Bergantino B/Amp at NAMM

[Munjibunga]

For those of you using the eq at 0 0 0 0 on your B|Amp: are you also using the distortion, and if so where do you set the blend knob? I've found that with distortion on, if I run the blend up around 2:00 (which is where I get the amount of grit and growl I like) some of the bottom end drops out. I notice it through my cabs (2 x HDN210s) and IEMs. It's particularly obvious if I flip the blend knob back and forth between 2:00 and fully CCW (dry). Granted, losing some low end in the distorted signal is not unlike pretty much every distortion pedal I've used - most of the good ones have a way to add the low frequencies back in. On the B|Amp I usually compensate by boosting 3 or 4 db at 90hz with a wide Q to bring the bottom back. It just makes it a little cumbersome switching in and out of distortion, b/c I have to adjust the eq. Anyone having similar experiences? Just curious if folks using 0 0 0 0 for their eq settings are (a) not using distortion, (b) not running the blend knob past 11:00 or 12:00 to maintain some of the lows in the dry signal, or (c) just living loss of low end in their distorted sound.

0 0 0 0, (a) not using distortion.

 

[NeilGB]

Feature idea:

I would like the option to have the Aux volume control work like a passive tone control (like the Sadowsky VTC).

What do you all think?

 

[Jazz Ad]

That poor aux pot gets used for anything these days. I'd prefer a choice for the treble EQ to be used as band or shelf LPF.

 

[mwbonsall]

Feature idea:

I would like the option to have the Aux volume control work like a passive tone control (like the Sadowsky VTC).

What do you all think?

That poor aux pot gets used for anything these days. I'd prefer a choice for the treble EQ to be used as band or shelf LPF.

I would like the Aux control to be a variable bad note filter. I would use that a lot.

Mark

 

[Munjibunga]

Feature idea:

I would like the option to have the Aux volume control work like a passive tone control (like the Sadowsky VTC).

What do you all think?

Let's see ... four bands of semi-fully-parametric EQ and you want a tone control?

Uhhhh ...

 

[Burwabit]

Feature idea:

I would like the option to have the Aux volume control work like a passive tone control (like the Sadowsky VTC).

What do you all think?

Would that be like a LPF?

 

[RocketMusic]

That poor aux pot gets used for anything these days. I'd prefer a choice for the treble EQ to be used as band or shelf LPF.

YES!!! Big +1

 

[RocketMusic]

One thing that occurred to me recently... I often want to cut somewhere in the upper lows or the lower mids. The room booms that I face are usually between 60 Hz and 150 Hz. I used to spend my low mid EQ point clearing up the boom, but recently I've started using the variable notch filter instead (which I've always thought of as an upright only tool). But it's really just a narrow 6 db (or more) notch filter for cutting, and that usually kills room boom just fine. And by doing that, I've freed up my low mid EQ for BOOSTING a little bit higher. It's sort of like having an extra low mid EQ point.

Fun tip!

 

[Jim Bergantino]

YES!!! Big +1

Knock it off! ;-}

 

[Dragonlord]

That poor aux pot gets used for anything these days. I'd prefer a choice for the treble EQ to be used as band or shelf LPF.

If there's demand for that and it happens (personally I don't know if I'd use it but it wouldn't hurt having the option), an easy way to squeeze it into the menu without adding more "tabs" would be at the treble's frequency selector, it could go to "LPF" below 3k or over 8k (which are the limits). Or there could be another option in the Q selector for the treble, where you choose if it will be Wide etc, there could be a "LPF" option.

 

[RocketMusic]

Knock it off! ;-}

Jim - I was taking it easy on ya, honest! I almost added that I'd love to see a shelf filter as an option for the low EQ point, too. LOL

 

[gregbackstrom]

That poor aux pot gets used for anything these days. I'd prefer a choice for the treble EQ to be used as band or shelf LPF.

Instead of an aux pot, how about an "axe pot"? I'd love it if Jim could design a broad-band upper-bass / low mid filter that affects my guitar player's amp.

 

[AmazingMumford]

Instead of an aux pot, how about an "axe pot"? I'd love it if Jim could design a broad-band upper-bass / low mid filter that affects my guitar player's amp.

And don't forget the much-desired "sex pot." After all, rumor has it that Kelly LeBrock was created digitally using an early B|Amp prototype. And I believe Jim does have a master's in weird science. So you never know....

 

[NeilGB]

Let's see ... four bands of semi-fully-parametric EQ and you want a tone control?

Uhhhh ...

Yes for sure. Four bands of sfp eq is very fine resolution. I hate to change these settings from venue to venue but a good old fashioned lpf filter can be grabbed and tweaked to kill off errant high frequencies.

 

[Munjibunga]

Yes for sure. Four bands of sfp eq is very fine resolution. I hate to change these settings from venue to venue but a good old fashioned lpf filter can be grabbed and tweaked to kill off errant high frequencies.

This is why the amp has memory settings.

 

[gregbackstrom]

This is why the amp has memory settings.

I totally forgot about those!

 

[NeilGB]

I find the memory settings are best used to call up different EQ profiles needed for various tunes or sections in the set.

 

[SCT1422]

And if we can get the controls to order food for the after the 1st set, start our cars when you're playing the last tune of the 3rd set on those cold fricken nights and help line up some groupies for the end of the night !!!

 

[Jerry Ziarko]

And if we can get the controls to order food for the after the 1st set, start our cars when you're playing the last tune of the 3rd set on those cold fricken nights and help line up some groupies for the end of the night !!!

That's what I'm talkin' about!!

 

[Jim Bergantino]

And if we can get the controls to order food for the after the 1st set, start our cars when you're playing the last tune of the 3rd set on those cold fricken nights and help line up some groupies for the end of the night !!!

We're getting there Steve. Just working on the variable STD filter! ;-}