I would only take my Mesa to Mesa themselves for mods. I'm sure Mike B. can do something that you'll like, but that does sound like a different amp then a mark. 10 years from now when Mike is retired and all the Mark IIC+'s are in collector vaults a Mark III in good working order will probably...
Yea you can vaguely see the old green Mesa logo and 415 and the outter tubes are the 416 6ca7. They sound really good still. I hope they still have a lot of life left in them, but the preamp tubes were changed to Grove tubes. I’ll probably make those Mesa too
Finally I’m in the mark iii club. I have a DG red stripe head I got from guitar center. It came with the original Mesa power tubes but GT preamps. It is a beast so for and can easily get the high gain sound I’m after. Weirdly though MB’s signature is nowhere on it or any dates at all. And the...
I’m looking at buying a Mesa Mark that shows mark III in every way but doesn’t have any stripe or initials the MB from Mike I’m used to seeing. Did he sign all of them or are there some without it?