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Peavey MiniMega 1000

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Well, I did get home early enough last night to fire up the mM at very low volume for a bit. I plugged it into my Aguilar GS210 cab.

I had all the options turned off and the EQ on the bass and amp set to flat. I was immediately struck by the very bottom end of the notes that I could hear and feel, even with the amp volume barely turned on. There was "meat" to the very bottom that I have never noticed before. But, I suppose that could have been partly from the bass I was using, which is new to me.

Anyway....

I played around with all the controls and optional stuff and I really liked all the different tonal choices everything gave me.

Crunch sounded pretty decent with some EQ and Gain settings and not so good with others.

The Compressor seemed very, very transparent.

All the optional stuff seemed transparent as far as not being able to tell any difference between having it switched on but the knob turned all the way down versus having it switched off.

Bright and Punch each did their own thing and each sounded good.

I thought the Kosmos C was a nice enhancement to my sound, playing through a 210 at low volume.

The Kosmos A was kinda funky. I could definitely hear it on really low notes, then it seemed to kinda disappear on higher notes. The jury is still out on that. I need to try it with a bigger cab and at higher volume.

I tried diming the Gain for a little bit and seeing how it sounded with and without Crunch. I was pleasantly surprised in that it did not sound terrible (which is what I expected). I need to try it again, though, with more volume, to decide if it actually sounds good enough that I'd ever want to use it.

In my house, with my bass plugged in and the bass volume turned down, the rig seemed to be totally silent. The bass I was using has single coils. With the volume on the bass up all the way, both pickups up all the way, and in active mode, I could hear a little hiss. In passive mode, it was again totally silent (albeit still with the amp volume set very low).

I have never played a "real" gig with anything other than one of my tube amps (except one where my tube amp crapped out and I switched to my Class D micro head). But, this amp is impressing me so much already that I might just take only it (and my other micro head for backup) for my next gig. I think I have an outdoor gig coming up next month. I may have to break out the Heritage 810 and this amp for that. :hyper::bassist:
 
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In that case the Headliner 1000 should have it too since it's the same power amp, no?
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Yes. The difference is that the Headliner pre response has some deep bass roll-off with the controls set flat, so you'd have to dial in that deep bass back up by adjusting the EQ if that's what you like, but the power amp will reproduce it the same way.
 
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Is it better to run the mM with the Master dimed and using the Gain to control volume? Or to try and find some certain Gain setting and then control volume with the Master?

Or does it even matter? Does either way make any kind of damage to the amp or speakers any more or less likely?
 
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Is the new Headliner 1000 out yet or are we talking about the one that's been out for awhile?
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Headliner 1000 has been out for a little while now. I think I may have read a review at some retailer online, but I haven't seen any TB reports. Anyway, there are a few hundred of them out there...somewhere. Maybe @BurningSkies bought all them too.;)


Is it better to run the mM with the Master dimed and using the Gain to control volume? Or to try and find some certain Gain setting and then control volume with the Master?
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Ultimately it doesn't matter. I don't dime the master because it creates a worse signal to noise ratio. I also usually like the tone of a higher pre gain setting because it sounds "thicker" to me.

That's one of the reasons I am opposed to signal level LED's, especially the ones that attempt to tell you where you SHOULD set the pre gain. What you SHOULD do is turn the knobs until it sounds good. Most of the time in that case of an amp having signal level LED's, I find that I don't like the tonality when I'm in the "optimal" zone. Silly me, I guess I like to use my ears with audio gear. I don't mind clip LED's as much, but I ignore them for the most part. I don't care if I'm clipping unless I hear it when I don't want to.
 
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BbbyBld said:
Headliner 1000 has been out for a little while now. I think I may have read a review at some retailer online, but I haven't seen any TB reports. Anyway, there are a few hundred of them out there...somewhere. Maybe @BurningSkies bought all them too.;)




Ultimately it doesn't matter. I don't dime the master because it creates a worse signal to noise ratio. I also usually like the tone of a higher pre gain setting because it sounds "thicker" to me.

That's one of the reasons I am opposed to signal level LED's, especially the ones that attempt to tell you where you SHOULD set the pre gain. What you SHOULD do is turn the knobs until it sounds good. Most of the time in that case of an amp having signal level LED's, I find that I don't like the tonality when I'm in the "optimal" zone. Silly me, I guess I like to use my ears with audio gear. I don't mind clip LED's as much, but I ignore them for the most part. I don't care if I'm clipping unless I hear it when I don't want to.
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Doesn't seem like there's so much hype about that one. I'm cornering the market on the one everybody's talkin' bout so I can drive prices up. Then flood the market once I make a tidy profit.
 
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BbbyBld said:
Headliner 1000 has been out for a little while now. I think I may have read a review at some retailer online, but I haven't seen any TB reports. Anyway, there are a few hundred of them out there...somewhere. Maybe @BurningSkies bought all them too.;)




Ultimately it doesn't matter. I don't dime the master because it creates a worse signal to noise ratio. I also usually like the tone of a higher pre gain setting because it sounds "thicker" to me.

That's one of the reasons I am opposed to signal level LED's, especially the ones that attempt to tell you where you SHOULD set the pre gain. What you SHOULD do is turn the knobs until it sounds good. Most of the time in that case of an amp having signal level LED's, I find that I don't like the tonality when I'm in the "optimal" zone. Silly me, I guess I like to use my ears with audio gear. I don't mind clip LED's as much, but I ignore them for the most part. I don't care if I'm clipping unless I hear it when I don't want to.
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Personally I must say that a clip LED is important when you want to avoid clipping distortion. And a LED stack could be nice, too. If you switch between basses with different output level, such metering will help for dialing in the right level pretty quickly. I am all for using your ears, but banging loudly ahead on your bass between songs for setting the correct level is considered unprofessional in most genres (of course you can also remember the setting for each bass, which would be the best).
 
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