Current setup runs mostly to amp. Noble is always on the board at the end of the chain.
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Noble Amps Preamp
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Current setup runs mostly to amp. Noble is always on the board at the end of the chain.
Yeah I'd basically just like to amplify the bass + Noble tone without coloring, so this looks cool
See how you feel about running into the front input rather than than poweramp input. If you run into the active input on the front, you'll be able to use the Noble to drive the amp into it's limiting stages, and that's where this little amp really shines.
My current funk band board. Noble at the end of course. It makes everything sound better. Effect pedals or not.
Guys I have sold my noble few months ago ......... what a mistake !!!
Miss it so much . I'm going to order an other one but 2 months is a long delay.
How can I set up my aguilar TH500 to mimic the noble with my favorite settings : Bass 9 hours and Treble 10 hours ?
Thanks
Miss it so much . I'm going to order an other one but 2 months is a long delay.
How can I set up my aguilar TH500 to mimic the noble with my favorite settings : Bass 9 hours and Treble 10 hours ?
Thanks
As a longtime (now former) TH500 and 350 user, I have a few thoughts. I spent a lot of years gigging the TH stuff, and trying to understand it, so this is all IME and IMO.
1. the TH sounds like a TH, so remember that.
2. Master way up, and gain way down - the gain on the TH has a lot of dirt built in. By 10-11:00, that starts to kick in. If you're going for a big clean tube front end kind of thing, a little harmonic stuff is good, but you don't want dirt, so keep it low. 10:00 might be a good start, but of course adjust for your instrument output and volume needs. If you need a little more harmonic content, bump the gain a little.
3. Drive - this is something like a band pass filter, so it's going to work against your desired tone the more you turn it up. But it doesn't really start doing much in the audible range until about 1:00 then it does it's thing in a big way, fast, after that. BUT, what it does do before that 1:00-ish setting is help manage all the super low end stuff, like as a HPF, and that helps with power management. If you have it all the way down, and are pushing the amp loud, you are using up a lot of juice to put out stuff you can't hear, and your headroom goes out the window. Around noon, you are managing that stuff you can't hear anyway, and it opens up the headroom. Past noon, it starts to do it's thing and giving you that frowny face EQ. Noon is a good place for this knob to live.
The drive and gain are very interactive. As you turn the gain up you go from clean, to harmonic content, to dirt. As you turn the Drive up, you magnify what the gain is doing since you tend to hear those things in the midrange so much. Those three controls (gain, drive, master) really manage the overall headroom, feel, and harmonic content of the amp. There is a huge range from big wide open and clean all the way to narrow, compressed, tight, and really dirty. After that, you have a pretty basic EQ to deal with.
4. The parametric mid goes from like 180Hz to 1KHz, and you can do a pretty big cut/boost from there. IIRC, when you boost the Noble B/T at the same rate, you get a scoop somewhere around 700Hz? That might be a little past noon on the mid dial, so you might try a little mid cut around 11:00 to 1:00 range and see if you find a sound you like.
5. I would probably start with boosting the Bass and Treble both a little bit - like 1:00 - 2:00. That will give you a little bit of a scoop anyway, so you might just start with those boosted a bit and your mids flat, and see what you think. Then start adjust the mid control to fine tune once you have something you like.
6. With your Bass and Treble both boosted a click or two, you might have luck boosting your low mids a bit. Like a little boost in the 8:30-ish range on the mid dial.
The TH is a nice amp, but it really has a drastic range of tones that are pretty interactive, so play with it. Anyway, hope this helps.
Wow, I don't even own a ToneHammer and that was still a really informative reply. Thanks!
Just stopping by to report that 9 months into my Noble ownership I am totally sold. I'm not an in ears guy and I don't do a ton of recording. I'm just using it as a high end preamp with a bonus killer DI and pedal power. I'm coming from using an Aguilar DB 680 preamp as my main rig for over a decade. Big sound, BIG LIFT.
I've found that having the Noble on my front end really smooths out the differences between various amps/cabs/setups I own or have access to. I'm getting to the point where if I have my Noble, I'll be comfortable playing through any reasonable amp in any situation. That is a pretty amazing feeling.
I've found that having the Noble on my front end really smooths out the differences between various amps/cabs/setups I own or have access to. I'm getting to the point where if I have my Noble, I'll be comfortable playing through any reasonable amp in any situation. That is a pretty amazing feeling.
Aguilar just announced this morning that they now have a ToneHammer 700!!
It has an FX loop, so another good option for Noble users who like to do that thing an are looking for a 700w power section
Has anyone ever tried using different tubes in their Noble? In know...why mess with perfection, right? But I'm kind of a tube collector and have a couple NOS Telefunkens which I really like. Might give them a try just for the heck of it..
This right here, along with all the other opinions, makes me feel more certain about my next gear choice.
Is anyone powering a Shure GLX-D with Noble? seems I read somewhere the wireless is 12v. I’m currently just driving three pedals one of which is a tuner.
I’ve read the Noble doesn’t play well with “digital” pedals. I think the part of the reason is the non-isolated grounds on the Noble. I run a Line 6 G70 wireless. The Noble powered it. However, the G70 and Noble induced some serious white noise in my signal. I went back to using my isolated power supply with my pedals. I strictly use the Noble as my pre/DI. I don’t use the power port function. I wish jack could find a way to make the outlets isolated, even if that meant a slightly larger chassis. If he could, it would be the most perfect piece of gear ever!!
Ok so I see the shure glxd6
Power Requirements 9 to 15 V DC, 250 mA min. so this should work right?
Power Requirements 9 to 15 V DC, 250 mA min. so this should work right?
It will work....but it will more than likely be noisy due to the digital nature of the Shure.
I use a line 6 G30 powered by the Noble and it is completely silent.
I have a Moog Synth coming. Am I going to run it through the Noble when I record? Yes, I believe I will.
Do you NEED a Noble? No. But since the REDDI has no tone shaping controls, depending on what your signal path is or if you are doing post processing, you may want to consider one.
