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Me too, analog preamp into a PJB Bighead for me (although I’ve now added a digital compressor!). The Bighead ticks all your boxes apart from cheap!
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Oh yeah, you can minimise the latency on iPad too - either in the settings for JamUp itself, or otherwise get the Audiobus app, set the latency in there (which can go lower than the settings allow in most other apps) then load JamUp inside of that.
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Zoom B1on? It has a digital model of the Sansamp in it as well as a tuner and drum machine. There is the likes of the Vox Amplug but that has its own amp like colouration - which might not sound good with the Sansamp but then again could mean you won’t need it!
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Ugliest bass ever! No even uglier than a Bongo
dannybuoy replied to dyerseve's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
It even comes with a made to fit gig bag. Which does to mean they actually thought people might want to buy and gig these? -
If you only need to mix those two sources, a Behringer MA400 does a good job. XLR input for the Sansamp and mini jack for the iPod. For not much more though, you could get one of their mini mixers if you ever think you might need to add more things into the mix!
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I’ve always wanted one in this colour too, I had to settle for Sunset Orange though! Which looks more like transparent red unless in direct sunlight.
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My Polytune does introduce a bit of weird digital clock chirping type noise but only when it's on and tuning. Btw most 9V supplies work on 110-240V, so if you have a US one you might be able to use it with a plug converter.
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If you have an extra 9v supply or two knocking about, the kind you sometimes get bundled with pedals, you can do an experiment. Set up a simple chain of two pedals on a daisy chain, find a pairing where the noise is introduced - you shouldn't need to rig up the entire chain to see the issue, just to simplify things for now. Then power one of those with the separate supply and see if the issue goes away - if it does then you've got yourself a noisy pedal that needs isolation. Maybe it has digital innards or an internal voltage doubler - e.g. I found that the RMI Basswitch compressor doubles to 18V internally but produces a high pitched whine into the signal when sharing power. Which leads me to another thing - there is more than one type of noise. If it's a buzz that gets worse or goes away when touching the exposed metal parts of the pedal, that suggests a grounding issue. If it's a hiss or whine, or chirping sound then that's more common of noise from the power supply.
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How are you supposed to test if you are sending low frequencies your cab can't reproduce with a smartphone app if A) the cab can't reproduce the signals and B) the phone mic can't pick them up? If a tiny speaker in a phone can't produce 20Hz, does that mean a tiny mic would also fail to record 20Hz? Better to test going from the DI output, or a speaker level DI on the speaker output, straight into a recording interface I would've thought.
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Only the Zoom pedal out of that lot should need isolation, the others should be perfectly fine sharing power. I had a similar issue and found that my noise did not go away after investing in an isolated power supply. Instead I found the noise was due to either a specific pedal with a grounding issue, or from certain patch cables, and only kicking in when my dimmer switch or certain household appliances were on!
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I've not seen any measurements of it but I wouldn't be surprised to see that the Tonehammer is similar. With the AGS switch on (or the Drive control turned up on the amp versions) that engages a LPF and HPF, then you can dial in some serious bass boost yet it sounds tight rather than fill the room with murky sub bass.
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Yep, should be doable. I daisy chain off my Cioks DC5 300mA output, you'd have even more leeway with the Truetone.
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About the Truetone power supplies... Only the CS-6 will fit under a Pedaltrain Nano or Metro. If you're going up to the CS-7 it will have to go on top unless you fit bigger feet on the board. Secondly, unlike most isolated power supplies that use transformers, you can ignore the mA labels on the individual outputs as long as you don't exceed the amount for the entire supply. This gives you more flexibility than the CS-6's only real competitor (when it comes to fitting under the smaller Pedaltrains), the Cioks DC-5. Actually saying that, there is also now the Strymon Zuma R300 which also uses switching technology like the Truetone CS-6, so that's worth investigating also!
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Ask for a big enough discount to get it resprayed white?
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Also where the Octabvre Mini is concerned anyway, what you run before it has a massive impact on the tone of it. Passive P straight in sounds glorious, a straight up buffer changes the tone for the worse. Somehow a Bearfoot Blueberry in front turns the thing into a sub bass monster like it was a Dod Meatbox! On the other hand, the EBS Octabass I had was a lot more consistent and wasn't fussy what was fed into it.
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(SOLD) YAMAHA BB735a for Sale PRICE DROP!!!! £550
dannybuoy replied to lorin926's topic in Basses For Sale
I was on the fence regarding this one, if whoever bought it decides to move it on! -
For sure, I wasn't disagreeing there. My point was though, similar to what is often said about compressors - "if you can hear it working, you're probably compressing too much". If you can hear the HPF working you might be chopping off more low end than you need to. Rather than just rolling off the frequencies that a speaker can't reproduce, you are in the territory of rolling off frequencies that your cab is fine to handle, but you're doing it for reasons other than speaker protection. That's where adjustability is a very handy thing to have to reign in sub-bass at home and on less than ideal stages. My Orange Terror has no HPF built in as far as I know (they are in the school of thought that less is more in terms of components I think!) and my poor little sealed Ampegs need all the protection they can get so a Thumpinator lives on my board. My wife would probably prefer I swap it for a Broughton and rolled off everything under 120 Hz though!
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I realise your reasoning for putting compression ahead of octave is probably to make it track better, but I've found I prefer it after with a long attack time. It helps bring back the thump of the attack which is somewhat lost during the octave process. Try it both ways anyway!
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But how are you measuring your scale of pants? Your mentioned previously your marker for whether it was doing its job or not was reducing air movement. Did you stand in front of the cab and measure how much your pants flapped? My point is that with a HPF designed for speaker protection like the Thumpinator it's really hard to tell is having an effect. When it's on you still hear and feel deep bass, and feel air movement from your cab. But you do notice the cones lurching around less which ultimately gives you more headroom and definition. Less steep HPFs with a variable frequency like the Broughton are more about reducing sub frequencies on stage and tightening up your low end. Especially handy playing through your rig at home!
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Woops how do you delete a post these days!
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Sold pending collection...
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It's almost a shame that you don't have an Orange rig to go with it!
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Another video with a load of waffling and very little playing: https://youtu.be/kQjmBTErIFQ
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That is screaming out for a tort guard and cream pickup covers!
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Unboxing videos are a pet hate of mine. I don't care about the packaging, plug the funking thing in already!
