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Jule Amps Monique part 5

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Dominick C. said:
that sure is neat looking, but if it's a power amp why does it have the input on the front? Or was that the conversation I did not understand in earlier posts....?
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Hmmm. I'm excited for the power amp too. But I agree, I hope the input isn't going to be on the front. I would want it on the back too, especially since mo's line out is on the back.
 
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I found this on Monique's Facebook page. That was the last evolution I had seen. Jule is carefully guarding the finished design with his last breath, or at least he hasn't show us yet. Just kidding :p I know we are all curious, but you can't rush perfection.

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Now if that jack on the front were a headphone output..... That would be nice. I just don't think that picture was accurate. The jewel light seemed wrong, it looked too small. The 4' long white legs could have been Jule though :p
 
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T2k5 said:
Spent my first night with Monique and instantly fell in love with this classy lady! Absolutely noiseless even in my tiny apartment with crappy non-grounded wiring, much better for recording than Summit TD-100. I've yet to try it with my amp, but I predict similar, if not higher, levels of greatness! :hyper:
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A good friend/customer in Lisboa, Portugal let me know to be careful what I put in the subject line of my emails to him. Evidently his girlfriend was looking over his shoulder, and rather aggressively wanted to know who this "Monique" was he intended to embrace.

Thank you for spending the night with Monique.
 
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DigitalMan said:
Two questions from a position of ignorance.

First, if the front input jack defeated the rear would the solution not maintain the 1" when the front jack is in use?

Second, is the length and therefore capacitance additive to the length of the cable plugged in from whence ever it came? IOW is the spec significant, or a "paper spec" when used in a real application with a long cable run inbound.
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We would have to break both sides (and preferably the third earth ground) to create a situation where we were not able to change or radiate in or out of the signal chain at the pre-amp input point. Doable, certainly, but a bit messy. I would also expect a difference in tone and characteristics between the rear and front inputs - Nasty.

Simplicity in this area (physically) is greatly of value. Added to the issue, and not mentioned earlier, is the very high gain of the first input stage, and with that the nasty susceptibility to both receive and/or emit radiation in or close to the audio spectrum, and that seriously detracts from the performance.

The length-of-cable issue is truly Yes and No. The Yes part is that anything that electrons move through and a dielectric is involved does add capacitance with increased area/length. That is the "YES" part you can read in a paper specification. The No part is that some of these instrument cable folk have fiddled/invented ways of balancing that Length:Capacitance issue so that their instrument cables do not follow the paperwork mathematics of what you and I would expect. Their instrument cables (often quite pricey) do not directly add capacitance with length as one would think from the paper specification, or they do so in a positive manner. They are messing with Physics in ways I do not pretend to grok.
 
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Dominick C. said:
I was hoping M700 was referring to the stand alone amp to go under a dovecage. Not the already integrated rack and desktop Monique 700's

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You are right Dominic, the M700 Jay Terrien played in his L.A. studio this weekend is the stand-alone. I hand carried it to him on the train ride down to Bass Player live. All that is required now, before I can start shipping, is for my friend Andy (Finn Graphics in Floyd Virginia - Awesome man and artist) to complete the front and back face panel art and get those done. Ain't going to be long now.

Is this you on Cactus Channel? Wow!
 
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maisbass said:
The M700 is on Jule's website.
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The M700 is exactly the same amplifier I have been including as an add-on to both the Rack Mount and Tardis version for a short while now.

Not on the website yet.

The pictures you saw were taken by my friend Jay Terrien (Incredible strings composer/arranger/bass player) in his studio in L.A. this last weekend. The M700 has no graphics yet, so this was only an opportunity for me to hear Jay make it work, and show it to a few friends for their feedback. Here is another (blurry) one with a friend of mine some of you will know.
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He is currently running his Monique Rack Mount, but we may get him on a Dove Cage with the M700 soon.

I didn't even leave the M700 with Jay. I want him to have one that looks finished, partly out of respect, but also 'cause he let's his L.A.-folk try it out.
 
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JBNeedsBeer said:
I have no idea what happened today, but 20 minutes into playing my Monique today, it seriously opened open. Just randomly got this amazing tone without even adjusting a single knob on the amp. Love this preamp
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you played yourself into a ""Double Aural Helix Tonal Monique Portal!!!"".....what ever you do ...don't fight it...just let go and turn it up!!!....
 
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BenHack said:
Hey Jules

Does the monique 700 have an input that lets you bypass the preamp and just use the power amp. This question is more a case for recording purposes where it might be useful for re-amping other musicians parts. No one is taking Moniques sound away from me for my bass parts!

Cheers

Ben
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Yes it does.

For both the Tardis 700 and the Rack Mount 700, a separate Amp Input that goes direct to the amp (bypassing Monique) just seemed like a good thing to do when we first started with this 700 watt amplifier. At the time I did not know how useful it would be. I have already seen it used as an interesting Effects Loop as well as for re-amping and other Studio work.

The Amp Input that goes directly to the amp is on the back of both the Tardis 700 and the Rack Mount 700 now.

You do not have to use Monique and the 700 watt amplifier together. In both 700 watt versions of the Tardis and the Rack Mount Monique you can use either Monique by herself, or the 700 watt amp by itself if that is what you want to do. This is the real world we work in, so flexibility helps.

The M700 Stand-Alone Amplifier has its own Volume Control, but beyond that it is essentially like the Amp Input on both the Rack Mount and Tardis 700s.
 

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