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Re: Setup of the day

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Re: Setup of the day

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Re: Setup of the day

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Re: Setup of the day

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Re: Setup of the day

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My set up for recording this weekend. Excessive board for the TU-2!

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Sid Nitzerglobin » Thu Nov 16, 2017 10:40 pm

Doing a bit of a bass rig reshuffle over a long weekend from the day job, tonight it was

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> Ego > PolyTune Noir > TriLoop {loop R [Wonderlove > Omicron Chorus] > loop L [Civil War Big Mud > VT Bass]} > Para EQ > Lehle Dual
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> OB1-500 > D210XLT + OBC115
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> Portaflex PF500 > PF210HE
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:00 am

Wow Sid!! Bet that sounds killer! If you've got flats on the bass, I bet you're getting some good James Jamerson tones from that Portaflex :? :-*
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Sid Nitzerglobin » Tue Nov 21, 2017 8:52 am

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Wow Sid!! Bet that sounds killer! If you've got flats on the bass, I bet you're getting some good James Jamerson tones from that Portaflex :? :-*
It's a pretty darn killer setup for me and I can't imagine finding a better pairing for my tastes (short of maybe a late '70s SVT w/ 8x10 and an OR100, but then I'd need roadies and a semi to take it anywhere).

As fate would have it, a PF-50T flip topped on a PF-115HE rolled into my shop and asked me to buy it for the low end of what the used heads seem to be going for on Saturday so I've been in booty shaking tonal nirvana for the past couple of days w/ this setup:
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> minimalist bass driver board ( Polytune 2 Noir > SP Compressor > Soothsayer > SCR-DI)
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> OB1-500 > D210XLT + OBC115 and/or PF-50T > PF-210HE + PF-115HE
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Running both stacks it's entirely too much amp and cab for the music room at home, but it seems to cover a full spectrum of great sounds so far w/ either stack providing more than enough volume to gig w/ when using the PF-50T's transformer out into the PF-500's loop return. I was in fear of blowing the windows, walls, and eardrums out w/ both of these stacks at a quarter on the master...
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:19 pm

VERY nice! That setup is ridiculous!!

How's the Soothsayer with bass?
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Sid Nitzerglobin » Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:59 pm

Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:19 pm
VERY nice! That setup is ridiculous!!

How's the Soothsayer with bass?
Thanks again man! Yeah, I'm guessing it's pretty damn excessive w/ both full stacks for just about anywhere I'd currently forsee ever playing but it sounds/feels sooo fricking good :blush: Happily, each of the bits sound great on their own to me so far too, so I don't think I'll feel I'm missing out quite so much scaling back to a bit more sane amount of amp/cab most of the time.

If I had to pare it down to a single bass amp to hang onto, this PF-50T is really impressing the hell out of me so far but it would need a power amp to keep up for most of the stuff I play. For a bit quieter music, I think it would hang on its own just fine driving a healthy displacement of higher efficiency speakers. For somewhat mellow jams, recording, and home play I think it's my attainable ideal so far from a tone perspective. Seems to nail classic fliptop sounds pretty darn well and it does a very satisfying SVT impression cranked up and goosed w/ the SCR-DI. Fliptopped on the PF-115 w/ the casters on, it seems like a fairly portable setup too.

The Soothsayer has been great on bass for me. I've typically set it up as a moderate to heavy OD sound by itself going into either the SFT, VT Bass, or the SCR-DI set as a tone shaping boost at the edge of breakup to light OD. Seems to stack really well w/ any of them for heavy OD and adding the Scrambler and/or the Blend channel on the OB1 for glorious total core meltdown sounds should the need arise. The filter seems very useful to me for dialing in the attack and it seems to retain plenty of lows. I find it to maintain really nice articulation w/ pretty substantial amounts dirt of too. I think it might be my favorite heavy dirt pedal for low stuff I've tried so far. The Civil War Big Mud is also great, but the Soothsayer seems a bit more organic sounding w/ the rest of the setup.

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Tue Nov 21, 2017 6:17 pm

That's awesome! I'm a week or two away from getting my bass assembled, and keep thinking about dirt. So far, I've got a Smallsound/Bigsound Mini which sounds incredible on guitar, but I'm wondering if I'll want something else to stack gain with. It'll be fun trying things out with my bass through my guitar board, and I have a feeling I'll end up loving the Magnetic Effects White Atom on the bass, but I don't know that I want to have a duplicate of anything.

Before I bought the Tech 21 Q/Strip, I was looking at the Ampeg SCR-DI too. Good to know that the gain sounds good for tone shaping. I decided against it when I found that the Ampeg BA115 (new style which has a 60 degree tilt on the back so you can use it as a monitor wedge) has a footswitchable drive-circuit in it, but after getting into the synth stuff, I'm tempted to just use DI for all the bass stuff, and get a little PA setup to run everything through (mostly so I won't have any low frequency issues with synth or sub-bass).
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Sid Nitzerglobin » Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:26 pm

Yeah, bass definitely seems like a different ballgame effects-wise so far for me. I think I'd ideally like to be able to run the dirt in a mixable parallel loop to the preamp/amp sim pedal. I've really liked running it that way w/ the PF500 and I was hoping I could do so w/ the Thru and Aux In 1/4" jacks on the SCR-DI but the aux is only wired to the phones out. I'll probably wind up scaling this setup out a bit w/ the Keymaster after the compressor, one side to the SCR-DI and the other to the Data Corrupter and Soothsayer, and maybe a mod pedal and a delay.

Was also thinking about tying some kinda stereo/biamp setup using the Thru from the SCR-DI w/ the Soothsayer and SCR-DI feeding the Ampeg and the Twosome and Monarch feeding the Orange, but this one path seems to get along pretty well with both stacks.

So far I've found a pretty good mild OD sound out of the Scrambler circuit stacked w/ the preamp circuit. It also seems to have potential for SVT grind when dialed up more, but I haven't really explored it to its fullest yet or tried to really use it as a primary dirt yet. As a stackable layer of grit though, it seems to work pretty well so far IMO.

bass > board > DI > PA certainly seems to make the most sense for bass especially when you want to run more hifi/full spectrum sounds through the same amp(s). I'm just addicted to playing amps in general ;D

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by LBx » Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:03 pm

Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:19 pm
VERY nice! That setup is ridiculous!!

How's the Soothsayer with bass?
Further to that... How's the Xotic comp work for you with lows? I'm mostly sold on one for guitar but would be a bonus to use it for bass too.

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:32 pm

i've found myself running dirt with bass, you need 2 amps. even blends dont sound right. so for a few years i used my bassman, had a clean going to one channel and had the dirt going to another but it did not quite sound right. lately however, ive been using the bassman taking the dirty, jumping channels, using output 2 on the normal channel, sending that into an old PA head which also gets a clean/dirty signal. it's confusing but sounds like god slamming his car door.
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:58 pm

Sid Nitzerglobin wrote:
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bass > board > DI > PA certainly seems to make the most sense for bass especially when you want to run more hifi/full spectrum sounds through the same amp(s). I'm just addicted to playing amps in general ;D
Me too dude! Nothing quite like that air, especially from a bass/bass amp, hitting you hard. Feels amazing 8)

I think it'd be cool for you to run a y-splitter for your input signal, and then run two essentially separate paths, for your parallel. If you dig the amp setups, that would be a cool way to do it. Kinda like a wet-dry rig, but have dirt on one (or both) and delay on one only.
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it's confusing but sounds like god slamming his car door.
That's the most amazing description I've ever heard :D Have any recordings of that?
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