Hey guys, *please* help me out. 
As you know I posted several threads about my recent purchase of a mark iic+ head I got off of ebay. When it arrived, it worked for 5 min, then it started smoking.. so I took it to an authorized Mesa Boogie tech in NJ. Anyways after spending $400, he fixed several burned out transistors, replaced the noisey fan, changed the tubes around (the instructions that were given to me were wrong apparently from the previous owner), replaced the EQ switch from a 2 way to a 3 way one (apparently someone had modded this intially), changed and fixed the reverb. Now after ALL of this, I came back home, and the distoration does NOT seem to work now. I am pulling the Lead Drive knob to Level 10 and turning the volume up all the way to LEVEL 10.
Frustrated, I drove 150 miles back (one way) to the tech and he noticed even more probs after further inspecting it. Some of the transistors that were sodered on where NON-MESA and he couldn't even recognize what the owner previously did with the amp. He also changed all the tubes again (non-mesa) and I spent another $164 to get this fixed. Then he tried the distoration and I was NOT happy with it. It sounded like a CLEAN, muddy sound (again the levels were at 10). He told me this amp is for blues, not metal. :shock:
I have to say, it has a WONDERFUL clean sound, BUT I was expecting this AMP to have a crushing distoration like Petrucci's or Metallica's sound, but instead I am having to deal with a muddy clean sound. The tech stated nothing is wrong with any circuits or the switching. I spent 2 hrs in NJ for him to run tests. Overall, I know have spent close to $4200 for everything.
Is there anyone out there who might have any more suggestions? I am not too bright with the circuity of the amp so I can't explain to a tech if they are right or wrong. Is this amp supposed to be like this or do you guys use perhaps another mod or a separate pedal to add the metal crunching sounds?
I live just 5 miles outside of Philadelphia, PA so if anyone knows a closer place where I could take, I appreciate it.
Thank you for listening!
Please reference my previous thread:
http://forum.grailtone.com/viewtopic.php?t=8714
As you know I posted several threads about my recent purchase of a mark iic+ head I got off of ebay. When it arrived, it worked for 5 min, then it started smoking.. so I took it to an authorized Mesa Boogie tech in NJ. Anyways after spending $400, he fixed several burned out transistors, replaced the noisey fan, changed the tubes around (the instructions that were given to me were wrong apparently from the previous owner), replaced the EQ switch from a 2 way to a 3 way one (apparently someone had modded this intially), changed and fixed the reverb. Now after ALL of this, I came back home, and the distoration does NOT seem to work now. I am pulling the Lead Drive knob to Level 10 and turning the volume up all the way to LEVEL 10.
Frustrated, I drove 150 miles back (one way) to the tech and he noticed even more probs after further inspecting it. Some of the transistors that were sodered on where NON-MESA and he couldn't even recognize what the owner previously did with the amp. He also changed all the tubes again (non-mesa) and I spent another $164 to get this fixed. Then he tried the distoration and I was NOT happy with it. It sounded like a CLEAN, muddy sound (again the levels were at 10). He told me this amp is for blues, not metal. :shock:
I have to say, it has a WONDERFUL clean sound, BUT I was expecting this AMP to have a crushing distoration like Petrucci's or Metallica's sound, but instead I am having to deal with a muddy clean sound. The tech stated nothing is wrong with any circuits or the switching. I spent 2 hrs in NJ for him to run tests. Overall, I know have spent close to $4200 for everything.
Is there anyone out there who might have any more suggestions? I am not too bright with the circuity of the amp so I can't explain to a tech if they are right or wrong. Is this amp supposed to be like this or do you guys use perhaps another mod or a separate pedal to add the metal crunching sounds?
I live just 5 miles outside of Philadelphia, PA so if anyone knows a closer place where I could take, I appreciate it.
Thank you for listening!
Please reference my previous thread:
http://forum.grailtone.com/viewtopic.php?t=8714
