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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#63,001
Ritter667 said:
On the topic of delays, I love the NUX Tape Core Deluxe, which is an amazing digital emulation of the legendary Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay, so much I got 2 of them.

Only one of my current board though, and most of the time I have it dialed in on a reverb like delay setting, with the parallel emulated spring reverb of the unit, dialed in as well, on a rather subtle setting, delay time set at just about 200ms, low in the mix, with about 3 repeats.

The stock setting for the adjustable separate random chorus like emulated tape wow and flutter respectively, gives a beautiful subtle modulation to the delays.


Yes, you posted at least the first one once before in this thread.

Awesome stuff though.

Love it! 😍
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I'll check out the Nux! I do like tape delays, I tried the UAFX Orion and the Catalinbread Belle Epoch. UAFX sounds more convincing and could be clean or dirty/noisy, epoch had a lot of noise.
 
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#63,002
bassboysam said:
I'll check out the Nux! I do like tape delays, I tried the UAFX Orion and the Catalinbread Belle Epoch. UAFX sounds more convincing and could be clean or dirty/noisy, epoch had a lot of noise.
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Just be aware that many features are hiding in the software editor.

It does sound great just stock as it is though already.

But if you want to take full advantage of it, be able to adjust tap tempo division, adjust tape flutter and/or wow, tape saturation, the EQ of the repeats, or utilize the parallel spring reverb (which can be adjusted and saved independently for each of the 7 modes), you need to use the editor.

The newer bigger version you can adjust everything from the pedal, as far as I understand, more physical knobs, but also a small editor display, however although I heard it is supposed to sound great as well, it also doesn't sound quite like the older smaller version.
 
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Scooter Haslip, Pentagram (Patronaat, Haarlem (Netherlands), 10 July 2025.
 
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#63,006
bassboysam said:
I've been going down the delay rabbit hole. Testing out these two right now.

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Count me in on the delay rabbit hole. Prime day sales and some unused Amazon gift cards netted me a Mooer Devin Townsend Ocean Machine II delay/reverb. I’ll test and report back as I have only heard guitarists mention using these thus far. If this thing does ambient transition textures as well as it should then I will be happy.
 
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Hey, you kids! I have a question. (I didn't want to risk the slings and arrows of TB Gen Pop.) So, I have this combo amp that basically I ignore the preamp and use a SABDDI into the effect return as the pre. It sounds like "A" (not "a**" just a letter designation.) I also have a Joyo pedal that I've mentioned before that I dub "B". Now, here's the question. Eliminating the preamp from the equation, will the sound of the combo be "baked in" due to the physical characteristics of the cab and speaker? I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, just wanted to run a dumb question past y'all.

I was dicking around last night, and had my bass plugged in to the Joyo, with my cans plugged into the output jack, and, I was surprised at how much I liked the tone of it with pretty much all the EQ at noon. Sounded like a nice full tone without much of the high frequencies I dislike. The SABDDI has it's own sound, and amp and cab simulation that can't be defeated, and I seem to have to do a bit of knob-twisting to get the tone I dig.
 
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Kaa said:
Hey, you kids! I have a question. (I didn't want to risk the slings and arrows of TB Gen Pop.) So, I have this combo amp that basically I ignore the preamp and use a SABDDI into the effect return as the pre. It sounds like "A" (not "a**" just a letter designation.) I also have a Joyo pedal that I've mentioned before that I dub "B". Now, here's the question. Eliminating the preamp from the equation, will the sound of the combo be "baked in" due to the physical characteristics of the cab and speaker? I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, just wanted to run a dumb question past y'all.

I was dicking around last night, and had my bass plugged in to the Joyo, with my cans plugged into the output jack, and, I was surprised at how much I liked the tone of it with pretty much all the EQ at noon. Sounded like a nice full tone without much of the high frequencies I dislike. The SABDDI has it's own sound, and amp and cab simulation that can't be defeated, and I seem to have to do a bit of knob-twisting to get the tone I dig.
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If my understanding of the physics, electronics, etc. is correct (which is a dubious assumption), I'd say no. The "combo" wouldn't be baked in, as you've removed the preamp portion of it and are using your own preferred preamp instead. It's no longer a combo (or at least, not the total combo of preamp, power amp, and speaker/cab). But the characteristics of the cab and speaker would certainly still factor into the overall tone, as well as if the power amp has any tonal characteristics. To my knowledge, power amps are generally just a "more loud" sort of application in that they don't really affect tone, but again, I could be mistaken. But as always, if it works for you, who cares. Rock it.

I finally played some today, and it felt glorious. I'm slowly acclimating to less aggression and more growl in my Priestess fuzz and am digging it as a counterpoint to my more aggressive Rat-based and MBD pedals. Good having options. Other than that, happy to finally be at it again, and need to make sure I keep at it!
 
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