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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

#25,941
Hello Sushians!

As I tend to do every couple years or so I switch out the preamp which drives my IEM setup. There is always something new or interesting coming to market and it's fun to see if I end up kicking off what I'm currently using. Right now it's the Genzler Magellan Pre, which by all means is no slouch and absolutely does the job. It's a great design that offers a lot of flexibility and I'd recommend it to anyone. However, seeing that Sushi came out with the SBVT II it has had me intrigued to see if it can deliver a nice SVT tone into my ears and FOH. I should have it in a few days and I'll report back after some time behind its knobs to see how it does.
 
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fauxtoe said:
Hello Sushians!

As I tend to do every couple years or so I switch out the preamp which drives my IEM setup. There is always something new or interesting coming to market and it's fun to see if I end up kicking off what I'm currently using. Right now it's the Genzler Magellan Pre, which by all means is no slouch and absolutely does the job. It's a great design that offers a lot of flexibility and I'd recommend it to anyone. However, seeing that Sushi came out with the SBVT II it has had me intrigued to see if it can deliver a nice SVT tone into my ears and FOH. I should have it in a few days and I'll report back after some time behind its knobs to see how it does.
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as you can expect, it works great for this. as do all sushi preamps, to each their taste.
 
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fauxtoe said:
Hello Sushians!

As I tend to do every couple years or so I switch out the preamp which drives my IEM setup. There is always something new or interesting coming to market and it's fun to see if I end up kicking off what I'm currently using. Right now it's the Genzler Magellan Pre, which by all means is no slouch and absolutely does the job. It's a great design that offers a lot of flexibility and I'd recommend it to anyone. However, seeing that Sushi came out with the SBVT II it has had me intrigued to see if it can deliver a nice SVT tone into my ears and FOH. I should have it in a few days and I'll report back after some time behind its knobs to see how it does.
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Not for nothin, my main head is a Magellan 800, and I enjoy the Elementary, Underground Axe and Dreamcatcher run into it (depending on the bass). I always like an active mid control in series with the passive eq on my Sushi preamps. YMMV.
 
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rcmbass said:
Nice board.

I was thinking of getting an Atlas for the end of my stereo ambient board. Do you like it?
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I like the Atlas a lot. For me there was a big learning curve. While I understood the concept there's so many parameters you can adjust through the app that it took some time to create a usable preset. There are some very good presets available in the community and the presets that it comes with are also very good. The versatility and sound quality makes it a great choice.
 
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lomo said:
Not for nothin, my main head is a Magellan 800, and I enjoy the Elementary, Underground Axe and Dreamcatcher run into it (depending on the bass). I always like an active mid control in series with the passive eq on my Sushi preamps. YMMV.
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With the SBVT II one of the things I liked about it in comparison with some of the other tube preamp offerings on the market is that it has a a boost/cut EQ (not sure if that makes it active?) along with the increased amount of mid frequency points and the wet/dry options. Of course, anything I say about this preamp is totally at face value at the moment and not in practice since I don't have it in hand yet. We'll see! I had started to research Noble, Nobelium, Neptunium, etc and this one seemed the most in line with what I need and would use. I would likely have been an early adopter of the Origin SV had the master volume not affected the DI - that's a no-go for my setup.
 
#25,951
tommyeadg said:
I snagged a single slice off reverb, stoked! Is it true bypass or does it have a buffer? I couldn’t find that info anywhere. Just curious
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It's true bypass. Did you look at the actual Single Slice Compressor page on the Sushi Box FX website? Right there, 2nd paragraph. Besides that, there's some good info there on what does what on that pedal that you might find useful.

I run dual FX loops, one unbuffered for gain FX and one buffered for modulation FX. I use the Single Slice at the beginning of my "gain" loop, and then the two tube "More" by Sushi Box FX at the end of it. Nathan makes some awesome stuff!

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Clark W said:
It's true bypass. Did you look at the actual Single Slice Compressor page on the Sushi Box FX website? Right there, 2nd paragraph. Besides that, there's some good info there on what does what on that pedal that you might find useful.

I run dual FX loops, one unbuffered for gain FX and one buffered for modulation FX. I use the Single Slice at the beginning of my "gain" loop, and then the two tube "More" by Sushi Box FX at the end of it. Nathan makes some awesome stuff!

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Oh wow, totally missed it. Thanks!
 
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I have a couple questions:

a) What benefit would I have running a UA in front of the Finally v3 using the EQ (besides having EQ option) on the UA. Using stock tubes in both.

b) If I change the tube in the F v3 to higher gain and NOT use the UA with it, how would this compare to option a above besides not having the EQ ?
 
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p12bassnut said:
I have a couple questions:

a) What benefit would I have running a UA in front of the Finally v3 using the EQ (besides having EQ option) on the UA. Using stock tubes in both.

b) If I change the tube in the F v3 to higher gain and NOT use the UA with it, how would this compare to option a above besides not having the EQ ?
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Sorry I forgot to answer your email the other day, I fell behind (again), but I can answer this here.

a) you would be getting more gain in addition to the EQ, but if you don't want that you would have to be careful not to overdrive the Finally's input with the UA.

b) stacking multiple mid-gain stages gives a more pleasant overdrive sound than fewer stages with high gain. That's why hi-gain amplifiers and preamps have more tubes instead of just increasing the gain of a small number of stages. Stacked gainstages gives a smoother, more harmonically complex tone, whereas running a single stage at high gain can often sound harsh.

Finally v1 and early non-WBIM v2 came stock with a 12AX7 so it's certainly an option to run v3 with a 12AX7 for more gain, but if your goal is thick distortion, Finally won't get you there by itself.
 
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I got my first sushi box pedals in yesterday and I'm super happy with them! The tarantula fuzz is particularly fantastic - it sounds similar to my ss/bs mini with the bias turned down but with a much nicer response on the low B/E strings. The single slice compressor is squishy and delightful - I'm not sure it's replacing my empress bass comp but it's definitely got a good sound to it and it's great in it's own way.

The only one I'm a little less in love with is the grand slampegg - I knew it was gonna be clean but it's cleaner than I expected. I like to set B15 models to be just shy of breaking up and I can't quite get there with this. My bass is passive so I guess the thing to do would be add a boost in front of the slampegg? Bringing up the output on my compressor gets it to where I want but I don't like to always have compression on
 
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ilovesteak said:
I got my first sushi box pedals in yesterday and I'm super happy with them! The tarantula fuzz is particularly fantastic - it sounds similar to my ss/bs mini with the bias turned down but with a much nicer response on the low B/E strings. The single slice compressor is squishy and delightful - I'm not sure it's replacing my empress bass comp but it's definitely got a good sound to it and it's great in it's own way.

The only one I'm a little less in love with is the grand slampegg - I knew it was gonna be clean but it's cleaner than I expected. I like to set B15 models to be just shy of breaking up and I can't quite get there with this. My bass is passive so I guess the thing to do would be add a boost in front of the slampegg? Bringing up the output on my compressor gets it to where I want but I don't like to always have compression on
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One of the reasons I am still using the original Slampegg Bee pre is having the gain control to dial in saturation,. Hitting the GS with some extra gain from a clean boost might work, the TC Spark mini works well for me in that application.
 
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ilovesteak said:
I got my first sushi box pedals in yesterday and I'm super happy with them! The tarantula fuzz is particularly fantastic - it sounds similar to my ss/bs mini with the bias turned down but with a much nicer response on the low B/E strings. The single slice compressor is squishy and delightful - I'm not sure it's replacing my empress bass comp but it's definitely got a good sound to it and it's great in it's own way.

The only one I'm a little less in love with is the grand slampegg - I knew it was gonna be clean but it's cleaner than I expected. I like to set B15 models to be just shy of breaking up and I can't quite get there with this. My bass is passive so I guess the thing to do would be add a boost in front of the slampegg? Bringing up the output on my compressor gets it to where I want but I don't like to always have compression on
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Grand Slampegg was designed to run clean. My first prototype just copied the B-15N preamp exactly, but I didn't like the way it behaved with the D.I., and since that was the main design goal I had to make some changes to the circuit to get a sound I was happy with. So it isn't exactly a B-15N preamp as much as it is "inspired by" the B-15N.
 
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Last week I took the Grand Slampegg out of its box again after a 6 month hiatus. I was impressed all over again with it's syrupy clean sound. Very inspirational and musical. Where the SSDI with it's Fenderish profile is more wide and deep, the Grand Slampegg is more focussed and phat. And all that goodness plus and HPF and DI in such a small pedal, amazing engineering.
 
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