Recent content by 70sstrat

Thanks! Thats what I needed to know. I had a feeling the Mark III wouldn't necessarily jive with the classic Marshall formula :wink:. So now to find a nice articulate set of PAF's 8) .

Hi all, I've looked around and I couldn't find anything on the pros and cons of using vintage or high output pickups with the Mark series amps (for the purpose of this discussion hight output is anything over 9k). I'm looking to swap out the pickups on my 97 LP studio. The stock pups get me...

So I've been away for a bit but I wanted to thank everyone for their help. To update I was able to get some pictures to mesa and was told it looked like could have been modded for el34's. I also had a tech take a look at it and made sure everything was checking out. So far so good! The longer I...

O.K. I got in touch with Savage and they have on record they "went through the amp, replaced a volume control, re-tubed both power and preamp tubes, re-biased and cleaned it". Now I don't see a bias pot in my amp. From what I've read here I believe the bias mod is R117 correct? Here is a cose up...

Thank You! You certainly know more than I. Here are some close up pics and I'll see if I can get in contact with mesa. Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion of what happened to my mark III :lol:

Would this have been more appropriate for the tubes section? I figured you mark guys n' gals would know the most about what would have been changed to accomodate el34's. I'm avoiding playing the amp like this till I know whats going on any help is greatly appreciated :D .

Ok moved all the pics to flicker let me know if there still not showing up.

Hello all, I didn't see an introduction section so I'll take some time to do that here. If you could care less please skip ahead to read about my questionable mark iii :). I've been through a bit of a journey with my gear. Growing up my dad played guitar and I always said "I don't want to sound...