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Mesa Boogie Walkabout Mega-thread Part 10

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I'm sure there will be something new coming down the pipe. Probably a class d with a tube front end.

The loose damping of the walkabout seems to be a love or hate thing. Great with sealed cabs, not so much with ported. That's why you read about so many using a hp filter with the wa.
 
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Sad to hear that Mesa discontinued the WalkAbout. I have a 12" combo and a Scout 12" ext. cab. I am getting a rattly type of distortion. Thought is was with both. Turns out it's the ext. cab. Time for a new speaker. Mesa no longer sells a 4 ohm Scout driver. Their recommendation is the ceramic Powerhouse 12. My other option is to replace them both with the 8 ohm Scout driver that they still sell. Not entirely out of the question since my total load would be 4 ohm instead of 2. My question is that the driver is sealed so tightly that I am apprehensive to pry it out. Any tips on how to remove it without damaging the mounting ring or the baffle board?
 
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Chef said:
Why is hpf only useful for d class?
I wouldn't presume a new walkabout would be d class as part of its mojo is mosfets and toroidal power supply.
Frankly I wouldn't care if it were Carbine sized if it did the right things.
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Unfortunately the usual WA technology has become non viable for mesa as well as other manufacturers.
Producing smps class D amps is porobably far more rewarding in many ways I suspect.
Please notice that I'm hardly trying to explain to myself that we have to forget traditional amps and surrender....but I failed
 
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Get it reconed
No reason to get a whole new driver

Gently work a flat blade screwdriver around to get the driver to separate from its foam gasket

BadB said:
Sad to hear that Mesa discontinued the WalkAbout. I have a 12" combo and a Scout 12" ext. cab. I am getting a rattly type of distortion. Thought is was with both. Turns out it's the ext. cab. Time for a new speaker. Mesa no longer sells a 4 ohm Scout driver. Their recommendation is the ceramic Powerhouse 12. My other option is to replace them both with the 8 ohm Scout driver that they still sell. Not entirely out of the question since my total load would be 4 ohm instead of 2. My question is that the driver is sealed so tightly that I am apprehensive to pry it out. Any tips on how to remove it without damaging the mounting ring or the baffle board?
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sratas said:
Unfortunately the usual WA technology has become non viable for mesa as well as other manufacturers.
Producing smps class D amps is porobably far more rewarding in many ways I suspect.
Please notice that I'm hardly trying to explain to myself that we have to forget traditional amps and surrender....but I failed
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I don't believe transformer based amplification is a dead thing.
 
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kringle77 said:
I'm sure there will be something new coming down the pipe. Probably a class d with a tube front end.

The loose damping of the walkabout seems to be a love or hate thing. Great with sealed cabs, not so much with ported. That's why you read about so many using a hp filter with the wa.
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IDK, I have long felt that the Walkabout paired with a (ported) Berg CN212 is a nearly perfect combination ... of course IMO/IME and YMMV ;)
 
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pfschim said:
IDK, I have long felt that the Walkabout paired with a (ported) Berg CN212 is a nearly perfect combination ... of course IMO/IME and YMMV ;)
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In my case the HDN212 is that solution.

Although, last weekend was the first time, I would have liked more headroom with my WA: open air with a very loud drummer and too small a PA :(
 
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JEDBass said:
I ran a WA + CN212 for a time as well. Excellent combination. The slightly tighter low end (for a ported cab) along with its present upper mids really complimented the WA. Wouldn't surprise me if the "old" AE410 was another great combo.
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WA + Berg CN212 is one of the best sounding combinations I've ever heard. I use that combination often and it's everything I like about the WA Scout 112 with a lot more volume and less uncontrolled low end blooming.
 
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Used my Wa with a barefaced bb2 open air with no PA. The system was a bit pushed, i think, but it sounded brilliant.
I did not complain about lows being loose, at all. Even if someone wanted to have less bottom just use a good eq, and I had one of the best ones, the WA one. Cut a smidge using the bass knob, pushed a bit the 80-100 hz and the tone in my had was there, pure and addicting.
 
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