Reaper

28 minutes ago, TRBboy said:

ALSO has anyone had chance to try a 435 and P35? Are the differences in build /playability /tone proportionate to the price difference? Ta, 😁👍

Good question - one I'd like to find out the answer to myself. Been thinking about getting a Yamaha BB for a while and there seems clearly to be a lot of love for them on this thread!

21 hours ago, Al Krow said:

A few changes on and off my board, since my last post on here a couple of months back. 

Final piece of the jigsaw, the Boss SY-1 arrived earlier today and is sitting snugly in it's place, giving my board a smug 'finished' feel to it (famous last words!) The SY-1 tracks like a deer hunter. I'm venison-ly happy 😊

For any of you interested in the signal chain, it's as follows:

BASS 

‘Clean’ input

• Smoothhound (wireless)
• Thumpinator (hpf)
• Becos Stella (comp)
• Boss SY1 (synth)

Early mid-board: drive / fuzz

• Grizzly Bass (analogue)
• SA Aftershock (digital)
• Mastotron (gated fuzz)
• Red Ripper (ungated fuzz)

Late mid-board: filters

• SA Manta (digital)
• 3Leaf GR2 (analogue)

End board: modulation / delay

• Digitech Mosaic (octave up)
• HX Stomp (multifx +DI +headphone amp)

AMP

Total power draw, excluding the Stomp which has it's own PSU, is 1.3A and all powered by a MXR IsoBrick under the board.

Just recently joined BC and have been perusing some amazing set ups you guys have! Particularly appreciated you taking the time to set out your signal chain @Al Krow - really helps make sense of the board and why it's been set up as it has. See that you're a bit of a fan of drive and fuzz pedals, that's quite a hoard! 😀

38 minutes ago, Osiris said:

I'm inherently sarcastic, a bit of a pi55 taker and an occasional wind up merchant, so I'm happy to hold my hands up if I say something that sometimes gets interpreted in a way that it isn't necessarily intended. So yeah, I see how that can be read as a bit of an over reaction, even though that wasn't my intention. No offense meant to anyone 😀

But I do also believe that it's wise to reserve judgement on something until you've had first hand experience of it. As I said, the Quilter Bass Block is very loud at its 40 watt setting, so while I'm not saying that the new amp can keep up with a drummer, it wouldn't surprise me that it could keep up with one when paired with an efficient speaker. But again, we'd need to try it in anger to know either way. 

Ah fair enough - no harm no foul. I didn't know you well enough to realise you were just having a larf.

Interested in your second point about the QBB "at 40W setting" being very loud. But exactly how do you know it's delivering 40W at a particular setting? Are you measuring the output? A lot of amps are non linear in their response and get to a loud volume pretty quickly and then further increases of the vol knob have relatively limited effect. My guess is that QBB would be displaying a similar characteristic?

I appreciate this all combines with the need to roughly double wattage to get a 3dB increase in volume and the quality and efficiency of cabs etc. 

Just now, ped said:

I was more saying how it seems kind of an own goal to make such a tiny pedal/amp and then have a PSU about the same size; sort of makes it less compact than you first assume.

Ah yes, thanks for clarifying - I had misunderstood your comment and that's a very good point. I hadn't spotted that there was a matching size PSU and that does unfortunately make this a lot less compact as you say.

10 minutes ago, Osiris said:

Even though the product description clearly states the intended uses for it. 

A product can make all the claims about itself that it likes.

You, or your other half, ever bought a beauty or hair loss product? 😄

Not being ironic at all. Just observing that asking a question about how something can be used is hardly ripping something apart, is it? With @Dan Dare on that!

And for me @ped has hit the nail on the head with his comment about this having a tiny PSU. My experience is a watt is a watt, and this is delivering just 45 of them at 4 ohms. 

Btw - FWIW I thought you made some very good points in the rest of your earlier post, after you had had a dig at your fellow BC'ers for engaging their brains! 😉

1 hour ago, Osiris said:

It's nice to see that this has already turned into one of those classic There's something new on the market, let's all rip it apart before anyone has even got their hands on one type threads! *Facepalm. 

As someone new to BC, must admit I find it very refreshing when folk actually engage brains and ask sensible questions about new gear, and don't simply jump on the "wow look there's something new and shiny, let's all rush out and get it!" bandwagon.

Asking a question of how it's going to find practical use is hardly ripping a product apart, is it? 

Not all new product launches are a great success. Dunno if you're old enough to remember this one? 

1 hour ago, Cuzzie said:

With @Osiris on this one - fine for home, DI out, Power a small cab for in stage monitor if not in ears, home practice, low volume rehearsal small amps, electronic drum kit.

This does a whole bunch, would pair nicely with a Barefaced One10

As a couple of other posts have rightly pointed out this won't work as a stage monitor power unit if you're playing with a drummer, it has far too low power output and I'm guessing that anyone who has a BF One10 is likely to already have got themselves a decent amp to pair it with, but I could be wrong, otherwise a BF One10 is a big extra expense to be getting to make this a usable bit of kit. Just get a practice amp or a headphone amp with aux in.