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NAD First Mesa I've Owned BB750

#42
A pic with my 210. If I need more, I can add my 112 pictured with now gone Shuttlmax.
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Here is a picture of another BB750 with the NL-2 Speakon jacks. Obviously, there were a few early ones put out with these jacks. Mine is 000042. They also used some parts from other models. My transformer says "M6 Carbine" on it. None of this really matters since it sounds amazing. I'm curious if there are any other BB750 owners with the NL-2 Speakon jacks. Also, does anyone know of a padded gig bag that will fit this head?
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Well, it looks like I have the cheapest BB750 around. I just sold the rack case this head came in and cleared over $100 on Reverb. That means I'm only in this head for just over $100. Just got the floor switch from the previous owner for another $25. I've got some good deals in the past, but this is just unbelievable. I'm so pumped to finally have a Mesa and at a steal too.
 
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Thumpin6string said:
I agree with you to a point. I like my amp to sound a certain way set flat. My absolute favorite head was the Eden WT550. The "baked in voicing" of that amp was perfect to my ears. I have found a few others that were close like my A.M.P. BH420, the Genz Benz Neopack, some Markbass heads and this head. It sounds close to the Eden but with more balls. I tend to set my amp how I like it and only adjust the master. Any "revoicing" I'll do on my bass.
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The Neo Pak is a very nice sounding amp. I was actually able to get the Streamliner to sound just like it and now I never touch the EQ on the Streamliner. It's now my more powerful Neo Pak.
 
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Thumpin6string said:
Fixed the knob situation. Now it looks more like a Carbine. Not sure why they didn't do this in production.
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Because these earlier (Silver faced Walkabout/M-Pulse, Titan and Big Block) were targeted more along the lines of the Recto amp styling and used the Recto type knobs. The Mark style knobs were used on later models like the Black faced Walkabout, Fathom/Carbine and black faced Titan. What you have on yours is MXR style knobs which look similar but are in fact quite different. We tool most of our own knobs.
 
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agedhorse said:
Because these earlier (Silver faced Walkabout/M-Pulse, Titan and Big Block) were targeted more along the lines of the Recto amp styling and used the Recto type knobs. The Mark style knobs were used on later models like the Black faced Walkabout, Fathom/Carbine and black faced Titan. What you have on yours is MXR style knobs which look similar but are in fact quite different. We tool most of our own knobs.
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Well, they worked and were a whole lot cheaper than the Carbine knobs. It is too bad that Mesa didn't put a red or black dot in the divot of the chrome knobs. As they are, they are near impossible to see.
 
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Thumpin6string said:
Well, they worked and were a whole lot cheaper than the Carbine knobs. It is too bad that Mesa didn't put a red or black dot in the divot of the chrome knobs. As they are, they are near impossible to see.
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The Carbine knobs are a very nice knob, same knob I used on the Subway amps.

The chrome (and back) polished knobs have a gold marker dot, harder to see but that didn't seem to bother the guitar players. I did take some and pain fill them black for a customer recently, worked pretty well.
 
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agedhorse said:
The Carbine knobs are a very nice knob, same knob I used on the Subway amps.

The chrome (and back) polished knobs have a gold marker dot, harder to see but that didn't seem to bother the guitar players. I did take some and pain fill them black for a customer recently, worked pretty well.
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I'm happy with these. They inset into the face like they were made for it. The only issue I had was that the 2 active mid pots had longer shafts than all the others. Trimmed them off to the same length and all is good.
 
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Thumpin6string said:
Class D amps are very loud, but they seem polite to my ears, where the older amps felt like they were punching you in the chest.
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In my limited experimentation with amps, I have found that the “slam” really comes from the preamp.

Try this when you have the two topologies present. Take the preamp out from the “slammy” amp and run it into the class d power section return or line in. Do the same the other way around and see if the “slam” doesn't move with the preamp rather than the power amp selected.

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DJ Bebop said:
In my limited experimentation with amps, I have found that the “slam” really comes from the preamp.

Try this when you have the two topologies present. Take the preamp out from the “slammy” amp and run it into the class d power section return or line in. Do the same the other way around and see if the “slam” doesn't move with the preamp rather than the power amp selected.

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After going through around 30 amps, over 10 were class D, I have to disagree. I find it to be a combination of both.
 
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