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wooly mammoth and boss question.

#2
Depends what you mean by "funny". If your signal path is passive bass --> TU-2 --> Mammoth, then the TU-2 is buffering your signal, which makes the Mammoth sound harsh and spitty. If your bass is active, or you have the Mammoth before the tuner, then that's not it.
 
#4
Right, if you don't want that harsh/spitty sound from the Mammoth then it has to be first in line, assuming you're using a passive bass. For active-bass users there are a couple gadgets out there for changing the impedance of your signal in a way that will suit the Mammoth better (supposedly).
 
#5
TBH I think the Mammoth sounds pretty good with a Boss buffer infront of it (most recently mine had an LS-2 right before it). It gets a bit middy and nasal but the pedal sounds like that anyway when you crank the Pinch knob up.
 
#6
kevteop said:
TBH I think the Mammoth sounds pretty good with a Boss buffer infront of it (most recently mine had an LS-2 right before it). It gets a bit middy and nasal but the pedal sounds like that anyway when you crank the Pinch knob up.
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Hi!

I used to have the Mammoth first in line, but now it's looped in a Boss LS-2. I still haven't tried it out, but how did it work for you?

I use passive basses, either a Fender P or a jazz.
 
#7
BassMonstrum said:
Hi!

I used to have the Mammoth first in line, but now it's looped in a Boss LS-2. I still haven't tried it out, but how did it work for you?
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I actually sold mine last week after a little of a year of it being on my board (I'm now using the fuzz circuit in the Octavius Squeezer for everything, it's excellent), but yeah it worked fine. I just decided I didn't want that sound any more. It's quite a distinctive and nasal-sounding pedal when you turn the pinch knob up enough to gate, regardless of the impedance at the input, and I wanted something a bit more open and less resonant-sounding.

Incidentally I didn't have mine in an LS-2 loop, it was immediately after the LS-2. (LS-2 at the time had an OC-2 in one side, Octavius Squeezer, BMS and Bassballs in the other).
 
#8
Just tried putting the Mammoth in the LS-2 loop. It worked just fine, didn't glitch more than usual.

And to the OP; if you still experience problems by having your Boss-tuner in front of the Mammoth, you could swap the tuner for a Korg Pitchblack which is true bypass. That worked for me.
 
#10
God knows. Ask a Boss engineer or start applying meters to outputs. Those meters that only electricians understand, and you've always been suspicious of.

"This meter says it'll cost you"
"****. Can I get a second meter's opinion?"
 
#11
lowregister said:
A friend of mine told me that he runs his TU-2 in the stream mode. Such that, by having the tuner activated it is more in a sense, 'true' bypassed. Yes, no?
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No. Not so. The signal passes through active circuitry, therefore it is buffered. Whether that mode "sounds more true" to him, maybe so--but that unfortunately has no bearing on the Mammoth problem.
 

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