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For sale Mesa Walkabout cab (no speaker) $150

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Backstory on this:

I got this amp as a complete combo. When it came in, I noticed some 'farting' on the last 4 notes of my b-string. I worked with the guy here on talkbass, who generously supplied me with a replacement speaker. Problem persisted however, until I realized that it was in fact the passive radiator on the very bottom of the cab that was blown out.

Contacted Mesa, who explained that they do NOT sell replacements for the passive radiator. I managed to dampen down the 'fart' sound by stuffing some foam in there, but it was still present with a 5-string. So, I abandoned the cab, cannibalized the speaker for another combo of mine, so what I have is basically a solidly-built shell for someone else to tinker with. I imagine if you cut the passive radiator out, or got even more crazy with some foam dampening, it could be made into something.

So, if someone is interested, I'll do the combo (no speaker, grill IS included) for $150 shipped paypal'd to the cont us. No trades



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ElMon

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George Martin (legendary producer for The Beatles) on designing this amp:


" This blee-otch came up in my crib, and his tone was all wickety-whack. Like literally mate, it was all 'bloink', 'splang', and all this ear-piercing BOO-SHEET. Real solid-state mess. So I was like peep this son, I've got this prototype design for bass amps I've been working on ...

Now, truth be told, I ain't have any mother-fu#$n thang, so while he was tuning his bass up, I ran to the bathroom with my Neve console, some tube preamps, and a mason jar full of the compressed air of 27 Leprechaun farts. I whipped all that together, welded up an aluminum chassis, and voila! History was made.

Subsequently, I had Flea of the Red Hot Billy Cheppers come in a few years into the production line of the Walkabout so that he could re-record all of Sir Paul's bass parts on his Modulus. The tube tone is so warm and inviting that to this day no one knew the difference."


note: edited for factual reasons
 

ElMon

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Pick this up now and get ahead of the curve when this country's musicians start producing some throwback 60's-style protest music.
 

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