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Noble Amps Preamp

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Admiral Akbar said:
Yeah man, the Noble wouldn’t be my gold standard amp for a twangy telecaster sound.

But in a pinch, you could make the Noble work with a guitar. Really convenient if you’re recording scratch tracks at home and can’t make a lot of noise.

The Noble sounds great with a Rhodes or Wurlitzer, too.
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I ran a Tele, and a Les Paul both through my Noble. Both sounded amazing..
Plus, bass, obviously, two different acoustic guitars, and an AEB..
Amazing with everything
 
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N. Kentucky Bass said:
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Preamp Tubes. Preamp tubes usually cause problems through noise or microphonics. If noise, you will hear hiss, crackling, popping or similar issues. If you hear squeal, hum or feedback, it is typically a microphonic tube. Noise from microphonic tubes will typically increase with a volume increase.​

This video demonstrates what a microphonic preamp tube sounds like.

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that ringing/chiming noise is exactly what my Noble DI tubes sounded like. Buuuut .... now it has stopped entirely, even had it on a gig last Sat with no microphonics.
I'm just going to replace the tubes to be safe. I'll have to re-zip tie it back on to my board ... no big deal.
 
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pfschim said:
that ringing/chiming noise is exactly what my Noble DI tubes sounded like. Buuuut .... now it has stopped entirely, even had it on a gig last Sat with no microphonics.
I'm just going to replace the tubes to be safe. I'll have to re-zip tie it back on to my board ... no big deal.
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Happened to me once, too, right after the Noble arrived. Then it disappeared for three years and recently happened again. Didn't go away so I swapped in new tubes. Took about five minutes. Done.
 
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Just read a post in amps&cabs about a Noble profile for the Kemper modeler.
I wonder if @Jack Roan had any involvement with that ?

Can't say I'm surprised to hear it, the Noble is such a great tone machine, it has really gotten some traction and gained some pretty visible endorser users over the past few years.
 
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pfschim said:
Just read a post in amps&cabs about a Noble profile for the Kemper modeler.
I wonder if @Jack Roan had any involvement with that ?

Can't say I'm surprised to hear it, the Noble is such a great tone machine, it has really gotten some traction and gained some pretty visible endorser users over the past few years.
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Would be cool if we see something similar happening in the AxeFX and Helix space as well
 
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pfschim said:
nice track and tone Iv@n. what have you settled on for settings on your Noble ?
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It’s been bass and genre dependent, but I’ve been rarely boosting the bass knob higher than 9:30-10 o’clock.

I recorded this intro using my cali compact and the noble. I had to tweak a little bit on the Noble to find a good ratio of bass, treble and midrange when switching between slap and fingerstyle. It’s sounds pretty awesome imo
 
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has anyone scoped the Noble to get a visual sense of what it does at different settings ?
I really like mine and new data would not change that, but I recently popped into a pre-amp old shoot-out thread and saw the "Noble is scooped" theme revived.
I do hear the scoop when the eq controls are set at the same points, but its easy to remove the scoop.
Anyway, just curious.
 
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pfschim said:
has anyone scoped the Noble to get a visual sense of what it does at different settings ?
I really like mine and new data would not change that, but I recently popped into a pre-amp old shoot-out thread and saw the "Noble is scooped" theme revived.
I do hear the scoop when the eq controls are set at the same points, but its easy to remove the scoop.
Anyway, just curious.
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Meh scooped or not, it works for me. Everyone is so afraid of a "scooped" tone, but most people that works in the industry won't even tell you that the Noble is too scooped. If it works for Nashville/LA studios or session bassists then it works.

And like you've said, it's pretty easy to remove the scoop if it becomes too much.
 
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Just posted by shift-line this week:
Shift Line Olympic MkIIIS Tube Preamp: EQ Section

Very detailed explanations (with visuals) of how the eq controls interact on the olympic.

EDIT: Sorry, I was browsing threads about the Noble and the Olympic and read too quickly! Didn't mean to imply that the SLO and Noble have the same tone stack. However, I'll leave this here because I do believe that the Noble tone stack and SLO Olympic tone stack at least have *some* similarity.
 
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pfschim said:
has anyone scoped the Noble to get a visual sense of what it does at different settings ?
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It’s not remotely scooped, it's nice and flat as the lord intended it to be. Noble clearly advertises a roughly 700Hz “cut” effect when both EQs are up high enough—story checks out—and a glorious noise it makes, too. But any shelf EQ will have that effect. Any accusations of #noblesoscooped is nonsense.

(EDITED) Here's a more accurate measurement than the homespun one I put up earlier. The red is flat, blue is bass and treble at noon, creating the 700Hz dip, and the green is the HPF switch engaged.
Screenshot 2020-03-27 17.15.54.png
 
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600 Ohms said:
It’s not remotely scooped, it's nice and flat as the lord intended it to be. Noble clearly advertises a roughly 700Hz “cut” effect when both EQs are up high enough—story checks out—and a glorious noise it makes, too. But any shelf EQ will have that effect.

Here's what it looks like with both EQs dimed, which is a big, wide 20dB shelf on both sides:



Any accusations of #noblesoscooped is nonsense:

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Beat me to it. I'll just record the loops then :D
 
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