Yeah. All the way up at the start and end of my chain using different pedals with it. No crackle.
what bass are you using?
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Yeah. All the way up at the start and end of my chain using different pedals with it. No crackle.
what bass are you using?
Kiesel Osiris 5
Fender Nate Mendel P
Fender American Performer P
Roscoe Century 5 string.
All are passive except the Roscoe. The bass in my earlier recordings is the American Performer.
I'm guessing the way the Fliptop pedals work is that they boost the signal going into the input as opposed to just increasing the volume of the output.
It’s hard to gauge since everyone’s setup is so different. Especially when your using headphones and a mixer/recording device.
I’d email Josh and see if he has any ideas about what’s going on. He’s usually very responsive to emails and He’s a lot smarter than me
Just tried this now with the mids at a higher frequency for my taste, and you're right, it's a great sound. I think this might be my favorite tone yet out of the SV-Pre. Bright on adds quite a bit of noise, but dialing the treble back takes care of that, and there seems to be some extra headroom with it on.
Got the RFE. Man that high-pass filter makes a massive low end difference. Can't wait to hear what this thing does though a cab vs. an audio interface/headphones. That extra oomph is a chef's kiss. Hard to know what to make of the mids sweep/low-pass effect on fizzy distortion, but maybe my neighbors will just have to go along for a ride with me later and find out.
This makes me feel better. I tried these settings too, and I also found that Bright introduced a lot of noise. Cutting treble to nothing eliminated most (but not all) of the noise. Glad you confirmed the same thing as it saved me some trouble shooting.
I've found a nice deep scooped clean setting, and a gritty mid focused setting almost like a brighter Commerford sound I like. I want to get a really bright setup, and I think that #1 switch may have something to do with it, but for now those two are amazing. My main bass I wanted to play with this thing is in the shop (US Stingray), can't wait until its done, I'm sure the humbucker sounds killer with this thing..There’s so many cool tones it’s hard to decide which one to go with
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I just stripped the setup down to bare bones and tried the following: Passive Yamaha BB1025x > Fliptop Boost > EWS Subtle Volume Control >Whirlwind IMP2 DI > Rolls PM50 for monitoring purposes.
The EWS is a passive volume knob that serves the purpose of stepping down whatever I'm sending to the DI before it goes to the Rolls, because the Rolls is notoriously unable to handle any sort of input from bass gear, or just about anything that isn't an actual microphone.
I was able to get the FTB up to noon easily, with barely stepping the EWS down at all. No distortion. I was able to max out the gain on the FTB without any distortion of any kind whatsoever, when compensated for by the EWS afterwards. At least no distortion from the FTB or the Rolls, running the FTB at 18v. The FTB gets ridiculously loud, and all by itself when maxed out I had to turn the EWS almost all of the way down to compensate and not fry the Rolls, but at no point was there distortion out of the FTB. Which leads me to believe that in my experience(s) thus far, it has never been the FTB overdriving, unless I'm hitting it with a hot pre or boost beforehand, and has just been everything after it that has been fried to high heaven by its raging output.
Fliptop boost much like SV boost is 40dB of gain...as mentioned. You will clip most things if you have it turned up more than 7 - 9 o'clock, unless your signal is REALLY dialed back going into the Fliptop boost. Remember, although it is imparting that Fliptop sound, it is also boosting your signal. Unity is pretty low on the dial...if you are in the noon range, yes...you will clip whatever is downstream unless you address the extremely hot input you are sending from the boost.
Think of the Fliptop Boost as an amp sim/cab sim pedal all in one with a single knob. Put it at the end of your chain and drive a power amp with it... bliss!
Longtime lurker on this thread, and finally feel like i belong! Picked up an SV-Pre and finally got a chance to put it through it’s paces tonight. Loving it! Although not in the way i expected. I planned to have that as my dirty preamp with the gain up to get a but of grit and use my Darkglass Harmonic Booster as my clean pre. But after testing them out both ways, I ended up switching and having the SV-Pre clean (with the master on full and using gain to bring to unity as i learned here). Sounds amazing paired with my Cali76 Compact Deluxe. And now i’m also waiting on delivery if a JoshWah to complete my new setup-went through a nearly complete pedal turnover in the last couple weeks.
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While I respect the time-honored tradition of dibsing . . . ain’t never gonna happen.Let me know if you ever wanna unload that BB1025x
LMAO... with the SV Boost I go to about 10:00... maybe 10:30... if I really want to party, that is...
I didn’t get a FT boost out of fear I can’t use it. Can’t use the SV boost at all. It’s like an off the charts volume pedal that fudges up everything if you apply even the smallest percentage of boost.
Jump the moon with that little thing.
I realized in 3 minutes I wasn’t going to be able to use it. Too extreme for my set up.
What about into the mod station?
I said it before and I'll say it again, I'm sure it effects the quality in some form, but I wish all the boost pedals had gain/masters like the studio boost, which I understand can use the transformer to step down but still, a master would be nice
Yes fed into the Modulation Station it would temper it but it’s not necessary.
I have my levels adjusted for that particular part of my chain.
IDK. It definitely shocked me after attempting to use it. It’s like a volume bomb going off. I can’t use it.
Oh man, I'm going to be racking up the demerit points like crazy... I really like the SV Boost, way more than the SV Pre. Even at 8:00 the thing cuts. In some rooms it's just what you need. And it sounds SO good driving a Synth Voice. Everything y'all are saying leads me to believe that I'm going to really like the FT Boost... if it ever arrives...
