They did? Thanks! I will look into them ...olehand wrote:they recently came out with some new combo's , reasonably priced ,
great features . good luck in your search
Finally got the Mesa DI fixed. Sarge sounded impressed with the damage done to the original circuitry. I think the word "vaporized" was in there somewhere. He hooked me up with the new circuits, so hopefully, I won't have any problems for quite a while.bassist_25 wrote: And then convincing the sound engineer not to stick a $30 DI box in front of your amp.
Indeed, Steve! I am curious about the age of my 400+. I've been wanting to call Mesa with the serial number and find out when it was built.CMOR wrote: I consider myself in good company with Bushy and Paul rockin' the older ones.
). I'm kind of kicking myself on that one right now, though, because it would be perfect for my current gig. But ya know, bounded rationality and all. Cherry means in really nice shape, such as "Man, check out that cherry Chevelle going down the road!" Busters were a series of tube bass amps that Mesa put out. Mesa's main tube bass amps were rack-mounts - the D180, Bass 400, and Bass 400+. The Buster was a 200 watt amp that came in a non-rackable head version, as well as 1x15 and 2x10 combo versions. Mesa's actually coming out with two new tube bass amps. The front-ends are the same as the Carbine series.f.sciarrillo wrote:I never heard of a Cherry Buster or SWR?
DOH! Thanks, Paul. I thought Cherry Buster was the name of the amp lol .. I will look into them. There is some great advice on this thread. Thanks a lot, guys ..bassist_25 wrote:Cherry means in really nice shape, such as "Man, check out that cherry Chevelle going down the road!" Busters were a series of tube bass amps that Mesa put out. Mesa's main tube bass amps were rack-mounts - the D180, Bass 400, and Bass 400+. The Buster was a 200 watt amp that came in a non-rackable head version, as well as 1x15 and 2x10 combo versions. Mesa's actually coming out with two new tube bass amps. The front-ends are the same as the Carbine series.f.sciarrillo wrote:I never heard of a Cherry Buster or SWR?
SWR used to be owned by Steve Rabe, but now they're owned by Fender. SWR was one of the first "modern" bass amp companies that made hifi sounding bass gear. The Goliath III is probably one of the most popular 4x10s ever made.
Actually, speaking of Mesa bass amps...the 400+ has an interesting history. It actually came about as a way of circumventing a power tube shortage. Mesa built the 400 around 6550s. When Mesa's cheap Chinese supply of 6550s went bust, they started shipping the 400 with 6L6s. 6L6s have about half the output of 6550s, so they just ended up building an amp with 12 6L6s in the power section; thus the 400+ was born.
