MartinB

Damn, I ought to be getting some commission! 😆

I think the drive sound is superb - very happy with it!
 

I made a thread a while back with details of what the EQ controls do - might be of some use:

I think I learned White Wedding once, long ago - is it the one where there's like 32 bars of the same note over and over?

A couple of suggestions:

- Attack determines whether the initial transient is allowed through before compression starts. So you don't want to set it too fast, or it'll squash the percussive "click" of the plectrum. The Providence manual says it goes from 0.1 to 10 ms; I'd probably crank it to maximum.
- For general smoothing, set the threshold so that the gain reduction indicator isn't lighting up on every note - just when you dig in a bit. This should help even out any over-enthusiasm, without sounding too effect-y. But also try setting it so that it's on all the time, and see if you prefer that sound.

There have been some attempts by the usual suspects:

Harley Benton

Rockboard

EBS

I've got some of the EBS ones. They're very neat when the power socket is recessed into the body of the pedal, but a surprising amount sticks out if the socket is flush with the pedal surface:

I've got one like this and it sounds good to me. With tone all the way up, less of the high frequencies will be sent to ground compared to a 250k pot, so it'll sound brighter. Turn it down halfway and it'll sound the same as a fully-open 250k tone control. The capacitor doesn't do anything interesting until you roll the tone down below ~20%, at which point you start to get a small bump in the low mids. Compared to a standard 47nF cap, a 68nF will create a smaller peak and it'll be at a lower frequency - like 200Hz rather than 350Hz. It'll also roll off more of the high frequencies at this point.
 

Ooh, Nordic jazz - should be a pleasant listen

I saw the thread title, thought "Spark Booster!", and then came in to find you were already using one 😆

Shorter than that, you may need to do it yourself: https://www.pedalpatch.co.uk/product-page/solderless-dc-kit-v2

Rockboard do a 15cm one: https://www.rockboard.de/en/power-supplies/power-cables/power-cable-angled-angled/

https://www.daddario.com/products/accessories/care-maintenance-tools/restring-tools/pro-winder-bass/

The real thing. Okay ✅

Counterfeit. Purports to be the real thing, but who knows what's inside? Not Okay ❌

Similar-looking; you know what they're aiming for, but you don't expect it to be as good. Okay ✅

Different-looking; you can guess they're aiming for, but you don't expect it to be as good. Okay ✅

AKG Y20 (cheapo in-ears), which are 16 Ohms, and Audio Technica ATH-M50 (entry-level closed-back studio headphones) at 38 Ohms.
Apparently anything > 100 Ohms is considered high impedance, and may lack volume and dynamics when used with devices that can't supply enough voltage - which is why I wanted to check. This science is a bit beyond me though, so I may just be muddying the waters 😆

16 hours ago, Bassmidget209 said:

I have no experience of any of these other than the digbeth. It is a great preamp but the headphone out has always struck me as an afterthought. Quite quiet and no way to adjust the volume separately. Always sounded a bit thin to me but that may have been the headphones I was using.

The headphone out on mine sounds the same as the line out/DI out. I haven't come across any volume problems, but what's loud enough is a bit subjective. Are you using high-impedance headphones?
I can see how it would be a pain to have to rebalance the channel levels when using the "Mix" mode just to make the headphones louder/quieter.

On 24/10/2023 at 21:54, MartinB said:

The HX Stomp and HX Effects do a lot more for double the price, but they'd make all my other pedals redundant... not sure I'm ready for that!

Well I was all set to get an HX One, and then I started reading about how much more an HX Stomp can do... and realising how much of the extra cost would be covered by selling the pedals it would replace... I think you can see where this is going 😆

A pleasant listen! Vocals not strong, but characterful, and some nice backing/harmonies. Nicely recorded but not too slick. I liked the use of percussion. I bet they're fun to watch live. The track that stuck with me is Neighbors - it puts in me mind of a meek Jesus Lizard 😆

Wow, that is sparkly! 🤩 Mine is much more subdued. GLWTS!

5 hours ago, Sibob said:

So yeah.....not exactly sure who this is for?!

It might be me! I already have a compressor, drive and pre-amp that I'm very happy with. I have an MS-60B for one-off modulation, and I was thinking about buying/building a loop switcher to toggle its position between the pre-amp's FX loop and in front of the pre-amp (e.g. for use as an envelope filter). The HX One looks like it will do all of that in one box.

The HX Stomp and HX Effects do a lot more for double the price, but they'd make all my other pedals redundant... not sure I'm ready for that!

If the HX One did, say 3 blocks instead of 1, it'd be absolutely killer... but it's not in Line 6's interests to provide too much functionality at the entry level.

I see a headstock and I want to paint it black

Great idea!

Input impedance is 1MΩ when enabled, so you're not likely to have any issues there. It's true bypass when off, so I guess the question is whether there's a pedal further down the chain that needs a buffer in front?

Soooo, potentially a case of soldering a large (e.g. 1MΩ, 2.2MΩ) resistor between these two? 🤔

I appreciate that by saying this, I am literally That Guy the article mentions... 😆
 

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"Your switch is popping?  Yeah, some moron didn't put pull-down resistors in.  Just put a 2M2 or 10M or *some other arbitrary value* in and that'll fix everything!!  Trust me, I'm a builder." Yeah.  I've heard that one too.  And I've seen guys do all kinds of crazy stinky poo with these so-called pull-down resistors, often times destroying the operation of the circuit, or simply including a moot part.

1 hour ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

I've just noticed that the Drumeo sub also gives you access to Singeo, Guitareo and Pianote. Definitely makes it worth the sub. 

They didn't call it "Pianoeo"? The cowards!

Some good info on switch pop causes and solutions: https://www.mrblackpedals.com/blogs/straight-jive/6629778-what-really-causes-switch-pop

21 minutes ago, rushbo said:

Are all the Beatles songs available in split format on Rock Band? I thought Giles Martin separated about 45?

45 songs on the disc, and a bunch more as DLC (including all the missing ones from Rubber Soul). They didn't do all the songs... no-one needs stems of You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) 😆

10 minutes ago, rushbo said:

Regarding the tone on the YouTube video that has prompted this thread, I'm guessing that the original uploader used one of those clever AI things to isolate the tracks. While they're good, they're far from perfect and they tend to make the "isolated" copies sound a little warbly, to say the least. I'd imagine if you dug out the mastertape, the original bass sound would be a lot richer and fuller.

 

They'll have been taken from the video game The Beatles: Rock Band, so any isolation was done by Giles Martin from the original tapes - it's a lot cleaner than you'd get by sticking the full track through an "AI" stem separator.