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Peavey MiniMega 1000

#561
BurningSkies said:
I'm obviously quite happy with a decent starting point and just a few well chosen EQ parameters. On the gig I hate spending time fussing with stuff, and the rest of the band and the audience won't really stand for it.
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Roger that. I was sound deWd for many years, besides my bench and field tech experience, and can call frequencies pretty accurately, scroll menues with the best of them, etc.

But when I'm onstage at downbeat about to play:

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#562
I want to have enough EQ at my disposal if I need it. 4 band parametric would be great for me. 50 band parametric would be not only redundant, but overwhelming.

Also, it's nice to have a preamp that could be used for recording purposes, when there's more time and flexibility for shaping the sound. Call me crazy, but I'm always trying to experiment with my sound and see what else I can get. Not right before downbeat, but the hours before downbeat and the weeks leading up to it :)
 
#563
Didn't think of that

StuartV said:
But, what you CAN'T do with a GEQ is make all those same shapes but with the center frequency shifted over 10 Hz.

Standard PA GEQs (31 bands or so, I think) are 1/3 octave bands, IIRC. A good parametric EQ will let you choose your center frequency, instead of having to pick from one of 31 choices, and it will let you dial in, for example, a 1/10 octave notch. Much more efficient for notching out feedback than a 1/3 octave Q factor.

In a good PA system, I think it is best to have both a GEQ and a PEQ. However, for a bass amp, a 4 band semi-parametric would give me more than I could ever want.
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#564
Just got a response from Ashdown (Mark Gooday himself, which is cool), and he said that the Rootmaster will be around 400W at 8 ohms, which is a little less than I had hoped. BUT, he also said it should be hitting US shelves in about a month. So one more mark for Peavey, and one more mark against...
 
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#577
The sad part here is that Peavey isn't any slower or less capable of putting out new product than any other company, they just jumped the gun with PR thinking it would generate interest and instead, at least in the TB hidey hole, they have screwed themselves out of a customer base. I was really thinking this was Peavey's year, with a perfect void for them to fill above all the entry level crap and below GK/Aggie/whomever. But between the TV nightmare last week (which I admittedly didn't watch, but saw the aftermath of) and announcing product years before it actually hits market, this may not be their year after all. I want to be proven wrong. I do. I would love to hear a new 1516 or 212 with the MiniMega and be blown away and grab a whole new rig. But even if I do I'm just afraid I would be one of the few at this point. I still have fond memories of playing through a TNT as a kid, and I've owned a couple Millennium's along with a few others that were nothing but great sounding, reliable basses. They have been a staple of the working music industry for decades. Dear Peavey, pull it together and impress us.
 
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#579
There's a transition from buzz (positive) to frustration (negative) and finally, disinterest (apathy). I think with all these posts we haven't quite hit disinterest but we're nearing the end of the frustration phase.
 
#580
This is definitely why offshore dependency is an issue.
It's also why the cost is effective.
Double edged sword.
Honestly, they won't lose market share for these delays, if they hadn't said anything a year ago, people would have bought a new amp if they needed it, regardless.
Nobody bought a new amp or cab in the past year if they didn't need one, just to spite Peavey.
I believe that something went wrong, or was forced to change mid-stream, or they wouldn't have jumped the gun. No company would do this on purpose to piss a bunch of forum people off.

Either way, the majority of players have no idea what's happened, and when they do hit the shelves, I'm sure they will sell well.
And if anybody doesn't buy what might be the perfect gear for them, just because they want to make a point they don't approve of how it went down, they are shooting themselves in the foot.
 
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