Right on I’ve been gigging with all three of them and it’s tough to pick a favorite. The 800+ is a great gig amp though.

I play with 2 Lead Guitarists, 2 half stacks and a touring level Drummer. Are these loud enough? My current head is the Hartke LH1000 (I used the SWR pre-fender 700 for many years) Thoughts?? Cheers

It’s plenty loud. A lot depends on what cabinets you use with it. For loud gigs I use two bag end 12” and two bag end 15” cabs. That’s loud.

@@ivanmike1968Very True. I almost always Play through the PA via DI or Mic'd Cab. Just played a gig on Sat. with my Mesa WD800 a d 1x15 and 2x10 cabs but I still ran an xlr via DI to our PA. Had my Amp up half way and got great compliments on bass sound. Slight OD as my Bass tone and used a Drive Pedal for Rock songs and Envelope Filter for the Pop/Hip Hop songs.

All of the Subway heads have great DIs. I always get compliments from soundmen

Dude ~ 5-7 lbs

I would probably go with the WD800 or the D800+ for a recording studio application. They are probably a bit more versatile and intuitive

I couldn’t say for sure. To me the WD pushes back a little bit more like a tube amp. But the TT has a more complex break up

No, that won’t harm the amplifier at all. When the amp is set to two ohms, it’s not expecting a two ohm load. That just allows it to safely power loads down to two ohms. You could power a 16 ohm cabinet with it if you wanted to if you had one. The 4/8 setting Could just as easily have said four. Solid state power sections have a minimum impedance that they can drive safely, but they can power loads with higher impedance without a problem.

@@ivanmike1968 Much appreciated, fair play.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Any of them. I rotate them at gigs and they all kill it.

I have not. I’ve played through the 15 and the 210, but not enough to say anything definite

Maybe the WD might be closest , maybe the D+.. ~ the WD has the liveliest midrange

I run a WD800 with the subway 212 cab and it's the happiest I've been with a bass rig. Punch for days if you want it and if you want smooth vintage it's there too. My 2 cents

They all do.

I don’t have one! However, it is a wonderful sounding amp very similar to the 800+

Wow that’s impossible to answer. Maybe the WD. But it’s really close.

@@ivanmike1968 Do any of them feel more like a full tube amp then the others (or are capable of it if set up properly)? Thanks for the feedback. Not a lot of videos of these amps, so it helps a lot. I'm really looking for more of the fat 70s soul sound I guess. Finger style. I do want to be able to cut through a bigger mix, and sometimes I am playing rock stuff, but nothing too heavy.

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@@ivanmike1968 Thanks. I checked out that video before this one! Both very helpful. I guess I'm just looking for a genre specific opinion. To be honest, I liked the WD and the boogie channel on the TT the best in this video. But I'm really asking about how the amps feel to play and react to being driven harder (sort of the solid state vs tube amp thing). I could watch videos till I'm blue but not get that sort of info. If you can't or don't want to add anything else, no worries. The videos you put up are the most helpful I'm seen, so thanks for those.

Ah. The WD & the boogie channel are the most tube like. The WD feels the most like it’s “pushing back” to me. The low/med/high damping control on the WD can give more of a tube feel in med & low. As far as being pushed, I think the TT has more character, especially with the symmetrical/asymmetrical knob. The TT also reacts differently in 2 ohm mode than it does in 4 ohm mode when using a 4 ohm load. He same is true with the 4 & 2 ohm setting when using an 8 ohm load. You can really get it to start to bloom.

The WD & TT have rack ears (sold separately). I don’t know that the 800 and 800+ are. Those two are about a space and a half.

They are rackmountable. I have both my TT 800 and WD 800 in racks, but you have to get the rack ears for them separately.