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View Poll Results: Other than your amp, what would be your first addition to a new rack case? | |
Compressor/Limiter
|    | 16 | 34.04% | |
Multi-Effects Unit
|    | 4 | 8.51% | |
Tuner
|    | 18 | 38.30% | |
Graphic Equalizer
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Power Conditioner
|    | 7 | 14.89% | |
Other
|    | 2 | 4.26% |
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06-07-2008, 08:26 AM
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After the amplifier, what would be your first addition to a new rack?
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06-07-2008, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | Possibly a rack mount tuner if you don't use a pedal one?
Power conditioner if required? I prefer stomp boxes, so I won't say effects  Although Rack mount compressors can be nice!
EDIT: Oh, I didn't notice this was a poll  I'll click on something
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06-07-2008, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | | I voted tuner as they are pretty essential if you havn't got a pedal.
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06-07-2008, 09:47 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Tuner if you don't have/want a pedal tuner. Power conditioner if you want your plug-in bar to be rackmounted. Comp/limiter if you already have a tuner and your power plug bar figured out. Forget the graphic EQ and the racked multifx unless you are performing a primarily processing-based role in the band. |
06-07-2008, 09:53 AM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | For me (if I was using a rack-mounted amp, which I'm not)...
1. Power conditioner
2. Compressor
Everything else I prefer to have at my feet. |
06-07-2008, 09:56 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | I voted Compressor/limiter. After that a BBE Sonic Maximizer and then a tuner.
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06-07-2008, 11:23 AM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | My rack has a tuner, power conditioner, and a compressor/limiter.
Neither the tuner nor the compressor are very effective without an outlet to plug them into, so I suppose that the power conditioner wins by default.
I'd put tuner as a close second. You sound much better if you're in tune but without compression than perfectly compressed but out of tune.
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06-07-2008, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | | Power Conditioner. Most multi-effects units suck monkeyballs. Everything else can be found in pedal form. |
06-07-2008, 01:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | Sansamp RPM/RBI. Distortion, preamp, and DI all in one. I love my RPM, I set it up for some grit in my signal, either mild or full on distortion. |
06-07-2008, 01:28 PM
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multi-effects have a build-in tuner, my friends |
06-07-2008, 01:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | When I cooked an Ampeg SVTII because a club I played in way back when had questionable wiring and I didn't have one, I learned the joys of power conditioners the hard way. 
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06-07-2008, 01:51 PM
|  | Fingers, pick, and a little bit of slap | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Terrapin country (Crofton, MD) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JazzV After the amplifier, what would be your first addition to a new rack? | The amplifiers I use are dedicated power amps -- no EQ sections. So, my choice is a preamp that can get down and dirty: either it's all-tube, or emulates tubes. My current choices are the SansAmp RBI and SansAmp RPM, but I also own a number of other preamps that are used occasionally (see profile).
If I were racking a consolidated head and didn't need a preamp, then I'd probably go with a tuner or compressor. |
06-07-2008, 02:02 PM
| | | | I voted tuner, as I don't like to waste pedalboard space with a pedal tuner. A sonic maximizer is also a very close second, imo. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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