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Zoom B6
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According to my notes, the LMT-76 increases the sustain as well as makes your overall tone more full.
Can anyone save me some time? At what point in the thread do we get past all the angry comments by bitter people about the price and why it doesn't do yada yada, etc and get to the helpful posts?
Page 33 onwards for sure but there is good stuff before that too.
Mine comes in tomorrow! Can I use a one spot to power it? I prefer the one spot for length and durability over most OEM power cables which are generally not great
PHIL!All depends on why you are using as an FRFR system, something like this would work...
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Meyer PA system with subs behind you.
I use a One Spot CS6 (like a power block) to power the B6 & my 18v Shure Wireless receiver simultaneously and that works fine but someone else on here said their One Spot “basic” 1 SPOT® – Truetone caused a high pitched hum from the B6.
The power lead supplied with the B6 is short and feels flimsy. It’s my only real grip with the unit. That said I gigged it for a year with the Zoom power lead (and an extension gang lead) and had zero issues
Ok here’s another question
If you turn the unit off while it’s hooked up to an amp or soundboard does it go quietly or do we get a nice loud bang that pisses everyone off?
If you turn the unit off while it’s hooked up to an amp or soundboard does it go quietly or do we get a nice loud bang that pisses everyone off?
Yes. Two different ones in fact.
They are no better nor worse than any other pitch shift on the market - I.E. of limited use.
FWIW, Zoom does publish the manual and effects list for the B6 here, including the effects's options...:
B6 Support
This may have been brought up before, but going through 51 pages is very time consuming. Does anyone know where can you upload/download B6 patches? Interested in Duff's, Geddy Lee, Steve Harris, Billy Sheehan, Rudy Sarzo tones. Jump from Van Halen which I guess uses a synth to a point. Close things, I know to get those tones you need real good equipment but anything close would be very good.
A group in fb shared this google drive, which if there is none other is a good starting point.
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A group in fb shared this google drive, which if there is none other is a good starting point.
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I think truthfully the unit is so versatile that just using your ears you can get anything you want.
I’m also not sure someone making a patch that emulates someone else’s sound is going to be much use to you as so much depend on what bass, amp & cabinet you are using.
So if I wanted to emulate Duff McKagan’s tone the patch I’d put together if I was using my 5 string P/J with a TBX control (essentially a 5 string version of a Duff McKagan Signature Jazz Special) would be very different from if I was using my Rickenbacker 4003 or my Jazz bass - probably the only thing those patches would have in common would be a chorus effect.
Conversely, I’d just whack the Sans Amp sim on with my Ricky and my Jazz to get a reasonably convincing “Geddy” tone but I’d have to do a ton of work to make my Five string or my Kiloton sound like that.
TL/DR: Just trust your ears and create tones that suit you and your rig.
That Google Drive as far as I’m aware is all there is.
I think truthfully the unit is so versatile that just using your ears you can get anything you want.
I’m also not sure someone making a patch that emulates someone else’s sound is going to be much use to you as so much depend on what bass, amp & cabinet you are using.
So if I wanted to emulate Duff McKagan’s tone the patch I’d put together if I was using my 5 string P/J with a TBX control (essentially a 5 string version of a Duff McKagan Signature Jazz Special) would be very different from if I was using my Rickenbacker 4003 or my Jazz bass - probably the only thing those patches would have in common would be a chorus effect.
Conversely, I’d just whack the Sans Amp sim on with my Ricky and my Jazz to get a reasonably convincing “Geddy” tone but I’d have to do a ton of work to make my Five string or my Kiloton sound like that.
TL/DR: Just trust your ears and create tones that suit you and your rig.
I'm sorry if this question has been asked already, but I'm not finding info in regard to it.
Main question is, if I want to use my amp as the primary source of tone, but want to just use the B6 for various effects, should I be using just the input of my amp for the connection to the B6, or should I use the Send/Return on my amp and the B6 for that? I'm quite inexperienced with this kind of thing, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
All I've done so far, btw, is go from the amp input to the main input of the B6.
Thanks!
Main question is, if I want to use my amp as the primary source of tone, but want to just use the B6 for various effects, should I be using just the input of my amp for the connection to the B6, or should I use the Send/Return on my amp and the B6 for that? I'm quite inexperienced with this kind of thing, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
All I've done so far, btw, is go from the amp input to the main input of the B6.
Thanks!
Front of amp with no amp cab models used on the B6.
So, Bass > B6 > front amp input.
