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#261
Found it! Yes, this makes a world of difference with adjustments, much easier to get precise.

I also tried Frank's settings and they're a great starting point to work from, it took quite a bit of fiddling around with the warmth, thresholds and limiter attack to get the slap tone right but I've found a good general purpose setting that sounds good and controlled with fingerstyle and slap, without sounding too squashed...well done Frank!
 
#269
boomertech said:
Thanks guys!:)

How much of an adjustment are you guys making to the threshold trimmer?

-Frank
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I only tried 1/4 turn counter-clockwise and that was all I needed. I have yep to try it with my passive P and J basses to see how they interact with it.

Which brings up yet another question: by making it less sensitive, is it reducing the dynamic range of the threshold? and if so, which end of the dynamic range is it reducing?
 
#270
mjac28 said:
I made just a slight adjustment is working well I wouldn't mind a little help with the ratio settings
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I know the compressor goes from 1.5:1 to 20:1 and I only wanted light compression with the limiter not too far above that...so I set my ratio a little lower than 9 o'clock. See pic:



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#272
johndough247 said:
Which brings up yet another question: by making it less sensitive, is it reducing the dynamic range of the threshold? and if so, which end of the dynamic range is it reducing?
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The trimmer sets the signal gain for the threshold detectors. The original gain was at 75% of the trim pot setting for high sensitivity. I have been shipping with the trimmer set to 50% for a lower sensitivity. When the sensitivity is reduced, essentially the MIN end of the comp and limiter threshold point is increased making the overall control range smaller.

I will get to those ratio numbers soon for the positions of the control knob.

-Frank
 
#273
boomertech said:
The trimmer sets the signal gain for the threshold detectors. The original gain was at 75% of the trim pot setting for high sensitivity. I have been shipping with the trimmer set to 50% for a lower sensitivity. When the sensitivity is reduced, essentially the MIN end of the comp and limiter threshold point is increased making the overall control range smaller.

I will get to those ratio numbers soon for the positions of the control knob.

-Frank
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Yea...I figured as much, having plugged up my passive J-bass to it, the comp threshold couldn't go low enough to get where I wanted it to be.
 
#274
johndough247 said:
Yea...I figured as much, having plugged up my passive J-bass to it, the comp threshold couldn't go low enough to get where I wanted it to be.
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The trimmer has a range of 20dB, so a little turn makes a huge difference. I suggest that everyone set it with your lowest output instrument. When I set it for my basses I trimmed it so the actives sweet spot was about 2:30 on the comp threshold and the passive bass sweet spot came in around 11:30.

If you want to get the most rotation from the control for high and low output instruments, then set your lowest output instrument up for a sweet spot near the 9:00 position of the comp thresh first.

-Frank
 
#276
mjac28 said:
Thanks Frank for the help I love it I'm getting use to the controls and my various basses thanks for the tip on passive and active basses
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Awsome!:bassist: and thank you!


Here are the DE-CL ratios around the dial… except for the min setting, I rounded to the nearest whole number. I also used 9:30 and 2:30 positions because they are halfway between noon and the min and max positions:

MIN (7:00) = 1.5:1
9:30 = 4:1
12:00 = 6:1
2:30 = 11:1
Max (5:00) = 20:1

-Frank
 
#277
Definitely worth the wait this is the iPhone 5 of pedals there will be some very happy people who receive theirs I suspect the sign up line just got a bit longer congrats Frank and Glen on a job well done and thanks Bongo for a great review
 
#279
mjac28 said:
Definitely worth the wait this is the iPhone 5 of pedals there will be some very happy people who receive theirs I suspect the sign up line just got a bit longer congrats Frank and Glen on a job well done and thanks Bongo for a great review
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+1

I rarely use pedals, but this is the pedal I wish was a part of my amp (actually I take that back; having it in front of my other pedals has made them behave MUCH better)...been with me on all my gigs this weekend and don't see that trend changing...perfect volume control.

boomertech said:
Awsome!:bassist: and thank you!


Here are the DE-CL ratios around the dial… except for the min setting, I rounded to the nearest whole number. I also used 9:30 and 2:30 positions because they are halfway between noon and the min and max positions:

MIN (7:00) = 1.5:1
9:30 = 4:1
12:00 = 6:1
2:30 = 11:1
Max (5:00) = 20:1

-Frank
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Thanks Frank, always on top of things!
 
#280
I agree I wish this was a part of my amp most on board compressors are horrible I've had two amps with onboard compression a Warwick and a TC Electronics I think FEA Labs should license some technology to the bigger amp makers it would make a huge difference but come to think about it they would probably make some subtle changes to the design and find a way to rip the guys off
 

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