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Tronographic Rusty Box!?

#22
mikkejohansson said:
So true Peter....now, if they only included a switch that transforms my P-bass into a TB...hmmm.

I was a bit dissapointed by the pedal board pic above though - I kind of wanted the RustyBox to be a bit bigger :D
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Bob Weston actually said on the Electrical Audio board that he also borrowed a Rickenbacker 4003 for a show and it gave him his regular tone through his rig. He feels that the key to his sound is the Traynor/Rusty Box, not the bass or cabs.

Of course a P Bass is also different than a 4003, but you can have that be what differs your tone from Bob's. I'm a P-Bass fan too, so I'll also never 100% get the Weston tone because of it, but I'm happy with that, because much of the good I enjoy in Weston's sound I can get from the Rusty Box but in a way that doesn't make me sound like a clone of Weston with the P-Bass.
 
#30
bongomania said:
Of course they demo it through a tube amp which colors the tone overall and which gets nicely overdriven by the boost. LAME!!! WEAK!!! When will pedal makers stop lying to us?
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Apparently they're doing more clips with different basses and amps as well, this is just the first they did.
 
#31
andrew said:
Bob Weston actually said on the Electrical Audio board that he also borrowed a Rickenbacker 4003 for a show and it gave him his regular tone through his rig. He feels that the key to his sound is the Traynor/Rusty Box, not the bass or cabs.

Of course a P Bass is also different than a 4003, but you can have that be what differs your tone from Bob's. I'm a P-Bass fan too, so I'll also never 100% get the Weston tone because of it, but I'm happy with that, because much of the good I enjoy in Weston's sound I can get from the Rusty Box but in a way that doesn't make me sound like a clone of Weston with the P-Bass.
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wasn't a 4003. it was a 4005. a blue one. also he said is tone wasn't just the ts-50b, he said most of it was, the rest of it was new strings and the tb2000.

also, this pedal is just the preamp section of a traynor ts-50b, right down to the fact that if you use the line out to drive a power amp, it maxes the volume knob on the pedal/amp and you have to control the volume from the amp.

the ts-50b is what david sims from the jesus lizard used on head, pure, goat, and liar. bob's setup is identical. right down to the cabinets. whereas sims used a memphis jazz bass copy, bob uses a travis bean tb2000. the only other little difference is sims used a GK800RB to power the cabs, bob uses a crown power amp. (also, dave's cab's were dietz brand from heart of music in texas. bob and steve built bob's cab's.)

i have one of these pedals, i've also owned three different ts-50b's, and two different 120b's. this pedal sounds just like those amps.

with your jazz copy, and this pedal your right there next to stealing sims's tone. with your tb2000 or Link Removed you can steal bob's tone.

just for the real tone vultures: the cabinets were copies of the EV TL606, with the EV15L speaker i think. the mesa/boogie diesel 1x15 was the exact same cab, speaker an all. the 2x15's port was slightly bigger so a little bassier, but still the same cab.

as for what it sounds like and what it can do...it is amazingly flexible. i mean, a 3band EQ, a gain knob, and a boost button better be.

it's simply the best bass distortion box out there. mainly because the traynor design was the most accurate tube gain recreating preamp out there. did you catch that? the gain on this preamp is structured just like a tube preamp.

also, here's the kick in the balls...they're sold out 'til next year.
 
#32
jim primate said:
wasn't a 4003. it was a 4005. a blue one. also he said is tone wasn't just the ts-50b, he said most of it was, the rest of it was new strings and the tb2000.
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I know Bob owns a 4005, but I was referring to Bob saying he borrowed a 4003 from a friend and got his tone with the 4003, a rusty box and whatever their bass rig was.
 
#35
I got one of the last ones before David sold out of them. I've not had much of a chance to really try it out, due to my rehearsal/gigging schedule (that and I just got a V4). So far, I like it and I hope to provide some clips, as I've promised in multiple threads...

The thing that's impressed me so far with the Rusty Box is that the breakup kinda reminds me of the Ampeg V4.


Lyle
 
#37
M U S T H A V E ! ! !

So, I have until next year to gather the necessary funds? Great!

It definitely seems like the sound is what I was hoping for it to be, with regards to Shellac records and what I've read about it. Terrific. Plus, it will make my Polish Love more suited for a heavier drive. Just terrific.

Now I just need to figure out what to sell first :)
 
#40
Ok, I have a clip. Sort of. It's a recording of me and my new drummer practicing without a guitarist. We're just working on some new songs that aren't really written yet, so please forgive the sloppiness. There is just an SM57 set up in the room pointed at us, and that's what you hear.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=74288a39c5d9b210d2db6fb9a8902bda

My rig in the clip is bass-->PDS 20/20 delay-->Rusty Box-->QSC power amp-->2 ampeg 4x10s. Rusty Box is set with Gain at roughly 9:00, Bass at noon, Mids at 2:30, Treble at 1:00. The Boost is usually on, which gives it that gnarly sound, but on the few parts where the bass is pretty clean, that's with the Boost off. The Boost acts as my "distortion pedal." There are occasionally some other effects (flange, fuzz, stutter), all coming from the PDS 20/20, which is heavily modded/circuit-bent.

Hope that helps.
 

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