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mesa bb750 owners

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Death Metal Jim

Jun 1, 2008
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#1
My band is down 2 members so it will be a while till I gig again. so I have been messing around with my settings. I have gotten some really great sounds out of it.
I would like to know how other bb 750 owners are setting theirs.(other gear involved) mesa ph 4-10 and 1-15 cabs I have the horns pulled way down.
A dbx 160a compressor
and sonic snake oiler Its there so when my kid uses the rig he has two knobs to turn. but its getting ready to leave the set up .
as of this morning mine is.
overdrive 12:00
gain 10:30
bass 12:00
passive mid 12:00
active mid 5:30
frequency 7:00
treble 12 :00
what i had before (i think)
over drive 12:00
gain 12:00
bass 1:00
passive mid 12:00
active mid 3:00
frequency 9:00
treble 3:00
 
#5
Various settings on an amplifier are kinda useless to try to recreate someone else's tone. Meaning, if I had the exact amp, cab and bass as you, and we both set them exactly the same, we'd still sound different. The Big Block 750 is an awesome amp, one of my favorite Mesa bass amps ever, but it has one downfall; the full power at 2 ohms thing. Depending on what type of cab(s) you're running, you could almost do better by changing your speaker cabs, than fiddling with the amps eq, (which I love the simplicity of). That amp run eq dead flat, gain and master at noon, through a hefty pair of 4 ohm cabs, can literally wipe out small villages with it's *clean* tone. Kick in the amp's built-in distortion channel, and you could make that large cities. So yeah, I'd run that amp dead flat, (or near enough), and be sure I was using a 2 ohm load with lots of speakers.
 
#7
RickenBoogie said:
The Big Block 750 is an awesome amp, one of my favorite Mesa bass amps ever, but it has one downfall; the full power at 2 ohms thing. Depending on what type of cab(s) you're running, you could almost do better by changing your speaker cabs, than fiddling with the amps eq, (which I love the simplicity of). That amp run eq dead flat, gain and master at noon, through a hefty pair of 4 ohm cabs, can literally wipe out small villages with it's *clean* tone. Kick in the amp's built-in distortion channel, and you could make that large cities. So yeah, I'd run that amp dead flat, (or near enough), and be sure I was using a 2 ohm load with lots of speakers.
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The full power at 2 ohms doesn't bother me. I have never been at a gig and needed more power to push my 2 mesa p.h. 4-10 cabs( 4ohms together). but i did get 2 of the mesa 1-15 cabs, so when I get the last 15 cab in I will be at 2 ohms.
yeah 12;00 all the way across does sound good.
 

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