Wild Cayote

I don't know if I'll get kicked in the yarbles for commenting on a thread from 3 months ago or not, but I figured I'd test the waters. You said the order window has closed so I wanted to tell you that Sweetwater is selling them right now. You and a couple others mentioned that it looks like a 350, and that is what their marketing says about it, that it's a 350 combined with a stereo 4003, but shotrt scale, a 30 inch neck. I don't know if that's what the original 4005 was, but they haven't really said it's meant to be a reissue, it's j just a 90th anniversary tribute, mode 4005c. Regarding the price, I would never be able to afford it myself, but if you can afford it, it sounds like it a good buy because if it's very limited production run. The way even a modern day 4003 keeps its value for resale is pretty remarkable, I bet this one would only appreciate in value. I think it's awesome looking, I don't know how it plays but the body shape and checkerboard inlays are sweet.

I accidentally posted it without the quote the first time

That probably is what I'm thinking of, I watched that video too. Well thanks for humoring me on all of this, I appreciate it

Why do you say you've never been able to gig them? I get what you are saying about the C4, but is that true for all of their pedals? I have the aftershock already and I like it, I was considering both the C4 and the compression pedal they have. But what you guys are saying makes sense, and I don't wanna be stuck with something that is a pain to use. Or maybe you'd like to sell you board and I'll find out for myself. Would you be interested? I've been looking to buy some pedals, maybe they'd work out better for me.

I love my aftershock, I don't meet too many people that have one, it seems to be overlooked, but it really is a great pedal. I think the only downfall, and it sounds like you've got it covered with your other pedals, but the downfall is that it's hard to go just a little bit of break up, like a subtle amount of distortion. I mean if course you can blend it, but I'm not talking about wet dry I mean just to get like the sweet spot, where digging in with the right hand will get you the perfect amount of crunchy. But I'm still experimenting with it.

Haha no, not intentional, just not very good with names. But thanks for your advice

Oh well if you don't like pineapple that makes sense. I just thought everyone must like em.

Well isn't it true that the Geddy DI box pedal has a blend switch on it that blends not the dry signal with the wet signal, but the fat channel with the drive channel? As in the device has two channels and without the drive on, you can play through the fat channel, then switch the drive on and blend drive with the fat channel.... Its surprising to me that the rack mount doesn't have this functionality - or does it? Like even if you can't plug into its two channels simultaneously, can you use both channels though one inputs? It seems like the ultimate way to do this would be to run both input channels at once, as even if you didn't have a Rickenbacker with dual outputs you could use a y cable and split the signal into each input. Source audio has this ability in their aftershock pedal, and maybe other pedals they make too. Which is what I think I'm gonna have to do since u can't achieve this with the Geddy pre amp

Does Getty not use the dual outputs on his Rickenbacker? I would have thought that was the whole reason it had dual inputs. I though I had read something with Getty saying the essence of his signature sound was overdrive with a fat bottom end, so when I saw that his signature Sam's amp had two inputs and two channels, one fat and one with drive, I assumed that's how he achieved his sound, using his dual outputs from his Rickenbacker, as Chris Spire from Yes does. Of course they used to use two amps, which I was hoping tech 21 had streamlined into one 2 channel preamp. I think the dual outputs in a Rickenbacker is a great idea, separating the two pick up, but there seems to be almost no other gear that supports that format, other than to use 2 amps and 2 cabinets, or to use A/B/Y switching.

I don't know about that, have you ever tried it? I used to cook on restaurants when I was younger, and that's how I came to expand my pallet. Pineapples are just good, who doesn't like pineapples? But when you throw a pineapple on the grill, its awesome when it's cooked. And so putting it on the top of a pizza, where it's cooked in a high powered oven it makes sense, and it's mixed with mozerella, which is a more subtle but creamy cheeze, perfect to mix with any flavor. It's really good, actually. I know you've probably grown up on a world where fruit on pizza isn't manly enough... I used to care about stuff like that when I was young. Getting older is liberating in many ways because you are no longer worried about what your friends think about you. You get to just do what you want, including putting pineapples on pizza. You only live once, man.

I never really understood compression, other that that it was to make bass louder by squashing the peaks, so you can then make up the gain. Then I saw this video, and I understood what is possible with compression. The is also looks like it has to be one of the best on the market, from what I can tell, but I still never bought it. I can see putting this level of detail in whole recording, but most of this stuff, to me seems like would hardly be noticeable live.. https://youtu.be/IKcrN1STuIA

Well I was ambivalent about buying the C4, and after reading this thread, I am now ambivalent about buying the C4. Lot off good points all around, equal number of positive, negative experiences

Ohmicide comes to mind. I cant believe there's no hardware version, It's the greatest distortion pedal ever created

Hi I am trying to determine whether the two inputs on the pre amp can be used simultaneously. They are said to be parallel, so that would suggest its possible, but their product description only says that they can be used to switch between basses on stage quickly. That's not quite the same. I want to run a dual output bass into both of the channels at once, which is, from what I understand, what Geddy Lee himself did at his amp rack, I thought the story was that he used to use two amplifiers but tech 21 designed this gear to consolidate. But I can't find anywhere where it says you can do that, I can't even find it in a review. It's not the same as using one input, then having the pre amp split it into two channels for processing. I am think g this is what the amp actually does because it has dual outputs. 2 But I am running my bridge pick up and my neck pickup to two different channels, or at least I'm trying to... I didn't want to have to buy two pre amps, and this Geddy Lee would be perfect because one channel is a "deep" channel (for the neck pick up) and the other channel is a drive channel (for the bridge pick up). Again, I've read that this is the secret to Geddys sound, a fat low end on the neck pick up and a distorted bridge pick up. I'm not neccessarily after Gettys sound (well, yeah I am), or at least I'm not after it cuz it's his sound, it's just the sound I want. Not that there's an NY thing wrong with Getty, it's just I usually am not a sucker for celebrity endorsements, so I say I am just looking for a generic sound that coincidentally Geddy does. Makes me not feel like such a sucker/fan boy... I hope. Does anyone have this pre amp?

Thanks for everyone's replies, I didn't think there would be any so I never checked it.