@SteveC - if I remember from past threads - you also play some bass synth. I play both bass and synth as well - and recently started to use the Jad Freer Luce - and LOVE it. It has both an input - and a pass thru - so my board feeds the input and I push my Novation Bass Station into the passthru. Works like a charm - sounds incredible - and is a bargain compared to the Noble and some others. No doubt the Noble is incredible - but given my needs the Luce has been a wonderful solution. Sound guys really love it.
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The Great Bass Preamp/DI Comparison
- Thread starter chadhargis
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Probably not as a B-15
The thing I notice most with some transformers is a 3d effect, especially in my RNDI it is very noticeable. Almost like a slight phase difference in some frequencies in a good way (have no idea exactly what it is).
...and why I have more pedals than gigs these days, and I can't justify getting more of one without the other
having said that, the new SushiBox looks compelling......
Most of us have more pedals than gigs i expect.
New Sushi box? Was unaware. Will have a look.
I fired up this video with headphones but wasn't looking at the screen for a minute, and I didn't realize he was cycling through different options. They all sounded the same to me.
Yep, I did the same and could not hear any difference lol.
Winners of my little shootout
18v all
18v all
It's nice to read through this thread and see that many, many other users have been through a similar journey with preamps to what I am now. It has definitely become a bit of an obsession of late. I went a little crazy over the weekend and ordered a few new toys. My current stable is:
feat. The Rev Nobelium
Avalon U5
Wayne Jones WJBP
Sushi Box Finally v3
Caveman BP-1 Compact
What I have on the way:
Arkham Oracle V2
Mesa Boogie Subway+ Preamp II
Booya! Amplification Filament
Walrus Audio Mantle
Demeter VTBP-201
Sushi Box Mayday
3Leaf Audio Enabler
Trickfish Minnow
Broughton Audio Archetype
Alembic F-1X
What I want:
Shift Line Olympic III
Jule Amps Simone
Noble
It'll be a hell of a classifieds ad if/when I settle on one (or two..... or three...)
feat. The Rev Nobelium
Avalon U5
Wayne Jones WJBP
Sushi Box Finally v3
Caveman BP-1 Compact
What I have on the way:
Arkham Oracle V2
Mesa Boogie Subway+ Preamp II
Booya! Amplification Filament
Walrus Audio Mantle
Demeter VTBP-201
Sushi Box Mayday
3Leaf Audio Enabler
Trickfish Minnow
Broughton Audio Archetype
Alembic F-1X
What I want:
Shift Line Olympic III
Jule Amps Simone
Noble
It'll be a hell of a classifieds ad if/when I settle on one (or two..... or three...)
This is where I have landed for now
Ironically, as often as not, when I am recording I just plug into the instrument in on an ISA2 preamp and my LA2A clone and go.
Ironically, as often as not, when I am recording I just plug into the instrument in on an ISA2 preamp and my LA2A clone and go.
Honestly, that shopping list of incoming preamps is beyond imaginable.
Gassing pretty hard for this if I'm honest. Would only be to replace my MXR M81 on my board for fly gigs that isn't used that regularly, but that isn't stopping me.
D
The Mesa Subway+ seems extremely promising to me, I would really like to test it, but it hasn't arrived at Thomann yet.
Yesterday I was in the studio with the band, the producer called us to discuss some settings before mastering, and yesterday he also selected which bass track would be on the recording. I had three affected tracks and one directly in the console with a Neve RNDI.
One was played with Ibanez ehb1505ms, cali76, dcx and sansamp, the second with Stingray 5 hh on inner coils (position 4), cali76, dcx and sansamp, and the last was also a Stingray, but on position 1 (bridge), with cali76, dcx and darkglass micortubes x ulta (with the Nolly Mega Meld IR). In the end, the last one was chosen for the song, meaning he was the most convincing, the song being a nu metal one, it seems that Darkglass was the winner for my bandmates and the producer.
With so many options on the market today, it's really hard to make a final configuration, we often end up making pedalboards based on the project we're working on.
Yesterday I was in the studio with the band, the producer called us to discuss some settings before mastering, and yesterday he also selected which bass track would be on the recording. I had three affected tracks and one directly in the console with a Neve RNDI.
One was played with Ibanez ehb1505ms, cali76, dcx and sansamp, the second with Stingray 5 hh on inner coils (position 4), cali76, dcx and sansamp, and the last was also a Stingray, but on position 1 (bridge), with cali76, dcx and darkglass micortubes x ulta (with the Nolly Mega Meld IR). In the end, the last one was chosen for the song, meaning he was the most convincing, the song being a nu metal one, it seems that Darkglass was the winner for my bandmates and the producer.
With so many options on the market today, it's really hard to make a final configuration, we often end up making pedalboards based on the project we're working on.
