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Jad Freer Audio - CAPO multiple preamp

#21
Word is starting to get out on these things now. Curious if the price stays at it's current level with the demand going up. As I said in the Wilcock Bass thread a few years ago - get one now while the price right. Trust me.
 
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I’m getting strong waves of GAS for this after listening to the few demos out there. Has anyone got any experiences with stacking drives into this?

I need a clean and a clanky crunch tone which I’m currently getting via my Model FeT into a GK Fusion S using clean and OD channels. It’s great but just not quite there, the two channels don’t sound cohesive and stacking preamps gets a little faffy. The Capo sound like it’ll cover this task perfectly.

I’m probably gonna run the EAE Longsword drive into it for some extra filth where needed assuming it’s a good fit.
 
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I personally have A and B switched on all the time. For some extra drive I use the Hudson Sidecar. That sounds really nice through the Capo.
On the poweramp topic: I don’t do that currently, but I know someone who does and it works just perfectly fine. Also, my Capo is set to give just a tiny bit of saturation. At unity gain the master volume is at around 9.00. so there’s a lot power left.
 
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El Rabino said:
I personally have A and B switched on all the time. For some extra drive I use the Hudson Sidecar. That sounds really nice through the Capo.
On the poweramp topic: I don’t do that currently, but I know someone who does and it works just perfectly fine. Also, my Capo is set to give just a tiny bit of saturation. At unity gain the master volume is at around 9.00. so there’s a lot power left.
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Fantastic!

I really love the Model FeT (Sunn Model T replica), the bright and normal Chanel give a lot of tonal control. I think the J/F preamps you can blend in kind of achieve the same goal but in a much more versatile package geared towards bass.

Think I’m gonna try and get one but need to seep some bits first! My partner would kill me if I got myself more treats without getting rid of some stuff first
 
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AngelCrusher said:
I love it. Its my go to now. My prior was the Noble preamp, which is great but this is a lot more versatile. The noble tone is a little more saggy and the Capo with saturation is super tight and focused. They both sound great, but the Capo is less expensive and has more features. Of course it also has a light drive (can get pretty nasty if you want it too)switch which is great too. The final touch is the Low pass filter so your distortion pedals sound great before hitting the PA or console. I love that, one less little pedal or speaker sim to need.

Oh yeah, if you are a producer this thing works f'n great on mono sources like drum machines...etc.
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Curious if you've run the Capo into the Noble?
 
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dbee said:
Curious if you've run the Capo into the Noble?
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no but I have seen people do that. I sold my noble just because the jad freer gives me what I need on records and I could not justify the cost of both.

But the noble provides that nice tube warmth that is awesome. Imo it is an amazing substitute for carrying a heavy tube amp around. In the studio it is fantastic as well but I can get exceptional bass tones with just the Jad so I stick with that.

Honestly the Jad replaces like 2-3 pedals for me. Not just the noble. It also gives me light OD, ability to switch from clean to a dirty channel plus a speaker sim for rolling off highs and detailed eq. So my pedal board now is basically an octave, fuzz and chorus. Pretty classic and simple setup but it works for me.
 
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I just got a hyper luminal and now have a perfect Capo sized hole where the footswitch for my GK is...

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There was one question I had with the LPF on the capo. The manual suggests that the LPF is applied to all the outputs, I understand the LPF for a DI but can't imagine you'd want to send that to your amp/cab as well?

Im not sure if I'm misreading it?
 
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MrDinsdale said:
There was one question I had with the LPF on the capo. The manual suggests that the LPF is applied to all the outputs, I understand the LPF for a DI but can't imagine you'd want to send that to your amp/cab as well?
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LPF is a gentle high cut, the reason we add it is because high-gain sound saturation is not pleasant (to everybody) over a certain freq range either at DI output going to a desk or to a bass cab witch 99% of the time is a full range cab with a tweeter. For this reason it is present also at output, it's almost closing your tweeter but it's higher than most bass cab paper woofers. If you have a distortion or fuzz pedal you could notice that the sound coming out of the tweeter is not nice, having the Capo as your last gain shaping pedal helps in taming those treble frequencies for a better sound.
 
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Andrea Lo said:
LPF is a gentle high cut, the reason we add it is because high-gain sound saturation is not pleasant (to everybody) over a certain freq range either at DI output going to a desk or to a bass cab witch 99% of the time is a full range cab with a tweeter. For this reason it is present also at output, it's almost closing your tweeter but it's higher than most bass cab paper woofers. If you have a distortion or fuzz pedal you could notice that the sound coming out of the tweeter is not nice, having the Capo as your last gain shaping pedal helps in taming those treble frequencies for a better sound.
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Ah fair enough, does it have much impact on cabs without a tweeter or a more vintage voicing?
 
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Andrea Lo said:
LPF is a gentle high cut, the reason we add it is because high-gain sound saturation is not pleasant (to everybody) over a certain freq range either at DI output going to a desk or to a bass cab witch 99% of the time is a full range cab with a tweeter. For this reason it is present also at output, it's almost closing your tweeter but it's higher than most bass cab paper woofers. If you have a distortion or fuzz pedal you could notice that the sound coming out of the tweeter is not nice, having the Capo as your last gain shaping pedal helps in taming those treble frequencies for a better sound.
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Interesting feature, could you be more specific about it ? Asking as a 'gentle' high cut might be too gentle for my signal chain. Get there might be subtleties and secret recipes in there, cascading filters with different slopes or something like that i don't know. But worth sharing some details on slope/frequencies, at least for me ha ! - might be in the user manual though.

EDIT: there it is ! Thank you. I'm not much used to read this kind of graphics. Not knowledgeable enough to be able to read how much dBs are filtered. Looks like a gentle then more powerful slope ?
 
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HoochfromP said:
Interesting feature, could you be more specific about it ? Asking as a 'gentle' high cut might be too gentle for my signal chain. Get there might be subtleties and secret recipes in there, cascading filters with different slopes or something like that i don't know. But worth sharing some details on slope/frequencies, at least for me ha ! - might be in the user manual though.

EDIT: there it is ! Thank you
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I've just posted the curve in post #35. Orizontal lines are 5dB steps. It was the right compromise for us to not make the clean sound dull and to tame overdriven "zing".
 
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Thats cool, just tried recreating a similar curve in Logic. It's not very accurate but i can definitely see how would make the tone much more palatable than a raw DI without having a drastic effect on tone.

Think I prefer a LPF over a cabsim and think it'd go down much better with FOH too in most places!
 
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