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Folks I've recently sold two pretty nice Mesa Boogie amps to two highly trusted members on here. On being played by the respective buyers both have been faulty. The first, an M6 Carbine had very low output volume for a few hours that seemed to resolve and I'm assuming all is fine now although it was a worrying few hours for the buyer and me! The other an M-Pulse 600 appears to have started life in its new home with the same symptoms! Worryingly 24 hours later it is not playing ball and continues to produce low volume and distorted tone into multiple cabs. The M6 was collected in person and the M-Pulse was delivered by me, so there's no courier abuse involved, and both units were working fine at my place before they left. OK, these two things could be completely random, unconnected and just bad luck/bad timing, but in almost 40 years of playing I've not had anything like this. I'm wondering whether there could be an issue with the power supply here. Both amps were played (and tested before sale) in my rehearsal room that runs from a separate power supply to my house. This is because the house is very small and there siomply is no room for large bass amps/speakers. I had a decent sparky over when we first started using the room a couple of months after we moved in to the house, he thouroughly checked the power supply and wiring in the room, replaced some sockets and switches, and gave it the all clear. Even so a few weeks later an all-tube guitar amp that had previously worked fine ran very noisily and oddly on that separate power supply. It didn't worry me too much as the time but has me wondering now. The amps have been stored cold but dry, in much the same conditions as I imagine a lot of audio gear is kept when warehoused, so I doubt that damp could be a problem, and either way they worked fine before they left. The M-Pulse which seems to be the bigger of the problems was also stored in an SKB airtight shock-mount case so pretty well protected. I'm at a bit of a loss, thoughts most welcome?

Ah, c'est la via, nothing more than the cycle of life Jack 👍

Pourquoi...?

I've gigged the Pfretzschner a few times since the above post and think that I'm going back to my 4/4 on which I just feel more at home (and which for a number of reasons I'd never sell, it's been with me longer than any of my other instruments for a reason). I'll be gutted to let the Ali Beast go, but given the work I still have to do on my rehearsal space and ever increasing costs of living it seems a but daft to have it lying around unused There's a couple of people have enquired but if you're interested please drop me a PM, I'll probably list it properly at the weekend 👍

Had the pleasure of meeting up with fellow Mesa Boogie Junkie forum member Russ today it reminded me of the good old days when you actually met the people you were buying and selling gear to. Anyway, not unexpectedly a bloody lovely bloke with whom, had there been more time, lengthy bass/gear/life discourse would have developed! 100% top bloke who knows his gear and is a pleasure to do business with 👍

Reverb have a really annoying autocomplete form that can completely mess up a listing. I don't know what that bass actually is but I've no doubt that as a newby the seller's probably been algorithm'd

Not enough flute in live music these days Nice solid bass and BVs @wateroftyne 👍