Mesa Recto Preamp Help

[Wyntyr]

Hi All,
You guys have been invaluable in the past so hopefully someone can help me here. I have had a Recto Recording preamp for around 2 months now and I love it, however I'm having a problem with the front input. When I plug into it there is barely any signal, channel 2 comes through very weak and I practically have to turn the preamp the whole way up to hear anything from channel 1. It doesn't appear to be a tube problem because when I use the rear input there is no problem, and all the solder connections to the input seem fine. Its not a huge problem as I mainly use the rear input anyways, but I don't like the idea of my Mesa not being 100% right so I'd like to sort it. Anyone got any suggestions?

 

[Gregwor]

As weird as this sounds, replace your REAR input jack. The front input jack signal is passed through the switching part of the rear input jack.

That should do it

Greg.

 

[Wyntyr]

See, this is why I love this forum. While I may not know much about electronics I do know how to solder, so based on your knowledge I disconnected the rear pcb amd re-attached it and lo and behold, it seems to be perfect Thank you so much man!

 

[STUART]

Hey another satisfied customer !!

Make a little donation ... :wink:

 

[Wyntyr]

Hey another satisfied customer !!

Make a little donation ... :wink:

I would be delighted too. How would one go about doing it?