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5k rolloff in a DI

#42
jeffbonny said:
In my mind most pedals fall short of a very specific goal here. It might be worth looking past stompboxes into pro audio gear that was designed to solve specific issues like this. Browsing the Mercenary Audio site just now I came across [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] that looks like it would do the job.
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That might do the trick but I wonder what the slope is. Also, wouldn't you need a special case and power supply?
 
#44
jeffbonny said:
In my mind most pedals fall short of a very specific goal here. It might be worth looking past stompboxes into pro audio gear that was designed to solve specific issues like this. Browsing the Mercenary Audio site just now I came across [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] that looks like it would do the job.
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API is some of the very best sounding gear in my book but 200 and 500 series modules require an external power supply and chassis so unless you're building a lunchbox it's cost prohibitive for a single unit.
 
#46
phmike said:
Lunchbox? Heck - he's already tote'n around a REDDI so he may as well add another power supply, chassi, etc and build a picnic basket ;-)
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That was kinda my thought. Easy enough to build the thing with its PSU into a small pelican case or house it in a generic $10 box from an electronics parts place. And how many of the suggestions thus far don't need a power supply? A 16 Volt DC, 100mA PSU isn't exactly anything exotic.
 
#47
Oh dang, that's a lunchbox? Here I was thinking it was pedal-sized. Should have known when I saw "shipping weight: 7 pounds." I'm already lugging a REDDI, a B-15, and a pedalboard the size of a laptop bag, not to mention an upright. I lug it gladly most of the time but I'm reaching a breaking point ;)
 
#48
JimmyM said:
Oh dang, that's a lunchbox? Here I was thinking it was pedal-sized. Should have known when I saw "shipping weight: 7 pounds." I'm already lugging a REDDI, a B-15, and a pedalboard the size of a laptop bag, not to mention an upright. I lug it gladly most of the time but I'm reaching a breaking point ;)
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With all of this equipment amount, soon there will be no reason to just replace all of it with one SVT VR and a 2x10" cab... :)
 
#52
JimmyM said:
I listened to a couple...just didn't comment. Yeah, it does sound a lot better.
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Might not be so easy to identify the B15R tone in my clips as usually I strive for a tone that is very far from the usually tone most goes after. Pic, high gain, high mids boost, treble boost and sometimes an additional OD.....
Right now I use the Møller T Rex OD which have a blend knob. I run the gain at 75% but the blend on 20%
Btw on one of the clips I even played with fingers on a Westone Thunder 1A fret less!! :)
 
#54
jeffbonny said:
In my mind most pedals fall short of a very specific goal here. It might be worth looking past stompboxes into pro audio gear that was designed to solve specific issues like this. Browsing the Mercenary Audio site just now I came across [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] that looks like it would do the job.
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They may not be API products, but any number of variable electronic crossovers will do that for about $250, e.g. a DBX 223. If you take the middle as a bandpass , a standard three way electronic crossover will be able to filter low freq and vary the top frequency. 5Khz will still get you lots of snap, and somewhere between 2.Khz and 3.5Khz as a cutoff point has worked for me in a variety of situations, depending on how much sparkle you want to have, sometimes when I want a bit of sparkle in a Stratocaster I will raise it to 4Khz.
 
#56
Eublet said:
The Tone Hammer? :D. Sorry, couldn't resist. Seriously though, it seems to me to be the perfect choice here for a variety of reasons versus all the other suggestions.
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A Tone Hammer is a passive devise now? How cool is that?

Tone Hammer is a very colored box with no sweepable high. It's my understanding Jimmy is pretty happy with his fundamental tone going to FOH and just wants to subtract a little in the 5K area. He's looking for a specific scalpel where at best the TH is a sharp general use kitchen knife.
 
#58
jeffbonny said:
A Tone Hammer is a passive devise now? How cool is that?

Tone Hammer is a very colored box with no sweepable high. It's my understanding Jimmy is pretty happy with his fundamental tone going to FOH and just wants to subtract a little in the 5K area. He's looking for a specific scalpel where at best the TH is a sharp general use kitchen knife.
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Ya, Aggie makes cool stuff but I'd just use my VT Deluxe again if I were looking for a preamp that does a 5k cut. I don't want anything acting on it whatsoever except for the cut.
 
#59
Have you considered an ACG/East EQ02 in a box? I put mine in a box (couldn't decide which bass to put it in...) and it gives me a HUGE range of tones with just about any bass. It's very transparent when set "flat", but it's a 12db/oct LPF with range of 70Hz to 6kHz. You *can* add resonance at the cutoff if you want, but if you keep the gain knob all the way counter-clockwise, the cutoff is flat at wherever frequency you set it to.

I use mine for a wide variety of things - from dub bass to mic'd sealed-cab emulation to HiFi sizzle to subtle taming of the mids and highs. It takes some time to get to know it, but if you're just using it as a variable LPF, it's as simple as turning a knob.
 

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