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Jule Amps Monique part 5

#241
Thinking of selling my Tardis DeMonique. I'm legally blind and had to change a tube recently that was defective . Jule was kind enough to send me out a full set of replacement tubes. But the experience brought to light my limitations. I had to have a friend change it for me.
I love the amp and there are no issues with it. It's been in the house and is lightly used and comes with a case.
If anyone is looking for one please contact me I'll pass it along for the same price I paid for it. It has the fan.
 
#244
Mark Sacchetti said:
You might be right and I'll come to my senses and overcome my fears.
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Mark, I sent you a PM. However, as Burning Skies said, that might be the only time you'll ever have to do that. Preamp tubes, if I understand correctly, are generally a lot more durable and forgiving than poweramp tubes. There are a bunch of micro-amps with preamp tubes getting exposed to heat and cold and bounced all over the place and I rarely, if ever, hear of one of those failing.

For that matter, any piece of gear can fail, even fully solid-state stuff. If you dig Monique but are worried about a tube failure, maybe keep a micro head you like reasonably well in your gigbag as a backup.

The power could go out. Only the drums and horns will be able to play then. I've seen it happen.

Come to think of it, the only shutdown I've ever experienced mid-gig involved a solid-state head with no tubes at all.

I'd hate to see you make a hasty decision based on that one experience, particularly if you're digging the amp.
 
#245
I can't imagine a bass life without Monique at this point. While I play the occasional gig without her, the dove cage has become part of my gestalt, both sonically and visually.

It's funny because I have a lot of great gear, but invariably on a gig there are two things that I feel most at home with, or am missing on the odd day that I don't bring them. One is my Ying Yang Deluxe, the other is Monique.

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#248
nostatic said:
I can't imagine a bass life without Monique at this point. While I play the occasional gig without her, the dove cage has become part of my gestalt, both sonically and visually.

It's funny because I have a lot of great gear, but invariably on a gig there are two things that I feel most at home with, or am missing on the odd day that I don't bring them. One is my Ying Yang Deluxe, the other is Monique.
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I am in basically the same boat. Monique and Fodera just sounds incredible to me. And my 2 Berg AE210's are all I will need in a cabinet(s) for many years to come. I am expecting to have very few gear changes in the forseeable future.

I have been gigging my rack Monique lately as it is easy to carry around, but since I bought the Minnie, I will be gigging the Monique Dove Cage and Minnie exclusively moving forward. I have never had so many compliments on my sound with other amps nor have so many people inquired as to what my "cool looking" bass amp was (Dove Cage).

Unless Jule is soon releasing a "Super-Monique", I am set for a bass amp!:bassist:
 
#252
Jule, as you know we did a couple hours last night (in a snow storm), and I've found a new love for running my sensitivity down at about 10 o'clock. Usually I go back and forth between 10 and 2, but last night it just felt squished and undynamic. I was loving it rolled back. I had a bunch of people from other bands coming up the rest of the night to rave about it. Including one African friend who kept saying "I was telling YOU he's an ORIGINATOR!!! HEAVYWEIGHT!!" Good fun.

The other band was sharing my rig, and he was playing a passive P, and said that he was 'too trebley" to which I just rolled off the mids to about 9 o'clock and brought up the lows to about 3 o'clock. I forget that I tend to boost from my bass to reinforce the lows a bit more than the amp does.
 
#253
I've been wanting to test out Monique's DI and haven't had any way to do so at home. I've also been looking around for my misplaced Ditto looper pedal. Didn't find the Ditto, but while looking for it I came across this XLR-to-1/8th-inch cable a kid at Radio Shack made for me about ten years back for the purpose of hooking my Shure SM-57 up to a minidisc recorder (remember those?), impedance, sensitivity and other irrelevant nuances be damned.

ANYWAY, as soon as I found that cable I plugged one end into Monique's DI and the other into the combo in/out of my Macbook (really annoys me that they couldn't spring for a separate input and headphone output on a $1K laptop), pulled up a random drum loop in Garage Band, and did this...



I was monitoring through the speakers of the Mac, barely audible over the heater kicking on -- I was also hungry -- so please forgive any sloppy playing and PLEASE forgive me for not tuning my bass beforehand. :rollno:

EQ on Monique was flat. Sensitivity knob pulled out and set just shy of 11 o'clock. Bass is an EMG-loaded, Fender P/J, with tone controls fully open. Palm-muted riff with drum loop on the bridge pickup, both pickups, then neck pickup. Harmonic noodling sans drum loop on the bridge pickup, both pickups, neck pickup. One sloppy take.

I did not play with the EQ or Sensitivity in the recording or compare it with the DIs of my other amps -- any or all of which could have been informative -- and I hesitate to post it with all the useful and well-thought-out recordings put up so far, but maybe someone aside from me will get something out of it.

Cheers!
Mark
 
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#255
Mark Sacchetti said:
Okay you guys have talked me off the ledge! I do love the amp.
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Probably shouldn't have run you through replacing that tube Mark. There are a bunch of good techs out there who would enjoy taking a look inside Monique. That would have been the way to go, but then you'd have to give her up for a little while.

Others have posted the reality too, that tubes do last a very long time (years in most cases). It is a very small number that fail, especially after making it through burn-in, but that means little to the player who gets one out of that "small number. "

If she hickups in the future, we'll find you someone who can get us out of the woods without me making you into my East Coast Technician. I don't think you need the work. ;)
 
#256
MarkA said:
I've been wanting to test out Monique's DI and haven't had any way to do so at home. I've also been looking around for my misplaced Ditto looper pedal. Didn't find the Ditto, but while looking for it I came across this XLR-to-1/8th-inch cable a kid at Radio Shack made for me about ten years back for the purpose of hooking my Shure SM-57 up to a minidisc recorder (remember those?), impedance, sensitivity and other irrelevant nuances be damned.

ANYWAY, as soon as I found that cable I plugged one end into Monique's DI and the other into the combo in/out of my Macbook (really annoys me that they couldn't spring for a separate input and headphone output on a $1K laptop), pulled up a random drum loop in Garage Band, and did this...



I was monitoring through the speakers of the Mac, barely audible over the heater kicking on -- I was also hungry -- so please forgive any sloppy playing and PLEASE forgive me for not tuning my bass beforehand. :rollno:

EQ on Monique was flat. Sensitivity knob pulled out and set just shy of 11 o'clock. Bass is an EMG-loaded, Fender P/J, with tone controls fully open. Palm-muted riff with drum loop on the bridge pickup, both pickups, then neck pickup. Harmonic noodling sans drum loop on the bridge pickup, both pickups, neck pickup. One sloppy take.

I did not play with the EQ or Sensitivity in the recording or compare it with the DIs of my other amps -- any or all of which could have been informative -- and I hesitate to post it with all the useful and well-thought-out recordings put up so far, but maybe someone aside from me will get something out of it.

Cheers!
Mark
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I very much appreciate this Mark. With your permission I'd like to use it on the website. Especially with the "G".:)
 
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#257
BurningSkies said:
Jule, as you know we did a couple hours last night (in a snow storm), and I've found a new love for running my sensitivity down at about 10 o'clock. Usually I go back and forth between 10 and 2, but last night it just felt squished and undynamic. I was loving it rolled back. I had a bunch of people from other bands coming up the rest of the night to rave about it. Including one African friend who kept saying "I was telling YOU he's an ORIGINATOR!!! HEAVYWEIGHT!!" Good fun.

The other band was sharing my rig, and he was playing a passive P, and said that he was 'too trebley" to which I just rolled off the mids to about 9 o'clock and brought up the lows to about 3 o'clock. I forget that I tend to boost from my bass to reinforce the lows a bit more than the amp does.
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Very cool. Sharing your Monique? You are a better man than I.
 
#258
Baird6869 said:
I am in basically the same boat. Monique and Fodera just sounds incredible to me. And my 2 Berg AE210's are all I will need in a cabinet(s) for many years to come. I am expecting to have very few gear changes in the forseeable future.

I have been gigging my rack Monique lately as it is easy to carry around, but since I bought the Minnie, I will be gigging the Monique Dove Cage and Minnie exclusively moving forward. I have never had so many compliments on my sound with other amps nor have so many people inquired as to what my "cool looking" bass amp was (Dove Cage).

Unless Jule is soon releasing a "Super-Monique", I am set for a bass amp!:bassist:
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Just today finished up the bottom half of
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for good people in Mississippi. It might be nice to have a place for Monique and Minnie where you can "stick 'em in." ;)
 
#259
juledude said:
Very cool. Sharing your Monique? You are a better man than I.
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I always share. :) Leading by example only goes so far.

I was perplexed when the bass player said to me "uh...it seems a little trebley"...at that time the bass was at 2, the mid at noon and the treble all the way rolled down. I pulled the lows up to about 3 o'clock and rolled the mid down to about 9 and that seemed to fix things for him...one might think that the passive roll off on his P-Bass might have done the trick, but I'm guessing he's used to whatever he normally plays and was thinking 'this is where I always set it'.
 
#260
nostatic said:
I can't imagine a bass life without Monique at this point. While I play the occasional gig without her, the dove cage has become part of my gestalt, both sonically and visually.

It's funny because I have a lot of great gear, but invariably on a gig there are two things that I feel most at home with, or am missing on the odd day that I don't bring them. One is my Ying Yang Deluxe, the other is Monique.

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Only another 20 years and I'll be able to play too. Great picture.
 

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