LukeFRC

That’s what I do too! It’s great, but I re bought a hx stomp - and while the h9 sounds nicer and fits together nicely with midi it seems overkill!

See I’ve got to the place where my h9 is on the chopping black - then see someone on here using it and get tempted to hold keep using it!

thus is a good starting place

yes, but you’ll need to get to the point that they all do. the sound in my head is a Warwick hellborg preamp currently I get close to that with the Jhs colourbox but it’s a definite, useful and specific tone to me, and I wouldn’t use it as a recomendation to everybody !

Retro reel into valve preamp with high end rolled off?

erm - that’s a rabbit hole. some preamps are aimed to sound a bit like a console transformer sound. (Caveman bp1, Jhs colourbox, api tranzformer, Hudson broadcast) others give a valvey colouration to the sound. (Sushibox, Nobel preamp, shiftline and a million more) Then there’s all sorts to give specific preamp crunchy sounds like bass amps. but you’ll need to be more specific about what you’re after. For instance the Hudson broadcast and caveman stuff is both based loosely off studio preamp things - but very very different things!

She was one of the good ones.

+1

the other thing with this debate is often people seem to realise that a lot of analogue parts get retired. When I first got into building pedals in the DIY land the big thing was folk making JFet versions of amplifiers schematics - and a lot of J201 being used. It's pretty hard to get hold of reliably and in any volume. That was only 10 years back... So even if you're a manufacturer designing an analogue product you're thinking about product life cycle. yeah, they now need a pair of tweezers too! If you compare effects pedals now to twenty years ago the benefit to SMD is price and size - so people squeeze far more on the same size board!

That is a bit crazy but also crazy powerful Morningstar box

Also sometimes I think we overthink it. i have an HX stomp, it won’t last forever, but neither will I. and I can sell it and buy something new if I want to. i have an analogue pedal I’ve built myself. It might last a bit longer, who knows what the kids will do with it when I’m gone.

A lot of the time I agree with you BigRed, or at least value your experience… but this makes no sense… a 1kohm resistor from 1982 with a 10% tolerance will be somewhere between 900- 1100 ohms, and be a crap shoot where in that range. A modern 1kohm resistor with 1% tolerance will be between 990-1010ohms - and yes it might sound different with a new resistor, but less different than it could sound with a NOS old one, and certainly closer to what the designer intended. So transistors and JFets and ICs stopping production, or some elements not fitting with environmental rules, or modern film vs old tantalum sounding different, or even everything being too hifi and nothing with a slow enough slew rate ild agree with you - but tighter tolerances in and of themselves should make no difference.

Quite. in all my years on basschat I have not owned, nor been seen playing, or said anything positive about, or given away in a raffle some brands: Spector, Smith, Rickenbacker, Stagg, Reverend, F bass, Moon or Tobias. I can confirm I do not “hate” any of them. My indifference ranges from unaffordababilty to really just not giving a flying fish. but I am not a hater. thank you

Gorillas aren’t monkeys. Denominations have been split over less important facts than that!

They have only recently gone into gear nerd content creation - years back when it was focused on selling the lessons it was more overwaters as that's what Scott plays. Now it's gear nerd stuff... and personally I would struggle to name a band where someone played a Sadowsky let alone is a big part of the sound, so who would they be talking about? And then if they were just picking bass builders then Warwick's fender shaped line might not be the first in the list to talk about...

It also depends on the latency of different pedals, some will be worse than others boss gt1000core is one of the lowest and then it goes up - if you’ve got the two reverbs it in the loop of that multifx you’ve got an extra stage at loop out and in too, plus for each reverb pedal. Try the reverbs after that multifx, it may almost half the latency …

Nice @bnt - how’s the onward working out? I utterly ignored it when it came out thrn was a vid of it in action and could see the appeal

I dinnae think that joke landed @neepheid 🤣

I have a Bravewood I bought new - looks amazing with a real vintage look to the pickguard…. However after a few years finger wear cleans it up!!

small squares and a wooden spatula

This is the way - I have learned from the best. …also the normal thickness stuff lets you put a thin patch cable eg EBS in the gap below the pedal. this is also the wisdom of jimbobothy not me, the price of his pedalboard building online class is not bad!

Trump sticks 104% tariffs on them, Uli Behringer shrugs. Quatschmacher gives a bad review... product gets pulled.

as said - most digital reverbs will let you fine tune - this is on a H9max hall which has 3 band - HX stomp will do similar in different ways.