Smallequestrian said:
Arggh! Just got my Walkabout back from service yesterday. Turns out there was a blown fuse and some loose contacts on the fuses. It was great timing seeing as I just got my new Berg yesterday. Got home and hooked it all up, let it warm up for a bit and nothing. Turned it off, tried using different inputs and nothing. Messed with it for a good 10 minutes and nothing. Decided to give it one last try and I cranked the gain all the way up and all of a sudden it was working. I turned the gain back to a reasonable level and it was working allright. I even turned it off and played with it again about 30 minutes later and it was fine.
This morning I decided I wanted to play for a few minutes before I went to work and nothing. My weekend plans have appeared to be foiled. At this point I would jusy assume return it, but am now outside the 30 day period. I think I am going to go out tomorrow and find a decent used head and wait this one out and hopefully it will get fixed right.
That's what my first brown face was doing. I'm about to go and pick it up from the shop. It's the
third time I've had it repaired under warranty.
I've used the effects loop bypass by running a short cord, but since it's nearing it's 5 year warranty, I thought I'd go ahead and get it fixed...again. But, this time I've had them hard wire bypass the effects loop altogether. I haven't used an effects loop in 18 years, I don't why I'd start now.
It's annoying that I like the sound of the Walkabout so much--I've found it to be a tempermental little bastard, but I adore the way it sounds.
While that amp is cursed, the one I got in my Scout hasn't caused me any grief. Last night was the first gig I've played where the 12" simply couldn't cut it, though. My normal gig is a restaurant thing where the Scout is perfect. A medium sized blues club with a heavy handed drummer? Not so much. Luckily, the club has an Eden 4x10 sitting on the stage, so I simply unplugged the internal speaker, and used the Eden. On 4, the Walkabout pushed the Eden plenty and the low Bs on my flatwound fitted bongos sounded amazing.
I like the wooly sound I get out of the Scout combo (and, you can't beat the load in ease with the dolly handle). I was planning on selling the Walkabout that came with my scout and use my original head with the Scout cab. I'm thinking I'm a little gun-shy about trusting my original brown face without a backup, though, so I think I'm going to stick with my original plan and spring for an extension cab, instead.
That way, I have expandability in two ways. I can run stereo with each head driving a cab, or I can run a mono stack. I might have mentioned this idea earlier in the thread, but I'm not going back to look for it.
As for uprights, I've used my Strunal with my Walkabout through an EA cab, and it sounded great. Never tried it with the Scout since I'm an URB poser, I'm afraid, and I haven't touched the upright in recent months. I can't decide whether to sell it, or give it one last shot. Of course, that's a question for another thread....
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