stoneattic
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So I bum a ride to the gig with my drummer so that my wife can drive separately and arrive later and not have to sit around during set up, sound check,etc. (Plus now she doesn't have to worry about a designated driver.)
So he opens the back of his minivan (some items have shifted during transit) before I can stop him he opens the hatch all the way. I watch in horror in what feels like a bad dream where everything is happening in slow motion, including me trying to get there in time to stop it, as my Studio Caliber falls out and lands on the lower left hand corner, hard, then flops on it's side. The minivan was packed so if falls from about chest high. After resisting the urge to kill him, we go in and set up and:
It powers on! (yay!)
I get sound from the Lead channel (yay!)
Silence from the Rhythm channel (boo!)
Since the Lead channel works I cross my fingers and hope it's only a 12AX7 and pull the retainer down and most of the glass of V2 falls slides off the innards and into the bottom of my amp. I throw a new 12AX7 in and, woohoo, the Rhythm channel works.
There's a slight crackle that you can't hear when playing, but the amp makes it through the night and we have one of our best shows.
I later figure out that the crackling is from V5 (reverb driver) since it's there in both channels and replace it. Crackle gone. We played another gig last Friday and the Mesa was flawless.
I'm not sure why I'm really posting other than to say I'm pretty impressed by the toughness of this little amp.
Maybe I can clean out the broken tube and glue it back together? heehee :lol:
So he opens the back of his minivan (some items have shifted during transit) before I can stop him he opens the hatch all the way. I watch in horror in what feels like a bad dream where everything is happening in slow motion, including me trying to get there in time to stop it, as my Studio Caliber falls out and lands on the lower left hand corner, hard, then flops on it's side. The minivan was packed so if falls from about chest high. After resisting the urge to kill him, we go in and set up and:
It powers on! (yay!)
I get sound from the Lead channel (yay!)
Silence from the Rhythm channel (boo!)
Since the Lead channel works I cross my fingers and hope it's only a 12AX7 and pull the retainer down and most of the glass of V2 falls slides off the innards and into the bottom of my amp. I throw a new 12AX7 in and, woohoo, the Rhythm channel works.
There's a slight crackle that you can't hear when playing, but the amp makes it through the night and we have one of our best shows.
I later figure out that the crackling is from V5 (reverb driver) since it's there in both channels and replace it. Crackle gone. We played another gig last Friday and the Mesa was flawless.
I'm not sure why I'm really posting other than to say I'm pretty impressed by the toughness of this little amp.
Maybe I can clean out the broken tube and glue it back together? heehee :lol:
