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Preamp suggestions wanted.
- Thread starter el murdoque
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(If 12 volts was an option, I would suggest the Two Notes Revolt, although admittedly I don’t love the cabsim on my Le Bass)
Thank you for your recommendations, I forgot the Bergantino exists and never heard of the Atomic.
I've had a long hard look at the Orange, and it's a literal bi-amp thing. I watched the video and waited patiently for the moment where they say "If you don't want to run two separate signals, you just flip this switch and the output is summed to the main out" but that never happened.
My use case for that pedal is a simple, small pedal board that I take out to use on jam sessions where I hook up to a PA system.
I don't want to bring a pedal board that costs more than their entire FOH system to a dive bar, and I don't want to mind if others use it while I'm having a beer at the other end of the room. More often than not, FOH is handled by inexperienced people, so I need a safe and easy setup that lets me hook up and get an acceptable sound out of the box, and the Orange would be the opposite of that, needing two channels that need to be mixed properly.
As to the two other suggestions, I forgot to mention that I would want the pedal to be all analog.
I own one, and didn’t know it was made in Taiwan. There’s certainly nothing wrong with the build quality. The “contours” are really useful, and the B-side does have a cabsimmish vibe. The DI is excellent. Some don’t like the fact that there is no bypass (the right-side footswitch is a mute), but it’s so clean that there’s really no reason to bypass it if it’s on the board.
The “amp” output is summed, but I don’t believe this can be achieved with the DIs unless you have another 2-in-1-out sort of box.
Don't worry. I have a bumper sticker on that pedalboard that reads "My other pre is a Noble". ;-)I doubt it if he thinks $299 Genzler Pre is 'Boutique' priced
Not at all. I'm looking at the Palmer right now and I might just give that a shot. It's got all the functions I'm looking for and if that works for me, it might actually be worth a try - Especially with Thomann's return policy.
The Nux has a digital IR loader.
The Bass Master is a bit too crammed with functions I'm not looking for, but the predecessor Bass Station might do the trick, too.
The only issue that keeps me from trying that one is that it's voiced after the SVT and I already have the Bassrig, but I think with all those cabinet options, the character of the SVT is not so stronly pronounced - in the demos I listened to I could not really make out that the voicing is strongly ampeg flavored, it sounded fairly neutral to my ears.
FWIW, the NUX isn’t analog: you can switch between three preamp voicings via an app.
There are now a million clones of it on the market if you want to see if it works for you. I always shied away from it because it looked a little overwhelming, but I have a friend who swears by the guitar version.
Technically yes, since it checks all boxes - but it is a huge one that fills up most of a Nano.
I just looked at it more closely and realized it has an IR loader, which is a hard pass for me.
I'm confused. I thought an IR loader is required for a cab sim, which is one of your requirements. The SGT provides 3 permanent & 3 replaceable cab sims.
Impulse Response is one way of achieving cabinet simulation, but you can also do it analog.
The most popular example would be the Sansamp - that did cab sim long before cab sim was a thing.
More recent examples would be the Origin Bass Rig series.
I just wanted to add that, if you don't need more than 5-6 meters cable and mixer has 1/4 input, then you can just use typical instrument cable with 1/4 jacks. It will not be inferior to XLR in any way: on such a short distance, there won't be any noise introduced by unbalanced cable signal. And in that case, your preamp pedal doesn't have to have DI out, so that expands your options.
Another good option is Aguilar Tone Hammer Preamp V1, but bass control is opposite of Ampeg Preamp, the Q is wide. It can be finetuned by variable mid control (add bass, and cut low mids for "tight").
