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ratman

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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

  3. 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. 
     

  4. 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

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  5. 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. 

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  6. 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.

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  7. Oh yes. My originals band rehearses all with IEMs at our drummer's studio. We record everything we play via USB. Direct to Logic via USB works fine. To USB drive is awesome too, especially for gigs. The UI needs USB sticks with decent write speed to record multitracks without glitches. Lots of people on the FB group suggest various USB sticks that work for them. I tried a couple and got mixed results. The best stick for me was a particular Sandisk. I ended up getting a 500gb solid state drive, via a powered USB hub (because the UI USB doesn't put out much power) into the UI and it works perfectly every time.

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  8. On 30/07/2023 at 11:21, Happy Jack said:

    The one that catches my eye is the Soundcraft Ui24R. It ain't cheap, but it seems to tick all our boxes.

     

    Does anyone have any experience with any of these? Or any that I've missed?

     

     

    I've had a UI24R since 2019 and I found it to be a really good mixer. On those rare occasion that 16 inputs aren't enough the UI has 20, that's so useful. I'ts not strictly an app that you use to control it, you connect via IP address, so any device can control it with any browser. I have two old iPad 3 that I hand out to musicians which still work just fine. It has 8 mono (or up to 4 stereo) auxes, but I have assigned 1 of the 2 headphone outputs to be a stereo aux (hardwired for drums or keys) too. (The other headphone out might be able to send another aux out, but I'd have to check if that's correct) There is a learning curve but I like the control layout and options. There's a  really good FB user group, go there to read & learn all about it. It can be occasionally quirky but its awesome IMHO.

    If mine died I'd buy another in a heartbeat. My main mixer now for functions and PA jobs is an Allen & Heath SQ5 but the Ui24R is a very capable back up for me. I use the UI for my originals band as it's so portable. We run 4 stereo mixes and I'm about to build a splitter rack for our gigs so we can control our on stage monitoring and the house engineer can do his/her thing out front.

    I also have my trusty DL1608 which I rate highly too, great for smaller gigs. Mackie put together a lovely app to learn quickly & navigate.

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  9. I just bought a pedal from Si. Comms were great and he shipped quickly. A top packing job too which is always appreciated with valuable goods.

    Definitely recommended, I'd be more than happy to deal with him again.

    Thanks Si.

  10. It's pretty easy.

    First select Snapshot 1. Go to Command centre and highlight 'Instant 1'. Change 'Command' to BankPC. Change 'MIDI Channel' to match the MIDI channel of the device you want to control. Then use the Page Right button to go to Command Centre Page 2. Change 'Program' to the PC value you want to send.

    (If your Snapshot Edits are set to Discard in Global Settings, you then need to save the preset now)

    Now select Snapshot 2. Go to the same instance and just change the 'Program' number to another PC value. (And save if needed)

    Now select Snapshot 3. Go to the same instance and just change the 'Program' number to another PC value. (And save if needed)

     

    That's it. Let me know if that worked ok for you.

     

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