Biggest difference is Mayday has an active EQ vs passive in the slampegg. Really just personal taste there on how much EQ fiddling you do, and if you want to boost mids.
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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society
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Mayday is intended to stay clean and offer a 4 band active (flat or center & cut/boost at set frequency bands). This would offer more EQ control than the pedals you have and if you are ordering it to use with your upright be sure to note that for Nathan so he will be sure to meet your input signal impedence.
Different tone circuits process your signal in different ways and that will interact with the other effects ot amp in your signal chain. Mayday has an active 4 band EQ that is popular because it offers powerful shaping tools that boost and cut at their set frequency points. You see 4 band EQs on many amps from GK, Fender and a few others.
Tone stacks like onn the Slampegg and Elementary are "passive" that primarily cut mids and have a boost for lows and highs ~ note passive stacks are never truly "flat" in thier response but there are settings that get close. These are based on the Baxandall circuit found in many home stereo systems and a lot of amps for the pleasing and powerful sound shaping. There are variants of this basic circuit most famously there are several versions on Fender amps and the B15 aka 'James' circuit.
A handy reference is the TSC on the web page that has most of the known variants that includes circuit layouts as well as reference plots. For those that tinker there are even options to see how circuit changes will affect the plots.
I guess we know who the sushi Sioux chef is.
— I think I spelled that right
— I think I spelled that right
Curious if anyone can answer this question with regards to the Venus Z. The Venus Z has a separate Out and Dry 1/4 outputs. But there is also a switch for the 1/4 out to be Pre or Dry. Why is that?
1/4" Dry is parallel to Input (bypasses pre-amp), while 1/4" Out passes through the pre-amp. The switch only affects the XLR.
Sioux is a group of Native American tribes, you wanted sous chef.
Sioux Chief and Sous Chef can be easily mixed up in text.
Wasn't a Sioux sous chef the subject of a Phil Collins song?
Forgive me if I misunderstand here but it is so you have the potential of running a signal untainted by the Venus Z onto something else. So for one instance, you could run a bass signal into the Venus and XLR out to a desk but then also run a cable from this dry to a SBVT and then run that to a desk too. Having 2 different pre amps at once (using the dry switch on Venus Z). Some folk like to split signal paths to different amps too which you could do with this.
The switch lets you have the option of using a Venus Z affected signal on the cable out or not.
so i have been having an issue with the underground accelerator pedal getting lost in a live setting...originally had an extreme volume loss when bypassing my amps preamp (peavey tnt160) but realized the output impedance of the pedal was much higher than the input impedance of the power amp, fixed that by putting a boss tu2 between them as a buffer but now I just can't seem to find a setting that doesn't dissappear when the band is playing...i have also tried just running into the front of the amp and bypassing the pedals eq but it still just kind of dissappears but the speaker is visibly pushing a ton of air so i am not really sure how to fix this and cut through...anyone else deal with this from this pedal?
complete setup is 69 hi flier phase 2 bass into ua into boss tu2 to amp
complete setup is 69 hi flier phase 2 bass into ua into boss tu2 to amp
yeah...it sounds great when using the pedal but when the band starts playing it just gets lost..like way too much low end even with the bass knob all the way down...when I listen to recordings its just all low end
What I meant is, if you are playing with your band and you dont use the UA, and just run the bass straight into the amp through its preamp instead of into its power amp, can you hear yourself? Most times if you cant hear yourself its because there are not enough mids, and one drawback to the UA is you cannot boost mids, only cut. You probably already know this, but flat on the UA is Bass-0, Mid 10, Treble 0. If you have any boost on the Bass or Treble, you are effectively "scooping" your mids, which is the easiest way to make yourself disappear in a band setting with a small amp.
I did not know about that version. I would guess that switch makes the 1/4" Out either through the preamp or not (dry)?
"The Sioux Chef" is also the handle of Sean Sherman, a renowned chef, and a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. He's got some cool recipes.
without the pedal, amp is relatively flat with mid and treble slightly higher than bass, just a touch, and i come through just fine...i think the pedal (even with bass at zero) just fattens up the sound a bit too much and its getting too muddy since I am not being heard as clearly but the speaker looks like its about to explode...might try just running it with the eq turned off and adjusting the amps eq for more high mids cause I really love that tube grit the pedal has, its just getting lost in the sauce
I think that is it, you are losing the mids you need to be heard with that amp and the UA is sending lots of lows that are eating up your amps power. Those Peavey's (I've had bunch of them over the years) are very mid focused as they were trying to get the most out of them they could and mids are what get you heard in a band mix. You have a couple of options, one is get some kind of HPF to cut out the low frequencies, get some kind of EQ with a mid boost, ideally do both, or sell the UA and get something like the Mayday which has active low and high mid EQ. For something to use with your UA, the cheapest would be the Aguilar DB316 mid EQ pedal, more expensive but with more features which I think make it worth the price is the E.W.S BMC 2 mid EQ pedal. You could also use something like the MXR M81 preamp which has a sweepable mid EQ, those can be found almost as cheap as the $99 DB316 and its also got a great clean sounding DI. Run the UA set flat into the M81, cut the bass some, sweep the mid frequency until you find the spot you like the tone and boost there, then run the M81 into the effects return of your amp.
So if a Sioux leader mastered this book they would be a Sioux Sous Chef Chief?
Chief Sioux Sous Chef
Sioux Sous Chef Chief
I'll see my way out…
