I've been spending a lot of time with the VTRM lately. I still haven't gigged it but that is coming soon. I spent the evening tonight A/Bing it with my 73 SVT and am blown away. This thing gets so close to the old SVT! I mean, it's really remarkable. It somehow even manages to capture that touch sensitivity and harmonic growl that the SVT puts out at higher volumes. I'm just giddy and continually impressed the more and more time I'm spending with the VTRM.
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VT Bass Rackmount...
- Thread starter MJ_Sotti
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Husky,
What cab are you using, your dually? Also have you played with it through the DI out? You guys are killing me though, just when I thought I had ended my preamp search.
My short list (every BBE pre, every Tech 21, GK 2001BP, Peavey Probass 1000, Ampeg SVP) Just when I thought I was set, the VTRM came out.....
This would be why I felt like the low end push didn't seem the same. I always liked my RBI, but it was lacking here. This has me thinking about the VTRM/RBI with a poweramp that has some DSP. Add a little bump on the low end through the power amp EQ, go out the di with the VTRM EQ. Sounds like it would solve the problem (at least for someone like me). Thanks for the input guys.....
Use the internal jumpers to open up the bottom end and to lower the bass control. It wasn't for me but, you may like it.
Husky…whats your settings?
I'm liking …Drive10.5, Character 9, blend full, bass 2, mid flat, treb flat through a 810E.
Precision with rounds.
And I love all the regular bells and whistles that tech 21 puts on the back. Great stuff.
I'm liking …Drive10.5, Character 9, blend full, bass 2, mid flat, treb flat through a 810E.
Precision with rounds.
And I love all the regular bells and whistles that tech 21 puts on the back. Great stuff.
For the the SVT tone I'm:
Drive 9 (o'clock)
Character 12
Bass 1
Mid 2
Treble 1
For some reason I'm really digging the tone at a 50/50 blend. Probably because I dig the direct tone of my Spector's so much. For more "hair" on the notes I'm pretty much leaving the Drive at 9 and just easing up the Character knob to around noon. The more I move the Character knob toward noon or past I sometimes back down the mids because I hear them coming up also. Of course that's by myself. In a band situation I may just leave the mids alone.
I heard back from Tech21 on the VTRM subsonic filter:
30 Hz and 6dB/octave.
Thanks for pointing that out, but I can't find it.
Neither can I find any post where the subsonic filter is documented as to frequency and slope.
Could you please find them and post here?
Here's the post about the jumpers:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/vt-bass-rackmount-1023179/index2.html#post15066660
And I ask again, "Jgr already posted what each jumper does in this thread. I explained them a bit."
Yes, I know about the post.
My point being, JGR had no specifics about the subsonic filter, and no mention of it being at 30 Hz and 6dB/octave.
I contacted Tech21 to get this info, and posted it here for the community.
Chris seems to know all about the subsonic filter, so I'd like to know where I missed his explanation of it here.
Ok.
Sub filter- I only tried it with the nv610 but, it added low lows but took away some of the tight punch and made the bass control more wide. Some will like it, i didn't, maybe with one of my other cabs I would.
Bass- Tried the different settings, moving freq up made the sound alittle too "pointy", lower lost the punch, stock is what I prefered.
Mid- Lower and higher freq's just didn't sound as musical as the stock setting.
I'd like to be more helpful but, go ahead and try them out with your gear. I may try them out sometime now that I have my new lds 1212/5 but, probably not. I really prefer the 1212/5 only using the genz 9.2's preamps and prefer to use the VTRM with the NV610 cab. Two really good options for me.
Sub filter- I only tried it with the nv610 but, it added low lows but took away some of the tight punch and made the bass control more wide. Some will like it, i didn't, maybe with one of my other cabs I would.
Bass- Tried the different settings, moving freq up made the sound alittle too "pointy", lower lost the punch, stock is what I prefered.
Mid- Lower and higher freq's just didn't sound as musical as the stock setting.
I'd like to be more helpful but, go ahead and try them out with your gear. I may try them out sometime now that I have my new lds 1212/5 but, probably not. I really prefer the 1212/5 only using the genz 9.2's preamps and prefer to use the VTRM with the NV610 cab. Two really good options for me.
Husky, I tried your settings next to my 70's svt and that really sounds damn close with the svt set flat! Really good. The svt has a bigger low end because of the power section, I think, but the tone is there. Even sounds about right when I turn up the drive. Very nice.
