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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Does that have an effect on tone?
Noted Mesas are complex animals, though I saw a MKIV schematic the other day, and apart from being on 3 pages of PDF, it wasn't as hair raising as anticipated.
Are they still making LDRs then? The reason I'm, interested is that if they degrade, do they degrade over time, or due to use. i.e. is an NOS LDR still ok twenty years on?
I heard that Mesa get their sound from driving the valves hard, and that they do need replacing more than, say, a Lazy J because of this.
Thanks for all responses.
Duggy Self: as I'm in Yorkshire, ths is poignant in the context of amp repair.
Edit: He's trying to get rid of distortion. I hope he's talking only about hifi amps.
Not true. If anything the power valves are biased notoriously cold in most Mesas (apart from the EL84 models), and preamp valves don't really suffer from being driven hard in that sense. They do suffer from microphonics when used for high gain though, so a Mesa will likely show up a duff preamp valve quicker than a Lazy J.
I don't know, and to be fair the number of failures I've seen is small enough to be statistical scatter probably. The chap who used to do the Mesa UK distributor's in-house repair saw a fair few though if I remember right.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein