Curious to the eq points on the UA. I'm an upright player as well, the quackery of the mids needeth taming typically.
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The Sushi Box FX Secret Society
- Thread starter kranahan
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I cannot say as to specific Hz but the UA does wonders taming the mids on my Ibanez UB804 with sweet tube warmth.
Played a gig today and tried a new combination that was absolutely stellar on the Upright Bass.
ToneDexter > Broughton Always On HPF > Space Heater
The tiny things that sometimes nag me about the ToneDexter absolutely disappeared when used this way. Plus the Space Heater drove the amp perfectly.
ToneDexter > Broughton Always On HPF > Space Heater
The tiny things that sometimes nag me about the ToneDexter absolutely disappeared when used this way. Plus the Space Heater drove the amp perfectly.
Quick announcement: I've been doing some investigations into noise issues when two or more Sushi pedals are running together and I may have found something. I want to do some more digging to make sure, but based on a test from last night it's promising. More on that to come.
Standing by! I have just enough space on my gig bord for SlampeggX and LTD Space Heater... that could be an interesting way to frontend my F1-x.
Do all Sushi FX have a tube inside?
Would be kind of hesitant to go out on a 10 gig stretch with a tube inside a pedal.
Tubes on gigs, they always break at some point.
Not saying it’s a bad idea, they seem quite popular around here.
Would be kind of hesitant to go out on a 10 gig stretch with a tube inside a pedal.
Tubes on gigs, they always break at some point.
Not saying it’s a bad idea, they seem quite popular around here.
Not a very viable solution 500miles from home isn’t it?You'll just need to buy 2
2 broken expensive pedals because a dumb stage hand knocked your pedal case over.
And batteries die, and cables wear out, and amps smoke, and...
In any case you should at least have a way to bypass the problematic area to "survive" and finish the song / set, and ideally a spare or backup solution that you can put in place when you have a few minutes between two sets.
Agreed that everything can break, I was just wondering if Sushi had any non tube pedals.
They sound awesome and seem the be made to high quality standards.
When something goes sideways, it’s pretty much bypass everything and got straight bass to amp.
If amp is fried at least the DI can feed the FOH, yes it has happened. Bad power blew up the breaker that my amp was plugged into. No amp for the rest of the set. Luckily no damage to amp.
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I have a prototype of Underground Accelerator that's solid state and it sounds pretty good, but not good enough to really excite me. I build tube pedals because they sound good, if I could make them sound as good without the tubes then I certainly would.
The only non-tube pedals I have are Echosaurus (delay) and Fluffy Kitten (distortion).
The answer is no, they all have tubes (edit: except for the two named above). Pick up a couple of spare 12AX7s from your local L&M and stash them in your bass case, and you're good to go. You won't be changing the tube between songs, but its easy enough to do the next day when you're on the road to the next stop.
Keep up the good work, those are some awesome preamp pedals my friend.
Happy you’ve built a very good reputation on TB and have a hands on approach towards customer service.
That could be said of any pedal or amp. I don't really think the tube increases the risk that much. I've had a valve caster tube pedal that I made almost 9 years ago with a super old 12AU7 in it. I'm don't treat it any differently than any other pedal on my board and it works just as well today as it did when I first boxed it up (and I've dropped it more than a few times). I feel the same about my Sushi Box pedals.
Heck, Ike Turners amp fell out of the back of their car while driving down the highway and that's what gave them their signature sound for Rocket 88... The amp still worked. I see guitarists with tubes that get knocked about all the time on their amps. They just reseat the tube and keep on playing.
All this to say that tubes are not the fragile flowers that some people make them out to be.
Additionally, I don't think I've been in a music store yet that didn't have a 12AX7 or 12AU7 sitting on the shelf or in the back room. Even if they didn't, I bet I could find one somewhere. If I was doing a multi city tour with stage hands, I bet someone at that venue could scrounge up a 12AX7, or a spare IEC cable, or another patch cable, or strings, or just about any other fairly common musical item.
People tour with huge heavy droppable all tube amps all the time.
It's all about effective risk management and mitigation plans.
Bring some extra tubes or a back up solid state device of some kind.
Never ever set foot on a live performance stage/tour bus with out at least one backup for every critical device and component of your signal chain. Spare batteries, tubes, cables, strings, backup mini amp head, etc. If it can keep you from playing for more than a minute or two, you should have a plan on what to do if it breaks.
These days a little Zoom style multi effects and a tiny lightweight Class D Amp head can go a long ways for emergency backups, and fit in a fanny pack sized bag, if there isn't time to swap out a tube or what have you.
Agreed, tubes aren’t that fragile. My amps all have tube preamps and they’ve been through hell and back.
Zero issues with the tubes.
Its just that some amps if a tube goes, the entire amp goes. Like old Marshalls or old mesa 800.
My buddy toured that mesa amp and every time he got home he had a few hundred bucks to fix up the amp for the next stretch. Guess who lent him amps when they weren’t fixed in time
