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    SOLD - Fishman Fission Bass Powerchord

    in Effects For Sale

    Posted

    [quote name='barry021574' timestamp='1491047996' post='3270137']
    What means are you doing it by?
    I think I might have sold it to you a while back...
    I'll PM you.
    [/quote]

    Pics in first post

    I'm using a Nano POG, blender and acupluco gold clone. Allows me to knock the POG off and do low end dirt.
    Not as good but I had the pedals!

    Line 6 Helix.

    in Effects

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    [quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1490951871' post='3269291'] Lots of punters never notice anything except out of tune singers and dodgy time keeping. I'm reaching the point of getting me some Dave Lee Roth leather chaps with the arse cut out of them just to get them to notice! :D [/quote]

    :huh: :o :blink: :D

    Has anyone gone from lightweight back to heavy?

    in Amps and Cabs

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    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!

    Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

    in Effects

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    [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?! :lol: ) 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 :D

    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.

    Noble preamp, any BC owners?

    in Amps and Cabs

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    [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?! :lol: ) 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 :D

    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!

    Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

    in Effects

    Posted

    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 :lol:

    Noble preamp, any BC owners?

    in Amps and Cabs

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    [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]

    On the board

    Noble preamp, any BC owners?

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    [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.

    Noble preamp, any BC owners?

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted · Edited by sk8

    [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.

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