This is my set up. Gain is right below the break up point, and turning the bright switch on gives me a boost into OD territory. Ultra high up, ultra low down, cut the highs a bit and boost at 880 for a little punch.
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Super 300 Owners Society
- Thread starter Peaveylover
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What's the 800 doing for you? I'm pretty close to ordering but now I'm looking at the Super 400.I never had the pleasure of playing through one but it is a great sounding amp.Im wondering if it is close to the 300 and would be somewhat redundant.The 800 is definitely a different breed.Oh these decisions are killing me.Thought I'd run it by the expert.
I actually just sold my 800. It sounded exactly like. GK ... Which is why I sold it. I just got a new gig, and I couldn't have seen me using it on it, or any time soon. Plus, tbh, I've never been the biggest fan of the GK tone. I mean, I like it, but don't love it, and I have way too many preamps already and more on the way .. any yet I already have sellers remorse.
Same for the 300, which I also just sold. I found that the Monorail has a similar tone stack but has less of the SVT sound baked in.
The Super 400 ... The Mesa 400+ is my favorite amp of all time. I've bought and sold it twice, then bought it a third time (I picked up a pretty much unplayed head and it's a keeper). I hated hauling around a heavy tube head, but it sounds so damn good. That one will be a game changer.
But you can't go wrong with any of them, esp if you really like the GK/SVT tone, and I am sure the 400 will knock it out of the park as well!
I am extremely interested in the Monorail and the Super 200 and 400. I just spent a bunch though on rebuying some old Boss classics so I'll have to wait on the ME stuff for a while.
The Monorail is killer. I've never played thru a Traynor before, so I can't speak to how it sounds as compared to that, but it has a ton of bass, it's fat, and flexible. Really nice breakup and gain structure as well.
The Super 400? Stoked.
Thanks for the info.I'm absolutely loving the 300.Maybe I'll wait for some sound clips of both before putting the trigger.
I receivee my Super 300 a few months ago but finally got around to playing it through my Mesa D800+ and Subway Cabs. I noticed my Super 300 puts out a Very hot signal. I can't turn the volume or gain past 9'oclock(about 3/10) without Clipping the Mesa Amp and giving it Massive volume boost. Theres no way I can turn it up to noon. Is this normal for a Super 300? It otherwise seems completely normal to me. I have tried it with multiple amps and 2 power supplies on 2 pedalblards. Same result.
I find the Gain super touchy- most of the low-Gain tones I want happen right at the beginning of the sweep and quickly before it is too much for my taste and also quite a bit louder (dependent on the switch settings on the pedal). What is your signal chain outside of the 300? What bass, etc?
SB300 straight into my Mesa Head. Played through a PBass Elite in passive mode and JBass ultra in passive. I see users post their settint with the volume up half way. No way in hell can I do that unless I have the gain on 1. Gain at noon and I need volume a 1-2(8oclock). Its incredibly hot. Reminds me of my old Mesa Carbine.
Not familiar with your amp but if it has an effect loop perhaps it could yield different results through it.
There have been a few versions of the S300, and some have more gain than others. My custom S300 was initially way louder than my standard one, until I got Tim to modify it.
As others have said, that can be normal, especially with the early versions of the pedal. I can get the gentler overdrive I want -- even with my hotter active basses -- by keeping Gain really low, and volume low as well. Seems odd to have such a limited usable range on the Gain control (I have a very early version of the pedal, possibly V1), but it is what it is and I'm OK with it.
Anyone else have the labeling on their Super 300 peel off? The black lines and some characters have rubbed away.
How did you like the Rusty Box running into the Super 300 (if you ran it that way, of course)? Thanks.
You weren't asking me, but I should try RB into S300 sometime. Short generic answer is that the Super 300 sounds great stacked. This is my New Year's No-Gig Weekend Woodshed alchemy, and I'm currently getting Red-era John Wetton tones out of it: I'm using a passive P-bass with Stellartone Tonestyler that does the cocked wah effect pretty darn well! Most of the grind comes from the Oxford, and I altered my usual S300 settings to make the Oxford sound bigger and crisper. The compressor just adds a bit of sustain: I have a lot of dry signal blended in, so the end result is still dynamic, not squashed at all.
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. Looks like me and you run similar rigs, even down to the passive p with a Tonestyler. I’ll let you know how the RB sounds going into once my 300 gets in.
Just got my S-300 and put it through it's first jam session. Yeah, wow. Absolutely incredible. My guitarist and drummer were floored as well. It's made some existing pedals on my board redundant (Phat Phuk), or simply no longer needed (Rusty Box). And surprisingly (at least to me, as I thought it would fall under the "redundant" category), running my Bearfoot Blueberry into it sounded phenomenal.
I have the Broughton Azure Drive and the Broughton SV-Pre, a Blueberry clone and an SVT clone respectively, and I could most definitely believe that one into the other sounds killer.
The drummer in our band loves the S300 and doesn't want me to turn it off. Our guitarist/singer never notices anything that's different, which is typical.
