IIRC, Josh said the Messenger versions prior to the current have the same output transformer as the Studio One but they had entirely different gain stages which accounts for colo(u)r. The Studio One may have a separate transformer for saturation tone. If someone were to send me one, I would gladly confirm.
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It sounds good but has a mighty footprint.
Yeah, I think that saturation has more to do with the transistor(s) but I would love to know too
Sascha Erni
Making things go whoomp, whoomp since 1994
I think I’m done for the time being. The SVPre works nicely as an always-on OD for the Bass Butler's clean channel, and also stacks well with both the Damnation Audio MBD2 and the Butler’s dirty channel. Joshwah doing its thing, and LPF for controlling clank going to FOH. I found I liked the SVPre’s HPF setting a lot, and it did what I was doing with the separate HPF pedal, so it’s off the board for now – the Orange’s 50 Hz shelving Bass dial works surprisingly well to get oomph back without boom, similar to what I did when I still had a HPF onboard, and the SVPre’s Low switch in the middle or left positions. PolyTune as buffer and mute switch, as well as a tuner if I don’t use the wirless. Which is off-board now because, well, there’s times and places for a wireless, so I don’t need it permanently installed on the board.
Looks good but you're not done!
I did it
A little overhang on the top row.
The board splits off at the utility knife and goes to the archetype-> la1a-> studio boost-> two notes cab sim.
A little overhang on the top row.
The board splits off at the utility knife and goes to the archetype-> la1a-> studio boost-> two notes cab sim.
Looks good! Get ready to move to the big board on the next new release from Josh!
What's the expression 1/4" for on that thing? Do you run two XLRs when playing out? FOH? I'm curious about that pre, same question arose when I had a GED-2112 - I had to get creative to sum the channels
Flip the bottom row upside down and you'd have some room in the middle lol - how do you use your Solarian? gains set high on that one, what all is in your fx loop? looks good!
oooooo. I thought I was in the last group of people. Jeesh I hope it comes soon.
I’ll take the la-1a off and put it with my preamps and cab sim and that should buy me a little more time. I use the solarian as a dirty boost. I’m using it at 12v currently. I either boost the other pedals or use it by itself.
solarian, azure, sunray and maestro are in the loop. But I’m taking everything thing out except the maestro.
I feel like the fx loop works best when the pedals are in the same gain range so the settings work for all.
Sascha Erni
Making things go whoomp, whoomp since 1994
I play two XLRs to FOH if possible, but some engineers proved to be of the “here’s our house DI, just plug it in” kind, others get all weird if a bass player wants more than one DI line, so I have a ProDI in my bag, too. Including the ProDI, I have four DI options available (the Sennheiser has one, too), so that should cover pretty much any scenario. I mostly play in two bands with own PA, where it isn’t an issue, but it turned out to be one when I’m sitting in.
The Expression port lets you control the Dirt channel’s Volume with an expression / swell pedal, or use something like this for two predefined settings: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
I used both a passive Morley and a decades old Trace Elliot swell pedal with it, and it works fine. I don’t need it with this board, though, as I already have three to five different dirt options built-in, depending on how you count. The Bass Butler works very well as a standalone device though, in this use-case, I’d want a swell pedal or abovementioned EHX box.
Definitely, I need more loops, they definitely work better when set for one specific pedal, its possible to have 2 but they have to be similar. Maestro is new fav fuzz, I run mine about 25% gain, nice compression and the fxloop lets the fuzz fizzle out before the clean trails off, in a fxloop the Maestro is amazing, I never thought I'd like a pedal like that but I'm proven wrong.
solarian, azure, sunray and maestro are in the loop. But I’m taking everything thing out except the maestro.
I feel like the fx loop works best when the pedals are in the same gain range so the settings work for all.
That static exp is neat, essentially two pedals in one, you manually express? I wonder what happens if you still run a expression in line with it, would it change the expression range? I'm trying my best to no buy a dedicated exp pedal for my Chromatron, and use a old volume pedal, but the impedance is too narrow, I'm wondering if this would be a cheap way of adding a adjustment to the exp line. hmm
