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Peavey MiniMega 1000

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Doug Parent said:
Bobby sent you a message my head won't power up I'm on a gig help.
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Hope this is just something very minor, pls follow up with us on what the fix was, good luck man.

I've tried my mM1000 with a few of my cabs so far, BF BT-T, GB NX2-212T, GB NeoX-112T and one of my two TC-E RS210's. This amp sounds pretty great with all my cabs so far either at home or on the gig. I have a pvt house party this Sat I'm gona try to take my 4 ohm, TB153 but I hear our setup area may be reduced now and I may just take my TC-E 250 combo or the NeoX 112T w/mM1000 now.

For those just getting this amp, I gotta say the Peavey really likes big, loud-sub-woofered cabs. Your gona feel the difference.

And with all those features buiit into this amp, I guess a foot pedal might be handy. Just that I've never used the foot pedal for either my GB MB800 or GB SM 12.2. But maybe this pedal controls many more features of this amp and may help in that way?

@StuartV don't recall you mentioning the Peavey's fan in your first review. Any thoughts on that? I've never heard any excess noise out of mine but the loud-ish fan.
 
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First off, I love the mM. Last night, I went to a friends to play. Amp sounded great, finished playing and put the amp in its case and loaded up and headed home. Got home and put the amp on my shoulder, and while reaching for my bass, the unthinkable happened. The clip on the strap that connects to the bag came out of part that holds it to the strap. Bam, amp and bag fall to the concrete driveway! I left my cabinet at my friends house so I don't know if the amp is damaged. You can tell where the back of the amp is gouged from the hit to the concrete. I am hoping for the best. I wasn't able to get in touch with my friend today to get my cabinet back to try out and see if the amp still works. I do not hear anything rattling inside the amp. Wish me luck, not sure if something like this will be covered under warranty.
 
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Wahoo. Plugged mM in and powered up and worked with my headphones. Just need to see if I can get some sound through my cabinet when I get to it. I have had a buzz when I played through my cabinet coming from the amp, no buzz sound through the cabinet. I had to use a pillow under the amp to eliminate the buzz. Took the top cover off to check for loose screws and found one inside the amp. Tightened it up and checked all the screws, and the buzz sound isn't there anymore when I tap on the top. Just gotta get it plug into my cab to make sure. If everything works, with no buzz, then these new Peavey's are built like tanks just like the old ones!
 
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ErnieD said:
@StuartV don't recall you mentioning the Peavey's fan in your first review. Any thoughts on that? I've never heard any excess noise out of mine but the loud-ish fan.
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I mentioned it in this post:

Peavey MiniMega 1000

In other words, I think it's completely negligible. It's way quieter than the fan in my vintage SVT.
 
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I spent about an hour and a half playing through my mM last night. I was playing my new-to-me Peavey TL-Six, which is awesome, by the way. A 6-string P bass. <3 <3 <3 But I digress...

I still think this amp totally kicks ass, even though I was once again only able to play it at relatively low volumes. I turned on the "low volume/small cab" Kosmos (I can never remember whether that is A or C) for a bit. But, it makes it sound like the bottom is hitting so hard that I figured my neighbors would be hearing the thump, even if they couldn't hear anything else. And it was on the late side, so I turned it back off pretty quickly.

One thing that I thought was, well, not as expected: I used the Aux In to pipe songs through the amp for me to play along with. That's when I discovered that the Mute button only mutes the bass. The signal from the Aux In continues to play through.

That is definitely not how I would prefer it to work. When I hit Mute, I want the whole amp to be silent. One specific thing that I feel is a problem is that I plug a cable into the Aux In and then plug the other end into my cell phone's headphone jack. I hit Mute on the amp and plugged the cable into my phone and got a nice *pop* through the amp. Trying to avoid that *pop* is why I hit Mute on the amp in the first place. I don't want to have to futz with my Volume knob or turn the amp off every time I want to plug/unplug my music player. I got a call on my phone while it was plugged into the Aux In. I quickly unplugged the phone from the amp to answer the call. Yet another *pop*.

Can anyone tell me a reason/use for being able to still pipe the Aux In signal through while the instrument input is muted?
 
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Can anyone tell me a reason/use for being able to still pipe the Aux In signal through while the instrument input is muted?
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Because you like to party?:)

The Aux in was added at the end. That addition was suggested by Tom Bowlus. I thought it was a good idea. I knew I could work it in, but the only place I could add it without changing a whole lot was after the main mute. It is before the master volume, so there is a way to control the level.

If you plug the cable into your phone or other device first, then plug into the aux in, there shouldn't be a pop.
 
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