Mesa Subway Bass DI Preamp

[donahue]

My prayers are answered!! I called Mesa about a year ago and asked if they ever had plans for a Bass 400 type preamp DI pedal and was told no. I was bummed out and to this day never invested in a proper Preamp DI pedal..dreaming and holding out that maybe one day...

Today I was thinking about how cool it would be to reconfigure a Subway D-800 amp into a pedal format. I've been contemplating buying a D-800 and putting it on my pedalboard and running it solely DI. Tonight I was skimming D-800 demo videos and Viola!!



Also stumbled upon the D-800+

 

[Daniel Piper]

Whoah! This will be a megathread in very short time. Nice!

 

[DirtyDuke]

I'm in!!!

 

[groovebass5]

I'm very intrigued by this especially the ability to send a post and pre eq sound out with 2 XLR outputs not to mention that great Boogie sound!

 

[BassikLee]

Yet another nice option. Any idea on numbers? $$??

 

[NoxNoctus]

Looks interesting, but no bypass switch on a pedal? Not the worst thing in the world, but for preamp junkies could be a downside

 

[father of fires]

I'm in!!!

Of course you are!

 

[father of fires]

Looks interesting, but no bypass switch on a pedal? Not the worst thing in the world, but for preamp junkies could be a downside

Just like the noble I suppose. More DI than Pedal I guess.

 

[BassikLee]

Yeah, I'm seeing this as more of an "always on" front end, esp for ampless guys.

 

[dharmashawn]

Yet another nice option. Any idea on numbers? $$??

$229

 

[gregmon79]

I'm in!!!

ME too! This is awesome.

 

[gregmon79]

Looks interesting, but no bypass switch on a pedal? Not the worst thing in the world, but for preamp junkies could be a downside

I guess. Im a total preamp whore and I wouldn't hesitate to put this in my chain. No issue. Once I put a pre in my chain its always on anyways

 

[NoxNoctus]

For sure. Digging into the video it

I guess. Im a total preamp whore and I wouldn't hesitate to put this in my chain. No issue. Once I put a pre in my chain its always on anyways

For sure, again, not a huge thing since most normal people don't have more than one pre on a board, if at all, but *shrug*

 

[donahue]

I really hope its available soon!

 

[gregmon79]

For sure. Digging into the video it


For sure, again, not a huge thing since most normal people don't have more than one pre on a board, if at all, but *shrug*

Or four....... hehehe

 

[mikeyjm2]

Oooohhhhh.... interesting.

 

[EKinPNW]

Is anybody else seeing what appears to be a Subway 2x10 in that third video?

 

[KevInDaBassment]

Looks awesome, definitely going to check this out after work. Input pad is a nice touch as well.

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Goddammit. I *JUST* got an SCR-DI and thought I was done with this @#$% for a while

 

[birminghambass]

Great price, I'm sure the quality will be outstanding. I wish there was a drive control to get some OD/grind.