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Easy tip to remember: If it says Mark II on the back panel then it was made no earlier than 1974. I have not yet figured out the circumstances...

Regrets? Not many. Amps and guitars I'd wish I could have afforded to keep rather than sell? Plenty. My '84 "Artist Original" Explorer. My...

My favorite cabinet is a 1960A with 2 each Greenbacks and Creambacks in an X configuration.

If you want a low distortion push-pull power amp. you'll want the drive signals to it (there are two, out of phase with each other) to be at the...

The phase inverter takes the output signal from the preamp tubes and turns it into two output signals that are equal in strength but opposite in...

Randall Smith would simply not have agreed to sell his company to Gibson or anybody else without certain guarantees written into the contract....

With locking Schallers, the string changes are very fast, too. But I have a very good set of Excelta nippers in every guitar case. I never do...

I've seen Sperzels that had stripped out bushings. They're good if you don't overtorque them. I routinely put Schaller M6 locking tuners on my...

Schaller tuners are the ONLY tuners I use or recommend. In 35 years using them I've never had a bad one come my way, or had one break, or had to...

Florida. What's your amp's issue and what kind is it?

If certain resistors around that tube are open, it won't make sound. Open plate resistor: No sound. Open grid resistor: No sound. Open...

You blew that resistor open. Check ALL resistors for proper value in that area of the circuit. If certain components go open, the result is no...

Gibson's all time bottom barrel instruments were either the Firebird X (which we call the Fireturd because it really was a flaming pile of...

Long ago when my adventure as a guitar player was brand new and I was probably about six bars into a 12 bar blues, I got some effects out of a...

Randall Smith would almost certainly have agreed to a deal with Gibson ONLY if it was written into the contract that life at Mesa will go on much...

Whichever one you play less than any other. We all have our favorites. And we still like the rest, but if you don't use it, you won't miss it much.

If you think Mesa amps can't be worked on, then your technician is not very good. They're just not that hard to work on. But if you're ONLY used...

You're going to blow up your amp as you have it configured in the first few pictures. Set both speaker cabinet switches to the mono position and...

According to what Garey Noble of Mesa told me today (because I reached out to him and asked), no, there are no plans to change Mesa hardly at...

Love my Mesas, love my Marshalls. Love my Fender, too. If Gibson is SMART, they'll leave Mesa alone to do what Mesa does, but help them out...