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Worship Bass Pedalboards
- Thread starter Cshanks5
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Testing and pre final assembly in progress. This one's gonna be good.
Ready for battle. Have a blessed Sunday y'all.
Just the REDDI this morning. Oh, and a tuner. 
Just my tuner and my LA-1A today. Seeing the REDDI still makes me want to give it another try. LA-1A into a REDDI into FOH and IEM's seems like a great combo.
Same here. Outdoor service.
BROUGHTON monocomp >>REDDI>>FOH and unaffected out to Aguilar setup. Sound guy could not get over how great the bass sounded. "Bring the the red thing with the bright blue light every time you are playing !!!"
BROUGHTON monocomp >>REDDI>>FOH and unaffected out to Aguilar setup. Sound guy could not get over how great the bass sounded. "Bring the the red thing with the bright blue light every time you are playing !!!"
If I may ask an "elephant in the room" question.... If Jensen transformers are supposed to be as good as it gets for live application DIS; and there are terrific DIs, like the Radial gear that cost a fraction of the cost of the REDDI,then what makes (in live application setting) the REDDI so good as to substantiate the rather hefty price tag it comes with?
It seems to me that the end cannot possibly justify the means. Not knocking them - if I had the money I'd probably own a Fodera, but I don't, so I don't....
It seems to me that the end cannot possibly justify the means. Not knocking them - if I had the money I'd probably own a Fodera, but I don't, so I don't....
Maybe not. Have you tried one? There's more to the REDDI than a transformer. For me, hearing is believing.
Like @scubaduba said, it goes beyond the transformer. The Reddi and other units like it step into preamp territory. It all depends on what your needs/goals are.
dude that's a pretty serious rig right there
So, Saturday, we have a Saturday afternoon service LIVE, and stream on Sunday mornings and my MORE favorite of our two sound guys was working with me to get better tone out of my rig at this new place (another church) we are now doing our services at (we used to meet at a high school auditorium , which is actually a really nice set up) and I'm using my regular little board with a VTDI and last week was ok, this week I'm frying eggs on my channel! So, I reset and turned down the levels on the VTDI and turned up the volume on my bass. I had always had my volume low to work with the SVT settings on the VTDI. THAT CLEARED THAT UP NICELY!! Everyone had said "crank your volume all the way up" but that distorts a little on my PentBuzz preamp so I prefer it a little lower, and then leave a little to bump if I need or want to. That I have to do with the other guy because I don't think he likes bass very much. I always have to tell him to match me to the KB's low notes and he will, and he backs it off before service starts and then I bump the bass back up after the first song starts. I know what he does every time! Smh. Anyway, I'm also running 1/4" out of the VTDI to a nice little Roland 15" combo that's got quite a few features that I already have on my board like comp and distortion and chorus, but I run it pretty clean with a little more chorus and highs so I can hear it better. It's my monitor and it's loud enough to get some feel from it too. It's getting really nice now that I've been tweaking it for for several weeks now. Yesterday was really nice to where it sounded good bare with a little reverb (always on) and adding chorus for certain songs and dumping a little delay on top of that on others. I was getting a nice stadium sustain with lots of grindy bottom that sustained forever and the top was not dropping off drastically like with the other sound guy, like it was shelved or something. Overall it was pretty epic from stage! Walked off smiling profusely after service. I keep asking the other guy if he can just make me full range in the subs (which are 15's there) as the mains are pretty simple and I think they get a little overwhelmed at times. They are 2-way EV 12's. Anyway, very fulfilling day.
I never heard of the Link (but I have 3 Gruv Slingblades) so from your post checked it out, I wonder if the space on the side where the connector is lower than the board effectively results in less constant-height room?
My point - if I wasn't clear - is that most of us, in a live setting, not a studio setting (where most reviews happen I'm afraid), have used everything from the amp's built-in DI, to lowly Behringers to the top-of-the-line Radials to even (in my case, only once) an Avalon.... in almost every single case (barring the ineptitude if a cloth eared sound engineer of course), I sounded like me through the PA and I didn't have people asking me what the problem was. I also, from my situation behind the PA could not hear anything untoward...
So again, I ask... and this is NOT - I stress NOT - a dig at REDDI or A Designs Audio... why, and how, is the price justified for anyone but a studio musician/engineer? Surely a quality DI (JDI springs to mind) is perfectly suitable for a live setting.
Caveat: I ask, because almost every single response I have ever got, is "oh you have to hear it to believe it" or "once you'd gone REDDI you'll never use anything else" - yet never how, why and that makes me ask the question over and over.
Or I'm bored... one of them
Well, I don't know about a REDDI (I am tempted though for my live church and cover band) but when I added the LA-1A tube compressor EVERYONE noticed.
It's never happened to me before. The singer (who knows nothing about gear) said something, the FOH guy said it's the best I've sounded (he's been with us for years) and the band said the IEM sound especially was noticeably improved. That has never been the case with anything from basses to DI's to whatever. It's just been oh look, Steve's got another new thing.
At first I thought it was just that a compressor helped. But I've used other compressors. Not $460 compressors, so maybe three really is something to be said about quality. Not that the MXR M87 isn't a good compressor, but it isn't a $460 tube compressor running at 12 volts and all that.
Maybe a really good preamp/DI (tube or no tube) really does make a difference. And if it makes a difference to us and the band, maybe that's enough.
At first I thought it was just that a compressor helped. But I've used other compressors. Not $460 compressors, so maybe three really is something to be said about quality. Not that the MXR M87 isn't a good compressor, but it isn't a $460 tube compressor running at 12 volts and all that.
Maybe a really good preamp/DI (tube or no tube) really does make a difference. And if it makes a difference to us and the band, maybe that's enough.
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