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04-06-2010, 09:31 AM
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Hey there,
I have a mesa boogie walk about head (which I love) but it isn't loud enough for the louder gigs I am doing. I have a 650 watt power amp that I would like to use with a nice preamp. Any suggestions? I have a avatar 4 10 cab and and aguilar 1 12 which I plan on getting another maybe 2 10 to stack on top.
Anyways, any help with a preamp would be awesome.
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04-06-2010, 09:38 AM
|  | Bass lines like a big, funky giant | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Southern MN | | | I used a SansAmp RBI with a power amp for a long time and it served me very well. I just replaced it with an Ampeg SVP Pro because I wanted that all-tube Ampeg sound. To be perfectly honest, I can't tell much difference between the SansAmp and the Ampeg until I get near the max of the tube distortion range. And I never play with that much distortion when I'm gigging, anyway.
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04-06-2010, 09:38 AM
| | | | tons of choices. You gotta do a search.
Otherwise you're going to get every TBer recommending what they use.
Preamps all sound kinda different, so it may help describing what your tone goals are. |
04-06-2010, 09:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: North Carolina | | | Alembic F-1X is always a fantastic choice.
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04-06-2010, 09:51 AM
| | | | You can't go wrong a BBE-Bmax-T, the price is right and it's such a nice warm, round sound. The tube actually makes a difference, you have a built in compressor, sonic maximizer and semi-parametric EQ which make it top class. Check out the reviews on here and at Harmony Central. |
04-06-2010, 10:05 AM
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Editor-in-Chief, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: North central Ohio | | You might want to consider using the Walkabout as a preamp. I think you can use the effects send to drive your external amp.
Alternately, head over to the basstasters website and listen to all the recordings that Todd VanSelus and friends did of various preamps. That is a very useful resource. They even have clips of a Walkabout being used as a preamp (I think that's my Walkabout, actually - I sent Todd a bunch of pres/heads to test).
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04-06-2010, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by tombowlus  You might want to consider using the Walkabout as a preamp. I think you can use the effects send to drive your external amp. | My exact initial thought 
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04-06-2010, 12:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tampa, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tombowlus You might want to consider using the Walkabout as a preamp. I think you can use the effects send to drive your external amp. | +1 The mesa preamp should work fine, and you will retain most of your sound... so, if you like the sound of your rig, just slave a power amp to your existing head
the walkabout does 300 watts at 4 ohms, that ought to be pretty loud with the right cab combination might want to consider that approach also
Eden Navigator is a good preamp, as are the demeter offerings.
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04-06-2010, 01:38 PM
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04-06-2010, 01:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Switzerland | | | The Walkabout works well with 2Ohms... |
04-06-2010, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | +1 for using the Walkabout as your pre, but you know, the WA head paired with that 410 you have should be plenty loud all by itself.
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04-06-2010, 05:25 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by adbass tons of choices. You gotta do a search.
Otherwise you're going to get every TBer recommending what they use.
Preamps all sound kinda different, so it may help describing what your tone goals are. | +1.
you might want to view this thread too (post #45 has alot of clips you can listen to): Alembic vs F1-x Focusrite Tone Factory Sound Clips |
04-06-2010, 05:26 PM
| | | | +1 if you like the tone of your walkabout why not just get more of it and save yourself some dough. if you don't like it its no loss.
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04-07-2010, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | Hey. Thanks everyone who replied, I guess I never thought of just using the mesa a pre amp into the power amp... That might be the way to do it, seeing as I love the sound of the mesa.
Thanks! |
04-22-2010, 07:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC | | I've fallen for the BBE BMax-T. I don't use the compressor or maximizer, just use it as a straight, warm, full "clean" preamp that isn't harsh and biting like most SS preamps. I have a MESA Big Block 750 here right now and when I do an A-B test I prefer the BMax-T sound over it. At least today. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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