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Jule Amps Monique part 5

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Here they are, live and in the wild!!!

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allenhumble said:
How does it compare to monique?
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While i could physically hear the Simone, namm isn’t the place for comparing it to a Monique. Too much background noise and chaos going on. Plus i was playing through a completely different rig than my ears are use to. So to compare it to a Monique wouldn’t be fair of me to do under the circumstances.
 
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nalapit13 said:
While i could physically hear the Simone, namm isn’t the place for comparing it to a Monique. Too much background noise and chaos going on. Plus i was playing through a completely different rig than my ears are use to. So to compare it to a Monique wouldn’t be fair of me to do under the circumstances.
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Did you play the bass with the roasted ash neck in the pic? Asking for a friend...;^}
 
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nalapit13 said:
Yes sir!! It’s a Marco bass.
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Cool, it's one of my favorite Marco show basses this year. I actually had it here at my house for a few weeks last summer, working on the onboard electronics. So I guess in a sense Jule and I got to collaborate at NAMM again this year after all, even though I didn't go.
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Really looking forward to seeing how Simone evolves.
 
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Passinwind said:
Cool, it's one of my favorite Marco show basses this year. I actually had it here at my house for a few weeks last summer, working on the onboard electronics. So I guess in a sense Jule and I got to collaborate at NAMM again this year after all, even though I didn't go. View attachment 3297586

Really looking forward to seeing how Simone evolves.
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The Simone is very useful, portable and just awesome. I myself was more interested in the power amp to power my Monique. But the Simone is quite awesome.
 
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nalapit13 said:
I don’t remember what they all were, other than the 3 band EQ that had the white knobs. One knob was drive. One was sense(sensitivity). That’s all i remember.
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I finally looked at the pic on my computer. Much better LOL. Impossible for me to see on my phone haha. So we have line, direct, sense, drive, low, mid, high. :)

Hey @juledude anyway you can fit in a 2nd line out on Simone for us IEM bassists that still use rigs on stage as well? Otherwise would need to use a Buffered line split after the fact to do so such as the JHS. Thanks.
 
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maisbass said:
@juledude
Perhaps you missed it but earlier I had asked what are the controls and outputs on Simone? Can't see from the pic.
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I apologize in advance for the lack of brevity.

Same controls as Monique plus the new "drive" control. Same 3 band EQ as Monique (with an extra bit of fun - see below), same Line Output Level Control, Same Balanced DI level out as Monique (using the exact same Cinemag Transformer as Monique). Also added a Mute Switch since it seems to be a requirement in this pedalish world.

The one Sensitivity Control of Monique is, in Simone, broken out into two things, a footswitch and a potentiometer. This is in contrast to the one push/pull Sensitivity knob we all know on Monique. For now it is called "Sense."

The footswitch duplicates the push pull action of the Sensitivity Control of Monique. The control now called Sense on Simone duplicates the sweep of the Sensitivity knob on Monique.

The Drive control gives us a way to take Simone into more aggressive tones and characteristics than Monique is intended to deliver. Still musical, but overdrive. I do understand a segment of the Monique crowd will find this added feature out of the realm of Monique-ness. I was in that crowd prior to the NAMM show in Anaheim last week. The acceptance, the smiles associated with the capabilities of this new Drive control were inspiring. Folks had more fun with it than I had imagined.

Another Simone feature (hinted to above) is the ability to use the EQ knobs as individual Drive elements. by that I mean that if I want to just put a bit of crunch in the highs I can now do that. Same goes for the mids and the lows. This is new for Simone.

I am full of gratitude for gifts I received from many people at NAMM this week. First Skip Fantry (String-Man extraordinaire) for sharing his booth with me. Ryan and David of TrickFish for the loan of their awe inspiring 2x10 cab. Paul Sips for a whole lot of things. Darryl Anders for smiling when I turned up the mids. Steve Lawson for being Steve Lawson. Tom Bowlus for coming by and bringing his whole crew. And for all the good people who came by and played or just chatted. And oh!, Thank you to Ron Tarsan for all the good ideas that will become Simone. ;-)

Most of all I am grateful to The Fabulous M for making it all seem sensible.
 
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maisbass said:
I finally looked at the pic on my computer. Much better LOL. Impossible for me to see on my phone haha. So we have line, direct, sense, drive, low, mid, high. :)

Hey @juledude anyway you can fit in a 2nd line out on Simone for us IEM bassists that still use rigs on stage as well? Otherwise would need to use a Buffered line split after the fact to do so such as the JHS. Thanks.
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Yup. Your buffered line splitter would be best.
 
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