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New Empress Compressor MKII
- Thread starter crguti
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Here’s the whole board:
Yes, I fully realize I have two tuners on the board, with the tuner in the GLXD16. But there’s a method to my madness: I’ve got the board wired so that if my wireless ever gets wonky, I unplug one cable and plug in an instrument cable, and I’m back in business again and still have a working tuner.
Are you guys with the input turned way up playing with passive basses? On my Stingray I can barely put input past 9:00 and my output is at about 8:00 and I'm still coming out pretty hot.
Nope. 18v active jazz basses. Pretty hot outputs on all 3 (single coils and Audere 4 bands).
Haha, yeah, there’s that too. I run the 2112 pretty clean for my basic tone. The MBD-1 is set for very light overdrive, and the -2 is set for heavier distortion. The Obsidian is a completely different sound, and I’ve got the gain controlled by the expression pedal, so I can set it as heavy or light as I need. Plus it sounds pretty killer stacking it with one of the MBD’s.I was more wondering about the MBD-1 + MBD-2 + Obsidian 7K....
MBD-1 vs MBD-2 ? any difference or just set differently for different types of dirt?
Got my Bass Compressor on the board. It sounds great, and the metering is great too. Compared to the Cali76 CB, it is cleaner and less colored eq-wise, but the action of the compressor is actually more evident. In this case, I really like the sound of the compression so I like that it’s more audible.
The colouuur switch to the right is nice for some (lots of) bite.
I think this might be the one that kicks the Cali76 off the board.
The colouuur switch to the right is nice for some (lots of) bite.
I think this might be the one that kicks the Cali76 off the board.
I just received the tracking info for the cable!
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Yeah I’m kinda nervous about this procedure... I feel like I might make the pedal worse.
Great Job @Mitch -Empress and team! Under lockdown in Ontario is not an easy time to make all this happen. Thanks for navigating it and not just closing shop until lockdown is over.
I registered my BC at empress, but I didn't get any notification about the fix (I'm hearing the noise). Is there something else I need to do?
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I think it could be pretty hard to make the pedal worse. The only thing I could see someone doing is tugging on the clips to the ribbon cable really hard and snapping them off so be gentle there! The procedure is really simple, you can find instructions here - Invalid Link Removed
