There is almost nothing on the rig exchange for Mesa Boogie Mark 1's. So, a year ago I did a direct profile of my Mesa Boogie Mark 1 reissue turned up to Santana volume/settings. Because it was so loud, I was having trouble getting a tone I liked via profiling the speakers, so I tried doing a direct profile as well.
Today I took the direct profile and combined it with the cabinet from one of the King Snake profiles (I believe it was the EV2b one by bluesfan) on the rig exchange and now I have a very usable Santana Mesa Boogie Mark I profile.
I've created the mp3 below if you want to listen to it. Later today if there is interest I'll upload the profile.
One thing I like about this profile is that you can get a variety of Santana tones by changing your tone and volume controls, and varying pick attack. It seems to be in the right sweet spot to capture most of his variety that he uses through a song. The tone I was going for was Lotus 1973 live in Japan, if you want a reference.
I know parts of it in the clip below are too high gain but that is my fault, not the fault of the profile.
Thanks for listening,
Mike