Mesa/Boogie Studio .22+ (Part 1)

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Webpage: www.bradsguitargarage.com.au
Facebook: bradsguitargarage
Instagram: / bradsguitargarage
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.

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Комментарии : 55

@velutumbra 8 месяцев назад

Mesa in Portguese means table. That is what those are. Expensive future coffe tables.

@BradsGuitarGarage 8 месяцев назад

You may be able to tell that I held myself back a bit on this one. I'm trying to be less negative and a bit more objective when it comes to just getting the repair done and stating the facts without getting emotional. I dropped about 20 min of ranty footage to achieve that on this one. HAHA!

@TheMorganOrgan 8 месяцев назад

Maybe release the full footage in twenty years as a ‘directors cut’.

@jamescassidy4045 8 месяцев назад

Hahaha

@kindisc 8 месяцев назад

i used to want one of those, until i saw this vid. thanks brad, saved me the trouble.

@greblus 8 месяцев назад

These videos about Mesas are ruining my dreams and saving me a lot of money at the same time 😊. Thanks Brad, Lyle and another Brad for showing how crappy these amps are. I mean, I still love how they sound, but there are safer options like neural models (99.9% accurate and absolutely for free) or even pedals.

@TheMorganOrgan 8 месяцев назад

Better ruined dreams than nightmares.

@JazzzRockFuzion 2 месяца назад

Back in early 2018, I bought a mint .22+ (non graph EQ) for a great deal, owned it about a year and 1/2, gigged it a handful of times. I really babied it during ownership and it treated me fantastic while I had it. One of the best-sounding small combos I've ever heard. Still regret selling it!

@sparkyguitar0058 7 месяцев назад

I used to love Boogie's. And thankfully when I bought 1 it's a S O B. Inside 1 board, only 7 pots none pull style. My tech worked on Boogie's warranty work on the east coast of Fla. He told me many horrible stories of other repairs and the stupid stuff Mesa did to amps. He even said Mesa messed up mine early on. Fixed it right for only $200. But his talking and examples made me rethink what I thought about R Smith and his company.

@weschilton 8 месяцев назад

I think when I retire, if I decide to do amp work, I'm going to hang up a sign that says, "NO MESAS!"

@TheMorganOrgan 8 месяцев назад

You and me both Wes!

@thatampguy 8 месяцев назад

No mesas - no service!

@davidmccaroll7558 8 месяцев назад

Trouble with these things is that they do what they do really well, if Mesa is your bag, and unfortunately for me they are. So I'll just grit my teeth and soldier on with the Lonestar Special dreading the day when something goes awry in its innards ...... :D - great vid Brad!

@tedmich 8 месяцев назад

Greetings from Messa's home town, Petaluma CA!

@matthewf1979 8 месяцев назад

My condolences. I too have had some Messy Boogers wiped on my bench on occasion.

@justinbell5696 8 месяцев назад

I have a Mesa Fillmore 25 head. I bought it before I started building and modding and watching these videos. The board is terrifying to look at. It has so many components on it and resistors under caps and probably 20 or 30 relays. I wouldn't have bought it knowing what I know now but i can't sell it either because it sounds so damn good. It does fender sounds better than most modern fenders that I've tried. I just hope it never breaks.

@terrydemol5354 8 месяцев назад

Brad, your videos are getting better. A measured and informative response to a typical POS Boogie design which deserves more swearing than people want to hear. I just finished an Engl Fireball, same components-under-board design, no component labeling, schematic differs from board and to ice the cake, all wire to pcb connection wires had to be extended for a powered up fault find. German engineering...... at least the newer models have improved.

@jeremycraft8452 3 дня назад

Love playing my Mesa. Do not love working on my Mesa. Cannot afford to have somebody else work on my Mesa.

@goodun2974 8 месяцев назад

Incredible. Carbon compresistors for the screens, mounted right on tge board inatead of being elevated, and with traces running underneath them. That's a fire just waiting to happen!

@PsionicAudio 8 месяцев назад

Dude. That was WAY more than 30 seconds…

@Satchmoeddie 8 месяцев назад

I actually did cut a bunch of traces in a Messy Bugger Studio 22 and ran telco wire leads to the output tube sockets and rewired the EL84 sockets for 6973s. Time will tell. That put me so far behind schedule I was placing radial Japanese made 22uF shunt caps in a Fender, looked up and it was 2:20 AM. I put Stecks axials in then tested these oddball radials and a Q of 28!!! The Steck caps had Qs of around 7 or 8. I did sort of melt the PVC on the preamp anode wire. I failed to salvage all the carbon comps and that lead on the multi-section can cap had that tiny modern carbon comp resistor's lead so it heated kinda fast on me. I snaked it out along with the PI anode feed, and put new Gavitt wire in, then realized some schmo had already nicked a 2 or 3 other wires with the hot pencil barrel. BY 3:00AM my back was screaming, go get a chair or go lie down you stupid dumbass! I was doing my final cleaning up of the flux by then.

@riffmondo9733 8 месяцев назад

Old Marshalls. The way to go.

@RobbieF 8 месяцев назад

Did they really put a steel nut on a nylon bolt? That's crazy. I use nylon bolts in my RC warship models but only with nylon nuts!

@jerrylondon2388 8 месяцев назад

Just watched a documentary on the first undersea telephone cable from North America to France and beyond. They had to place a repeater (amplifier) every 38 miles in the cable for 5000 miles. The amplifier was the same diameter of the cable and like 4-5 feet long. Tubes were used as transistors were too new to trust. The incredible part is the valves were placed end to end in a plastic tube before being sealed inside the cable. Can you imagine working on an amp with 20 or 30 tubes wired end to end? Was this the secret origin story for Mesa?

@user-xj5dj5lp3y 4 месяца назад

Should do a review of some otheres. I was going to buy one but think ive changed my mine now

@curtisc9350 8 месяцев назад

2:43 "Rubbing of the Nipples" ! 😉 Bloody Mesa Boogies... 🤬 What the Hell ? Cheers ✌️ 🤙 🇨🇦

@johnwilliamson467 8 месяцев назад

The subjective part is just that . My problem is with the build quality and parts run to close to it limits . Leo Fender knew that these amp will need to be work on so be kind to the tech so they can charge less because it would take less time to do .I do like inductors for tone controls . Brad did point the big thing about using inductors keep them away from magnetic noise sources . Lay out matters. My take on board stuffing put the passive parts on the bottom away from the tubes better thermals and the testing can be done with out puling the board . Service can still require pulling the board but then you know what is wrong before spending the time pulling the board. Prefer metal standoffs like computer mother boards use .

@alvagoldbook2 8 месяцев назад

I feel ya, Brad. I worked on a 50 watt version of these. Thankfully the board wasn’t upside down on that. My favorite part is the stupid reverb circuit. It howls when turned up and Mesa’s actual user manual says this is normal and to just turn down the reverb. The even crazier thing is they cheaped out on the phase inverter tail circuit and used the power supply to provide the negative voltage just to save 40 cents on a few resistors. The downside is that you can’t adjust if need be to tweak performance. God help you if the power supply traces become compromised.

@Bolandcustoms 8 месяцев назад

Here we go haha.... That amp looks familiar, If it is my dads one, i made that speaker panel and covered it in the rattan, he had a mark 3 back in the day with that and a clear coated timber cab i believe. Anyways that amps been through 2 other techs about 5 times from memory and the issue was never resolved, it would do it again everytime it came back. I believe my dad dropped it out of the back of the ute at some stage too and that didnt fix the problem either 😂 Cant wait to see what you find.

@calliphor8764 8 месяцев назад

I love my Mesas but videos like this are why they're all getting sold in the next few months. A Diezel VH-4 seems like it can bring the versatility and modern high gain of a Recto or Mark (with its own sound, obviously) but with actual build quality. Maybe one day I'll build my own Mark IIC+ from scratch with components that are actually suited to task (and the tone stack placed in the circuit where it can actually work)

@iantag 8 месяцев назад

Hi Brad - I loved your video of a few years back where you renovated another 22+ & mounted a turret on the board because of fried traces. Mine is still stock - and I actually like the clean tone it provides ( its not really a 2-channel and swapping via the footswitch is unworkable for me ). Definitely not a tech friendly amp. I've got the schematics and a description looking from the 'soldler' side - let me know if you want me to send a copy. Ian.

@lordgraga 8 месяцев назад

One of my regrets was buying a Trem-o-verb cuz it came up at a good price. So clunky to operate, and I feel guilt about taking it to the tech.

@user-ni3cg6me3u 8 месяцев назад

Not another Messy Booger.

@barrycole 8 месяцев назад

My group experienced zero troubles with Mesa gear since it`s introduction. It did cost $ 1000 CAN to recently re-tube a Strategy 500 but that is the cost of doing business. How many cars have you been through since `86? What did that cost and how many miles did you go? These amps are consumer grade not military. Life expectancy, 10-20yrs.

@danielsaturnino5715 8 месяцев назад

Dont skimp on the swearing, it helps

@BlakeC27 8 месяцев назад

Time to pay the 'Mesa Tax'.

@BradsGuitarGarage 8 месяцев назад

Lyle's attack on the same amp. He even said "schmoo". I think I had an influence on him that day. LOL! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ubsYsadkeHo.html

@jerrylondon2388 8 месяцев назад

Brad, check out Vintage Guitar Amp Repairs & online Guitar Teacher. He just dissected a Marshall TL 1000 that someone butchered. Had 14 filter capacitors. I think someone was trying to create a Mesa out of a Marshall?! BTW he is a fair hand at playing as well, very good classical technique too. Worth a butchers!

@jaronensley 8 месяцев назад

If i ever buy another Mesa, it will be Mark IIc+/Studio preamp era, fully restored and removed of stupid.

@baabaabaa-yp2jh 8 месяцев назад

Yet guitar mags still hand Mesa awards like theyre the ducks guts (advertising $?)... Mate had the MkV.. it did hi gain good, but so did near every amp...at less cost. Better you than me mate!👍

@brentstewart59 8 месяцев назад

Mega Booger lol these things are truly evil

@watkinscopicat 8 месяцев назад

these are so incredibly janky, bravo to their marketing department for making so many people think they’re high quality amps.

@Pstaines439 8 месяцев назад

As a kid I though MB was cool. There's one on the back cover of an echo and the bunnymen LP. But wait, no, I now realise that are awful, and call them 'Massive Bogies'

@BradsGuitarGarage 8 месяцев назад

We've all been there, mate. It's the whole reason I got into amp building and repairs. I know several other techs with similar stories.

@robertbarnes9745 8 месяцев назад

Another nightmare from Mesa.

@ghostface_grilla1155 8 месяцев назад

Messy booger

@YeatzeeGuitar 8 месяцев назад

That looks awful

@mistermac56 8 месяцев назад

Horrible PCB layout and tantalum capacitors are just pure evil. The Mesa designs are horrible and they are a catastrophic failure waiting to happen.

@dickranmarsupialmusic3184 2 месяца назад

What brand of amp do you think is consistently high quality build and components? Thinking of offloading my Boogie for something better. Something low wattage, tube and mostly clean sounds.?

@BradsGuitarGarage 2 месяца назад

Budget? Amp format? FX loop / reverb / trem required? Music styles?

@dickranmarsupialmusic3184 2 месяца назад

@@BradsGuitarGarage None of that stuff required (I have pedals, can go straight into the front). Any format; budget could stretch to almost anything for the best. Jazz fusion mostly.