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RMI Basswitch IQ DI has landed

#101
I have a question for you guys...I just got my Basswitch and I think it's pretty awesome! I played with it for a couple of hours tonight(Didn't arrive in time for my gigs this past weekend)and loved it, except for one thing...the LF AND HF knobs are both really "scratchy" when turned. No issues with any of the other knobs. I'm not sure how to get the knobs off to try to clean them. As long as I leave them in one spot, they work beautifully. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Also, the power adapter is pretty loose fitting. Is that normal? Overall impression; this is probably one of the best decisions I've made, gear-wise!
 
#102
pbass6811 said:
I have a question for you guys...I just got my Basswitch and I think it's pretty awesome! I played with it for a couple of hours tonight(Didn't arrive in time for my gigs this past weekend)and loved it, except for one thing...the LF AND HF knobs are both really "scratchy" when turned. No issues with any of the other knobs. I'm not sure how to get the knobs off to try to clean them. As long as I leave them in one spot, they work beautifully. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Also, the power adapter is pretty loose fitting. Is that normal? Overall impression; this is probably one of the best decisions I've made, gear-wise!
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Hello.

Thank you for the nice words on the Basswitch.

The LF and HF pots (mainly the HF) are "scratchy by design". That means we did not filter this noise out in the design of the EQ. We could have done this of course but that would have meant adding components and an adverse effect on the overall "musical" performance of the Basswitch EQ. Our thinking is that you do not move the LF an HF settings during playing, so we decided to keep the signal path as short as possible accepting this "flaw" for a better sound. Hope this helps to explain our mindset and approach to technical design.

As for the power adapter it is a real pain as the plugs are not standardized. We therefore include with each Basswitch a power plug that can be soldered to your power supply and that fits very well.

Hope this helps

Jacques
 
#104
The Basswitch is the core of my pedal board wether I am using my SA200 or any other amp (or even DI/IEM situations).

For my needs, I use the Channel A for slight eq'ing/levelling of my passive basses. The EQ on any amp I use (SA200, db750, TH500, ABM500) takes care of room/stage acoustics.

BUT: the LF control on the Basswitch has a feature that has become somewhat rare in todays bass (floor) preamps: It has a bell /peaking curve (not the usual shelving curve). This makes boosting low frequencies a lot more controlled and doesn't boost the unusable extreme lows. I think this has been crucial in Paul Turner's (Jamiroquai) decision to use the Basswitch.

In the end, the Basswitch is a much more precise tool with its 2 semi parametric mid bands than the SA200's EQ (which already is extremly flexible being an all tube design)
 
#105
lizardwizard28 said:
Haha, toys. Asides from its very handy functions and features, just trying to wrap my head around using this as a preamp in front of the "holy grail", semi-rare sadowsky sa200.
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Think of it as a way to connect two basses to your SA200.

Set the eq on the SA200 so channel B sounds good. Then tweak the eq on the Basswitch so channel A sounds good. Now you'll have good tone out of both basses without having to change anything.

Everything else on the Basswitch is just gravy.
 
#108
Gravy is a sauce, in the literal sense.

"Everything else is just gravy" is an expression meaning more or less that the requirements have been met, the "entrée", but the gravy makes it even better to exceed expectations.
A similar expression with the same logic is "the icing on the cake".

Of course, some might argue that gravy and icing are necessary to make our meal or dessert complete!
 
#111
Hello Vincent,

The Basswitch does not have a master volume limited to the line out, so yes you can control the volume of a power amp without a master volume but you will affect the DI out level

Regards

Jacques

Vunz said:
Interesting device! However, does it also work with a power amp that does not have its own volume control, in other words: can I control the master volume via the volume control of the Basswitch? And how does this affect the DI level? (I can imagine that the sound engineer would not appreciate me changing the volume of the DI during a gig...)

Thanks!
Vincent
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#113
My 'switch is hitting today. Plan on running a couple compressors and a volume in loop 1 and some dirt and modulation in loop 2. I'll be interested to see how flexible the EQ is and how the XLR signal compares in clarity to my late U5 for recording.
 
#114
HeavyJazz77 said:
My 'switch is hitting today. Plan on running a couple compressors and a volume in loop 1 and some dirt and modulation in loop 2. I'll be interested to see how flexible the EQ is and how the XLR signal compares in clarity to my late U5 for recording.
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If I may: The volume pedal and the compressor (in that order) are foreseen to go in the serial loop, that is if you want a sum compressor.

Dirt and modulation (also in that order) are foreseen to go in the mixloop and than you can fool around adding some original tone to the FX tone.

Of course you are free to do differently, just my two cents.

Have fun and if you have questions just email me.

Regards

Jacques
 
#118
Had a long (and great) night with my new Basswitch. Standard German "over engineering" as usual! The EQ stage is incedibly dynamic, all switching dead silent, the headroom massive, the applications are both practical and in genius and it's built like a tank. Even the rubber feet have a clever design (who would have thunk?!). I was considering a similar design made here in North America for about $150 less, but the voices convinced me to go for the 'Switch.

If you're a tone tweaking gear head that wants it built as sexy as it sounds, check it out! Very impressive indeed.
 
#119
HeavyJazz77 said:
Had a long (and great) night with my new Basswitch. Standard German "over engineering" as usual! The EQ stage is incedibly dynamic, all switching dead silent, the headroom massive, the applications are both practical and in genius and it's built like a tank. Even the rubber feet have a clever design (who would have thunk?!). I was considering a similar design made here in North America for about $150 less, but the voices convinced me to go for the 'Switch.

If you're a tone tweaking gear head that wants it built as sexy as it sounds, check it out! Very impressive indeed.
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Thank you for the nice words :-)

Jacques
 
#120
sorry perhaps a stupid question, but if i were to run a volume pedal in the basswitch's serial loop, would that mean i could essentially mute the signal to both the front of house and my amplifier at any given time?

One of the main issues i have when doubling with the bassbone is that if i am using the inbuilt di when i have a volume pedal between the amp and the bass bone, the di is obviously made redundant.....
 

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