u/clair-de-lunatic

Currently own two boogies, a Fillmore 50 head and a Mark V 90 head. Can’t gig either of them right now. The Fillmore had an issue where it would seemingly drop to half power randomly, drove it 4 hours each way to a tech for him to find a missed solder joint. Not a cold or cracked solder joint, they simply missed it from the factory. Get it back home, all good, until the next gig when it died onstage. Now it’s losing power and distorting, and every time I think I’ve fixed it, it waits until mid-gig to happen again. New tubes, cleaned everything, the works - no luck. It’s failed on me more gigs than it’s made through this year.

So I bring the Mark V to rehearsal, and mid set start smelling something weird. Look in the back, a power tube is redplating. Fantastic. The amp did blow a fuse a month or so ago, and I was very careful to watch for anything weird after replacing it. Never caught anything but I bet whatever is causing this blew the fuse. Last boogie I had was a LSS, it did also had issues my tech at the time couldn’t figure out, and I sold it as a lemon. I know I need to take both of these back to the tech, but 4 hours each way is tough to do.

I’m kind of just venting here, and getting tired of having these wonderful amps and still having to borrow amps for a gig. I’ve always understood Mesa to be generally reliable, just hard to work on because they’re so complicated. But good lord either they’re a nightmare or I have the worst luck in the world. Any one want to chime in with their experience?

Heard praise about this game a few times for the first six months or so it was out. Didn’t have a PS5 at the time so wasn’t able to play. Remembered it while couch bound this weekend and put about 20 hours in over last 4 days. Having a blast. Come to reddit for tips and tricks, and good lord. Should I just abandon the game now? How many hours are we talking before there’s “nothing to do?”

Edit: thanks for the encouragement everyone! I should clarify that this post is rather tongue in cheek, in no way has this sub dampened my enthusiasm for the game. I just felt like pointing out what a strange vibe shift there is here. I guess that’s common knowledge to you guys and I’m just adding to it, so my apologies. To some degree I am curious about the amount of meaningful progress there is, but I also tend to like repetitive games so I’m not worried about it. I’ll go keep having fun thanks 🙌