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Mesa Boogie Walkabout Part 5!!!

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MB-Fusion is next for me.
I don't expect it will be anything like a walkabout, which is fine, as I have one of those already.

I do expect it will cut and slice and mix waaay better than the SL900 did. It's also smaller than the GB, and will fit in the front pocket of my Sadowsky portabag.
 
#242
Chef said:
Gigged the Streamliner900 last night.
It does not equal the Walkabout for "mids that just cut thru a mix."
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I was wondering when we'd 'hear' this side of the coin. Have you posted this in the Streamliner love fest thread?

You guys wanting WA900's must be playing loud. My WA through two 3015-loaded TL606 cabs is a pretty big sound.
 
#244
Chef said:
Yep.

It's not about loud, it's about headroom before I push the amp into doing things that I don't always like.
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+1...Most of the time I'm riding on the edge of what the WA can do before it starts to get into that territory I don't like.

If it just had the horsepower of the M6 while maintaining that sweet WA tone, it would be plenty for me.
 
#245
Chef said:
MB-Fusion is next for me.
I don't expect it will be anything like a walkabout, which is fine, as I have one of those already.

I do expect it will cut and slice and mix waaay better than the SL900 did. It's also smaller than the GB, and will fit in the front pocket of my Sadowsky portabag.
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Chef, Have you ever checked out the RH450?

Funny. It was the cats pyjamas about 10 minutes ago. Now - not so much.
 
#246
I just thought I'd chime in with a review of my "new to me" WAS rig. I jammed with a guitar player and drummer on Monday night in a tiny rehearsal room. We were playing "Spacerock"-- mid-tempo, lots of overdrive and delay on the guitar, which was coming from a Vox AC30 head through a 4x12 cab, and the drummer was playing moderately hard. My rig, with a home-built 1x12 extension cab (same speaker as the WAS, but without the passive radiator and horn), sounded phenomenal. Killer tone, more than enough bottom end, and I only had the Master at 9:00. Tomorrow I'll be rehearsing for a show on Saturday night with a band with two guitarists--one with a Marshall 1/2 stack and the other with a Fender Twin Reverb, so we'll see how she hangs in that situation, but as of right now, I'm extremely happy.

WASrig.jpg
 
#247
Chef said:
Word.
Listed and sold the SL in an hour.

Where's my WA900?
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Thank you Jesus.
A few more of these posts from WA owners and I won't even try one.
Speaking of WA EQ; for the first time in probably 5 years I took a Precision bass (72) to rehearsal insted of the usual SR or Jbass. Sounded really good for blues, most rock, and some R&B but just couldn't find the groove with funk. Some minor changes to the EQ and the P kicked butt. I've never used the para EQ except to pull some 50ish Hz. but tonight I was really happy to have the flexibilty; might just start playin a P bass again!
 
#248
P-bass eq suggestion for funk:
use the low para band to push around 200
use the mid band to cut about 600
use the high band to push about 4khz

bump up shelving bass and treble both a tad.
passive mids at about 10 oclock

that should approximate some nice skanky p-funk.

My P is an ash/maple neck with fresh rounds on it.
If you're tryin to P-funk with flats....good luck;)
 
#249
I'll have to try that; just opened the case and had used:
bass, mid, treble at about 12:00 and pulled a tiny bit of 50Hz
boosted some 250Hz and some 3K
(with a 2x15 w/ Altecs)
My P is alder/maple with some nickle plated Blue Steels which are new and from a trade deal ( I assume it's alder, blonde with not much grain)
 
#250
Chef, Very interested to hear your MB Fusion report. Followed the Streamliner 900 thing and think I will pass on that one for now. I was also told to check out an MB Fusion. Granted, none of the alternatives equate to a more powerful Walkabout, but these comparisons are valuable and helpful using the Walkabout as a point of reference since I own and know that amp well.
 
#252
Been in there 8 years now, giged a hell of a lot, last Monday, got the old "tube crackle" everything else is ok with in my rig, speakers fuse etc..checked out the tubes and one is going, so I was thinking of experimenting with tubes see how it will effect the tone..
 
#253
Back at the end of January I took my Walkabout into the studio for the first time and posted about the experience on here (it was a good one!). Couple of folks asked to hear the end result and whattaya know... the songs are finally available! Filter Magazine is hosting our first single from our new EP. The track is called "She's Been Lying", and on this one I'm playing my Rickenbacker with a pick through the Walkabout set pretty dirty, using the amp's DI into a TLAudio tube preamp and into protools. we did it pretty rough and raw, tracking live except for vocals and guitar solos... i think we wound up using the first take.

the single itself is available here for free:
FILTER Magazine - Media - MP3: Walking Sleep Don’t “Lie” About Free Downloads (FILTER Premiere)


don't pay attention to the crappy press photo. we booted our old drummer and needed something without him on the quick, and this is what we ended up with, haha. lots of indifferent faces. but nevermind all that, here's a little bit of Walkabout tone in action!
 
#259
...and the rest of my "I-used-a-Walkabout" batch of recordings are up, if anyone cares to stream or download for free:

Walking Sleep

"Caught Alone" is my Rickenbacker with the mutes up. Its kind of an extreme effect, totally chokes out the notes, but it worked for what I was going for. At 2:20 there's a breakdown where you can really hear that thing thudding along. "Cast a Spell" was my precision played with the pad of my thumb.

Heading back to the studio this weekend to track another 7 songs... should be fun to see what else I can squeeze out of the Walkabout!
 
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