Recent content by jpdennis

All, I have been having fun with all my Mesas and agree it is the ear of the player that can make the differnece in liking one amp over another. As to new tubes - YES. I drove my Mark III to Petaluma about two months ago for work on my EQ. I didn't realize it had been over 10 months with the...

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Under this link I commented about how great being close to Petaluma was AND the fact that my 6BQ5 .50 Caliber combo is plain incredible since George at Mesa Engineering has updated something and repaired other parts of this little amp...

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I priced several individual pedals and was at about $2,100. So I got a M13 on sale for $400.00 and Line 6 replaced it under warranty a year later. Using the 4 cable method works great for me, but I don't own the Mark V which can do midi. I found that I don't use the compressor or overdrives...

With parts & labor they have both been right about $200.00 each. But I didn't have to ship and for the round trip my gas was about $15.00 (I use my Mini for these trips). The real cool thing is that they have this "hidden" knowledge of what I call "Internal Service Bulletin" updates that seem...

Got the amp back from Mesa Monday. Used it last night. WOW and more WOW! I really love living this close to Petaluma because ... well it turns out there is some factory upgrade they do to the 50 Caliber that uses the EL84's. My God, this thing has never - ever - ever sound this good...

Are in the States or overseas? I only ask because I am not sure which of the power settings you are actually using for this amp. More to the point, if there is some gem of infomration could could give me based upon which settings works the best, if you are in the States, and you deal with the...

And why I love living within 2 hours or less (based upon traffic) is that it gives me an excuse to break out of the area and have Mike or George work on my gear. A while back Mike did some nice work on my Mark III just 'cause I wanted him to do the MB thing AND he did a reverb fix, which he...

The exact same way I change my Heartbreaker tubes. Dennis

So, the jury is in. Put back in the Tung-Sol 6L6GC - STR power tubes. Learned that putting both channels on high gain when using Ch 1 with boost engaged gives me as close to a balance level as possible. Also, the amp is much more versatile then with the JJ power tubes and not so "almost" to...

There are some schematics floating around the internet for the Mark III. Doing a search in this forum will find some chatter about those as well as where to get them. However, and others can chime in to correct me if wrong, most are for the earlier black stripe/no stripe. There are some...

Odd, I don't think it should be captive. Go to the Mesa site, then to store , then to pedals and see if it looks the same as the ones for the Mark III. Dennis

Since I use the G50 and the cable I connect with is 20' (using 4CM and keeping the receiving unit back by the amp) I did not use the "cable length adjustment". That is what Line 6 said they developed because it has the potential to sound as if you are directly soldered to the amp (WOW what a...

I actually turned the reverb tank 180 degrees to reduce hum so I placed my fan here and it works great! But if you don't have reverb or any hum then you could do something similar on the other side or just lower it like the others have said! One of the "L" brackets (the one you don't see -...