Jared macneill
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Today was both a joyful yet sad day for me . I have discovered there are somethings I’m a little more attached to than I should be and my old Mesa is one of them. The Mesa was my first tube amp and has always been a love hate thing going on but it was mine and was my first real amp. I’ve had the Mesa for about 7 or 8 years now and really learned to love the boldness (so I thought) it had. My first year I had it it completely quit with no sound so the previous owner had it fixed for me and it worked as I thought (good) for another 4 year or so when I started having issues again and I ended up completely re tubing it and it worked but I couldn’t forget some someone told me ( this is one sick Mesa , it should have a lot more wallop to it” when I found someone to bias the amp he was suppose to recap it but didn’t even bother to do so. He messaged me it was done then anytime I went to pick it up he always made an excuse why not to be home and I had to get someone else to get it and that was a hell show and he blocked me on Facebook. Recently it started loosing volume in the lead channel this time so I shut it off and set it aside in another room and drug out my 74 twin reverb. Today my brother took me to the other side of our little provenance to drop the Mesa off to a retired technician who now builds them for people. Several other forum members vouched for him mostly the ones in Ontario since before the pandemic that’s where he was located and worked under another forum member who was a service guy for Mesa boogie. He made me feel kind of pathetic lol me struggling to walk with this old Mesa with my messed up legs lol and grabs it with one hand and flies down stairs with the 75 pound amps and with one hand puts it on top of a dresser that’s up to his chest in hight ! And then we started talking and I told him what was going wrong and he was going over everything when I heard “ there is definitely something wrong with it, it shouldn’t be humming like this . It sounds like there’s a grounding is going on , and there should be a lot more gain , my friend used to gig with two 80s boogies” then we get to the lead channel and he said “ yeah this should have a lot more volume than this” . It’s exciting because he’s willing to go over the amp with a fine comb and brush for say and actually did into it to find out what is going on and he’s going to send pictures along the way to prove that he is actually doing the work to it . The sad thing is it’s only been a few hours and it already feels weird knowing it’s not here and somewhere else. But that brings up another question. if the amp was “sick” for that long , what is going to sound like when it’s fixed? What have I been missing out on these last years? Am I even going to like it since I’m use to the twin? Am I going to like the twin when it comes back?
