FINAL: Mesa Mkiii Blue Stripe - Part 4
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Previous episodes on this amp:
Part 1: • Mesa Mkiii Blue Stripe...
Part 2: • Mesa Mkiii Blue Stripe...
Part 3: • Mesa Mkiii Blue Stripe...
Webpage: www.bradsguitargarage.com.au
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Equipment:
Soldering:
Pace MBT station w/SX100 & PS-90 handpieces
Hakko 474 w/815 handpiece
Hakko 936 w/907 handpiece
Hakko FX-888D w/FX-8801 handpiece
Quick 861DW hot air station
BOFA fume extraction unit
Loctite Multicore solder (C511 / 362)
Test Equipment:
Fluke 11, 175, 177 & 179 handheld DMM's
Tektronix 2236 analog oscilloscope
Rigol DS-1054z digital oscilloscope
BK Precision 4017A sweep / function generator
BWD 160a function generator
HP 6236B triple output DC power supply
Kyoritsu 3132A insulation / continuity tester
Video equipment:
Overhead cam: Panasonic HC-V785 w/Audio Technica AT9946CM mic
Handheld cam: Panasonic DC-G85 w/Olympus M.Zuiko Pro 12-40mm f/2.8
On location cam: Panasonic DC-GH5s w/Panasonic-Leica 9mm f/1.7 & 12-60mm f/2.8
Capture card(s): Magewell HDMI USB, ATEN UC3020-AT, ATEN UC3021
Headset Mic: Audio Technica BP892xcW-TH
Lapel Mic: Rode Go
Editing: Adobe Premiere Elements
Hand Tools:
Wiha, Felo, Stanley screwdrivers
CK & Engineer cutters / pliers
RS Pro wire strippers
Sidchrome & Gear Wrench spanners, sockets & shifters
Veritas planes & chisels
Materials / Consumables:
JJ's / TAD electron valves
Elixir / Ernie Ball / D'Addario / Rotosound strings
Electrolube & DeoxIT cleaners, lubricants & chemicals.
@PsionicAudio 2 ай бұрын
See Brad has new video, click Like. Then make popcorn and enjoy…
@Cpt_Adama 2 ай бұрын
Wow, surprisingly very nice clean sound. Awesome job, your customer should be very, very happy.
@GetTheLedOut8585 2 ай бұрын
When you go all out and do such beautiful work, you get to add all the semi-gratuitous camera panning you want 🤣 Truly hero-level work, considering the state in which it arrived. I dare say it's now a Mesa one could be proud to own!
@bllyfen8 2 ай бұрын
Pain in the ass as it might have been, the thing sounds very nice. I remember my blue stripe Mark III has that kind of clean sound, I liked it a lot. Thanks for another great video! Edit: nice playing too!
@MichaelSmith-rn1qw Ай бұрын
For the oversized Mesa name plate, you could cut off some screws, glue them into the existing holes on the plate, and use double sided tape or perhaps hot glue to affix the name plate to the grill cloth.
@TRtribal 2 ай бұрын
That thing looked spotless after your work. As always, love your channel and how you handle all of the work.
@dlpz2005 2 ай бұрын
Dang it Brad, you’re going to make me think owning a Mesa is doable/worth the cost. Amazing work repairing and restoring this one!
@faultlessguitarsandamps1116 2 ай бұрын
Amazingly well done Brad .
@Da_Porkchop_Xpress 2 ай бұрын
Well done mate!
@wmschwartz 2 ай бұрын
Brad, great work on the amp, and it sounds pretty great too!
@scottwilcox6313 2 ай бұрын
Wow, what a difference. Top notch work, Brad. So neat, and the amp just sounds great.
@SteveSanchez0 2 ай бұрын
Damn you killed it on this resto. Good playing too! Far out man!
@Lu_Woods 2 ай бұрын
Love the dark punk vibe these things can get. Nice work .
@JEmilioJNava 2 ай бұрын
Great work! Brad for Mesa Boogie CEO!
@martinreid1740 2 ай бұрын
A great repair/restoration, I enjoyed watching this and all the work you put into it.
@_alexsams 2 ай бұрын
Great series Brad; thanks for the upload.. Don't worry about the fan.. it has a heatsink.....
@burnbacktime 2 ай бұрын
Well done man. 🤘
@zulufrog 2 ай бұрын
that's an impressive transformation!
@dirkfuchser737 2 ай бұрын
Greaaat Job !! Congrats !!
@kookoogearkook 2 ай бұрын
Fantastic job Brad!
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Thank you kindly!
@bambule5268 2 ай бұрын
That sounded so good in the end! Amazing work!
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
All straight mic, no dynamics, eq or reverb, unlike almost all other tech channels.
@bambule5268 2 ай бұрын
@@BradsGuitarGarage you should stop making mesas sound that good. People will hear and want to buy them!
@malliz1 2 ай бұрын
Nice one brad
@murrayguitarpickups9545 2 ай бұрын
Nice work Ginger nuts!
@petertimp5416 2 ай бұрын
Good job, very patient of you, You must’ve been a ‘Good’ tradie in another life😊 Thanks.
@jeffallen3382 2 ай бұрын
Seeing the dumpster fire that amp came in like... You nailed it repairing it!
@K707OR30 2 ай бұрын
Better than Mesa deserves. Good on you. Also the outro had me rolling
@Buzzel-NL 2 ай бұрын
Awesome job
@sgt.grinch3299 2 ай бұрын
Phenomenal work Sir. I’m just a simple fellow, I don’t understand why is something so complicated that does not need to be. Your final product must be what the developer wanted, but failed to achieve. 10/10.
@DeeplySceptical 2 ай бұрын
Incredible effort. Great channel. Next video in the series is casting that bag of shame in epoxy and making that desk ornament...
@jimgibson9811 2 ай бұрын
Love the weird or stuffed up stuff.
@markspurgin8225 2 ай бұрын
Good 👍 job mate 👍 👏 👌
@baabaabaa-yp2jh 2 ай бұрын
Nice job mate! We all know Mesas for that grungy tone, but the cleans spsrkled...nice!
@BenState 2 ай бұрын
Just shows how good of a tech you really are despite your humility mate. Well done!
@fiddlix 2 ай бұрын
Back in the day when I was young, dumb and stupid ignorant, I got a Mk3 decked out simulclassed, hardwood combo with a single EV12L speaker. Besides poor design mine was missing a key ingredient and mine did not have the 5 band graphic eq. What a mistake that was. I think that damned thing weighed more than a fender twin. The weight along with option paralysis was more than I could deal with. I sold it to a friend of mine who thought it sounded great for his 5-string banjo on the clean channel. He still uses it to this day lol….twang twang “boi you got a purty mouth” Deliverance set the banjo back 50yrs or more lmfao..! You did a fantastic job getting that amp back to better than stock condition. I thought that fake heat sink on the back was where they use to beat the hell out of the amp with a hammer. Yours looked like it escaped the fabled “mesa hammer test”. Have a good one mate…a big ole feather in your cap for this repair and re-engineering.
@fredfrederici7562 2 ай бұрын
Frickin Awesome
@greblus 2 ай бұрын
And now my dream lives again. I'll buy one some day and send it to you for restoration. BTW, that Mesa fart at the end made my day 😊 thanks Brad!
@tubeworkshop 2 ай бұрын
Nice B-Rolls! We all love B-Rolls, don't we? And excellent job on restoring this amp Brad.
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Yes we do!
@Andy_Yates 2 ай бұрын
Did I hear a Kvelertak riff mixed in there? I know I've seen you wear one of their shirts, their riffs are so cool. Love them! Also that ending 🤌😂
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
You certainly did, my man! The are absolute riff-monsters. And all in STD tuning, too!
@victorbeebe8372 2 ай бұрын
Mahalo Brad!
@danielweinbaum 2 ай бұрын
I have a MARSH Springfield with the Overlord circuit ! It's a direct copy of a 65 Vibro. 40 watts 2x12 one of the speakers is a Weber Alnico the other is a Weber "Vintage Series Ferromax!" There's something to chew on ! Marsh makes direct copies of Fender and Marshall to order with choices of tweaks and speakers. Point to point wiring at a third of the price of boutique amps! Thanks for entertaining us !!!
@Satchmoeddie 2 ай бұрын
Since about the 1980s, Sprague, then SBE and now I doubt if Cornell Dubilier actually makes any of their orange drop caps either. Same with Mallory 150s. During the beginning of the Cold War, Chicago was the electronics manufacturing center for the USA. The Department of Defense deemed this to be unacceptable and somehow Phoenix, Arizona became an alternate site. Back in the 1970s someone was winding something on every corner in the Phoenix metro area, and we had "Chip Alley", the Motorola MOSFET plants, Honeywell, Intel, Digital and Microchip. I got so spoiled with all the surplus stuff I could get at 50%-99% discount prices.
@Satchmoeddie 2 ай бұрын
Brad officially has, "The Blue Stripe Blues", now.
@markziza 2 ай бұрын
The Mesa fart at the end was amusing. ;)
@siriusamplification 2 ай бұрын
killer work mate! did I see Teflon coated shielded cable?
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Not in this particular job, but I do have some somewhere. A bit too fine a center conductor for amp work, however.
@VERBANDTREM 2 ай бұрын
Tidy Boogie!
@danielweinbaum 2 ай бұрын
AWESOME ! I love it ! You and Lyle couldn't be more different but both legends ! What is "THE AMP" IN YOUR BOOK ? Mine is the 59 Bassman followed by 65 Vibrolux ! Keep the good shit coming...mate !!!
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
I haven't experienced THE amp yet, but I'm working on one.
@maxwellbowden9961 2 ай бұрын
Cool. They made a Mesa that
@surge98 2 ай бұрын
Great work. By comparison, mine doesn't seem so bad. No mods, I just need to recap it and replace a few overheated resistors. Did you end up doing anything with the ground switch? I did order a capacitor that fails open, but I'm wondering if I can just remove it entirely.
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Yeah, just disconnect it, mate. It's redundant wit a 3-pronged plug wired correctly.
@samuel_towle 2 ай бұрын
How to turn a mess-a-boogers into a Mesa Boogie.
@AlanW 2 ай бұрын
Just, wow, super clean, wish I could drag my old Mk III to you for a good going over, but I suspect you may be on the opposite side of the world from me.
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Perhaps I can suggest someone nearby to check it over for you, Alan?
@AlanW 2 ай бұрын
@@BradsGuitarGarageThat would be amazing, can you recommend anyone good in the Spokane, WA, USA area?
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Oooh, that's a bit of a trip to Seattle, but your best bet is Rick Erickson of Aviator Audio if you can get the unit to him. He's a god among men when it comes to electronics. WAAAAY better than I could ever claim to be.
@AlanW 2 ай бұрын
@@BradsGuitarGarageThank you, I'll keep that in mind! Certainly closer that 'straya!
@ClavAnother 2 ай бұрын
@@AlanW Send it to Mesa in California. The guy that made it 35 years ago will be the guy that does the work. I sent my Blue stripe a few weeks ago...now it's good for another 30 years
@basiltiffani8850 2 ай бұрын
Imagine Mesa amp kit.
@will5150 2 ай бұрын
have u gotten to see one of the new Gibson/Mesa amps in person yet?
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
No, not yet. At that price point in Australia, I doubt there are many in circulation yet. You'll sure as hell know when I do, though. LOL!
@RobbieF 2 ай бұрын
I am sure the amp has never played this good., even from the factory.
@aquilarossa5191 2 ай бұрын
This video will make you the go to tech in Oz for sending Mesa amps to. 😂
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Oh no, I didn't think of that! VIDEO DELETED! HAHA!
@siriusamplification 2 ай бұрын
oh awesome, glad it would no longer be me haha
@jimgibson9811 2 ай бұрын
Wizard of Oz 😂
@abijag100 2 ай бұрын
Wait till I bring in a few Wasp amps........ ;)
@simonkormendy849 2 ай бұрын
I've heard stories that Mesa/Boogie deliberately make their schematics hard to get and with supposed errors in them, as a way to protect their "intellectual property" even though they pinch a lot of their design work from other amp manufacturers, all it does is make these Mesa/Boogie amps that much more of a PITA to work on.
@zulufrog 2 ай бұрын
You forgot the Tone Wood Block!!
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
HA! Yeah, it bent the choke bracket when they jammed it in there. I installed oversized washers instead of whatever they thought that block was supposed to do!
@zulufrog 2 ай бұрын
@@BradsGuitarGarage It brings teh toanz!!!
@Splattle101 2 ай бұрын
The next one's a hacked up Fender, eh? Sort of what a Mesa is by definition, isn't it? A hacked up Fender? I'll see myself out...
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Haha! Good call!
@michaelmarchei8539 2 ай бұрын
As much as I hate Mesa also you gotta admit that does sound oretty epic... Great VId Brad... Looks like a complete head fk LOL
@johnburns5783 2 ай бұрын
I bet you’d sooner work on a Fender Tweed than Mesa Amps 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
Probably would if I could, mate! But I'd likely get bored after a while.
@Relayer6a 2 ай бұрын
I see you used 105°C Japanese caps. Why do I see even expensive, like $10s of thousands of dollars expensive, amplifiers with 85°C caps in them? I know it's a cost thing. But why would anyone use cheap caps when they can just pass the cost off to the customer? Look at PC power supplies. They're very efficient and use the best components, at least for the good ones. They don't cost a fortune. These components are not unobtainium. And major kudos for using the Teflon/silver wires. As much as I hate manufacturers charging premium prices and then using crap components, I hate it when techs do the same thing.
@BradsGuitarGarage 2 ай бұрын
No idea, mate. Maybe it's just what they always used, maybe it is penny-pinching, no idea. If you find out, let me know!
@jamesprice6381 2 ай бұрын
If ur in amp repair for the $$ ur in wrong business.................................30+ year veteran..of it...
@simonkormendy849 2 ай бұрын
I've heard stories that Mesa/Boogie deliberately make their schematics hard to get and with supposed errors in them, as a way to protect their "intellectual property" even though they pinch a lot of their design work from other amp manufacturers, all it does is make these Mesa/Boogie amps that much more of a PITA to work on.
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