Little something from Petaluma came into my hands:
I got #135. I've had a few hours with it now. Wow! @agedhorse, you guys knocked it out of the park!
It's got that sweet, warm fat bottom end that I have been gassing for since the first time I played through the Walkabout. I thought the Walkabout could get a little out of hand, but this one won't go there. With the WD-800 you can get a lot or a little of that round tubey goodness. Or none. You can give it a little more or less of that bottom end fullness with the Damping control. I can see how that could help tame both cabs and rooms.
This amp is solidly and handsomely put together. The EQ section is a tone-scuplting powerhouse. HUGE range of adjustments and very easy to dial in. There were some suggested tone settings in the manual and these were great starting points. I've enjoyed branching out from those settings and exploring the interactions between those settings and my pups. I used one of the EQ adjustments to dial out a dead spot and my Aerodyne has NEVER sounded so even up and down the neck. The highs are creamy with my Labella Deep Talking Bass flats. I just love the way this amp delivers such great, warm tones!
I even plugged in my Les Paul, adjusted the EQ, and got some nice crunchy OD that had me thinking I might have to get a guitar cab to play with this amp. (I'm selling my Fender Mustang 212 combo to help fund the WD.) I plugged in some pedals and I'm thinking I won't be the only one using this amp for guitar.
I've been very happy with the range of tones I was able to get out of my Markbass Big Bang, although it lacked the tubey warm fat goodness that the WD-800 delivers. The WD-800 gives me everything the Big Bang ever did, but when played loudly, it sounds more musical and controllable. The highs in the Big Bang are a bit harsher. The Big Bang is LOUD, but sledgehammer loud compared to the musical loudness of the WD-800. With the gain down, I was able to get clean and LOUD! I'm not cranking it, I'm playing through a 600 W cab. But it's an efficient cab, so it doesn't really need to be pushed hard to be loud. The WD's volume control is much easier to dial in. And the sweepable EQ blows away the tone adjustments available on the Big Bang. Never could quite EQ out my dead spot with that one.
But I didn't get this amp to play it clean! I can now dial in my very favorite bass guitar tones at any time I want! My search for tone nirvana is at its end!
Although that noisy J pup probably needs to go...
I got #135. I've had a few hours with it now. Wow! @agedhorse, you guys knocked it out of the park!
It's got that sweet, warm fat bottom end that I have been gassing for since the first time I played through the Walkabout. I thought the Walkabout could get a little out of hand, but this one won't go there. With the WD-800 you can get a lot or a little of that round tubey goodness. Or none. You can give it a little more or less of that bottom end fullness with the Damping control. I can see how that could help tame both cabs and rooms.
This amp is solidly and handsomely put together. The EQ section is a tone-scuplting powerhouse. HUGE range of adjustments and very easy to dial in. There were some suggested tone settings in the manual and these were great starting points. I've enjoyed branching out from those settings and exploring the interactions between those settings and my pups. I used one of the EQ adjustments to dial out a dead spot and my Aerodyne has NEVER sounded so even up and down the neck. The highs are creamy with my Labella Deep Talking Bass flats. I just love the way this amp delivers such great, warm tones!
I even plugged in my Les Paul, adjusted the EQ, and got some nice crunchy OD that had me thinking I might have to get a guitar cab to play with this amp. (I'm selling my Fender Mustang 212 combo to help fund the WD.) I plugged in some pedals and I'm thinking I won't be the only one using this amp for guitar.
I've been very happy with the range of tones I was able to get out of my Markbass Big Bang, although it lacked the tubey warm fat goodness that the WD-800 delivers. The WD-800 gives me everything the Big Bang ever did, but when played loudly, it sounds more musical and controllable. The highs in the Big Bang are a bit harsher. The Big Bang is LOUD, but sledgehammer loud compared to the musical loudness of the WD-800. With the gain down, I was able to get clean and LOUD! I'm not cranking it, I'm playing through a 600 W cab. But it's an efficient cab, so it doesn't really need to be pushed hard to be loud. The WD's volume control is much easier to dial in. And the sweepable EQ blows away the tone adjustments available on the Big Bang. Never could quite EQ out my dead spot with that one.
But I didn't get this amp to play it clean! I can now dial in my very favorite bass guitar tones at any time I want! My search for tone nirvana is at its end!
Although that noisy J pup probably needs to go...
)
) I bumped the master, ending up @ 10:30. I was happy with the E string but wasn't getting into the mix higher up, so I bumped the mids to 2:00 (not 10:00 as I originally posted, thanks 
