Anyone have fuse issues?
When I got mine the fuse blew
I put in another one and it blew again so I returned it
When I got mine the fuse blew
I put in another one and it blew again so I returned it
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Peavey MiniMega 1000
- Thread starter Stev187
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I haven't had a hiccup in the year and change I've had it. I've turned the amp on and off a zillion times.
Hows it handle dirt? I really don't know much about the amp... Just saw pictures and some slight specs, and I've yet to hear it in action. I like a slight bit of grit/compression. Now all-out stoner fuzz or djenty distortion, just some uppermidrange edge.
There was a review of the Mini mega and Mini max in Bass musician magazine a few months back . Both got great writeups and not overpriced either . You can actually change the colour of the lights on it .
It handles my dirt pedals extremely well. The built in dirt (crunch) has to be EQ'd for me to get the right tone. I need to crank the high mids and high to get it to sound good to my ear so it's not a "step on it" proposition (for me). I love running my B7k through the front end.
I can get the amp to give me any tone I need. It's extremely flexible and, like I've mentioned many times, absolutely slams and gives my drivers some exercise. This amp will splinter inferior boxes.
Well I'm definitely considering this amp, then. I was checking out the GK RB series, but I just love how this has parametric lo/hi mid EQs, and I'm already a fan of the Peavey sound. I like to have an extremely controllable midrange EQ section so I can get as much versatility as possible. Not only that, but the frequencies are in the right positions for me, so I can cut out some of those honky mids in the 300 - 800 range, and boost the cutting mids in the 1.5 - 2k range if needed.
Plus I want an amp with blue lights.
Plus I want an amp with blue lights.
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For me, out of the box with all tone knobs at straight up noon, it sounds good. I set the gain and compressor on about 9-10 o'clock. I bump up the low mids and the high mids a bit, 1-2 o'clock. Generally leave the high and low straight up. I don't use bright. I do use Punch it kind puts a bit of "turbo bump" on it, more heft. I don't care for the built in distortion at all, but then that's generally not my thing. The last few yrs I've been a plug straight in no effects kind of guy as I play mostly Blues, Funk, R &B and classic rock and Jaz. (Though I'm thinking of reinstating a pedalboard) I also have never used the Kosmos at all though I just played a gig last night with one 112 and I bumped up the bass to fill in the low end some as I had the cab on a chair to better hear it in a small boomy all concrete room. After we quit I remembered the Kosmos and wished I'd tried it. I am somewhat fearfull of what it might do to my cab and feel putting the bass on 3 o'clock did what I needed for the situation.
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Well I'm definitely considering this amp, then. I was checking out the GK RB series, but I just love how this has parametric lo/hi mid EQs, and I'm already a fan of the Peavey sound. I like to have an extremely controllable midrange EQ section so I can get as much versatility as possible. Not only that, but the frequencies are in the right positions for me, so I can cut out some of those honky mids in the 300 - 800 range, and boost the cutting mids in the 1.5 - 2k range if needed.
Plus I want an amp with blue lights.
Or green or purple or ....
For those like me new to the thread, page 59/60 is where user experiences generally start.
Got mine 48 hrs ago, it immediately booted my D800 to backup status. I play an active Jazz strung with Chromes in a hard rock 5 piece, originals. We all generally prefer a big crisp clean most of the time, this amp had jaws dropping among my band mates, 100% thumbs up. I use a couple drive pedals, and the amp seems to like them well, so though I didn't get the foot switch with purchase, my main use for it would be crunch and I don't think I will need it.
Got mine 48 hrs ago, it immediately booted my D800 to backup status. I play an active Jazz strung with Chromes in a hard rock 5 piece, originals. We all generally prefer a big crisp clean most of the time, this amp had jaws dropping among my band mates, 100% thumbs up. I use a couple drive pedals, and the amp seems to like them well, so though I didn't get the foot switch with purchase, my main use for it would be crunch and I don't think I will need it.
I will admit, the few clips I saw of it, the on-board distortion sounds like doodoo... But I got a VT Bass DI for that.
Anyone tried this with an old Peavey TX/TVX cab? Seems like it would be a popular speaker to pair with this. That, or the Headliner.
Anyone tried this with an old Peavey TX/TVX cab? Seems like it would be a popular speaker to pair with this. That, or the Headliner.
It's a hammer, and I think it will drive any nail. I have not used it with any Peavey cab. What we are talking about is quality in, then the cab's ability to reproduce the input ?
I was just curious about impressions. I tend to be one of those buy-once-and-settle guys. Like to get the thing I want right on the first time, so I ask a lot of questions. 
I use Bergantino cabs 90% of the time and once in awhile I use a Sunn or Schroeder cab. It kills with everything. SpasticTastic mentioned a "Peavey Sound" I don't think it has a signature sound. I think it's voice is pretty neutral sounding though I think you can get pretty much what you want out of it. Though someone said they sold it to get An Ampeg, I think Ampeg does have a distinctive sound so maybe getting the signature Ampeg sound is not easy to reproduce with this. I had a PF500 which I didn't bond with, no failures, just was the A sound all the time. ( I owned a B15 for many yrs) I didn't find the controls over whelming but I have a Shuttlemax and it has way more knobs to tweak than this amp. I find that I want to live and gig with a new piece of gear for awhile before I pass judgement on it. So far this is passing the test.
I don't know about wise......wise ass maybe. But I've had this for awhile now. Just did the math, a little over 3 months, 45 gigs and a couple of rehearsals. I'm still getting to know it and haven't really got it completly figured out yet. I tried the Kosmos with a single cab at a rehearsal tonight and it fills out the low end nicely. Also messed with different compressor settings and I'm liking what I'm "not" hearing i.e. a squashed sound. It's fairly transparent.
I was just thinking that I had been looking at the Subway D800 since it came out but didn't have the money to buy one. I had been following the thread about it for a year or so pretty closely and when the D800+ came out I thought that I was even more interested because of the semi parametric mids. When I demoed it (the original D800) I thought there wasn't enough control of the mids. That's where the money is for me and one reason I love my Shuttlemax, (2 channels with semi para mids in each channel) some people don't like a lot of knobs but I think once you get familiar with them the intimidation factor goes away and they are a great tool.
Now with the Subway Preamp coming out it just occured to me that I don't need the amp I could just get the Preamp and only be out a couple of hundred bucks!!!! That's a lot cheaper than the whole amp. And the MM has 200 more watts! Win win. I gotta salt away a couple of Benjamin's.
Now with the Subway Preamp coming out it just occured to me that I don't need the amp I could just get the Preamp and only be out a couple of hundred bucks!!!! That's a lot cheaper than the whole amp. And the MM has 200 more watts! Win win. I gotta salt away a couple of Benjamin's.
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You'll still be missing out on the tube emulation of the Mesa's amp section, but with that being said I'll say this....the Mesa Subway DI greatly improves the sound of my Carvin BX500 and Ampeg PF800. The Mesa D800 is still my main amp, but the Mesa Pre/DI into those other amps is phenomenal. The MiniMega should be the same.
You can get that with the gain knob alone. When the Crunch button is enabled there is too much fuzz/distortion for my taste. Then again, I am playing a Peavey Cirrus which are hot in that mid-range area anyway.
