sk8

Been very pleased with the Bugera 1960 I picked up. Marginally less than the Orange AD200b in weight (a fifth of the price too) but the glass and iron puts a huge grin on my face and the notes seem to bloom more and have more presence; seems to fill the band sound out more. Happy to take the weight hit for what I get in sound until I can carry it no more!

anyone seen this before http://www.pedrozappa.com/vulfpeck-bass-covers/

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1490792750' post='3268029'] If anybody has a spare ticket for London.... [/quote] Funny you should ask........... No. Wait. No, not got one. Don't have one for myself!

Accidentally found Joe Dart in a random 2013 Bass Player poll that came up in a Google search for something else. Just listened to the Beautiful Game album and Beastly and IGF tracks. Just a superb player

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1490736000' post='3267598'] Yes, well I noticed. But would you say it to your friends down the pub, or is this an internet thing? I'm not being critical - I am genuinely curious. [/quote] Maybe I've spent too much time on TB..........

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1490710395' post='3267267'] I'm just idly wondering whether people actually say "pull the trigger". [/quote] Well I do

Unfortunately I was ill so couldn't do the gig. A full gig report will have to wait but as I had it on 1 on the gain with the master disengaged I can't see why I would want for volume!

What I do know is that the Noble makes me want to play!

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1490546073' post='3265859'] Looks good. But why is there a picture of Steve Harris? I don't believe he uses Orange. [/quote] He's endorsing the four stroke Apparently......

yeah I'm definitely getting it. It is the sum of the parts that make it what it is.

[quote name='nash' timestamp='1490121982' post='3262405'] How's that Noble!? [/quote] Good! Probably best summed up by a friend that said you notice it gone more than you notice it there! I think there are other products out there that can do the same or similar but I sum it up as follows Is it worth the cost to put a tube in my signal chain? Probably not. Is it worth the cost as a DI? Probably not Is it worth the cost as a power supply? Probably not BUT The sum of all these makes this a very desirable box IMO. I'm really warming (see what I did there?! ) to it as a functional piece of kit. Makes it very easy to power the pedals, has a great eq and volume I can control at my feet, gives a great DI signal of my sound and sends some colouration to the amp if required. I also put it through the effects return and it sounded great. I did take it off my board for this Saturdays gig as I'm using the Bugera which is all valve but then decided to put it back on for flexibility. You can never have too many tubes Now we could just say I'm justifying a 1k investment but the more I use this box the more I'm liking it. My sound, consistently. I've gone through a lot of Preamps and was struggling to gel with this one but I think I finally get it. Is it worth it? That's like the Mac vs PC debate! Check out the Noble thread in Amps and Cabs for my other thoughts.

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1490177151' post='3262811'] Getting more of a feel for it now Mike? How's it sounding into the amp? [/quote] Yes I think I am. Probably best summed up by a friend that said you notice it gone more than you notice it there! I think there are other products out there that can do the same or similar but I sum it up as follows Is it worth the cost to put a tube in my signal chain? Probably not. Is it worth the cost as a DI? Probably not Is it worth the cost as a power supply? Probably not BUT The sum of all these makes this a very desirable box IMO. I'm really warming (see what I did there?! ) to it as a functional piece of kit. Makes it very easy to power the pedals, has a great eq and volume I can control at my feet, gives a great DI signal of my sound and sends some colouration to the amp if required. I also put it through the effects return and it sounded great. I did take it off my board for this Saturdays gig as I'm using the Bugera which is all valve but then decided to put it back on for flexibility. You can never have too many tubes Now we could just say I'm justifying a 1k investment but the more I use this box the more I'm liking it. My sound, consistently. I've gone through a lot of Preamps and was struggling to gel with this one but I think I finally get it. Is it worth it? That's like the Mac vs PC debate!

Pretty settled in this [URL=http://s420.photobucket.com/user/spongebob_sqaurepants/media/DEC808FC-1284-42B4-A222-7AA73048D26C_zpsmszomsql.jpg.html][IMG]http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp287/spongebob_sqaurepants/DEC808FC-1284-42B4-A222-7AA73048D26C_zpsmszomsql.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Famous last words

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[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1488826696' post='3252154'] Nice review. I ended up buying the Motown DI after looking into both the Noble and the Reddi. Aside from the price which is crazy (for all 3), I personally wasn't into the sound of the Noble, to me it sounds a bit over-hyped, like a modern take on a vintage tone, and all the tracks and demos I've heard it on feature bassists who like a precision / flats kind of tone, but the recordings in context sound 100% modern in terms of production, and I think that's what the Noble excels at, a vintage-ish tone that fits in with modern production and over-processed drums especially. In my head vintage bass tone is Jamerson-esque, (or Paul Jackson-esque) and in that context drums don't sound like compressed explosions with loads of treble, they sound like Clyde Stubblefield / Mike Clark etc. When Sean Hurley demos the Noble, it's interesting that the tracks he plays on feature heavily processed drums and samples that sound like it's 2016, there's not much that's particularly old school about the context. Same with the tracks above, the bass tone needs to fit in with the pristine and over-hyped drums. It's a modern sound, not an old school sound. It's a matter of taste and opinion, and most current studio engineers can't help themselves when it comes to production, they like to make everything as bright and loud and bass-heavy as possible, regardless of the style... I personally don't like the sound of recorded drums on anything that was made after about 1979 but then I used to be obsessed with drum breaks before playing bass so I guess my ears are just tuned into a more old school drum sound, and I like my bass tone to fit in with that. [/quote] Having spent some more time with Noble I'm inclined to agree with your view. It's a more modern sound but vintages in a tube way. I'm trying to work out if I want something more coloured or not.

Gotcha! Really pleased with the sound at practice. Gigging it next Saturday. Would appear to be a real bargain.

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1489659885' post='3258681'] So sk8.... How's the little black box working out for ya? [/quote] So...... I've had done time with the noble now and gigged it once although that was in church and not my covers band. First thought when I used it through phones was that it's more transparent than I thought it would be. It doesn't colour your tone per se. I've done some A/B tests switching between my signal as is and through the noble. The Noble doesnt drastically change the tone but there is 'something' there. I also put a boost in front and got a quite nice OD sound. I'm favouring using the bass cut switch and adding some bass back in to about 11 o'clock. The eq is more powerful than you think and set flat in the A/B test it was hard to here that anything had changed. Cutting and boosting the bass brought more of an edge to the sound. I could see that with IEMs this would be a great tool and for travelling light. Hoping to use it next week with my covers band. Conclusions so far It's well built It does add something but doesn't heavily couloir your instrument. The power supply is a nice touch for powering the board. Now I don't DI a huge amount or use in ears and my main amp at the moment is all valve but heavy so I don't need the valve sound. I will try it in front of my AER Amp One at some point to see if it valves it up.

Yeah. Looks well thought out. Time will tell if it sounds any good!

Great review. Can't wait to get my mitts on mine!