The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

[TonyP-]

Hello Folks...
Some folks have written me over a few different platforms asking "Hi what is the Venus X modeled after..." Well I can give you a sample.
On this First track I used my Mike Lull TP5 (which is designed to be a very mid-forward instrument) and the EQ section of the recording is what inspired the Venus X.
There is a bass solo around the 3:30 mark.

 

[_Tay_]

That's great, thanks! I'm pretty set on the UA when funds allow but this appeals to me - if you can just do a quick before/after with the SH on/off I'd sure appreciate it. No rush at all, just whenever it's convenient. Thanks again!

I think you would be better off with a Sushi pedal with EQ options. I love my Space Heater but i've done all my tone sculpting before it. Cranking the gain with the Space Heater loses low end of the MBD-2, so you could dial it back in with EQ.

 

[bassbrad]

JC Emerald Prismatic Cosmos with pink led ordered. Cannot wait to crank it through my rig.

 

[Xad]

Hello Folks...
Some folks have written me over a few different platforms asking "Hi what is the Venus X modeled after..." Well I can give you a sample.
On this First track I used my Mike Lull TP5 (which is designed to be a very mid-forward instrument) and the EQ section of the recording is what inspired the Venus X.
There is a bass solo around the 3:30 mark.

I love this. Really looking forward to the Venus X (in fractured cherry, for sure)!

 

[One Two]

Hi everyone,
First post from someone who has been reading posts here for a while. I've learnt so much wisdom from everyone who contributes. Big thank you to Nathan for making such great products. I'm loving the combo of More and my new HW Elementary.
Quick question has anyone got both Elementary and Underground Accelerator? I'm wondering what the total differences would be between the two pedals?
Cheers!
Mike

 

[_Tay_]

Hi everyone,
First post from someone who has been reading posts here for a while. I've learnt so much wisdom from everyone who contributes. Big thank you to Nathan for making such great products. I'm loving the combo of More and my new HW Elementary.
Quick question has anyone got both Elementary and Underground Accelerator? I'm wondering what the total differences would be between the two pedals?
Cheers!
Mike View attachment 4942604

Love the yellow Jive! Mines in boring plain silver haha

 

[54 RPM]

Look what i found in the mailbox this morning
7 days only from IL to Normandy France, that was pretty quick, thanks to you @Sushi Box FX
Will plug this in the afternoon and will post later about 1st impressions...

 

[One Two]

Love the yellow Jive! Mines in boring plain silver haha

Well, for what it's worth I took it off my main board for Electric a couple of days ago and saw that the finish had started to crack all around the sides of the pedal!

 

[DrHooper]

Hi everyone,
First post from someone who has been reading posts here for a while. I've learnt so much wisdom from everyone who contributes. Big thank you to Nathan for making such great products. I'm loving the combo of More and my new HW Elementary.
Quick question has anyone got both Elementary and Underground Accelerator? I'm wondering what the total differences would be between the two pedals?
Cheers!
Mike View attachment 4942604

Welcome to the Society!
First, the usual disclaimer: my basses, my rig, etc. YMMV.
I have both a UA and Dr Wattson (two tube version of the Elementary).
I'm running three preamps, thru a custom switcher, into the fx return of a TH700, into a Barefaced BB3.
The UA is my "60's/70's" tone: Bass and treble ~noon, mids dimed, gain around 11, master around noon.
I use the DW as a cleaner (much cleaner), more modern tone. Lots of big bottom, sparkly top, and a bit of scoop. Gain and master are at about 9 o'clock (there is a LOT of volume available). Bass around 1, mids around 1 or 2, treble around 11.

IME, there's a sweetness to the mids on the UA, and a fair bit of treble roll-off, with the gain at noon. With the mids dimed, there's little or no scoop. Granted, I'm pushing the bass and treble up a bit, which does add an apparent scoop, but to me, it's a very Fender-y tone, just begs for a jazz bass with flats. The low mids have this presence and weight that fits really well in band mix, without being harsh or biting.

Contrast that with the DW, there is always a scoop. You can push the frequency of the dip around a bit, but it's always there, it never really gets flat. I like it for a really clean, smooth, glassy tone. Elementary is on the gas list for that reason. I do like the tone of it with the gain pushed, but I don't really play much where that would be appropriate. If I did, the DW would be first call. For me, the top and bottom is where it shines: Thicc round bottom, and clear, articulate highs.

Edit to add: I am running a 5751 in V1 of the DW, for slightly less gain. Tried an AU, AT and AY, but 5751 sounded best.
UA is stock 12AX7.

 

[Mayo Fan]

Welcome to the Society!
First, the usual disclaimer: my basses, my rig, etc. YMMV.
I have both a UA and Dr Wattson (two tube version of the Elementary).
I'm running three preamps, thru a custom switcher, into the fx return of a TH700, into a Barefaced BB3.
The UA is my "60's/70's" tone: Bass and treble ~noon, mids dimed, gain around 11, master around noon.
I use the DW as a cleaner (much cleaner), more modern tone. Lots of big bottom, sparkly top, and a bit of scoop. Gain and master are at about 9 o'clock (there is a LOT of volume available). Bass around 1, mids around 1 or 2, treble around 11.

IME, there's a sweetness to the mids on the UA, and a fair bit of treble roll-off, with the gain at noon. With the mids dimed, there's little or no scoop. Granted, I'm pushing the bass and treble up a bit, which does add an apparent scoop, but to me, it's a very Fender-y tone, just begs for a jazz bass with flats. The low mids have this presence and weight that fits really well in band mix, without being harsh or biting.

Contrast that with the DW, there is always a scoop. You can push the frequency of the dip around a bit, but it's always there, it never really gets flat. I like it for a really clean, smooth, glassy tone. Elementary is on the gas list for that reason. I do like the tone of it with the gain pushed, but I don't really play much where that would be appropriate. If I did, the DW would be first call. For me, the top and bottom is where it shines: Thicc round bottom, and clear, articulate highs.

Edit to add: I am running a 5751 in V1 of the DW, for slightly less gain. Tried an AU, AT and AY, but 5751 sounded best.
UA is stock 12AX7.

Thanks for this comprehensive write-up. I've had to take a break from pedal shopping lately but the new standard line makes it very tempting to add a preamp to the collection.

I'm in possession of a Broughton SSDI, but it's a bit unwieldy to take to every gig. So when looking for something in the same tonal ballpark in a smaller package it sounds like the UA might fit the bill. On the other hand it might be nice to get the Elementary as an alternative flavor. I do like some modern tones from time to time. Oh the allure of tubes and shiny gear, will it ever end?

 

[Sushi Box FX]

Oh the allure of tubes and shiny gear, will it ever end?

I certainly hope not

 

[TonyP-]

I love this. Really looking forward to the Venus X (in fractured cherry, for sure)!

Thanks @Xad
I'm glad you digging it.

Just a heads up to the folks who want customization with the Venus X.
Nathan and I discussed about this.

Their will be a "limited run" in Red coming sometime...However the artwork is not changing.

This is a production pedal and is not a customizable product.

 

[TonyP-]

I just got the latest prototype...We are very close...We need another tweak to the EQ. Its almost all there.

The good thing is, the tightness of the power supply nails what we are looking for.

 

[One Two]

Welcome to the Society!
First, the usual disclaimer: my basses, my rig, etc. YMMV.
I have both a UA and Dr Wattson (two tube version of the Elementary).
I'm running three preamps, thru a custom switcher, into the fx return of a TH700, into a Barefaced BB3.
The UA is my "60's/70's" tone: Bass and treble ~noon, mids dimed, gain around 11, master around noon.
I use the DW as a cleaner (much cleaner), more modern tone. Lots of big bottom, sparkly top, and a bit of scoop. Gain and master are at about 9 o'clock (there is a LOT of volume available). Bass around 1, mids around 1 or 2, treble around 11.

IME, there's a sweetness to the mids on the UA, and a fair bit of treble roll-off, with the gain at noon. With the mids dimed, there's little or no scoop. Granted, I'm pushing the bass and treble up a bit, which does add an apparent scoop, but to me, it's a very Fender-y tone, just begs for a jazz bass with flats. The low mids have this presence and weight that fits really well in band mix, without being harsh or biting.

Contrast that with the DW, there is always a scoop. You can push the frequency of the dip around a bit, but it's always there, it never really gets flat. I like it for a really clean, smooth, glassy tone. Elementary is on the gas list for that reason. I do like the tone of it with the gain pushed, but I don't really play much where that would be appropriate. If I did, the DW would be first call. For me, the top and bottom is where it shines: Thicc round bottom, and clear, articulate highs.

Edit to add: I am running a 5751 in V1 of the DW, for slightly less gain. Tried an AU, AT and AY, but 5751 sounded best.
UA is stock 12AX7.

Hi Dr H! Thanks for the welcome!

If I understand you correctly, are you saying that you really dig the mids in the UA, and with the mids dimed that low mid character really comes through? Are we talking anywhere near 250Hz region?

I'm running an old Japanese Greco P with Flats, tuned down to CFBbEb with an old Bill Lawrence pickup. It can be really cutting in the high mids and high frequencies with (even a little of) the tone open. On Elementary I actually had the treble and mids both cut a bit.

An option of having more low mid grunt to sit in a mix would be great, but for most of the gigs I do I think I have more than enough aggressive high mids on tap if I need them.

 

[54 RPM]

Hi there,

Gave the Detective its first run this morning playing with my new Aerodyne P bass thru my modest Fender Rumble 40 amp with everything flat.

As i already mentioned shipping was pretty fast from IL to France in 7 days.
Packaging is nice and out of the box the pedal feels light but sturdy with a very nice looking finish.
Pots are on the hardish side to turn, which i find better than the opposite so you don’t risk messing up your sound once set up.

Engaging the pedal i immediatly noticed an added noise, like a sine wave in the mid region. Don’t know if it’s coming from the Rockpower 1300mA that i bought or from the pedal but the noise is present only when engaging the pedal.
The sine sound is not very loud, kinda same level that the typical white noise added by the signal boost of the pedal and nothing that a decent noise gate couldn’t take care of but it’s still noticeable...

I started playing with the blue "clean" part of the pedal with everything at noon and immediatly liked the sound i got.
I compared it to my usual Rumble settings and it is a massive improvement in every regions from bass to treble, feeling way more natural as if it was part of the bass sound as opposed to added or subtracted artificially... and this is with everything at noon so with some room to tweak further vs the amp settings tweaked a lot to get an okayish sound...

With this basic settings the bass sounded full and rich, mid scooped but still very balanced and clean until i really started to play hard and noticed the distortion.
I then started to move the EQ pots around. The bass one is the more effective or noticeable should i say. Really nice EQ there even fully clockwise it does not bury the sound at all. Mids and His are more subtle and on the fine tweak side of things.

Pushing the unit into distortion by adding gain past noon was really fun. That’s not something i’m gonna use often but again the sound is really nice, gradually adding distortion to the sound in a very pleasant way as opposed to the Rumble amp drive section immediatly reducing the tone to a tiny squashed fuzzy mess. The detective distortion perfectly follows the play intensity and becomes part of the instrument.

I then went to the red upper part of the pedal and man there is a lot of gain there... A LOT !!!
In fact it might be a little to much and the volume knob has to be set almost at minimum to compensate, reducing its useable range to a few millimeters... next time i might try a very low amp gain setting to accommodate the huge gain the Detective has knowing that it’s always gonna be on from now on

I sadly have to notice here that my volume pot on the red part of the unit is really scratchy... turned it a few times up and down hoping it would fade away but it’s not...

Soundwise the red part is pretty close to the blue part once level matched but there is an added upper mids bite that i really love. Maybe it’s suiting the P bass well, idk, but i kept coming back to the red prefering it over the blue when both set to sound clean with a little bit of distortion on the hardest played notes.

Overall i’m really happy with this pedal which is my very first one.
Soundwise it really does what i was hoping for and anticipated watching the few vids available on YT : turning a basic sterile bass sound into a warm and detailed sound with a lot more options to sculpt and/or distort if i need to.

 

[Sushi Box FX]

I've already moved the original Echosaurus to the archives, but I have a few of them that have been sitting around forever that I finally got put up on the garage sale. These will be the last of these that I make as I'm focusing on the Echosaurus Valve from now on.

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[bassbrad]

I've already moved the original Echosaurus to the archives, but I have a few of them that have been sitting around forever that I finally got put up on the garage sale. These will be the last of these that I make as I'm focusing on the Echosaurus Valve from now on.

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Fantastic deal on a great sounding and very versatile delay pedal. The Sushi BoxFX Echosaurus is capable of simple to very complex delay textures with all of the quirky anomolies of a tape or oil drum multi head delay of engaging and disengaging heads and changing speed, feedback and mix. The age control at extreme settings adds a reverb like quality as well as a more analog decay. Sounds great on bass, guitar and synth or as an insert effect in your favorite DAW or mixer.

 

[BassFisher887]

Thought I'd post my Sushi Box pedal build of the Space Heater.

I gotta say, it was a lot of fun putting this pedal together. I have tried the AT, AX, and AU versions of the 12xx7 type tubes and settled on the 12AT7 as my favorite. I don't have an engraver or a fancy way of finishing the enclosure. So, I printed a design on clear sticker stock with my inkjet printer. It ended up looking better than I thought it would.

I did replace the 3PDT switch with an uBer True Bypass switch kit from TH Custom Effects. That change has eliminated the "pop" that occurred with the mechanical switch. It does create a very short loss of signal, but unless you're looking for it, you'd never know it was there.

I have the Sushi Box Echo Foxtrot parts on my bench and plan to tackle that one next. This pedal building thing could become addictive.

 

[Sushi Box FX]

Thought I'd post my Sushi Box pedal build of the Space Heater.

I gotta say, it was a lot of fun putting this pedal together. I have tried the AT, AX, and AU versions of the 12xx7 type tubes and settled on the 12AT7 as my favorite. I don't have an engraver or a fancy way of finishing the enclosure. So, I printed a design on clear sticker stock with my inkjet printer. It ended up looking better than I thought it would.

I did replace the 3PDT switch with an uBer True Bypass switch kit from TH Custom Effects. That change has eliminated the "pop" that occurred with the mechanical switch. It does create a very short loss of signal, but unless you're looking for it, you'd never know it was there.

I have the Sushi Box Echo Foxtrot parts on my bench and plan to tackle that one next. This pedal building thing could become addictive.

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Looks great! Glad you enjoyed it, it's a neat little circuit. Echo Foxtrot is very cool as well but in a different way, I think you'll like that one too. Echo Foxtrot has a few less components than Space Heater, so it's a little easier to put together as well.

 

[HueyFreeman]

Looks great! Glad you enjoyed it, it's a neat little circuit. Echo Foxtrot is very cool as well but in a different way, I think you'll like that one too. Echo Foxtrot has a few less components than Space Heater, so it's a little easier to put together as well.

Any idea when Echo Foxtrot will be back in stock?