Jule Amps Monique Part 2.

[chadds]

Originally Posted by Kreken

Monique has been with me for close to a week, and I've used her on two gigs with upright bass and three gigs with electric bass. I must say I am extremely happy with this preamp! So far I've dialled in a different tone each night, just because I can. Mon sounds good no matter what, and it's such a joy to discover how she responds to different settings. Like many have said before me, she's the perferct combination of tubey sweetness, punch and clarity.

I would like to thank Jule for creating this materpiece, and all the great folks in this thread for answering my PM's and sharing their experiences. You all steered me in the right direction, and for that I am grateful!

WOW!

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by chadds

WOW!

Yeah, it's almost as if you wrote it

[husky123]

Sub'd.

[chadds]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Yeah, it's almost as if you wrote it

I was taken by his gratitude..
Oh and he sent me some Gravilax.

[juledude]

Originally Posted by Kreken

Monique has been with me for close to a week, and I've used her on two gigs with upright bass and three gigs with electric bass. I must say I am extremely happy with this preamp! So far I've dialled in a different tone each night, just because I can. Mon sounds good no matter what, and it's such a joy to discover how she responds to different settings. Like many have said before me, she's the perferct combination of tubey sweetness, punch and clarity.

I would like to thank Jule for creating this materpiece, and all the great folks in this thread for answering my PM's and sharing their experiences. You all steered me in the right direction, and for that I am grateful!

Thank you for your kind words. I admit that like probably everyone here, I do play for the audience. Thank you very much.

[juledude]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Yeah, it's almost as if you wrote it

Hey Jimmy.

I'll have some interesting news from Demeter by tomorrow. Ready?

Who was it that suggested, "De-Monique."

[nostatic]

If it is the power amp with the dovecage footprint, my budget may be in trouble...

[liam_g]

Originally Posted by juledude

Hey Jimmy.

I'll have some interesting news from Demeter by tomorrow. Ready?

Who was it that suggested, "De-Monique."

That was me.

Cheers,
Liam

[phishaholik]

Originally Posted by juledude

Hey Jimmy.

I'll have some interesting news from Demeter by tomorrow. Ready?

Who was it that suggested, "De-Monique."

I might have to get a matching set for my twin daughters, Monique and Unique.



Michael

[shwashwa]

Originally Posted by Kreken

Monique has been with me for close to a week, and I've used her on two gigs with upright bass and three gigs with electric bass. I must say I am extremely happy with this preamp! So far I've dialled in a different tone each night, just because I can. Mon sounds good no matter what, and it's such a joy to discover how she responds to different settings. Like many have said before me, she's the perferct combination of tubey sweetness, punch and clarity.

I would like to thank Jule for creating this materpiece, and all the great folks in this thread for answering my PM's and sharing their experiences. You all steered me in the right direction, and for that I am grateful!

can you describe how monique worked with the upright?

[husky123]

Hey guys,

I am DANGEROUSLY close to pulling the trigger on a rack mount Monique. For now, I'm thinking about pairing it with my MB800 or my Mesa M9. If it's not fussy about the power amp I'm leaning toward the MB800 since it's class D, light and 1U.

What I want to know though is will it bring enough grit without external pedals, etc.? I'm not talking full on OD or anything, just some nice, tubey grit that I'm addicted too with my '72 SVT.

You guys that play them is it reasonable to expect this much grit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISwzvzi0nLc

Now before I get slammed, yes I know Flea here is playing a Wal, maybe through his GK 800RB and there is a lot of fret buzz but this is about all the grit I need. I just chose this as an example of the dirty tone I'm going after. Not too tart, not too sweet.

Also, I've read through but what are the EQ center points? Thanks fella's. I'm GASSING bigtime for one of these, just want to make sure it will pull off what I'm after.

[chadds]

Originally Posted by husky123

Hey guys,

I am DANGEROUSLY close to pulling the trigger on a rack mount Monique. For now, I'm thinking about pairing it with my MB800 or my Mesa M9. If it's not fussy about the power amp I'm leaning toward the MB800 since it's class D, light and 1U.

What I want to know though is will it bring enough grit without external pedals, etc.? I'm not talking full on OD or anything, just some nice, tubey grit that I'm addicted too with my '72 SVT.

You guys that play them is it reasonable to expect this much grit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISwzvzi0nLc

Now before I get slammed, yes I know Flea here is playing a Wal, maybe through his GK 800RB and there is a lot of fret buzz but this is about all the grit I need. I just chose this as an example of the dirty tone I'm going after. Not too tart, not too sweet.

Also, I've read through but what are the EQ center points? Thanks fella's. I'm GASSING bigtime for one of these, just want to make sure it will pull off what I'm after.

At a gig over the weekend I was showing my guitarist some grit by cranking the sensitivity.
He wanted to try so he plugged his '59 Strat in. He was amazed that when you crank or uncrank the Sensitivity knob the tone didn't change. You just gave it more edge. This edge could be called response because it accentuates your touch. So if it's gritting and you back off and play lightly the grit goes away.
Full off and it's this clean phat tube sound. It's just not continuously dirty if you aren't digging in.

Monique responds well to pedals so depending on what you want you may wish to add one.

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by juledude

Hey Jimmy.

I'll have some interesting news from Demeter by tomorrow. Ready?

Who was it that suggested, "De-Monique."

Thought you did that a month ago. Well it should be cool and cause a lot of folks to upgrade Very cool that Demeter is onboard with you.

[husky123]

Originally Posted by chadds

At a gig over the weekend I was showing my guitarist some grit by cranking the sensitivity.
He wanted to try so he plugged his '59 Strat in. He was amazed that when you crank or uncrank the Sensitivity knob the tone didn't change. You just gave it more edge. This edge could be called response because it accentuates your touch. So if it's gritting and you back off and play lightly the grit goes away.
Full off and it's this clean phat tube sound. It's just not continuously dirty if you aren't digging in.

Monique responds well to pedals so depending on what you want you may wish to add one.

Thank you chadds.

[foderaman]

With Monique you do not have to just use the power amp on your all in one head.You can use Monique in the front end also.There are so many possibilitys to use Monique.When using in the front end plug bass into Monique then coming out of the line out plug into front end of you Head of choice.Using this way you can pick up the additional use of the EQ that the head has to to further tweak your tone or you can use Monique just as it is into your effects return where you are just using the power amp portion of the Head.I have had great results running Monique into the front end of a MB F500.

Originally Posted by husky123

Hey guys,

I am DANGEROUSLY close to pulling the trigger on a rack mount Monique. For now, I'm thinking about pairing it with my MB800 or my Mesa M9. If it's not fussy about the power amp I'm leaning toward the MB800 since it's class D, light and 1U.

What I want to know though is will it bring enough grit without external pedals, etc.? I'm not talking full on OD or anything, just some nice, tubey grit that I'm addicted too with my '72 SVT.

You guys that play them is it reasonable to expect this much grit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISwzvzi0nLc

Now before I get slammed, yes I know Flea here is playing a Wal, maybe through his GK 800RB and there is a lot of fret buzz but this is about all the grit I need. I just chose this as an example of the dirty tone I'm going after. Not too tart, not too sweet.

Also, I've read through but what are the EQ center points? Thanks fella's. I'm GASSING bigtime for one of these, just want to make sure it will pull off what I'm after.

[JimmyM]

That Flea sound sounds like fretbuzz to me, not distortion.

[Fat240]

I run my Sansamp BDDI deluxe in front to Monique then to the Crown XTI. The Sansamp gives me a ton more bottom end. The Monique keeps it clean and the XTI filters out all the sub lows.

[Kreken]

Originally Posted by shwashwa

can you describe how monique worked with the upright?

I'll try, but I have to make it clear that I was using a rented bass, so it's hard for me to compare the sound directly to other amps I've used in the past, since I was not using my own instrument. I should also mention that the signal I got from the pup was kind of weak, so I used my Darkglass b7k to beef up the sound going into the amp. I kept the eq on the b7k close to flat except for a slight bass cut.

Personally I liked the sound I got out of the upright/Monique combo very much. The eq on Monique is very musical and effective, but at the same time doesn't seem as drastic as on some other amps, if that makes any sense. I felt it was very easy to dial in a nice sound. For upright I preferred to keep the sensitivity low, as opposed to on electric, where I like to hear the tube grit that high sensitivity settings gives you. For me it seems that running any bass, be it upright or electric, through the Monique, adds a very musical and dynamic feel to the sound, and just makes playing the instrument even more fun.

[husky123]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

That Flea sound sounds like fretbuzz to me, not distortion.

Definitely is a lot of fret buzz going on.

[chadds]

Originally Posted by husky123

Definitely is a lot of fret buzz going on.

The Monique can do some serious bass power chord distortion and tame right back up with light touch. At one session the keybdist and guitarist where looking at each other and at the floor and me because I wasn't stepping on pedals.

Jule has made Monique in a way that I can't imagine what you will make it do. The controls aren't a limiting element.