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11-30-2010, 06:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TX, USA | | | Walkabout sound and portability but more power?
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Looking for suggestions for an alternative to my walkabout head but with more power. I like the tone and the lightweight but need something to use for bigger gigs. Obviously something in the ballpark tonewise would do...not expecting the exact same tone.
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11-30-2010, 06:52 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | | | | Perhaps the new Genz Benz Streamliner 900 (watts). There's a big thread on it if you haven't already seen it.
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11-30-2010, 06:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Ballaarat, Victoria, OZ | | | RH450 can apparently get close. There is a thread with soundclips around somewhere. |
11-30-2010, 07:08 PM
| | | | Get a power amp and use the line out from the Walkabout?
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11-30-2010, 07:23 PM
|  | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malone, NY/ Montreal, Quebec | | | Depends what tone you were digging from your Walkabout. There are 31 flavors in there. I found the BB750 does the clean/barely overdriven WA tone well, but it's expensive, heavy and lacks the WA eq.
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12-01-2010, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TX, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lomo  Depends what tone you were digging from your Walkabout. There are 31 flavors in there. I found the BB750 does the clean/barely overdriven WA tone well, but it's expensive, heavy and lacks the WA eq. | i never use the EQ in the Walkabout. the DI is a big plus for me. i like it set barely overdriven or clean. i'll check into the BB750. |
12-01-2010, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TX, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by vin*tone RH450 can apparently get close. There is a thread with soundclips around somewhere. | i remember seeing this somewhere...wish i could find those sound clips. |
12-01-2010, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TX, USA | | | can anybody vouch for the headroom in the RH450? just curious if it's a loud 450W or not. |
12-01-2010, 02:31 PM
| | | | I don't really hear much of the Walkabout in the RH450, but I can surely vouch for the headroom... it is a LOUD 450 watts, due to the limiter design (similar to Genz, a kind of 'tube amp' emulation thing that allows the power amp to exceed its rated power by allowing it the THD to increase, etc. like a tube amp). |
12-01-2010, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Forest Hills, New York | | | Check out the Eden WT550..... |
12-01-2010, 02:39 PM
|  | Less Ebay, more Mel Bay | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | | I'm almost positive it'd be worthwhile to try the WAB with a nice power amp.
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12-06-2010, 01:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TX, USA | | | i'm going to give the TC classic 450 a try ..old school with a modern twist? just hope it works with my cab just as well as the walkabout. |
12-06-2010, 01:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by screaminglucy Looking for suggestions for an alternative to my walkabout head but with more power. I like the tone and the lightweight but need something to use for bigger gigs. Obviously something in the ballpark tonewise would do...not expecting the exact same tone. | I'd always suggest a bigger cab for bigger gig. The walkabout drove my Aguilar S810 or GS412 just fine. More surface area of speakers > more watts in most cases. I've never needed anything more than an 8x10 or 4x12. And if I did, i was provided sound reinforcement. |
12-06-2010, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by screaminglucy i'm going to give the TC classic 450 a try ..old school with a modern twist? just hope it works with my cab just as well as the walkabout. | I have been an avid user of a Walkabout and the TC Electronic Classic 450. I can vouch that the headroom on the TC heads is great and my Classic 450 can get stupid loud with the right amount of cone surface. I can get similar sounds from the two heads...they are not world apart and I would say are in similar tone veins, but the Classic 450 won me over in the end and I sold my Walkabout. Now I use the Classic 450 exclusively. 
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12-06-2010, 02:23 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | Just get a bigger, multi driver cab for your walkabout head.
Or two bigger cabs 
Some of the mojo of the walkabout comes from the tube that drives the mosfet section.
Walkabout+poweramp is not the same.
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12-06-2010, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TX, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by stingray56funk I have been an avid user of a Walkabout and the TC Electronic Classic 450. I can vouch that the headroom on the TC heads is great and my Classic 450 can get stupid loud with the right amount of cone surface. I can get similar sounds from the two heads...they are not world apart and I would say are in similar tone veins, but the Classic 450 won me over in the end and I sold my Walkabout. Now I use the Classic 450 exclusively. | this is very exciting to hear |
12-06-2010, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Poon I'd always suggest a bigger cab for bigger gig. The walkabout drove my Aguilar S810 or GS412 just fine. More surface area of speakers > more watts in most cases. I've never needed anything more than an 8x10 or 4x12. And if I did, i was provided sound reinforcement. | i would love to get a huge cab but i wouldn't be able to transport it....right now i'm running a 2x12 and a 1x12 | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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