The Sushi Box FX Secret Society

[OldShark]

We greatly appreciate Sushi designs and accessibility!

... and of course Nathan's helpfulness and sense of humor, too...

 

[furym]

The accessibility and community is exactly what drew me to the SushiBox Pedals in the first place. I think it is a great small business model.

 

[FronTowardEnemy]

Also, Nathan is a really cool and down to earth guy, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him and working with him doing some live “field testing”.

Nathan even came to one of my shows to hear his pedals in play. Customer service above and beyond anything we have seen or likely to see.

That’s really cool!

And as always, he makes incredible and affordable bass gear!

 

[CH Design]

Unrelated to the current topic, but I found this interesting ...

I recently picked up an old SWR Baby Blue II, so I've been looking around TB to see what people think of them and find any mods that have been performed. One of the mods that seems pretty common is to bypass the Aural Enhancer circuit to bring back some low mids. Even with the AE control all the way CCW, the circuit still scoops out some low mids and boosts the highs.

So, why is this relevant? I overlaid a frequency plot for the AE (a few different knob positions) with the setting that I use on my Elementary. The black line (AE Off) and the thin red line (Elementary, Bass: 12:00, Mids: 3:00, Treble: 9:00) are very similar.



So, if you're thinking about an Elementary but aren't sure if you'll like the "scooped" mids, if you're at all familiar with the "SWR sound", I'd say it can be set to sound similar, with a little less top end.

 

[DumDrummer]

Hey everyone, I haven't been posting as much as usual lately as I've been scrambling to get last minute things done for NAMM and haven't spent much time building or designing.

But I wanted to take a minute to let you all know how much I appreciate all the support you've given me the past few years and continue to give me. I started building high-voltage tube pedals in 2018 because I think tubes sound better than solid-state and figured that should carry over to pedals. Fortunately I've been able to connect with a lot of people that agree, and 953 pages/19k posts later here we are.

I'm still just one guy that sits in a basement nights and weekends building pedals that I think are neat, and it means the world to me that people enjoy them and use them to make music. I'm excited for NAMM next week and am hoping to find more opportunities to get Sushi Box out into the world.

I've had people tell me I'm too "accessible" as a company because of how much time I spend on forums and social media, but I know that Sushi Box couldn't have gotten where it is today without the community here and the support of those on social media, and I want to continue to keep you all involved. I design pedals for bassists, I feel like hanging out where bassists are and listening to what bassists have to say is a pretty good business decision.

Anyway, this is my characteristically long-winded way of saying thanks all for sticking around.

I respect and appreciate how you run your company and the hard work you put in. Greatly looking forward to adding some of these new pedals you have in the works to my growing collection of Sushi products.

 

[lomo]

Nathan even came to one of my shows to hear his pedals in play.

=critical field research to enable superior development

 

[TonyP-]

 

[Sushi Box FX]

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I would have remembered to mention that eventually lol

Tony will be doing live pedal demos at my booth twice daily at NAMM. Come to see some killer playing, stay to try some killer pedals.

I should put that on a sign or something.

 

[laklandplayer]

Hey everyone, I haven't been posting as much as usual lately as I've been scrambling to get last minute things done for NAMM and haven't spent much time building or designing.

But I wanted to take a minute to let you all know how much I appreciate all the support you've given me the past few years and continue to give me. I started building high-voltage tube pedals in 2018 because I think tubes sound better than solid-state and figured that should carry over to pedals. Fortunately I've been able to connect with a lot of people that agree, and 953 pages/19k posts later here we are.

I'm still just one guy that sits in a basement nights and weekends building pedals that I think are neat, and it means the world to me that people enjoy them and use them to make music. I'm excited for NAMM next week and am hoping to find more opportunities to get Sushi Box out into the world.

I've had people tell me I'm too "accessible" as a company because of how much time I spend on forums and social media, but I know that Sushi Box couldn't have gotten where it is today without the community here and the support of those on social media, and I want to continue to keep you all involved. I design pedals for bassists, I feel like hanging out where bassists are and listening to what bassists have to say is a pretty good business decision.

Anyway, this is my characteristically long-winded way of saying thanks all for sticking around.

Nathan, we’ve got your back. Thank you for making great pedals that absolutely do the job at a price that is within the financial means of most of us working players. Just don’t forget us when you hit the big time.

 

[smeet]

So, it's a been a little while since the Venus X came out. How many of you have bought or tried one? I would love to hear your impressions.

I want something that adds a tubey-but-clean magic plus a nice powerful eq as the last pedal in my chain. Is the general character of the pedal more suited to a particular type of music or is it a general purpose always-on thing? I don't want a drive pedal, more a nice tone enhancer.

 

[BigBear77]

Slampeg in classifieds, might be affiliated!

 

[melloncollie]

So, it's a been a little while since the Venus X came out. How many of you have bought or tried one? I would love to hear your impressions.

I want something that adds a tubey-but-clean magic plus a nice powerful eq as the last pedal in my chain. Is the general character of the pedal more suited to a particular type of music or is it a general purpose always-on thing? I don't want a drive pedal, more a nice tone enhancer.

The Venus X isn’t out yet I don’t think.

 

[Mr. Business]

The Venus X isn’t out yet I don’t think.

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[Sushi Box FX]

The Venus X isn’t out yet I don’t think.

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Yup Venus X has been out since the summer, there are half a dozen or so out in the wild.

 

[TonyP-]

The Venus X isn’t out yet I don’t think.

Listen to the bumpers on the food network and you will the heat the Venus X

 

[LSM07]

Listen to the bumpers on the food network and you will the heat the Venus X

First time I've ever googled "Food Network Bumper Video". Looks like you never know where a sushi box pedal might show up these days. There might even be some Sushi Box users in this very thread...

 

[DennyOnBass]

For anyone who might be curious about the kind of grit you can get out of the Finally, here's a video of my organ funk band The Styleguides.

My chain for this recording was simply a 76 PBass with GZR pickup and flats > Sonic Research Turbo Tuner > Finally V1 > interface. No plugins and just a little low mid bump for EQing. Think I had both the gain and volume at about 11 o'clock.

I also had my Genzler Magellan and an AudioKinesis Hathor 1203 in the room, but it was extremely low and we didn't mic it.

 

[Hasty]

For anyone who might be curious about the kind of grit you can get out of the Finally, here's a video of my organ funk band The Styleguides.

My chain for this recording was simply a 76 PBass with GZR pickup and flats > Sonic Research Turbo Tuner > Finally V1 > interface. No plugins and just a little low mid bump for EQing. Think I had both the gain and volume at about 11 o'clock.

I also had my Genzler Magellan and an AudioKinesis Hathor 1203 in the room, but it was extremely low and we didn't mic it.

I love this. Good on you for getting that organ play to pull the pedal keyboard off his setup to include a bass player.

Honestly I would have never thought about this tone with that type of quartet (because I generally go cleaner) but I think I'm going to totally steal this tone when the opportunity arises in the future! Love everything about it.

 

[DennyOnBass]

I love this. Good on you for getting that organ play to pull the pedal keyboard off his setup to include a bass player.

Honestly I would have never thought about this tone with that type of quartet (because I generally go cleaner) but I think I'm going to totally steal this tone when the opportunity arises in the future! Love everything about it.

Thanks! I was definitely pushing the tube harder than I intended to, but it came off so well that we went with it!

I've always been a fan of that type of music but obviously the organ player typically kicks the bass in these groups. This band sometimes digs a little deeper into jamband territory and Ted the organ player wanted to free himself up to be able to stretch out a little more.

 

[melloncollie]

Listen to the bumpers on the food network and you will the heat the Venus X

Now I’m the one getting cooked haha.