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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

#10,182
Nuage420 said:
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Confession, I didn't like the Fluffy Kitten at first. I couldn't figure it out and got frustrated so I put it in its box on the shelf. Well pulled it out so I could have another flavor of filth next to my duality and decided to see what I could dial up with the Smoke Signal and FK and I'm in love with it now. Glad I gave it another shot.

I've been talking about building different nano boards to plug and play. Picked up a third and got to work on it today. I'm going to be buying a 4th soon and using it for modulation pedals. This might even evolve into a switcher and 5 of these Nanos. I really want a Sushi roll.
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That SS, B7KU, & VU Nano+ board has got to rattle something in the house! :woot:
 
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SemiDriven said:
That SS, B7KU, & VU Nano+ board has got to rattle something in the house! :woot:
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I get regular visits from the local police in regards to loud music.
The Harmonic Booster into any of them is the secret sauce. I'm about to order a 4 or 5 rail so I can get all the preamps onto one board, the Le Bass is really awkward in size.
 
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Nuage420 said:
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Confession, I didn't like the Fluffy Kitten at first. I couldn't figure it out and got frustrated so I put it in its box on the shelf. Well pulled it out so I could have another flavor of filth next to my duality and decided to see what I could dial up with the Smoke Signal and FK and I'm in love with it now. Glad I gave it another shot.

I've been talking about building different nano boards to plug and play. Picked up a third and got to work on it today. I'm going to be buying a 4th soon and using it for modulation pedals. This might even evolve into a switcher and 5 of these Nanos. I really want a Sushi roll.
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Does the presence knob do anything for you? Looking up the definition it should bump some mids, and I never ran it through any software but I couldn't get it to do much of anything, I see yours is maxed
 
#10,186
Sushi Box FX said:
I found it, turns out it had fallen off the shelf in between my bass cab and my drumkit.

So as I was working on enclosures tonight I had a thought about JC Emerald and Sunnday Drive, neither of which I sell a lot of and both of which I was considering discontinuing. I want to try giving them the UA treatment. The circuits are really similar, I want to combine the aspects I like of both into a new preamp and get rid of both. Sunday Emerald? Emerald Drive? I don't know, I'll come up with something.
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Emerald Drive has a nice ring to it.
 
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labeledbass said:
Does the presence knob do anything for you? Looking up the definition it should bump some mids, and I never ran it through any software but I couldn't get it to do much of anything, I see yours is maxed
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...ehhhh, maybe? It seems to brings the high mids out but only when the mids are cranked. And by out it's not much, if any. I could be hearing things. I'll have my wife assist me later and have her turn the knob while I play.
 
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#10,190
labeledbass said:
Yes by definition that should be what it does, maybe it shines more on geetar
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I could see that. Running high gain on the red channel of the smoke signal then into the FK made all kinds of insanity happen all over different frequencies. Unfortunately none of it really to my liking on bass. luckily I'm already working towards line spliting and running my always on tone parallel to to my dirty and fuzzes.
@Sushi Box FX a smoke signal with a blend knob possible?
 
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#10,196
labeledbass said:
Yes by definition that should be what it does, maybe it shines more on geetar
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So Fluffy Kitten v2, remove presence knob and add clean blend? Is that what I'm hearing?

Nuage420 said:
@Sushi Box FX a smoke signal with a blend knob possible?
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(Almost) Anything is possible, that would be doable. I have been considering a drastic redesign (drastic = scrap it and start over) of Smoke Signal to avoid stepping on creative toes.

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I just wanna hear the differences between the two.
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I will get that done. I can't promise it today as it's day one of January enclosure printing (always a multi-day endeavor) but I'll try to get it in the next couple days.
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
So Fluffy Kitten v2, remove presence knob and add clean blend? Is that what I'm hearing?
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Depends on if you’re marketing it more for guitar or bass use. The way the tone stack works and sounds makes me think it’s more of a guitar-oriented pedal. A low-passed clean blend would help beef up the bottom end for bass usage, but that wouldn’t be a typically common feature on a guitar distortion pedal. Or just alter the tone stack so that it lets more low frequencies through in general.

I’m not sure what frequency range the Presence control is working on, but my ears tell me it’s above typical bass guitar frequencies. If you’d bring that down into the 4-5 kHz range it might be more effective. But then I don’t know what that would sound like on guitar.
 
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Sushi Box FX said:
Fluffy Kitten v2, remove presence knob and add clean blend? Is that what I'm hearing?
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To add to that, (although I'm basing my suggestion off zero experience with the FK)
Yes to a clean blend, but, if possible, maybe a knob or switch to go from full range clean, to low-passed.
The Damnation Audio MBD has a low-passed clean and it's an incredible bass pedal.
I believe the corner frequency of the LP clean on that is around 1K.
 
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NKBassman said:
Depends on if you’re marketing it more for guitar or bass use. The way the tone stack works and sounds makes me think it’s more of a guitar-oriented pedal. A low-passed clean blend would help beef up the bottom end for bass usage, but that wouldn’t be a typically common feature on a guitar distortion pedal. Or just alter the tone stack so that it lets more low frequencies through in general.

I’m not sure what frequency range the Presence control is working on, but my ears tell me it’s above typical bass guitar frequencies. If you’d bring that down into the 4-5 kHz range it might be more effective. But then I don’t know what that would sound like on guitar.
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That's what I was thinking, I really had to crank the gain to get it to even bring bass to the table. That presence probably works better in a different hz range
 
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