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dUg Ultra Bass 1000 - Tech 21
- Thread starter dannster
- Start date
far out of my price range as well. so i try not to talk about, or even look at it! a rack preamp version could be a nice alternative.
Man, I flirt with the idea of selling my other amps and getting a dUg... I think it's the only amp to ever tempt me to do so.
- May 20, 2000
- 3,200
- 1,917
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification, Spector, Dingwall, Tech 21 NYC, Darkglass
They aren't cheap but every time I play through this amp I love it! Sooooo good! 
- May 20, 2000
- 3,200
- 1,917
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification, Spector, Dingwall, Tech 21 NYC, Darkglass
^^^^^^^ Make it stop!!!^^^^^^^
LA LA LA LA LA LA... Can't hear you!
You don't need to hear me, you've tried the head with your Gibson RD bass. We can't forget how that sounded. Ever. drool
- May 20, 2000
- 3,200
- 1,917
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification, Spector, Dingwall, Tech 21 NYC, Darkglass
Wow! RD Artist? That must have sounded amazing! Those have one of the best aggressive rock tones of any bass ever! If I still played 4 stringers much, I would own one. I would still like to, but they cost too much to not get played.
She's lovely! A butterscotch with maple fingerboard is on my "if I ever win the lottery" list. I missed out on one years ago, it was $350 in a music store, and I didn't have the money that day. I went back on payday, and they had sold it a couple of hours before I got there.Yep. Artist. She's a beauty... And a beast!
I've switched from rack rigs to a boutique amp head that I love (Reiner), so a pedal version would be ideal for me.
...but I still GAS for the dUg head...
I had to disappoint, but I'm pretty sure a preamp version wouldn't be significantly cheaper. The biggest cost is the development cost for the preamp section, as the power amp is a commercially available unit. Removing the power amp would only bring the cost down by a few hundred bucks.
In case folks are curious, here are some rough frequencies for the EQ, estimated by looking at the output on a spectrum analyzer as I turned knobs:
Bottom channel: Bass 60Hz, Mid 300Hz. Mid Boost at roughly 800Hz but it appears to be a shelf, so it affects everything above that too.
Top Channel: Mid 500Hz, Treble 3kHz.
Bottom channel: Bass 60Hz, Mid 300Hz. Mid Boost at roughly 800Hz but it appears to be a shelf, so it affects everything above that too.
Top Channel: Mid 500Hz, Treble 3kHz.
Okay, so repeating the above, but using white noise as the input, I learned a bit more:
The EQ controls appear to be boost only. The bass might have a tiny bit of cut at the very minimum position, but not near as much as the gain it has available.
The top channel has a high frequency rolloff starting at about 4kHz, presumably to tame "sizzle" from the distortion.
The LPF on the bottom channel has a much steeper slope than the HPF on the top channel.
The bottom channel has about a 10dB boost in mix mode, so it is 10dB quieter when you switch to that channel solo (clean tone).
The mid boost is actually centered way up at 4kHz- its not a shelf, like I thought, but does have a wide Q. The other frequency points seemed pretty close to my original assessment.
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- May 20, 2000
- 3,200
- 1,917
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification, Spector, Dingwall, Tech 21 NYC, Darkglass
