A few Mesa Tremoverb head questions?

[procos]

I bought a Mesa Tremoverb head off ebay last week and it showed up today. There was a few problems that the seller didn't list in his auction so I contacted him today and he agreed to take it back. I did however get a chance to play it today and it sounded like an amp I would really like. The problems it had were:

1) Someone had sawed off the ground prong on the power cord.
2) The jewel light was burnt out
3 The reverb didn't work in the red channel

The amp was somewhat beaten up so I can tell it was gigged alot. The jewel light being burnt out didn't really bother me because that is an easy fix but not having the reverb in the red channel and the sawed off ground prong was enough for me to get a refund.

Another problem I was having was that when I was in the orange channel and switched from Clean mode to Vintage High Gain I got a very big volume drop. I also got the same volume drop when in the red channel and going from the Blues voicing to the Modern High Gain mode. So my question is does this happen in all Tremoverbs or was something wrong with the one I am sending back? Like I said I really dug all the different modes and wouldn't mind buying another one of these amps but if all of them get that huge volume drop I don't think I'd like that. Also is there any difference between the early ones with the attached power cords and the newer ones with the detachable power cord? If I buy another one I am going to make sure it is really clean and taken care of so I don't run into this problem again.

Thanks,

Chuck

 

[Commander Coo1]

thats odd that whe you switch to the higher gain settings volume drops, mine jumps way up when i switch from clean to vintage hi gain. also the reverb on the red channel is much much weaker than the orange channel's reverb, it is supposed to be, i dont know if it wasnt working completely on the red or if it just didnt seem like it when compared to the orange. just wanted to let you know how mine works, becasue it should be working 100% because i t got an entire new PCB and components because when i first bought mine off of ebay it barely worked...