Purchased new in 2022. Beautifully crafted in Japan by Fender to the specs of renowned bassist, Justin Meldal-Johnsen/s 1966 Mustang. With a Seymour Duncan pickup, black nitro laquer finish w/ tasteful relic features, aged pearloid pickguard. I have upgraded the less than stellar stock tuners to...
My setup is a Markbass Little Mark Vintage head (has tube preamp), Markbass Compressore tube compressor and Markbass 410HR cab. And a couple of Pbasses.
The Compressore I run at max gain to get some slightly saturated tone.
Would the addition of either:
an Electro-Harmonix Black Finger tube...
Hello friends, it's a sad day as I'm listing some of my favorite pedals since I recently realized I prefer just plugging straight into the amp these days. All pedals have never been gigged or taken out of my humble home studio, and are in otherwise great to excellent condition. No trades please...
I have wondered what function exactly the 2 tubes of my EHX Black Finger, tube driven optical compressor has, and how the optical compression circuit is implemented in the circuit?
I've managed to find this service diagram on the internet, so if anyone who can read such could translate it to me...
As the headline says I am curious to hear from people who currently uses or in the past have used a LPB 2ube (2 channel/stereo tube preamp, or tube overdrive if the 2 channels are bridged), EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor), English Muff'n (Marshall-esque tube preamp/overdrive)...
So my beloved EHX Black Finger, out of production tube driven optical compressor, that run it's 2 preamp tubes at proper high 300V plate voltage, and which I really used more so as a tube preamp stage then an actual compressor (it basically being an optical compressor circuit placed between the...
Down at the local ma and pa there’s a used Black Finger.
I did a TB search and reviews are mixed. Primarily due to excessive noise in some units due to either noise from the power supply or EH’s allegedly dodgy QC. However these reviews are pretty old.
I’m going to try it out this week and...