LukeFRC

He is based in Yorkshire and we have spoken before about both coming up!

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Interesting! Without giving anything away. No.3 which I disliked I kinda guessed right what that would be. It just sounded like there's a mid scooped to it to my ears. I personally would not want this one. No. 1 - When it started and when from 1st to 2nd on the P bass my first thought was "sound like 1 has higher input impedance than 2" which I think it does - I enjoyed it on the Sandberg, and less so on the P. This was ok. Number 2: Big sounding, colourful mids. This is a nice sounding preamp/DI. But I like this style of thing. I'ld use one. Number 4: was not expecting to like this one. It's clean, with 1 seemed to have the widest freq range- has that balanced warm unhyped sound that is good unless you're going to go for a colour. Enjoyed it on the P bass, less so on the jazz - which is possibly the higher freq of the rounds. (for reference, my dream sound is the old Warwick hellebore preamp, and the last 2-3 years the v2 Colourbox has been at the end of my pedalboard, so I like things with transformers in!)

Posted without seeing the reveal Set 1: Number 1 - meh, brittle Number 2 - Rounder, middy, fatter I like this Number 3- sounds scooped, hyped bottom Number 4- sounds the widest and biggest Set 2: Number 1 - clean Number 2 - richer than No1 Number 3- still sounds scooped Number 4- warm and nice Set 3: Number 1 - sounds ok, nice bottom here Number 2 -mids give as bit of colour Number 3- still scooped Number 4- yeah good. Set 4: Number 1 - sounds ok Number 2 -sounds better Number 3- I don't like the tone Number 4- still good So from that... I'd say I like Number 4 best of them, then Number 2, then Number 1 and Number 3 Purely subjective obviously - I would enjoy owning 4 or 2. Can't wait to see what they are!!

@jimbobothy ...

that was a wierd 30 min on google... I have an acoustic 6 string that was made by a Yorkshire luthier who then made resonators.... no google search joy but gemini tracked him down, different guy Steve Evans later Beltona resonators.... anyway I have put the date in the diary and will confer with the other half... tbh last time I came it was sunny and I thought it would be fun to walk up the hill behind the hall too!

That's Quatschmacher isn't it?

you go on another thread on here and people are still trying to nail Michael Jackson synth bass tones... people still have Gill Sans on their PCs...

Quincy jones?

switching to IEM is enough of a learning curve without everything else!! I had a fun Sunday, the PA guys had mixed me really subby and not much middy punch... so after practice I may have been a bit naughty and turned the mids up on my preamp... sounded great. Took one of my ears out halfway through and my word people were singing loud!

This is not correct for the Nobel preamp- it bb is not a parallel out. The xlr goes via two valve stages, the Jack out goes via all 4 stages.

Oops - OEP was another pedal - this one looks to have proper big ones!!

I just messed around with my hx stomp... using expression to change the time of a delay on 100% with a time of 0.00s to something like 800ms kinda does it. issue is after 800ms it repeats the note

artefakt can do that on the second fs ... It's a pretty awesome envelope filter if you could make use as that. It's also £300 and lots of editing on a computer to get the best out of it so it's got that going against it.

Garbage covers?

Surely not much over 5 octaves?

See that’s naughty - that’s trade dress and PCB layout that looks the same

Will the new stuff in Helix Stadium support the drums and synth and sequencing changes to things via midi through the song?

OEP transformer I saw in a gut shot on social media. maybe I should have done my plan of a diy clone of the hellborg preamp !!

it's lovely. mine is a "classic" variant with alder body and a bit darker sounding than the usual ash/maple ones - and the low output dark pickups the sound has such a middy thing going on that Bart preamp basically had such a mid knob that acted almost as a volume! The East pre is amazing - really really high fidelity and you can set it inside to react like you want - on my one I borrowed a pre-EB stingray and tried to match the preamp on that as much as I could with the bass and treble controls. So much so I didn't buy the stingray. With the preamp and pickups now it's in the situation where the bass doesn't get much play time at home - then I take it out and in the Mix it just works so so so well!

lovely! I've a 5 94 that is amazing ... but I always forget how amazing till I play it! 1998 model I think- the original Bart pickups and a John East UniPre

#humblebrag

it's kinda rare if the BtW guys don't absolutely rave about something...

Zoom ms70cdr is quite well regarded in the synth world it seems. if you want flexibility would something like hx effects with lots of footswitches (or LT aren’t silly money any more secondhand)