I didn’t get to max it out yet lest I disturb the ladies. But I will at some point
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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society
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This showed up today, and it's great! I've spent a few hours with it now, and here are my impressions.
It is really fat and punchy, and open, and very even across all frequencies. The bass control adds a healthy dose of lows, while the mids and treble are more subtle, the treble adding what basically sounds like more air. Still, for me, the EQ is perfect. I don't like, or need, a lot of high-end sizzle.
It has a TON of gain available!! This is going to be an always on pedal for me, I'm using it for a little overdrive, but it can get extremely dirty! At extreme levels, it sounds like a 1960's 50 watt Fender Bassman I had, cranked to the max. It's very tubey and musical!
It does get warm, but not hot. I've had it on for four hours now, and I can easily pick it up and it's still just comfortably warm.
It looks great, the graphics are really cool!
I've gone through a lot of preamps, Broughton SV-Pre, Arkham Oracle, Alembic F1-X, Aguilar Tone Hammer and DB659, to name a few. All are gone now, but this one isn't going anywhere... Unless Nathan decides to make them with a lower current draw. And even then, maybe not. I'm powering it with a 1Spot, and while I would like my pedalboard to power it, it's not as inconvenient as I thought it would be.
Next on my list from Nathan would be an Optipus, when he gets that sorted out!
But, the DR. Wattson is just an overall great pedal, and well worth the money!
"Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way"
Gotta love usps - at least its still on it way...
Gotta love usps - at least its still on it way...
My Wattson has been hung up in Indianapolis for over 24 hours. Usually that’s a quick turnaround since I’m just a couple hours away. This is killing me.
I'm really impressed with the Dr Wattson sound samples. That low E when you take the riff down a fourth has a really exciting sizzle.
So this was supposed to be printed in black, but I forgot to uncheck a box before hitting print. Whoops 
Still a pretty good proof of concept, as it will be nice to have the option to print white over a dark finish.
Still a pretty good proof of concept, as it will be nice to have the option to print white over a dark finish.
Yes, being able to print white is always overlooked. People don't realize how hard it is. Can that printer give the ink dimension? like a raised look if you put enough down?So this was supposed to be printed in black, but I forgot to uncheck a box before hitting print. Whoops
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Yup, on my first couple prints I didn't know what I was doing and went with 200% ink density, that gave a nice raised look. This is at 50% so you can feel it when you run a finger over it, but it looks more or less flat.
Sweet, assume there's also a prep to the metal? Haven't gotten my PA yet (lost in USPS land..) but I'm assuming it has a transparent coating over everything?
I'm having thread crossover issues. It's playing with my head. I only follow 5 threads. I've never had a problem in the past. Now I spend 95% of my Talkbass time bouncing back and forth between Sushi Box and Broughton Audio. It doesn't help that a handful of regulars are constantly posting and mentioning either brand's pedals in both threads (kranahan and shaggy45 for example). My mind is blending the two into one. Are others having similar issues with these or other brands? Do I need therapy? (other than G.A.S. therapy).
Don't we all!!!
I'm on both threads, as well. I just try to remember which one I clicked on.
On my current builds that are laser engraved it's just powder over a sanded raw enclosure then lasered and lightly buffed to clean up the lasered areas, no clear coat.
The UV printer manufacturer said that a special prep coating is needed for printing on raw metal, but I haven't used it, this is just directly printed onto the box with no prep work (except a little sanding to clean off the previously botched print). Seems like a nice easy process, I'm pretty excited to work with it
Rainbow's End or Violet Sparkle for my Particle Accelerator? I can't decide...
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
@Sushi Box FX
Sorry to keep harping in this... I keep going back and forth between deciding to just order the guitar Dr Wattson, or asking for the bass/guitar tone stack on a switch. Is this even possible?
How much different are the guitar and bass versions? If I wanted to order just one that’d be suitable for double duty, which would you suggest?
Sorry to keep harping in this... I keep going back and forth between deciding to just order the guitar Dr Wattson, or asking for the bass/guitar tone stack on a switch. Is this even possible?
How much different are the guitar and bass versions? If I wanted to order just one that’d be suitable for double duty, which would you suggest?
It's literally two capacitors between the two. The guitar version has a pretty good low end already, if you want one to do double duty then I would recommend thr guitar version. I don't think a switch between the two would be that useful to be honest.
I've officially axed your dibs on the Modulation Station.
