Recent content by Kro

One thing to note, as I try and recreate this, keep in mind that drive can generate a good bit of compression via distortion depending on your signal strength and how you have drive set. I do see that your return signal is very low at ~-60dB, but it's also possible that's being compensated for...

See below, I've always believed it to be a rather shallow roll-off starting around 80Hz as this shows. IME the thinness may perhaps be due more to the way that the VTDI can accentuate highs if you don't EQ them down a bit or boost lows a bit, more so than the effect from the low end roll-off via...

Not a lot really depending on what you already have. The hardware needed includes anything that can send and receive an audio signal with some degree of accuracy. For me that's as simple as my re-amp box alongside my audio interface. For some the audio interface alone might work (YMMV), but I...

While I tend to have phases where I go back and forth between my VTRM and RBI, I'm currently on an RBI kick and have had it in the rehearsal studio a good bit lately. This was the latest rehearsal rig (rack is mine, stack was not).

@tech21nyc , why is it that your default tone here seems to me to be primarily a mix of dismissiveness and annoyance? This thread exists because we're enthusiastic about your products, and in some instances even enthusiastic enough to want to crudely look "under the hood" a bit and see what's...

This is fair, and they don't. Sure you can, see how I compared them above. It's a literal comparison, showing the differences between the two. While this is true... is it really feasible to believe that a 12dB+ difference is associated with pot-to-pot variance? Differing pot tapers, yes. But...

OK, I am a man of data, and it looks like I've been proven wrong here. Mostly. My recollection that the RBI has a drastic difference in presence boost at noon from the BDDI v1 at noon was correct, However the starting and ending points are similar. See sweeps below. The curve with higher...

I need to double check but I believe my experience differs from that, and it is a bit of a point of contention for me. IIRC BDDI Presence at noon is approximately similar to RBI boost off. Something like that. I do recall that with presence at noon the RBI has an incredible amount of presence...

Nope! Unless I'm sorely mistaken, if the EQ on the BDDI works but the Level does not, that means something isn't working correctly.

Does the EQ do anything with blend at 0 still? It should also. I can't fully tell what's happening there in your chain, but I assume it does this all when the BDDI is the only thing in your chain as well?

Drive should do nothing, but level definitely should. Forgive me but I have to ask this: you're not using the parallel out right? ;)

To be fair +6dB (what my chart showed past noon) isn't nothing in terms of what it's doing, even given diminishing returns. Now, perception on the other hand...

Just pots being pots. This is typical IME, with the effect being determined by the pot, taper, and circuit. I think if you were to test this with many various pots on many circuits you'd find similar nonlinearities, especially at the extremes. I don't think it's unintuitive. Just to follow up...

Posted my response to your other post here: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/tech-21-club.1374204/post-29542598

Yes it does, but it does less and less the higher you get. If you need more room to make adjustment, perhaps alter your gain staging after the BDDI so you can start with a lower level setting and work from there. What output signal level option do you have selected? Line or instrument level...