Rectoverb Combo switching silence fix?!?!

[Blind Ambassador]

Hey whats up. Brand new here and new to owning a Mesa too. Apologies if this has been covered a million times. I couldnt find any posts that dealt with my issue directly.

Just recently purchased a 50 watt Single Rec Rectoverb combo. I bought it to replace my Sovtek Mig 100h for gigging purposes (awesome sounding amp, but most definitely not built for the road). It's a great sounding amp and overall I'm pretty happy with it except for one thing: that split second of silence that you get when changing channels. This just does not work for me. I play in a trio so I don't have another guitar player to cover up the break in sound. From what I understand, Mesa did this in order to avoid "pops" when changing between channels. Does anyone know of any mods that can fix this problem? If not I just plan on keeping it on channel 2 with the gain set lower and boosting it with an eq for more overdrive. Any advice y'all would be appreciated. thanks!

 

[94Tremoverb]

You can reduce the value of the time constant cap in the switching mute circuit. I did this for a friend's Rectoverb for the same reason. It's tricky to get it right, the Mesa value is close to the best compromise anyway - if you go too small, you get a loud pop instead. It's a job for a tech - I can't easily describe where on the board it is from memory, but someone familiar with the insides of amps will be able to find it.

And it is a compromise - there is no value which gives no pop and no delay, or at least there wasn't in that particular amp. You just have to try to find an acceptable amount of both.

 

[Blind Ambassador]

You can reduce the value of the time constant cap in the switching mute circuit. I did this for a friend's Rectoverb for the same reason. It's tricky to get it right, the Mesa value is close to the best compromise anyway - if you go too small, you get a loud pop instead. It's a job for a tech - I can't easily describe where on the board it is from memory, but someone familiar with the insides of amps will be able to find it.

And it is a compromise - there is no value which gives no pop and no delay, or at least there wasn't in that particular amp. You just have to try to find an acceptable amount of both.

Ok cool. I have a tech that I've worked with before, I'll give him a call and see what he thinks. Thanks for the info!