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This site is currently undergoing maintenance , but in the meantime we have been asked to publish some testimonials:
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Hi Stan,
I was going to call you today. Yes, we're very happy with the amp....
all is well. I'm sure I'll being seeing you more in the future.
Regards, Dale Dale Newman§ [dale@farmuk.demon.co.uk]
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Dear Mr Lawrence
I am contacting you on behalf of Mr Dean Barnes (The Birds). He has asked me to add a link on his website (www.deanbarnes.org <http://www.deanbarnes.org/>) to your company website, as you come so highly recommended.
Yours sincerely
Karen Champion http://www.deanbarnes.org/links.htm
PA to Mr Dean Barnes
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"I found Stan Lawrence and Surrey Amps to be truly professional. They became personally involved with the problems I was having with my studio mixing console and Stan actually visited my studio to help define and cure these problems. (The studio is in Cornwall, 200 miles from Surrey Amps!). I could not recommend Surrey Amps more highly and would not hesitate in contacting Stan Lawrence should anything electronic ever go wrong in my life again.
That dosen't really say how appreciative I feel but I hope it works for your website.
Very best Wishes to you and family. Chris. Chris McCaul [chris.mccaul@st-austell.ac.uk]
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Dear Stan,
Please see below copy of e-mail received from Mark @ Westside.
I couldn't put it better myself.
Gigged the Mark 3 last Friday, It sounded better than ever.
No doubt will be in touch when one of my other amps needs some intensive care and surgery.
You should think about putting customer testimonials on your website.
Best Rgds mark@westsidedistribution.com
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Dear guitarist
I recently purchased my dream amp (it was a present from my wife on my imminent departure from the Royal Navy after 28 years of gigging all around the world in ships bands .... latest gig being the Globe in Port Stanley a rather surreal experience ..... but thats another story!!!!). Its a glorious Mesa Boogie Lonestar Special ..... or it was until it blew up (on Christmas day in Church ....).... seriously blew up........ big flash and my strat became very quiet ....... now here comes the twist ..... I had bought it in the USA whilst my ship was in Boston so it was a 110 v version (running it from a step down transformer) - on calling the UK Distributors (Westside) they informed me (very nicely!) that due to it being a 110v model the warranty was only valid in the USA .... I can fully understand that, so I asked what I could do to get it repaired. They directed me to Stan Lawrence at the Amp Hospital in Surrey .... I rang Stan and delivered my amp to him ..... fully expecting a large bill (I was not disappointed!!) .... and the loss of my amp for a few weeks I was amazed to recieve a call from Stan a week later saying it was all ready. Mesa had sent the parts from California and Stan had fitted them, set it up and in the process converted it to 240v operation all within 7days - apologies to Mesa, but it actually sounds even better after recieving the Stan Set Up treatment!
The purpose of this letter? To say a massive thank you to Westside, Mesa and Stan Lawrence for exemplary service (in particular highlight and recommend the services of Stan Lawrence and the Amp Hospital ...... AMAZING results) AND to point out a couple of lessons learnt to fellow guitarist readers:
1. If you buy outside the USA check your warranty ... it may be cheaper at the cash desk but not necessarily in the longrun!
2. I should not even have been using the amp in the UK as there are different electrical safety regs here and any amps should be converted to 240v operation not run through step up / down transformers!
Thanks everyone - keep up the great work.
Steve Martin (guitarist subscriber!) skandhom@madasafish.com
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Hi Myles,
You may remember me from a few months ago (think my last post was in November 2005) regarding a sick Nomad 45 that had a gloomy prognosis! Well...
I picked up the amp a couple of days ago and it’s good news. First off - the technician who repaired the amp is THE most respected MESA authorised engineer in the country - certainly in respect with MESA USA. All UK forum members who own a MESA amp take note: DO NOT entrust you amp to anyone else. Go to <http://www.surreyamps.co.uk/> and contact Stan Lawrence. With the assistance of MESA USA (in particular a technician called Phet [silent h]), the amp has been returned to it's former glory and has been 100% certified. If you must go to another engineer, make sure that they are MESA authorised.
Please don’t make the same mistake I made – I contacted someone who had an advert in UK’s Guitarist magazine. He claimed he was qualified to repair MESA amps and had in fact restored a Nomad 45 for another client who was very satisfied. Fact – he is not recognised by MESA and does not own the sophisticated equipment with which to undertake testing. Fact – he charged me a lot of money for a botch-up, which only added to the ultimate cost and hassle of repairs. Fact – he installed a fan and by law is required to ensure it conforms to regulations and supply a PAT certificate, which he did not – without this certificate, the equipment cannot be played in public and all the associated legal liabilities.
The total cost of repairs now stands at £400. It would have cost less than half that had I contacted MESA UK in the first place!!
Stan Lawrence of <http://www.surreyamps.co.uk/> determined that the amp had probably had a faulty capacitor since new (the original owner lied to me and I made the mistake of thinking it just needed new valves). The unauthorised engineer attempted to replace the capacitor but ended up “damaging the main PCB with CU tracks pulled from the fibre-glass”.
Now to the good stuff. I have had a chance to play with this amp and here are my observations - Channel 1 is superb! Great clean and rock sounds abound. Channel 2 is my favourite in the normal power amp mode. But here is the interesting part –switch the power amp voicing to extreme and channels 2 and 3 really opened up. I got some truly amazing low end grind with channel 3 in this mode. I haven’t had the chance to play it through an extension cab but I would imagine it’s awesome.
Anyway, thank you Myles for your advice and support in the past. Truly appreciated!
Best, Mike. Guitar Players forum
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