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04-01-2010, 05:24 AM
|  | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NE US/CAN line | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rodl2005  Thankyou Sir!  | Note the 850 implies an older red or silver faced model. A much newer blackface would likely fetch more, as might a particularly clean unit that has had the factory updates (like the toggle for active/passive instead of 1/4" dual inputs).
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04-01-2010, 08:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SoAZ | | | If anyone's interested in a newly inspected/serviced WA 12" combo, check the classifieds soon. The one I was trying to buy is going back up for sale shortly...
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04-01-2010, 08:28 AM
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04-01-2010, 09:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SoAZ | | | I love how the mpulse 600 is hiding under the armoire.
Bow to the mighty WALKABOUT!!!
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04-01-2010, 10:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenglory18 I love how the mpulse 600 is hiding under the armoire.
... | Shhhh... It's not in his profile so I don't think his wife/S-O is supposed to know about it! 
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04-01-2010, 10:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma City | | Okay, I tried the WA 12 at GC the other day. You guys are right. It was awesome. How do they make it sound almost 3D like that? Magic dust? Elves? I will be a member of this club someday!
Dug around on the Mesa site and found this.... 
That is just sexy there. Anyone ever seen a Mesa with the leather embossed Lizard like this? I need more money.....  |
04-01-2010, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by lomo About 850 in good shape I believe | you'd have a hard time up here in canada finding one second hand for less than 1000- if you can find one...
i paid 1100 for mine and thought it was a good deal
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04-01-2010, 10:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Chicago | | | Someone asked about settings to achieve an SVT-like tone.
About a year and a half ago, I asked a certain WA Club Member what he recommended and here was his reply:
"Set input at about 2 o'clock...exactly where will depend on what bass...you want to push the preamp into "harmonically rich, but not necessarily overdriven."
Shelving bass at 1-2 oclock
Passive Mid at about 9 oclock
Para Bass, 50-60hz, 1-2 oclock
Para Mid: flat
Para Treble: 2khz, eleven oclock
Shelving treble, eleven oclock
If you're using the Scout cab, set the horn at 30-40%."
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04-01-2010, 01:10 PM
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I do appreciate the reply. I was adding a little more mids. I'll give it a shot. |
04-01-2010, 01:18 PM
| | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NE US/CAN line | | Quote:
Originally Posted by greenbass5 Okay, I tried the WA 12 at GC the other day. You guys are right. It was awesome. How do they make it sound almost 3D like that? Magic dust? Elves? I will be a member of this club someday!
Dug around on the Mesa site and found this....
That is just sexy there. Anyone ever seen a Mesa with the leather embossed Lizard like this? I need more money..... | The cost for any of the leathers or fancy woods is stratospheric. A different colour of vinyl is a 150 upcharge, as is a wicker grille, but I asked about a leather cover for my WA12 and it was 500 extra. Gorgeous, to be sure, but with quite a sticker shock. And then-how will you feel when it tears?
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04-01-2010, 01:21 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | | "svt setting"
remember, a large portion of the svt sound is coming from those sealed cabs, which are tuned to ~60-80hz at their low end. Deep bass isn't really Gen-U-Wine SVT, IMO.
YMMV of course.
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04-01-2010, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bismarck, North Dakota | | | OH MY GOODNESS. I got to try out my new (used) WA head last night. Easily the best sounding amp I've ever played. Absolutely crushes my LMIII. I finally have the tone I hear in my head!
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04-01-2010, 04:40 PM
|  | Still rockin' | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Deep E Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lomo The cost for any of the leathers or fancy woods is stratospheric. A different colour of vinyl is a 150 upcharge, as is a wicker grille, but I asked about a leather cover for my WA12 and it was 500 extra. Gorgeous, to be sure, but with quite a sticker shock. And then-how will you feel when it tears? | Yeah, my WAS 1x15 has the cream vinyl. That may prove to be expensive -- I'd love to recover my other six amps with the same finish!
Seriously, I paid a little more -- the store I bought mine from had the cream floor demo and a black one in the box -- but once I saw it I had to have it. After all, I'm not going to buy another bass amp in this lifetime, right?
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04-01-2010, 06:11 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | good one
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04-01-2010, 06:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | Well, you don't *need* to buy another, anyway.
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04-01-2010, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | | | i had a thought. since a big part of the WA combo's appeal is its cab design, what if mesa were to come out with amplifier options? EG : your choice of lets say... M 3 or 6 carbine head interchangeable with the original; that way you would be pleasing a wider spectrum of players. some would like the faster response of the carbine and some would prefer the organic warmth of the WA. take a good idea and make it even better and monopolize the combo market 
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04-01-2010, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by joebar i had a thought. since a big part of the WA combo's appeal is its cab design, what if mesa were to come out with amplifier options? EG : your choice of lets say... M 3 or 6 carbine head interchangeable with the original; that way you would be pleasing a wider spectrum of players. some would like the faster response of the carbine and some would prefer the organic warmth of the WA. take a good idea and make it even better and monopolize the combo market | I dig it! How about an option for a 4 ohms WA 2x10 combo. Pair that with another 2x10 and BAM!
Now THAT would be a helluva combo amp/rig!
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04-01-2010, 06:55 PM
| | Still rockin' | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Deep E Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RickenBoogie Well, you don't *need* to buy another, anyway. | That opens a new line of reasoning. As a matter of fact, not long after I got the WAS, I picked up a Fender Bassman 400 ($400) to leave at the rehearsal space.
Never underestimate the ability of a musician to rationalize "need."
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04-01-2010, 06:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SoAZ | | | Chef, any idea on how much wattage the WA is putting out while running at 2ohms?
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04-01-2010, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by lpdeluxe Never underestimate the ability of a musician to rationalize "need." | ...and sigged'
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