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- Thread starter TaySte_2000
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NEEDS MOAR SUBDECAY
Like the Echobox, noisebox, prometheus and gurgle and moan I have at home?
Proteus is really mine.
You can try, but I think you'll find I can mess with Texas
Just as long as you don't trash California.You can try, but I think you'll find I can mess with Texas
(Both slogans have the same meaning. Simply put, don't litter.)
Also, cool! I kinda wish the Proteus was vertical instead of horizontal, but otherwise it looks like a really great pedal.
Beauties, each and every one, funny though: the Baby Quasar I saw in Vintage&Rare (london) was purple like the original. looking forward to hearing that shizzle
My Baby Q is purple (kinda lavender, really). As long as it's the same on the inside, though, you're going to love it. Best phaser I've ever used for bass, or guitar, or keyboards, or electric autoharp. It's amazing!
Initial Thoughts
I got about 10 minutes with each pedal yesterday with my big rig so hardly in depth but I won't get them to play them again till Monday as I'm out playing gigs all weekend.
Tomato Fuzz - Woooo love it, I've been away from fuzz for a while and I had a Colorsound the other week on loan but man this pedal is great. IT's got that Fuzz Face vibe but with the treble cut I can take out the spluttery highend making it very smooth. Plenty of volume and fuzz on tap, no low end loss, fine with active basses and the turning the buffer off gives a whole different range of tones.
Only thing I'm not sold on is the bias but this was using it in huge increments the last 25% of it are really nice for just tweaking the sound but when you really start to take it down its a bit thin for bass but there is still enough volume to make it usable even at the lowest bias settings.
Liquid Sunshine - My guitarist took this off me about 2 seconds after I walked into the room, he loved it, made his Mesa solo 50 sound so much thicker. It's a very unique pedal on bass as most bass pedals work on leaving your low end clean or dirtying up your whole signal, this allows you to do you whole signal and then distort the lows and mids more.
It's really fun as I'm not a fan of high end so I can get really crunchy bass sounds while not getting any shrill sounds. Best way to describe it is, you know when you love a distortion pedal and its huge on the low strings but then you sound like a lead guitar on your top strings and it ruins the vibe well this doesn't your low end is big and crunchy and the top end is slightly gritty.
Not sure if it's a keeper for 2 reasons, 1 it's very transparent and I want something darker for my boosty gain type tones like the Phat Punk, CPD or even the Chilli Boost and 2 my guitarist loved it so much that I will likely let him buy it off me.
Proteus - I just didn't get enough time with it, so far I prefer the Prometheus but I really just didn't get anything I liked dialed in, it can do a stellar LPF with one of the knobs dimed and one at minimum but I can't remember which
but this will be the first getting hammered on Monday.
Baby Quasar - Well the old quasar was my favourite phaser of all time, this thing kills it dead, it sounds way better so smooth and chewy, the range on the speed knob is insane I set it where I expected it to be perfect visually and it was sooooo slow, so I turned it up and bit and perfect. I don't know why we don't see more of these.
This was the real stand out pedal for me, really wasn't what I was expecting and just didn't want to stop playing it, this is easily better than all the phasers in the Line 6 M series that were the reason I sold my quasar in the first place, they did a passable replacement.
Overall very happy, there will be a Tomato vs Huck shootout in a few weeks when the Huck gets here but personally at the moment I think the Tomato will win, I just don't remember being as happy straight away with the Huck it was always a battle to get the right tone, once you did it was great but the Tomato is like turn a knob BAM great tone turn another BAM another great tone but totally different.
Anyway, initial findings Baby Quasar is a keeper, Tomato is about to go up against my favourite bass fuzz of all time and it's looking strong. Other 2 I'm not sure about but don't want to comment on the Proteus really as I just didn't have the time with it.
Cheers
I got about 10 minutes with each pedal yesterday with my big rig so hardly in depth but I won't get them to play them again till Monday as I'm out playing gigs all weekend.
Tomato Fuzz - Woooo love it, I've been away from fuzz for a while and I had a Colorsound the other week on loan but man this pedal is great. IT's got that Fuzz Face vibe but with the treble cut I can take out the spluttery highend making it very smooth. Plenty of volume and fuzz on tap, no low end loss, fine with active basses and the turning the buffer off gives a whole different range of tones.
Only thing I'm not sold on is the bias but this was using it in huge increments the last 25% of it are really nice for just tweaking the sound but when you really start to take it down its a bit thin for bass but there is still enough volume to make it usable even at the lowest bias settings.
Liquid Sunshine - My guitarist took this off me about 2 seconds after I walked into the room, he loved it, made his Mesa solo 50 sound so much thicker. It's a very unique pedal on bass as most bass pedals work on leaving your low end clean or dirtying up your whole signal, this allows you to do you whole signal and then distort the lows and mids more.
It's really fun as I'm not a fan of high end so I can get really crunchy bass sounds while not getting any shrill sounds. Best way to describe it is, you know when you love a distortion pedal and its huge on the low strings but then you sound like a lead guitar on your top strings and it ruins the vibe well this doesn't your low end is big and crunchy and the top end is slightly gritty.
Not sure if it's a keeper for 2 reasons, 1 it's very transparent and I want something darker for my boosty gain type tones like the Phat Punk, CPD or even the Chilli Boost and 2 my guitarist loved it so much that I will likely let him buy it off me.
Proteus - I just didn't get enough time with it, so far I prefer the Prometheus but I really just didn't get anything I liked dialed in, it can do a stellar LPF with one of the knobs dimed and one at minimum but I can't remember which
but this will be the first getting hammered on Monday.Baby Quasar - Well the old quasar was my favourite phaser of all time, this thing kills it dead, it sounds way better so smooth and chewy, the range on the speed knob is insane I set it where I expected it to be perfect visually and it was sooooo slow, so I turned it up and bit and perfect. I don't know why we don't see more of these.
This was the real stand out pedal for me, really wasn't what I was expecting and just didn't want to stop playing it, this is easily better than all the phasers in the Line 6 M series that were the reason I sold my quasar in the first place, they did a passable replacement.
Overall very happy, there will be a Tomato vs Huck shootout in a few weeks when the Huck gets here but personally at the moment I think the Tomato will win, I just don't remember being as happy straight away with the Huck it was always a battle to get the right tone, once you did it was great but the Tomato is like turn a knob BAM great tone turn another BAM another great tone but totally different.
Anyway, initial findings Baby Quasar is a keeper, Tomato is about to go up against my favourite bass fuzz of all time and it's looking strong. Other 2 I'm not sure about but don't want to comment on the Proteus really as I just didn't have the time with it.
Cheers
The return of the soundclipman
Chain is Valenti no3 Active Jazz into pedal into POD Bass XT set to tube preamp and then USB into Audacity and converted straight to mp3.
I have to admit they do sound a bit different into my amps, as I guess you would expect but the Tomato is a lot less gated. Anyway here you have them.
Baby Quasar - Link Removed
Tomato Fuzz - Link Removed
Liquid Sunshine - Link Removed
Proteus - Link Removed
And finally an fx medally it goes clean bass, then OC-2, then Tomato, then Proteus, then Prometheus, then Echobox set for just modulation, so at this point all 5 are turned on, then I take the Proteus out, then the Proteus returns set as a low pass filter and the Echobox and Prometheus are turned off.
Just a taste of messings to come
Link Removed
Enjoy
Chain is Valenti no3 Active Jazz into pedal into POD Bass XT set to tube preamp and then USB into Audacity and converted straight to mp3.
I have to admit they do sound a bit different into my amps, as I guess you would expect but the Tomato is a lot less gated. Anyway here you have them.
Baby Quasar - Link Removed
Tomato Fuzz - Link Removed
Liquid Sunshine - Link Removed
Proteus - Link Removed
And finally an fx medally it goes clean bass, then OC-2, then Tomato, then Proteus, then Prometheus, then Echobox set for just modulation, so at this point all 5 are turned on, then I take the Proteus out, then the Proteus returns set as a low pass filter and the Echobox and Prometheus are turned off.
Just a taste of messings to come
Link Removed
Enjoy
So taking from thye soundclips my thoughts have changed a little.
Firstly still in love with the Quasar and Tomato they are keepers, though the tomato will not be my vintage off the board fuzz.
Liquid Sunshine is sounding a lot better than when I play with my tube amp, I'm still 50/50 on it, it's just far more transparent that what I use currently.
Proteus well on it's own other than a super dubby low pass filter I don't like it, but stacked with something else (I need to do a clip with the noisebox) it's great, I've never heard s&h stand out before like that in my last clip so again a keeper on the synthy crazy board.
I think the best way to cover it is Filter = Prometheus Win, Sample and Hold = Proteus Win
Any questions just ask away.
Firstly still in love with the Quasar and Tomato they are keepers, though the tomato will not be my vintage off the board fuzz.
Liquid Sunshine is sounding a lot better than when I play with my tube amp, I'm still 50/50 on it, it's just far more transparent that what I use currently.
Proteus well on it's own other than a super dubby low pass filter I don't like it, but stacked with something else (I need to do a clip with the noisebox) it's great, I've never heard s&h stand out before like that in my last clip so again a keeper on the synthy crazy board.
I think the best way to cover it is Filter = Prometheus Win, Sample and Hold = Proteus Win
Any questions just ask away.
Not had chance to try it yet and busy gigging lots at the moment so will be another week or 2 but from experience it sounds like it will really cut through, it's got more clarity than the supernova drive and that thing destroys my band.
