LukeFRC

need to watch an actual review but had a fun 30 min playing around with it on Neuro app on my laptop. Does some cool stuff

we have different definitions of "stripped things back" I think

I’d told Trav “that’s Pete from basschat”

good to see you all!

I like it. Some people like tubes, I like the sound of transformers - my fave preamp I shouldn’t have sold is the hellborg one - that’s based on a neve type transformer and a more modern preamp stage and coil based eq… The colourbox is input and output transformers, two neve style preamp stages and a simpler eq circuit… For me it lets me give a more polished - tiny bit compressed tone to the desk/amp - the eq does any tweaks I want and it just sounds nice - the hx stomp is running amp and cab sims. The bad things: i don’t think it excels at drive sound, it’s that straight into console Beatles thing that works with guitar but I don’t like on bass, esp not last in the chain into a Pa - but you can set it so when it does clip it can clip just the peaks of the notes. if you want that sound I think there are cheaper ways to get similar- Hudson broadcast maybe? the gain, interstage gain and output volume knobs isn’t intuitive to me, and I guess makes sense if you’re going for a driven signal it makes more sense. It doesn’t love hot signals into the 1/4in input - so if you’ve got a preamp before you have to pay close attention to gain staging. I’ve got line level from the stomp going into the xlr in as it sounded better to me. talkbass seems to hate the HPF and write the whole oedal off based on that. At the lowest setting you can combine it with a bass boost for the pulltec type trick and that’s nice. Otherwise my phone has a stocks and stocks app I’ve never used. I don’t discount iPhones just because one feature isn’t made for me. but overall - it’s brilliant and if I had too only have one pedal, my heart would say the colourbox. crayon, for me the joy is a preamp strip style sound with transformers in it. Does Tonex have any neve 1073 style captures - that might be fun? othewise that was a lot of blether from me - go watch Janek Gwizdalas preamp shootout video…

They need to pay you to do some YouTube content - Sheffield's version of IMA...

(The filter/chorus/distortion/drive will get added on again)

I took my board to bits at the start of the summer - and partly laziness and partly not really needing much more this is what I’ve used the last few times … it just works

while testing It would be rude not to try all 4 at the same time wouldn’t it?

+1

In my dreams they add a couple of more bass amps, SWR/eden type, or trace/ashdown, a couple more preamps with a console style and then a load of the moogerfooger effects. That would make me happy.

If you have a patch on the HX stomp with both Left and Right loops on, and they are bypassed And you plug in something to one, but leave the other unplugged. And then try and use say the left one, with the right one unplugged.- HX stomp goes a little bit crazy and does all sort of noise, like feedback or DC in the signal or something. And if you've just built a pedal and are testing it - and get the sound of electrical pain coming out - of course you're going to spend 2 hours tearing your hair out trying to work out what you've done wrong. The answer is compete the other loop with something, or delete the other loop block. I guess it must be the ground connection it's after. but year - that was a crap evening!

What other than Helix Stadium?