Anyone use a cali76 tx with a 3leaf little black box? What order would you recommend? Ill probably be using these 2 together all the time.
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Origin Audio Cali76 FET compressor (1176 inspired)
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Hi,
I have my Cali76tx right up front and use it also as a boost, so no lbb
However on many occasions I was looking at boosts and what not, wondering how different it would be to use one rather then just turning the output of cali a tad higher...
Interested to see what people answer!
Eric
I do not own an LBB but I have decided to put a not-so-clean boost in front of the Cali76tx to make it sing a bit more and it works out fine. I keep my clean boost for the end of my chain still. But, then again, the clean boost at the end of the chain is driving another compressor similar to the Cali.
I have a Cali76-tx-L and the LBB. Right now I have the LBB after the Cali. I keep the bass and treble knobs on the LBB pretty low, so just using it as a clean boost. I love how the Cali affects my tone and right now the LBB just boosts that sound when I have it on. The LBB definitely does not take away from the sound, and I do have it on maybe 50% of the time. The Cali is always on. I have a Bogner Harlow boost on the way also. Once I get that, I'm gonna experiment more with both boosts before and after the Cali.
Ok ok, so I've tried to work it out, but I'm kinda dum dum. If I have a reddi that I will never leave nor forsake, do I buy the non transformer version?
SirMjac28
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I have the transformer version but if I could have caught a non transformer version at a good price I would have snatched it up in a heartbeat they are really well built studio quality compressors and you can't go wrong either way.
bongomania
Commercial User
I could see getting the non TX one for pairing with a REDDI. It would be fine either way, but the REDDI provides that TX tone magic.
The one thing is that the TX version has other features besides just the transformer, so you'd want to check those features out and see if you want them.
The one thing is that the TX version has other features besides just the transformer, so you'd want to check those features out and see if you want them.
I have the LBB followed by the Cali76. But find it redundant and use an SA for the EQ.
I agree, I had the original tx version, seriously wanted the tx-p but missed out on them...... so when the germanium version was announced I couldn't pass it up. I grabbed the one with the boost. It is a subtle break up with the germanium and boost on, but with the headroom adjust you can get the sweetest natural sounding break up, and one favorite compression EVER
Guys, there is a Cali 76 tx p, in the classifieds. Someone should grab it
bongomania
Commercial User
I'm doing a shootout right now between the CaliTX, DECL, Smoothie, and reissue Squeezebox. They're all excellent of course, but so far I feel like the Cali is Godzilla while the others are Tokyo. 
I tried the Cali at a local store here in Edinburgh not realising they had the -G model. With that germanium doing its thing its like a cros between agreat low gain OD pedal and immense comp. Its basically cost me the same as a decent comp and a decent low gain od but I have a f**kin' awsome comp and just the amount of break up I'd realistically need for what I'm doing ona regular gig to gig basis. I have a COG Custom build for all my filth requirements should the occasion call for it 
I was holding out for the RMI Comp (Basswitch guys) but the Cali just inparts such a wonderful 'feeling' to the tone. I was playing along to some tracks via garageband on the headphones and it just sounded like the bass had been mixed to sit in the track. Tremendous!
Got some new strings today and will be using the Cali at rehearsal on Monday night with the Lakland JO5 (flats) and my bart loaded MIJ P bass (new DR Pure Blues just installed) into my TTE500 and Tecamp M212. Its gonna sound massive!
Thing is i know there wil be some new comp out in a month or a year but the Cali is totaly what I wanted from a comp with a little bit more and it stays!
I was holding out for the RMI Comp (Basswitch guys) but the Cali just inparts such a wonderful 'feeling' to the tone. I was playing along to some tracks via garageband on the headphones and it just sounded like the bass had been mixed to sit in the track. Tremendous!
Got some new strings today and will be using the Cali at rehearsal on Monday night with the Lakland JO5 (flats) and my bart loaded MIJ P bass (new DR Pure Blues just installed) into my TTE500 and Tecamp M212. Its gonna sound massive!
Thing is i know there wil be some new comp out in a month or a year but the Cali is totaly what I wanted from a comp with a little bit more and it stays!
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IMO, the 1176 comp that the compressor section was designed to emulate is still considered among the best in the world (especially for bass), for quite a few decades now so I don't think much could come along to de-thrown it.
Chuch! Probaly why I chose it - my last comp was an Effectrode PC-2A based on another bass friendly studio comp. I had it stolen along with all my gear and it was the thing I missed most - even more than the bass
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I'm assuming the TX has more of the "tone magic" than the standard model? I like clean so I was thinking of just going with the standard model but if the TX really fattens things up I'd probably dig that.
I have a Diamond and FEA DE-CL that I've been going back and forth with for 6 months and still can't decide which is my favorite. Thinking maybe I should shake things up with a Cali.
I have a Diamond and FEA DE-CL that I've been going back and forth with for 6 months and still can't decide which is my favorite. Thinking maybe I should shake things up with a Cali.
Hi guys,
If one was to use a Cali76 with an SVT2(Nonpro) running into that sweet spot of a tube grit & natural compression, but not overdriving to the point of mush;
Pointless?
Or potentially better?
If one was to use a Cali76 with an SVT2(Nonpro) running into that sweet spot of a tube grit & natural compression, but not overdriving to the point of mush;
Pointless?
Or potentially better?
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As much as I love the cali, I would say that the advantages are few in this situation but It depends on what you need...
I use it with my Weber Mywatt 200 pushed in the sweet spot and what Cali offers me is some sustain, smoothness and fatness (that I don't really need tbh).
What I really like is that it kind of widens the sound and adds some high mids that are sweet but in a heavy mix (I play stoner/doom) I'm not sure how much these things are obvious.
The cali also seems to have a soft knee and the attack is so fast that it takes out some punch from my sound but it is still a joy to play with it cause it is so organic and smooth.
I imagine that with an SS amp it could do wonders and would be the perfect compressor
If I was in the market again for a compressor I think I would search for something with a harder knee and slower attack times...maybe the Markbass but then again the metering of Cali is pure magic!!!
Hope that helps!
I use it with my Weber Mywatt 200 pushed in the sweet spot and what Cali offers me is some sustain, smoothness and fatness (that I don't really need tbh).
What I really like is that it kind of widens the sound and adds some high mids that are sweet but in a heavy mix (I play stoner/doom) I'm not sure how much these things are obvious.
The cali also seems to have a soft knee and the attack is so fast that it takes out some punch from my sound but it is still a joy to play with it cause it is so organic and smooth.
I imagine that with an SS amp it could do wonders and would be the perfect compressor
If I was in the market again for a compressor I think I would search for something with a harder knee and slower attack times...maybe the Markbass but then again the metering of Cali is pure magic!!!
Hope that helps!
