Could you make the placement of the tonestack switchable so you can go from PA to LU?
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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society
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Ugh. Windows updates are stupid, that's what I get for not postponing them. Been waiting on my laptop for almost 2hours now, I dread to see what's broke/going wrong.
For anyone impatient like me, here's the Soundcloud link again so you can listen to the demos now before I get them onto the site: Sushi Box FX
For anyone impatient like me, here's the Soundcloud link again so you can listen to the demos now before I get them onto the site: Sushi Box FX
I only have 1 pedal on order and it’s not a Black Eye X or even a King Nothing. What else should I be looking at while Mr. and Mrs. Box are away?
Hmm. Last four pedals I ordered:
Particle Accelerator
London Underground
Lab Rat
Robot Butterfly
Planned to order for August: Echosaurus.
So if anybody wants a pedal to be discontinued, let me know and I'll order one!
Yup, it's on my list, it will happen.
I consider the LU placement to be superior, so I don't plan to do that. It would be options for the sake of options in my opinion.
I never did any because there's like one usable setting on King Nothing for bass. If you want a pedal that sounds great on guitar, King Nothing is solid. If you want it to sound great on bass as well, King Nothing will unfortunately probably be disappointing.
I know I've already said it,
But the Space Heater is a great pedal.
I initially bought it for getting some dirty tube tone, which it does in spades, but I'm loving the clean tone.
It just lifts everything up.
Definitely an "always on" pedal for me.
My primary bass is a G&L Kiloton, and I typically just use it in single coil, as it sounds best. But, with the SH on, it makes series and parallel sound much better. That juicy midrange definitely helps the scooped tone of parallel, and makes it sound closer to a Stingray.
But the Space Heater is a great pedal.
I initially bought it for getting some dirty tube tone, which it does in spades, but I'm loving the clean tone.
It just lifts everything up.
Definitely an "always on" pedal for me.
My primary bass is a G&L Kiloton, and I typically just use it in single coil, as it sounds best. But, with the SH on, it makes series and parallel sound much better. That juicy midrange definitely helps the scooped tone of parallel, and makes it sound closer to a Stingray.
Just reporting on another gig wherein spending three hours of "work" netted me the same income as 12 hours of labour at the dayjob. Also, the dayjob doesn't supply an extra $100 of free drinks/food. And I blame the Slampegg for it sounding so damn good.
Also yes, the "work" gig, very fun and low pressure, "work" in quotes bc how on earth does playing cool songs in a chill environment ever feel like work?, included my gig board ft the Slampegg...: It plus the Linden EQ are a perfect pairing for my '60 P bass with GHS Pressurewounds. I can plug my P into the Quilter BB800 and sound very good. But plugging into the pedalboard makes me just giddy, and while I didn't flip switches tonight, I have 20x the tonal options I'd have without specifically the Slampegg & Linden, & well if I'm being inclusive lol, the Darkglass Hyper Luminal comp and the Broughton LPF heh.
It's worth noting, for exactly one song, I broke out a heavy pick and adjusted levels post-pedalchain, so I got some extra grit while plecktrumming, and the 'pegg responded like any vintage awesome tube amp head would: making it even better.
I have a world-class chain! But I wasn't inspired to build it until I first discovered some Sushi Box with the Particle Accelerator that now lives on my psychedelic rock board. (the one with the C4 and Meris Mercury7 and other awesome stuff feeding into the PA at the end to make it all better)
Also yes, the "work" gig, very fun and low pressure, "work" in quotes bc how on earth does playing cool songs in a chill environment ever feel like work?, included my gig board ft the Slampegg...: It plus the Linden EQ are a perfect pairing for my '60 P bass with GHS Pressurewounds. I can plug my P into the Quilter BB800 and sound very good. But plugging into the pedalboard makes me just giddy, and while I didn't flip switches tonight, I have 20x the tonal options I'd have without specifically the Slampegg & Linden, & well if I'm being inclusive lol, the Darkglass Hyper Luminal comp and the Broughton LPF heh.
It's worth noting, for exactly one song, I broke out a heavy pick and adjusted levels post-pedalchain, so I got some extra grit while plecktrumming, and the 'pegg responded like any vintage awesome tube amp head would: making it even better.
I have a world-class chain! But I wasn't inspired to build it until I first discovered some Sushi Box with the Particle Accelerator that now lives on my psychedelic rock board. (the one with the C4 and Meris Mercury7 and other awesome stuff feeding into the PA at the end to make it all better)
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@mmbongo the echosaurus is brilliant funn and sounds amazing. I have spent the week dubbing with it and mastering its self oscillation potential.
@Sushi Box FX I am dreaming of a custom big box combining a Slampegg , PAX and DI....
@Sushi Box FX I am dreaming of a custom big box combining a Slampegg , PAX and DI....
Hi everyone, may I be welcomed to the society following the purchase of my first SB tone goodener?
I'm digging the guitar samples. Definitely want to try the Wrecking Ball
I thought the Slampegg has the same Baxandall (Ampeg) tone circuit as the Linden. I use to have a Linden that I used with a VTbass DI pedal. I sold the Linden when I bought my Slampegg. Is there that much of a difference in chaining them compared to just using the Slampegg?
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Thanks for the post, I always enjoy hearing how much you enjoy the Slampegg, especially being a non-gigging musician it's great to hear the gigging success stories of others.
Welcome, the board looks excellent
Always nice to see my pedals in such excellent company.
Did a little knob-swapping tonight
I've got some engineer nerd chops that I like to apply to setups like this. Two is better than one!! You can do some extremely cool things by EQing a signal, then putting that result thru a second EQ...even if they're of the same ilk.
If you do a classic, say, treble cut and bass boost on the Linden, then the Slampegg has that signal, and you can do a treble boost, which changes the profile of the mids in a fun curvy way due to the circuit design, or you can cut treble more, which boosts part of the mids further, or even some bass cut (esp with a big bass boost on the Linden), which gives you this thumpy low mids that's almost below the mids frequency-wise. Great if you want a dual-pickup bass to come out sounding more like a P!
Plus the smaller Linden has some extra switches to change its EQ points. And the Slampegg's Ultra Lo will just redefine whatever's coming in.
#1 in life has been Linden into the Particle Accelerator because, yep: different behaviors is even more experiment-friendly, but I'm enjoying Linden into Slampegg enough that, really, I need two Lindens, one paired with each Sushi roll.
I'd say at least once every time I've taken the Slampegg out of the stable, someone's complimented the bass tone. Incl once or twice without the rest of the board! Frequently too with the PA, though it's on another board with 11 other pedals lol so the audience gets distracted by the bleeps and brruupps and verb trails......
It's not exaggerating to attest that both pedals are now key ingredients in how I shape my sound, both live and in session recording! I just got my hands on a reamp box and am now thinking about.... double-tracking reamped signals, one thru each pedal. *evil, fading laughter*
@Real Soon I am getting interesting results combining the PA into the Southampton Ictineo. I'm also contemplating having @Sushi Box FX build a custom Slampegg X into a PAX with a loop so I can add the Ictineo and a DI.
I finalized my super mini board and it slays in a live mix. I went FOH with my board and ran to my Rumble 500c/TecAmp M210 for stage monitoring.
@Sushi Box FX this was at the Palatine Fest where we headlined. I haven’t heard my FOH mix this good since I brought out my Fender Super Bassman. Hyper Luminal into the PAX is killer.
Bad pics because of the lighting, but I was in tonal bliss so I didn’t bother to snap another.
@Sushi Box FX this was at the Palatine Fest where we headlined. I haven’t heard my FOH mix this good since I brought out my Fender Super Bassman. Hyper Luminal into the PAX is killer.
Bad pics because of the lighting, but I was in tonal bliss so I didn’t bother to snap another.
