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A mate of mine has an 80s Tokai Breezysound, their Telecaster copy. It's one of his favourite guitars.

On 08/01/2024 at 11:54, tayste_2000 said:

https://www.tone.net/tonex/tonemodels/38296

This clean Noble capture sounds great.

On 08/01/2024 at 08:59, bassbiscuits said:

once I get sweaty I have to keep adjusting them to stop them falling out.

Try the Sonicfoam tips linked above. I had the same issue and in my case going up a size to the 14mm tips worked really well.

I preferred the KZ AS10 over the KZ ZS10 for bass and the general mix. I have tried loads of replacement foam tips but the best ones by far in my opinion are these, they fit and stay in place better:

https://www.sonicfoam.com/

I had been looking for some slightly larger tips that nobody else produced, and the Sonicfoam ones were perfect for me.

2 hours ago, BreadBin said:

It was a live band song long before Trevor Horn got involved.

Here's most of the original line up doing Pleasuredome, Two Tribes (starts around 10.25) & Relax at a Trevor Horn's 25th anniversary concert in 2004. Mark O'Toole totally nailing the bass on all three songs, with a pick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbCEF4sYSiY

Check that both devices are set to the same MIDI channel. 

9 minutes ago, Tjhooker said:

why is the noble patch in with the menu with the distortion stuff ?

I wondered that too. I was looking for it in the Pre Amp section to start with.

I see a few of you have downloaded the Noble preset. What are your thoughts on the preamp? And has anyone compared it it the real thing yet?

I got my Baby Sumo after I bought my HX Stomp to do exactly what you're thinking about. It's been a great power amp. I did think for a while that maybe I should have got the slightly more powerful 1000W Sumo because I was used to having a 900W Genz Benz Streamliner behind me, but over time that hasn't been the issue I thought it might be. But if I was to buy another one it'd be the 1000W Sumo just for the extra headroom.

I've had my Baby Sumo for 4 years now. A cracking little power amp.

I just bought a headphone amp from Carl. Another easy BC transaction. It was well packed and shipped quickly.

Thanks Carl.

You can send Program Change and/or Control Change messages with snapshots and footswitches. You assign them in Command Centre. I have never used an AO but I'd suggest looking at the manual for the PC and CC numbers. And you'll need a MIDI adaptor cable too.

I think when he's referring to the lower output he probably means compared to his 65P. I haven't tried that one yet.

I did some before & after clips so I could better judge the difference. If there's a difference it's maybe 1.5 to 2Db to my ears. But that could be the low end on the Fender making it seem louder. And of course, the clips were recorded an hour apart. I'm confident that my playing dynamics are pretty consistent but that could also affect volume here. Regardless of the variables you can hear the tonal difference is subtle.

There are 8 seconds of silence at the start of the Fender clip, 5 at the start of the Creamery, I have no idea why I did that. Left side clip is Fender. Right side clip is Creamery.

I got a 74P pick up earlier this year. I already had a Fender Pure Vintage 63 (which I really rate) in my Jaguar SS, but I was looking for something with a slightly tighter low end. After coming across Creamery on the interweb I took a punt on the 74P. Delivery took a few weeks but the wait was totally worth it. The pick up is exactly what I was looking for and now lives in the Jaguar. 
 

Here's the Noble preset.

Noble is always on. What's going on in the preset:

Stomp mode. FS1 is octave down on the parallel path, so it's always clean. FS2 is chorus. FS3 increases the ammount of octave/chorus in the mix.

Snapshot mode. Snap1 is clean, no effect. Snap 2 is LA2A compressor (Stomp mode FS3 also increases compression ratio), Snap 3 is FX loop L.

I have a COG Grand Tarkin in my FX loop Left for drive & dirt. You could use any external pedal you have here, or just put in a dirt/distortion block in it's place.

The FS3 mix increase will affect Octave, Chorus and Compression at the same time. I only use FS3 to make single effects wetter, for me it doesn't work well on multiple effects at once.

I have a Disaster Area Midi Baby switcher so I can flip between Stomp mode and Snapshot mode, I do this a lot, selecting a Snapshot then adding effects in Stomp mode if needed.

The EQ block at the end of the chain is for fine tuning the overall sound. Here I have a 2dB 90hz lift, and my standard 50Hz HPF and 5KHz LPF that I use everywhere.

Whenever chorus (in Stomp mode) or distortion (in Snapshot mode) is being used I can add in clean octave down (in Stomp mode).

I have a near identical copy of this preset where I took out the chorus and replaced it with an envelope filter, FS3 giving me two flavours of filter too.

NOBLE+LOOP.hlx

5 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Did you run it through an amp model as well or just straight out?

No amp, just the Regal. I’ve tried an IR after it at home and it sounded ok but on gigs its awesome by itself. 
I have tried it with an amp model but I thought it wasn’t great. 
I’ve just done tonight’s rock band 1st set and I’m still chuffed with it. I’m playing a Retrovibe 51P short scale (+Lollar p/up) 

I’ll post the preset when I’m home if anybody wants it. 

Just going back to the new Regal (Noble) model mentioned recently. I gigged mine last night with IEMs and it sounded freaking lush. Even our drummer, who is also a bass player, commented on it. And it played very nicely with my COG Grand Tarkin in the Stomp FX loop.

I'm out again tonight and very excited to use it again.

I just bought a pedal from Bernard. Another easy BC purchase. Great comms and quick delivery too.

Definitely recommended.

Thanks Bernard.

I've seen a few people using high end mixers with cheap routers. It's a false economy and they inevitably have problems. I use TP Link too and they've never let me down. This is what I use with my SQ5 https://www.ebuyer.com/820530-tp-link-archer-mr400-ac1200-wireless-dual-band-4g-lte-router-archer-mr400

I have a similar one for my UI24R and my Apple Airport Express still works a charm with my DL1608.

I tried the Regal the other day and wasn't impressed. Until it dawned on me afterwards that I had dropped it into an existing preset with amp, IR & EQ running. As the Noble is just a DI, I put the Regal into an empty preset last night and with minimal tweaking of it's EQ it sounded really good. I like it a lot.

I've A/B'd it against my favourite Bassman presets and it holds it's own easily. It just sounds drier as it's a modelled DI rather than my livelier Bassman presets which have more of an amp & cab feel to them.

I can see myself using this lots.

I just bought a pedal board from Pete. Another no-hassle BC transaction. Pete was helpful and communicative throughout the process, definitely recommended.

Thanks Pete.

I bought a flight case from Paul. He was very helpful, and a pleasure to meet. Definitely recommended.

Thanks Paul.

Great mixer with a small footprint. Also, you can buy a Lighning dock kit which replaces the 30 pin connector and allows newer iPads to connect with their Lightning connector.

I just sold a pick up to Nicco. He was great to deal with and I have no hesitation recommending him.

Thanks Nicco.