matybigfro

This pedal is such underrated gem, the filters are tuned so perfectly, with just the the low knob on it gives you a perfect EQ for Dub bass, pair it with an octave pedal and i think it would challenge most meatboxes for speaker destroyer of the year

The Vintage Deluxe slightly spoils the the cool goth style going their

For low gain for bass I actually think the Barber Half-Gainer is the ultimate pedal if slightly overkill It's based on the Barber LTD which is a dedicated low gain unit with very transparent but sweet drive Not only does it add a channel so you have two drive settings but a very versatile Bandaxall style Tone control (Neutral at 12:00, treble cut and bass boost to the left and Bass Cut treble boost to the right)a dedicate Mid's/Character Control that gives either mid cut or boost with changes to freq point and curve and internal trim pots one for presence and Bass. Only fault I had with it was it was slightly big pedal (although hardly much bigger than fulldrive just orientated differently) Actually think this was one of the most underrated overdrive pedals of all time and that Barber is a lost hero of the boutique world. It's a shame it's now discontinued. As someone extremely sensitive to low end or sub loss from overdrive pedals this pedal was perfect as I could dial it in to be essentially a completely transparent drive which simple added gain to the bass signal presented (which ironically takes a fair amount of eq adjustment) or a very wide range of overdrive sounds from scooped to mid-boosted. For low gain it was simply the best option in my mind.

I think the main thing that grated on me with the Boss approach was the uniform parameters given across amps/distortion blocks that make it feel a little limited compared to other systems like you have a SVT with no deep control, no selectable mid's etc and there's no indication what sort of tone stack they are modelling, but the EQ blocks do allow most of that to be overcome. To my ears the Concert model does what I want mainly which is give some tube like feel and high end roll off to make fuzz and drive sing and little colour/flavour to the sound that more flat DI's or Modern Hi-Fi Bass Amps lack. I even tried 3rd party IR's recommended in a number of places but felt it was better with the original speaker sim, I don't know if that's cos of the output select matching it better with my cab or cos I tweaked the mic options and placement to my taste.

Now the core has replaced a number of pedals my boards looking a little lite. Probably gonna take the Ricochet off the core has pitch bend and once I get the midi adaptor from Source Audio will get the C4 on there too and need a dual foot switch for the core too

Crossover dividers on most modeller pedals seem to make interesting design choices like why not give a full frequencies range although at least the boss one goes down to 100hz I think the line 6 one only went down at 250. Again a control of the slopes on the crossover and HP/LPF on the end would be great. This is where the 4 EQ blocks on the boss do really come into their own. I found the crossover on the divider has a steeper slope than the equivalent LPF and so ended up using them other, I have some pretty drastic eq going on lows, boosting 40hz by 20db with mid q, High passing at 80hz and cutting 20db on high q at 120 and low passing at 100hz then running into the compressor. I find that gives a good solid low end that I then combine with other side high passed at 100hz going into the drive sections, out to one of the effects loopers and then into the preamp, another EQ blocks and then hitting the IR section before it hits the mix block. I have another divide that splits off before all of that high passed at 2khz and a bit of EQ boosting 10khz for a just a little clean signal blend they then mixes back before I then have any full range effects. so far I'm pretty pleased with how it's all sounding. The amp modelling might not be the best out there but it far supersedes the Behringer BDI I was using before, I haven't given it a listen through a big PA yet but I'm confident it'll be a solid pleasing sound for live.

Been messing with my Core now since Christmas and I really need to remember to get some decent single malt in for Santa to say thanks. It defo took a while to really get my head around it's interface, approach and the very 80's rack style of parameter editing (which I'm slowly growing to love) but it's such a powerful device I'm basically able to replicate a studio like signal flow with multi-band processing and effects processing that gives me a level of control that really sits well with my OCD like approach to sound sculpture. The tweaker in me has a few niggles that I'd love to change in it (like I'd loose the four basic delay blocks for either an extra fx or divider in a nano second, high pass on the master delay and the ability to use the phones out as a stereo single jack and a mono sub out from the left output) but for the money there's some really special and exceptional functionality in here. Also I spent a lil while with a freq analyser and the div crossovers, EQ blocks and Global EQ as I was interested in seeing what order the High and Low Pass filtering it has, interestingly they're all different (again I'd kill for some control of the slopes there) I can't work out why the output selection is not raved about more it's such a good idea and seems to work so well. Also by splitting L&R output blocks and messing with the signal flow I plan to use the right out to go to my amp set to the bass amp with tweeter setting and the left output to DI full range and have independent global EQ for each side.

Have you thought about simply moving the amp block to the end of the chain so no it's not in the signal flow. In theory I think this should work.

It's a ridiculous fuzz and discontinued but the old fender sub-lime bass fuzz does exactly this (unlike a number of the pedals suggested that don't have a crossover let alone control over the cutt off) and I always found it pretty tame gainwise for a fuzz pedal and more like a fizzy overdrive

I have emailed Peavey Customer Service asking for a spec sheet for the Triflex as well as details for their UK distributor so we'll see if they come through, I've no patience thou and really would like to hear how the cab sounds with tweeter so if there was one I could just get ordered I'd be keen to. I'd actually stumbled across your post before Bill while googling to try and find out about the APT-80, would fitting a BGH25-8 be an option in the 410TX (it's meant to be 700 watts program) and would that mean replacing the crossover with as per your design on that thread? I'd read another thread where someone had modded the cab by removing the wires to the inductor and soldering together, is this safe and what is it doing to the circuit? Is it safe to install a switch that would remove crossover/tweeter from the circuit to have the option of tweeter with Pad vs full range from the 410's, would a standard DPDT switch do mounted to the same plate as the Speaker Jack?

Yea they were the only ones I could find and buy the time I pay postage and import tax on them it's not much less than a replace apt-80. All I could find about the triflex is Nominal Impedance: 8 Ohm and D.C.R.: 6.8 Ohms Output Sound Pressure Level: 107 dB Frequency Response: 1.5 kHz to 15 kHz Voice Diameter: 1"

Picked up one of these heavy lil' fellows on the ebay 2nd hand very cheap, got it to practice space to find the tweeter is blown. Pulled out the one that is in there and it's a Eminence APT-80 from what I can tell (only identifiers on the unit are two stickers one that says "APT super tweeter" and another wit the number 0903). I'm struggling to find a replacement diaphragm I repair it with. From what I can see this isn't the stock tweeter (Peavey Triflex system) any thoughts on the APT-80 vs the Triflex or are there other upgrades I should consider at this point?

It doesn't feel like anything since the Rh heads and Rs Cabs has been quiet so ground breaking, not to say they haven't had good products but nothing as innovative and exciting. Like toneprint is great but modeling digital effects were established already. They've added cool new things to it but again it's sort of all seems safe compared to the RH450 launch It certainly seems like their R&D for bass and or guitar effects has been asleep for the last 5 or more years. It's a shame cos I would love to have seen that same ingenuity poored into a amp-modeller/full-multifx.

I really don't get why they discontinued that line and replaced with what seem a more entry level product, but maybe that's what is selling these days.

Just wondering if anyone has considered using something like this as a power amp to drive a bass cab with floor moddelers or pre-amp pedals instead of a full bass head? Are there any draw backs that need to be considered or short falls in its design? https://doukaudio.com/collections/digital-amplifier/products/nobsound-g2-pro-hifi-subwoofer-full-frequency-mono-digital-power-amplifier-300w