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Old 03-17-2011, 03:55 PM
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New to effects,need some help with my new Sub-Lime

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I have never used anything more than my amp (and tone controls on my bass) for adjusting my sound. Lately I have found that I needed some fuzz for some of the songs my band play (the GP said get a fuzz pedal). So I searched TB, bassfuzz.com & youtube to find as much info and sound clips. I decided on the Fender Sub-Lime. It had very little info with it other than a cool poster. Being a technical kind of guy, I would like to know what the controls are and how they affect the final tone.

1) Drive- is this for adjusting the input signal? Up for a passive bass, down for a active?

2) Volume- Output gain to amp?

3) OD Tone- ??

4) X-Over Freq ???

I set everything to 12 o'clock and played with the big top control and found a tone that I liked with the top knob at about Orange. I really like it but I want to explore all the tone possibility with this cool pedal. A better understanding of the controls will help with this.

The basses I will use this with are my EBMM Sub 4 active 2 band, Jazz with DiMarzio Area J passive, Gibson SG with DiMarzio Model 1 passive.

For most of the songs I will use this for I need a soft gooey fuzz (SG-Cream) to more bite (Sub 4- AC-DC) I don't think I will need it much with the Jazz.
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Old 03-18-2011, 07:58 AM
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Drive usually means the intensity of the distortion, or how much distortion is mixed in. Volume is usually output volume.
For the sublime, I believe X-over would be the low freq point below which it isn't distorted (so it retains clean low end).
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