.a. Transatlantic), they build an innovative tube head with three quickly switchable power settings (5, 15 and 25 Watts). With 2xEL-84 &#038; 4x12AX7 tubes, the head weighs 12 pounds and is about 1 \u00bd times the size of a regular box of Kleenex. Put this thru a single speaker cabinet and you have something that is perfect for clubs and other gigging.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Jack covers some of the long history of Mesa Engineering (also known as Boogie).Randall Smith started Boogie hot rodding Fender amps. He would upgrade the transformers and the speakers of small Fender amps so that, it was said, they would \u201cboogie.\u201dWith the TA-15 (a.k.a. Transatlantic), they build an innovative tube head with three quickly switchable power settings (5, 15 and 25 Watts). With2xEL-84 &#038; 4x12AX7 tubes, the head weighs 12 pounds and is about 1 \u00bd times the size of a regular box of Kleenex. Put this thru a single speaker cabinet and you have something that is perfect for clubs and other gigging.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3217],"tags":[3224,131,2943,3225],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-gear-reviews","tag-amp-reviews","tag-amps","tag-jack-van-breen","tag-mesa-ta-15-amp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mesa TA 15 Amp - On The Beat with Totally Guitars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/amp\/tg-classic-blogs\/music-gear-reviews\/mesa-ta-15-amp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mesa TA 15 Amp - On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/amp\/tg-classic-blogs\/music-gear-reviews\/mesa-ta-15-amp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-12-10T17:39:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-24T23:07:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/amp\/tg-classic-blogs\/music-gear-reviews\/mesa-ta-15-amp\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/amp\/tg-classic-blogs\/music-gear-reviews\/mesa-ta-15-amp\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ccd7959bc7a790502cd976ce9c4ec242\"},\"headline\":\"Mesa TA 15 Amp\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-12-10T17:39:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-24T23:07:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/amp\/tg-classic-blogs\/music-gear-reviews\/mesa-ta-15-amp\/\"},\"wordCount\":113,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Amp reviews\",\"amps\",\"Jack Van Breen\",\"Mesa TA 15 Amp\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Guitar &amp; 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