Mike B and Peter at Mesa are the best

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So I sent this shot rackmount MkIII Green Stripe to get repaired. Mike B then took to time to do + mod afterwards. I also converted it to a head . Looks beautiful! Now I wait for arrival . But ya such great people and communication!
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IIBornotIIB said:
Mike B is great at what he does, and, on top of it; a great guy! You’ll be amazed at before and after… even though your starting point was ?
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Ya I’m super excited . He was super great with answering my questions and was just coolest
 
A buddy of mine sent his older 2 channel Tremoverb in for repairs and got it back faster than he was quoted and said it sounds amazing, easily the best Recto he's owned now.
 
Mike B and friends are great to deal with…first time I talked with him on the phone, next thing I knew it was 45 min later! Awesome guy.
 
Apex1Rg7X said:
A buddy of mine sent his older 2 channel Tremoverb in for repairs and got it back faster than he was quoted and said it sounds amazing, easily the best Recto he's owned now.
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I actually regret selling my tremoverb. I still have a rectifier but man they are so underrated
 
You guys are lucky having that easy access to mesa. I would like having my amps serviced by mesa but shipping from and back to EU is a dealbreaker.
 
Revi San said:
You guys are lucky having that easy access to mesa. I would like having my amps serviced by mesa but shipping from and back to EU is a dealbreaker.
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That’s shitty fr . Especially with older mesas . Mike B definitely needs his hands on those
 
My TC-50 still has quite a bit of warranty left on it, good to know the long-time Mesa gurus are still doing the work should I ever need to ship it in. Did they say anything about impact of the Gibson buyout on service processing? That's often an area that suffers after a merger between a huge company & a small one.
 
9985 said:
My TC-50 still has quite a bit of warranty left on it, good to know the long-time Mesa gurus are still doing the work should I ever need to ship it in. Did they say anything about impact of the Gibson buyout on service processing? That's often an area that suffers after a merger between a huge company & a small one.
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They definitely have been behind some . But they made it more like it’s people sending slot of stuff . The work was done super quick . I had to wait for the new shell . That took a few weeks to come in . But repairs seemed to go quick
 
Techdeth said:
He said blown caps . But I don’t have pics of the board . I never got that ?
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Probably the .01 uf 400v orange drops on one of the pre amp tubes. thats common. have 2 already replaced on my mark IV and i had to do 2 on my simul sat myself. they end up leaking dc voltage and sound like....well, that. yours sounded like a pretty extreme case. r108 and r109 ( i think...its between (r110 and r111) get fried pretty often too on mark IIIs, and need to be shot gunned.
 
JimAnsell said:
Probably the .01 uf 400v orange drops on one of the pre amp tubes. thats common. have 2 already replaced on my mark IV and i had to do 2 on my simul sat myself. they end up leaking dc voltage and sound like....well, that. yours sounded like a pretty extreme case. r108 and r109 ( i think...its between (r110 and r111) get fried pretty often too on mark IIIs, and need to be shot gunned.
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Ya the older boogies scare me in the inside . I’m not knowledgeable to try that . What’s the satellite like ?
 
satellite is a mark III green stripe power section with an abbreviated pre amp section, with only 2 12ax7s. on its own, i've read the circuit described (by a certain you tube tech) as one channel of a 5e3 into a boogie simul power section. it can be used as a one channel amp, ala the son of a boogie. or a "blank" power section to run your boogie in "dual mono"... not true stereo because its the same pre amp twice. they're certainly not a high production number unit, but they're sleeper as fuck. i can only imagine how bad ass they'd make a kemper or an axe fx sound with that power section and 5 band eq.
 
Techdeth said:
Ya the older boogies scare me in the inside . I’m not knowledgeable to try that .
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Conventional techs like to piss and moan about the MB layouts from back then, but they were pretty tame compared to the type of shit under the hood of boogies in the last 15 years. The mark IV is pretty straight forward compared to their boards now. ever see a jp 2c, mark v, or the roadster/ road kings under the hood? THOSE are some cracked out layouts. but either way, you just can't fuck with that boogie tone! they always deliver.

...also, all the shit i know i've learned from 1 college level analog electronics class, and tons of internet reading. Been taking apart clock radios since i was a kid :p
 
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