I bought a second Tonex on the Black Friday scale just based on the first beta. I’m building 2 pedal boards currently, and am basing them both on Tonex now.
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IK TONEX pedal
- Thread starter Giff
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I’m just curious what some of your guys rigs look like with tonex. I run a line 6 m9 into the tonex, that then feeds a markbass compressore.
Here is my pedalboard as it sits. I am planning on installing a 6-way loop switch pedal in the near future to control back row pedals.
I’m working on a new pedalboard. A lot of source audio on it. Some sushi box and other stuff.
I ordered a second Tonex on Black Friday as well. I currently have just one pedal board for both guitar and bass. We’ll see where things go.
I ordered a second Tonex on Black Friday as well. I currently have just one pedal board for both guitar and bass. We’ll see where things go.
I don't gig as a bass player, so only using bass with the Tonex plug-in in the studio. So bass -> Cali76 -> Apollo Twin interface -> Logic Pro. My plug-in chain varies by the song, but currently I'm focusing on Tonex running the new Super Bass 100, blending it with straight DI signal. EQ, compression, and distortion/saturation added as needed for the mix.
Like this atm anyway. I know the lvx has a tuner but I like the tc better.
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ToneX into a Markbass power amp might be the best amp combo I've used in ages.
I spent over 3 hours yesterday playing with Tonex for iPad.
For a number of years an iPad with Amplitube and then later Jamup with a Bias loaded amp was my main rig. Then over time as there was a core iOS update that stopped my interfaces working at the time, the increase in cost of iPads (or me moving to pro’s) and therefore not something I wanted floating around on stage.
But as we’ve seen these move to USB C and now the phones are too (or starting to) when the Kemper Player was announced I got interested in this tech again. Obviously there are a lot of people comparing the Tonex and the Player. But for me as Tonex is multi platform it’s the one best suited to my needs (and if the Tonex pedal had an XLR out I’d have very little to complain about). But to experiment the 9.99 per month to unlock the premium features on iPad have so far really been worth it.
Anyway, I have to say I was really impressed, especially with the pedal captures. Someone has already captured the EQD Blumes released only a few days ago. Obviously I don’t know how accurate it is but it was a lot of fun to play along to. Almost anything I could think of had been captured to some degree.
It felt like one of the days of old where I spent a rainy Sunday messing with pedals, just without the guilt of having spent thousands of dollars on things that will never see the floor of a stage.
The flaws I see currently are if you’re running a capture of a pedal it’s just the pedal (unless someone has captured your fav amp (at your fav settings) as well so it’s difficult to have a core sound that is then augmented by additional pedals.
I appreciate if you’re doing your own captures you can grab everything you’d possible need from your own rig in every combination. But you are going to have do all of those combinations or look to run two of these (or use it as an amp sim and have the pedals in front).
This might be a problem that comes out of how great it reacts to everything, slam an amp and it reacts like an amp, hammer a pedal with some heavy fingerstyle and it reacts like that so you just want to start pairing these together.
The second flaw based on the above is the capture is doing a snapshot of that device (amp or pedal) with those specific settings, again fine if you do you’re own capture, find the settings that work for you, capture, done.
But if your intention is to be creative with it, explore and find new sounds, you’re going to be limited to the narrow band width of the capture you took at the time. You lose the quirks so to speak.
I say the above not as a criticism or even something that would stop me buying the pedal. Just my observations and quite honestly conversation starters. I’ve glossed over the helix, along with profiling and captures as I use a relatively simple tone and it all seemed redundant or a compromise (even if an M13 replaced a huge pedalboard for me many years ago). I think I’m about to dive into digital in a big way.
Also the Noble capture is incredible, I don’t know if that’s accurately how the Noble sounds, but it’s a damn good bass tone.
For a number of years an iPad with Amplitube and then later Jamup with a Bias loaded amp was my main rig. Then over time as there was a core iOS update that stopped my interfaces working at the time, the increase in cost of iPads (or me moving to pro’s) and therefore not something I wanted floating around on stage.
But as we’ve seen these move to USB C and now the phones are too (or starting to) when the Kemper Player was announced I got interested in this tech again. Obviously there are a lot of people comparing the Tonex and the Player. But for me as Tonex is multi platform it’s the one best suited to my needs (and if the Tonex pedal had an XLR out I’d have very little to complain about). But to experiment the 9.99 per month to unlock the premium features on iPad have so far really been worth it.
Anyway, I have to say I was really impressed, especially with the pedal captures. Someone has already captured the EQD Blumes released only a few days ago. Obviously I don’t know how accurate it is but it was a lot of fun to play along to. Almost anything I could think of had been captured to some degree.
It felt like one of the days of old where I spent a rainy Sunday messing with pedals, just without the guilt of having spent thousands of dollars on things that will never see the floor of a stage.
The flaws I see currently are if you’re running a capture of a pedal it’s just the pedal (unless someone has captured your fav amp (at your fav settings) as well so it’s difficult to have a core sound that is then augmented by additional pedals.
I appreciate if you’re doing your own captures you can grab everything you’d possible need from your own rig in every combination. But you are going to have do all of those combinations or look to run two of these (or use it as an amp sim and have the pedals in front).
This might be a problem that comes out of how great it reacts to everything, slam an amp and it reacts like an amp, hammer a pedal with some heavy fingerstyle and it reacts like that so you just want to start pairing these together.
The second flaw based on the above is the capture is doing a snapshot of that device (amp or pedal) with those specific settings, again fine if you do you’re own capture, find the settings that work for you, capture, done.
But if your intention is to be creative with it, explore and find new sounds, you’re going to be limited to the narrow band width of the capture you took at the time. You lose the quirks so to speak.
I say the above not as a criticism or even something that would stop me buying the pedal. Just my observations and quite honestly conversation starters. I’ve glossed over the helix, along with profiling and captures as I use a relatively simple tone and it all seemed redundant or a compromise (even if an M13 replaced a huge pedalboard for me many years ago). I think I’m about to dive into digital in a big way.
Also the Noble capture is incredible, I don’t know if that’s accurately how the Noble sounds, but it’s a damn good bass tone.
I liked the noble sound enough that I bought a noble. I haven’t a/b compared the actual noble with the Tonex yet, but I bet it’s pretty accurate. I love my Tonex with guitars. I’m trying to get to the same place with my basses.
This is what I think I’ll likely end up doing, I don’t have lots of different sounds, or gigs, just need that solid thick tone and I generally find that works for everything.
I’ve probably spent noble money, trying not to spend noble money.
But for practice, this is a killer tool
Is the Noble simulation included with the pedal or is it bought separately? TIA
Free, you find it at Tone.net
Noble Preamp: Alone
I say free, I have to have the subscription version on ipad for it to work but if you have the pedal you have the software that gives you access to the online tone profiles.
Noble Preamp: Alone
I say free, I have to have the subscription version on ipad for it to work but if you have the pedal you have the software that gives you access to the online tone profiles.
If Tastee says its better, there is a different Noble capture I like better. IMHO its the best bridge j bass tone goin. But i don't trust my opinion lol
Both good, with my bass with flats I prefer the Alone preset, with rounds I’d probably prefer the one you found. Yours is bassier and smoother but mine I felt cut the mix better when jamming alone to tracks.
And by mine and yours I mean ones we found, they are all by the same person on Tone.net (Before people start thanking us for our good work capturing a noble when we didn’t )
Thanks for clearing that up! lol
Yeah its WAY too bottom heavy for neck pickup. I'm gonna load yours in and give it a try at rehearsal. I have been using pretty exclusively the Marshall Major from Amalgam (clean-edge-dimed), a 90's slap preset and a JPJ Drive capture of the 2112 pedal.
Good time to be a bassist my brothers!
