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Source Audio Tour Box - Review and Demos!

Joeynone

Joeynone

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So it seems the thread went bye bye after all the amazing discussion we got to have with the awesome staff who were nice enough to give us bassists an opportunity to try these pedals before they hit the market! SO without further introduction, this will be the user run thread for the Tour Box.

I recorded some demos with the pedals in the tour box... they are on my Soundcloud Page -- this is not a personal music site... just something to upload some pedal demos. SO please enjoy

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I recorded demos of the Lunar, the gemini and the Aftershock. See for yourself why they are so awesome! I personally am in love with the pedals and I cant wait for them to be released!

All of the demos are played through an Ernie Ball MusicMan StingRay 5 w/ Piezo into a Vintech X73i Pre and Empirical Labs Distressor. Recorded on Protools through a Universal Audio Apollo Interface.
 
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Nice work dude!! I was impressed with all the pedals in the Tour Box. I've been in the market for a phaser and I seriously think you'd be hard pressed to top the Lunar. Even with just it's phaser tones, but when you add in others features its crazy!
The Aftershock kicks ass also... Really liked the fuzz in it, you can get some really smooth super saturation out of it and also some nice OD. Also packed with lots tones. Easily tweakable and yet you could go deep with the phone app.
Sadly, I didnt grt much time with the Chorus, but loved it with my fretless.
I think SA really hit it out of the park with the new One Series pedals. Anyone who loves the SB2 will feel right at home with the same great sound quality and anyone who may have been turned off by the interface of them really needs to check these out when they're released!
 
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Joeynone said:
So it seems the thread went bye bye after all the amazing discussion we got to have with the awesome staff who were nice enough to give us bassists an opportunity to try these pedals before they hit the market! SO without further introduction, this will be the user run thread for the Tour Box.

I recorded some demos with the pedals in the tour box... they are on my Soundcloud Page -- this is not a personal music site... just something to upload some pedal demos. SO please enjoy

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I recorded demos of the Lunar, the gemini and the Aftershock. See for yourself why they are so awesome! I personally am in love with the pedals and I cant wait for them to be released!

All of the demos are played through an Ernie Ball MusicMan StingRay 5 w/ Piezo into a Vintech X73i Pre and Empirical Labs Distressor. Recorded on Protools through a Universal Audio Apollo Interface.
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Demos sounds great! Thanks for doing this
 
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The Tour Box arrived yesterday, spent about an hour jamming away with them on their own, then stuck my board in front to try things out that way. The Aftershock is going to replace my Big Muff when they're finally for sale, and I haven't even plugged in and tried the app yet.

The Phaser is cool, makes funky parts even funkier. The Chorus is really great, I'm gonna have to get creative to come up with some more chorus friendly basslines.
 
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Here is the list in order (it was sorted by distance):
cubanbass
j@zz_b@ss
Joeynone
TheEmptyCell
Swimming Bird
MCS4
Scotch
Strictlybass_ic
Gregmon79
ZWKoch
Adamixoye
JWR
coyoteboy
johnk_10
Adamaarts
 
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The more I play these, the more impatient I get for the release date and to find how much money I need to give to SA!

I've never owned a phaser before, and find it to be a crippled of fun. It can get super deep and percussive, or very subtle. The Aftershock is very impressive. I've never heard a modeling distortion pedal that was this convincing. I'd get rid of my Bass Muff right now if the Aftershock were available to purchase. Just between the 3 switch settings, I can get all the sounds I need, and I haven't even plugged my phone into them yet. The chorus can go from big, 80's style chorus to really subtle with just a flip of the switch.

Running OC2 (pure 1 octave down) -> B Wham (either harmony 1 Octave Up or pitch shift Octave Up) -> Aftershock (Heavy [Muff] setting) -> Lunar Phaser (any setting) is synth city. Throw a subtle (or not) chorus in there... wow.

Two things not tone related that I love: Great size and they DIDN'T use those retina destroying, 1-step-away-from-lasers LEDs. It's a subtle green LED with a diffusor over top. Great choice IMO. I hate the LED's on my MXR pedals.
 
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Joeynone said:
I thought that same thing about the switch lights! My darkglass pedals might force me to eventually need glasses
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I appreciate knowing my pedal is on, as well as the technological/ scientific breakthrough that blue LED's represent but JEEZUS, I like to see. Between the board and stage lights, I could go blind.

I'm really tempted to go Aftershock into Phaser, Phaser output 1 to amp, Phaser output 2 to Aftershock input 2. What should I expect to happen there?
 
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J Posega said:
I appreciate knowing my pedal is on, as well as the technological/ scientific breakthrough that blue LED's represent but JEEZUS, I like to see. Between the board and stage lights, I could go blind.

I'm really tempted to go Aftershock into Phaser, Phaser output 1 to amp, Phaser output 2 to Aftershock input 2. What should I expect to happen there?
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You should expect awesomeness!
 
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J Posega said:
I appreciate knowing my pedal is on, as well as the technological/ scientific breakthrough that blue LED's represent but JEEZUS, I like to see. Between the board and stage lights, I could go blind.

I'm really tempted to go Aftershock into Phaser, Phaser output 1 to amp, Phaser output 2 to Aftershock input 2. What should I expect to happen there?
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There will be multiple routing configurations that you will be able to choose from. You will be able to re-route from inside the pedal, or use it as a looper. You will be able to use it as true stereo, independent mono, mono with pass-trough, mono in - duplicate output, external pre-fx and post-fx and a few more. If you have scenarios like this that you'd like to share with us please feel free to let us know.
 
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ncabral said:
There will be multiple routing configurations that you will be able to choose from. You will be able to re-route from inside the pedal, or use it as a looper. You will be able to use it as true stereo, independent mono, mono with pass-trough, mono in - duplicate output, external pre-fx and post-fx and a few more. If you have scenarios like this that you'd like to share with us please feel free to let us know.
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Wow.
 
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ncabral said:
There will be multiple routing configurations that you will be able to choose from. You will be able to re-route from inside the pedal, or use it as a looper. You will be able to use it as true stereo, independent mono, mono with pass-trough, mono in - duplicate output, external pre-fx and post-fx and a few more. If you have scenarios like this that you'd like to share with us please feel free to let us know.
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Wow, that's intense. I wouldn't even know where to begin with that much routing potential.

Are there any plans for a future One Series envelope filter?
 
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ncabral said:
There will be multiple routing configurations that you will be able to choose from. You will be able to re-route from inside the pedal, or use it as a looper. You will be able to use it as true stereo, independent mono, mono with pass-trough, mono in - duplicate output, external pre-fx and post-fx and a few more. If you have scenarios like this that you'd like to share with us please feel free to let us know.
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My jaw literally just dropped.
 
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