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Mesa Subway Plus preamp

#281
Lovep said:
Interesting the way you phrased the response...So there is a decision on the table to be made?? I hope I can get my hands on one before they are discontinued. These are great preamps...sorry I sold mine.
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Agedhorse,
I based my response on something you posted awhile ago. Has something changed?

agedhorse said:
Yes, they have both been discontinued but they are still in stock at some of our retailers.

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If so that’s great news!
 
#282
jcburn said:
My day job is in IT and telecommunications. Parts shortage is meaning some of our IT vendors having lead times of 24 month on some items, by which time that item will well and truly be obsolete and superceded - it's insane.
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Insane is a polite way to put it!
 
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UPS was good to me on Thanksgiving eve. I found a used Subway+ Preamp/DI and didn’t hesitate. This thing was high on my list to try out since I’ve moved to a separate power amp setup. I haven’t had much time at all with it but what I’ve heard so far is excellent. It didn’t come with a manual and I can’t access the one on the Mesa site. I found the link for it, but it appears to be dead. Whoever owned this last took good care of it, no marks at all, but they removed the feet. I found feet for the Subway Preamp on the Mesa site, but it didn’t mention Subway+. I’m guessing they’re the same ones. I’ll probably just end up mounting it with velcro anyway, so no big deal.

Very excited to get my hands on one of these. I procrastinated too long when available new.
 
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Sub41 said:
UPS was good to me on Thanksgiving eve. I found a used Subway+ Preamp/DI and didn’t hesitate. This thing was high on my list to try out since I’ve moved to a separate power amp setup. I haven’t had much time at all with it but what I’ve heard so far is excellent. It didn’t come with a manual and I can’t access the one on the Mesa site. I found the link for it, but it appears to be dead. Whoever owned this last took good care of it, no marks at all, but they removed the feet. I found feet for the Subway Preamp on the Mesa site, but it didn’t mention Subway+. I’m guessing they’re the same ones. I’ll probably just end up mounting it with velcro anyway, so no big deal.

Very excited to get my hands on one of these. I procrastinated too long when available new.
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Here’s a copy of the manual:
 

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I’ve got a couple questions about adding overdrive to the Subway+. First, if I set everything flat except gain/drive on another preamp (Darkglass Vintage Microtubes or Broughton SV-PRE), will I be causing any type of undesirable issues? Secondly, would I be better off running into the input or effects loop?

I don’t want to alter the EQ of the Subway+, only add some drive.
 
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I’ve recently changed some things up in my setup, switching from an active Jazz bass to a passive one. Since I run direct to the board at many venues, I wanted to throw a preamp pedal into my signal chain so that I would have a bit of control of my EQ before it got to the soundguy. As part of this I tried several of the reputable preamp pedals available. In several gig settings, the Mesa Subway preamp pedal beat out the others which included a Neve, Colourbox, and EBS Microbass 3. At home I liked all of them but the Mesa just had a richer tone. In the live settings, the EQ options the Mesa, namely the Voicing and Deep were much easier to use live. The standard EQ knobs were also very controlled and natural. The Mesa was also dead quiet and not susceptible to exterior noise sources. After a weekend of gigging in tough situations, the Mesa was clearly the best option - only I also realized how useful the Mute, high pass filter, and EQ parameters would be in a live setting especially now that I better understood the tone of the pedal. Hence, I was on the search for the Plus model. Got lucky and picked one up quickly from a fellow Talkbasser! I’d sum up this pedal by saying the tone quality is nice and warm as the Neve but with many more features that play very nicely in a live setting. If anyone is looking to sell one (or two) I’m looking to pick more of them up (1 more for the studio and one for the grab and go rig). Just IM me :D
 
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