Tronographic Rusty Box!?

[snowblinder]

Here is another clip of the Rusty Box in action:

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The first song, "King Cab," is the Rusty Box into a silverface Fender Bassman 100 and TL-606 1x15 cab.

 

[faceinbass]

I love the sound of this pre hitting a tube amp.

 

[Eric!]

Apparently they're doing more clips with different basses and amps as well, this is just the first they did.

Two years later...

 

[Eric!]

Five more years later...

 

[winterburn69]

I've been wanting to buy one of these but the only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger is the lack of demo videos on YouTube (or anywhere).

Any TB Rusty Box owners feel like making a demo video?

 

[Lebowsky]

just listen to Shellac

here's a crappy iphone recording of a song where I'm playing a Rusty Box, from 00:00->00:40 and then 2:45 -> end. Note it's Diabolik into Rusty from 4:38



edit: I don't know why the embed link does'nt work, the track is set to public... but just click on "play on soundcloud..."

 

[PunkRocker33133]

I think I'm gonna pick one of these up for the bass half of my bass vi rig...

 

[andrew]

here's a crappy iphone recording of a song where I'm playing a Rusty Box, from 00:00->00:40 and then 2:45 -> end. Note it's Diabolik into Rusty from 4:38

Cool song!

 

[Insouciance]

I too have been looking into one of these. How is the low end on it?

I have been toying with either the Tech 21 VT Bass DI or the Darkglass B7K or the Rusty Box for an "always on" foundation. I know they are all different animals, but I want to add some low end plumpness with a hint of grit. I have tried the Tech 21 BDDI (not the newer VT version) and it had plenty of lows, but it just sounds so vanilla and generic.

I'm cool with the infamous Albini dirty bass tone, but I want to make sure the lows are there, or can be added.

 

[Lebowsky]

Cool song!

thanks

I too have been looking into one of these. How is the low end on it?

I have been toying with either the Tech 21 VT Bass DI or the Darkglass B7K or the Rusty Box for an "always on" foundation. I know they are all different animals, but I want to add some low end plumpness with a hint of grit. I have tried the Tech 21 BDDI (not the newer VT version) and it had plenty of lows, but it just sounds so vanilla and generic.

I'm cool with the infamous Albini dirty bass tone, but I want to make sure the lows are there, or can be added.

the lows are there... and there's a bass knob too

 

[dune2k]

I too have been looking into one of these. How is the low end on it?

I have been toying with either the Tech 21 VT Bass DI or the Darkglass B7K or the Rusty Box for an "always on" foundation. I know they are all different animals, but I want to add some low end plumpness with a hint of grit. I have tried the Tech 21 BDDI (not the newer VT version) and it had plenty of lows, but it just sounds so vanilla and generic.

I'm cool with the infamous Albini dirty bass tone, but I want to make sure the lows are there, or can be added.

I have all three of them. A short summary:
VT Bass DI: Most useful of the Sansamp series for bass imo, thanks to the "Bite"-switch which afaik is always on on the other VT Bass versions. Works nicely as an amp sim and can also be used as an overdrive. The character is well known and quite close to an SVT-style rig plus 810. The overdrive remindes me of a pushed 810. I use it for practice/going direct if I have to (best "speaker sim" so far, still GASing for a Torped cab sim...) & my main rig is a Stingray or Squier CV P through an Ampeg SVT IIp -> Crown XLS -> Ampeg Heritage 810.

Darkglass B7K: Modern sounding distortion, I really dig both the voicing as well as the flexibility it delivers me. Although I really hate blend knobs on bass distortion/ODs, this one is usable to add in a little clarity. Not that the distortion part is loosing lots of low end...I toyed around with it shortly on a clean setting. It can do that and the EQ works nicely there as well. It will remain the modern voicing though, never tried to bend it towards a more "vintage" sound. It might be able though. I used it as my main distortion, since my "clean" sound is quite dark I used the EQ extensively.

Tronographic Rusty Box: The Rusty Box is also modern sounding imo, and with the knobs at noon it has less bass than the VT Bass DI. The EQ does work nicely though, especially when using a real cab. It seemd there the EQ made bigger differences than when going direct or using a cab sim. The character of the distortion reminds me more of the Darkglass than the VT Bass DI and you can easily get some tones out of it that are similar to the ones you get from the B7K. I haven't used it live yet, just wanted to get it off of my GAS list.

We plan on doing some recordings this summer, I might be able to do some proper (Pre -> Cab -> Mic) ones of the Rusty Box then. If I find the time during the next couple of weeks I can do some going direct. Especially on the more distorted tones a cab (sim) is necessary imo.

 

[Insouciance]

I have all three of them. A short summary:
VT Bass DI: Most useful of the Sansamp series for bass imo, thanks to the "Bite"-switch which afaik is always on on the other VT Bass versions. Works nicely as an amp sim and can also be used as an overdrive. The character is well known and quite close to an SVT-style rig plus 810. The overdrive remindes me of a pushed 810. I use it for practice/going direct if I have to (best "speaker sim" so far, still GASing for a Torped cab sim...) & my main rig is a Stingray or Squier CV P through an Ampeg SVT IIp -> Crown XLS -> Ampeg Heritage 810.

Darkglass B7K: Modern sounding distortion, I really dig both the voicing as well as the flexibility it delivers me. Although I really hate blend knobs on bass distortion/ODs, this one is usable to add in a little clarity. Not that the distortion part is loosing lots of low end...I toyed around with it shortly on a clean setting. It can do that and the EQ works nicely there as well. It will remain the modern voicing though, never tried to bend it towards a more "vintage" sound. It might be able though. I used it as my main distortion, since my "clean" sound is quite dark I used the EQ extensively.

Tronographic Rusty Box: The Rusty Box is also modern sounding imo, and with the knobs at noon it has less bass than the VT Bass DI. The EQ does work nicely though, especially when using a real cab. It seemd there the EQ made bigger differences than when going direct or using a cab sim. The character of the distortion reminds me more of the Darkglass than the VT Bass DI and you can easily get some tones out of it that are similar to the ones you get from the B7K. I haven't used it live yet, just wanted to get it off of my GAS list.

We plan on doing some recordings this summer, I might be able to do some proper (Pre -> Cab -> Mic) ones of the Rusty Box then. If I find the time during the next couple of weeks I can do some going direct. Especially on the more distorted tones a cab (sim) is necessary imo.

Killer! Thank you so much.

 

[silky smoove]

People asking for soundclips... I did that four years ago!

Here was the original thread where I detailed all of these clips and what the settings were: Tronographic Rusty Box Soundclips | TalkBass.com

The Soundcloud link is broken in that thread, so you can find a playlist with all the tracks on my old page here: Silky Smoove | Free Listening on SoundCloud

 

[dune2k]

Someone also posted this on Tronographic's facebook page:


If you turn down the treble it gets a little bassier sounding as well. Also the "boost" switch bumps up the gain as well as the mids.