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Ampeg Micro VR issues poll with new video

If you own the Micro VR with TWO 210AV cabs do you:

  • Have zero issues with clipping or distortion.

    Votes: 47 32.2%

  • Experience the issues with clipping, distortion, or crackle.

    Votes: 30 20.5%

  • Have tried the head or cabs with other setups and they work fine.

    Votes: 23 15.8%

  • Have already swapped out gear with Ampeg for a fix and it didn't fix the issue.

    Votes: 8 5.5%

  • I have Micro Carrots

    Votes: 52 35.6%
  • Total voters
    146
#401
I believe you can, or you can have an authorized tech in your area do it, but lately I haven't heard anything about it, and my problem eventually cleared itself up...I suspect further speaker break-in fixed it.

The problem happened to me regardless of how it was hooked up, but again, it cleared itself up, so it's all good now. Honestly, though, unless you have to have the badass looking Micro VR head (which I totally get), I might suggest trying it with a PF350. Same sound and price, but with 150 more watts and I never had a problem whatsoever while using it.
 
#402
I gigged this exact setup last night--MicroVR and two 210av cabs--and have gigged the stack for all but one gig in the last couple of months. No problems whatsoever. I play bars, small private parties and weddings. Jimmy is right, the extra headroom of the 350 would be the sweet spot, but I love the MicroVR matching rig and it honestly works for almost everything I do. Even with the Gain and Volume up higher than they probably should be... It carries the smaller rooms fine, and I usually have FOH support otherwise (I would recommend having your own DI solution for those situations, though). I do have a larger Carvin for outdoor and bigger gigs, but I've even tinkered with the idea lately of getting a GK micro 500 head for my gig bag for those situations and running the MicroVR into its power section when I need more beef.

The tolex on my 210s is solid, too. I did invest in some vinyl covers for them, but that doesn't have anything to do with the batch of bad glue or whatever it was that happened to someone somewhere.
 
#410
It is the difference between class d and mosfet the first sounds in my ears dull and lacks a sort of musicality it is the same reason why I sold my 7 pro people who can't hear this have no problems with it off course . It is more about people who do hear the difference.
I can't hear frequencies above 16000Hz others do but I can't say that higher freq's don't exist
 
#411
Thijs V said:
It is the difference between class d and mosfet the first sounds in my ears dull and lacks a sort of musicality it is the same reason why I sold my 7 pro people who can't hear this have no problems with it off course . It is more about people who do hear the difference.
I can't hear frequencies above 16000Hz others do but I can't say that higher freq's don't exist
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Fair enough. But how do we know the PF350 doesn't have mosfets? We know the Micro VR is class AB and the PF350 is class D, but does that mean class D can't have mosfets?

Seriously asking this since I don't know. Not trying to be dicky or anything.
 
#416
Thijs V said:
I only know that the difference is that the micro vr has mosfet and the pf350 is not This is about the power amplifier.
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How do you know? Do you have the schematic, or have you checked for yourself by looking inside one? I think you may be confusing power amp class with output device descriptions? The Micro VR is Class AB, the PF-350 is Class D. Both use switching power supplies.
 
#418
@Passinwind c 'mon man relax.
It ain't no rocketscience it is normal info on their site. Are you trying to proof my wrong or what? Beside it is getting off topic now. Fact is that i hear a difference between the micro and the pf350 and what's more... I also can feel it when I play like the difference between tube and so.
But who am I? Just playing for 45 years bass and a former Ampeg endorsed in my country for years.
 

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