Sorry for the late response but it’s back home and I’m very satisfied with it . There some very subtle differences that make it so worth it .
It’s a lot smoother sounding now and clearer but not clean like my twin but that’s the nature of the beast.
The eq now is wired up to work on both lead and rhythm channel and is less noisy than when it left so is the reverb. The biggest difference is now there’s only one master and two dedicated volumes one for the lead and rhythm and the gain stage is crazy it screams even at gain at level 1 with boost . It’s insane the Mesa couldn’t even do that when cranked!.
I can actually run the rhythm channel at 9/10 and master at one and you can’t hear it running in the background except for when you run the eq .
I was on the phone and my friend said “ turn your Mesa on” and I told him “ it is on” he was shocked!
The fender was also previously serviced so it didn’t need nearly as much work as I thought and we quickly got the tremolo fixed and the footswitch.
Then we took both amps home