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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

I currently have 1 board with Glass Butterfly, U. Accelerator , Empress comp, Master FX Super 800 and a looper/tuner for daily driving. When I play out I go bare essentials and use only a Broughton HPF>>Diamond Comp>> Elementary >>tuner, all of which is always on and sits on top of my (amp) head. My Dreamcatcher is currently in the on deck position ;)
 
After doing some research on the Single Slice compressor, I've gathered that it's not a big squash but more of a compressor with controllable sustain. How is it at keeping peaks, spikes in check and leveling off the signal from the bass being played through it? Can anyone who uses or has experience using one give me some thoughts or advice on the SS. Thinking about purchasing one even though I have other compressors.
Single Slice, can both avoid the "big squash" or bring it on hard. Part of that equation lies in the "Attack" knob. It can be set fast and clamp down those transients, or slowed down to let more through. It's pretty spiffy.
 
I just bought a Barber Linden EQ pedal - a Baxandall EQ, based on that of a well-known flip-top amp - sounds wonderful going into a Finally V3.
I'm still hoping for someone to design and sell a pedal that has the James EQ with the adjustable frequency midpoint, similar to the Arkham Oracle range control, but a lower price. As far as I know, that's the only pedal of that design.
 
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I'm still hoping for someone to design and sell a pedal that has the James EQ with the adjustable frequency midpoint, similar to the Arkham Oracle range control, but a lower price. As far as I know, that's the only pedal of that design.
Technically speaking, the point of a passive James EQ is to have the Bass and Treble eliminate the need for a mid pot. You would need an active circuit otherwise.
 
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I bought a Sol to use with the Darkglass Anagram. I returned the Anagram and now my Sol sits in its box yearning to be back on my pedalboard.

What do you use the Sol for?
I always use an isolated output per pedal. The Sol was originally on a small board, but when I went to a bigger board for experimenting, I purchased a DC7. But then thought... why not use both? At times, I've also had a Nobelium, Mirage Tremolo and a Ditto+ plugged in as well.
 
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I currently have 1 board with Glass Butterfly, U. Accelerator , Empress comp, Master FX Super 800 and a looper/tuner for daily driving. When I play out I go bare essentials and use only a Broughton HPF>>Diamond Comp>> Elementary >>tuner, all of which is always on and sits on top of my (amp) head. My Dreamcatcher is currently in the on deck position ;)
How do you like the Super 800?
 
How do you like the Super 800?
I am really loving it. Its main function in my chain is to add brightness and articulation. I'm getting warm and rich bottom from the sushi boxes and the two play very well together. It's particularly useful when I pick up a bass that wears flats, but I also use it with stingrays strung with rounds. The other master effects pedal that I always use in series with one of my sushi boxes is the super 40. These are the only two brands/ flavours of preamp that I own. I tried (but haven't kept) others, and always come back to these in a variety of combinations, and have never been disappointed.
 
Technically speaking, the point of a passive James EQ is to have the Bass and Treble eliminate the need for a mid pot. You would need an active circuit otherwise.
Or a giant inductor, like [redacted ii]. James EQ with adjustable mids frequency is exactly what that is.
 

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I'm still hoping for someone to design and sell a pedal that has the James EQ with the adjustable frequency midpoint, similar to the Arkham Oracle range control, but a lower price. As far as I know, that's the only pedal of that design.
I bought an Oracle (which being based in the UK means a heavy hit of import duties) before any Sushi pedals, and while it's a lovely pedal, and the combo of the Drive knob and the range control are pretty special, I think if I'd have bought the Sushi pedals first I wouldn't have been tempted by the Oracle. The SBVT/[redacted] has been on my radar from as soon as I heard about the details for it, if I hadn't already spent my play money for a while on a motorbike (slightly ironically considering the C&D letter, a Yamaha) then I think one would have already been on it's way here.

The beauty of running my big board with a stereo split half way means I have twice as many spots to swap in and out preamp choices as the mood takes me, and the Sushi options continue to grow to feed that addiction.
 
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Not unless I get to redesign it to be less like the unit it was based on and more like what I think it should actually be.
I would propose that pedal should be called the Protactinium-233 since that is the first nuclide resulting from the alpha decay of Np-237 in the Neptunium cascade.
Or if he ends up thinking he has the ultimate design, perhaps Thallium-205 as the terminal stable isotope of the neptunium decay chain. The line goes no further than this.
 
I would propose that pedal should be called the Protactinium-233 since that is the first nuclide resulting from the alpha decay of Np-237 in the Neptunium cascade.
Or if he ends up thinking he has the ultimate design, perhaps Thallium-205 as the terminal stable isotope of the neptunium decay chain. The line goes no further than this.
Just so long as we don't call it corium or Elephant's Foot

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I would propose that pedal should be called the Protactinium-233 since that is the first nuclide resulting from the alpha decay of Np-237 in the Neptunium cascade.
Or if he ends up thinking he has the ultimate design, perhaps Thallium-205 as the terminal stable isotope of the neptunium decay chain. The line goes no further than this.
Well, then a true Finally would be alternatively named Fe-56 or Iron Star, right?

Anyway, better than Unobtainium.
 
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Well, then a true Finally would be alternatively named Fe-56 or Iron Star, right?

Anyway, better than Unobtainium.
Depends on which decay chain you want to follow and to what end. Fe-56 starts with Mn-56, so not quite as sexy a decay chain as we get from Np-237. But everyone is entitled to their own favorite isotope.
 
Depends on which decay chain you want to follow and to what end. Fe-56 starts with Mn-56, so not quite as sexy a decay chain as we get from Np-237. But everyone is entitled to their own favorite isotope.
Well, I was relating to the theory that in a extremly distant cosmological future all known matter might decay to Fe-56 (if protons themselves don't decay) as the isotop with the lowest mass per nucleon of all, at least that's my non-scientific understanding...

That being said, probably a more fitting name for a delay. :smug:
 

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