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Mesa Boogie Walkabout Part 6
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Well,
Update on my Mesa WA -vs- Aguilar TH500 conundrum....I ended up going with the Aguilar. The Perfect Bass had a 15% off 12 hour sale a few days ago. I got the Aggie for $594 shipped. The Mesa was $1100 + frieght.
I KNOW, the two amps are apples and oranges. However, I will give the little Aggie a try. Given the difference in price, its worth a try. I have never heard either amp in person so maybe I won't know what I am missing if I had went with the WA
I am going to see what happens with the future of the WA. Someone mentioned in a previous thread that "maybe", just "maybe" well see something new happen with the WA (like a updated power section, separate DI volume , etc). Maybe NAMM 2012 will be the year. To be honest, the lack of power/cost difference paradigm was the reason I went with the Aggie. The DI volume issue was a minor issue....although I could have lived with it. To all those who responded to my questions, thanks for your help. Fingers crossed for 2012 NAMM
Update on my Mesa WA -vs- Aguilar TH500 conundrum....I ended up going with the Aguilar. The Perfect Bass had a 15% off 12 hour sale a few days ago. I got the Aggie for $594 shipped. The Mesa was $1100 + frieght.
I KNOW, the two amps are apples and oranges. However, I will give the little Aggie a try. Given the difference in price, its worth a try. I have never heard either amp in person so maybe I won't know what I am missing if I had went with the WA I am going to see what happens with the future of the WA. Someone mentioned in a previous thread that "maybe", just "maybe" well see something new happen with the WA (like a updated power section, separate DI volume , etc). Maybe NAMM 2012 will be the year. To be honest, the lack of power/cost difference paradigm was the reason I went with the Aggie. The DI volume issue was a minor issue....although I could have lived with it. To all those who responded to my questions, thanks for your help. Fingers crossed for 2012 NAMM
D.I. volume, the WA has. Separate to the master volume.
Just saying.......
Hope you like your new Aggie!
Just saying.......
Hope you like your new Aggie!
Took my WA head to a gig tonight to use with my Berg AE212 & using my regular ol' P bass I was getting very little clean output. Overdrive happening at 9 o'clock gain! Had to use my back up- GB Shuttle- thank goodness for that great li'l, gig bag fitting amp!
B4 I go poking around, do y'all reckon the V1 tube?
Any hints appreciated!
B4 I go poking around, do y'all reckon the V1 tube?
Any hints appreciated!
Yes, after a nice sleep...... I'll do that today. Check V1 tube.
I hope it ain't something else, tubes I can swap, but ain't much else I know about the innards
I hope it ain't something else, tubes I can swap, but ain't much else I know about the innards
Dunno about Tassie, but the service up here was great when I had my warranty claim.
ishouldbeking said:
No, thank God!
It still worked ok, just started overdrive far earlier than normal. And, as usual, had NO time at all today to look at it.
I would also guess tube- my V1 tube went out without much coaxing recently as well. Tubes just aren't made like they used to be apparently!
Guys,
I'm driving a Mesa 2x10 and 1x15 (both powerhouses) with my WA. Both are 8 ohm. So to get the full output from my head, I have been going out of one WA amp output, into my 2x10 and daisy-chaining my 1x15 from the output of the 2x10. This way I am driving the cabs at 4 ohm impedance right? I ask the question as in a gig last night, I was advised that to get to 4 ohms, I should be running each cab from each speaker output socket on the back of my WA.... So Is daisy-chaining the speakers using one of the WA speaker outputs the way to pull the 4 ohms out of the head or have I been wrong? Or is either way fine?
I am on a roll of doofus questions lately, so I appreciate you TB'rs having patience...
I'm driving a Mesa 2x10 and 1x15 (both powerhouses) with my WA. Both are 8 ohm. So to get the full output from my head, I have been going out of one WA amp output, into my 2x10 and daisy-chaining my 1x15 from the output of the 2x10. This way I am driving the cabs at 4 ohm impedance right? I ask the question as in a gig last night, I was advised that to get to 4 ohms, I should be running each cab from each speaker output socket on the back of my WA.... So Is daisy-chaining the speakers using one of the WA speaker outputs the way to pull the 4 ohms out of the head or have I been wrong? Or is either way fine?
I am on a roll of doofus questions lately, so I appreciate you TB'rs having patience...
If you plug each walkabout output to each cabinet you will get the 4 ohms you are looking for.
It works either way. Plug each cab into a WA speaker output -- they are parallel outputs. Or daisy chain from the cabinet -- that in/out plug is also wired in parallel. Either way you plug it up, its 4 ohms. Two 8 ohm loads in parallel is a 4 ohm load in total.
Datsgor said:
Thanks man. So daisy chaining the cabs was incorrect? Would I have not been achieving the 4 ohms that way? Not ignoring (in fact appreciating) your answer, but I would like to understand why one way is preferable over the other? Thanks again.
Either way will work exactly the same. The reason you have the option is because Mesa (along with most modern companies) is pretty thorough with their designs and both the amp and cabs are designed to be flexible for different types of rigs.
This might sound like overexplaining, but here it is anyway: the amp has 2 outputs because not every cab has 2 parallel input/output jacks, some just have a single input, and with two outputs you could still use two cabs. Conversely, your cab has parallel input/output jacks because not every amp has 2 output jacks, and daisy-chaining also works when you need more than one cab. Also, if you were running a larger rig (with slave heads, or if you were running below 4 ohms), you could also daisy chain in more cabs than the number of speaker outputs on the back of the head would allow. For example, technically your Walkabout could power four 8-ohm cabs daisy-chained together to be operating at 2 ohms.
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