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Noble Amps Preamp
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Yes. IIRC it's at 90hz and a 6db/octave slope. It the little switch on the right under the "O" of Noble.
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Probably the best utility pedal I’ve ever had. Soon to be a semi-regular item.
We had a professional Sound and lighting engineer come to our church this past 2 weeks installing LED lighting and theatre size video screens. He also has helped us with our TV broadcast and Livestreaming. Anyways he was saying how great the tone was on the bass and loved how thick it was. Man I just can't put in words how much fuller and thick my tone is with the Noble. The IEM is so good I've done away with a amp. May look into getting the backbeat though as I've hear great things about it for IEM gigs.
Pretty interesting. Have you tried running the bass and treble settings between 11:00 and 1:00 with the RFE engaged as well?
I have the Broughton HPF/LPF combo and was planning on keeping it and just run the Noble with the HPF off when I finally receive it, but that RFE looks pretty interesting...my HPF/LPF may be in the classifieds soon haha.
Briefly through headphones only. The RFE is such a powerful tone shaper. I just put it on my board and went with it. I was busy with gigs pre-COVID and have been working from home since March. I have also put my amps away as we are remodeling the basement (new floors, paint, sound absorption panels). I should have everything set back up in a couple of weeks and will play around with pedals and amp.
as ahc already said, the Noble does have an HPF, and it's useful for sure, but I find that it's set just a bit high for my tastes (90hz). I usually HPF at around 60-70hz unless I'm using the HPF to help with a boomy room. Of my two main amps ... Mesa WD800 and Mesa Walkabout, the WD800 has a very handy adjustable 2 pole HPF. With the Walkabout I use the excellent Fdeck v3.
I use an sfx microThumpinator as a HPF, just before the Noble. It’s set at around 30Hz, and has a fairly steep slope. Really cleans up the power-sucking-unneeded lower freqs, and allows me to utilize the tone controls without worrying about speaker flatulence. Also, when sending to FOH, they love the signal that much more.
I don’t see how a setting that low would help any as far as cleaning up the low frequency?
Cutting anything below 30 hz (and really below 40 hz) eliminates all the unnecessary frequencies that does little for audible bliss but taxes speakers and unnecessarily triggers compression. You’d be surprised at how much tighter your tone becomes.
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Thanks to you now I have Gas again lol. I’ll have to find one of those.
Thanks to you now I have Gas again lol. I’ll have to find one of those.
there are several good HPF options besides the microThumpinator. TB's very own Fdeck makes and sells another very nice one too .. Fdeck HPF comes in 3 versions. Many others to choose from as well from folks like Broughton, Radial, Tech21 etc ...
plus more and more high quality amps these days have either a fixed HPF built into the circuit, or an adjustable HPF control ... or both
great tools to have in your box
Hello Noble people! I have a question regarding the Low Cut switch. I've rewatched that video on YouTube where Tim Lefebvre talks about engaging the Low Cut switch, and sort of cranking the Bass knob to "work the pedal harder," or something to that effect. Does this actually work as he describes it? Is it more drive-y/tube-y? And does that allow the Noble to sound as fat/tube-y as the REDDI? (Trying to decide between the two.)
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I’m not familiar with the REDDI, but using the HPF and boosting the bass all the results in a big FAT tone
The Noble is a very clean machine. You won't get OD from it. However, as @Iv@N said, using the low cut and cranking the bass up ( 1 - 3 o'clock for me depending on bass used) makes a very nice noise.
Without using the low cut the Noble can also be as fat as you could possibly want it. I have no experience with the Reddi, but remember that it has no tone controls so it is what it sounds like with no adjustments possible and it's not meant to be a preamp. That's not meant as a knock. They're different tools.
The Noble is a very clean machine. You won't get OD from it. However, as @Iv@N said, using the low cut and cranking the bass up ( 1 - 3 o'clock for me depending on bass used) makes a very nice noise.
Thanks for the info! In my mind, if the REDDI’s baked-in sound is just as good as the Noble’s, maybe I don’t even need the EQ settings, you know?
It doesn’t necessarily “work it harder”. However, using the HPF and cranking the bass up will get you a big and fat low end, but roll off some rumble way down below that may make your tone sound too flubby (ime) depending on the bass. The HPF on the Noble isn’t drastic but definitely helps clean it up if you’re using a lot of the eq.
A little while ago one of the members in here did some graphs showing the slopes of the eq on the Noble and how the HPF affected it. For me personally, I generally use it HPF on, bass up about 11ish and treble at 9. Super sweet tone without overdoing it.
By all accounts, the REDDI is also a very clean machine and does not do OD either.
When I first got my Noble I had also seen the Tim L video where he suggested cranking the bass EQ and using the HPF in order to "work the tubes" harder. I do like that tone for sure but I have pulled back a bit on twisting the EQ controls quite that radically ... and instead of the built in HPF (cuts at ~90hz), I use an outboard variable HPF to cut just a bit lower than 90 .... usually in the 70-80hz range.
Lot of ways to get great sounds out of the Noble. Its one of the cool aspects of it vs a straight tube DI like the REDDI (and this is not a knock on the REDDI at all) ... there are options.
When I first got my Noble I had also seen the Tim L video where he suggested cranking the bass EQ and using the HPF in order to "work the tubes" harder. I do like that tone for sure but I have pulled back a bit on twisting the EQ controls quite that radically ... and instead of the built in HPF (cuts at ~90hz), I use an outboard variable HPF to cut just a bit lower than 90 .... usually in the 70-80hz range.
Lot of ways to get great sounds out of the Noble. Its one of the cool aspects of it vs a straight tube DI like the REDDI (and this is not a knock on the REDDI at all) ... there are options.
