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API TranZformer Bass Preamp

#81
carsonchilders said:
Hey friends! Mine is coming in this week and I plan to have a pretty cut and dry bass demo of it to upload the following week. Any specific requests? I too found the Sweetwater demo too subtle.
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I would love to hear a demo! Anything really...fingerstyle, pick, various compressor and eq settings? I couldn't find the Sweetwater demo?
Thanks a bunch!,
Brent
 
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#82
BrentSimons said:
I would love to hear a demo! Anything really...fingerstyle, pick, various compressor and eq settings? I couldn't find the Sweetwater demo?
Thanks a bunch!,
Brent
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I said sweetwater but meant Vintage King! My bad.

One thing I really noticed is - really fast attack on the compressor helps contact going from slap to fingerstyle. Also, it's super easy to kneal down and click the wheel over for more compression and change a variety of settings FAST. I actually really really like it.

Secondly, to get that really Pino-ish sound, it's more of a turning the high switch down, not necessarily just boosting the lows. That statement seems obvious, but the low knob is lower in the frequency it boosts than I expected. Which I really like as well. Or just turn your tone knob down haha.
 
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#84
carsonchilders said:
Hey friends! Here's my demo after having it a few days. Ignore me sounding like an idiot who can't talk!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CiRh-6qT24
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Nice demo, even if I personally would appreciate a little less slap, and I now clearly can hear this is absolutely not a pedal that is capable of giving me anything in the proximity of the tone I personally prefer.

But hey, whatever floats you boat I guess.

As I said nice demo, even if it convinced me never ever to invest in this massive expensive piece of gear, even if I happened to win the lottery.
 
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#85
NoiseNinja said:
Nice demo, even if I personally would appreciate a little less slap, and I now clearly can hear this is absolutely not a pedal that is capable of giving me anything in the proximity of the tone I personally prefer.

But hey, whatever floats you boat I guess.

As I said nice demo, even if it convinced me never ever to invest in this massive expensive piece of gear, even if I happened to win the lottery.
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Ha thanks! A lot of the slap to me was more about hearing the compressor.
 
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#88
Used my Tranzformer on an acoustic session last weekend, with a Breedlove ABG. Only used it as preamp / DI without any EQ or compression. We recorded two tracks, one with API and one without. The Tranzformer sounded great, added a definite thickness and weight to the tone by comparison with the other track.

Would be interested in anyone's experience comparing the Tranzformer to other direct boxes like Reddi or Avalon.
 
#94
Hooked my TranZformer directly to an Electro-Voice ZLX-15P. HOLY SHNITES!!! May use this rig live on my next gig!! Amazing tone!

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#96
carsonchilders said:
How should I use the phase inverse switches on the pedal? Or rather, when? I haven't used phase buttons - only messing with phase in the studio
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As I understand it, typically when something sounds "off" in the mix it could be due to phase cancellation. The phase inverse switch is used to correct that.
 

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