Anyone using Mesa Boogie amps ??

[clankchris]

If you like the Squire Tone, or Paul D'Amour's from early Tool, I highly reccomend a Mesa Bass 400/400+...

I have the older 400(came with 6 6550's instead of 12 6L6's) and it sounds like heaven..gets a much meaner grind than an Ampeg..

Ampegs have a low-mid growl when pushed, but the Mesa'a have this gritty top-end when they overdrive..it's a little harsher than the SVT, and much more articulate to my ears

Paul D'Amour used a Mesa Bass 400 to record his 4001CS on a small Tool album known by the name of "Undertow"..

[hoptownbass]

Mesa does have some strict rules. I know for a fact dealers can't ship a new mesa boogie amp from one Mesa dealer to another Mesa dealer outside a 50 mile radius. Even if they're the same store and owned by the same company.

[kidvett]

Played with my band tonight. We have a new ``practice room`` a lot bigger than we had before. Sad thing was that the ``small`` Ampeg B200R was not up to the task...Standard ``rock set up: 2 guitars, a drummer and me...Guitars use Marshall's w/ 4x12 cabs...Spent the whole evening trying to get a decent sound...All I was getting was mud ( w/ the P bass ) or a guitar like sound ( NO bottom end at all ) with the RIC...Amp master volume was set on at 8/10...a lot of unwanted distortion...Quite dissapointing but I had an idea it would be like this...

I have been looking at Mesa stuff for a while and read very good comments ( thanks guys ) but price is.....high !!

I was thinking of Ampeg...something like an SVT Classic amp with 2 cabs of 1 x 15 each...I like to place the cabs opposite corners in the room as they ``fill up`` better....Or a single 2 x 15 cab ??

Any ideas or comments ??

Marc

[atomic_punk]

Marc, have you tried running an extra speaker cabinet off of your combo? It will be "louder", and will fill the room better if you space the speakers apart.

[kidvett]

Steve,

I cant !! The rocket bass combo doesnt have an output for a second cab...

Marc

[geddeeee]

I play through a much slagged off Hartke 3500 with 4x10 cab with a Digitech preamp on the Sunn setting and a parametric EQ. Our guitarist has a Laney and Les Paul. When he gets a bit wild, the Rick just blasts! That usually makes him back off a bit. Down to the monstrous bite and clank I think... Ha ha ha!

[vito]

I've played the Walkabout Scout and liked it immensely. But I got a helluva good deal on a Genz Benz NEO combo on ebay and I absolutely love it. I highly recommend it.

[blue_meanie]

Yes. One of my favorite features in some Mesa amps is that the customer can customize them (maybe a little more pricey, but pretty cool). The hardwood options on the amps are amazing.

[wayang]

So, I gigged last Thursday night with my 'new' 400+...in a word: magnificent. I played it through my Sunn 4x10...couldn't turn it up past 4 due to concerns for the audience and the building's foundation.

When I was a kid going to high school in Mesa, Az., I never would have thought to put the words "Mesa" and "Boogie" together...

[jps]

So, I guess you like it!

[atomic_punk]

Don't say I didn't warn you!!

[wayang]

The more I look at it...the more I like it...

I DO think it's good...

[johnallg]

Nothing beats tube watts, especially for bass. IMHO.

[jnbass]

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[bobcat]

"The more I look at it...the more I like it...

I DO think it's good..."

Do you play little games with it? Like, not looking at it for a while, and then, looking at it, to see if you still like it?