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frigid midget wrote:

doommeow wrote:
FABTONE!!!!

I've been thinking of trying an HM-2 or MT-2 to replace it. Smaller, better build, mids control...

But than again...If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?

I've never had an HM-2, but I did have a (modded, Keeley?) MT-2 for awhile - not in the same ball park at all. Not as much output in gain or volume, not as much bass, highs had an annoying quality that I could never quite dial out - if I was a blues lawyer I'd say it sounded 'digital', but that's not right either. One nice thing I can say is that it was able to get a gravelly OD sound that I dig once and awhile (although the Zoom Tri-metal is far superior for this), something the Fab really won't do.

Been waiting more than a decade for someone to build a slightly smaller Fabtone, with better jacks and a decent switch and maybe even a lower noise floor. Better yet - hey unnamed Chinese national security agency, are you listening? There's money to be made here - for Mooer and their ilk to do a straight up clone in their snack-sized enclosures. That I'd buy in a heartbeat, no questions asked. Hell, knowing me, I'd buy two and run them both on the same board.

It's a no frills 4-stage phaser, based on the Small Stone. Noise free, sounds lush and full, and has the regeneration control instead of the Small Stone's silly all or nothing toggle. Even with the regeneration at 100% though, the FX20 doesn't get as annoying as the Small Stone, which pretty much takes over and washes out everything with its swooosh, instead of nicely sweeping what you feed it There's the non-standard DC bus and the shitty on/off switch, but otherwhise it's a nice sounding reliable straight forward pseudo vintage phaser

Woohoo! Finally figured out how to make these lava cables. Pain in the ass but finally done and wired up. Also ditched the tremolo and ordering a ditto to fill the last tiny hole.

Rad setup

dminner wrote:Woohoo! Finally figured out how to make these lava cables. Pain in the ass but finally done and wired up. Also ditched the tremolo and ordering a ditto to fill the last tiny hole.

boner gear

STOP IT!!!!!!! My boner can only get so hard!!



So I asked this on Talkbass, but want to get some ILF bro opinions.

I have my Mesa coming back next week with a full re-tube (fucking expensive but it will sound amazing!). Here's what I'd liked to do. I want to run all my dirt and like one delay pedal to my tube amp. The rest of my effects I'd like to run either to the FX loop of my solid state or the front end. Not sure which yet.

I have two powerful cabs, enough of everything, but I don't know how to do it. Do I need a simple signal splitter? Would the Iron Ether Divaricator be good for this?

Manual states the following-

Frequency splitter: Using an insert cable, this jack can be used to split high frequencies and low frequencies to different signal chains or amps. Generate distorted upper octaves and send them to a guitar amp, while your low frequencies continue to your bass amp. The bypass switch now bypasses your guitar chain, so you can turn it on to fill up space when the guitarist solos, for example.

If not, what else can I use??? Do I need a signal mixer or anything else?? Just pretend I don't know what the fuck I'm doing and baby step me. LOL!! No but seriously. Please.

jwar wrote:STOP IT!!!!!!-

Frequency splitter: Using an insert cable, this jack can be used to split high frequencies and low frequencies to different signal chains or amps. Generate distorted upper octaves and send them to a guitar amp, while your low frequencies continue to your bass amp. The bypass switch now bypasses your guitar chain, so you can turn it on to fill up space when the guitarist solos, for example.

If not, what else can I use??? Do I need a signal mixer or anything else?? Just pretend I don't know what the fuck I'm doing and baby step me. LOL!! No but seriously. Please.

I've been meaning to get a rolls sx-21 for this same reason for a while now. I've got a Mesa mk-ii 1x12 combo that I use sometimes with a Rickenbacker tr35b 1x15 combo, and with that rolls crossover I feel it could make the impact of a CT5 way more intense, in my case

One night in Paris

Holy shit is that a DBA Armageddon?!

GardenoftheDead wrote:Holy shit is that a DBA Armageddon?!

It's a clone. Well, I'm not sure anyone knows exactly what's in the real one...so this is a builder's best guess based on research and the dba timeline. Lots of great sounds in it.

jwar wrote:STOP IT!!!!!!! My boner can only get so hard!!



So I asked this on Talkbass, but want to get some ILF bro opinions.

I have my Mesa coming back next week with a full re-tube (fucking expensive but it will sound amazing!). Here's what I'd liked to do. I want to run all my dirt and like one delay pedal to my tube amp. The rest of my effects I'd like to run either to the FX loop of my solid state or the front end. Not sure which yet.

I have two powerful cabs, enough of everything, but I don't know how to do it. Do I need a simple signal splitter? Would the Iron Ether Divaricator be good for this?

Manual states the following-

Frequency splitter: Using an insert cable, this jack can be used to split high frequencies and low frequencies to different signal chains or amps. Generate distorted upper octaves and send them to a guitar amp, while your low frequencies continue to your bass amp. The bypass switch now bypasses your guitar chain, so you can turn it on to fill up space when the guitarist solos, for example.

If not, what else can I use??? Do I need a signal mixer or anything else?? Just pretend I don't know what the fuck I'm doing and baby step me. LOL!! No but seriously. Please.

Do you not need the preamp of your SS rig?
Are you running two seperate chains into each amp?
Maybe just split early in the chain and run into each as usual?

dminner wrote:

GardenoftheDead wrote:Holy shit is that a DBA Armageddon?!

It's a clone. Well, I'm not sure anyone knows exactly what's in the real one...so this is a builder's best guess based on research and the dba timeline. Lots of great sounds in it.

Super limited release clone that (I think) was made so the builder could break even on the parts.
Here's the ensuing thread that includes the standard ILF outrage at the builder's use of DBA's graphics:
viewtopic.php?f=149&t=53862&hilit=blackskycraft

So I committed the cardinal sin of going solid state with the Yamaha THR100HD, but am really loving it so far, particularly as it gives me a compact(ish) stereo rig that will suit almost any purpose:

Chain is top row into the front and bottom row in the loop - right to left just as you see it. I went for tone and intuitiveness on the top row pedals but there is loads of potential to get lost in the others (in the best possible way):

my carpet isn't cool but here's an updated pedalboard shot.



korg pitchblack -> blackout whetstone -> ssbs buzzz -> eqd dispatch master

fx loop
blackout cadavernous v1 -> source audio nemesis -> dr. scientist bitquest -> eqd afterneath -> mtrl.assembly ct5

Fabuloso!