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Another Rusty Box Question :(

#41
AmpedSilence said:
^ awesome man! the music go round to go to here in Gwinnett is the one in Lilburn off Hwy 29 and Beaver Ruin. Its in the Kroger shopping center right at the intersection.

The guys that work there are great people! Tell them Elmer sent you and they'll treat you like royalty :smug: ( I go there like every week! I need to stop. )

seriously though, Jerry, Baron and Tristan are all great guys to deal with.

I was looking at the newer Aphex DIs but I think I might end up going with a Whirlwind DI I have laying around, now that I got the tone I was looking for :)
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Thanks for the reference. I'm up near Mall of Georgia now so it's not too far for me to get there. I'm stoked to go check it out. Due to work, it's gonna be a couple of weeks before I can get over there, but when I do, I'll letcha know how it goes.
Rock on!:bassist:
 
#42
packhowitzer said:
Thanks for the reference. I'm up near Mall of Georgia now so it's not too far for me to get there. I'm stoked to go check it out. Due to work, it's gonna be a couple of weeks before I can get over there, but when I do, I'll letcha know how it goes.
Rock on!:bassist:
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Awesome! I've been going there for years, there is also a Guitar Center about 10 min from there, on Pleasant Hill Rd, in case MGR isn't up to par :) ( I only go there for the endless supply of Monster cables. I am not to fond of the people that work there...)
 
#43
AmpedSilence said:
Awesome! I've been going there for years, there is also a Guitar Center about 10 min from there, on Pleasant Hill Rd, in case MGR isn't up to par :) ( I only go there for the endless supply of Monster cables. I am not to fond of the people that work there...)
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Yeah, I've been to that GC and was thoroughly unimpressed. I've been going to the Atlanta GC since the '80s (back when it was Rhythm City!). I've had my ups and downs there like most people, but for the most part I get exactly the experience one would expect out of GC- adequate, but not great.

Although I will say that increasingly I have felt that it is not the employees that is the issue, but the other customers that are really grinding my gears. I've noticed that the Atlanta location has become more and more a place where people who are very obviously not there to buy are just coming in to bang away on gear and perhaps enjoy the air conditioning. I know you get that everywhere to some degree, but I actually work for a living. I may only have a few minutes to come in and try something out. It isn't easy to do that when some jackleg has been hogging the only guitar cable for a 500' radius and has had that markbass combo turned up as loud as it will go for the last 30 minutes.

Sorry for the rant. lol. I'm disappointed that what little time I do have to go to a music store has been nuked by chumps seemingly every time I try to go.

That being said, I am very much looking forward to MGR!
 
#44
packhowitzer said:
Yeah, I've been to that GC and was thoroughly unimpressed. I've been going to the Atlanta GC since the '80s (back when it was Rhythm City!). I've had my ups and downs there like most people, but for the most part I get exactly the experience one would expect out of GC- adequate, but not great.

Although I will say that increasingly I have felt that it is not the employees that is the issue, but the other customers that are really grinding my gears. I've noticed that the Atlanta location has become more and more a place where people who are very obviously not there to buy are just coming in to bang away on gear and perhaps enjoy the air conditioning. I know you get that everywhere to some degree, but I actually work for a living. I may only have a few minutes to come in and try something out. It isn't easy to do that when some jackleg has been hogging the only guitar cable for a 500' radius and has had that markbass combo turned up as loud as it will go for the last 30 minutes.

Sorry for the rant. lol. I'm disappointed that what little time I do have to go to a music store has been nuked by chumps seemingly every time I try to go.

That being said, I am very much looking forward to MGR!
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ATL's guitar center is where I bought my first guitar years ago! I also remember there used to be a Mars music store where the Gwinnett GC is now. It was huge!
There is an amp repair shop near Atl's GC named Wizards and that was the only reason I went down there... its a bit far.

MGR has a scarce collection of basses but last time I went, they had some pretty sweet bass cabs!
Don't go this week! Its spring break and the metal kids have their own shred fest in there.

jk :)
 
#45
Sorry (kinda) for esurrecting an old thread here!

While doing a JFGI on hiss and noise issues with the Rusty
AmpedSilence said:
At this point, I'm thinking I must be real unlucky or SUCK at using pedal correctly :scowl:

I noticed today at rehearsal that when all my pedals were off/disengaged and I turned on/engaged the rusty box, a VERY audible hiss could be heard. I would turn down the gain and it would lessen the hiss but then what is the point of the gain!!
now correct me if I am wrong but hissing is inherent to pedals while humming is due to lousy power sources correct?I have the RB running on its own AC adapter either way.
and none of my other pedals produce any hiss, they are all daisy chained and powered by a one spot.

I don't know much about buffers and all that but could adding a Boss eq after the RB help?

:help:
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Sorry to rehash/resurrect and old thread, BUT-

I picked up a RB about two/three months ago, and just noticed the same issue over the last few rehearsals- a hiss that didn't seem to be there at first is now quite audible, even at a volume level "low enough to talk over".

Before I get on the horn to David at Tronographic, did you ever come to resolution on this matter (I.e., repair, band-aid/non-use, sold it, trash-bin??? LOL)?

Just curious. Since I'm a tech, I would simply do the work myself if it is/was a simple fix (again, David will hopefully verify that with me).

Thanks for any insight into this!
 
#46
I was in this thread quite a bit then...I've replaced it with a TC Spark Drive. not really, it's because I'm not in a loud band, things are quieter these days and I prefer the normal low mid friendly sound of no Rustybox, and the Hypergravity compressor I'm using. I get the low punch from overdrive and eq and compressor attack time. Allot of it is from the bass you use.
If you are Moving Air at high volume, a Rustybox is great for clarity and you should be playing louder than any hiss, even other sources of hiss like other amps and lines leaking through.
 
#47
Rusty is my favorite preamp/OD, but it has a lot of high end and is susceptible to revealing any noise in either your source signal or in the power rails. This is due to the design having no post -clipping hi-cut filter, AND a clipping section which is exposed to the power supply rail. The treble control is your friend here but limited in what it can do as it is pre-clipping.
I will also agree that the bass is lean but that makes it perfect for driving clarity at loud volumes. Use of post-eq can help with both the noise (cut around 8KHz) and to boost low-lows when desired.
 
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#51
jw23mind said:
Interesting, I would never have thought of that. Thank you for sharing!
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Well, the noise (predominantly, hiss) happens regardless of any upstream pedals.

At first, I suspected that it was a PSU issue to the 9V pedals, so I removed it and ran the bass guitar into the Rusty, then the SWR power amp, then the 810- still there.

Since the treble control seemed to effect the amount of hiss I figured that it had to be the input op-amp (knowing the TS-50B schematics like the back of my hand!).

They Trono-boys were incredibly accommodating in their replies!
 

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