MrDinsdale

I'd love to try the Sisma, if it's as good as the Capo then it's gonna be one hell of an amp. As it stands I'm very happy with my Capo and Handbox valve head, if i was going to get a solid state (and could afford it) it'd be that though I think. @foya have you tried the Capo? Someone wrote a pretty in-depth review on talkbass which was very favourable.

Just stumbled on this via a colleague, absolutely fantastic album.

Sorry thought I'd replied! Yeah saw and signed up to the forum to have a dig around. Still very intrigued by the Dwarf so popped a thread there to see if anyone else had similar reservations - https://forum.mod.audio/t/on-the-dwarf-fence-concerned-about-i-o/9750 I'm still really torn between the GT1000core and Dwarf. I feel like I could probably do a lot of the stuff I want with the Core, do some cool split delays blending LPF bitcrusher type fx in there and stuff to create stuff similar to the Mastro Valvola LEM etc. It'd fulfill all my IR and reverb needs for guitar perfectly too albeit with a fairly middle of the road fx offering. The Dwarf seems pretty limitless in comparison, all the routing options and a huge array of modules to pick from. It just doesn't integrate with my real world pedals as well, the higher power draw would mean me upgrading my powersupply from a Cioks 4 to a DC7 or similar too. First world problems 😂

The GT1000core for example is so tightly packed with I/O already that an XLR out would likely mean sacrificing and FX loop or other connection options. I imagine for most the XLR is a little redundant. If you have a half decent dedicated DI box it's probably better than the built in ones. TBH I've never played a gig where FOH haven't used their own beat up DI box instead of the one on my board so tbh my fancy DI is largely meaningless anyway outside of home use 😂

I like the nerdy side of the Dwarf and the open source nature, it's also nice to support the underdog. One extra fx loop and I'd be jumping at it without questioning I think. How many AIDA-X instances can you run simultaneously? I'd certainly be interested in how well it works in practice, there is a lot of nuance in how the pedals interact that I can't quite imagine a model could reproduce. I guess if it's close enough that you can't really tell then who cares though!

Yeah that's the dream. I know bassdirect have them listed as in stock and a bit cheaper than Thomman, they should also accept a 30 day refund etc although not sure how easy it is to deal with them as I've heard a few folks who've had issues. It's a really tough one though because for experimentation having those pedals in the loop of the GT1000core that I can quickly adjust on the fly would be super useful vs having a model of it which is locked down to a specific snapshot of it. Conversely having models means that I can quickly jump between bass and guitar without having to constantly try to re-dial in settings. Gonna have a think on it today.

The other option of course is that the Mod Dwarf does such a good job of capturing the analog fx and Capo preamp that I don't need to worry about them at all and for live, the CAPO just becomes a DI box and I leave all the other expensive pedals at home. That's not an option with the GT1000 because I know for a fact the drives and preamps included just don't cut it for the sounds I'm trying to get.

As a point of comparison this is what I'd do with the GT given the Stereo output and 2x FX Loops. It's kind of like sandwiching the GT1000core with the CAPO I/O so that you still get the unaffected pre di signal and the affected post di signal. Then you're treating the CAPO preamp section kind of as if you might wire up an amp using 4CM. Ultimately this means in the GT1000core you would have the analog fx in Loop 1 and the CAPO preamp section in Loop 2. On the Main output your Left signal would go to the amp while the Right would feed back in to the CAPO return and to the Post DI, that way you could apply cabsims to the R side only so that it didn't go to your amp.

Quick mockup while on a call at work 😂 This is how I think it'd be connected up. It means the signal goes in to the CAPO and I get a completely clean pre DI signal, from there out of the first fx loop and into my analog drives then the first input of the Dwarf. So I can pop FX after the drive pedals but not before (I guess having the Dwarf fx might be better for compression and octave etc). Then it'd hit the Capo Preamp. Then back off out to the Dwarf for any post fx before returning to the CAPO for the post DI signal.

Well I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger just trying to decide if it fits my setup. Annoyingly even with some fx loop inception, if i want the option to add reverb/delay at the end of the chain that would leave me being able to add fx either before or after my analog drives but not both. Only having mono output means that I also can't split it and have cabsims going to FOH while still having a signal to my amp etc.

I quite liked how Boss handled it on the GT1000 where they let you configure different instruments and correctly set the input level for optimum, I had a wide range from -6db to +6db.

I'm not against the idea of ditching my analog pedals entirely in principle but I've just never found anything digital that gets me as close as I'd want. The capturing models of fx pedals is super interesting, especially drives and preamps where I could jump from mid to heavy gain settings at the press of a switch. My Capo preamp has two fx loops, a pre and post loop that allow for a pre and post DI. My idea with the CORE was to kind of weave the two together with nested FX loops so that i could sandwich the analog pedals with digital fx. I can still do this via the Mod but it means I'm a little more restricted on where I place the digital fx. It's a very complex signal chain I had in mind, will try and draw a diagram 😂

I think it's very common, people often have separate profiles for guitars, sometime singlecoil vs humbuckers etc. It's not really any different with pedals though, a guitar with a hotter signal is gonna have way higher input gain and hit drives harder so having separate profiles is a good way to automate it I guess rather than twiddling knobs!

I'm definitely still quite intrigued by the Dwarf. I only want it for FX, I'm incredibly happy with my Handbox head and Capo/Model FeT preamp combo. The thing that hooked me on the GT1000 core was the parallel signal options etc. I do kind of find some of the fx, while they sound incredible lack the flexibility to do weird stuff and go off the beaten track. I'd love to experiment with some ambient delays and reverbs etc. I've seen a few mentions that the Mod Dwarf is much better suited to noise rock and quirkier sounds, it kind of sounds perfect. Just wish it had more fx loop options.

For punky stuff especially, a sansamp is a really solid drive option. I don't use one myself but have used the pedal and rack version in the studio and for gigs and it does give a really great full driven tone. Never really had time to really experiment with it though. You might not need a compressor at all if you get that stuff right, I do run an always on compressor but its so subtle that I often forget to turn it on.

Was just thinking about aluminium necks and supposed tuning stability issues, the evertune would be the perfect solution (aside from the weight) to the sensitivity to temperature changes.

I assumed so, cheers!

Couldn't help but notice there are quite a lot of audible clicks and pops when enabling/disabling effects on the playground, guessing thats a quirk of running in the browser?

Does the online demo gui allow for uploading clips to loop? Being able to use actual clean recordings of your bass etc to play with would be a game changer.

Just wondering if anyone is using the Dwarf alongside other analog pedals? I have some pedals, 2x preamps and 2x drives that I have no intention of removing. Stuff like the GT1000core and Stomp definitely have an advantage over this in the sense that they have 2 fx loops which give you way more options for wiring them up. Would be curious to see how people have wired it up.

Haha it's an acquired taste, I love them though.

I've had this pedal for a while now and always intended to do a quick video like this. It's not annotated, no talking, no plan and it's far from scientific but it's a pretty good showcase for how I like to use it. I'm not sure how well it'll be picked up in this video but the Model FeT adds a smoothness to high gain drives that just sounds incredible, it pairs particularly well with the EAE Longsword (featured near the end). I think it took me a while to really get my head around this pedal, capitalising on the brite and normal channels to get just the right amount of breakup and thickness. Also coming from mostly GK heads the FMV style tonestack felt super unintuitive (and still does) but I've started getting more of a feel for what works, I just need to really ignore where I think the bass, mid and treble should be and go completely off what I'm hearing. I really can't get enough of Electronic Audio Experiments gear, everything they make is incredidbly high quality.